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Quote:The Moore movie campiness was a product of the times. Moonraker is still fun for me to watch and so is Spy Who Loved Me. A View to a Kill however while enjoyable also showed that Moore was in the role a tad too long.George Lazenby was a good Bond. But the public liked Connery and didn't like the switch in actors, especially to an unknown. It also didn't help with him with the character going full Scott with Kilt with the funnier accent while he was undercover.
Now Moore had a great deal more exposure here in the US and the UK as The Saint so if you were going to change leads, changing it to someone people know and accept in those roles is a plus.
Moore got way too campy and world ending for my taste. I prefer spy vs spy and cold war espionage stories over disaster averting stories like The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and A View to a Kill.
As for Brosnan, people in the US wanted him after Moore due to his popularity in Remington Steel. But due to commitments the studio was forced to pick another and went with Dalton, who tried out to replace Connery years before.
Yes, never ask Brosnan about the Remington Steele days and how he was delayed in taking the Bond role. It's still a sore topic with him. He was on the Screen Actors Guild show where they sit on stage and are interviewed before an audience and when the host got to the Remington Steele stage of his career you can see Brosnan lock up a bit.
Tim Dalton wasn't a bad Bond, Living Daylights was just a bad movie. License to Kill though was cool. -
Quote:Lazenby suffered from following in the very large footsteps of Sean Connery. Also there was that joke in the beginning that breaks the fourth wall, I don't think that helped as people at the time didn't need any more reminders that it wasn't Connery in the role.I'll say that Lazenby is the worst Bond. That movie just sucked and he was annoying. Connery is the best.
The joke was that Bond beat up the guys and the woman drove off without him and he says "This never happened to the other fellow"
As to the rest of the movie, its been awhile since I read any of the Bond books but I think the Lazenby movie tried to adhere to the novel as much as possible, can't remember for sure though. -
Quote:Well we all know how well the Catwoman movie did........Batman, Superman, Spider-man, Catwoman, etc. have had plenty of movies and TV shows despite anything they've ever been marketed with. It may turn out that "inappropriate marketing" won't hurt Wonder Woman too much, but I hardly see how it's going to be very helpful for her cause either.
I'm convinced the main reason Wonder Woman has not had the same media success the others have had is that the industry in general don't understand and/or know how to handle the character. Linking her to real world products that have very little (if anything) to do with her core character is not going to help that situation. At this point I just don't think the Wonder Woman character can afford any "publicity" which keeps her relegated to the murky media limbo she's been stuck in for decades now.
As to Wonder Woman, I suspect part of the problem is that memories are still rooted in the days of Superfriends and the Lynda Carter series.
And as I've stated before I doubt the Lynda Carter series is remembered for the "emmy award winning acting" or "ground breaking FX" or "riveting dialogue", etc. Call it a hunch. -
Quote:I suspect the movie will be about Batman still being hunted by the law, and the mob also wants him gone, so Bane is called in by the mob.If this is the case, then I'm curious as to whether Batman's "rising" pertains to coming back after Bane breaks his back or after he becomes addicted to venom.
And since Catwoman's involved, maybe they're talking about another kind of rising.
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Bane beats the tar out of Batman in their first fight, possibly injuring Batman's back. Batman recovers, gets his nerve back, develops some plans and takes Bane down and redeems himself in the eyes of the law as Bane was proving to be a real menace instead of Batman.
However given the time constraints of a movie, I suspect that will not quite see Bane doing the back breaker to Batman as spinal trauma isn't usually recovered from quite that fast and I doubt Batman's body armor will help much. More likely it will be like it was when Bane first appeared in Batman TAS: he holds Batman over his head like in the comics, stating that he will break Batman but Batman cuts the tubes that send venom into Bane. Bane by this point has sufficiently pulverized Batman anyway and as Bane goes into shock from venom loss, Batman escapes back to the batcave to hide and heal. -
Quote:How a machine only goes forward and not back is a bit intriguing.Professor: Behold, a time traveling machine.
Bender: Time? I can't go back there!
Professor: Ah, but this machine only goes forward in time. That way you can't accidentally change history or do something disgusting like sleep with your own grandmother.
Fry: I wouldn't want to do that again.
As for sleeping with his grandmother, I suspect that is yet another predestined temporal circle/paradox about Fry, as that is how he ends up with no delta brainwave. -
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Quote:Wasn't another dog, just tongue in cheek joke at Jurassic Bark. Still, the dog is fossilized while standing on all fours and the Professor confirmed that the dog was fossilized at time of death so his laying down at the end of Jurassic Bark wasn't the end for the dog. Also in Bender's Big Score when Fry 2 returns from being at sea, he pets the dog who then lays down in that position we see at the end of Jurassic Bark, then the Bender-nator arrives and blasts the building and the dog stands up and looks at the building and ends up fossilized.I saw that statue a few years ago when I visited Shibuya. Cool story.
Well didn't Hermes dig up "another" one of Fry's fossilized dogs in one of the newer eps? I think it was the one where they played around with the evolution vs creationism debate when the Professor became a god to a world of robots which quickly evolved from nanites to "humanoid" robots.
I think they probably threw that in because they know they've kind of played around the whole history of Fry's dog so much that they're just having fun with it now.
So to me it seems that indeed Fry's usage of the time code to return to the past and then using it again to diverge himself via paradox was at least a partial fulfillment of the dog's fate. You COULD say that it laid down to die at the end of Jurassic Bark since at that point in the future the time code hadn't been found yet and thus the paradoxes hadn't started but that still contradicts the Professor's assessment of being fossilized at the time of death. Fry 2 however staying in the past and being targeted by the Bender-nator does create the dog's fate of being fossilized at the time of death.
It's kind of like the question regarding Babylon 5: when Delenn chose Sinclair's ship to be captured and they discovered he was Valen reincarnated as a human, would that have happened to any human she chose instead of Sinclair, especially if Sinclair's ship was blown away? OR: would Sinclair being killed before he took Babylon 4 back to the past cause a massive change for the past 1000 years of galactic history?
Given that Sinclair was given a glimpse of the future by that Centauri psychic that showed B5 being blown up and then later on B4 itself he got an even bigger view of that same vision, and then in the season 3 two parter that wrapped up Sinclair's fate we see an alternate timeline where the Shadows are stronger then they should be and B5 gets wiped out, I'd have to go with the theory that if Sinclair did get killed before he took B4 back in time, that we would basically be shafted to put it nicely.
Or simply put, I hate temporal mechanics. -
Is that 206% with or without hasten? Also did you choose Spiritual for your Alpha slot? I've heard that Spiritual wont effect domination but of course all your other powers can benefit.
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Quote:Possibly.I sadly suspect this'll get the same level of attention the unreasonably high original requirement for Empath got. It only took about 4 years of constant petitioning, argument and suggestion on these forums for the Devs to finally concede there was what they called a "decimal point" problem with it in the first place. In the case of these respec badges the Devs may once again wave their hands and try to play it off like there's "no problem" to fix either.
I hope I'm wrong about that, but I'm fully expecting we're going to be stuck with this problem for (at the very least) a long time.
However I don't really view this as a problem, more like a minor oversight. If badge hunters want to flip sides and burn valuable respecs to obtain three more badges that they may not really be able to have, much less keep when a fix does occur then that is their own choice. -
Quote:Different AT/power sets = different results.What is the max that should be slotted here. I'm thinking like 3, maybe 4 tops. Can anyone let me know.
I tend to slot 4 and make them all Perf shifter with one of course being the proc. Some people I know 6 slot it with all perf shifter for all the set bonuses plus the proc. -
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Quote:Sometimes the hypocrisy of the network censors is astounding.What's odd was that years before then, in the Alf Tales cartoon episode of Wizard of Oz, the line, "what are you doing?" "hammering" "oh. I thought you were choking a chicken" appeared. O.o I was all... O.o!
The censoring was awful ... I'm just glad that these incredible shows will finally be seen
Also for those that may not have seen My Two Bobs and wonder about my reference to the Spiderman Clone Saga I'll clarify: (SPOILERS BELOW, DON'T READ if you've never seen this and don't want to be spoiled)
Right at the end of Daemon War, a critically wounded and near death Bob was begged by Dot to stay alive and to marry her. He gladly accepts and then a portal opens and the Websurfer returns, which Mouse is glad to see of course, but then stepping through the portal is ANOTHER Bob who says "Marry him?! I don't think so!" This then leads into My Two Bobs.
1. All scans done by Phong of both Bob's are inconclusive, they can't tell if either one is a fake or a copy or the original. (hence the reference to Spiderman clone saga.)
2. Bob 2 that arrived at the end of Daemon War looks and sounds just like he did before Megabyte blasted him into the web at the end of Season 2 (yes the voice actor returned). Glitch-Bob shows signs of web degradation, sounds different, and of course is fused with Glitch.
3. Bob 2 can reboot into games and fight the user, Glitch-Bob cannot. However in Glitch-Bob's defense, his fusion with Glitch may have locked him in such a way that he can't reboot, or else it's due to damaged or missing code.
4. Bob 2 claims to be the original and asks Glitch Bob "Come on, which of us looks like the original". However his eyes narrow as he looks at Glitch-Bob in a rather non-Bob manner. Almost an evil narrowing of the eyes. Bob 2 also claims that after he entered the web, his Guardian code shut him down and preserved him, but he also later tells Dot that his memories of his time in Mainframe feel incomplete "But I don't remember.....everything".
5, While in a game with Matrix, Bob 2 reminds Matrix that he is a renegade and to cheat against the user since the game was going against them. Also that game was a nice parody of DBZ and Pokemon. After the game as they are celebrating, Bob 2 calls Matrix "Enzo" but Matrix doesn't mind it coming from him, then Bob 2 asks "Fancy a game of jetball?" Rather non-Bob like phrasing...."fancy a game of jetball?" sounds a bit formal.
6. Only AndrAIa and the backup of Enzo have faith that Glitch-Bob is the original, everyone else is gravitating towards Bob 2, partly out of nostalgia for the old days before Bob was shot into the web, and that Dot was also choosing Bob 2 as the one to marry.....
7. Glitch-Bob can't access the Mainframe archives as Phong shows reluctance to give him the codes, but Mouse gets Bob the access and Glitch-Bob tries a few tricks to split from Glitch only to end up frozen in carbonite ala Han Solo. Seriously, his expression and arms raised when frozen are very much like Han Solo after he was frozen.
8. Bob 2 and Dot are going to marry, even as the Guardians are unable to penetrate whatever has frozen Glitch-Bob, plus Glitch-Bob is dying. He has an out of body experience where the keytools contact him and use him as a conduit to return, where upon they then combine their energies to separate Glitch and Bob. Bob is now restored to his web-rider appearance from Season 3, and Glitch is back on his wrist but is repaired and upgraded. The tech scans Bob and says that he's going to be ok, but that his code doesn't match what they have on file, and Turbo concludes that this Bob must be the copy....... (to me that feels like some bad writing. A copy of a program is still the same program, Bob's code should still be the same at its core).
9. Glitch-Bob ports to Mainframe to stop the wedding and tell Dot that he loves her, Bob 2 gets fed up and PUNCHES Glitch-Bob. Dot breaks up the fight before Glitch-Bob attempts to blast Bob 2. She makes her choice clear and Glitch-Bob walks away, but in a final surprise move, Glitch detaches from his wrist and flies over to Bob 2 and attaches to him, and everyone thus thinks that Bob 2 is the original. However note the again uncharacteristic narrowed eye glare that Bob 2 gives Glitch-Bob as this occurs.....
So, after reading all the above: Which Bob is Bob? Search youtube or wait for the DVD. -
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Quote:Yeah I saw that, very touching.You know, the one that ends with Fry's dog waiting in loyally for Fry to return. Remember how it really made you choke up, and if you have pets you maybe went and hugged them?
Well, prepare yourself for that again.
Also I disagree that Bender's Big Score contradicts what Jurassic Bark showed of the dog's fate, since Fry 2 stayed in the past and spent time with the dog as well as had his job with Leelu, then left for years to find and recapture Leelu, only to come back and be blasted by Bender and realize he was Lars after all. The Professor did state that the dog was fossilized at the moment of death, so it couldn't have died at the end of Jurassic Bark as the dog laid down and closed its eyes to sleep, but was fossilized while standing on all fours. -
Quote:They should just adjust it so that an alt can run all 6 respecs and get all 6 badges.Actually, the top one on B-H right now (Piyerus, Virtue server) has all 3 hero respec badges, and one villain respec badge. So, it's a glitch, but I expect people will start just using it to buff their counts 'til the Devs fix it. (Not saying that's what Piyerus did, but I'm guessing the intent will be a trend.)
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Well as of now every alt of mine that has alignment shifted to the opposite side has picked up the 6 alignment exclusive badges in addition to all the others. Guess it's time to contemplate starting the next wave.....or not. Pursuing DJ's does give a "retired" alt something to do at least but I'm not sure if I want to send them after the other 6 or just let them charge up the ones they have now.
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Quote:Found this link: http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Broadca..._and_PracticesIt wasn't anything about Season 3's plots. The first two seasons were a joint venture with ABC being one of the partners, when Disney bought ABC they dropped all cartoons that weren't Disney based. That's why the first two seasons have been tied up and never released before.
Now without ABC's standards and practices meddling, Mainframe was able to give Dot proper breasts and could reference hockey (Google Reboot hockey ABC) in the third season.
To say that ABC was excessive is an understatement. -
Quote:I liked it when the Sailor Moon binomes were CRUSHED by the falling debris. I wanted to call up the production team and thank them for that.That's right. It wasn't until Reboot showed up on CN in the US that we got to see the 3rd season and the follow on movies.
Still don't know what was funnier. Gillian Anderson doing Data Nully in the X-files episode or the appearance of Sailor Moon inspired binomes.
Heck even the Three Stooges were binomes in that episode, look at the three binomes trying to help the old binome that lived in the junkyard (The former Codemaster binome) off of AndrAIa's bike after she took him to the shelter area. -
Quote:Odd that the networks would freak out about her relation to Megabyte as it was revealed I think rather early on that they were siblings. When that web creature combined them into Gigabyte, now that was unexpected. Then it turns out that in Daemon War's flashbacks we learn that Gigabyte was their true form until Bob's mentor lasered them through the head and the portal from Dot's father subdivided them.On regular network tv, Reboot wasn't aired after season 2. It may very well have been aired on cable, but it never made it back onto network viewing after the issues with Hex and such. Hell even I was a bit shocked at the implications of her 'relationship' with Megabyte, as well as the whole episode with her losing it and leaving Bob a bit shaken. My memory may be a bit wobbly on which episodes are in what season, but to my recollection there were none after the end of season 2 that I could watch conventionally.
Only thing I can remember for sure that doesn't seem to match up is that Daemon was said to have sent the web creature that attacked Mainframe at the end of Season 2, yet in Daemon War she clearly didn't seem the type to send monsters to wreck systems since she was out to control/pacify and then delete everything. I'm guessing there was a major change to the character.
As to Season 3: I guess I can see networks being a bit chicken on airing it. The plot was far more serious even though the humorous elements were still there, and there was Matrix and AndrAIa's relation ship.
Yet somehow Beast Wars seemed to escape the mass censorship that hit reboot, which is odd considering we speak of robots that turn into assorted animals and are out to blow each other away. Network standards.....oy -
Quote:Scratches head.....ok I remember the censorship being a bit heavy handed on this series (and the 90's spiderman cartoon), but I don't recall any episodes that were unaired in the US, unless they were aired later in syndication. Which eps were they?Man, about time. I own a video tape of a couple episodes that never got aired in the US, but that was from years and years ago. :/ I just loved this series. It was way ahead of its time, in so many ways. It's a darn shame that the censors in the US couldn't bear the thought of an actual plot line in a "kids show".
As for what took so long getting these DVD's out, I think Season 1 and 2's distribution rights were really snagged after the VHS releases, hence only the Season 3 DVD's and Daemon War/My Two Bobs DVD, then Mainframe got bought up and is now Rainmaker, then of course comes all the royalty issues and remastering.
Still a shame that they couldn't produce the episodes meant to wrap up the My Two Bobs cliffhanger and Tony Jay the voice of Megabyte is long gone, sad to say. Also the voice actor of Captain Capacitor is also gone, hence no appearance by him in Daemon War and Two Bobs. Too bad too, he was one of my favorites. -
Quote:To me the Death Star's defy a few laws of probability and physics, but that's a different topic. Regarding the detention blocks, two things come to mindBut that still doesn't excuse the incompetence of the security set-up - the size of the station doesn't mean the detention block has to off Zig-levels of prisoner confinement
In fact, the size of the station should make that kind of rescue harder not easier - like why keep valuable political prisoners in cells that are only a few yards down an open corridor from the door out of the detention block? If the station is several miles wide, then put the cells at the end of a mile long corridor that's broken down into separate sections that each need high level clearance to access, and have a different prisoner escort group for each section, with guard rooms full of response squads in each section as well.
Plus, the cell doors should have some kind of lock on them, not just be opened with the push of a button.
That's a fault with all evil overlords, not just Sith
1. When they were building the thing, I suspect the focus was on the planet destroying super laser more then the location and design of the detention blocks. Also over confidence likely kept them from thinking that anyone would sneak aboard much less make a run for the detention blocks.
2. As to the push of a button to open the door, the thought behind that was likely "The lock is on the outside, not the inside and the person is on a planet sized battle station, even if they got out where would they go?"
Now IF the Empire still created clone troopers, albeit from a new template since Jango was Highlandered by Mace Windu, then they could have better staffed the security forces on the Death Star, OR if they used trade federation droids left from the war to help bolster security that would have helped too.
As it was, it was a combination of luck, storm trooper incompetence since they clearly weren't Jango clones, and Tarkin and Vader allowing them to escape. Even when I first saw Star Wars back in the day I thought that four tie fighters sent to get the Falcon was a bit weak. Nice laser fight, but that station should easily have dispatched several squadrons. -
Quote:Wonder Woman is supposed to be the archetype for female empowerment, not about make up.I don't get the hate. Does lip gloss somehow devalue women? Superman is used to sell boys underwear.
This to me sounds like an attempt at getting Wonder Woman back into pop culture to those that don't read the comics at all, and to compensate for no TV show, or movie and that the Justice League cartoon isn't on anymore or not watched by everyone. -
Horoscope's are worth reading for a mild chuckle. I have yet to see one be accurate for me.
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Quote:The Reboot Revival movies are still in the works despite a writer change.Cannot wait to get this on DVD. I missed the chance when it was out years ago, and only saw half of both movies cause of life at the time. Now I can finally finish up the 4th season. I know I just finished watching 1-3 on Teletoon Retro recently so it is a breath of fresh air to hear this.
Hopefully they will make the movie trilogy they were planning.
However as a reminder for those that do not know: the plan was to have Daemon War, My Two Bobs and a third movie/4 eps that would have wrapped the whole thing. This third movie was never made, thus My Two Bobs ends with a major cliffhanger.
There is a Reboot site that has a webcomic that picks up from My Two Bobs and continues forward, but I cannot recall if it is canon or not.
Also, any resemblance between My Two Bobs and the Spiderman CLONE SAGA is of course, purely coincidental.
Edit: figuring out who the real Bob was wasn't difficult but this was a fun parody of the Spiderman clone saga.