I didn't know Michael DeLorenzo was on the show. I knew of him later on from New York Undercover. And his characters' last names on both shows was Tórres, weirdly enough.

It's a live action cartoon in the sense that most episodes of the show are self contained adventures of little consequence that are only vaguely tied together by a bigger plot. The stakes aren't very high and action scenes are abundant, so the main characters are rarely in any real danger. The acting is just okay, truly emotional scenes can hit hard but are extremely rare. The main hook for most of the show is visual rather than anything character driven, making the story feel very surface level.

I think people mostly watched Will and Grace for Jsck snd Karen.

Loved Orphan Black, like Krysten Ritter so I'll give this a shot but I hope it's not just a bunch of new clones running around, that kind of would just be too much of a copy of the original.

The last 2 seasons were dumb, but 1-3 were great.

Bob Newhart might be the quintessential straight man

This and Duckman are probably my two favorite criminally underrated animated shows.

Mission Hill was also great.

Patrick also serves that function too in Schitt's Creek.

Pretty much agreed. I’ve loved Rebels and Bad Batch. They’re some of my favorite Star Wars things. Obi-Wan, Clone Wars, and Mando have been a step down from there but still good. And TBoBF a couple of steps down from there.

Haven’t seen Andor or Resistance yet.

EDIT: May I ask why this is being downvoted? I’m not purposely avoiding Andor if that’s the point of contention, lol!

> Where's Martinez's helper?

What if Martinez jumped in right when the meltdown/nuclear winter was about to happen and the helper didn't get in in time/helper died?

Or maybe they just developed a way to hide the hologram

Yes, and it irritates me to no end that a live action Batman Beyond movie was one of the things that got scrapped by DC last year. It would have been the perfect way to bring back Michael Keaton as Bruce and introduce a whole new rogues gallery to race/gender swap to their little activist hearts content.

You obviously haven't seen it as it checks all the boxes. Only those who don't use a period at the end of a sentence have a fried brain.

At first glance, this show reminds me of like a modern-day The Nevers, except with a much more limited powerset.

I think directors really want to make a Star Wars movie but are kinda afraid of making one because everything is so messy on the movie front. But doing a Star Wars tv show lets them live their dream without the drama.

Yes, that was me! I sporadically drudged thru S4. There were weird, slightly edited lost episodes (?) with the old cast in S4. I had to stop & google cuz that hurt my brain. It was good to see Leslie Bega again tho 😍

And you were right about Billy. I may even check the canceled spin-off, just because it's Billy!

>If Hollywood writers go on strike — a possibility as we close in on the May 1 deadline without a new deal between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — the impact will be felt far beyond New York and Los Angeles. Around the world, producers and distribution companies, not to mention non-WGA affiliated writers, are closely watching the ongoing negotiations, with an expectation that a WGA walkout could mean a boost in demand for new international content.

>“As with previous WGA strikes, we’d expect there will be an increased demand for content from outside the U.S., particularly from English-speaking countries like the U.K. and Australia,” say Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben of German mini-major Constantin Film, producers of the English-language Resident Evil horror franchise as well as German films and series including We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, which streams on Amazon, and KaDeWe, carried on the BBC in the U.K. and Stan in Australia. “The full impact will depend on how long the strike lasts. The best outcome is a very short strike, since it will limit the disruption.”

>(Constantin has its own history with the WGA. In 2021, the guild briefly ordered union members to stop working with the company following a dispute over residuals and health and pension plan contributions, though the parties eventually settled.)

>Louise Pedersen, CEO of All3Media International, which handles global sales on such series as Amazon Prime’s The English starring Emily Blunt and All Creatures Great and Small, which airs on PBS stateside, said the pivot toward international shows was already evident at the London TV Screenings earlier this month, with broadcasters and streamers looking at international shows as a possible contingency plan.

>“A lot of American buyers were planning for [the strike] and talking about shows as potential acquisitions,” said Pedersen, speaking on a panel at French television festival SeriesMania on March 21. “I suspect they’re doing research behind the scenes for backup lists [should the strike happen].”

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There was a show called The Zeta Project that did a backdoor pilot episode of Batman Beyond. The art style of that show is pretty similar to the Jackie Chan cartoon. Zeta's human/disguise form also doesn't look to far off from Jackie's cartoon appearnce so you're probably thinking of that show.

I totally see that. He did something to cause the nuclear winter. I'd we accept that as fact, and we add it to what we already know, I think this could be the line of events.

1. Ben did something to cause the nuclear winter. Possibly, he did something to Ziggy to end the spying, and there was a meltdown.
2. Meltdown killed Addison and maybe Martinez's family. Or Martinez is just upset about the meltdown, and that's why he hates Ben. There is a 3rd possibility that I will get to.
3. Ian has been waiting a long time for Ben to show up so they can fix the Quantum accelerator so Ben can go back in time to fix things.
4. Ben can't go back because he's already in the middle of a leap, possibly he leaped into himself or maybe Martinez.
5. Since Ben can't go back, Ian goes back in time into the bartender to warn Ben (solves the point of why Ian time traveled). This explains why the face the bartender sees is an older Ian

So now here where things may go off the rails and is unsupported speculation.

1. A new point pops up about why they didn't they just go back and warn Ben about the meltdown and just pull the plug on the whole project?
2. Maybe the reason is pre-Ben and is in Ziggy. The final destination could be the original leap with Sam.
3. Ben added new code into Ziggy for this leap system of points to reach the final destination for a reason. Maybe that code is supposed to be there to do the spying? Maybe it caused the spying indirectly. Maybe it causes the meltdown.
4. Of course, they should know why the meltdown happens in the future, so why not correct it? They know Ziggy is the mole, so why not correct that? Ben tells Janis, but not anyone else? Is it because Janis is off the grid, and she's the only one to keep the secret? Again, why not just pull the plug on Ziggy? The only logical explanation on why Ziggy is still the mole is because Ziggy was told by Ben to be the mole. Ben needs Ziggy to be able to track the original and the deviated timelines so that in the future, they have the info to give to Ben in the past so they know exactly which change causes the meltdown. Ian knows when Ben is supposed to appear in the future because of this. That's why he was waiting for Ben for a long time and not surprised to see him. (BTW, I'm using meltdown because you said it, and it is an easy single word to use to describe the future instead of an unknown future, nuclear winter resulting disaster. Meltdown is perfect.)
5. I think Martinez is told of the impending meltdown so that he would help them fix things because, as we learned this week, Ben can not do it completely alone. He needs a second, non-holographic set of hands to help him.
6. Also, maybe Martinez doesn't hate Ben. He was told to act that way to get the team to where they need to be. Also, Martinez said he was a pacifist. Why would a pacifist try to stop Ben or kill Ben? Why not kill Ben the first time they crossed paths? It's all planned and staged, that's why. He is doing what he was told and exactly when he needs to do it. We'll probably find out that he has helped in every single leap.
7. If Ben has a helper via the imaging chamber. Where's Martinez's helper? Why can't Ben see him/her/it? Is it possible that Ben is his helper in the future? Maybe Ben can't see him because of it being himself, and it's some Quantum paradox. Or the handler is hiding away, so we can't see them. Maybe it's Ian. Or it's Janis. Who knows.
8. Ian looks a bit older in the future, but Martinez is not that much older than modern day so Martinez is put into the accelerator sooner rather than later. I would also say that the military took over the project forcibly in thr near future and they put Martinez in to stop Ben, but that makes no sense. If it was true, then they probably would of had Mertinez kill Ben the first time they met and be over with it. And Martinez said he was going to win and get there first. Win what? Get where first? The future? The meltdown? The final destination that Ben is planning? I feel it's off, made to make Ben and the team have a sense of urgency. Plus, Martinez once again could have just ended it all in the old west. Just kill Ben and leap back home. No big event. Ben is lost in time. End of story. Martinez is going ro be critical to all of this.

This next episode should be really good and possibly headache inducing. And I believe they have already been renewed for 2 more seasons. I think I read that today.

Quesada: "Okay, what's better than a superhero tv show? A firefighter superhero tv show. Say hello to the world's first firefighting superhero, New York's bravest, Ashley Quinn. Or, as I like to call him, Ash. He doesn't just fight crime, he fights-"

Bezos: "Who gave you my home number?"

I saw some reruns a while back and was surprised that Janice, the younger kid, had left the show and Ke Huy Quan was a student. Didn't remember that at all.

I've never watched an episode of this, but I've always been a low key fan of Donnie Wahlberg's acting so him being on a long running show, that I don't even watch, makes me weirdly happy.

OTOH, another castmember went on to be the guy who runs Nickelodeon, but without creepy overtones.

If you're the person who posted about season 4 a while back, you may recall I said season 5 was worth watching if you enjoy Billy Connolly, because the writers wrote in a reason for Billy to do an extended Billy bit every episode.

I wasn't lying, was I?

Billy being Billy makes the season watchable.

What does the Screen Actors Guild have to do* with a director credit, lol.

You mean DGA?

I loved The Green Knight and he did a good job with Pete's Dragon but his movie, A Ghost Story absolutely wrecked me for days.