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    I've got a question of my own: Where's this "Force dyad" thing coming from? I don't recall such a term ever being mentioned in the movies. (If it was in TFA, then I guess that shows how much attention I paid that movie.) I just assumed it was funky Force mojo working on them across space-time same as it always did. I don't get why this movie in particular suddenly has people questioning Force powers. It's weird space magic that sometimes blindsides even the most "adept" at harnessing it; Rey and Kylo Ren were both clearly weirded out by their "ability" to communicate in the last movie, as well as by how much stronger that "ability" progressed throughout this one. Kylo Ren looked like he was about to crap himself in terror when he saw her necklace in his hand. Is it, and do you? I mean yes, healing someone probably involves expending some effort, but I picture it less as "you put your life energy into them" and more as "you manipulate the Force and how it interacts with their body to promote cell growth" or something. Why is lightsaber color such a... a thing for Star Wars? I mean I know why, I get it. I just find the in-universe lore about them really stupid. They were red and blue (and green) in the OT because red is a threatening color and blue is a cooler, peaceful one (and green was different from blue but still A Good Color). (And of course they were originally colorless IIRC but that was maybe because the effects hadn't been finished yet and/or the concept of a lightsaber hadn't yet included color and/or something else, I'm sure someone here can explain it all.) Then somewhere along the way red became ONLY a Sith color for Reasons, or maybe Sith ONLY used red lightsabers again for Reasons, whereas Jedi get their pick of the entire frickin' rainbow for their own Reasons, and it's all symbolic, and all this attention paid to this. one. Specific. THING. and none of it bothers to think about actual reasons for color-coding. Like, I'd buy the lore if it just included, somewhere along the line, someone having X-colored lightsaber and casually explaining, "Yeah I thought green would look frakking cool." And then someone else is like "That lightsaber totally does not go with your outfit, what are you thinking?" And then a third person chimes in with "So what? No one asked you, Brenda." And the pragmatist of the group goes, "Shut the frakk up and hand me your orange lightsaber so I can cut a hole through this wall," because he's colorblind.
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    Oh derp. Mistook the Macross label at a glance for the LE label. I want to say they did, once. I could go for another round too, though.
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    What's the difference between the -0C and others? - 0A = Shin/CF - 0B = two-seater - 0C = two-seater(?) + all Ghost add-ons except for Ghost itself? - 0D = delta wing trainer - 0S = Roy/squad leader EDIT: Also I didn't realize the VF-31J is a LE kit. Are all the Delta releases LE? IIRC that wasn't the case for the VF-25, right?
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    I'll say this, though: For the past week or two now, I've been obsessively choreographing in my mind a battle between Some Dude with an extra large lightsaber claymore and Some Girl with a lightsaber polearm. It's been years since I last did that. So... I mean it's got that going for it, I guess.
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    By "design" you mean DAT ASS!!!! But no for real, I have that second figure and it is wonderful. (Managed to get mine for a relative steal (~$120 shipped) on YJP.) I agree it adheres better to Sadamoto's style than the 1/7, though I'm sure that one's not bad either, it's all a matter of taste.
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    "Go, Hand, go!" Luke whispers urgently as he releases the harness on his hand. In an instant, it shoots through the halls of Cloud City, scrabbling on five spindly finger-legs. At an intersection, it pauses, raises index and middle fingers into the air to smell, then squirts a bit of blood from its stump forearm for Luke to follow before darting down another hallway. This way, definitely this way. It would know the smell of Wookie anywhere.
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    ...well that was a waste of time.
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    I'm getting way more Last of Us from this than A Quiet Place. Both are good, but in their own ways. I dunno how much I want to see this, though I'm sure it'll be a good movie.
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    With how adept Rey is with her staff, I'm surprised (well, "surprised") that they didn't just have her use that through the last movie. Would've been way more interesting than yet another lightsaber battle. A lightsaber polearm, perhaps? Would've been and would still be real cool to see a spear or guandao wielder. Of course, that would have necessitated a specialized coach/trainer to help Daisy Ridley. But still...
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    They should retcon calling these past 9 movies the "Skywalker saga" because frakk that stupid ass stupid Z-tier focus group PR butt-speak. Is it incredibly petty of me that that's what pisses me off the most about Star Wars? Maybe, but look what we're working with here. frakking... "Skywalker saga." Pfffft. frakk off. "Skywalker saga."
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    That's the glare from the desk lights, not them glowing. Seemed kind of... obvious.
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    Just in case you haven't seen the news yet, Hideaki Anno issued a candid statement on the (lack of) connection between himself/Studio Khara/Evangelion and Gainax. https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/12/30/hideaki-anno-denounces-links-between-him-and-arrested-gainax-president-discusses-past-with-anime-studio
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    Yeah, but P-Bandai. Like almost all of the announced kits that actually interested me were P-Bandai'd, so... oh well.
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    I like to think it's an intentional design. There's actually nothing at all in Zaku heads but those lights, and it distracts people into attacking it instead of the main body. IIRC in Pacific Rim the Cherno Alpha has exactly that type of design, a big ol' search light situated far above the actual cockpit so that enemies mistakenly attack that instead.
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    Oh, it's not P-Bandai, they just did a limited release of it, similar to like the "Unicorn mode box art" initial release of the RG Unicorn, except so far as I can tell, there are no plans to keep producing it like there were for the Unicorn.
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    It's a limited edition release, or at least the initial batch with special box and booklet is. There's been no word of when/if it'll see further release in any form the way the G30th did via the HG Starter Set 2.
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    Rey's saber made me immediately think of Hindu/Buddhist vajra ceremonial weapons. I thought it made for neat religious imagery, though I doubt that the similarity is intentional.
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    And it will no doubt release... in 2050.
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    Now give him derp eyes. Do it!
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    Force powers. /shrug I dunno man, Darth Maul was pretty super competent... until he wasn't. I dunno man, Darth Maul was pretty super likable and well-acted... until he wasn't. Look, if that's what it takes to get more Ray Park Darth Maul... Sorry, just watched me that Phantom Menace fight again. Got the double blade on the brain. Yeah, we all remember fondly that gritty Destroid war drama, Robotech. Nice build. It's always cool to see the thousands of ways people jerry rig up their own sabers. Speaking of lightsabers, though, I wasn't too hot on the lightsaber combat in this movie... or in the sequels in general, really. I know the one big fight scene in TLJ gets a lot of flak, but it's legitimately the one interesting fight scene out of all three movies. But anyway, in this movie in particular, something about how the characters swing their sabers a lot of the time... It happened too often to not notice, where instead of following through swings (or making it look like they're trying to, at any rate), characters would angle their grips/props/batons/etc. to make a lightsaber clash as shallow as possible. I dunno what it was. Maybe they just weren't given time to really work through each fight scene. From what I hear, the TLJ throne room fight is just as bad, where the actors didn't have enough time to get the timing of the choreography down right, so you'll see the stuntmen Praetorians doing "filler" maneuvers in the background meanwhile. Anyway.
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    Last night while discussing the movie, my brother said that he ranks TPM as the worst in the franchise because it has Jar Jar Binks in it. And I've noticed that lots of people rank RotJ among the lower rung of movies citing the presence of Ewoks. And that got me wondering... Why? They're certainly not the worst aspects of their respective movies. They're a bit silly, a bit cartoonish, but it's not as if excising them would suddenly "save" their respective movies. Are Star Wars fans just allergic to childhood or something? I know that's a bit reductive, but still... Anyway, saw the movie. It was exactly what I expected it to be, which is to say that everything that happened was expected. This film did not even try to surprise me in any way, which is... fine... I suppose. It's a film that exists, that leaves you feeling as little afterwards as you felt before. People have already noted that this is basically two films rolled into one. While I am so glad for TLJ existing, I will say that this trilogy would have at least been internally tonally consistent (if completely uninteresting) if it had followed a single JJ Abrams "creative" vision. But I also would have preferred if this last film were directed by a third person entirely (I think it was Colin Treverrow?) to what we ultimately got here. (Also boy it was Return of the Jedi as hell, isn't it. How VERY Return of the Jedi it was.)
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    Saw the first episode and a... half? Seems fine so far, if a bit... I dunno... identity-less. Obviously you can't glean too much from just an hour(?) or so of 5+, but so far I'm not seeing too much that makes it stand apart from any other "dark fantasy" story. Powerful but persecuted man with a jaded exterior hiding a resolute moral core, plus casual nudity (but only involving hot women!) and a conveniently totally justifiable sex scene. You can tell this story was written by a man. No, that's not a criticism of the show, just an observation. Wasn't put off by the time-jumping narrative at all. It actually seemed to telegraph the shifts pretty clearly, so while I didn't really know what had shifted from scene to scene, I knew that something had shifted, and so it didn't catch me off guard later when I realized what was going on. But maybe it gets more convoluted as it goes on. Anyway, decent show, not bad at all. May as well finish it up.
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    There's an Entertainment Weekly review making the rounds for being abjectly terrible. Apparently the people (who actually got paid for their opinions) watched only the first episode or two before skipping to the last episode, then gave it a score of 0 out of whatever. That's... yikes.
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    You might want to do what others did with the 1/20 VF-1 and contact HLJ customer support, see what they can possibly do to drop the price on shipping. How heavy, big, or just... whatever... is that figure? Does it come with all the thousand parts separated out on plastic trays?
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    Eh, without knowing too much about the specifics of their arguments, I can't comment much about them. The video itself is kind of unclear on what those arguments are, only going as far (from what I remember) as to say: "...many of our most beloved pop culture institutions are also among our least well-understood ... precisely because they're so well-beloved. So much of the modern critical discourse is about recontextualizing and reclaiming works that have been overlooked and pushed aside, that we often assume that the universally accepted canon is either already well-understood enough or became universally accepted precisely because there never was a lot to unpack there." Boiling it down, it's basically "What made X movie/game/show/etc. super popular has kind of gotten lost to time, so people nowadays - especially those who want to puff up other, maybe smaller movies - sometimes minimize what made X movie/game/show/etc. super popular in the first place."
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