kalvasflam

Thought the Russian side of the ledger is now up to at least 3 Su-25, and a single Backfire. I wonder what the losses for the Georgians were. I am actually a little surprised at how effective the Georgian air defenses are, considering that the Russians should know those systems inside out. One other thing that is of interest, I wonder how many attack choppers the Russians deployed, the country seem to be pretty good for that type of operations.

This episode The battle scenes were pretty good over all but

Finally saw one live. Hmmm, this one seems to actually advance the plot quite a bit in terms of characters: In terms of the show, I'm glad that they were able to Finally, one thing that's bugging me, have they explained why Anyway, decent ep

keeps going in and out.... arrrrrrrrrrgh

I am not sure if this was discussed, but where the heck did those other -27s come from? Were they a mistake or something? I didn't even really see them in action or anything....

Meant Frontier... but I'm sure the accountant at Bandai can scare up a Galaxy version. And Yeah, I know I got the spelling wrong. Oh, and I forgot the VF-17 variants and the possibility of a VF-24 too.... heh heh

As I watched this episode, I was thinking that there was probably at least one accountant sitting in the bowels of Bandai with this ep on a loop shouting: "YATTA YATTA YATTA" Given how many possible models of Valks in there. Let's see: VF-25 (Ozama) VF-25 super pack (Ozama) VF-25 armored pack (Ozama) VF-25 (Alto) VF-25 super pack (Alto) VF-25 armored pack (Alto) VF-25 (Luca) VF-25 super pack (Luca) VF-25 (Michel) VF-25 super pack (Michel) VF-25 (grunt) VF-25 super pack (grunt) Koenig Monster VF-27 (Brera) VF-27 (grunt) Macross Quarter Quadrulunn (Klan Klan) Quadrulunn (vanguard battalion) Quadrulunn (Macross Galaxy) The best part, most of these are just repaint jobs. This is almost as good as a Gundam show.

That's what I liked about Ledger's Joker, it was a very deep character. I agree that I just hope when the sequel comes up, it is done just as well. This one is the best movie this year.

Just saw the movie.... and had a few thoughts Whoa, this thing was rated PG13? What the hell? I thought the first half an hour of the movie was definitely disturbing. Enough to give kids nightmares or set them on a good path to being psychos. I have no idea what the rest of the Oscar field would look like, but the first half an hour was enough to put Ledger on the nomination list. The acting difference is quite palpable at the beginning of the movie vs. the end. At the end of the movie, I wasn't quite sure whether the Joker had changed persona or that I got so used to him being the way that he is I thought it was starting to become more reasonable what he was doing. Aaron Eckhart I think got overshadowed in this movie. He did just a great job playing Harvey. A bit over the top at times, but very believable. The way they set up his fall, it's pretty tragic. Christine Bale did a pretty good job too, but definitely overshadowed in this movie by the other two guys. A nice combo of toys for people who like the stuff. But the psychology of the movie was really good too. By far the best Batman movie so far. As for a sequel, I don't have any doubts though that with something this big, there will be a sequel, I'm going to guess that this will surpass Spiderman-3 or come within a few million of it on the opening three days. For the lighter moments, I did like the Joker origin in this movie. Thought that was hilarious.

Think I'm starting to understand Alto, Alto is an actor after all, and most actors are well.... you know. So Ozama better watch out, and Bobby might have additional competition. That explains the whole "LET ME JOIN SMS" thing

You know what the main difference is? Look very carefully at the nose, they put a Flanker type nose on the VF-17I

Unless that technology was transplanted secretly onto Frontier... ah ha... See, Galaxy could still have been wiped out. Besides, that way, we don't have to explain how Grace gets back to Frontier.

He is? Good airline pilot may be... I don't think he has any delusions about being the Red Baron...

That's easy, he is dodging fantasy missiles. The last time he approached a Vajra ship, he did that, figures, bigger ship, more armor, woohoo, more pieces to eject, and he still had leftovers. I wonder if Battle25 isn't just the front block of the city hard welded. It does feel like it. As for the use of reaction weapons, I wonder why they bother restricting its use at all. Should've been the first option when the fleet was threatened with so many Vajra battleships I thought. Instead of sending the fleet to attack head on, use the reaction weapons immediately. I think on the pacing of the episode, I have a feeling that the show is being rushed because of its lousy time slot. If anything, the Ranka kidnapping should've gone on for another episode, it didn't seem to have advanced the story much further, and the Vajra is still a big ugly insect that in Ranka's case found an interesting little toy. This wasn't anything like the Misa/Hikaru/Max adventure with the Zentradi fleet. That one, we got more insight to the Zentradi, this one was less revelation, and more about the rescue. Which brings me up to the question, why did Brera have to conduct the rescue at all? Because, now that Brera has formally revealed himself, what's next? Is he going to be assigned to NUNS, SMS? How is he going to explain his previous interventions, or is Leon just going to find a way to cover up for him? I have an uneasy feeling that the story is starting to drift like M0. I hope I'm wrong.

Call it silly, I was just looking at Pine salad, and thinking Gladiator. Got this imagery where Maximus and company are surrounded by Roman guards, and Comodus comes out and he says to the crowd: Cake or Pine salad.... Anyway, my vote is for Ozma next, my only question is who gives him the pine salad... Ranka, Bobby, or Cathy? Well, considering the title, it's probably Ranka.

Time up... well, for spoiler moratorium. I just got finish watching the RAW, interesting stuff. My initial opinion is that despite the build up from ep 13, this did not compare as well to episode 7. I actually liked episode 7 better even though this one was grander in scale. I thought the song that went along with the battle seem a bit forced and inappropriate. Obviously, given the Bandai involvement, I'm guessing this episode is designed to sell toys. Special packs for Alto, Alto VF-25 armored, VF-25 armored with reaction missiles, VF-17 with reaction missiles. I think that's about all of them. That said, this was still a good episode despite the reused animation, but it could've been so much better. Interesting points: - Did the bridge bunnies just tell Cathy that Bobby is interested in Ozma? If I heard that right, Cathy's reaction is well guarded. - As someone pointed out, Sheryl's poor piloting save her and Mikhail's lives. Neat, I'm more impressed with Sheryl every day, she gives me Misa vibes, and Ranka definitely has more Minmei vibes. - For such a broad fleet action, they actually had lots of useless character development, I'm sorry, I don't like Nanasei, or whatever the hell her name is, she's dead to me. Any time focused on her is wasted. My take is either they focus in on fleet action, and there could've been more done, even considering the small budget or do all these personal human interest stories, don't do both. - As for Luca, dude, you're frigging rich, just do her and get it over with, and move on to someone else, this childish "I'll return" crap is lame. We all know you're the evil genius behind Grace. Drop the innocent act. - Grace is alive... YES.... ok, I'm sorry if I seem a bit excited, but she's one cold hearted villain I can live with, it's the quiet ones that gets you. I'm sure Grace will have a story in mind for Sheryl or anyone else who asks. (Please don't disappoint me, Grace) - What the hell is this with Alto's armored VF-25? I swore he must have ejected three sets of parts, and was still loaded for bear when he blew up the Vajra queen. - Got great DYRL vibes when Alto blew up the Vajra queen, just like when Hikaru assassinated Boldolza. - The Vajra, did I miss something or did they turn stupid. When their ships came from behind, their battleships fired one shot each, and look like they didn't fire any more. Like they were waiting for Ranka to start singing. In the time it took for Alto to load up reaction missiles, they should have ripped Frontier to little pieces. They shot once and then stopped. - And what happened to the Vajra fleet that was in front? Were they wiped out already? - What's up with Leon? He was just smiling along the entire episode, like he was expecting the Vajra to be dumb and not blow up Frontier after the first shot. - As for Brera, ok, we still don't know anything about Galaxy, it could be destroyed, if it was, Brera can claim whatever he wants, how would anyone know the difference. Hi, I'm Brera, I'm from Megaroad, we've been out of touch for decades, but here I am in my brand new VF-27. - In my estimation, Brera was following Grace's orders exactly when he rescued Ranka. Like I said, Grace is one calculating bitch, what a babe... - I wonder what the funny crystals are about. It'll be interesting if they have a decent stories for it. I do hope they show more VF-17I and make them at least not so much of a grunt unit. If they keep doing that, I'll start thinking that I'm watching Gundam or something. I think overall, this episode raised up a few more questions. I'm definitely don't think it was better than ep 7 in spite of the build up. Hope they do another fleet action, and do it better next time.

From the description so far, I agree, thinking back to

Heh, should have put a surgeon general's warning on this one I guess. It was kind of gross.

Wish I could've seen the episode live, will wait for RAW I guess. Can't wait for the subbed version.

can't get it to work. dropped in: mms://60.239.50.230:8888 and nothing.....

Hmmm, still trying to figure out Keyhole, which channel is it supposed to be on the list?

If that's truly the case on the second part, and not just then I'll be truly disappointed, after some interesting character building, they would just discard him is a bit unbelievable. I think one of the problems possibly with Gundam 00 might be that in season one they had too many interesting characters, and they did a good job of developing all of them to some extent that there wasn't as much focus on Setsuna, who by contrast wasn't quite as interesting in the beginning...

Methinks that Grace is actually from the future, and is anti-Sheryl because she is the love child of Ranka and Alto, but eventually Sheryl wins over Alto, and Alto abandons Ranka and said love child Hikaru-style. Grace adapts cybernetic body (needed for time travel, ala-terminator style), goes back in time to keep Sheryl from getting Alto, and to prevent Ranka from turning into: New Ranka Result of Google image search if you type in fat Ranka on the image page of Google, and was too funny to pass up.

Very nice Graham, I think it's easy to say that if the VF-1 is based off the Tomcat, the VF-25, -27, and I think even the nose of the VF-17I is based off the Flanker. There is just no arguing it, the Flanker is by far the prettiest aircraft around these days.

Watched it over the weekend finally. Great movie, it's amazing how much expression they managed to pack into EVE and WALL E even though for all practical purposes, they are just blocks, but the expressions that they manage speak volumes about the creativity of Pixar. It's amazing how well Pixar managed to pull that off, because if you look at it objectively, WALL E is not too different from Gumby. BloodPhoenix, you can take what you will from the movie, but I find that if people go to movies to look for meaning or purpose, then they probably forgot about the reason for why they went to the movie in the first place... which is entertainment.