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  1. Dynaman
    Star Wars was never Scifi from the start. It is Space Fantasy from start to finish. Nothing wrong with that (certainly not for the box office take SW has gotten over the decades) of course.
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    Han shooting first was not bad - he had no choice. Episode six (where Vader is redeemed with some of the most dreadful writing) is when SW went down the crapper. The prequels cemented that locale.
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    I saw news for a Japanese release. IIRC it was April. If trends hold from before (IIRC again) the English release follows in about six months.
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    George also tried to go for more nuance and he is no good at that. Star Wars at its best is when the good guys are good and the bad guys are bad.
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    Yes, roughly 30 years. So it would be a bit of a problem continuing with the same cast.
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    I'm not a Transformers guy so I don't pop into this thread often so if this has already been posted or doesn't actually fit or isn't officially licensed (if it is isn't it is certainly skirting IP ownership laws.). A transforming Optimus Prime toy that goes at a pretty decent clip. https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=688999332265938
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    If I bought collectible toys that set would be right up there on the list. Darned cute.
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    Have to disagree about Palpatine. The less we saw of him the better. At least in the original Trilogy. Prequels actually did a better job with him. He was basically a cackling chicken in Return of the Jedi and each time he said something it would have had the opposite effect of what he wanted (Luke to be turned to the Dark side).
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    Here is the difference. At the end of The Matrix Neo had won, COMPLETELY. They had to make that into something considerably less ground shaking to make a sequel to it. Practically acting like it didn't mean squat. Star Wars, the Death Star was destroyed but Darth Vader was still there and the Empire was just as strong after the Death Star was destroyed as it was before it was completed.
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    > Or rather, they - like many fans - agreed that there didn't need to be a sequel to the original trilogy. Not the trilogy, there was no need, or room, to make a sequel to the original film. They had to nerf the original ending of the first movie to make the second two even possible. That would have been fine if they were good movies but neither one was. Star Wars on the other hand left off in a spot rife for a continuation AND the second movie was the best of the lot.
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    I read somewhere they are working on one.
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    I'm not interested in music history but Spike Jones is a genius! I plan to get this one.
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    Sounds like they made a LOT of changes for the worse. I've not watched past the first episode and may or may not do so. Those changes sound bad, worse than last two seasons of GoT bad. The books also dragged quite a bit in the middle of the story, the author was adding in a bunch of stuff (like GoT did). Sadly I think it was the original author's death and bringing in a new author to finish it that saved the ending. The new author dropped or concluded a bunch of needless side stories and got things back to the core of the story.
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    Currently reading War and Peace. I'm at the start so it is a constant round of who said what at which party and who committed which atrocious social faux pas. Before that it was the last book in the Expanse series. Before that I'm near the end of the Man Kzin Wars series. History wise my favorites are the Civil War trilogy by Foote and the WW2 in the Pacific series by Ian W Toll. I'm partial to military scif but not jingoistic crap (as I call it) so I have to thread a needle when it comes to what I like. Early Honor Harrington (before the books became 75% conference drama and 20% cookbooks), The Expanse, Man Kzin Wars (amazing how many of the stories are not really about war too), Star Carrier, and The Trafalgar Gambit series being the main ones. I read two to four books a month depending on length.
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    So far the best I could do was a badly textured block but Blender is an amazing tool for those with talent.
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    The English BD for 2202 came out six months after 2202 finished in Japan. I thought it was longer than that, maybe since I was waiting for a streaming option I could buy. So six months to a year sounds about right if there is no problem with licensing or such.
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    I'll be that guy and note that particular Invid doesn't show up till New Generation (yes, the comics did retcon that too but it is hard to keep straight what is and is not cannon, other than it changes even to not include the show at times). More important - is that Breetai? And if so why does he look like he is in an Achie comic book, Jughead Breetai is all I can think now.
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    I was not planning to see it at the theater anyway (these days all I will see at a theater is most likely Star Trek or Star Wars - even knowing how they will probably turn out). But I digress, the Matrix series up till now consists of an incredible first movie, an extremely bad second movie and a third movie that is passable at best.
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    Invid scale is like the speed of ships in Babylon 5, scale of plot.
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    Miracles do happen. But I don't count on it myself.
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    The difference between those other shows and CB are that Netflix knows exactly what the viewership was (and will be) and if it does not go much much higher Netflix will have no interest. Netflix would not have said NO to a second season so quickly if viewership was anywhere near what they wanted. The Snyder cut was trying to get more cash out of a LARGE investment that did not pan out, a new season of CB would be throwing good money after bad. Macross in the US has no correlation whatsoever.
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    Not going to happen. Want to get it saved, get those who have not streamed it to do so.
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    Ebert has been gone for years now. I really miss him and Siskel. Although I did not always agree with their opinion I was always able to figure out if I would like a movie based on their reasons for liking or not liking something.
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    If you only go once a year and WANT to get on certain rides I would suggest staying at a Disney hotel that allows selecting the first ride at 7am. That is how you have the best shot at getting certain rides. When I was there the individual Lightning Lanes for all the big rides still had slots open after the parks opened but I did not even look at RotR so don't know about that one, the regular line for it was 120 min or less so if you want to wait it should be possible to get on. It was the rides that were still higher tier but on the regular Lightning Lane (15 a day at Disney World) that ran out fairly quickly. So pick one of those early in the day as well (at 7 if possible). FastPass used to be free so people are complaining that it is now $15 a day (plus the individual rides). Yes, the big 2 (or 3) rides at each park are the ones that are hardest to get. With the exception of RotR and Magic Kingdom (with more rides then any other park by a fair margin) I think you could get in all the rides at each park as long without Lightning lane as long as you don't go on Christmas week or Easter week.
  25. Dynaman
    I used the Genie+ on the first day at Animal Kingdom. I got one ride (the Safari) that otherwise would have been a 45 minute wait. Even that was not available till 2pm when I set it up around 10am. The next couple days I did not try and use it. Hollywood Studios I went right for the line for Runaway Railway and it was a 30 minute wait, Slinky was a 45 minute wait, Muppets no wait (criminally under-rated but works for me!), and Star Tours a 20 minute wait. Then off to Epcot for Soarin (30 min I think) and the Golf Ball (10 min). At Magic Kingdom I got on Haunted Mansion at rope drop (so call it a 30 min wait), Pirates in 30 min, Peter Pan in under 10 (sign said 55...), Barnstormer nearly a walk on, People Mover under 10, and Seven Dwarves at 60 min. Started home at 1230 or so - the park was getting CROWDED at that point and we were ready to go. So as a sum up, I would use Genie+ only for a particular big ride, when I go back in January I will probably use it for Remy at Epcot and Rise of the Resistance at Hollywood Studios and that is it.
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