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Quote:Up until the movie, by the end of which River can do everything better than the rest of the cast put together...Originally Posted by Nericus
Buffy was basically the only one with superhuman powers in the whole group and her purpose was to kill vamps and other monsters.
Her friends brought wisdom, knowledge, magic and the everyman to the group.
For Firefly/Serenity, River was a prodigy who could pick up on and learn anything and master it with ease. There was an episode where Simon scanned her brain to learn the full damage done and how they damaged her reality cortex or some such and thus knew how to treat her better with the proper drugs.
Serenity took it one step further and not only was her sense of reality skewed now, but also she is basically a telepath and what was done to her likely amped her ability as well as leaving it permanently switched ON, so she's picking up on all the mental chatter and can't always sort it hence her sometimes random babble with occasional moments of lucidity. Almost reminds me of Malkavian's from Vamp the Masquerade.
But everyone in FIrefly/Serenity brought something to the group:
1. Mal: the leader, world weary, darker version of Han Solo, has a moral code but is also a confused walking case of PTS at times.
2. Zoe: loyal soldier and second in command
3. Wash: the wisecracking ace pilot
4. Simon: the doctor and everyman
5. Jayne: the big tough guy that loves a fight, loves to get paid. Has some small sense of honor but if the money is right, look out because you may not be able to trust him
6. Kaylee: the genius engineer
7. Shepard Book: the man of mystery, full of tales and wisdom.
8. River: the prodigy character but hampered by serious issues. She didn't get to really shine except for one or two episodes and then really emerged in Serenity after she got to Planet Miranda, breathed in some of the atmosphere with the pax which may or may not have helped calm her mind, plus all the silence on the planet since the population was dead, and then facing the origin of the Reavers helped jolt her mind back to relative working order. When the Reavers attacked she had telepathic overload until Simon getting hurt snapped her out of it and then she just cut loose. -
Quote:Not familiar with the character, but doesn't sound all that interesting on wiki. What's the appeal?Originally Posted by Nericus
Yeah, imagine that.
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Quote:That's my point. Within geek culture everyone knows Whedon's work, but outside, it's Joss Who? Now, if he makes another massive audience mainstream movie, he is going to have to prove he's not a one trick pony.Originally Posted by Lothic
The irony here is that even though people who are familiar with Whedon's work could easily predict that he'd try to kill someone off in this movie people who aren't quite as familiar with him might actually find that kind of "plot twist" to be new and edgy for the typical superhero movie. *shrugs*
Although Hitchcock made a career out of pretty much one bag of tricks... -
Quote:Well, no, it hasn't worked. The enemy has just been asleep.Originally Posted by Lothic
Right, walls can't hold an enemy back forever and that's PRECISELY the problem I have with this wall in this story. According to this story this wall has somehow "worked" for hundreds of years. How is it really possible that things have remained so static for so long? It just seems like the people of this story take this wall far too much for granted and it simply comes across as that much less "plausible" to me because of it. *shrugs*
Mounting an invasion with dugout canoes and fishing boats isn't easy! As soon as you started trying to assemble a sufficiently large flotilla you would be spotted and smacked down.Quote:Yes the waters around the British Isles can be rough. But just like in this story the Scots didn't really need to go too far out to sea in order to just skirt around the edge of the wall if they really wanted to. And like I just mentioned above the wildlings have had hundreds of years worth of opportunities to catch a calm day to go sailing if they wanted to.
As for just how dangerous the waters around Scotland are - well, it wasn't Drake that sunk the Spanish Armada...
And as for the wall in GoT, the wildlings are not the enemy it was built to stop...
(and no, not spoilers, I haven't read the books, but there is plenty telegraphed ahead.) -
Quote:Such walls are meant to stall organised invasions, not be completely impregnable.Originally Posted by Lothic
Turns out the "nitpick issue" I currently have with this show/story is how "The Wall" can actually serve as an adequate barrier to all the wildness of the north when it's flanked by open oceans on both sides. I suppose the idea of just sailing a boat around the ends of the wall never occurred to anyone. Did the Romans have the same problem with Hadrian's Wall?
Don't underestimate the difficulty of northern seas. The Romans had enough trouble getting their fleet across the much calmer waters of the Channel, and their technology was well ahead of the picts. -
There are a couple of things to consider here.
A great many of the people who see this movie will not have seen Serenity. It has a much wider audience.
Thus, the reason for the death in Serenity still stands: to suggest that the peril is real, and not all characters can depend on script-immunity.
You can't add a character just for the movie in order to kill them off (i.e. a Red Shirt). Without the emotional investment it's meaningless. It has to be a popular recurring character to work. And I'm afraid X was really the only candidate.
If everyone had seen Serenity, yes, it would be repetitive and unnecessary, but, although it was a great movie, it didn't reach that wide an audience. -
Quote:Especially not whist mining an asteroid.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
You must not read from the book!
Mummies is bad. Alien mummies is worse. -
It's Bleak House all over again.
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Quote:Me.Originally Posted by TheJazMan
How many players do you think have tier 9 VIP status?
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Quote:Maybe in box office receipts, but not once merchandising is taken into account. The Batman franchise has sacrificed a significant part of it's pre-teen audience in going for a more adult tone, and they are a big part of the merchandising market. Add to that, more heroes = more toys.Originally Posted by Kitty_Eater
I have no doubt TDK will win in terms of revenue.
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Quote:If we are going to talk about no-comic fans, my wife hates Chis Nolan's Batman for it's violence, but is looking forward to the Avengers, largely because she likes Robert Downey Jr.Originally Posted by DMystic
As for the topic at hand, I'm going to use my sister as an example. She has no interest in comics whatsoever, she out right hates Ironman but is interested in seeing Avengers. She also wants to see Batman but has reservations about Bane being the villain and Anne HAthaway as Catwoman. -
With the critics: Batman wins easily.
In the toy shops: Avengers win easily. -
Quote:Interesting thought. Increase BU too 125%, nerf AS so it does the same damage as it does now. Would this make AS-less Stalkers a viable option, without making AS itself useless?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
While this concerns me a bit, I can let that slide for the moment, and instead pose a counter-question:
If Stalkers are intended to be the best BURST damage dealers, shouldn't their Build Up damage buff (and entire melee damage buff scale) upped to match that of Stalkers and Blasters? Hell, shouldn't Stalker Build Up be actually stronger than that of other characters? Say, like, 125%?
I know why it was left at the Brute/Tanker 80% self damage buff - back in the day, Stalkers weren't supposed to deal all that much damage outside of Assassin's Strike (they had a damage mod of 0.9) and be squishy (they had Controller hit points), but if you're beefing them up to be actually decent characters now with burst damage as the focus, why no up the power which contributes such a great part of their burst damage?
Alternately, if Build Up can't be made (much) stronger, why not give Stalkers faster recharge on theirs?
Further tweeks: shorten the activation time of AS, increase activation time of BU. -
Quote:I can confirm this.Originally Posted by Obsidius
...perhaps if you sneeze too.
There is also a secondary effect of graphical corruption. -
If they where going to add a new epic AT, I would go for Carnival of Light/War.
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Can the Celestial gun be used with the Beam Rifle powerset? What about the unlockable Rikti and Crey rifles?
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Quote:I heard that ranged tanks where flavour of the month out in the wider MMOniverse.Originally Posted by Oathbound
Despite the fact that Melee/Support (or Support/melee) ATs are suggested practically every other week?
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Quote:Kinetic Melee has -DMG, which synergises with Ice Armor's -DMG in Chilling Embrace. Tanker KM gets bigger debuff numbers. It also helps with survivability on /Regen Brutes.Originally Posted by Mokalus
I have nothing against Kinetic Melee but it doesn't strike me as being particularly noteworthy for tanks or brutes. Without the instant recharge on the Build Up, it doesn't seem to me like it's got anything to recommend it over the other options available, outside of concept. You'll do fine with it, but it doesn't really pull ahead in any area.
Outside of those specific synergies I would tend to agree with you. -
Quote:Nah, now they are married, we have their offspring to deal with.Originally Posted by Dr_Mayhem
Well the flying the Tardis part was kind of explained in Let's Kill Hitler. She said that the Tardis showed her how to fly her.
Unfortunately I think the character has run her course considering they have covered both ends of her life really.
Possibly starting a new race of Time Lords.
Thus, "Who?" is the both the last and the first Time Lord.
And, in a startling twist, is sued by Mender Silos for copywrite infringement. -
A couple of things have happened.
In between AGMGTW and Closing Time, the Doctor has had his big romance with River.
He his going to his death not because he can't avoid it, but because if he interferes with the timeline he won't get to romance River.
All he has to do is find a way to preserve the timeline in which he dies, whist creating an alternative timeline in which Melody Williams never becomes River Song, and hence the Doctor is not killed. Of course, since leaving either timeline without a Doctor would be a bad idea, he also has a backup flesh Doctor stored in his sonic screwdriver. -
Quote:I'm not disgruntled, I loved this episode, and a love a darker, more flawed Doctor than the messiah that RTD gave us.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Not according to the writers. I'll take their word over a disgruntled fan any day of the week.
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Quote:How would you know, without getting injected?Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Simply because the facility was designed to be automated and in the 36 years Amy was there it didn't adapt. Also since Amy was able to use that time to learn how to build her own Sonic Probe she also had plenty of time to learn if the facility could adapt to human biology and activate it if it was dormant.
Those injections might have been perfectly safe all along. -
Quote:No, Adric was far from the only one. But as this was one of the few occasions that led to a fatality, I thought I would cite it as an example.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
If you think that Adric was the only companion that was put in danger due to the Doctors absentmindedness, the TARDIS's unpredictability, and their own carelessness then you aren't very familiar with the show.
Although ending up married to Brian Blessed is arguably worse...
Under RTD we rarely saw any of the Doctor's flaws, but with the Moff, we see a more flawed Doctor.
In this case, I think it's important. This episode suggests that the Doctor could rescue the infant Melody Pond and return her to her parents. However, if he did this River Song would never exist, and he wouldn't get his big romance. Thus, he is acting entirely selfishly. Which is, of course, part of the trap.
Also, how do we know the facility couldn't detect and adapt to human biology? Only because the Doctor says so. Which was probably nothing more than a guess. The Doctor has been wrong before...
Sixty year old alternative Amy might be even more peeved if she discovers she spent 36 years needlessly hiding... -
Quote:I think I'm probably more familiar with Doctor Who than most of the other people, since I've been watching it since around 1973.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
If you think that then you obviously aren't that familiar with Doctor Who or how unpredictable the TARDIS is on a good day.
The Doctor hasn't let the the Tardis unpredictability prevent him from needlessly endangering his companions time and time again. Heard of Adric? -
Quote:Nothing wrong with endangering yourself.Originally Posted by ThugOne
This time, he endangerd *himself* too.
He could have checked the Tardis communication system before opening the door. Whenever there is a quarantine there are warning signs and beacons.Quote:This plague was fatal to Time Lords. What if he'd landed pretty much anywhere else on the planet except inside a sterile facility?