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  1. Duke Togo
    An excellent season opener for Game of Thrones. Some of that I absolutely did not see coming. I will give a longer reaction tomorrow. But, wow!
  2. Duke Togo
    Len, your Voltron just popped up on Facebook's "Trending" feed.
  3. Duke Togo
    But that would mean pulling him off of BR2, so no, I can't get behind that.
  4. Duke Togo
    This would have been a better trailer id they cut out the flashbacks in the beginning. You shouldn't know for sure that this is a trailer for a new Bourne movie until you hear the guy say "Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne."
  5. Duke Togo
    I don't know why they didn't just make a computer animated movie. Would have been a much easier sell.
  6. Duke Togo
    There may be another reason why they were dabbling with altering her look with cgi: she's a cyborg who can (and does) change bodies and parts.
  7. Duke Togo
    Now this I agree with.
  8. Duke Togo
    If I recall correctly, pre-production on the movie started while the playerbase was still fairly large. It's just taken a very long time for them to get to this point.
  9. Duke Togo
    I just listened to that line several times, and it still sounds like "stunt" to me. But I see that Wookieepedia has an entry on snub fighters, so I will not argue.
  10. Duke Togo
    Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I missed that. Thanks.
  11. Duke Togo
    Their numbers are way, way down.
  12. Duke Togo
    I agree a lot of systems likely would, but what kind of ships would they have? I can see a lot of them having older ships as part of their planetary defense forces. Remember, unlike the Old Republic, the New Republic has (had?) a military and a fleet. They would handle the large threats. A lot of assumptions to be made here, but my thinking is they are going to pull in whatever they can in the short term, and by Episode 9 we'll see them at full strength. Think of Leia as Commander Shepard, and she's got to pull together a galaxy that doesn't really trust her to fight this huge threat, and she's got three movies to do it in.
  13. Duke Togo
    Right, I get that and will even accept that to a degree, but the show has him basically skipping every lesson when it comes to learning to fly the aircraft. Yet here he is taking off, flying, and engaging in mock combat. I'd have bought it more if they stretched this out over a few episodes and showed him actually learning how to fly. I think it would have been fun and genuinely amusing. I really thought it was great in episode 2 when they acknowledged the fact that he had no clue how to fly an aircraft. They totally avoided that anime trope of the novice doing amazing things in their super mecha. But then in episode 3 he's outmaneuvering Mirage after a week of skipping flight training with her. It took me longer than that to learn how to drive a car.
  14. Duke Togo
    Am I wrong, or is there no buzz around this movie?
  15. Duke Togo
    So it's a reimaging of a remake of one of the greatest films ever made? That's fine, really. We're so far from the source material that I'm not sure any changes they make really matter. The trailer is fine, but it doesn't really appeal to me. It's a bit too action-y for how I like my westerns. That said, the trailer might not accurately reflect the overall tone of the movie.
  16. Duke Togo
    I'm sorry, are we boring you? Is there something you'd rather talk about in this thread besides Star Wars Episode 8?
  17. Duke Togo
    How so?
  18. Duke Togo
    No one cares, and most of the people who are mad about this haven't read the manga or seen any of the anime, and almost certainly have no idea who Masamune Shirow is. Look, Hollywood has had a problem with whitewashing it's movies for as long as they've been making them. It's gotten better, but it still has a ways to go. However, the casting in this adaptation of GitS is only a problem for people who don't know the source material.
  19. Duke Togo
    Oh please, can we not drag the prequels into this discussion? It makes a mess and a mockery of the continuity of the OT. As does Rebels, for that matter, which introduces A-Wings (as their main fighter!!) and a B-Wing several years BBY. You have to remember that X-Wings and Y-Wings were old when the Rebellion used them in the original Star Wars (this is the original canon, not the EU or prequel nonsense). One of the Rebel pilots even dismisses the viability of using the X-Wing in an attack on the Death Star, calling it a "stunt fighter." The Rebellion had these craft because it's all they could get their hands on. One assumes that they got their hands on the newer, more advanced A-Wings and B-Wings as more systems flocked to their cause after their huge success at the Battle of Yavin. As for what the Resistance is flying, they're lucky to even have the newer X-Wings. What we saw in TFA is literally everything they have, and they lost half of their ships in their attack on Starkiller Base. I assume with the government of the Republic being wiped out along with their main fleet, the Resistance is going to try to get their hands on whatever they can to fight back.
  20. Duke Togo
    I stole this from someone on Kotaku: "If you look at the extra notes from Masamune Shirow in the compiled Manga release of the original books, the author himself mentions that a lot of it is based on Western characters and society, rather than Japanese, simply because he was heavily interested in it."
  21. Duke Togo
    Who wouldn't be interested in Macross fightwes?
  22. Duke Togo
    None of the EU is canon (nor was it ever), and they've always been very open about taking bits and pieces from it and inserting them into the canon when it suited their needs. Everyone? You do realize that only a small percentage of fans have even dabbled in the EU stories, don't you? And even when they have, it's only a small portion of the entire EU content. If they know anything from the EU, it's likely Revan. Some may know or have heard of Thrawn. But the rest of it hasnt ever reached a large level of exposure. Please no. Most of it is bad, and barely above the level of mediocre fanfiction. As to the other discussion taking place, why does it seem so strange that an A-Wing or B-Wing might show up in the next movie? How long has the U.S. been flying Eagles, Falcons, and Hornets? This isn't Macross where they develop a new fighter every four years.
  23. Duke Togo
    It was nonsensical, like the rest of the episode. I don't even know how he got in the air with little to no flight training. Perhaps the AI handled it? This was a step back from episode 2.
  24. Duke Togo
    Which supports my point. This is all very creator/character designer dependent, but the history of anime is littered with Asian characters who clearly do not look Asian. Shirow does not draw the Major with a distinctly Asian look--or even close to one, really.
  25. Duke Togo
    LOL, no, and neither should you. I assume you said that without really thinking about what it was you were saying (not meant as an insult).
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