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Speaking about the budget, now that a good chunk of the new season will be planetside, I suppose we'll be seeing a whole lot of Canadian forests again, huh? That's one thing that always seemed funny to me is how any planetside scenes always were in the forest or downtown. And since New Caprica is supposedly uninhabited, the only scenes we'll be seeing is shantytown or forests.

I definitely like Vehicle Voltron more than the Lion one. I watched some outtakes where they'd lose a foot or head and had to form anyways. Funny stuff.

To tell you the truth, the one year leap isn't really such an incredible thing. What did you want to watch, a 10 episode arc of them unpacking and constructing a shantytown? Mog - Holding it down on the engineering tip, yaaaa!

I like that they are going in a new direction. You can't have them doing the same stuff ad verbatim unless they want it to end up like Star Trek Voyager. 7 months is going to be an eternity.

I thought you hated Top O Nerae 2?

BAH! Several things I commented on are looking to be true! I HAVE ESP!!! BAWAHAHAHAHA!!! 378677[/snapback] What things do you speak of?

Holy crap, the animation quality in episode 5 has jumped to near movie quality! When Gainax is in the mood, they animate like no other studio can. This episode just ROCKS! Now it looks like they are going to finally explain how this series is tied to the original. Although still no "Diebuster", and I'm starting to think there won't be any new giant super robot per say.

Its not so surprising IMO when you see any car with 400 hp given today's technology with forced induction and ECUs. Anyone can pretty much build anything up to those levels when talking about most 4 cylinders given they use the right parts and tune it correctly.

OUCH! I can't believe he made it that far up the tree too.

Hey, look at it this way, there's no need to worry though! Kunio Okawara is STILL on the job!

That's the spirit! Wow, a Starion? I've always had a soft spot for those cars. Can you post any details on this Starion? I always love to see restored Starions.

It's almost unfair to put Tarzan in any time attack challenge where amateurs are also involved. The guy is a Super GT driver! Same thing goes for Keichi Tsuchiya or Manabu Orido. It's like putting kids in the same ring as Iron Mike when he was in his prime.

Usually I like extended versions, but man, this one was just BAD. For those that didn't know, the extended version is credited to being directed by "Alan Smithee" which is just a go to name for the DSG when the original director wants their name removed from the film (mostly due to studio interference/heavy editing). Interesting about the extended version is that the score is heavily redone. You would think that it would introduce new music or never before heard music, but instead you have the same stock music played over and over even during scenes that previously had no music (such as the scene where Usul shows the Weirding Modules to the Fremen). The stock music is really generic and plays during the new beginning scene with the really bad drawings. Even worse about the new beginning is where they intercut footage of a Harkonnen ship which is repeated over and over whenever they need to join two scenes in the new intro. While the dialogue explaining the ban on thinking machines is interesting, the drawings accompanying them look like something from an 8th grade entry into a Sci Fi art festival... from the 70s. I forgot, but I had seen this extended version before on Sci Fi Channel before they were going to debut the new Dune TV miniseries.

Does 50 even know how to drive stick? What a way to ruin a perfect piece of Italian/German engineering and turn it into Yo Pimp My Ride Yo. I need to watch those VW Unpimp My Auto commercials again, those were great. "You got an F." "We just dropped it like it was hot." :lol:

Amen to that. Sackhoff must have some good pull with the producers to talk them into taking the story in this direction which is such a non-story really. Why should we care about Anders and a hundred guerillas? How are the lives of 100 armed guerillas justified against the risk of lowering the defenses for a fleet of 40,000+ civilians? I don't think any qualified commander would allow such a wasteful allocation of resources. The episode did feel a bit rough, like a bunch of ideas mashed together.

Hey Poonman, how much did it cost? I remember their prices being high as hell for only a lap or two.

You mean Malibu Grand Prix? Miramar Speed Circuit it more inwards from Miramar Road in the middle of a business area, so I doubt they razed any childhood arcade to put it up. Plus, its all inside of a big warehouse.

I watched one episode of it and was turned off. I watch shows as a diversion and escape from reality so to watch something thats going to drag me through racial divide and slavery and inequality even as satire, well doesn't seem so fun to me.

So my interest in cars also extends to old European cars and lately I've been wanting to start another project car... Wouldn't it be great to get a hold of a Fiat 500? The car that Lupin himself saves a princess with? I'm sure it's an incredibly hard car to get a hold of.

:lol: I can identify with the rotary ones. The walking Eclipse crank one is priceless though!

Propoganda to what end? 374662[/snapback] I like I said, GOTF isn't propaganda. It doesn't have a political end-- its chief aim is simply to show suffering, build sympathy for those who suffered in war (here, children in WWII), and to evoke emotion from the viewer. It's not propaganda, but it does rely partly on omission in order to achieve that artistic end. 374929[/snapback] I don't believe that the story relies on the omission of the facts you speak of, its just that the movie would not be true to the original material or experiences if it injected something that was out of its scope. It is not an omission in any conscious thought of the director or screenwriter in my opinion, rather a detail that does not fit into the narrative. If one were to write a 2 hour movie about WW2, I doubt anyone could fit in all the details and miscellanea of such epic scale covering politics, suffering, technology, battle tactics, and etc etc. So people write stories that cover what they can cover. In this case, fitting in political commentary (even disguised as townpeople talk) would probably not flow well.

Weren't those headlights just Nissan 300ZX units?

You do know that Lamborghini marketed a SUV called the LM002 a while back?

Rest in peace. His character's cussing makes my Xmas that much better every year. I'm the only one that I know that can sit through TNT's whole Christmas Story marathon.

I was wondering about how Caprica Six was sort of a celebrity among the Cylons and I thought why would any one individual of a model type be treated as special at all? One Six is the same as any other I thought. I might be confused, but do all Cylon share the same information? When they make a new Six, does it come out with the collective memories of all Sixes? The gist I got from that episode was that each Cylon individual regardless of model has their own backup of their memories, and not a shared one for all models of the same type. I'm so confused.