F-ZeroOne
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Well, take heart that when the crusher meets the F-14s titanium wing-box assembly its probably going to lose quite a few teeth. By all accounts, that particular F-14 part was built.
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Some toys, he said...! Wow. Just... wow.
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This is a parody, but it pretty much sums up why Turn-A is the awesome: http://www.mahq.net/rants/neo/comic9.jpg
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Nah, Everyone has parts left over, even those inhuman cyborg modellers with multiple limbs and forty fingers. You'll know you've really arrived when you watch some tiddly little but unique and vitally important part describe a ballistic arc onto the carpet...
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I'm fond of 0083, largely because its the first actual Gundam I saw - as opposed to reading about . Its hard to disagree with the article I read before I saw it, though, that its rather shallow but well detailed and somehow makes you care. Even if it has the most completely contrived plot twist ever. I got a burnin' heart...
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Its more important than a one night stand, I need the magic when I touch your hand...
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Gravity, quake with fear - your nemesis has returned! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7350939.stm
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There would seem to be one natural choice for the soundtrack, and its about bloody time someone took notice of Yoko Kanno in Hollywood.
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I really enjoyed it. The fact they were able to use the same sets as the mini-series Rome gave it a truly epic feel. Granted, you can nit pick (the Doctor must be a really fast runner) but overall, wonderful. Also, one of the first episodes of Who I've seen which gave an impression of why Time Lords are Lords, and not just funny blokes with weird taste in hats. As for Donnas back - well, my theory is a tattoo, but RTD rarely drops things like that without a purpose...
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Dunbine: first partially organic mecha...? Time Bokan/Yattaman/and all the others: might seem an odd choice, but this and Gatchaman probably popularised the "enemy of the week" mecha, also important for tying in a toy-line with the show and a number of other anime clichés (fan service in particular... ) Escaflowne: because everyone needs to hear Kanno the first time. VOTOMs: the first - possibly the only - mecha series where the protagonist is not some lucky amateur, but an actual professional - the best at what he does.
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Thanks! I hope no-one thinks I'm making fun of depression, though; a close relative suffered for a while so I know its not a nice thing to go through. Yep, Tomino did Turn-A - and he excelled himself with it. Despite all the flak it got when the concept art first appeared, its actually quite possibly the best Gundam series, and a truly excellent science fiction show in its own right. The whole Turn-A design is incredibly clever - its still going to be talked about when the last Strike-Aelie-Wing-Zero-Freedom-Wotsit is gathering dust in some Bandai warehouse somewhere; meanwhile, the 30s-style setting gives the show a timelessness that will mean its never going to look out-of-place. I loved the cow episode; and its typical of Tomino, highlighting the plight of people caught up in a conflict they just want to live through. Family is also an important Tomino theme; many of his series revolve around a dispossessed bunch of people finding themselves bonding into a substitute family during a conflict - the crew of the White Base being perhaps the most famous. Going on to Ideon - I really wish it was a show more people would see, though I admit its formulaic episode structure makes it a bit of a trawl (its always worth bearing in mind with these older series, though, is that they were never designed to be watched in blocks of several episodes, but as a once-a-day or week treat), but Evangelion suddenly looks a little less clever once you've seen it, especially the movie. I've also recently been discovering the various series spawned from Time Bokan, and while also repetitive (being originally aimed at children) they do give an impression of being a "missing link" in a Western fans perspective of anime; the mad-cap antics of shows like Excel Saga suddenly make a bit more sense...
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Try Ideon next. Especially the movie. Then you'll know why Tominos earned the moniker "Kill 'em all!". Believe or not, hes actually said in an interview that he truly believes humankind is wonderful. Hes got a funny way of showing it at times... Apparently, Tomino suffers from mood swings. Whens hes depressed, we get Zanbot-3, Ideon and V-Gundam. Whens hes happy, we get... er... the first half of ZZ Gundam. This is why it is important that Tomino is kept miserable. Happy Tomino is not a good thing for mecha shows. After V, though, apparently he changed his medication, or read some self-help books, or got a girlfriend, or something, because we then got Turn-A Gundam which manages to be a happy Tomino show that doesn't suck.
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As always, Drifand, you make me want to run to my toys and get them to defy Gravity like you manage to! Love the pose you have the Ota Unit 2 in in the group shot, I must try that with my Ingram!
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Good grief... it actually has poseability... (actually, I like these figures a lot, for all the mickey-taking I've been doing). Not exactly Who news, but the BBC is launching an iPlayer Channel for the Wii - this basically means you can watch Doctor Who after broadcast on your little white box. In the UK at least. Sorry, but no word on international launches of the service yet... now if they can also figure out a way to make the Wii controllers interactive with the programme...
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I'm not really old enough to remember much of Space: 1999 apart from the "really cool bits where the Eagles blow up!", nor the Who episodes he wrote. but by most accounts it sounds like we've lost a good talent.
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Russell T. Davies gets a fair bit of stick, but he does know a trick or two and the "thing" at the end of the new seasons first episode was a brilliant way of making something most people know still make most people sit bolt upright. I also loved the opening sequence in the office. Edit: action figures of the Weeping Angels? Action figures? With cool standing-still-as-a-statue feature?
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They've done a couple of World War II games. You can get the demos on XBox Live. Going by the demos, they're... okay. Nothing special, a couple of nice ideas, and the later second game is rather improved (even in the demo) over the first.
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It might be good, but I'd like to bet its not going to have an entire fleet of fighter planes riding into the final mission with all the pilots singing their lungs out, or a continuing theme of unrequited love between a wingman and his AWACs...
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Okay, you've piqued my curiosity. What made 80s baggage handling superior to 00s baggage handling? Stringfellow Hawke popping up in Airwolf and Copperheading any stray bags?
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Peter F. Hamilitons "Nights Dawn" trilogy is pretty good. Also, Alastair Reynolds is one to watch out, SF so hard you could use it to armour a Gundam. And another vote for Iain M. Banks; Use of Weapons has one of the best endings I've ever read, but I'll also add a vote for "Excession". Its a universe where twenty-kilometre long sentient spaceships go round with names like "What Are The Civilian Applications?".
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"Blink" has basically been getting raves everywhere. Its just one of those spot-on perfect Who stories. What was even more incredible was that it was preceded by "Human Nature/Family of Blood" which were very nearly as perfect. The writer (not of Human Nature/Family of Blood), Stephen Moffat, also wrote "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances" and "The Girl in the Fireplace", which possibly makes him the Hayao Miyazaki of Doctor Who. You may be excited by the fact that he has also written a two-parter for the new series as well...
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Heads up: the latest, fourth season of the new Doctor Who begins this Saturday, 5th April, 18:20 GMT [1]. Also, David Tennant is everywhere at the moment, so downloaders might want to watch for this Fridays edition of the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show. [1] Of course, "Time" is a big ball of wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff...
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The first, PAL DVD Gunbuster release was described by a fellow anime fan as having been butchered by barbarians... It was at least subtitled, but that and the fact that it was available was about all it had going for it...
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You could borrow one of ours if you like. Not exactly aircraft related, but the grand opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow has turned into something of an - ahem - plane crash. Staff problems, computer problems, cancelled flights and the main sticking point, luggage handling problems. Not, as BA themselves have said, "their finest hour"...
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One book I had described the Swordfish as "beautifully ugly". I think that sums up all three of the above, and the Beaufighter was a prize-fighter. Yes, it had a bashed-in face but it hit you back harder than anything else around. I like it quite a bit. I take your Bison and respond with this - literally - ugly Duckling: