2 Random Musings.

[bzarcher]

1) While I'm not a big NBA person, I have caught a few playoff games on various TVs.

In one, I noticed that New Jersey was playing Toronto, in Toronto, and NJ was wearing what the announcer called "Alternate" unis that happened to match Toronto's colours and patterns almost exactly, except for having "NETS" across the front instead of "RAPTORS".

Last night, in Cleveland, I noticed New Jersey playing the Cavs, where NJ was once again wearing "alternate" jerseys - orange and white ones that were the same colour and pattern as the Cavs' throwback jerseys.

Call me a spoilsport, but given the rules that most leagues have about their jerseys, and permitted alternates, why is the NBA letting Jersey (apparently) run off as many alternates as they want, often using other teams colours, and then letting them wear those "false-flag" jerseys when playing the teams they're imitating? It seems like disrespectful at best, and completely ruins the idea of teams wearing home and away jerseys to help the fans, the refs, and the players in the action tell each team apart.

Second, a spoiler for Spider Man 3.


So, um, why was that scene with the basketball and the vase to say "OH HAI! I AM GOBLIN POWAH FOR TEH WIN!" a big deal, since they decided he'd get blasted in a way that he should have been able to avoid? Wouldn't it make more sense if he used those amazing Goblin reflexes to, I don't know, get out of the way of the bomb blast? If he had enough time to stare at the incoming bomb and dramatically mawk at the camera, then he should have had enough time to tense those super-strong legs and kick off the floor, sending him out of harms way

Oh, well.

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, he had Goblin powers, but he'd also had the living daylights kicked out of him by Black Suit Peter. So Goblin powers or not, maybe he was stunned. You know, like when your character takes a bad hit in City of Heroes. He can't use powers or run. He can only stand there, or at best try to stagger away at 1/8 speed.

But that said, Goblin powers healed his broken neck. Goblin powers made sure he had no scar. But Goblin powers were not enough to fix the burns from the explosion made by a Goblin bomb. That's what boggled me.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Ok, a point there, but if he had the presence of mind to arm and toss the bomb at Peter's head...ah, well.

That's another good point there, too. I suppose it just couldn't save against a dramatic wound.

[parasaurolophus.livejournal.com]

It was a cut scene.

[dklegman.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to think of this as like baseball team uniforms, for whom some version of white, red and/or blue is equally common. I strongly doubt Toronto is pretending to be NJ any more than the St. Louis Cardinals pretend to be the Red Sox.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but their normal colours are dark blue and grey.

Switching to totally different jerseys for those games just seems really odd.

[dklegman.livejournal.com]

MOI-CHAN-DISING!