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    Why? Is this truly what the world has been crying out for? I thought we were through rehashing the 80s and were on to rehashing the 90s by now. Not really. It doesn't have to get very far from Earth before the Sun's gravity takes it away from us. It still has to get pretty far before Mars can get hold of it, though. And it needs a good kick to give it the energy it needs to rise out to the martian orbit. But you're forgetting to factor in the Death Star's hypermatter core. The explosion CLEARLY sent large portions of the debris cloud into hyperspace along the axis of the visible discharge ring, so they blahblah et cetera. Ah, yes, the good ol' Endor Holocaust. http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html The official Lucasfilm explanation has always been "That didn't happen", with little explanation as to WHY that didn't happen. I think they need to man up and work out a feasible explanation, or canonize the massive ecological disaster. Can't make an omelette without destroying a few inhabitable worlds. This always reminds me of that scene in one of the X-Wing novels where our heroes stumble upon an Imperial Museum exhibit explaining how the rebels basically extinctified a sentient race with their terrorist activities and they get very upset because "that's not what happened". Surely the emperor would have a throne room on the first Death Star too, not just on Death Star Two. ... I think it is actually Skeletor's throne from the He-Man movie, though. How's THAT for a plot twist?
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    That was the best I could say about Force Awakens, it was "okay".
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    IMDB lists something like SIX Universal Soldier movies. Surprisingly, none is actually titled "Universal Soldier 2.0"
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    I think the belief is that once the ATM shuts down, everything else grinds to a halt.
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    Eh, why not? There's humans, and apparently falcons. May as well be horses too. I'd be singing a different tune if I were invested in this trainwreck of a franchise, mind you. The Force Awakens dealt nicely with any lingering brand loyalty. Edit: Ah. Combat ON horseback. My response is the same. Eh, why not?
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    That can't be right. HG owns the entire Macross franchise, so they can't infringe on anything. And even if they didn't, Macross has been ripping Robotech off shamelessly for the last thirty years. Really HG should be suing Big West for copyright infringement, but they're just so darn magnanimous that they keep letting it slide. ... I mean, the Robotechies wouldn't LIE to us, right?
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    In fairness, we ARE keeping up with it. He just keeps posting his spoilers a month after we all read them.
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    "Well, yes, we should've checked the mirrors, but he WAS a serial killer with time-travel powers." "Oh, right. MORIOH. Ugh. Case dismissed, because I don't want to hear about another friggin' stupid stand user!"
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    Worst or BEST?
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    "You're right. But the third season of Macross was the best. The transforming motorcycles were awesome."
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    That's no fun at all, though.
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    I enjoyed the heck out of it, but it was definitely different.
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    And the episode with the chef running the restaurant. That crap was fantastic.
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    The Ent-B accidentally warped into a temporal rift, landed in the far future, and her and her crew now serve with the Starfleet Office of Temporal Investigations as undercover agents with an easily-disguisable vessel(since they apparently made HUNDREDS of Excelsiors). That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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    I think the Bayverse aesthetics are at the heart of why they don't work. In that the alt modes are all licensed real-world vehicles, and there are lots of vehicle parts on the humanoid modes. Due to licensing, you can't fudge the vehicles to make it work(in TOS, even "real" vehicle triple-changers like Astrotrain and Blitzwing bent their vehicles to the breaking point). And the robot mode carrying obvious vehicle parts makes it harder to fudge THERE, too. So they mostly chose to match two modes, and the third mode is just made up from nothing. And THAT makes the toys impossible to do as triple-changers, because the robot only has parts for one mode. Which leads to THIS Drift having a humanoid form with a lot of car parts, and turning into a helicopter. And other versions of the character just turning into a car, because at least the character HAS car parts on him.
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    Gotta admit, I was NOT expecting a Land Before Time reference in a Transformers review. Also, why did anyone ever think triple-changers were a good idea for these films?
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    Money was definitely de-emphasized. At one point in the "two years later" episodes, Minmay and Kaifun are shown being paid for her performance in soap and food. (Kaifun is unappreciative, to absolutely no one's surprise. And also drunk. He's a real winner here.)
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    I am positively TREMBLING with excitement! ... Which doesn't say anything good about me.
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    While they can't all be the Jenius clan, I would assume that most couples had at least three, due to societal pressure. Two kids merely maintains the status quo, in a world that's suddenly got an awful lot of elbow room and a government that wants to start sending entire cities full of people out into deep space as soon as possible. It is everyone's patriotic duty to help rebuild the population. Be like the Jeniuses, raise a whole herd of kids!
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    Fair enough. 's been a while, and I didn't recall that the probe was disabling everything in the system. One of the few good explanations for why a wanted criminal can fly into the capital system in an enemy state's fighter. I was exagerating the "timenapping" for comic effect.
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    Personally, the reason my younger self was so excited for new systems was that they enabled so many amazing new things. The last few years have been "more of the same". Sure there's bigger textures and higher defs and more tesselations, but it is all layers of polish, nothing funamentally fresh. You look at a Nintendo game next to a Genesis game, it is immediately obvious what the difference is. You look at a PS3 game next to an XBox One game, it is... not. That's why everyone needs a VR headset. My Rift gave me that new system feeling that I hadn't felt since the Dreamcast. Even if you can't clear the space, a seated VR game with a controller is a whole new world. At least Sony cares about storage speed this time. Maybe they won't hook the SSD up through USB like they did with the PS4. Maybe we'll genuinely get the instant load times they're talking about like it is a new thing(I STILL REMEMBER ROM CASSETTES, SONY!)
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    Tradition set by admiral Kirk when he stole the 1701, took it to a forbidden planet, blew it up, and came home with a timenapped marine biologist and some whales. I mean, I'm surprised he wasn't shot down the instant he showed up in the Sol system in a friggin' Bird of Prey, even granting that Starfleet had other issues at the time.
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    In fairness, Seven DID learn a lot about how to be human from Captain Janeway. That's not the best way to raise a stable and level-headed adult.
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    Or the end of Voyager.
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    Tellin' ya, Lady M is Doctor Chiba. He's gone off the deep end and thinks he IS Minmay.
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