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    Which show was that in? (Joking, joking!)
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    First two seasons? Isn't this season five? Which is not to say I disagree, far from it.
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    And Frontier stole it from Star Trek's "inertial dampers", and Trek probably wasn't the first with the idea.
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    Fortunately, this is a really clear case of plagiarism because Star Wars is a completely original story that draws upon no traditional cliches at all.
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    Still more useful than the VF-1's giant cigarette lighter!
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    The speaker pod cannon was brutal, really. Fortunately for Basara's pacifist reputation, the only time any of the safety measures on his smart projectiles failed was in-atmosphere, and it was only the adhesive sealant so the thing just fell through the hole and landed in the cockpit floor. But let's be honest, as silly as the weapon was, it consistently punched holes in a mech roughly equivalent to a VF-14 with one round. And had they filled those things with a non-sonic warhead... a shaped charge would've made them REALLY nasty, considering the pods' ability to always strike warhead-forward even in atmosphere where I would expect such an aerodynamically-backwards projectile to tumble. I reckon a speaker pod is halfway to a micromissile already. Though I admit to being curious as to the ammo capacity with it firing such large "bullets".
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    So is the UK version just the US version with a new box? Also: HA! Their Metroid screenshot has them fighting the fake Kraid!
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    I tell you what, I never thought I'd see the day where mentioning 7 would get universal approval instead of starting a flame war about how terrible it was. Thank you, Delta. You have healed the community with your awfulness.
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    DESTROID SUPREMACY!11111
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    Mirage testing the Walkure holoprojectors, take 2. Whoa. That is AWESOME.
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    Honestly, I was only half-joking. Aside from the name, Lady M's role in the story seemed tailor-made for Chiba. And the idea of a Chiba that took his Minmay obsession to the next level and tried to BECOME Minmay just makes me laugh, so I keep throwing it out there. I can totally see him adopting it as a code name, though.
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    Is that the new Defender variable destroid?
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    My PERSONAL view of time travel is completely undefined. I know nothing of how it would work, I can't venture a guess as to the behavior. In fiction, I don't care what view they take, as long as they are consistent. Multiversal, a single malleable timeline, or straight predestination paradox, as long as they stick to one set of rules, I'm not bothered too much. ... Or make it fun enough I don't notice they can't stick to one set of rules. I call this the Back to the Future exemption. I do grant that a malleable time stream raises a LOT of questions about what happens when you make a big change that a multiversal outlook avoids. To take (one corner of) Back to the Future as an example, and making assumptions for the sake of illustration... When Marty stops his parents from getting together, he starts slowly fading out of existence. This implies a single malleable timeline. So... when they get together, but his dad has a backbone, will his memories gradually change to reflect his new backstory? Does his NATURE change, or just his EXISTENCE? And if the new past overwrites the old past... does he still remember going back in time? DOES he go back in time if his history was changed? If New Marty doesn't go back in time, what changes the past to put it on the present route? In the multiversal worldview, obviously the original Marty's actions caused him to "switch tracks" from the prime universe to the derviative one that his actions create. It doesn't matter whether the new derivative Marty goes back in time, because Marty Prime made the changes when he went back from the prime universe, so there's no issue there. But one has to wonder why the prime universe Marty replaces the "new" universe's Marty instead of being a duplicate. But most multiversal time travel stories ignore the doppelganger problem. And in the prime universe, is Marty Prime now just a missing person poster on a bulletin board somewhere? Does the prime universe even survive the creation of a new timeline, or does conservation of energy result in the prime universe's destruction at some point? Or does every possible universe exist concurrently, and Marty is truthfully a "slider", not a true time traveler? There's a lot of complex and subtle issues in the multiversal model instead of a few really big obvious issues, and I've seen one or two stories that laid out a very complex set of rules for multiversal time travel in an attempt to cover all these bizarre little corner cases. And yes, I have thought about this entirely too much. And that's why I give Judgement Day a pass. It is a fun movie, so the Back to the Future exemption comes into play.
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    Most likely, yes. But it isn't the SAME backdoor on everything.
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    I just can't accept a single computer virus running on Android/ARM and Windows/x86. It is patently absurd. And if we accept that a virus that hits all operating systems and processor architectures WAS possible, connecting a supercomputer to the internet to cure it seems the worst possible idea since it will almost certainly just infect that machine too. And then there's the added plot wrinkle where the supercomputer was responsible for releasing the virus to the internet... as a way to force the military to connect it to the internet. Wait, what? Ultimately, it is a lot like the Matrix. There are ways the idea could've worked and made a lot of sense, but in the end they chose the least plausible explanation.
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    Wait, Japan gets River City Ransom and we don't? WAY TO DROP THE BALL, NOA!
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    Yeah, I don't loathe the third the way a lot of folks seem to. I think some of the problems it has stem from trying to be a sequel to two very different movies. ... Though I still have to shout at the screen when they claim a single computer virus is ripping through so many different computers running unrelated operating systems and processors. Computer plots completely bypass my suspension of disbelief and yank me right back to the real world with cries of "IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!".
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    And then when all hope is lost... Basara comes flying in because he heard someone made the whole GALAXY listen to their song and he wants in on that.
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    A movie could focus on ONE member of Walkure. Most likely Freyja as the new girl learning the ropes, possibly Mikump as the three-year-old with the ubervoice. The rest of Walkure would exist for singing and as minor characters. Would they do that? No, of course not. But they could, and it would work.
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    Awww, but that's no fun! Nitpicking beloved movies and arguing about time travel is the best way to spend a day!
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    Not really. No Jenius in Frontier or Plus, and the Jenius in Delta was rapidly converted into a background character. Also, the Jeniuses are cooler than the Ichijos, so no problem.
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    Lady M is Dr. Chiba, gone off the deep end and insisting he is really Minmay. It explains EVERYTHING.
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    VF-1s? Naw, Megaroad had VF-4s. ... And the chance to see VF-4 en masse has made me want to see a Megaroad show now...
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    ALMOST always. There is, rarely, a story that takes the time to polish all the rough edges off and makes sure everything fits together and it all obeys a single consistent set of rules. The Terminator was one of those precious few stories. Looking too closely makes it BETTER.
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    My thoughts exactly. Stories have endings, and Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay's ended. Now, granted, instead of closing off questions about what next by saying "they flew it into a wormhole and disappeared", I probably would've said "they found a planet and colonized it" just to avoid the years of fan outrage. But that would tempt future writers to tie their stories to that planet somehow, as if it gives them an air of legitimacy. And then suddenly Hikaru Ichigo Jr is the star of a show, and then Hikaru Focker the Third, and it NEVER ENDS and one family dominates all of galactic history.
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