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This really reminds me of the episode right after the battle for Earth when Hikaru has to come in and stomp so Zentraedi rioters.

On a tangentially related note: During my recent con appearance, I met a young woman who is voice acting in an upcoming Funimation production. Unfortunately I lost her card and it was so loud at that point I could barely hear her, but she will be plugging my books on her podcast. Anyway, she related to me what a pain it was working with Funimation as several of her "co-stars" and other employees were constantly giving her a hard time and trying to get her to quit. She said it was the most toxic environment she'd ever worked in, but it got her foot in the door with the industry.

Why is NATO even assigning callsigns anymore? Why not adopt the Russian name on new aircraft?

I'd be curious about that as I can't find it anywhere and the only legit streaming source for SDFM recently was Amazon, and it was the unrestored version. Of course RT had remaster on there.

I'm curious what the HFH's design comments and suggest changes on it were.

What you don't realize is that @Thom is travelling at relativistic speeds, so while it's three years for us, it will only be six months for him.

I love the original Terminator. It is a fantastic example of casual time travel with a stable time loop. I know one of the reasons Cameron cited as a reason to make T2 (other than money) was that people thought T1 ended on too downer of a note. Those were stupid people. Yes, it ends on the knowledge that Nuclear Armageddon is coming, but people forget that humanity won the war. That was why the Terminator was sent back in the first place and how Kyle Reese was able to be sent back. The biggest issue with T2 is that is breaks the timeloop by destroying the means to create Skynet. They gave it a Back to the Future treatment. At the time I loved it as an awesome action movie, but was a terrible sequel, as it broke the rules established by the original. Almost everything since then has been an attempt to up the ante even more with stronger and stronger Terminator models all being released and sent back in time at the same time. It really kills the impact of the original T-800. T3 attempted to correct the timeline but did it in such a sloppy and lazy fashion. Salvation, should have saved the franchise but was mishandled quite badly by McG, especially the fact that Skynet knew of Kyle Reese's existence. Genisys could have been a great reboot to the franchise, but again was mishandled and beyond badly written, and cast. The guy who played Kyle was totally wrong for the part. Onto other franchises: Alien was an amazing Haunted House in Space movie and still holds up to this day. Aliens is a fantastic sequel that stayed true to the original, not breaking any rules but taking the franchise in a new direction, and not retreading the same ground, which a good sequel should. Alien3 was basically a remake of Alien, but in factory instead, but as a viewer you knew what was coming so it lost all of its impact. It is still better then some of the other scripts, like the one with the airborne alien virus, which could have been done better. Resurrection is better left undiscussed, it was a mess on too many levels. I'll leave Prometheus and it's sequel/alien prequel for another discussion. Predator was amazing and total product of its time. P2 took a bunch of concepts from the original and expanded on them, and while a fun movie, that expanded the lore, just didn't have the same impact. It almost would have been better with a totally different title and treated like a straight up murder mystery where it is finally revealed that a Predator is the murderer. I liked Predators (the Adrian Brody one). It was a great expansion of the lore and really did a lot to show how the predator race would change tactics against a technologically advanced race. I have yet to see the newest installment and likely won't. AvP was a mess, but popcorn fodder, the Xenos being on Earth was eye rolling. When it was announced we all wanted the Dark Horse AvP, Space Marines vs Aliens, vs the Predators. I doubt that would have cost that much more than placing it in "modern day."

The Dorito flies again. For an unmanned concept it has a might nice looking cockpit there.

See, I disagree. I see a definite pattern there. It just isn't one we understand. A slightly more coherent pattern to the front might have helped but there is a design there.

Likely test audiences hated it so they pushed it to Disney+ instead.

I'm good with What If, PH&F and Moonknight. Dear God why remake L&tT? Ugh.

Nice shot

Freaking awesome. Love to see them all together.

Freaking gorgeous, hope you win.

That's awesome.

In the battroid pics you can see some notches in the belly plates, could be for the gunpod(s)

Awesome, are you doing a full interior as well?

So it's the ax guy and they aren't giving him an ax?

Don't get me started on the problems with that character and issues with her whole storyline. Instead of building on the established "buddy cop" dynamic between Poe and Finn from Ep7, we get the worst kind of fan service with Rose (the fan stand-in/mary-sue). Her character makes no sense, and is just shoe-horned in there to fit a narrative, one that backfired badly and hurt the actress in the process. I mean someone explain to me how a low level worker deep inside the ship even heard of Finn the same day of the attack, let alone knew what he looked like? AT most she would have heard about a FO defector who helped them bring down Starkiller Base.

As much as I love the Yf-21/VF-22 this does illustrate a serious issue I have with it, the engine ducting. It really implies that the 21/22 used a radically different engine tech then every other VF to that point, and beyond. I know that the answer is liberal usage of anime magic in the design, but I just don't see room enough in there for traditional turbine styled engines. It makes me think that the 21/22 uses something more akin to a Fusion rocket. The bulged fronts of the engine nacelles would be the fusion bulbs, pumping plasma through ducts in the rear nacelle, "cooling" it along the way to pull out any radiation, before ducting them out the rear turbines. Afterburning would basically involve retracting the internal baffles to allow the raw plasma out the rear exhaust. The intake in the front would then serve to power the lifting ducts, as well as provide cooling air in atmosphere, which would be heated by the fusion bulb much like ramjet to also add thrust. So, I guess you might classify the 21/22's engines as Fusion Ramjets.

I always saw the "de-limiter" or "limiter-release" mode as something akin to the Star Destroyer Shield Emitter issue (they were scanner globes, that the destruction of which blew out the bridge shield emitters). Guld ejects the dead weight of the limbs at the same time as he activated the de-limiter mode. The time was purely coincidental, and I sometimes wonder if he intentionally allowed the X-9 to shoot of his limbs because the software wouldn't allow him to eject them otherwise. De-limiter with limbs would still give a performance boost to the aerodynamic and structural limits, but de-limiter with limbs ejected would reduce the mass likely by half, or more, doubling the thrust to weight ratio and responsiveness of all other control systems. While I hate to argue with the MMM, I do question the source as canon or fanon in regards to the de-limiter mode.

Isn't that the one being played by Keri Russel? That's all I know about it ATM.

Is that SLS printed?

Is there a store to get those posters?

Yes, but not that close. While the Yamato version was too widely spaced, these are too close. Something between the two would be "just right."