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Airbus can actually fall back a little on EADS, and not to mention the French and German governments who don't want massive unemployment, so no matter how badly things might look, they'll never go away. But realistically, that would never happen, unless A380s fall out of the sky left and right, people will stay with Airbus, they don't have a choice. In terms of Boeing, the next year will tell how good or bad things will be. There are concerns that the 787 is going to be delayed because of Vought, and then there is always the possibility that they run out of fastners. The order battle is kind of interesting to see, Airbus may have held back their announcments, but so far, they've had a couple of good ones, including US Air. Now, the military side of the house really needs to be cleaned up... the CSAR contract must be a joke for someone. Then there is FCS, if you read Business Week at all, that is another nightmare in the making. I actually hope they do better there, because quite simply put, the Lockheed designs are too recycled, and Lockheed needs the competition.

Heh heh, robots in disguise eh? Must be one hell of an ugly disguise.

Amen to that; let's see which regime has lots of tanks that are old 70s vintage that can be killed and then resold to the new govt that we put in place. Moving on from there. The Paris Air Show is open, it looks like Airbus is starting to score big with the A350XWB; the Qatar order was already known before hand, but they managed to land US Air finally. There was some danger of US Air not going with them until recently, but given that EADS backed US Air during the hard times, and that US Air owns an all Airbus fleet, it would've been impressive if Boeing won there. And Emirates is ordering yet more A380, and supposed the decision will be for either 100 787 or 100 A350; something like that. Now that would be impressive. Finally, it looks like Boeing might be in trouble, according to JP Morgan, they think Boeing is four months behind schedule on the 787.

Exactly, compare it to the cost of a Maverick, then think about the cost of a MBT (even then, you probably just need 200 to 300 rounds to kill the MBT). well, you get the idea. It's frigging cheap.

SO the new gundams are: Gundam Anorexic Gundam I have a Gun Gundam Pokey and uhhhh... Gundam Fatboy.... yeah, being fat is a virtue Yes, very impressive Oh... and are we sure the pilot of the Fatboy is a guy?

Wouldn't be surprising, I think the 787 queue now has delivery dates up to 2014; that's about the time that the A350 is going to enter service. The big question now is whether or not Boeing will fall on its face with the delivery schedules. The next year will be really interesting. Because it could potentially break the bank for Boeing if they screw things up operationally. Far worse than Airbus's A380 debacle

According to Boeing, they see need for up to 28,000 new planes (commercial both pax and cargo) over the next 20 years. Holy smoke. That's a lot of planes, granted nearly half are going to be replacements, but that's a couple of trillion dollars. Then, there is the Paris airshow, that starts up next week. It'll be interesting to see if Boeing lands any more 787 orders during that week.

Exactly, that's just stupid. Why don't they kill the entire genere, I hope the bad guy is interesting this time. I liked Hans and Simon, but the colonel is the second movie was a bit subpar. I hope the villian this time is a little better. Although in all fairness, Live Free or Die Hard shouldn't have been made. But let's face it, Hollywood for the most part is devoid of any creativity or new ideas. That's why the summer blockbusters are things with #s behind them, how many frigging sequels are there? Shrek, Spiderman, Pirates, Die Hard, and so on.... Next year, there is Indiana Jones 4... at this rate, they need to start making things like ET2, and drag old stars out of retirement to do one more movie. I swear Pixar is the only studio that seem to be a little more original these days. Even they have Toy Story 3 on the books. In that way, they're a lot like the Gundam series that is essentially the billionth rehash of the same old thing.

no you idiot... that's Thundercracker... recolored of course.

Neat.... Centauris rule... heh heh.

I would like one of the following two characters: Kira or Athrun to die a horrible death within the first five minutes of the film. The have the rest of the movie on flashbacks about the dead character. Ha ha, that'll make it both a fairly dramatic departure from the usual, and the same 'ol thing as far as Seed is concerned. But oddly enough, done under the right circumstances, it can work very well.

Now if it only had a GAU-8, it would be really something. Equivalent of the gatling gun on the Valks, except a lot more powerful.

Gawd, I hope the production is Japanese if they ever do Macross, not Hollywood.

The season was a downer for me too. Had caught parts of last night's episode, juggling it with Heroes, and then watched the whole thing this morning. I don't mind outing the brother or the father. But the ending was weak. Why the hell did the idiot father take such risks. I still don't understand why little Josh was so special. Who the hell was the main villain? Overall, given how good season 5 was, this one was a bit disappointing. Far too many loose ends. I hate to say it, but I do want papa Bauer to survive, so he can explain essentially 3 seasons worth of stuff.

Having caught the last part of it, I have to say, they needed to have done a better job at the end. How Hiro killed Sylar was just lame. I don't even recall him freezing time. Now, it's sad that Peter comes back, if it is true and Nathan returns as well. Then the show is a loser. Nathan should be dead, when Peter goes kaboom, is he actually harmed himself?

Oops, you're quite right about the Russian thing. Bauer arranged for them to be brought to the US. Although the fact they were transferred to terrorists tend to be a point that somehow papa Bauer seemed to be involved with, but not well explored

I disagree on the part about evil doers. The problem really is that there is a lack of focus. The underlying bad guy is papa Bauer, we don't have any closure on the whole conspiracy thing. Instead we looked at the smaller picture all year long, first the Muslims, then the Russians, and then the Chinese. Why did he (papa Bauer) bother to sell nukes to Russia, that seem to be almost a useless point. He is already plenty rich, what was in it for him to do that? What was in it for papa Bauer to get sonny #2 to pull Logan's strings. Who the hell is behind the kill Palmer #2 plot? Nameless officials don't get together and decide to kill the CEO on a whim. It would be very nice to properly explore these portions. For example, I wouldn't mind finding out Daniels is also being controlled in some way by papa Bauer.

Do you want the answer? Simple: No body cares about some unknown CTU agent... he could've dropped off the face of the Earth for all anyone cared.

Uh oh, daddy Bauer is now getting ready to get grandson Bauer from the US government. Unfortunately, I think daddy Bauer is going to die at the end of the season, just like our poor Chinese compadre. I'm truly disappointed in this season though. It seem like the main focus was about the evilness of daddy Bauer, but he just has so little screen time. Not nearly as evil as Logan was. This was sad. I hope papa Bauer does live, and that as an ongoing arc, they'll put him back into season 7.

Well, ol'George is just pissed because ILM didn't do the special effects. After all, it isn't good when there is competition. I suppose he could've criticized Lord of the Rings too: "I could see it now... well, Tolkein's story wasn't that good to start with, but that Jackson just ruined the whole thing." Now, that would've been bombast. More Star Wars? George, get a clue, that ship sailed 20 years ago. Just like Indiana Jones ship sailed 15 years ago... Wait... that was more Spielberg. Stop grasping at straws and go do something new. But the three more movies will be interesting, Spiderman certainly has a lot of villians to go through, I hope no Carnage, no more symbiote though. I'm not too happy they killed off Osborn though.

I hope papa Bauer lives long enough to be in next season. If I think about it, I'd like old papa Bauer to hook up with Mandy. Haven't seen her since season 4. I really miss Mandy. The only bad guy who has truly escaped the clutches of Bauer so far. As for Milo, well, I never liked him much anyway. So, no big loss, I think though that I don't like Nadia and Ricky very much either, they both need to bite the dust.

Good choice, it'll be a nice scout chopper to fly. Not the threat that everyone thinks of in terms of firepower like the AH-64. But still quite dangerous given what it is armed with.

Well, to be fair, Lou didn't so much as fight side by side with Keifer as he was too busy been taken hostage and getting shot. As to emphasize the point that some Young Guns are just not quite as good as others.

I personally think they ought to bring in Charlie Sheen and Emilio Esteves as guest stars for two episodes and then kill them off. That would've completed the primary cast of Young Guns. And to emphasize the point that at the end, Bauer rules.

Ha ha, I like the brother angle. Old Phil Bauer got into what's her name's pants, result: the Kim lookalike. Milo or the Rich kid (I can't remember his name) is gonna bite the dust.