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William Shatner would have been GREAT as Caine. I think Leonard Nimoy would have been better. Probably too old, though. Arnold could have been good, but his gig as the Governator makes that unlikely at best. The main problem I have with Michelle Forbes is not gender but that she's not a peer of Adamas aka an elder warrior/statesman type that Bridges seemed. An older woman would have worked. No names are coming to mind but I'm thinking a more distinguished Kate Mulgrew-type would have worked. Bridges' Caine was a peer of Greene's Adama, and hammy or not, he had presence and you could feel the respect of all the Galactica Warriors towards him as an Elder Warrior rather than just a leader or someone with rank. I have trouble envisioning Sackhoff's Starbuck feeling the way Benedict's did about Caine, for example. Baltar's fear. I had forgotten about that, but that's another point. This Baltar is afraid of everything, so not to worry about that.

The "homemade" hobby fighter seemed kinda silly. I would have been much happier if there was a factory ship somewhere in the Fleet or that the Galactica had that capability itself. Hell the whole Fleet should be working for a single goal and that's the defense of the Fleet. Nice and fascist. Pegasus sounds interesting. That chic doesn't measure up to Lloyd Bridges anymore than Starbuckette measures up to Dirk Benedict, but sounds like they're gonna have a similar conflict. They haven't done the flying snowflake angle yet so I'm doubting they'll do the Mephistopholes thing. All that stuff aside, it seems obvious that the Cylons have semi-allowed and directed Galactica to it's point. Wherever the whole reproduction storyline is going, Galactica and the Fleet are at the center. Pegasus is likely to be filled with clones. Otherwise it's gonna do what the original did and sacrifice itself while it's vipers and extra crewers replenish Galactica. Roslyn? IF she dies, it would be an opportunity for the Council of Twelve business. They could then have Baltar turn overt traitor, meet his Lucifer and take over a Base Star... nah.

Wow, that thing looks... bulky. But that's what we should expect when you try to turn a VF-1 into a Destroid.

Wow, looks very nice. I'd prefer the green pilot and darker color myself.

I really really wish I hadn't passed on the Hikaru 1S when I coulda got it for $130.

I always thought the book was kind of overrated.

Well the beauty of a custom is that it could be a VF-19RF or something...

I'm kicking myself for not picking up a second at $130.

I need to pull my DesignWorks out... but IIRC the F doesn't have the canards, either. Still pretty good idea. I like the articulation and battroid of the Yamato... but the Bandai mold wins in Fighter and Gerwalk, though it insn't nearly detailed enough (sturdy as a tank, though, even in bootleg form).

Probably one. Now a cannon fodder... I could see maybe 2 or 3.

touche! ... Likewise! I have no problem at all with the speaker-pod/sound booster concept. Note that Basara's music wouldn't do squat to Zentraedi or Gamlin or such in any era. What it WAS effective in was in counteracting Protodevlin spirita absorption, mind control, etc. The war against the Zentraedi and the war against the Protodevlin are apples and meatloaf. Diamond Force is entirely different at the end (under Gamlin) than at the beginning (under Kinryu). Kinryu and Physica are KIA and Dokker and Kinryu were both jacked up by having their mojo drained. I thought that was quite well portrayed. Basara staying dead... would have been interested but would require more adjusment. Maybe Mylene would come out of her dream, Sivil would see how Basara affected Mylene, and then join with Mylene... definitely a possibility and Basara's death could have been portrayed to have a lasting impact. Actually, the military was quite effective until the protodeviln started coming out in person and the fighter pilots were reveealed to be brainwashed humans and zentradi. Between their inability to hurt the ringleaders and their unwillingness to hurt the cannon fodder, that tied their hands signifigantly. Not really... what we were shown is that the protodevlin were always holding back. Their objective was NEVER to defeat the Macross 7 fleet... if they had, it's fate would have been that of Macross 5. They were trying to bring fear and such in them because it made the spirita absorption more lucrative (though not quite to the Geperenich's Spirita Farm project). I didn't get that at all. I saw that first Sivil and then Geperenich discover that the ability to reproduce Spirita was within him/her-self and that it didn't need to be a parasite on other beings... That bastard Gavil just seemed to follow Geperenich along. As I understood Mac7, only the best singers are capable of regenerating spiritia. Seems to have something to do with how much emotion they put into their songs. We do see that there were several auras in the Jamming Birds but it took Basara what, half the series to get to where he was in the final confrontation with Geperenich. Mylene was almost there as well. The others might not have had their potential but we're moving to conjecture... Uh... Gamlin certainly was interested and these exact lines early in the series. Chiba was apparently involved but at a minimal level and alot of it appeared to be his own semi-quackery theories until validated by Basara in the course of the conflict. Max Jenius himself was involved at least at some level. Witness the comments Max makes to Ray about Basara's piloting ability... and the various references to Project-M. Plus Max calling Diamond Force off Basara and Basara not being hunted or reprimanded at all by the M7 military. Emerald Force was a failure on the large scale (even if they were quite effective on a smaller one) and they did not significantly affect Operation Stargazer nor the final conflict with the Protodevlin. Too little, too late.

Uh... sounded like a pretty good review but then I start to wonder if this guy even watched the series. The whales weren't villains even in the OVA, the poachers were. Dynamite 7 is worth it just to watch Gamlin in his VF-22 IMO. As far as the protodelvin, I thought the first couple were introduced really well but then they lost their awe/scare effect. When that expeditionary force finds City 7 and we see Sivil just thrash the whole force, jack up Kinryu and then nearly get Gamlin... Same when that tentacle rears up and lets loose its first blast everyone is going WTF. The problem was the execution after the fact for the big monstrous one (Glavil) and that some of them were just silly or not scary at all (the dual Gorm/Zomd or whatever they were called). Sivil, Guravil, Glavil, Valgo, Gigil, and Geperenich all have good potential. The regular series starts off slow, but it's supposed to. We're left wondering exactly what is going on. By the time the City 7 arc starts, I couldn't get enough of the series. I was totally on the DYRL-side of Macross at first. My gf at the time was certainly surprised I liked M7 but I did and still do. Animation could have been better with less re-use but that's water under the bridge at this point.

I never liked Falcon 4.0 before but have been considering giving these "new" takes another look as I'm in simulator withdrawl. I think the peak of the PC fighter simulators was probably ATF-Gold. Loved that game especially once the patch unlocked all of the other craft, with cockpits... MiG-29 to F-15 to F-22 to the Aurora. Good times!

Good analogy with the pen/pencil thing. Bad analogy with the computer thing. Can you gameboy and/or entertainment system take extreme environmental change, including radiation? The reason they use dinky computers in the Shuttles isn't by chance. Not that they couldn't be using something better... Budgetary considerations are VERY much a factor as has been proven with the procurement of every weapon system the US DoD uses... and has been proven with the defeat of many weapon systems the DoD wanted but were denied. That said, it's not entirely what most people think (even considering Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and the general global war on terrorism) as we're almost always in deficit spending. That this should be blamed on unrestriected growth in entitlement spending is another issue... The Shuttle? Another one should be built as a temporary replacement. Enterprise conversion possibly as long it's to spec. Possibly with incremental and peripheral upgrades on the fundamental platform/paradigm. Begin the permanent replacement program now (X-33 derivative). I definitely thing we should bring back the Saturn Rocket in a next generation as well as finish the ISS (and our own US only stations) and get an increased permanent presence in space, including an eyeball to the moon. At the cost saved by the elimination of the tree-hugging and social programs no less.

I think the Beta looks great. Hopefully they'll release a green and Shadow...

Pretty good, but I was actually kinda disapointed with the season premiere... the whole subplot on Caprica... Helo is a retard. I'm hoping they'll be able to push the SFX envelope a bit and show us some grand battles in space... they seem to shrug off the damage to Galactica itself too much... Did this episode remind anyone else of the one with the raider that crashes into the landing pod that caused the fire? That's kinda where I see the next one going... except it's "live" centurions instead of fire...

I always did like the updated look of the newer-style Vipers...

Not bad Engrish at all.

Just saw this earlier today. First impression: Better than I expected. I was kinda disapointed with the way they revealed Qui-Gon, I mean Liam Neeson as the main villain all along (if I understood his claim right). Would have been better to have had Watanabe back, as well, IMO. Right now, I'd rank them: Batman Forever (Worst Bruce Wayne but best Batman, IMO) Batman Begins Batman (Keaton best Bruce Wayne but never did like Tim Burton's style much). Batman & Robin (Governator was cool but Alicia was weak. Liked Clooney). Batman Returns (Nice scene with the milk but the rest was sad IMO) Not that big of a batman fan, though....

Hint on keeping the arms together for fighter mode: 1) make sure the hands are folded in right and not obstructing the collapse 2) collapse the arm BEFORE securing the peg 3) Make sure the legs are collapse OVER the tab towards the front of the fighter (one for each leg) 4) you can cant the intake/shoulder area slightly down to help the connection. Not quite lineart acurate but then the Alpha/Legioss is one of the most anime-magical mecha I can think of. I think the winglet/canard things are a bit too short length-wise. When clipped in to their tab they're nice and tab but aggravate the arched back. If you slide the cockpit back towards its mounting but don't secure the winglets, I've noticed it looks better... solution? The recast specilalists might be able to do something... i'd also wish we could screw these little winglets into place instead of relying on the glue, as well, but that's neither here nor there...

Yeah there are good things, and I don't think anyone denies there are flaws... Early on in the game, if not from the inception certainly since, came the idea that they're not trying to maintain continuity with the setting. It's about gaming in the Star Wars universe. Everyone says they want Jedi to be rare, but the vast majority of players want to play them. Not everyone, of course, but far more people would be upset by being arbitrarily prohibited from playing Jedi than people who are upset there are more than quasi trained posers running (quite a bit more), in all the trappings of Jedi straight out of the prequels. This IS Star Wars, after all. It's always been about Luke Skywalker and his father rather than Han Solo and his. Warmaker, you obviously haven't been base hunting. Control of a planet can be swayed by which faction destroys more bases of the other faction. Practical effect? Not much, other than the banners displayed at the starport and if one is running around as a combatant... but I've gathered more than a few XP as part of Rebel squads attacking Imp bases. My guild spent some time hunting down the Imp players to their city after they trashed some of our Rebel turrets outside of our town, too. And if one can't find TIE Fighters and Xwings out there to grind on, you're not looking very hard. Most of the new expansion is trendy crap, I'd agree. I haven't went for much of it... I have a set of clone armor on display in my house, and a painting or two hanging. I actually hope for MORE "worlds" like Kashyyk, that are meant for adventure rather than to thin out the server populations...

I'm still on my first (and one of the first release) PS2's. I've heard about the people who are on their second and third (and beyond) though can't say I've ever actually heard it first hand... (not that I don't believe it, though). Course Sony stuff has generally been friendly to me, though... from my P900 to my VAIO to my HDTV...

Yeah, I never "beta test" anything for free. Give this thing a couple more months for the kinks to be worked out at the least...

Wow, are we reading the same quotes? You're either (deliberately?) paraphrasing in a really shitty way or you're reading translations from English Translations from the Swahili translations of Lucas interviews.

Put stickers on my Shadow today. No pics (yet). Definitely great "low-viz" type stickers that don't distract from the "stealth" of the toy... and (as with my greens), much improve the quality. Toynami's retarded for taking "plain" pics, much less putting those on the box and what not.