Behold a Delicious Gotham Parody
Granted, there’s really only one joke to a solid Gotham parody, but the fine folks at The Warp Zone nail it with aplomb. My thoughts on Gotham have dropped off since the first episode. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s dumb. But overall it hasn’t really reached any sort of quality. Gotham so far lacks depth and consistency, and that’s not good. But hey, it’s got a whole season, so maybe it’ll go somewhere…
My 6 Favorite Points of Lore Interest in World of Warcraft
The invasion of the Iron Horde is upon us! Two years after Pandaria became a reality (squee!), the latest World of Warcraft expansion has dropped, bringing with it time travel, alternate realities, and a deep appreciation for the history of the Warcraft franchise.
Unfortunately, I won’t be joining the millions of gamers quite yet – my money is needed elsewhere, like bills. But hopefully it won’t be too long before I’m back questing and raiding against the Warlords of Draenor!
Like visiting with old friends
Being the huge Warcraft geek that I am, I’ve decided to celebrate the new release with a list about one of my favorite topics: Warcraft Lore. For those who don’t know, the wildly popular World of Warcraft MMORPG is based upon a whole series of wartime strategy games that came out in the 90s, games that I and my family grew up playing. But Blizzard, the company behind Warcraft, didn’t just build WoW up from scratch. Instead, the developers used the world, the characters and the storyline from those early strategy games to design World of Warcraft. And as someone who grew up with those strategy games, being able to continue that story in WoW is one of my favorite parts of the game.
Join me after the jump to see what I mean, and check out six of my favorite bits of Warcraft Lore that made it into World of Warcraft!
Some Only Leigh to Brighten Our Days
I’m going to level with you henchies: I’m on vacation, and man, is it easy to be lazy on vacation. I could be talking about the possible casting of Harley Quinn in the Suicide Squad movie, or I could be grousing about the weird new origin for Doctor Doom in the new Fantastic Four movie, but I really don’t care. Those are pop culture concerns for another day! Me? I’m watching new Only Leigh cartoons!
Life is good. Don’t ever forget that.
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All Other Sins Pale in Comparison to the Quicksilver Blunder
X-Men: Days of Future Past is a good X-Men flick, but it’s not perfect, as Cinema Sins will tell us. But really, there’s only one real blunder in the film: why the heck did the X-Men ditch Quicksilver after he proved himself to be incredibly useful?
Obviously, Quicksilver couldn’t come with them because he would have solved every single crisis in the movie in the blink of an eye. But why not come up with an explanation? Maybe he didn’t want to help the X-Men anymore, so he demanded that they let him go home? Nope, they just show them all parting ways, and that’s it.
Of course, we know now that Quicksilver was only in the film to stick it to Marvel, who put the character in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Apparently he was originally going to be Juggernaut. And yes, movie studios are that petty. Everybody and every thing is that petty.
And just for kicks, here’s the Honest Trailers version of Days of Future Past.
The Warcraft Movie is Going to be Surprisingly Accurate!
Blizzcon went down this weekend, with the game company revealing some fancy new bits in their upcoming catalog of games. Blizzard also revealed the first look at some of the characters in the upcoming World of Warcraft movie – and they look kind of amazing! I don’t know what to expect with the Warcraft movie, but I’m a little nervous. Video game movies are hardly ever good, and something about a World of Warcraft film just feels…desperate. I don’t know, it’s hard to say, but I just don’t think we’re going to get the second coming of Lord of the Rings.
Maybe it’s not too good to be true
But whatever we get, the character designs look great, and the character descriptions sound incredible. The movie is going to follow the story of the First War, and they’re going to be pretty close to the original lore. Personally, I wish they’d gone with my idea of Thrall vs. Arthas, but maybe they’re saving that for the sequel.
I don’t want to spoil everything right now, so join me after the jump to check out the first picture of a movie orc, and some great character descriptions!
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