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Actually comparing the Doomsday Machine to the Death Star isn't too bad of a comparison. The TNG novel VENDETTA gave us a new Doomsday Machine and revealed the purpose of it and the prototype that Kirk destroyed: DESTROY THE BORG.

Hey now, the Chekov error and not noticing that a planet was missing and that the beamed down to Ceti Alpha 5 and not 6 are rather bad blunders

Khan did study as many files as he could in Space Seed. It is possible that he saw the roster of the crew and studied it to determine potential threats and allies and that Chekov was on the Enterprise but not part of the bridge crew yet.


I've always been more curious about just why Starfleet didn't impose a quarantine of the Ceti Alpha star system after Khan was planted in Ceti Alpha 5, why Starfleet didn't have some automated monitoring station setup to monitor the planet in case Khan escaped, and just HOW the crew of the Reliant upon entering the star system didn't happen to notice that a planet was missing from the system that should have been on their maps of the star system.

They want Khan back for the villain name recognition to help generate fan interest and keep this nu-Trek alive.

However, unless Spock-Prime tells Kirk about the Botany Bay and at what coordinates it was found and at what stardate they found it and THEN they backtrack along Botany Bay's vector at the time it was found to try to find it now, then Kirk shouldn't be the one to find it.

Which means Khan should not have a psychotic obsession with wanting Kirk dead like he did in Wrath of Khan. That version of Khan's hatred of Kirk was somewhat justifiable after all since neither Kirk nor Starfleet sought to check on them over the 15 years they were on the planet, but it wasn't Kirk's fault that Ceti Alpha 6 exploded and trashed the environment of Ceti Alpha 5, or that Khan's wife was killed.

So, the Khan we get should be the Khan from Space Seed. He wants to take over and conquer and feels that his time is now in this new era he awakes in. To me, this should be the more deadly version of Khan since he was thinking more clearly then he was in Wrath of Khan. In W.O.K. he was way too obsessed with vengeance.

Frankly in this new timeline I'd be more interested in Spock-Prime telling them about the Doomsday Machine. That device is a greater menace then Khan and should be intercepted and neutralized immediately. Also we never learned its origins or if others are out there, so that may make for an interesting movie.

Yes indeed, an Amok Time

Seriously though, bringing in Khan I honestly feel is a mistake. Ricardo Montalbon made that character, and yes he is perhaps the deadliest non-Klingon enemy of Kirk but I was hoping for something new.

As to reinventing or reintroducing the characters, the old Trek series had its pilot episode The Cage/Menagerie, then the new pilot Where No Man Has Gone Before, complete with prop changes and cast changes, and that Kirk was Captain of the Enterprise for it's third 5 year mission, the previous one under Pike and before that was Robert April.

Now instead, Kirk is command of the Enterprise fresh out of the shipyard, no Robert April and Pike's tenure was brief. As to the rest of the bridge crew, it was never stated in canon how or why they were assigned to the Enterprise back in the old days, they were just simply there. Chekov comes in later as the newest bridge crew member fairly fresh from the academy, but Sulu, Uhura and Scotty's back stories were never really told in the show or movies. So learning their origins is fine with me, but I'd rather see new menaces arise in this new Trek and not a rehashed Khan.

Very nice, reminds me of the Bit cameo in Tron Legacy

That Matrix reviewer needs to be fired.

Also here is a hilarious article on the Avengers Movie that Coulda (NEVER) Been!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=38431

Yes, having fun on their light cycles and engaging in disc combat

Makes you want to laugh at any negative reviews, doesn't it?

Loki's defeat had just about everyone in the theater I was at rolling in the aisles with laughter.

Rhapsodic should be account based. just log in once during May and all your alts get it.

Bravo! We each win the internet!

Do not be too proud of this fantastic movie that Whedon has spawned. The ability to produce/write/direct awesome TV shows and movies is insignificant next to the power of FOX stupidity.

RDJ shows once again that he is indeed Tony Stark, he has the character perfectly portrayed. Though I was slightly puzzled that he comments about how the shrapnel is still in him. I would think that by now he would have been able to have the shrapnel removed and still need the mini arc reactor to keep his heart going due to lingering damage.

Mark Ruffalo portrayed a very nice Banner, both humorous and a bit menacing at times as everyone occasionally would get the reminder that keeping Banner calm is a good idea

Chris Evans also has a good lock on the character of Captain America. This movie didn't touch too much on the angst he must be feeling about being 70 years out of time, I suspect that is all for Captain America 2. Nice speech he gave when he landed in that crowd, too.

Scarlet as the Black Widow, no complaints. THOR was also portrayed well as was Hawkeye.

Marvel has been building to this for years and this is indeed a nice payoff. Now we just need to brace ourselves for the sequels to Cap, THOR, Iron Man and hopefully Avengers 2.

Yeah I know exactly who that is in the bonus scene, and the line about courting death was no coincidence

Well my job took my overseas for the past few days, so naturally once my tech work was done before catching my plane I just had to get to the theaters over there.

Minor Spoilers follow.

Fantastic movie, very well done. Each Avenger got their screen time and played their roles well. Also kudos to Joss Whedon for giving us the Hulk at his proper power levels, just like Ang Lee did with his Hulk movie. As much as I liked the 2008 Hulk, that Hulk was a bit powered down compared to Ang Lee Hulk and the Avengers.

Excellent dialog, nice level of humor and angst, great FX. Also a nice tribute scene to the cover of Iron Man volume 1 issue 118.

Thoroughly enjoyed the scene of Stark talking to Loki as well as the reasons for that scene. Also as Stark described the team and mentioned "a man with breathtaking anger issues" Loki's smile at that statement and the audience laughing was nicely timed.

Also enjoyed the scene as Cap gives everyone their orders for the big fight. Hulk was the last one to receive orders and it was simply this:

Cap turns to HULK and says "And HULK.......!" Hulk looks at Cap for his orders and Cap just says, "........SMASH!" Hulk just grins, leaps into the air and proceeded to carry out the only order he needs. SMASH!

Also, be thoroughly prepared to roll in the aisles with laughter at how Loki is defeated. Not his grand scheme mind you, I mean Loki himself. You'll know it when you see it

Finally, you want to stay for the credits and the bonus scene....

Sharpens pitchfork and prepares torches..... oh sorry, I mean your mileage may vary

I don't think that it is so much that times have changed, more that imitating the Stooges is tough to do and getting three that can both imitate the Stooges and synchronize together like the originals is not an easy thing. Case in point, after Shemp died they had some episodes still to complete, and while some were "in the can" for final editing they needed a "fake shemp" stunt double for the last few episodes. This fake shemp would always appear briefly, his face concealed and never interacted much with Moe and Larry and it was Moe and Larry that would carry the episode as the two stooges, then came Joe Besser and a weak budget and recycled scripts and that Joe wasn't all into slapstick didn't help matters at all.

To be honest I think if they want to make a modern stooge movie they should go through all the Curly skits for footage and dialogue and then basically CGI-construct a movie and CGI the supporting cast into it.

I just direct said diehards to youtube, search under Bruce Lee and look for any and all footage of him training or demonstrating things like his one inch punch that sent Bob Baker into the chair and then onto the ground. Baker stated he had chest pain for a week and asked Bruce to not demonstrate that on a human again.

Now that's funny.

Here's another one about Bruce:

In 1962, Lee was challenged by a man who had been holding a grudge against Lee while the two were practicing at a YMCA in Seattle.[45] The man was described by Jesse Glover as a karate man who also had a blackbelt in judo, though Glover, who was a brown belt in judo at the time, claimed to be better than the man in judo.[45] After weeks[46] or months[47] of provocation by the man, Lee agreed to fight the man for three two-minute rounds, with the winner being the one who knocked the opponent down or out in two out of three rounds.[48] The match took place at YMCA's handball court, with Glover as the referee and Ed Hart as the time keeper.[48] Lee wore street clothes and used a Wing Chun stance while his opponent wore a gi and used a karate stance.[48] According to Glover, Lee used his right forearm to deflect an initial kick from the man and simultaneously landed a left punch to the face.[48] Lee deflected more punches using the forearm, controlling the center line and landed more punches to the man's face until he was against the wall.[48] The man attempted to grab Lee's arms, which Lee responded by a double fist punch to the face and chest, followed by a kick to the nose, which produced a nosebleed and a knockout, at which time Glover stopped the fight.[48] Taki Kamura said the fight lasted 10 seconds.[49] Ed Hart stated "the fight lasted exactly 11 seconds – I know because I was the time keeper – and Bruce had hit the guy something like 15 times and kicked him once. I thought he'd killed him".

As I recall from watching the original Japanese anime series that would become Robotech, Macross suffered the least rewriting in comparison to the other two series. Southern Cross was perhaps the most cerebral but also the dullest of the three.

Still Robotech is still a classic.

Gigantor, Johnny Sokko's Flying Robot, Big O, the assorted GUNDAMs, RobotJox (Crash and burn!), all classics in their own way.

Also since we are talking robots as well as mecha-suits, let's not forget Robby the Robot, the Lost in Space Robot (B9 I think was its name),

Also we could technically include cyborgs in this: so that would mean, ROBOCOP, the 8-Man, and Infra-Man also get added to the list. Also the Bionic Man and Bionic Woman and even Max the bionic dog.

edit: just hulu'd an episode of Johnny Sokko, the series hasn't aged well, IMO

River was also trained to be a highly effective and lethal assassin, possibly similar to the Black Widow. Now add in her telepathy always being on and she can absorb and assimilate the skills of the rest of the crew and add them to her own and yeah she can do pretty mch anything as good or as better.