I think the writers of arrow for season six just think that if anything goes wrong, it is Oliver’s fault no matter how much he was involved. 90% of the time he is right to.
Although yes, it is more believable and common that in America that someone would go on a shooting spree than a plane crashing but the point was to be a more nuanced unintended butterfly effect of the decisions he's making and how Walter and Heisenberg come together in a chaotic messy way rather than getting to a big bang bang action sequence. But what happens next is important to the show as he's debating, denying, feeling guilty and doing mental gymnastics about the incident as he knows he's somewhat responsible and whether he should minimize the event to carry on the destructive path or take it as a sign to stop but those kind of conflicted thoughts and emotions can't happen if it was a basic cause and effect of man turns up with a gun for revenge so it needs to be an indirect incident.
@Eagly I honestly don't think it's too far-fetched of an idea. I think instead, it just showed how widespread some of Walt's actions were, even this early on in the show. @jump made a lot of really good points, like how this scene was part of his messy transformation into Heisenberg. Maybe the whole thing happening over his house was a little far-fetched, but the incident also affected a lot of other people in the area. So I wouldn't rule it out as unlikely.
Also, an air-traffic controller is a real job.
"Science compels us to explode the sun!"
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Recently re-watched all of Young Rock on Peacock and the season premiere. One of the few live action shows I enjoy watching, it's about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson being interviewed by Randall Park, and he recalls stories from growing up as a kid, as a sitcom. We see Dwayne's life at age 10, 15, and 18-20 years old.
I really like how the classic wrestlers and wrestling industry people play a role in the stories, for most of the time, the actors chosen to play the characters are pretty faithful to the real deal at the time, and do a good job of it IMHO. The humor can be hit or miss at times, but despite that, it's just cool seeing a rather humorous adaptation of The Rock's life with lots of real life inspiration.
(actual show spoilers) Stuff they reference is a lot of Rocky Johnson's career, other wrestlers such as Macho Man Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth, Andre the Giant, actual events such as Jerry Lawler vs Flex Kavana promo, to some of Rock's early WWE career. Fun stuff really.
I think that "US Anime" style has gotten old for kid & adult shows. It's been used way too much over the past few years and they've done nothing new with it.
I'm not talking about the "Adult Swim" style that has gotten old too.
Been awhile since I posted in here, but a couple of weeks ago I finished up Outlaw Star (Blu-Ray).
I've seen it twice before now, once as a kid on Toonami, then online somewhere over a decade ago. For whatever reason it has never managed to stick in my consciousness like my other big childhood/teenage anime (InuYasha, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Tenchi Muyo, etc.), however the one mental note that's stuck with me is that it's "awesome"...
Watching it all these years later on Blu-Ray I can confirm it is indeed awesome & I can't for the life of me understand why it hasn't stuck (with me). I absolutely love the spacefaring adventure vibe, killer music, awesome action, & more. Heck, I even really looked forward to those little lore dumps that kick-started each episode. I think it struggles a bit at the end in giving everyone something climactic to do (Aisha probably gets shafted the hardest with her "quick single clash against rando tornado guy" fight), but I ultimately think it manages to stick the landing.
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