Samothrake

Getting color and fx customization for APP, PPP, and PP, is all well and good. But nobody seems to have mentioned the Prestige Sprints. I bought the game back when I got a Prestige Power Slide. I have since gotten the other Sprints. But I still use Slide more than any other sprint power. I just want that purple glow under my feet when I am sliding to be a different color. Whenever we get the other pools for customization, I just hope that they don't forget the Prestige Sprint Powers.

Well, if I read things correctly, both Action Comics and Justice League are set 'Five Years Ago' and both have a six issue arc to kinda bring us 'up to speed' on how things came to be.

I chopped this out of the back of the newest Justice League. It looks like the movie is trying to go with a version of this. But, see how making the bracers red it breaks up the blue of the costume. Overall it makes for a much better look than just having the boots, belt and cape red.

And like I said, make those 'rubbery' sections of the costume - the 'highlights' or whatever tehy are - and the bracers, make those red and it would be a better design. The wierd little gold/yellow belt-like part could stay that color, but the other parts need to be a different color than blue.

Can't believe how much like Reeve he looks like in this pic

And by the time he quit running in the time steam, he was already in his new costume.

Ok, if a lightning bolt can overload Shaw, a nuke is surely out of his level of ability.

I haven’t brought it up before because apparently there are a few here who do not like it, but Peter David’s New Frontier books would actually make a great setting for a new series. It has everything you people seem to want in a new series: set after the Dominion War, exploration of new areas of space, what it means to be human, new aliens, conflict between different factions and the Federation, and even the nonhuman captain.

Captain M’k’n’zy Calhoun isn’t human. He looks very much like a human, but his history and motivations, while very much understandable are not the same.

The crew, while having a lot of humans has a lot of nonhumans highlighted in the books.
One species is hermaphroditic and the officer becomes both father of one child and mother of another as the series progresses.
We have two Vulcans. But we have variety in that one is actually a Vulcan/Romulan hybrid (and emotional control issues) and the other lost her mate on their wedding/PonFar night (and all the attendant mental scarring that entails).
We have a Thing-like rock alien who (of course) is the security chief.
Another alien crew member is described as rather like a cross between a sasquatch and a bat.
And there are numerous others that I can’t recall right now.
We even get some stories focused on the ‘night crew’.

The series is set in a new-to-us sector of space. This gives us new aliens to meet and new factions to come into conflict with. And new planets to see.

The biggest problem with bringing the series to screen would be the inclusion of several characters first seen in TNG: Robin Lefler (played by Ashley Judd in TNG) and Elizabeth Shelby (played by Elizabeth Denehy in TNG). Both roles are now 20 years in the past. However, both characters could be ejected or replaced by others and a series would still be fun to watch.

However, with the following the novel series has, we probably won’t see it turned in to film as we would have the same ‘book to film’ problems we seem to have with so many other books that are turned into movies. See Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings for examples of “they didn’t do it that way in the books”, “the books are better,” and “why did they leave out this part?”

Well, Captain Atom of course, but he would probably be propelled into the future an unknown period of years. After all his back-story is pretty much 'encase him in a dome of unknown alien metal and nuke it.'

Wow. 3D in my theater must be doing really bad. I went to see this today (LOVED IT!) and they were down to a single 3D showing of the movie. The last one of the evening.

I dug around a bit online for Stormbringer's stats and found this:

Stormbringer
This huge black rune-carved blade is actually a chaotic evil sentient being from another plane which takes the form of a sword on the Prime Material Plane. Stormbringer is possibly the most powerful magic weapon possessed by a mortal anywhere. It has an intelligence of 18 and an ego of 20. It is +5 to hit and damage, and every time it hits, it drains energy levels from its opponents. On a successful hit it will either drain all or one-half of its opponent's remaining levels (50% chance of either). Any creature killed by Stormbringer has its soul or spirit as well as its energy levels sucked out and devoured. No creature so killed can be raised, resurrected, reincarnated, or brought back in any manner whatsoever.

Stormbringer transfers its stolen levels to Elric in the form of strength and hit points. For every two levels stolen, Elric gains 5 hit points and 1 strength point. Elric's strength can be increased to a maximum of 23, but the only limit to the amount of hit points he can acquire is that the sword will only drain 200 levels before it becomes sated (this satiety lasts 8 hours). The strength and hit points added last 10 turns, and then Elric reverts to normal. When wielding Stormbringer, Elric's movement is 15" and his effective armor class is -6. It also confers to Elric an 85% magic resistance.

In battle, Stormbringer makes an evil, eager moaning, and gives off a weird black radiance. Creatures with less than 5 hit dice confronted with the black blade must save vs. death or flee in panic. It has been known to act as a dancing sword at Elric's command, but there is only a 15% chance of this.

If Elric is separated from Stormbringer, there is a 60% chance that he will be able to summon it to him, even from another plane.

Stormbringer is in all ways evil. Its purpose is to eat souls, thereby damning them to a horrible eternal death. Sometimes, in battle, Elric and the sword go into a killing frenzy, and slay everything within range, including Elric's friends, whose souls the sword particularly enjoys stealing.

I've seen some of the gameplay footage.

But take that cinematic and turn it into a weekly show, and I would watch it religously.

The theater that I usually go to has this playing only in one stadium.
However, surprisingly that stadium has twice as many 2d showings as 3d.
Interestingly, the 2d showings are all 'matinee' showings and the ones strting at 8pm are all 3d.

See, now I have some big questions.
After the first two movies, we had a vampire/lycan hybrid who was supposedly very powerful. And we had a vampire/immortal hybrid with Selene herself, who we were led to believe was supposed to be rather powerful.

During the whole of the trailer, we only see Selene, not the other dude (Michael?) And we see her screaming 'Where's Michael?' So....where is he?

I can probably suspend my disbelief enough to watch this, but there look to be some major plot holes, and I just hate those.
Probably a renter for me.

Ah. I see.
I did a ctrl+F for Marshall name, and forgot to do one for the Barnes name.



Though I do still wonder why we can't find some sort of transcript or video of the lecture. Perhaps they are still running it through filters for YouTube.

Yeah, while I enjoyed the episode, it was pretty much Moby Dick (with a 20,000 leagues under the sea inspired monster) in the Thundercats world. And it was a bit heavy handed in how we (and therefore Lion-O) are shown the parallels of his anger and desire for revenge and that of the Captain's. In fact, it was a bit too convenient how the group's first 'adventure' on their journey shows our young protagonist a likely future if he continues to follow his course of action and ignores the advice of those who have a bit more level heads and more experience.

I like how the three older Cats have more armored outfits. I was a bit puzzled, however, as to why Tygra only used the handgun this episode and not his whip (how many shots does that thing have?) I also like how the new character designs emphasize the cat features. I like the evident fur and fangs, not just funny markings and claws of the original. I like how we heard growls and ‘cat-like’ sounds coming from the Cats. It puts a bit more believability show.

Overall, I am eager to see how this goes. I know that this is supposed to be a journey of discovery and maturation for Lion-O, but I hope that not all of the things he learns are as obvious or handled so heavy handed as this episode was.

Something struck me about Superman's suit just recently.

We are told that in the first few issues we will see the evolution of the outfit to the more light armor that we see in Justice League. Maybe Superman knows about Kryptonite and its effects. Perhaps he finally smartened up and a layer of that armor-like suit is acutally lead to protect him from the brunt of Kryptonite's effects upon him.