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  1. I like how the original Kenner Tie fighters with their small panels are now Universe accurate as mark 1 ties. There's a reason to own them again. McQuarrie's designs were all over the place- the original bearded Luke design was in "Tarkin-town" sitting next to the Rodian. I liked it much better than the original Clone Wars movie. This was about second to third season of Clone Wars in comparable quality, I'd say. Alladin Ezra didn't irritate me as much as worried he would. Instead of cutesie, he was kind of a dick, stealing everything off everyone. That made him almost cool. And when the Han Solo/Kyle Kataarn character stood up and pulled his lightsaber, revealing his true nature to the Imperials, I thought it was pretty awesome. Like one of the Han Solo novels back in the day almost. It walked in a similar way.
  2. A very satisfying way to end Tano's run and a great way to explain her absence in ROTS. Plus, it's obvious she gets to survive the purge and show up between the trilogies in whatever new series will come after clone wars. It's well done but also obvious that this entire series has been used to retcon and explain why Anakin turned to the dark side because ROTS failed to do so.
  3. Best episode of this show so far. EPIC lightsaber battles. Those who died HAD to die. A little too short and abrupt but with no fat at all. Even the ship being destroyed was satisfiying. It's like this episode got rid of all the trash in one fell swoop.
  4. Yeah- it seems like everyone hates this guy- but it's actually fantastic, huge and the lions look good individually. The pilots are OK- nothing terrible. I think if this all came in one box at one time, people would have been pretty happy about it, but they had almost a year to inspect every paint rub and iffy production decision on each lion while they waited to 'form the head'. This is one of those instances when I don't really 'get' why everyone is so mad. It's five lions that form a 2 foot tall Voltron. It has proportions that are quite similar to the Toynami version- the black lion especially.
  5. This movie was awesome. It was the 1980 Flash Gordon of this generation. It will be on cable all the time because it will be cheap to run and twenty years from now, people will still be talking about it. The audience in my theatre applauded at the end. It was that good.
  6. Reamde? Really? This was the man who wrote Snow Crash and Diamond Age? Diamond Age is absolutely brilliant- I think of it at least once a day when I hear about 3D printing and look at an ipad. This book is about the final result of both of these things, written way before they existed. Reamde on the other hand is typing disguised as writing. He actually mocks himself during the book. Stephenson is actually using 'Skeletor' the over-prolific fantasy author as a negative foil for himself. It just went on and on and on. But I hear a lot of people liked the thing. People who also liked Crytonomicon. Blech. Oh- American Gods by Neil Gaimon. Do yourself a favor and read that. Forget about Sandman and all that- read this for what it is. All ancient Gods have human "avatars" that walk around and live lives. Odin is a two-bit con artist. Loki is in the joint. Anansi is an old black storyteller dude. Brilliant and touching as hell.
  7. Love that Obi-Wan/bounty hunter's helmet is one of Boba Fett's prototype helmets. All the episodes in this arc- epecially this latest, feel very Star Wars expanded Universe book-like. Really impressive. Just keep making stuff like this and who needs the movies or the live action show?
  8. I was just glad Anakin didn't show up to kill Krell during the big chase scene. That really would have been the easy way out.
  9. This last episode was so fantastic, I can't get over it. Shades of episode 3 everywhere. Existential clone dilemmas...what every stormtrooper must be thinking inside his helmet while the emperor rules the galaxy in the future. This was like Star Wars: Platoon. Best arc ever! SPOILER BELOW: "So, it's treason then!" -General Krell
  10. It's MOST obvious when watching Victor become an entirely different person every time he's imprinted. When he was imprinted with Topher's personality, he WAS Topher. That guy's a great actor. Eliza Dushku plays herself with a louder voice for some of the dolls she was. Her best work was as the mother who decided she wanted to keep the baby she was charged with taking care of. but again, acting like you love a baby isn't the same as acting like an entirely different character with a back story, past, etc. I loved her in Bring it On though. The nice, bad girl trope is always groovy.
  11. This is really tragic- I guess no one's watching this last season. Absolutely brilliant. The explanation of what the attic really is was elegant, old-school cyberpunk and perfect. The Kwizatz Haderach awakening from Dune that Echo is experiencing is awesome. It almost makes up for her terrible, terrible acting. Victor and Sienna's love affair is just like Fred and Wesley from Angel. This whole season actually feels like that last season of Angel, when the show started to exceed your expectations at every turn. DeWitt is the surprise of the show though- just like in Angel, you're being taken along for the ride as someone starts good, turns bad and turns good again. Awesome. I'd spoiler text this post if it seemed like anyone still cared about this show. What a shame.
  12. I can't help but picture ghostly Patrick Swayze and Vincent Schiavelli(died in 2005) learning how to move bottlecaps and sneakers in the subways forevah! Ghost was metal.
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