OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 2

[Ed Pinkney]

Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I thoroughly enjoyed Episode 8 and Solo. I thought other than it being a little uneven, Episode 8 did what they should have done and started taking the story in a new direction. I am a little worried that Abrams is just going to bring it right back (with Lando and the Emperor). Solo was nothing groundbreaking, but it was definitely enjoyable. And I found I liked it better watching it for a second time recently than I did when it first came out.

Hopefully "The Mandolorian" series on Disney streaming service will be good too.

[truth18]

It's likely that no one cares, but I recently found a great series of psychedelic cat gifs:

[K For Three]

It's likely that no one cares, but I recently found a great series of psychedelic cat gifs:

Spoiler:

I see you.

[exculpatory]

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[SuperDeluxe]

Happy Easter, everyone!

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[sam_I_am]

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Great show on Saturday. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Just a little taste.

I’m jealous. Really wanted to see that show.....kind of sick of the standard Floyd stadium show and this is such a breath of fresh air. I wish more great bands would reward their fans with early stuff and deep tracks. Imagine if Stewart Copeland put together a band to play more obscure Police songs for example.

BTW, Canman, did you hear about this?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-joins-nick-mason/

[canman1971]

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Great show on Saturday. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Just a little taste.

I’m jealous. Really wanted to see that show.....kind of sick of the standard Floyd stadium show and this is such a breath of fresh air. I wish more great bands would reward their fans with early stuff and deep tracks. Imagine if Stewart Copeland put together a band to play more obscure Police songs for example.

BTW, Canman, did you hear about this?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-joins-nick-mason/

Oh man, I didn't. I wish he could have come up to Boston. I've seen Waters 12 or 13 times. He puts on a great show. Gilmour's solo shows, however, are the best. He takes the best of both worlds; like you said the old obscure stuff: "Fat Old Sun", Barrett's "Dominoes", "Astronomy Domine", "Echoes" (my favorite), "Wots...the Deal?" among other more obscure stuff and blends it with the big hits and his solo stuff. However, the Nick Mason show was awesome in it's own right. One of the highlights was this teenage girl with her dad behind us singing along with all the songs. I was like, "how the hell do you even know the songs, never mind the words?" That's called good parenting.

[truth18]

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Great show on Saturday. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Just a little taste.

I’m jealous. Really wanted to see that show.....kind of sick of the standard Floyd stadium show and this is such a breath of fresh air. I wish more great bands would reward their fans with early stuff and deep tracks. Imagine if Stewart Copeland put together a band to play more obscure Police songs for example.

BTW, Canman, did you hear about this?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-joins-nick-mason/

Wish I had been at that show. Seeing them tomorrow (4/20 as it were) in Philly.

[Green89]

Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker .........teaser trailer looks great, but man, isn't that title a spoiler?

After the awful Episode 8 I could care less about star wars unless it's a Obi Wan movie or a 3rd kotor game.

I think they would butcher an Obi-Wan movie much like they did the Solo movie

Last Jedi was just ok, but Solo was very good. I definitely want to see a Solo 2.

[canman1971]

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Great show on Saturday. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Just a little taste.

I’m jealous. Really wanted to see that show.....kind of sick of the standard Floyd stadium show and this is such a breath of fresh air. I wish more great bands would reward their fans with early stuff and deep tracks. Imagine if Stewart Copeland put together a band to play more obscure Police songs for example.

BTW, Canman, did you hear about this?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-joins-nick-mason/

Wish I had been at that show. Seeing them tomorrow (4/20 as it were) in Philly.

Me too, but you will not be disappointed. So freaking good.

[SuperDeluxe]

The Magpie Salute salutes you:

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Pink Floyd cover:

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Echo & The Bunnymen cover:

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[watsonthedragon]

Pretty unreal that we're getting both Endgame AND (presumably) The Battle of Winterfell next weekend. Gotta be the biggest weekend in film/TV maybe ever. Oh and that doesn't even include C's-Bucks Game 1!

[truth18]

Pretty unreal that we're getting both Endgame AND (presumably) The Battle of Winterfell next weekend. Gotta be the biggest weekend in film/TV maybe ever. Oh and that doesn't even include C's-Bucks Game 1!

I'm going to Endgame with a Marvel superfan. I like the movies and w/e but I'm really just going to (hopefully, idk any spoilers) watch Chris Evans save the universe. Huge Chris Evans fan, lol. NE REPRESENT.

Three hours though? I'm definitely leaving to get high an hour and a half in, lol. Feels like the movie needs an official intermission honestly.

[canman1971]

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Great show on Saturday. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Just a little taste.

I’m jealous. Really wanted to see that show.....kind of sick of the standard Floyd stadium show and this is such a breath of fresh air. I wish more great bands would reward their fans with early stuff and deep tracks. Imagine if Stewart Copeland put together a band to play more obscure Police songs for example.

BTW, Canman, did you hear about this?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-joins-nick-mason/

Wish I had been at that show. Seeing them tomorrow (4/20 as it were) in Philly.

What did you think of the show?

[truth18]

I’m jealous. Really wanted to see that show.....kind of sick of the standard Floyd stadium show and this is such a breath of fresh air. I wish more great bands would reward their fans with early stuff and deep tracks. Imagine if Stewart Copeland put together a band to play more obscure Police songs for example.

BTW, Canman, did you hear about this?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-joins-nick-mason/

Wish I had been at that show. Seeing them tomorrow (4/20 as it were) in Philly.

What did you think of the show?

I normally have incidentally horrible 4/20s. My day started out pretty poorly but then some random friends of mine smoked me out all day. We end up hanging out in a park near the water in North Philly. We are standing at an outlook by an abadoned fishing shed and suddenly a small black kitten appears. Turns out there are 8-12 cats living by the water together in this shack. The kitten starts following us around the park and one of my friends starts calling it Lucifer (they are not Floyd fans, let alone fans of the Barret era) because of its pointy, devilish ears. At that point I knew the show would be ace. That cat's something I can't explain .

Went to the show alone later and I had a **** blast. Setlist was ridiculous and was basically my dream show as one of the weirdo Floyd fans that likes the Barret era more than the (sublime) Waters/Gilmour era. The encore was **** ridiculous.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets/2019/metropolitan-opera-house-philadelphia-pa-439303a7.html

The show was at the Met in Philly which was pretty strange for a show like that. It's like a really classed up Orpheum. I saw a bunch of people get kicked out who were clearly tripping hard.

I could have easily gone to that NYC show as well. It would have been amazing to see Roger with them. I can't complain though. I've seen some truly incredible live shows the past few years.

[canman1971]

Wish I had been at that show. Seeing them tomorrow (4/20 as it were) in Philly.

What did you think of the show?

I normally have incidentally horrible 4/20s. My day started out pretty poorly but then some random friends of mine smoked me out all day. We end up hanging out in a park near the water in North Philly. We are standing at an outlook by an abadoned fishing shed and suddenly a small black kitten appears. Turns out there are 8-12 cats living by the water together in this shack. The kitten starts following us around the park and one of my friends starts calling it Lucifer (they are not Floyd fans, let alone fans of the Barret era) because of its pointy, devilish ears. At that point I knew the show would be ace. That cat's something I can't explain .

Went to the show alone later and I had a **** blast. Setlist was ridiculous and was basically my dream show as one of the weirdo Floyd fans that likes the Barret era more than the (sublime) Waters/Gilmour era. The encore was **** ridiculous.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets/2019/metropolitan-opera-house-philadelphia-pa-439303a7.html

The show was at the Met in Philly which was pretty strange for a show like that. It's like a really classed up Orpheum. I saw a bunch of people get kicked out who were clearly tripping hard.

I could have easily gone to that NYC show as well. It would have been amazing to see Roger with them. I can't complain though. I've seen some truly incredible live shows the past few years.

Awesome. Great story about the cats. I love the "classed up Orpheum" comment. I think my HS auditorium could qualify for that. I love the place, but it looks the same as it did inside when I saw Adam Ant and Wall of Voodoo in 1986.

[bucknersrevenge]

First reactions to Endgame have been released

https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/23/avengers-endgame-first-reactions/?utm_term=FD1F801A-6584-11E9-816B-ECBA4744363C&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=link

.................

I don't think I'm ready for this

[Captain_Caveman]

Not safe for work GoT meme... no spoilers.

Spoiler:

[truth18]

Not safe for work GoT meme... no spoilers.

Spoiler:

Lmao. Your thoughts on what the ending will be (spoiler tag any potential spoilers for people)? I gave my take on what the ending of the books would have been (terrible and unsatisfying) a few pages back, but I have my own thoughts on how the show will end. I'll spoiler tag this in case I get any of it correct:

Spoiler:

I think everyone will die in various ways, including most of the population of Westeros and King's Landing, at the hand of the NIght King's army. He will likely summon all of the many dead buried around Westeros somehow and overwhelm the other armies.

But I think that near end of the battles/war someone will kill the Night King somehow, perhaps Jon as it seemed like they were building towards that in the books, though Melisandre could pull some **** too and just straight up summon the Lord of Light. Bran warging into Viserion or one of Dany's dragons could also **** a lot of whitewalkers up. Regardless of how he dies, the Night King's death will subsequently destroy all of his possessed wights/whitewalkers leaving a barren, cleansed world that the Children of the Forest will inherit once more (go back to the first few books/season and analyze the Old Nan stuff) with the implication that they will treat the world/environment with more respect than the near-extinct (I think the Iron Islands will somehow be attacked/destroyed too but perhaps they live) race of man.

The books and George R.R. Martin's most similar short story to anything in ASoIaF have a subtly underlying but very important theme of environmentalism/philosophical post-humanism. The last few books were pushing this heavily.

The Children of the Forest/three eyed Raven incarnations/Bran probably planned all of this over a long period of time. The Children of the Forest created the whitewalkers for their defense and they lost control as Leaf told us, but it seems clear to me that the three eyed raven and leaf have manipulated Bran to their own re-purposed means, I think they know how to end this in mutually assured destruction and have the world to themselves/nature.

Do you know of any highly credible spoilers regarding any of the Vegas bets? I think I put 20$ at +120 (lowest odds at the time next to Dany/Jon/Tyrion I think) on the Night King taking the Iron Throne years ago. If you know of anything that will happen for sure (there are also bets on deaths, etc) text me and DM Froob so we can **** throw down.

On a very different note: I will someday get someone on this forum to enjoy Poppy if it's the last thing I do:

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[Captain_Caveman]

Lmao. Your thoughts on what the ending will be (spoiler tag any potential spoilers for people)? I gave my take on what the ending of the books would have been (terrible and unsatisfying) a few pages back, but I have my own thoughts on how the show will end. I'll spoiler tag this in case I get any of it correct:

Major potential spoilers.

Spoiler:

Lots of possibilities flying around. In order of timing/my perceived probabilities:

Likely
1. Episode 3 is absolute haywire start to finish. Jamie dies in Brienne's arms in upcoming battle. Lots of other deaths too, but mostly just mop-up of superfluous people. Winterfell burns. Tyrion, Davos, Sansa, Arya, Bran, Sam, Brienne, Grey Worm survive. Likely Jon and Dany, too, but not sure.
2. By Episode 5, survivors of WF retreat to King's Landing. Dragons all die, Tyrion put on trial and executed, and Cleganebowl happens in Dragonpit.

Possible
4. No one ends up on throne as KL is destroyed. Pretty much no one save randoms like Theon live. Show is ultimately an anti-war statement. The "Game of Thrones" is ultimately a death sentence for all who play it. Show ends with commoners rebuilding.
5. Qyburn turns on Cersei.
6. Jon dies again and Melisandre revives him again? She apparently shows up at WF at start of next episode?

There's a bunch more. No idea, lol.