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MAJEL BARRETT-RODDENBERRY

I know this has long been a joke thread, but after so many years of inactivity, and with the OP no longer around, I feel it’s time enough at last for a revamp.

Bingowings said:

the term handsome when applied to women just refers to women who are attractive but not ‘pretty’.

Bingowings said:

Pretty is more a delicate, fragile beauty (like daisies. butterflies).

Handsome is a strong, durable beauty (like mountains and tall ships).

A Hitchcock blonde (Kim Novak, Janet Leigh etc) isn’t pretty but is definitely attractive.

Deneuve is another example I’d give.

She was pretty when she was young:

but she grew to be more handsome (and arguably more attractive) when she got older :

ADDED

It’s lame that that Michael Jackson DVD doesn’t include the full-length version of Bad. Oh well, at least now I own Thriller.

“Last activity: 16-Nov-2020”

Looks like she’s back, if keeping to the shadows.

+1

Anakin Starkiller said:

Legends Sith Lords also make the most of the “cool evil name” trend: Sadow, Darth Ruin, Tenebrous, Nihilus, Phobos, Vengean, Desolous, etc.

You forgot the best one: Darth Millenial.

Darth Scabrous: “Am I a joke to you‽”

Unless you’re whacking off every ten minutes to autopsy photos, I don’t see the problem. Masturbation’s perfectly normal and natural.

The New Batman Adventures

I never really watched this show when it originally aired. I caught the three-part “World’s Finest” crossover on Superman: The Animated Series, but that’s as far as my exposure to TNBA went. Fast-forward to recent decades. My interest in checking out TNBA never rose. The character redesigns by-and-large were atrocious, a far cry from the beautiful designs of B:TAS. I did watch “Legends of the Dark Knight”, but was underwhelmed by how hollow and cheap it felt. I also knew the character development Freeze and Harley underwent in the predecessor series was rolled back, furthering my disinterest in the cartoon. So I consigned TNBA to the “not interested” pile and figured it would remain there. But then I purchased the B:TAS BD set this past July, and then a couple weeks ago finally realized the TNBA episodes were included. As I owned then, I figured I may as well watch them, apathy be damned. So I did.

Not all the redesigns were horrible; I liked Freeze’s redesign, though he should never have been brought back, and the Penguin’s was an improvement over the Burtonesque original. There were also a handful of good episodes; “Growing Pains” with Clayface was the best of the lot. That’s where anything positive I have to say about TNBA ends. This show is hot garbage. I’ve already mentioned my contempt for the handling of Freeze/Harley. Fuck that annoying, underaged shrimp Tim Drake; he’s virtually everything I’ve ever disliked about the Robin character, minus the green speedo/pixie boots. I’d cringe everytime Catwoman or Poison Ivy appeared on screen; in B:TAS, they and the other female characters had individualized physiques/body language, but here, all look like bulimic teenagers. And then there’s Batman. B:TAS Batman was human; he was serious, but still capable of humour and compassion. TNBA Batman is a remote, inconsiderate thug.

The New Batman Adventures (and in hindsight, Batman Beyond, too) effectively ruined the Batman corner of the DCAU. No redemptions, no happy endings. Just regression, alienation, and failure. Fuck. This. SHIT.

EPISODE RATINGS

• “Holiday Knights” — 5/10
• “Sins of the Father” — 5/10
• “Cold Comfort” — 2/10
• “Never Fear” — 7/10
• “You Scratch My Back” — 5/10
• “Double Talk” — 5/10
• “Joker’s Millions” — 4/10
• “Growing Pains” — 8/10
• “Mean Seasons” — 6/10
• “The Demon Within” — 5/10
• “Over the Edge” — 6/10
• “Torch Song” — 6/10
• “Love Is a Croc” — 7/10
• “The Ultimate Thrill” — 5/10
• “Cult of the Cat” — 7/10
• “Critters” — 5/10
• “Animal Act” — 7/10
• “Old Wounds” — 6/10
• “Legends of the Dark Knight” — 5/10
• “Girls’ Night Out” — 4/10
• “Chemistry” — 5/10
• “Judgment Day” — 6/10
• “Beware the Creeper” — 5/10
• “Mad Love” — 7/10

SERIES RATING

★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆

The Sequel Trilogy obviously should’ve been 284 minutes of Elvis sitting on his ass, marathoning the PT/SE.

Rodney-2187 said:

Am now tempted to create an “erotic asphyxiation” Wookieepedia article.

GUNNEL LINDBLOM

Elsa’s always been my favourite of Indy’s love interests.

TestingOutTheTest said:

Irrelevant to this post, but regarding your “Ultimate Star Wars Saga” rewrite, Qui-Gon should never constantly abuse his Force abilities to get his own way and he also wouldn’t have a contradictory moral code (e.g. he is perfectly happy brainwashing Watto into accepting useless money, but not to simply steal the spaceship part he needs).

Please don’t cross-post. I read the message you left in that thread, so it wasn’t necessary to share it here. Forgive me if I come off as harsh, but I like comments on my work kept to their appropriate threads.

Eyepainter said:

Give everyone a lightsaber. Han Solo gets a lightsaber. Boba Fett gets a lightsaber. R2 and 3P0 get lightsabers. Greedo gets a lightsaber. Chewbacca gets a lightsaber. Lando Calrissian gets a lightsaber. Give all the rebels lightsabers. Give the stormtroopers lightsabers too, and make sure they don’t know how to use them properly, so it makes sense when the ewoks take them down with their own lightsabers.

Finally, give the lightsabers lightsabers.

I’ve gone ahead and started revising the completed episodes. The changes to “The Last Son” are already finished.

• The opening on Krypton’s been simplified. No Luma, no other Kryptonians. The only beings shown are anonymous robots who prepare the birthing matrices for launch.
• The Codex, an Eradicator-type device, is sent along with the birthing matrices to Earth. It crashes in Antarctica, forming the Fortress of Solitude.
• Changed a few dates.

The revisions to “Stranger in a Strange Land” will be more extensive. Luma’s scenes will be discarded, no doubt about that now. Remaining scenes will have to be rearranged, new scenes written to fill the gaps. I may end up folding “Thanksgiving” into it, keeping the Clark/Helen subplot to a single episode. I have no idea how long this’ll take.

Synthwave makes everything better.

That, or Luke should’ve declared himself God Emperor.

Raiders is best. Temple is weakened by ethnocentric BS and making it a prequel (yeah, totally doesn’t feel/work like one). Crusade is good, though the reuse of Nazis and another Judeo-Christian McGuffin is disappointing. Kingdom is a fever dream I dimly recall.

Batman: The Animated Series

Started rewatching B:TAS in late July/early August after buying the BD set, finished yesterday. I watched only the original incarnation and the two spinoff films; I didn’t bother with The New Batman Adventures, since I didn’t watch it as a kid and don’t consider it the same series (I will watch TNBA later — I own the episodes, so I may as well — but I doubt I’ll like it very much).

I have a few, minor issues with the show. I wish the antagonism between the authorities and Batman touched on in “On Leather Wings” had been played up more. I wish more had been done with Summer Gleeson and Montoya. I wish elements from the series bible — namely the Penguin and Montoya’s backstories — had made it into the series. I wish Hugo Strange hadn’t been utterly wasted. There’s also the inconsistent quality of the animation, but that goes without saying. Regardless, B:TAS remains the best Batman series, featuring the definitive Batman.

EPISODE RATINGS

• “On Leather Wings” — 9/10
• “Christmas with the Joker” — 5/10
• “Nothing to Fear” — 7/10
• “The Last Laugh” — 7/10
• “Pretty Poison” — 7/10
• “The Underdwellers” — 5/10
• “P.O.V.” — 7/10
• “The Forgotten” — 8/10
• “Be a Clown” — 8/10
• “Two-Face: Part I” — 8/10
• “Two-Face: Part II” — 9/10
• “It’s Never Too Late” — 9/10
• “I’ve Got Batman in My Basement” — 6/10
• “Heart of Ice” — 9/10
• “The Cat and the Claw: Part I” — 8/10
• “The Cat and the Claw: Part II” — 8/10
• “See No Evil” — 8/10
• “Beware the Gray Ghost” — 10/10
• “Prophecy of Doom” — 5/10
• “Feat of Clay: Part I” — 8/10
• “Feat of Clay: Part II” — 9/10
• “Joker’s Favor” — 7/10
• “Vendetta” — 7/10
• “Fear of Victory” — 6/10
• “The Clock King” — 6/10
• “Appointment in Crime Alley” — 8/10
• “Mad as a Hatter” — 8/10
• “Dreams in Darkness” — 8/10
• “Eternal Youth” — 8/10
• “Perchance to Dream” — 8/10
• “The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy” — 6/10
• “Robin’s Reckoning, Part I” — 8/10
• “Robin’s Reckoning: Part II” — 8/10
• “The Laughing Fish” — 7/10
• “Night of the Ninja” — 8/10
• “Cat Scratch Fever” — 6/10
• “The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne” — 6/10
• “Heart of Steel: Part I” — 9/10
• “Heart of Steel: Part II” — 9/10
• “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?” — 8/10
• “Joker’s Wild” — 7/10
• “Tyger Tyger” — 9/10
• “Moon of the Wolf” — 7/10
• “Day of the Samurai” — 9/10
• “Terror in the Sky” — 8/10
• “Almost Got 'Im” — 8/10
• “Birds of a Feather” — 6/10
• “What Is Reality?” — 9/10
• “I Am the Night” — 9/10
• “Off Balance” — 8/10
• “The Man Who Killed Batman” — 7/10
• “Mudslide” — 7/10
• “Paging the Crime Doctor” — 8/10
• “Zatanna” — 7/10
• “The Mechanic” — 7/10
• “Harley and Ivy” — 8/10
• “Shadow of the Bat: Part I” — 7/10
• “Shadow of the Bat: Part II” — 7/10
• “Blind as a Bat” — 7/10
• “The Demon’s Quest: Part I” — 8/10
• “The Demon’s Quest: Part II” — 9/10
• “His Silicon Soul” — 9/10
• “Fire from Olympus” — 7/10
• “Read My Lips” — 8/10
• “The Worry Men” — 7/10
• “Sideshow” — 9/10
• “A Bullet for Bullock” — 8/10
• “Trial” — 7/10
• “Avatar” — 8/10
• “House & Garden” — 8/10
• “The Terrible Trio” — 7/10
• “Harlequinade” — 7/10
• “Time Out of Joint” — 7/10
• “Catwalk” — 8/10
• “Bane” — 7/10
• “Baby-Doll” — 8/10
• “The Lion and the Unicorn” — 8/10
• “Showdown” — 7/10
• “Riddler’s Reform” — 8/10
• “Second Chance” — 8/10
• “Harley’s Holiday” — 8/10
• “Lock-Up” — 8/10
• “Make 'Em Laugh” — 7/10
• “Deep Freeze” — 7/10
• “Batgirl Returns” — 8/10

SERIES RATING

★★★★★★★★★☆

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Slavicuss said:

I think Lucas painted himself into a corner by giving each film a numerical chapter. There could have been endless STAR WARS films made and set before and after the original 1977 film - ALL legit STAR WARS films, without having to be spin-offs (ROGUE ONE, SOLO, etc) - and using John Williams.

This.

My ranking by blender order:

• Force Caravan: Of V – IV Star Adventure — 9/2
• The Wars: Episode I – Episode a Star Back — 6/1
• Star Episode An — 2/9
• Skywalker A: Wars the – The Attack Jedi Wars — 1/6
• Of: The the for Sith — 1/8
• Phantom The: One Wars Wars Menace — 7/4
• Revenge Rogue: Story Star – Hope Episode VII — 4/9
• Awakens Wars the Clone Star — 1/8
• Return Episode: Wars Episode – Clones the Ewok VI — 3/10
• II Wars: Episode Jedi – Star Ewoks Star VIII — 10/10
• Star Strikes Wars: Wars of Star — 10/8
• Rise: Courage a Episode Endor — 6/7
• Battle III: Solo the – Star Special Episode — 9/1
• Of IX: Story Empire – Wars of Wars — 10/4
• Star the: Wars New – The Star Holiday Last — 2/6

jedi_bendu said:

(Edit: altering that particular article is restricted to autoconfirmed users, due to ‘excessive vandalism’, which is no surprise)

Hal 9000 said:

“Just help me take Padme’s life… I can’t live with her.”

I’m making this my signature.