Age of Ultron Trailer Review

If you haven't seen the trailer yet.  Here you go.

You're welcome.

I prefer the extended version of the trailer 'though because of the beginning.

It seems to tell a little bit more of the story of what's going on.  I'm assuming Tony started tinkering and didn't know when to stop and that somehow made his suits / computer go power crazy and take on a life of their own.

Just for your information I do know my comics and yes I know Ultron was originally created by Dr. Pym, but when has any of the new Marvel movies stuck exactly with the original story?  Even the first Iron Man movie there were differences.  For one Stark was Iron Man for some time before coming up against Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger, Obadiah actually owned a different company before that and renamed Stark International as Stane International when he did, and when Iron Man did defeat Iron Monger Stane blew his own brains out.
But enough about that.  I just wanted to prove I knew what I was talking about.
Back to discussing the trailer...
THE HULK BUSTER SUIT!  *drool*
This is one of them that I wondered if they would ever get around to doing.  I also really hope it's in it for longer than two seconds like all the cameos of all Tony's suits in Iron Man 3.  I mean come on.  Each suit can only handle one punch and they burst into a million pieces, just because the guy was kinda hot?  And yet before that an older suit was able to withstand and actually absorbed a lightning blast from Thor?  Why didn't it fry everything?

Also when watching the extended trailer, in the beginning scene, something I realized: the only one who came close to lifting Thor's hammer.  I realized it wasn't because of Cap's super strength that he budged the hammer, strength has nothing to do with it, but remember why he was chosen to receive the super soldier serum?  It's because of his good, worthy, heart.  Just giving someone super powers is not a thing to be taken lightly.  You would want to chose well: someone who wouldn't abuse their new powers and use them for evil, but instead someone who would always use them for the good of others and to protect the innocent.  That's why Steve was able to move Mjölnir.

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Bonus:

And I have to say just the music playing in the background in context with Ultron, this made one of the creepiest Marvel trailers I have ever seen.

My Fandom Predictions are the BEST! Sorry but they are, and this proves it!

This weeks Doctor Who episode Dark Water.  Wow.  I knew I was good with my theories but wow.  I didn't realize I was that close!  I so called it!  But even then.  What a plot twist!  Good work Moffat, I really wasn't expecting that but now that I see how close I was and the whole name thing I don't see how I couldn't have seen that one coming.
For those of you who haven't been following my blog, back in September after the first two episodes had aired I had written a post on theories about who Missy was.  Read the post here.
When it got to this:

Dread filled my stomach and I just prayed: "Please don't let it be Susan.  It can't be Susan.  It can't be like this."
As much as I would love for Susan to return I don't think I could handle it if she had turned evil.

So here we are at the last of the season.  I can't wait to see what they're going to do for the finale and I'll be waiting very impatiently for season nine.  My little brother was a little bit worried and started to worry me too when he asked: "they're not going to kill off the Doctor again are they?"  I said no, but then I started thinking about it and thought: you know I have no idea.  It would be just like them to pull off a surprise death and they only had planned on having Capaldi be in just the one season and they've already got somebody new picked out.  While I hope that's not the case it is a possibility.  Christopher Eccleston only had one season.  Paul McGann only had the movie even though they had planned on that just being the introduction to a reboot of the series and he was going to take over as the Doctor for a while on TV.  Sadly this never happened but I'm glad it turned out just how it did.  Still I would have liked to see my first Doctor (8) in more than just the movie and short show.

Star Trek TNG Cosplay

This week my work is having different themed costume days so of course I can't turn down the opportunity to cosplay, EVER.  Well one of the days is 80's themed, but of course with my geek back ground and my ability to think outside the box... I'm going as a star fleet officer.  I wanted to do a Next Generation uniform since that came out in the eighties and it is my all time favorite Trek series.  But the Next Gen uniforms are a little more complex than TOS (the original series, for those of you who don't speak in acronyms).

  VS. 

While the original may be much more simple and easy to throw together I still really wanted to go in Next Gen uniform.  Well I believe I found the solution how to make the uniform cheap and it will only take a little bit longer to make than the other.  It would probably only take one night.  I intend to find out just how long it takes.  I've already gathered my supplies in one trip to the store and am going to put it all together as soon as I get home.  I'm hoping to do it in a video tutorial which I will also be posting to YouTube some time within the next week.

Also while I was searching the internet getting good details of the uniforms for my costume I stumbled across this:

I found it on Etsy for $20 and had to buy it.  I'm going to make this later when I have more time but for now I'll work on the quick, easy, and cheap one.

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Doctor Who and the Guardians of the Galaxy Review

I know I said last time I was going to give you guys my Sherlock theory but that was accidentally deleted.  So while I'm working on re-typing the whole thing I thought I would write a quick review on both the new Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy.

In case you didn't know already I am a huge Marvel fan.  Iron Man has been my all time favorite superhero when I was growing up, I only watched the first movie five billion times in the first month it came out.  And another favorite comic series of mine as a kid was Guardians of the Galaxy (Rocket is the best)!  I was super geeked when I first saw the commercial for it.  I went and saw it the day after it came out in theatres and then again with my sister last saturday.  I really enjoyed it for the fact that it was a little more comedic than most Marvel movies.  Unfortunately, because of this, my sister (not a Marvel fan, or a geek at all in any way) commented while we sat through the credits that she thought it was rather "cheesy."  She just took it for granted that being a Marvel movie it was going to be more serious, with your average team of superheroes going around saving lives.  I forgot that she had no clue who the Guardians were.  And when we watched the extra clip after the credits (which I won't tell you what it was, you'll have to watch the movie for yourself) she was completely lost.  I don't blame her for that last one though.
I thought it was pretty good.  I wasn't too disappointed with it since they hadn't been building up to this movie making obvious references to it in other movies (like the Avengers).  Sorry but I was expecting a lot more out of the Avengers than that.  With as long as we were kept waiting for it and all the movies leading up to it.  Ugh!  Sorry.  Still not over that one.

Doctor Who season eight, review of episode one:
I love the new Doctor!  What did I say guys?  I don't know why everyone was so worked up about Peter Capaldi playing Twelve.  If Steven Moffat was even partially responsible for helping choose the next Doctor I wasn't even remotely worried.  Lots of people were concerned he was too old.  Peter commented that if you think about it, he's too young to play the part if you want to get all technical.  Then some were worried when Moffat said the new Doctor was going to be a little bit rude.  So what?  Look at the other Doctors.

And what about Sherlock?  He's a douchebag, and everyone loves him.
Now we have proof: Peter Capaldi plays an absolutely brilliant Doctor.  All you fan girls that were only in the fandom for the young hot guys playing the Doctor can either realize the true nature of the Doctor or leave.  Don't let the door hit you on the way out.  Who am I kidding?  I hope you trip down the stairs and fall on your dainty little butts / face.
I was especially happy with the first episode.  It was extra long, with references to the tenth Doctor and there were several moments when he really reminded me of Four.
Plus a giant Dinosaur in the middle of London?

How can you beat that?
I'm really looking forward to the rest of this season and lots more before we get a new Doctor.





Quick theories on who or what Missy is:
For those of you who haven't seen episode one or two yet, this will make no sense, so go watch the show.  For those of you that have... I haven't read too much about anyone else theories and the ones that I have don't seem to make much sense; Some people think she might be Madame Kovarian somehow in a different form, or an evil version of Clara.  Like I said: not a lot of sense.  Based on the few seconds we see her in the end of both episodes my first guess was maybe she's a Time Lady possible someone like Rani.  Short version for those of you who don't know Classic Who she was a rival Time Lady, evil genius, basically the female equivalent of the Master.  She could have used her TARDIS to materialize around Gretchen just before the Dalek antibodies got her and she could have easily fixed the clockwork robot.  The garden that they both woke up in could very well be part of her TARDIS.  Maybe she's recruiting people who might have a grudge against the Doctor.
My other theory is based on this picture I accidentally found.

So my guess based on this is that those people basically are dead and only their brains were saved to put in the cyber men.  They're basically creating a fake world for themselves because the reality of what they've become is to harsh, and Missy is either the person making them or is someone like Miss Hartigan from The Next Doctor.

Until next time.

Hello Again!

It's seems like forever and a day that I've written something on here.  Even though I haven't been writing I've been keeping up with the news and you've probably all heard this too but I still want to mention these really quick.  First of all we've gotten a glimpse of the new Avengers movie and right off we know who the villain is (the last movie I thought they were going to do something a little bit more than Loki with a bunch of aliens).

And since it's Ultron I'm guessing they might include Ant Man (aka Dr. Pym), Ultrons creator.  There was talk about an Ant Man movie but it comes out, but since Avengers 2 is scheduled to come out in May 2015 and Ant Man at the end of July '15 I'm not sure how that will work.  Maybe he's just alluded to in the Avengers and then you finally get his story in the Ant Man movie.  That's my guess any way.  I have several other theories but I based on what they've done in past movies this seems the most likely.

Want to read more about the upcoming Ant Man movie?  Click here.

Also possibly coming out next year...

SHERLOCK!

With a gap of about two years in between seasons fans of the show were not hopeful of getting the next episode before the end of 2015.  However Martin Freeman hinted at there being a holiday special in December next year.  The news of the special was confirmed by Moffat (although I'm not sure if he confirmed the date).  The special will be followed by a complete, three episode, season.  I'm very excited about this but I remain skeptical of the date and wouldn't be surprised if it got moved to late 2016.

And then we have the first official trailer for the new seasons of Doctor Who.

This came out earlier this month along with several teasers and an accidental leak of the unedited first episode and script.  Apparently when they were sending the footage to the editing team someone accidentally put it on the public website.  It was immediately taken down, and the few people that did see it were asked to keep it secret until it airs.  I've been very tempted to hunt this episode down but since it's coming out next month I guess I'll wait.

Between keeping up with the news, work, and trying to get my Power Wheels ready for the Maker Faire, I haven't had time to do much else, but I did start coming up with some ideas for a portal gun.  I suggested cosplaying at my family reunion this year, and my aunt who is in charge of it said maybe to give it more of a theme to just dress up as a character from your favorite game...  so I said: "Heck I'm going as Chell!"

I would really like to go as one of the Assassins from Assassins Creed but either making or buying all the different weapons is going to get kind of pricey so I'll save that for another time when I've got more money.

Next week: Sherlock 4 theories!

The Real DW Teaser Trailer

The last teaser I had posted on my blog for series 8 was a good fan-made trailer but here is the legit BBC teaser.  This is epic!  And I thought it was coming out in the fall, September at the earliest but August? that's so close I can practically touch it!