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Lots of fun this episode. Much as I liked episodes like Doomsday it's also nice to see a Dalek episode that doesn't have so many of them that some kind of super-effect is needed to dispose of them. Just one Dalek with a serious mad-on. They get to stay dangerous but you also see what while they're i...

Pretty much every time I can recall a trooper taking a hit they died, so there's that.

In the book at least the Mimic Javelins were supposed to be strong enough to blow holes in tanks.

Meh, supposedly the co-op in DS2 is basically "pray to the same God and hope you get matched with your buddy." Something about not wanting friends to make the game easier by talking and planning. Pass.... DS2 was built from the ground up on PC from what I've read and has it's own team for...

The real hand: leaving Murphy the ability to touch and feel things with a flesh hand would seem like a boon to his mental stability, keeping him more connected to the world and people around him. From a purely pragmatic perspective, it adds unnecessary vulnerability and weakness. From a human persp...

The real hand: leaving Murphy the ability to touch and feel things with a flesh hand would seem like a boon to his mental stability, keeping him more connected to the world and people around him. From a purely pragmatic perspective, it adds unnecessary vulnerability and weakness. From a human persp...

Wasn't sure whether to put this in fantasy or sci-fi but since all the comic stuff seems to end up here..

Did they keep all the hilarious "CAPITALISM!" skit commercials? I've been wanting a 6000 SUX since I was 5.

You get Samuel L. Jackson as 'Not Bill O'Reilly' on NotFoxNews instead.

To be fair to Battle LA all taking out the C&C center did was remove the alien's crushing air superiority. It did nothing to get rid of the troops and other ground assets. Plus it was just one of a whole mess of them.

I saw it and the best way I can think of to describe it is that they take the time to very carefully set up a classic Disney formula (with two princesses even!), getting you ready for the ending and progression you know is coming... then proceed to dropkick the whole thing and run off in another dir...

jollyreaper wrote: The official word from del toro is its named after a classic aircraft but the argument then goes the aircraft was named after gypsies so therefore still racist.

Uhm... the plane may just have been named for this.


On topic, I'm digging Big G's design a LOT.

Robocop, Data, Astro Boy, C-3PO, R2, T-800, Helper, 6 million dollar man, Gort, 6 ?, Bender, Voltron, Gerty, ?, ?, Robot from Westworld, Tron, Dalek Kid from AI, Old school Cylon, T-1000, Gipsy Danger, Marvin, Fem Bot, Sonny Agent Smith, ED-209, The Doctor, HAL, ?, Bishop, Johnny 5, Dot Matrix The I...

I'll second it could have used another 20 minutes or so to show the kind of tactical innovation that made Ender successful at battle school (eschewing formations, the leg freezing, etc). Maybe 10 minutes there then use the other 10 in the Command School portion to show him getting ground down more l...

Saw it and was not impressed. If you are building a movie based on a premise that only giant robots can defeat giant monsters then you better make those robots awesome. The Jaegers unfortunately were lame. Ever since the first battle Jaeger hand-to-hand is completely ineffectual against the monster...

Reading the novelization also provides some other tidbits, like the fact that Herc's original partner was his brother. The PPDC tended to get a good look at the Kaiju when they first emerged from the Breach but they're hard to track out in the open ocean. In the end fight with Raiju and Scunner they...

From a storytelling perspective starting small and getting bigger makes sense, you couldn't have a story if humans didn't have time to build jagers. But from the perspective of the aliens, this doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. This wasn't their first rodeo, they should have a sense of wha...

To help this out let's look at how the kaiju we know for sure were brought down without jaegers bit it. Trespasser- 6 days of conventional bombardment + 3 tactical nuclear strikes. Scissure- Unknown amount of conventional bombardment + 2 tactical nuclear strikes. Reckoner- Unknown amount of conventi...

I guess it might be reading too much into it but it felt like production of jagers was cut was well. It didn't seem like anything else was in the pipeline as would be the case if they were still producing more units. Well when they started supporting the wall fully that put the kibosh on further co...

I saw it, it was amusing on the big screen, but god do I take back even giving the remotest credit to the movie for trying to stick with its premise at all. Blatantly whatever toxic hazard the monsters represent is so trivial as to not even remotely matter, the fumes from a burning tank would be mo...

Striker's missiles also appear to be a fairly recent innovation. In the novelization other Jaeger's have been equipped with missile weapons that ended up not working very well once the Cat3s came in (IIRC Gipsy Danger's first kill was on a kaiju that had proven immune to the rocket fire from one of ...

Why did the F-22's have to show off by flying between the legs of the first kaiju? Showing off. Yeah, looks cool but you'll likely go splat as we saw. IIRC from the prequel comic by that point a lot of the pilots were running out of ordinance and making close attack runs to try to find some kind of...

I saw it for a 4th time last night, took the opportunity to look for little details I may have missed the first couple times. 1.) Kaiju blue is a secondary phenomena caused by the decay of kaiju remains, hence why Hannibal's group is able to get in and start harvesting without dying horribly. 2.) He...

2.) Most effective weapon possible is a load speaker set up a mile outside your safe zone blasting ACDC. Preferably over a pit of burning phosphorus or inside the mouth of a wood chipper. You see something like that in the ending montage where they use a stadium PA to gather zombies together for an...

List of questions a) WTF happened to air support? Ever heard of an airstrike to soften up the target before moving the Yeager in for the kill? Obviously seeing big robots going hand-to-hand makes for better eye candy. Airstrikes don't do enough damage to be effective. Tresspasser, the very first ka...

Generic is toxic would work a lot better. Some stuff really does exist like methylmercury that we could simply be functionally incapable of dealing with if it spilled on a large scale. Ammonia is one of the dumber choices possible, since it would just evaporate over time worst comes to worse. I hop...

All that, and also if I recall correctly, the Class 5 somehow survived the blast from the nuke relatively intact, while the Class 4s were gibbed, right? Yeah, every kaiju to date that's been nuked (including Scunner who was HUGE for a cat4) has died. Slattern took a 1.2 megaton detonation right in ...