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Perhaps he did and doesn't remember it. As Comic Book Guy on Simpsons put it

"I fear his mind is no longer in mint condition."

Yeah it is ironic that new McCoy is playing Dredd. Still I am confident that the movie will be faithful to the comics and well done. The only problem I foresee is that not many people in the states will know much about the character and thus not enjoy the movie very much.

Kind of like how some stated that John Carter of Mars was a cheap Tarzan ripoff.......

The Stallone version was a nice try, but they screwed up too many things not just the fact that for about 75% of the movie he isn't wearing his helmet.

John Wagner the co-creator of Judge Dredd visited the set of new Dredd a few times and is reported as being quite pleased with the cast and the movie.

Karl Urban stated in an interview about Stallone Dredd "When you can learn from your own mistakes that is good. When you can learn from other people's mistakes, that is even better!"

The new Dredd isn't buddy cop, rest assured. Yes Anderson is with him but she is a rookie trainee that is assigned to ride with Dredd and see how it's done. Training with Dredd is indeed the school of hard knocks

Well said.

I hope that when the first astronaut that sets foot on Mars they quote Neil Armstrong's famous words.

RIP Neil Armstrong

I don't know, a rebooted Airwolf could be done as long as they aren't forced to lighten up the show like the original was. The new Airwolf helicopter would have to be sufficiently upgraded compared to the original in terms of tech and capabilities but that wouldn't be impossible. The stories would be the make or break much like the Knight Rider reboot. That series had too many characters for too long.

How about near the end of the pilot when a very angry Stringfellow Hawke used Airwolf to chase down its renegade creator Dr. Moffat? HAwke's orders from Archangel were to bring Moffat back for trial for treason among other charges and that if that couldn't be done then Hawk was authorized to use extreme prejudice.

Does shooting all of Airwolf's missiles at one man standing on top of a sand dune count as extreme prejudice or just plain old fashioned overkill?

The logistical problems of Superman being in a relation with Lois Lane apply to any relation where one of the two has super strength.

For all the years Spider-man was married to MJ (before the stupid Mephisto erasure) those two would have had the same logistical problems given that Spidey's strength is in the 10ton range.

or when Grey Hulk worked in Las Vegas as Joe Fixit and had started a relationship with Marlo Chandler

or back in the Silver Surfer of the 80's/90's when Mantis hooked up with the Surfer, we are talking about a guy whose silver alloy is bonded to his skin and couldn't be removed at the time plus his super strength which he can increase via cosmic power absorption

or when She-Hulk was dating Wyat Wingfoot, long time friend of the F.F.

or the THING and Alica Masters

or Luke Cage being married and has a kid, I don't recall his wife having super strength (other powers, yes)

Superman's strength level being off the scale as it were of course makes his problems a bit more severe then the others I listed, but it is still the same logistic problem.

I think Superman expressed his overall frustration with all the power he has in the last episode of JLU when he finally got mad enough at Darkseid to just cut loose on him. "I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard! I'm always taking constant care not to break something, to break someone! Never letting myself lose control EVEN FOR A MOMENT because someone could die!" Upon which he proceeds to give Darkseid a super sonic FALCON PUNCH that probably could have sent Darkseid to the other side of the planet or into orbit if Superman didn't intercept him.

In fact that is another logistic problem: when two super strength beings like Hulk and THOR slug it out, one punch from either should send the other flying for miles but that doesn't seem to happen like it should very often does it?

The new Knight Rider suffered from too many cast members and characters, while it makes sense for Knight Rider to have a support team there was just too many. By the time they decided to cut some characters the damage was done.

While I can agree that some war weariness has set in, a rebooted Airwolf tackling some of the modern world issues may not be so bad. When Airwolf first premiered our relations with certain countries were......strained,,,,to put it nicely. Like Dominic said in the pilot movie "Libya?! That's Khadaffi's sandbox, he doesn't like us!" Hawke's response: "And we don't like him!" A few new episodes showing terrorists being blasted may anger some and bring smiles to others. Plus with a certain Soviet leader these days making threatening noises about resuming the Cold War, etc. etc. etc. then new episodes of a new Airwolf outfighting the Russians would again fit with the times, just like back then before they lightened up the show a bit.

Also can you imagine the tech and firepower a modern revamped Airwolf could have?

Perhaps the best TOS Star Trek episode, an excellent performance by Windom as Commodore Decker as he basically became Captain Ahab and the Doomsday machine was the great white whale.

RIP

I don't really see any need to worry, Marvel won't let Joss (or anyone) kill off any of the heroes in the movies. Unless they bring in Captain Mar-Vell of course since killing him then reviving and killing him again seems fashionable in the comics these days.

Also didn't Spike return from death in Angel? Killing Kitty Pryde? Feh this is Marvel we speak of, everyone knew she'd be back. Killing Shepard in Serenity is what got Mal motivated again to fight back against the Alliance instead of constantly running, killing Wash simply broke the "invincibility bubble" and showed that anyone of the crew could be killed at any time without warning. I'd say the only ones with "plot armor" to survive would have been River and Mal.

Never said it was reasonable either, just said it was an idea. Please refrain from putting words in my mouth and lets keep things civil, shall we?

I never said they should, I posting alternative ideas for inevitable outcries that will occur if they DO remove the badges.

I never said that I personally was expecting compensation, I was posting examples of what they COULD do to appease any ruffled feathers as it were since there will be SOME people that want compensation.

Aye the handling could have been better, but that is water under the bridge now.

IMO, it comes down to this: which is easier to implement,

1. Fixing a system that appears to be broke beyond recognition
2. Removing all vet badges and giving out paragon points as a compensation

I am not overly fond of badges being removed from the game (ref. the Great AE purge) as I prefer to see erroneous/obscenely high badge criteria readjusted. However in the case of the vet badges I think it is time to just remove them and be done with it.

Now comes the question: what should players get as an apology/compensation for having all 8 vet badges removed? Well players below Tier 8 in the new system as I recall get 400 paragon points per month, so lets do some math:

400 pts. per month times 12 months in a year = 4800 points. Now let's take 4800 points times eight since there are 8 yearly vet badges in the game: 4800 times 8 = 38400 points.

Now, given that tracking all players actual Tier status is problematic since anyone can buy points and thus gain tokens and tier levels, it is unlikely they can determine what anyone should be at if they never bought points. So that would likely mean giving everyone 38,400 paragon points as a compensation for all 8 yearly vet badges being removed.

So would 38,400 paragon points being awarded to you make you smile and want to spend them? Would you still feel upset or dare I say "violated" at the removal of the yearly vet badges?

Or should something other then paragon points be awarded? Free game time? Coupon for receiving one of the recently released power sets? Restore some of the "lost" AE badges into the AE system with more reasonable requirements to obtain? Award all the game anniversary badges to all characters in the game? A Resurrection of Statesman event similar to how we brought back Red Widow? Character slots/transfers/rename tokens?

What do YOU think would be good compensation for the removal of the yearly vet badges?