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  1. Thom
    I liked that tie-in, and hoping they take it up in the next season. I'd like to see more of her in the show.
  2. Thom
    So, a good session of drunk-modelling is in order.😀
  3. Thom
    @pengbuzz Challenge! Cardboard. Tape. 'Spares Box.' You. and This!
  4. Thom
    Just think @MechTech you can melt down those shavings into a new hunk of metal! 😁 On as aside, that first attempt looked damn good. The next is bound to be even better!
  5. Thom
    You fix what you can - and then fix what else you can! Great progress!
  6. Thom
    Dude, Dragon Lance was my gateway drug to fantasy! Loved that series. A great intro to elves, dwarves, dragons and kender. Though, if I had my way, it would have stopped with the initial series. I feel it got played out. The last I read of that universe was a YA series, with like half a dozen authors competing with different story lines and main characters, Was not good to end with. If I was to reread it, it would just be the initial story. Another one I'll be rereading is the Belgariad, by David Eddings.
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    I liked it. Yes, it felt a bit softer than the previous movies, but I appreciate that it was more about Neo and Trinity getting their 'happy ending' rather than save a humanity (again) level of seriousness. Done it and seen it. I also prefer happy ending rather than dour or bittersweet ones. And the ending itself felt like it was right back at the end of the first movie, leaving it open to 'possibility' without any need to actually explore it any further.
  8. Thom
    Damned impressive! Can't wait to see it going.
  9. Thom
    @pengbuzz Thanks for the blast from the past! I'll listen to the soundtrack while I'm surfing the 'net or writing.
  10. Thom
    Finally finished this today. Really good. The camaraderie and campiness, the action and the fun. This didn't let me down. Glad to say every episode was riveting. I'm good for a season 2! As for Fisk, the guy did just get hit by a car, so that may have softened him up a bit.😀 And yes, Kate should have been down after that hit that threw her across the room, but this is a superhero show. And even if not, most people on TV can take more damage and injury than most anyone in real life, so that doesn't detract for me. Also Kate didn't take him down, so much as the arrows did. Overall, it was a fun ride, and if there is a season 2 or a follow up series with another character, I expect to see Fisk again. A good rule is to never assume a character is dead until you see they are dead! Off-screen deaths don't count.😉
  11. Thom
    On the plus side for me, I watched it when I was a kid, when anything space and aliens and shoot-em-ups were cool! Plus, I haven't seen that one in over twenty years, so all I have a nostalgic memories. 😉
  12. Thom
    Happy New Years!😁
  13. Thom
    Sounds a little like Battle Beyond the Stars, but I'm in for it. Usually like what Snyder puts out. Except for zombies... don't like zombies...
  14. Thom
    I'm trying to avoid getting too much of a handle before actually seeing it, but I love those images. Looks like Task Force Yamato!
  15. Thom
    Off to give St Peter a bit of sass!
  16. Thom
    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...🤔
  17. Thom
    Wow @Dobber Looking better every time I see them!
  18. Thom
    Keep the anime ladies away from those things!
  19. Thom
    Me too!! Sounds like a keeper!
  20. Thom
    @levzloi Again, I liked it, but do wish they had stuck to the base material more. Ah, thank you! It had been so long, I had forgotten that detail. And I like your idea better about Stepin. Much more compelling, with a touch more action and explosive drama. And they could have had the other Warders expecting it. Oh well.
  21. Thom
    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.
  22. Thom
    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 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. 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. 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. So no, it's not perfect, but I'll take it as an 'alt-universe' telling of the story and one that is not that bad in that respect. As Technoblu said, it is good to have more high fantasy on the small screen that, taken on its own, is still pretty good. I'll be looking for season 2 when it comes out.
  23. Thom
    So sorry to hear that Pengbuzz! That Batmobile is great! And truly baffled at the 'reasons' but don't give up completely. We'd miss you too much around here! Thom
  24. Thom
    Very ell done! Finished season 2 and loved it! Once again, a very strong cast of characters who were all very well written, which are the most important bits. But also a great story and FX to tie it all together. And that reveal at the end! Nice. Also really appreciated the lack of sex scenes in this season, as well as the restrained nudity. Hopefully they (and others) will continue to pull away from the GoT schitck of having (almost) every actor sowing off their naughty bits. 🙄 Now I've got another wait for the next season!😭
  25. Thom
    @MechTech Thanks for building such a great dio. Awesome job.
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