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Hi all. Old Plympto back after, I dunno, 15 years and a lot of hypertension medication.

Wasn't Data assigned the command of the USS Sutherland while he was Lieutenant Commander once? Everyone called him "Captain" while he was CO IIRC.

Aang - spelt that way - doesn't necessarily means that it's definitely pronounced one way or another because the actual name wouldn't even be romanized. Because of the difference between the American and British pronunciations of, for example the word "can't", the name "Chang" in...

Coincidentally I was watching Gremlins 2 earlier. There's no way they could create so much chaos without being overtly meta. Props and costume appear out of nowhere. They are privy to human pop culture from birth. They just need other genetic material to catalyse a physiological transformation. Heck...

Outstanding!

Made by the same guy who made Iron Baby, I see. Which means that the baby the AT-AT dog was reading the book with is Iron Baby herself.

Congrats, Patrick!

I bet Thomas Jane is wiping the sweat off his brow in relief.

I just saw it. Not a fantastic movie, cause I think I called a couple of plot twists beforehand. However, the fun factor thanks to the awesome chemistry between everyone - even with the bad guys - was just infectious. Everyone looked as if they were having loads of fun in the movie. If I had some ch...

Bah, how can anything be worse than that green rabbit-thing from the Marvel comics..... Jaxxon was it? Those comics were quite bizarre on the whole..... Jaxxon wasn't that bad. I thought he got the brunt of "Star Wars is hard sci-fi and not cheesy" meme that came out of the 90s. I always ...

Eleas wrote:Thanks, Vonda McIntyre. This sure is one fascinating species you've created.

Werewolves? This is the book that has centaurs, ghosts, incubi and flipping Waru. That book's issues had issues.

If they tighten up the plot a bit, I think All-Star Superman would be a great movie adaptation that showcases Superman's abilities (not just his physical ones) and how humans perceive him. Not sure if filmmakers would be crazy for its ending though.

"I know what makes me special."

That had me laughing out loud. However dark the theme of SGU with its muted colors and shakycam compared to SG-1, it just can't sap away the awesomeness of O'Neill.

Seeing the current trends, they might just reboot the franchise and make it about teenager Autobots in a cybertronian high school. And Decepticons would glitter when exposed to Energon or something. If they're following current trends, they'll have a 10 million-year-old Cybertronian - transformable...

It's a gallery. Last I checked, Tony didn't walk/fly back to the States in the Mk. I. True, but it was retrieved by Stane and taken back to Stark Industries. It's not a stretch to deduce that Stark found it there and "reconstructed" it for his gallery. I just saw the first movie again. Th...

There was a leaked photo of the Destroyer, which looks very faithful to the comics, on Latinoreview.com last week - but it's been pulled. So, that's two comic villains in the movie including Loki.

Edit: A quick GIS brings this up.

LadyTevar wrote:* The final fight. Nitram summed it up best... "Damn... cherry blossoms..." (anime reference, look up the trope)

IIRC, the final fight was storyboarded by Gennady Tartakovsky.

Oh, and the Independence Day soundtrack is outstanding as a leitmotif-laden, Star Wars-esque score - although you can hear the part in the end I think where they'd rewritten Randy Quaid's final bit. The music doesn't match the visuals at all. Also, the Macross Frontier scores by Yoko Kanno are amazi...

Even as a teen I was buying OST cassettes beginning with Skywalker Symphony Orchestra's Star Wars Trilogy, Willow, Aliens, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Nowadays, my mp3 rotation includes all nBSG OST, all Star Wars, all LOTR, new Star Trek movie... hell, even Up. My kid is happy when I play R...

Vympel wrote:Was Howard Stark Don Draper's boss from Mad Men?

Yes he was.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/arctrooperbum/misc/thor.jpg I see they're going to go with Olivier Coipel's newer costume design instead of the sleeveless classic costume. The plastic-like material used for the costume felt iffy at first, but I think the filmmakers did say they were going to...

I'm glad Happy got more to do. Sure he's the director, but it's Happy Hogan, dude. He's got to do more than what he did in the first movie. Also, John Slattery as Howard Stark is full of win, in his brief appearance. Also, I geeked out at Black Widow's little SHIELD insignia on her costume. General ...

I actually went and looked it up and I can't find who wrote this one--it was done by a Freelancer and they never mention the name of the writer from what I can see. I'm not surprised, it seemed markedly different in tone from all the rest of them so far and it was just superb. Hopefully next week's...

I think Legacy is one of those concepts that looked horrible on paper when they first announced it. It's become one of my favorite Star Wars comics nowadays thanks to a great execution. I still think Cade Skywalker's story is the weakest of the arcs though. The Gar Stazi + Rogue Squadron snippets we...

Heh heh. According to the fluff on Wookieepedia the Y-Wing pilots that drops the nuke (Yeah, yeah... electro-proton bomb) are named Goji and Rod, with reptile eyes and skin, and pterodactyl-like motifs on their helmets respectively.

I like the fact that you can figure out the floor plans of the stealth ship from the concept artwork they put up on starwars.com. I think I'll run an adventure where the company chances upon the wreckage of this ship. Seeing as none of my players watch the toon and neither are they hardcore fanboys,...

The uniform the police guy wears appears to be the same one worn by Anthony Daniels and Ahmad Best in the Outlander Club in AOTC.