Thread:BigBadSquid/@comment-31330278-20190826074514/@comment-31330278-20190828114830

1. Since both Dracula and Saruman fueled their abilities and visions with the blood of others, especially since both had brainwashed minions, I wonder if Tolkien was partly inspired by the myth of the original Vlad Dracula. I know "Middle Earth" universe is about WW2, and Saruman is based on Stalin, but the similarities makes me wonder. As far as you, when was the moment that Dracula turned from a hero to a homicidal psychopath? And did Saruman joined Sauron and eventually decided to take the ring to himself, or did he planned it all along?

2. A mystery-detective movie you'll probably like is "Sleepy Hollow". Detective Ichabod Crane (played by Johnny Depp. Just pretend he's Skeet Ulrich) is called to the town Sleepy Hollow after 3 people get decapitated. The killer is the headless horseman, which in this take is "the hessian mercenary", but turns out he wasn't the mastermind. The horseman's boss, who's also the girl who originally killed him, is Lady Van Tassel. Just like Lady Macbeth, Van Tassel executed her murderous scheme (she and the horseman killed 14 people) in order to gain wealth and power. She claim to lose her family's lands, but all she lost was her effective empathy. And Crane was great. The director gave him Ian Malcolm qualities, with being the voice of reason and facing superhuman forces who got woke up by arrogance and lack of common sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_(film)

In a way, Van Tassel is a merge of both Moriarties, and Crane is just as good as Holmes. Actually, he's a better character, but being played as Johnny Depp makes him lose points.

3. I should've write "the most sympathetic". Fixed it. Now, Indominus-Rex is sympathetic to an extent. Her tragedy is real, and killing people (Even innocents like Zach and Gray) make sense because of what mankind did to her and miseducated her to sadism, but killing those Apatosaurus without any intent to eat them is an overkill. None of them, not the whole Apatosaurus species either, could cause her any intentional harm. In the climax, The prehistoric monster showed just how loyal she is when she left Charlie to get killed without showing any emotion (true raptors would help their comrades), swept Blue with her giant clawed hands after the latter refused to hurt Owen (Blue: "We were suppose to kill humans. You said nothing about killing our friends". I-Rex: "Shut the fuck up!") and killed the other 2 raptors due to avenging their seemingly dead sister. Even Biggie from part 1 can claim she was loyal to her soldiers/siblings in a cruel and psychopathic way, as shown when she attacked Rexy to avenge her devoured soldier. I-Rex cant. You can say she's only raptor when it suits her. I do realize she's no worse than at least 5 other villains (Dodgson, Mills, Hoskins, Wheatley and Wu), but I still find it hard to sympathize her beyond the usual extent. Unlike I-Rex, I-Black never betrayed anyone, and that's a big reason for why he have my sympathy while the other villains doesn't. Not to mention he suffered much more.

4. Wonder Woman and Beast Boy are truly great. I highly recommend you to see "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract". Beast Boy was amazing in this movie. His radio speech at the end is something you need to see to understand. His relationship with Tera could provide tons of movies/series/books/games. You probably saw the new Wonder Woman movies, with Gal Gadot. I know you like Superman, but I still believe Wonder Woman was the only good thing about "Batman vs Superman". If i'll tell you why I don't like Superman, would you respect my reasons? I know some comic books fans who wouldn't, so it's important to ask.