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  1. Seto Kaiba
    NGL, the more I think about it the more I think Guy Fieri over Gordon Ramsay for that... After all, the Xenomorph isn't usually found dining on fresh high-quality white collar executives in a posh and spotlessly clean establishment. It's frequenting the grungy, grimy, hasn't-seen-a-mop-and-bucket-in-living-memory working spaceships and factories and enthusiastically consuming a diet of cheap, greasy, frozen-and-reheated blue collar working stiffs. Alien movies from the creature's perspective aren't Master Chef or even Kitchen Nightmares... it's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. 😆
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    Traced artwork is pretty darn common in western comics. Most of the ships in those panels are obviously traced, even the Federation starships.
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    Oh, it 100% is... it's the ventral view from this line art. It's really obvious they tried to cover up the tracing/photoshopping by smudging out the details of the Macross's ventral engines and the gap between the main engines.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Considering what easy marks Humans are for Xenomorph XX121, with so very many examples of them being stupid enough to go stick their faces directly in a giant wet obviously dangerous space egg of unknown origin... It'd probably read like a food critic's newspaper column. A penny for Big Chap's thoughts. That's the only XX121 specimen to go through it all twice. First on the Nostromo and then again on Romulus station. If he'd lived long enough, he might be upset at getting upstaged at the end by Mark Zuckerberg "The Newborn". Alien: Covenant isn't quite that bad. It's rubbish as a prequel to Alien, but it's a passable generic monster movie and Michael Fassbender does deliver a pretty good performance as the creepy and insane android David 8. The reason I mentioned it as an exception is that it's unique among Alien titles for being a xenomorph massacre where "The Company" was genuinely not responsible.
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    Betrothed to My Sister's Ex had a really promising start, but it has devolved into a really frustrating and tedious mess. We're on like the fifth round of "Oops, the main couple are making too much progress we'd better bring up the dead sister again" in just ten episodes. They have dragged this out SO MUCH that it's stopped being dramatic several rounds ago and is just exhausting to watch... and the excuses the characters use to not just cut directly to the heart of the matter have gotten so incredibly flimsy that it's headache inducing.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Seems unlikely at present. Maybe they'll play with that in season 5 or something. Kirk may have just preferred the doctor he brought with him, or perhaps M'Benga took a year in a shore posting like Dr. Crusher did and Kirk didn't want to reorganize the department when he came back.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    Well, yeah... regular people dying in droves because rich arseholes want to control the uncontrollable is pretty much Alien in a nutshell. If you exclude Alien: Covenant, anyway. That's just Too Dumb to Live rednecks dying for an obsolete android's daddy issues and doesn't really involve The Company at all.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    He's still serving on the Enterprise during Kirk's tenure as captain, in fact. He's originally a minor TOS character, appearing in one episode of the show's second season ("A Private Little War") and one episode of the show's third season ("That Which Survives"). So he was still on the Enterprise in 2266 and 2267, albeit not as the ship's chief medical officer the way he was under Pike. Edit: in some of the non-canonical expanded universe material from before the current regime, he remained a part of the Enterprise crew clear into the late 2280s, making the transition to the Enterprise-A as well.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Neverland does seem to be fairly light on armed security, yes. I'd assume that has a lot to do with it being a secret research facility on a private island. We're not exactly sure where, but given that it's a short flight over open ocean from "Prodigy City" (former Bangkok) it's probably in the Gulf of Thailand or Riau archipelago. Based on the map we're shown, that's pretty much the heart of Prodigy's territory. They control East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, the southern half of Africa, Greenland, and Iceland. Neverland's most probable location is pretty well encircled by other Prodigy territories. Having a large security force present would tend to undermine the secrecy aspect of it too, since you either have to keep them there and ship in large quantities of food and various supplies or rotate them out to other postings periodically, increasing the chance of leaks. The best defense is never being a target to begin with, after all. Though yes, the wisdom of that strategy is likely in question now that the island is home to a variety of different extraterrestrial murder monsters. Well, yeah... that's kind of the point I think. They even put his carelessness in his name. He is almost literally named "Arrogant Brat". 😆🙃
  10. Seto Kaiba
    OK, it's here... the moment some of us have been waiting for. An Ortegas episode. We've been waiting for her to get some proper character development for almost three entire seasons now. It's about time they got around to her. So we're doing the usual formula... Oh hey, an overt TOS reference. The ship the Enterprise is due to rendezvous with is Captain Decker's USS Constellation, the same ship and captain from TOS "The Doomsday Machine". Well, in fine Star Trek tradition that shuttlecraft is a writeoff... This is actually really well done. This is what I come to SNW for. So, hey, another TOS reference. The same one from "Arena", actually. Kinda widens the existing plot hole though. More shots of Ortegas's quarters... this time models of the Enterprise and Shenzhou, as well as replicas of the Quimbaya artifacts (sometimes erroneously claimed to be ancient airplanes). Really well done. Honestly, worth waiting for both as a character-focus episode and an excellent reversal of course on the show's main antagonist.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Y'know, I never really thought about it much since fans and licensees all just call the creature "the Xenomorph"... but I did some checking and you're completely correct. 👍 "Xenomorph" is an in-universe generic term for an unclassified alien lifeform. Lt. Gorman uses it as a generic term for an unidentified alien species during the briefing in Aliens before anyone ever sees one. They use "Xenomorph" the same way Warhammer 40,000 uses "Xenos" to refer to aliens... and Aliens was probably the inspiration for that too. In the Weyland Yutani Report and Alien: Romulus they append a catalog number to it making it the Xenomorph XX121. The extra features of the Quadrilogy box set for the first four Alien films gives the in-universe scientific name of the creatures as Internecivus raptus. Well, it is one of the only intelligent lifeforms in the series... 😆
  12. Seto Kaiba
    After getting some feedback from some friends following the current season, I decided to give Solo Camping for Two another chance. I was told that it evolves into a proper edutainment-type story about proper and safe techniques for camping and that is actually true. There's some actually good and useful info in the later episodes about how to safely split firewood, safely set up a camp stove, how to identify safe campsites, etc. With a little work, it could actually be an enjoyable series. Its main problem is that it's an absolutely terrible ambassador for the hobby it's ostensibly promoting. It doesn't present camping as fun or interesting or challenging in and of itself...
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Now that's an excellent question with no clear answer.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    The original CSI had a good one, though mainly because it was self-aware enough to take cheap shots at its own medium.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    NGL, kinda with you on that one. "In-story documentary" type episodes are a hard sell even when they're well done. That one was definitely not.
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