DuracellEnergizer

^One of at least 1000 reasons why I love cats.

I should try to make a collage comic one of these days. Unfortunately, my ability to lay out panels is rusty as hell and I haven't an idea for a story.

godzilla98rules said:

 Actually, I chose it because of a joke and that sad fact that I used to like the 1998 Godzilla. Nowadays, I have more distaste towards the film. It dwindles from my mind every time I watch it.

Ah, I see. Unfortunately, I know your pain. 

I wonder if they'll work the Endor Holocaust into continuity this time around.

^I must say I respectfully disagree with your username.

darth_ender said:

Ronster's day:

Wake up

Pour cereal

Put in some version of TESB

Watch 6 frames of TESB while eating cereal

Pore over significance of said frames trying to find something that gives away that we are watching a movie and not real life

Post on OT.com

If it's not too busy, have lunch and dinner somewhere in there

Toss and turn over that day's wretched discoveries as they destroy viewing experience permanently unless fixed by Adywan until falling asleep

;)

*thumbsup*

Bollockstalgia. I just coined it myself.

Boston Rex said:

You're a nutter, it looks like. That's ridiculous!

Coming from someone who thinks ATMachine probably needs to cut down on the late-night coffee drinking, I see absolutely nothing ridiculous about wanting to see Star Wars in a 2D animated format. There's nothing wrong with 3D animation, but it shouldn't be the only form of animation allowed to exist.

I don't like beer -- never have, never will.

ATMachine said:

Not many critics liked David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the time of release, it seems.

Perhaps they'd have preferred him to make Five Peaks: (Don't) Acid Walk with Me instead.

Myself, I'd like to see both of them, and then judge accordingly.

I think most fans would have liked to have seen the movie resolve some of the threads left hanging at the end of the Season 2 finale instead of getting a prequel that didn't cover any real new ground.

For myself, I can take the movie on its own merits, even if I don't think it's as entertaining as the show.

After hearing so many rave reviews about American Horror Story, I thought I'd give the first season a try. So I got through the first season, watching half of it last night and the rest of it today.

To put a long rant short, it's incongruous, cliched, underexplained, unresolved bullshit. Incongruous, cliched, underexplained, unresolved bullshit with a decent cast, to be sure, but incongruous, cliched, underexplained, unresolved bullshit all the same.

Needless to say, I'm not going to bother with the rest of the series; even if the following storylines are unconnected to this season's storyline, with the same showrunners in charge, they're bound to produce only more of the same.

Oh, and as a final note, it's now official -- I can't stand Zachary Quinto. If I can go through the rest of my life without seeing him in anything else ever again, I can die a happier man.

My main sources are:

• The Tales of the Jedi comics
• The Thrawn Trilogy
• The backstory of the cancelled The Epic Continues toyline.

Needless to say, I'm a huge fan of the TOTJ comics. I see the TOTJ-era Jedi as the Jedi when they were in their prime -- no permanent Jedi Council; no base of operations on Coruscant; no dogmatic doctrines beyond what was stated in the Jedi Creed; just many masters on many worlds training many apprentices to serve as protectors and peacekeepers throughout the Galaxy.

The TOTJ Jedi Order, though it no longer exists as such in the timeframe of my re-write, casts a long shadow over the Jedi of my story. Its Jedi serve as inspirational figures for ronin Jedi such as Yoda and Ben, and the Order itself serves as a stark contrast to the heavily dogmatic and hierarchal Coruscanti Order.

The TOTJ Sith also play a part in my re-write. Exar Kun and the Great Sith War are mentioned often, and the long-dead Sith of the original Sith Empire will play a part in Anakin's fall to the dark side.

As for the Thrawn Trilogy, it's descriptions of evil Clonemasters at war with the Republic, Spaarti cloning cylinders, etc. have all served as inspirations behind the Third Clone War.

The Epic Continues has a figure named Atha Prime serving as the instigator of the Clone Wars. I've taken that character and made him the leader of a number of other athas AKA clonemasters.

Beyond Star Wars sources, other influences have been:

• The history between the Catholic and Protestant Churches
• Star Trek

The Coruscanti Order is similar to the Catholic Church in the sense that both are the original sects of their respective religions, both have fallen from grace since their inception (according to some POVs, of course), and both have given rise to many splinter sects, each with varying doctrines and beliefs.

As for Trek, most of the stuff involving Bail Organa and his crew have basically been a pastiche of Kirk and co's voyages aboard the Enterprise. 

Sorry, but the only thing I'm confident in is my lack of confidence. =P

ATMachine said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

...

 "No longer wanted."

Hey! I might have wanted that deleted text!

It's my personal property. Just like Stephen King and his disinherited novel Rage, I have the right to withhold it from the public if I so wish. 

I watched the first five episodes of Lost in Space.

While I found the first two episodes pretty engaging, by the third I started getting tired with the proceedings; most of the characters are boring and there seems to be more padding than story going around. Also, what I've read about Dr. Smith's character evolution doesn't sound at all appealing to me.

Suffice it to say, I like the premise of the show, but the execution doesn't inspire me to carry through with the rest of it.

I prefer Ben. "Obi-Wan" has become so hopelessly tainted by the PT that's it's impossible for me to use it without bringing to mind those awful movies.

...

Possessed said:

Hey don't feel bad, the Star Wars DVD's hit us all pretty hard.

The Star Wars DVD's what?

But spaghetti and fettucini are forms of pasta. O_o

You're welcome. Would you like a third serving?

They're secretly screening snuff films. The TESB bit is just a cover.

Leonardo said:

And this is enough to make me say "Fuck Batman" even though he's still one of my favourite superheroes.

Of course, I really should be saying "Fuck Hollywood". It's really their fault, not the Bat's. 

ATMachine said:

Because, happily, a year so named may be both right and wrong at once.

Oddly enough, 2004 actually was one of the best and worst years of my life.