Samothrake

Funny, this is always how I felt about those scenes in the backwoods of Naboo between Anakin and Padme. THey were so unconvincing that he had to be doing some Force stuff to her mind, whether he was aware of it or not.

Sounds rather like the plot (or premise) to Anne Rice's The Mummy.

Yeah, a side-effect of this version of omnipotence was that they could have children, age and die - if they wanted to. But I would think that the dying part would set off a new wave of immortal births.

Tachikomas!

Oh EI, I am disapointed in you. That's not a jet. That's a Veritech! And Veritechs are so much more than jets:

An interesting idea. But one serious flaw in your idea - the thing goes maybe a single mile an hour.

This is good to know. However, there is a 3-4 'episode' OVA that was produced and aired after season 2 was aired that details the events between season one and season two. My research suggests that unless FUNimation has that posted on Youtube as well, and if you do not watch the OVA after season one, and you just jump into season two, you will be terribly confused.

Stick with El Cazador de la Bruja. I enjoyed the series. And I really liked how it has a very nice 'epilogue' episode at the end. Very few series do that. Actually that's one of my bigger problems with anime in general - the lack of an end that makes me feel like the story is actually over. And too many pick up in the middle and make you think there's much more to the story and characters that you really should know about. (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - while not an anime - was like this for me. Interesting story, but I felt like the characters has so much history together that the story was like the third or fourth one in a series.)

As for Darker than Black, I did some research. Season 2 is apparently called Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor, and it is not yet on Netflix on either DVD or streaming.

While this so true, we also have the problem in comics where the villain is in the process of escaping and finds that the prison/assylum has their costume, items and weapons in storage. I'm sorry, but those things are effectively evidence and would never, ever be stored within the same facility that holds multiple homicidal maniacs who have even the slightest chance of escaping.

Well, I can pretty much tell you that that is wrong. See here in Denver we have Mile-Hi Comics (which has multiple locations) and at least two other comics farily near me on the west side of the area. And we're much closer than Indiana.

I would have thought so too. That is until I found the Underworld 4 pack on BluRay for only $40 at my local Walmart.

So....I would expect the whole thing to be just under $100.

Well you see....
Loki is a shapechanger. Turns out the Aesir needed some help rebuilding the walls around Asgard and a stonemason just happened to show up to build it. Stonemason was acutally a jotun in disguise and used his male horse to haul the stones. In order to have the stonemason not complete the wall in the time alloted (and thus get to marry Freya), Loki turned into a female horse and lured the stonemason's male horse away. Hijinks in the woods followed, and some time later a beautiful eight-legged horse was born. Not sure if Loki just wanted to experience the miracle of being a mother, or if it was another of his tricks that didn't turn out quite how he wanted.

Marlel got it right. In all the norse mythology stuff I can find, Loki's parents (father Fárbauti and mother Laufey) are frost giants, and that makes Loki properly a frost giant. On the other hand what I can find states that Loki is the foster-brother of Odin, not Thor. But then a lot of the Aesir had children with the jotun of various types and those children were often Aesir themselves. Loki however, only seemed to father monsters (and Hel herself). And Loki also gave birth to Sleipnir, Odin's eight legged horse.

Probably, but at least this character/actor at least looks like he's capable of growing a beard. Which probably puts the character in his early-20s. (even though the actor is 31)

I know what the two IM movies say, but that is clearly a continuity gaffe. Think of how much time has passes in the world since the events of Captain America which takes place in 1942/1943. In that movie we have a Howard Stark who looks to be late twenties-early thirties in age. Fast forward to 2008 when the IM1 movie took place. That’s close to 65 years. Now take Tony, who is clearly supposed to be in his early, perhaps mid-30s (even if RJD is almost 50). The magazine coves we’re shown in IM1 with a young Tony are clearly from the late 70s.

Take Obadiah Stane. The character is supposed to be late 50s/early 60s in 2008. Which means Obadiah was born in in the late 40s or early 50s. This works well with the ‘publicity stunt to shut up the hippies’ in the 70s. And Obadiah Stane is said to be a ‘lifelong friend and ally.’ (Incidentally, Jeff Bridges was 59 when the movie was filmed, making him and the character’s ages fit together perfectly).

Even if we take a modest estimate of Howard Stark in CA as being 25 in 1942, then by the70s, the Howard Stark in CA would be in 50s. Pushing his age forward in 1942, just makes him older by the 70’s.

We have very few solid dates in the IM1 and IM2 movies, but we do have a newspaper article and front page from the time of Howard Stark’s death. It is listed as December 17, 1991, and Marvel tells me that Tony’s father died on the Ides of March (the 15th). Which means that if Howard was 25 in 1942, he was 74 when he died.

Now going back to Stane. If he was 60 in 2008, that of course means he was born in 1948 – well after the events in Captain America. For him to be a ‘lifelong friend and ally’ to Howard, he really could not have been born in 1948. And if he wasn’t that pushes his age upward to where he has to be over 80 by the time of the events in IM1. And that clearly isn’t the case. If Stane is born in 1948, that means he couldn’t have met Howard until at least the late 60s, and by that time Howard is nearly 50, with Obadiah only in his early 20s. I find it difficult to believe that Obadiah and Howard would be called ‘lifelong friends’ with a 30 year age difference. If you look at the picture with Howard and Obadiah that flashes by in IM1, you can see another movie gaffe – on the left side we see a commemorative plaque for some sort of Air Force/base anniversary with the year 1997! This photo couldn’t have been taken, as Howard is supposed to be dead in 1991, and he looks younger in this photo than in the Washington Times photo with the story of his death.

We see with the magazine covers that Tony is not yet 21 at the time of his father’s death, which means that the year of his birth is later than 1970. The narration and magazines show Tony at 21 taking over the company, and the closest thing we have for a date here is the term “information superhighway,” which when we take into account Howard’s death in 1991, leads to a date of around 1993 (perhaps a bit later) for Tony to be 21 and take over the company. Which means that he is 36(?) when the first movie takes place. So if Howard was 25 in 1942, and Tony was 21 in 1993, that means Tony was born in 1972, making Howard 55 when Tony was born. Which also means that unlike the vast majority of the US that got on with making babies after WWII was finished (that whole Baby Boom thing), Howard didn’t settle down and have a child for almost thirty more years? Seems a little far fetched to me.

Now on the other hand, if we take Howard Stark in Captain America as Howard Stark Senior, we can say he found a wife after WWII and they had Howard Anthony Stark in the late 40’s. Which would push back many of the other dates. If Howard Anthony is born in the late 40s, then his ‘lifelong friendship’ with Obadiah clicks with Stane’s evident age in IM1. It also means he was only in his mid-40s when he dies in the car crash, not 74 as he has to be if he is Howard Stark Senior. This also gives Howard Anthony time to marry Maria and have Tony in the early 70s, thereby having Tony be 21 in 1993 (or a bit later) to take over the company.

I realize that many people want Howard Stark in Captain America be Tony’s father. And even that the comics and a few bits that flow by in IM1 and IM2 have this as true, but with the war that Tony is injured in (thus necessitating his chest piece) going from Vietnam to Gulf War to Afghanistan over the years, we really have to have Howard Anthony Stark stop being involved in WWII so that he isn’t totally old and decrepit by the time he has Tony. And with another Howard Stark in the family tree (Senior), this can be accomplished with little difficulty.

Also, I just took a good look over the notebook that is shown in IM2 with Howard's notes. I see Hypecube (and illustrations) mentioned, but I can not make out anything about the tesseract.

I'm not so sure about this, though it could be true.

What a lot of people are either forgetting, or just plain don’t realize is that the Howard Stark in Captain America’s movie is not Tony’s father. The Howard Stark in Captain America is Tony’s grandfather – Howard Stark Senior. Tony’s father is actually Howard Anthony Stark. I know, having two Howard Starks in the line before Tony was confusing to me to for a short time.

Now according to IM1, Howard Anthony and Obadia Stane built the Arc Reactor in the Stark building. According to Stane, it was a ‘publicity stunt to shut up the hippies’. Now it’s possible that with what we saw IM2, that what Howard Anthony left to Tony that led to his inspiration to create the more stable element that powers his newest chest reactor could have come from Howard Senior’s notes from his work on the Tesseract. On the other hand, any work Howard Senior did on the Tesseract would likely have been for the US government and not something he could talk about to his son, nor could he likely leave notes for Howard Anthony to inspire him. According to IM2, what Howard Anthony left for Tony was not something about the tesseract, but related directly to the new element that Tony comes up with because Howard Anthony didn’t have the tech in his time to actually create. That’s why he left it to Tony.