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This is a good read. I especially liked the show runner talking about the Jedi being at the height of their powers in this era, and that they'd only pull out their lightsabers if they were really threatened. And really, not much can truly threaten them in this time period.

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2024/03/the-acolyte-leslye-headland-opens-up-about-the-series-following-trailer-debut.html

It's about time they moved away from the Skywalker era.

Hot damn 

19 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Sad to see Masters of the Air come to an end, but it was a hell of a ride. After waiting for years for this series to release, I can't help feeling you wish there were a few more episodes still to come. 

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I felt episode's 8 & 9 were a bit crammed, in that they were trying so hard to shove as much story as they could into such a short run time. MOTA needed to either be 1 hour & a half long episode's or 10 or 11 episode's long. 

Overall, I give this series very high marks for original score, use of actual/authentic B-17 sound effects (as in they actually went to preservation society's & used their Forts to film from), overall, the acting & dialog, sets & unforms was very good, CGI was hit & miss a few times, though the last episode spared no expense. 

My only complaints were, the lack of seeing M-3 & M-5 Flak helmets plus a variation of Goggles, (Polaroid 1021 & M44 types were as well, not just the AN6530 which is what you see everyone wearing throughout the series. The Biggy, by 1944, definitely by D-Day, most B-17 E/F models had been destroyed in combat or salvaged for parts and the B-17G with chin gun turret (the most produced variant), operated by the Bombardier would have been the prominent Fortress seen at this stage of the series, pretty sad that A-list producers like Hanks & Spielberg missed this. The other is the scenario with Quinn & Bailey, not seeing those two actually make their escape from Belgium with the Resistance however them simply appearing at Thorpe Abbotts in new uniforms with a ticket home felt very lack luster, at least we know they survived. 

As I said, minus some nitpicks here & there, I really enjoyed this series & just like BoB & The Pacific, I'll get MOTA on Blu-ray as well. 

 

 

I thought MotA was uneven, but still fairly good. Better than The Pacific but not as good as Band of Brothers. Definitely felt like it needed a 10th episode so the story had more room to breathe.

I did a little poking around on social media and, holy cow, is there a lot of bad information out there regarding this news.

There's so much more information to come. I guess we'll need to wait and see what else comes out.

The official Macross website says it will be on Star. We don't have Star in the US; that content generally ends up on Hulu.

I mean, could it end up on Disney+ in the US? I suppose, but that's not their standard operating procedure.

4 minutes ago, Big s said:

Chainsaw Man is not directly on D+. D+ has been known for editing movies and shows inconsistently. I’m not sure if they touched Deadpool at all, but the did edit Splash and that wasn’t even R rated. I’d be disappointed if they did something to that scene in the first episode of frontier when that guy got juiced.

But it's not going to be directly on Disney+. It's going to be on Star (or probably Hulu in the US).

I bring up Star (and Hulu, because I'm in the US) because Star was mentioned in the press release. I assume that's where Macross will reside, not directly on Disney+.

Edit: Japanese Macross website says definitively it'll be on Star. 

1 minute ago, Chronocidal said:

That's interesting.  I'm not at all familiar with how they treat mature content (or Chainsaw Man, for that matter), so my curiosity is mostly how they'd treat the central subject matter in Plus.

Internationally, non-Disney content goes on Star; in the US (or NA?) it's on Hulu. But it's all under one app.

8 minutes ago, MisaForever said:

How much you wanna bet Disney will remove parts from the different series that they don't like or agree with. 😛

They didn't remove anything from Chainsaw Man, why would they move content from Macross?

4 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Dunno....isn't Disney involved with the Studio Ghibli stuff?

Formerly. Currently, they're on Max.

Edit: Shout! Factory did the most recent blu-ray releases.

10 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

One which isn't known for anime and is the origin of the stigma that animation is only for kids?  Plus the license would've almost certainly had to have come via Sony, whose subsidiaries have the distribution rights. 😕

It should be noted that it was recently announced that Sony would be handling Disney's physical media releases going forward (something Disney itself had all but stopped). 

5 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Is it even necessarily HG they have to convince?

IIRC, Animeigo's Robert Woodhead once commented that the issue with DYRL? licensing was that nobody knew who for certain had the international rights after the attempts to localize the film in the 80's.  HG has basically delegated all things Robotech to Funimation as of a few years ago too.

That is my recollection as well.

55 minutes ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

Probably gonna keep on sailing the high seas for my Macross fix.

I'm not sure I understand this. We complained for decades about how difficult it was to get anything Macross outside of Japan. And now that it's opening up and we'll have legal options, you're still going to pirate it? That's kinda a stick in the eye to Big West who is trying to make this available to us.

Well, that was totally unexpected news.

47 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Just saw Dune chapter 2. It was good and didn't drop a beat from the first film. I could tell they went out of their way to save money without looking cheap. Amazing SFX though. Observation that the theater was packed for a sci-fi film that is more high brow than repeat super hero movies.

 

Yeah, I saw it opening day in my preferred seats, but have had trouble getting tickets in those same seats since then. Movie is doing a lot of business.

9 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Season 1 coming to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

I generally don't buy tv shows on physical media, but I may make an exception for Andor. Though, I'd wait for the complete series to be available in a single purchase.

The series is moving very fast and they're condensing events more than I thought they would given the run time of it. I suspect they're saving a chunk of time for

43 minutes ago, Jeff J said:

I came into this movie with my only knowledge of the Dune series from part one. I thought the movie was pretty good, though it almost felt too short, like they rushed to get from plot point A to B throughout.

The first movie is the bulk of the book. The second movie is maybe 1/4 or 1/3 of the book and it goes pretty quickly. So, not rushed, it's just how it was written. The main difference being there is a multiple-year time jump in the book that would have had to take place early in the second movie (if not in between movies).

7 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

Anyone else besides me find Dune (in general) to be a bit overrated?

Nope 😜

Napoleon is bad. Like The Counselor bad. And the guy who wrote it wrote the script for Gladiator 2. Does not bode well for that movie. 

It'll be worth the wait

12 hours ago, Keith said:

There's also mention of a 4k add on campaign if enough interest is shown.

Not sure it's really needed, but I'd want it if available.

4 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

No problem @Shawn.  It's live and already at $46,900 pledged of $75,000.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madoverlord/macross-ii-lovers-again-alus-edition

I'm in