levzloi

12 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Obi Wan knows Anakin is Darth Vader, he and Yoda were reviewing the attack footage during a scene in ROTS...

 

Knowing he stormed the temple, and that he is Darth Vader, again, are two separate things.  The aspect of this that I have a problem with is the idea that all the inquisitors know who he is.  It seems that his original identity was a tightly held secret, and yet it’s shared with these selfish and apparently untrustworthy individuals.   

17 hours ago, tekering said:

Watching Obi-Wan chase a little girl around in Blade Runner got old REAL quick. 😑

Both her kidnapping and rescue are horribly paced and shot, it looks like a bunch of adults playing "I'm gonna get you" with a toddler.  Star Wars should have learned better than to rely on a 10 year old actor. 

6 hours ago, sqidd said:

 

"What about that Jake Lochley part of them, shouldn't he be involved in this calculation somehow?" "Hey shutup" 

Wow, I mean after the first part, I trust Villeneuve, but Walken as the emperor is going to be interesting, and wild. 

4 minutes ago, tekering said:

Yeah, he gets it.  Mog was just being facetious. 😝

If only...!  😅

Paramount wasn't stupid, they were just cheap.  1080p would've been high-definition, and DVDs weren't capable of that... so 480p was considered adequate (and cost-effective).

right, getting my resolution's confused. between DVD, HD, and Ultra HD.  man I feel old.  I got that special edition VHS set of the movies for my birthday in 91 or 92 I think, the ones that made the enterprise if you lined them up.  Watched them so many times. 

36 minutes ago, Mog said:

So. . . . are we gonna get 20 additional minutes of them slow panning around the Enterprise, lovingly filming the ship from every conceivable and imaginable angle?

This is apparently a 4k update of the re-edited Directors cut with updated special effects we got on DVD in 2001.  It's not the same as the theatrical cut or the extra 20 minutes of starring at Vger that we got on the VHS special edition.  It's taken this long, because they were honestly a bit stupid, and only rendered the new CGI at 1080P.  It had to be completely redone and reedited to get a higher resolution.  This version is considered ..... better, though still not great.  Most of the movies underlying issues remain. 

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/star-trek-the-motion-picture-directors-cut-gets-stunning-4k-restoration

51 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Really? I missed the live action version of that .🥸

No, just the canon version. 

14 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Darth Maul 😈

Already done

48 minutes ago, Mog said:

So, it’s not just Disney+ in Canada, but everywhere?

Wound up watching the first and last episodes of Daredevil last night.  Still so freakin’ good.

I really hope they pick up and continue the storylines they left dangling for these various series.  And with the shift to +, please DON’T NERF THE VILLAINS!!

I'm sure these will be in the non-canon X-men multiverse category.  IE if there are new seasons or movies, it will be a totally new show, no continuing story-lines from the  Netflix series. 

On 2/13/2022 at 10:10 PM, azrael said:

It will pull references from the Silmarilion and the Appendices but will otherwise have very little to do with those works.

Here's the description:

As the title suggest, this show is about the creation of the Great Rings (Rings of Power); as the rhyme goes...

 

So as I understand it (after watching a few youtube videos which makes me an expert, haha), they don't even actually have rights to the Silmarilion, only the Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the Appendices.  This is so much worse than I thought.  They have to piece together the story from the 2nd age using only the references in the Appendices, So a bunch of TV writers are going to be writing and creating Tolkien story and dialogue from a very rough outline.  This is going to be SOOOOOOOOOOO bad. 

1 hour ago, pablumatic said:

A prequel series. Just thinking of all the good prequels I've seen....🙊

Is this show based upon any actual Tolkien writing, or is it made up whole cloth? I'm guessing just bits and pieces of The Silmarillion if anything. 

Bits and pieces of the Silmarillion is what I've heard, which will require a bunch of TV writers to come up with almost all of the scenes and dialogue on their own, very little except the setting will come from Tolkien.  If there is anything that the last few years have demonstrated, it's that TV writers are generally not up to the task of wholesale creation in fantasy worlds.  The last few seasons of GOT, and the first season of WOT, etc.  Of course with the amount of money they are throwing at this, maybe they actually came up with decent writers.  I have my doubts. 

1 hour ago, Mechapilot77 said:

those reds actually almost match....while i would LOVE a totally new TLEAD/TREAD/Beta, if its totally bonkers in price, maybe i'll just dig out my old red beta and do that.  haha.  was only planning on getting 1 of the sentintel's anyway.  from teh picture it looks just as big or maybe bigger than toynamis?  thats just my impressino though...no calculations made.

Yeah, they work pretty well together, not perfect, but good enough that I don't have an issue displaying it that way.  The red Beta is the only one I have, so I'm not sure how close the other colors are.  One of my favorite purchases actually, only my third "Valk", picked it up new in box for less than $100 five years ago. 

31 minutes ago, jenius said:

So you guys think it's bigger than the CM's? 

Really hard to say without seeing them side by side like on your site.  In all the pictures I've seen the Legioss is closer to the camera, and they didn't pose it connected, soooo?  Given that these are all a slight reimagining, I wouldn't be surprised to seem them go big as long as it looks good, and I think the Toynami Alpha/Beta look pretty good at their scales, the CM look a tad bit diminutive even if it is animation accurate for the majority of the scenes.  Just my 2 cents. 

edit, also those wings are really really long, easily together more than the width of the body, really takes you by surprise when you handle it. 

14 minutes ago, Mog said:

RT’s from a copied and poorly translated language!  😜

In all seriousness, Mospeada is one of the few animes where some of the characters are from South America.

Back to the Tread, I hope I’m able to squeeze that combined fighter into a Detolf.  Gonna be tricky with the figures I already have in that shelf:

On 9/4/2021 at 10:25 PM, levzloi said:

Finally got all three on the shelf, now if Sentinel will only release a TREAD. 

If it's near the size of the Toynami, it might be possible if you fold the wings into the arms, but I wouldn't count on it.  This case is near twice as wide as a Detolf, and one of the wings has to be partially folded.   (edit) Once again, the Toynami is HUGE, if the Riobot is close to it's size, display in fighter mode may be very problematic for some. 

I could be wrong here, but that looks pretty close to the Toynami scale, which makes this an absolute beast.

50 minutes ago, Digitalfiend said:

Then consider it mission accomplished. I just ordered the 1J-GBP set and also bought a Super Parts set from a member here.  So lets see, I've got a 1D, 1J+GBP, 1S Roy, and Super Parts coming this week.  I better work on my delivery person interception skills and prepare a sleeping bag for the shed ... just in case. 😁

5 hours ago, Dobber said:

What I hope happens is that he gets a “New” Crest of some sort and modifies it to allow the N1 to dock with it. Not a full on docking bay just somewhere that a portion of the N1 can allow entry and exit into the ship. Think Bell X-1 and the B-29 mothership or G-Force and the G-1 fighter and the God Phoenix. 
 

Chris

That's actually similar to how the Naboo did it

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=naboo+cruiser&atb=v188-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F82%2Fee%2Fca%2F82eeca4407837daae38d1a56c2590e1c.jpg

Classic for a low budget sci fi series episode, go back in time, no sets to build, just shoot around the neighborhood or use the existing cop drama sets.  Except in this case it's Star Trek, and not just one episode, but an entire season. 

8 minutes ago, sqidd said:

Mistborn is fantastic.

Dresden files, LOL! Man those books had me cracking up. When he dressed up as a "Dracula" to attend the vampire party I almost fell off the couch!

I’m a details and rules guy, so I love how Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books all interconnect and share characters.  Totally geek out on that.  
 

And the cheesy Vampire costume was so great, Soooo much happened at the party, Harry’s still paying for that one.  
 

Mistborn series, Brandon Sanderson

Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson (the best modern fantasy epic)

Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan (the original modern fantasy epic 15 books)

Dresden Files, Jim Butcher (Soooooo much fun)

Ender's Game Saga, Orson Scott Card

12 hours ago, Dynaman said:

Sounds like they made a LOT of changes for the worse.  I've not watched past the first episode and may or may not do so.  Those changes sound bad, worse than last two seasons of GoT bad.

The books also dragged quite a bit in the middle of the story, the author was adding in a bunch of stuff (like GoT did).  Sadly I think it was the original author's death and bringing in a new author to finish it that saved the ending.  The new author dropped or concluded a bunch of needless side stories and got things back to the core of the story.  

11 hours ago, Thom said:

It does get better after the first episode. That was a little on the rough side.

I don't think the changes are GoT-level bad, but it just enforces that though one may be familiar with the book version, expecting it to be the same could lead to confusion. Perhaps disappointment too, unfortunately. Again, it's been so long since I've read read the books that I wasn't thrown for a loop at some of the changes that were made. Taken on its own, I thought it was pretty good.

And yes, about midway through the books is when I dropped out. Too much being tossed in, but I've heard from others too that it starts to get back to the main story again. So, who knows, I may try again. Maybe I should start buying the books again, just to be ready for when I do...🤔

As far as the books go, 1-3 are somewhat formulaic hero fantasy, although he does reverse a number of tropes.  They're good books, but Robert Jordan really hits his stride in 4-6 and they are anything but formulaic.  Some people complain that the slowdown starts in 6, but the finale more than makes up for it in my opinion.  7-8 are a definite slowdown and suffer from plot bloat, but each has it's great moments.  9-10 are where the plot bloat is evident, they were supposed to be one book, as they happen simultaneously.  Now, I'm a massive fan of what happens in the end of 9, that event has huge implications for the series, but it's kind of short, and getting to it is a bit frustrating.  10 is the other character's story-lines before the event at the end of 9, and then their reactions to it.  Aside from Mat featuring in each of these books (he's always fun to read), it's not super exciting.  11 was Robert Jordan's final book that he completed himself, and honestly he does a great job getting things moving in the right direction after struggling the last few books.  I consider it a really good book, and it's a shame it was his last. 

Robert Jordan died before he could finish, but he had already written the final chapter of the series, as well as about 200 pages of different scenes.  He also dictated and left notes on most major plot points, how things were to happen etc.  Harriet, (Jordan's widow and editor of the Wheel of Time) selected Brandon Sanderson to complete the series.  As a superfan himself, he was torn about his ability to do the series justice, but decided that he was the least bad person to finish The Wheel of Time.  There is a change in tone, as Brandon Sanderson did not attempt to copy Robert Jordan's style, and he admits that he never really found Mat's voice.  So 12-14 are generally accepted by fans as great books, or at least "as good as we could hope for under the circumstances".  I think they're great, and that Sanderson did an admirable job wrapping things up. 

So if you want to try again, read 1-6, if you can't make it through reading 7-10, listen to them on audiobook while driving or doing housework at 1.5 speed, then finish off by reading 11-14.  I don't think you'll regret it.  I hope you both and anyone else reading this gives the books a shot, or another shot as it may be.  They're not perfect, and Robert Jordan had his flaws as a writer, but when it comes to worldbuilding he was a titan.  There's a reason it's one of the best selling series of all time and that many fans are upset at Rafe for apparently wanting to rewrite it.   

4 hours ago, Thom said:

Finished it today, and I think I'm benefiting from not having finished the series, and it having been decades now since I first picked up the Wheel of Time in the Little Professor book store near Kearney NJ back in 1990. Oh god, so looong ago...😭

I'm lucky, I first picked it up in 2004 and only had to wait 9 years for the series to finish. 

4 hours ago, Thom said:

I don't remember that much about it without some clues and hints but, for what it is, I'm liking it. Part of that is because I went into it knowing/assuming it was going to be different from the source material. Do I wish they had slaved themselves to the books and history behind it all? Yes! There is never anything wrong with doing so and the only real reason to make changes would be because someone wanted to make a change to it. In which case, they shouldn't have been in the room to begin with. Any changes made should be done under duress and with the express intent of still fulfilling the original scene/plot that has been changed.

THANK YOU!!!  You're free to like it or not, but I agree, the show-runner shouldn't make modifying the story his priority. 

4 hours ago, Thom said:

As to the powers, it is stated esp in the finale how touching the saidin would drive a man insane. In 3000 years however, I can see some of that information being lost from the social conscious, either with the complete loss of information to war and privation, or because it was edited out deliberately. They don't need to tell why a man would go insane from touching it, just that he would, in order to keep men from reaching for it at all. Which the Reds would take full advantage of.

4 hours ago, Thom said:

For the scene with Logain and the Amaryln Seat, by that point he had been 'gentled.' We know that screws with a person's mind, eventually driving them insane anyway, so I can see him being out of it. Also, those guards are Aes Sedai, and fully trained warriors. It would have been good to show them using the One Power to keep him restrained rather than manacles, but even as not I think they still would have had him in submission pretty quickly. Against the One Power, pure muscle strength is nothing.

I suppose the guards could be Aes Saidai, but they were wearing different uniforms and I just checked, they were not wearing rings.  But like I said, an all female guard force is a minor quibble, even if it's not book accurate, or real world accurate.  I think is simply indicative of the bent the writers are going for, rather than being a major problem.

4 hours ago, Thom said:

Also about the bonding, when Moiraine was believed to be dead in the books, Lan had to depart for the White Tower immediately, compelled by the conditioning of the Bond to return when his Aes Sedai died. In the show, that one Warder shows none of that compulsion. In fact, I think his little story could have been ignored entirely if that could have given the final confrontation some more time to fill out.

15 hours ago, Keith said:

I at least expect a fantasy show to be as exciting as the old D&D cartoon.

1 hour ago, technoblue said:

Thanks for taking the time to go over all these points, @levzloi.