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    Kind of like how TFA explained Luke went to find the first jedi temple and left a map behind in case he was needed, but in TLJ he went into exile to die and didn't want to be found?
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    I see. Context is everything. I never really got into this show, but when this show started getting popular I looked it up on youtube. Most of the clips tended to be amv's, transformations, or things like that Chris scene. I pretty much passed on it.
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    I may be wrong, but wasn't this the show where one of the characters was in a lesbian BDSM relationship that involved electroshock?
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    Anything HG would do wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as Tatsunoko hiring a pedo with a diaper fetish to do Southern Crosses' original character designs.
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    From what I understand Paine Field in addition to the factory tour and small museum dedicated to the field's history there's also two other museums, Paul G. Allen's Combat Armor & flight museum, and the Heritage Flight Foundation. The former has a Panzer IV that was originally supposed to come east with the rest of the collection it was a part of, but the people in charge of it accidently put it up for auction and Allen bought it. The later is a small place basically a vintage aircraft flying club, but it has some unique aircraft like a F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat that the tour guides let you actually get up close to. Since you're familiar with the area do you have any recommendations on other places I should visit? Any good import toy stores? Big problem with the Defiant is it's entire design was based around a flawed concept. A defensive turret makes sense on a bomber where it's manuverability is limited by it's size and payload. Adding a turret to a fighter negates its advantages of speed and maneuverability. Compound that with the fact there were zero forward firing guns it shouldn't be any surprise that within a year of being introduced the RAF had lost every example that had been delivered to them. It's biggest success was as a night fighter which is kind of humorous as they were essentially flying blind without search radar that would be common to the planes that succeeded it. You'll love the new hangar. On one side is the prototypes, one offs, oddities, and experimentals like the Goblin parasite fighter, SR-71, YF-23, Kestrel vtol, and the RCAF's attempt at building a working flying saucer the VZ-9 Avrocar. The other side is the Presidential wing with all the various Airforce One's and the couple of planes that predate the designation. My brother who is in his late 30's was giddy as a schoolboy finally getting to go inside them. I felt bad for him though when he got to the back of Kennedy's plane and realized where he was standing. I've never seen a smile disappear from someone's face as quickly as I did when he was in the middle of reading the plaque.
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    Yup. The forgotten designs, the one offs, the planes with brief service life , and the utter failures have started to become more and more interesting to me lately. When I visited the USAF museum in Dayton last October I think I squeed more for the interwar era planes like the last remaining intact Martin B-10 or the Douglas B-18 Bolo than I did some of the other planes like the Memphis Belle or Bockscar despite them being more famous. The B-58 they had was pretty amazing too. Along those lines, this October I'm also heading to Seattle for vacation and I'm making a note to stop by McChord AFB to see the Douglas B-23 Dragon they have before going to the Seattle Museum of flight then Paine field in Everett. The dragon was a relatively obscure redesign of the B-18 Bolo, which itself was a militarized version of a DC-3.
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    In regards to this sentiment, that is exactly what Douglas did with the disaster that was the F-3 demon when they introduced the F-4 Phantom. They expanded the airframe, added more powerful twin engines, made it a two seater, and said "Look! We fixed it!"
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    You know, removing the rollbar and adding canards to a Cutlass isn't all that impressive or all that original.
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    Yeah well Ghidorah was never a king untill the 1991 film.
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    PREACH my brother PREACH! TESTIFY!
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    The man was far more talented as an actor than a lot of people give him credit for. Far more reaching too. His roles in Flesh & Blood and Ladyhawke were direct inspirations for the Berserk manga & anime series.
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    How do you know about the Roswell wreck being moved from Area 51 to Diego Garcia... Oooooooh Macross joke. Well then... This post never happened.
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    The only way I'd get this is if they threw open the Disney vault and included everything including the older obscure stuff like the WWII shorts, all the old animated films, and the live action films from the 60s-80s nobody but me remembers like Island on Top of the World or Last Flight of Noah's Ark.
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    If that patch is his father's what was a navy fighter pilot doing onboard the USS Galveston, a light cruiser in 1963-64?
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    Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. A man so charismatic he can inject entertainment and enjoyment into some of the worst, most cringy films ever made.(Doom, Baywatch, San Andreas, the Die Hard meets Towering Inferno crossover)
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    Oh boy, where do I begin? The golden circle is good, for all of the first ten minutes where it picks up right from where the previous film left off. Then it goes into an immediate death spiral once the main villain and her plan is introduced and never recovers. If you're wondering the plot is what's left of the Kingsmen after drone strikes wipe most of them out joining forces with their US brethern the Statesmen to take on a Martha Stewart wannabe to make the world safe for drug addicts to get high.
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    They botched the sequel so badly the only way they can move forward is to go backwards with a prequel.
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    Heather Locklear dude... or Heather Thomas.
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    This is my exact issue with Starship Troopers. The various adaptations have warped and corrupted the source material so much they completely miss the point of the book and almost everything is taken out of context. Even the more faithful ones like Roughnecks don't do it justice. People seem to think adding power armor or big flashy propaganda eyecatches(a Verhoven creation going back to Robocop) are somehow doing the source justice. The book itself is a memoir and the framing is Rico recounting the experiences of his service in the bug war, why he joined, and how he coped with day to day military life in and out of combat. Everything in it is from his point of view and how he sees the world. That is the context that's lost on people and where accusations of militarism and fascism come from. Things like federal non military civil service get mentioned but are glossed over because that's not why Rico joined. He joined specifically to follow Carmen into the Navy and after testing and failing miserably he was inducted into the Mobile Infantry(essentially the Terran Federation's Marine Corps).
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    I was going to let this go because I didn't want to hijack the thread, but the more I think about it the more I'm certain you never read the Starship troopers book. The book is no more about fascists than the Honor Harrington series is about pushing Monarchists. There are no pointless life is cheap bloodbaths, and Rico is actually punished for seeing his troops as disposable during a training exercise. There is no "Argentinian setting". Rico has a latin name because he is Filipino. The only time Argentina is mentioned was when the bugs attacked Buenos Aires with ships and troops(not an asteroid drop) killing Rico's mother who was visiting there at the time. If anything the novel spends most of it's time in the Canadian Pacific northwest apart from Sanctuary, Planet P, Klendathu, and the skinnie homeworld.
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    Yeah Hideaki Anno was complaining about this as far back as 1996.
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    Starship Troopers?
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    So... The trend of a Midway film cribing battle scenes from earlier movies continues. :P
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    Sorry about the B-25 rant guys, but I've noticed something else that's kind of nagging me. For a movie called Midway there's actually very little of the actually battle shown. Everything we see in the trailer is either Pearl Harbor, Doolittle Raid, Coral Sea, or the Air Raid on Rabaul that was launched over the Owen Stanley mountains. Only the last five minutes with the Dauntless dive bomber are of the Midway battle. If they spent that much money for sfx on things that aren't the actual battle I really have to wonder how much of it we will actually see.
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    In regards to the Midway trailer F*** Emmerich and F*** the SFX guys. These dumb***** still can't get the right model of B-25 for the Doolittle Tokyo Raid just like they screwed it up in Pearl Harbor. They're never going to get it right because film makers are too lazy to ever visit any other airplane museum than Chino's Planes of Fame so everytime a B-25 it's modeled off their B-25J with its tailgun position and side cockpit gunpods. Nevermind the USAF has a perfectly fine B-25B that is the exact same type used on the raid and bearing the raiders livery.
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