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It would have been forever-after known as the Festival of Severed Arms! And that would have been great! As it is, I now pay less attention during the Ewok scenes, much the same as with the Canto Bight stuff and the endless chase in TLJ. -
No argument there. It was very well done! Sad and heroic. Bittersweet. But all the news headlines pictured Gustin's Barry, in that he was the one who vanished and not an alternate. Still hoping they'll surprise us with it finally happening for the season finale. As for the rest, definitely a fun crossover! From looking at the compilation as Ollie was doing the voice-over, I'm assuming that a number of alternate universes are still out there and that only the CW shows were merged. Which I like, it's having the best of both worlds!
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That was an awesome scene when the two Barry's got to meet. Still bummed that they wimped out of the Flash disappearance that had been hanging over the show almost from the start. They just tossed 90's Flash in as a sacrifice.
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The missing plot from Ep 8 was squeezed into this one. Definite two movie's worth of material. I'd like to see all three of them again, but if I had to choose then Rey would be the line I'd like to see in another Saga.
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Yup, still good the second time around. I paid more attention to that part where Ben says 'Dad...' and the emotions written on their faces were very touching.
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Going to go see it again tomorrow. I loved that whole scene with them fighting on the wreckage, and then Ben talking with his father. Actually seeing Ford as Han again was a surprise to me, esp as I stay away from leaks and BTS news.
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I've never watched the anime and don't have much desire to. Did watch the movie and it was alright. Could have been better. As someone coming in still with no expectations of how the characters act and what actions they take, nor where the story is taken, I'll probably like it - unless it's a total crap show. But as stated above, Netflix does pretty dang good with their adaptations, so my trust is in them until they do something to lose it.
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Sounds good to me. As an example, there was no explanation needed as to how/why a Force-user is able to Force-pull an object. It was just done, and we got Vader slamming Luke with power equipment ripped off the walls. Cool scene.
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Is that a mullet?!
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I didn't get any creep vibes from Lando's final line. It sounded like the beginning of another journey for those character to help her, and the other deserters, find their families. 1) The signal was to help the Final Order Star Destroyers get out of the planet's atmosphere. Something with the atmosphere or the electromagnetics of the planet itself was futzing with their guidance systems while they were down low. During the attack, the Final Order realized what was happening and turned off the signal from the tower, and Ren's Star Destroyer, which was higher up, took over. Which of course meant they then had to attack that SD with their ground forces. The others shown being destroyed at the end were First Order Star Destroyers, showing that other systems were attacking now. Why they didn't at the end of TLJ..? But it wasn't a self destruct at all. If you recall the one destroyed over Endor, it was taken out with the Haldo Maneuver. 2) For Luke, he was projecting himself not just to another planet, but across star systems, and who knows how many! I'm assuming that takes quite a lot of energy to do and he just over-extended himself. I was very disappointed with that though. I think it would have been so much better if he had gone to the planet and did face Kylo. His death after that just seemed to come out of nowhere. For Leia, it was the same thing. But I think she did more. Kylo was being tempted by the light through all three movies, and I think when Leia contacted him she did more than allow him to feel her death. I think she latched onto him and gave him an anchor in the light. So it was more than simply overextending herself, it was making the choice to sacrifice herself to support her son. And unlike Luke, when she died her body didn't disappear until the moment that Ben's vanished. Which I think supports the theory that she bound them together in order to give him enough strength to stand against the Dark Side. 4) That one, I'm pretty sure, has to do with them being dyads. They were focal points across the Force and I think that allowed them to reach across it. Kylo realized first that they could do it and then so did Rey. 8 ) For that, I think those SDs were actually Imperial Star Destroyers. Especially considering their dated overall design, I think they were simply refurbished there in order to carry the super lasers. As for crews, I would assume skeleton crews for most if not outright automated for the majority. Now, do I think there were far too many, then hell yes! A dozen would have been more believable than a fleet of thousands. And I think one escaped... There was that one Final Order SD that destroyed Kijimi. I don't recall seeing it destroyed.
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Hah, I thought it was tonight!! Another week to go...
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Interesting. I wonder what they'll do to turn him into the Penguin? Kind of wish they went with a different villain though. Cat Woman. Joker. Penguin. Riddler. Two-Face and others, they've been done. Sometimes not well of course, but he's had other rogues to fight. Also interesting that Reeves wants to keep this out of the JL DCEU and more akin to Nolan's stand-alone series. That I hope doesn't come to pass, as I really want this tied into the WW and AQ and the Flash. Should Flash ever happen...
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The Knights of Ren. The (re)rise of Palpatine. Leading story threads to tie TFA and TRoS together. They all fall into the black hole of Ep 8.
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Old Republic, High Republic, just different names for almost the same thing. With 10000 years to choose from, it's not out of bounds for them to try and make something 'new' to fit in somewhere. KOTOR or not, there are going to be Sith and Jedi battling it out and even a young Yoda which will be cool! I just hope they'll treat this better than they did the Skywalker Saga and plan it all out. And give us some cool new ship designs!
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Love is such a strong word... I like the Shenzhou and the Enterprise, the Enterprise more of course, but I hate the Discovery. The only reason I bought either kit in 1/2500 was to show interest to Round2 in the hopes of a larger scale Enterprise. I actually had little plans to make either until the idea to kitbash the two came along, changing the scale of the ship to /1000 in the process. For looks, she'll be little different than my USS Saber, seeing how they will be serving in Starfleet at the same time, post-TOS and pre-TMP. Light gray with lighter gray accents. I may do a little splash of Shenzhou's dark red for color, but I'm not sure yet.
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Some progress today. I finished the deflector housing and glued it into the recess. I may add a few greebles to dress it up a little. Also cut off the stern of the Enterprise and after widening am now test fitting it to the Shen's stern.
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Back in sci-fi, I'm kitbashing the 1/2500 Shenzhou and Enterprise into a 1/1000 scale Hopper class escort destroyer. The USS Sprite, NCC-1828.
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And I really hope somebody does that! Ep 8 felt like a black hole where all the anchors for the plot fell into. It feels like a trilogy without a middle arc. That being said, I really liked TRoS. With what we got, I felt it ended on a far better note than we could have expected. Taken without the baggage of TLJ and it's a good film.
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Understood. To be clear, I am fine with the time jumps. Once I realized they were happening I thought it was a neat choice. Certainly keep them in, but pace the story a little differently and use the majority of the flashbacks before Cintra fell, moving that to the middle of the season. Geralt and Ciri would still be separated by more than a decade as intended but I feel it would allow some more cohesive world-building, and have a greater impact with the audience when Cintra fell and Calanthe died.
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CrossAir, that is a nice looking root. Not familiar with the anime but it looks dang cool! Neptunesurvey, that is a good looking SD. Esp in the that small scale, it is well deserving of a metal. And Vifam7, that Skygrasper looks incredible! It would so fit in to the Macross universe. Heck, it even has a booster pack!
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Binged the whole thing and I liked it - for the most part. I never read the books or played the game, so I came in cold. I do think they needed to world-build a little more, esp for those who have no background knowledge of the material. Tossed in cold I was playing catch up with the names and places being tossed out. But I was liking it, especially those scenes with Geralt and Ciri, and damn is she a good actress! I will say that it doesn't feel as grandiose as GoT. It felt more like The Shannara Chronicles, in that the major powers didn't really seem to have any presence in them, except for Queen Calanthe. A bit of world building would have gone a great deal to strengthening them before the main story began. Which started with the first episode, but then stumbled under a sudden glut of side stories. I think that if they had progressed the story without any time-jumps it would have gone better. It would have introduced the characters, showed their troubles and triumphs and built them up more smoothly. Otherwise I was wondering where the main characters were, and why were we talking with elves in a cave and traveling with a bard who was too comical. At a number of times it was a little too campy, mostly in relation to Joxer. I mean Jaskier! Episode five or six could have been when Cintra fell, after we'd been invested with Calanthe and Ciri's life there. And after seeing Geralt on some of his adventures, and in that way keeping the time-skipping as all these events take place at least fifteen years before the main story. Otherwise, to me, it just felt like they were treading water with only a few episodes to progress the main plot. It also would have helped the threat from Nifgaard to have some more 'weight' behind it. And perhaps showed us what the 'white flame' is. I still don't know what it is or why Cahir is doing this all for, other than to 'get to the center of it all...' or some-such. Despite that though I really liked it! Again, especially when it was dealing directly with Geralt and Ciri. There were some great episodes and I really felt like it was starting to pick up some speed, but of course that was in the last two episodes! Aaargh! Kind of like the second season of Stranger Things, I kept waiting for Ciri and Geralt to meet up a lot earlier and was disappointed that it didn't happen until the last thirty seconds! Double aaargh! I'm wanting more though. I'll be there for a Season 2.
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Lost in Space series a Netflix adventure?
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I guess I missed the cheerful part..?
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Well, Rey did have both halves by the end of TLJ, so it is easy to surmise that she repaired it. Not so much. They were of note simply because we don't hear that so often in the Star Wars series. The first time I heard a woman speaking from a Storm Trooper outfit was in TFA when Rey broke loose on Star Killer Base. First time I heard one dying though. As to shooting the 'bad guys,' if they are not going to do that, then they might as well give up before they start. I get it though how these were kids who had no choice when the FO abducted them and trained them, but we have to consider that most, apparently, are fully indoctrinated and that Finn and Janna and Co. were aberrations. When given the order to fire on unarmed captives, most fired without hesitation. Sometimes, you have to destroy the System first before you can free everyone.