Dynaman
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Saw some of E3 last night, the Mickey Mouse game actually looks like it might be a winner. Animation fans like us can have fun finding old characters and places from the Disney franchises in the game. (OK - maybe not all of us would care, but I thought it was neat). The paintbrush thing kind of had a "Super Mario: Sunshine" vibe to it though.
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There is a lot more dialog in some scenes, there is one scene in particular - when Rick is on the SDF-1 and Claudia comes up to talk with him about Lisa (shortly before the big battle episode) there is a LOT of internal monologe for Rick, for Macross it ends up being a shot with no dialog, just Hikaru staring out into space. Don't got there! I'm serious. Silly arguments about this kind of thing fill up page after page after page over at RT.com.
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I'll be the first to admit that early comico comics were terrible, but the later ones were very good (Macross Saga that is, I couldn't be bothered to pick up any others - and that sadly makes me part of a trend) (another caveat - "guest artist" comics were terrible)
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Losing the medic would not be a problem. With the communication stones they have access to any kind of expertise they need.
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If they use the even more despicable second in command to make the lady that was in command "acceptable" as a full time character next season I'll scream. There is no way either side will let the other side stay on the ship. The Lucien Alliance people will kill our heroes (won't be much of a show so we can count that out), or our heroes will strand the Lucien alliance folks (and thus we have ongoing bad guys to deal with)
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In the novels the SDF-3 was the only fold capable ship they had made up till that point, after they got to (whatever the heck the name of the RT masters homeworld was) they started producing other fold capable starships, powered by Protoculture peat moss if I remember correctly. The trip to Pluto was short enough that the time dilation problem with the SDF-1 engine was not noticed. Although in the novels no mention is made of it. With RT continuity (such as it is) lord only knows what actually happened - and it doesn't really matter since the next show to come (if any) will just retcon the whole thing again anyway.
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On the five year fold problem and why it does not match the fold "speed" of other vessels, it's been a while since I read the novels but I thought that there was something wrong with the SDF-3 fold system which caused the 5 year span. Normally it would have been a much shorter time.
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The only exception to the rule I can think of is if the two are married (which would have to happen before one of them entered the service), or if they are known to be in a relationship as enlisted personell and one of them becomes a mustang (slang for an enlisted person becoming an officer)
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Nah - that's just US TV's constant teasing while never consumating a relationship. The idea being that the instant they did the chemistry would be gone. (with notable exceptions of course, and shows since SG-1 have gone off the air have pretty much ignored the rule)
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It's one thing to have moral failings, and from a plot and character perspective it can be good
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The cliffhanger pretty much stunk. Colonel Young ought to be taken out and shot for gross stupidity. No way in Hades a competent military commander would ever allow things to get so far out of hand. I mean the stupid meter hit about 1000% (and that is not a typo).
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I'll probably see it when it comes out on DVD. The Fly was a great movie, if for no other reason then it grossed out my friend. The line about the BrundleFly museum of natural history was a hoot too.
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That's the one.
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To be fair, Will Wheaton HATED Wesley too. I even saw a clip of him telling Wesley to shut up... Besides, we all know that the MOST hated person from TNG was Tasha Yar (at least till she died and came back)
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I'll hijack my own thread, The Star Blazers website has more English info on the Yamato Live Action movie - Most interesting part to me is that Knox/Saito is part of the movie... http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=465&PHPSESSID=dbd409373f82b2404d61c5d505f3f21c&PHPSESSID=3c55fd3f8a3f4b9247aa24ee4b98cf4f
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There was a great Computer Animated short making fun of Max Headroom back when it came out. The computer animated guy was saying that Synthetic parts should go to synthetic actors... It was a Fun show.
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July 13th, not terrible, nearly $100 US - OUCH! Hopefully a US version will be out soon (in a year or two that is)
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Somewhere I saw that the Yamato movie is coming out on DVD June 4th. Sadly it probably will not have English Subtitles (or be region 1 either). That said, can anyone point me in the right direction on finding it when it comes out? My Japanese Google Foo is weak... Heck I have a PS3, if the Blue-Ray version is watchable here in the US I could get that one. So info on that is helpful too. (I didn't see the old Yamato thread so I started a new one, only existing one was about Pachinko)
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First season was some of the best TV ever done, second season was downhill from there. Paraphrasing someone else "There was a fourth season?"
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They just didn't have enough Mecha shows...
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You do realize that is actually a compliment rather then an insult? Needing to use ANY tech support these days is a nightmare... Seperate note, computer graphics is not just used for CGI (as such). It started being used in the eighties (of all things) in some Disney productions, to help keep the perspective correct when moving the camera. (I forget what movie exactly, the director of Iron Giant was talking about it on the commentary to one of his films)
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Computers are used to do more of the scaling and tweening work today. The most obvious example would be the higher frame rate for mechanical items and the smoother animation that results - even on low budget productions. There are many who do not like the "look" that such techniques come up with, but that is a seperate matter.
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Forget the eighties, what about the seventies! There is NO WAY the outside of the Millenium Falcon scales to the inside! Too be serious though, it is a common phenomonom that continues through today, movies and TV are artistic productions and as such the scale of things shown on screen is fuzzy at best. It is more important that things look "good" rather then be exactly to scale.
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The way they said Hikaru bugged me just as much (even if I did just spell his name wrong...) Many times it was pronounced by the English cast as HE-CAR-EWW When I hear the Japanese cast say HE-KA-ROO (my phonetic spelling skills are bad, but I think anyone who has heard the dub knows what I mean)
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In the case of the M16 it is two things. 1 - Bullets are lighter so the soldiers can carry more of them. 2 - Recoil is much lower with a lighter bullet. (but I digress from the topic...)