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OtakuWarrior said:

OtakuWarrior is HansiG socks confirmed.*

WYSHS

HansiG was banned?! Gee, you’re gone for a few days and you miss all the fun.

NeverarGreat said:

That Sulu is gay in the Kelvin timeline and straight the Prime timeline implies that the Kelvin timeline diverged from the Prime timeline before Sulu was born, 3 years before Nero arrived. This establishes that the Narada was not the event which split the timelines - the Narada merely traveled through a wormhole to an already existing divergent timeline. This actually makes more sense than the official explanation, because Spock Prime’s ship travels to this same already existing divergent timeline which contains the Narada instead of creating a new ‘divergent timeline’ itself.

There. Another successful application of the Many Worlds hypothesis. My work here is finished.

Also, Kelvin Timeline Khan is white and British. I somehow don’t think Nero changed a man’s race and nationality, especially since he existed some 200 years before Nero’s arrival.

New character would’ve been the best way to go. I heard a (obviously false) rumor a long time ago that the face painted alien lady from the trailers was supposed to be a lesbian. That would’ve been a better idea.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Really, there is a way to do a flawed, imperfect Superman (Byrne’s first Man of Steel issues showing the post-Crisis Superman’s formative years), but this just isn’t the character. You can have Superman making mistakes but in the end, he is the ideal towards which we strive (as the MOVIE ITSELF SAYS BUT DOES NOT SHOW). Even if the world is dark, Superman should show them the light rather than stoop to their level of anger (Smallville scene) or violence (neck break). His parents, normally essential to forming Superman’s heroic nature, are wasted in this film, with Costner’s diatribes coming across as truly confused.

While some may reasonably argue (and Zack Snyder even stated) that Zod’s death at the end was the key moment in which Superman learns the horror of taking a life, the opening of BVS shows this to be a fallacy. The VERY FIRST thing we see Superman do in the sequel is kill another guy, and, again, there are no ramifications in subsequent scenes.

All those so-called inspirational speeches fell flat to me because they were just words without actions to back them. Jor-El’s big speech at the Fortress, lifted verbatim from the magnificent All-Star Superman, didn’t have any resonance with a Superman, who didn’t seem particularly heroic. Even with all the obnoxiously on-the-nose savior/god imagery, I didn’t really see the example that the human race would supposedly follow. All words, no actions.

Worst of all, I just found the film horribly dull and boring! The action sequences just seemed endless, and I wasn’t sufficiently interested in the characters, none of which I found particularly charming or likable (despite the fact that the cast is filled with memorable actors). The cinematography was absolutely garish, horribly desaturated and filled with drab colors (even the BD copy). Shaky cam was employed too frequently. Never did we get a great, nice flying shot, which wasn’t either an extreme close-up or a long shot.

I daresay that I enjoyed BVS more than this because, though qualitatively worse with a muddied plot line, it was at least new and entertaining.

Honestly, the worst part of MOS was the writing.

This, +1, Agreed, etc.

DC Comics’ Star Trek #8-12

#8-9
I don’t have 6 and 7 so I apparently missed the first two parts of this storyline, but it wasn’t terribly hard to pick up on what was going on. The villain, Sweeney, is pretty great.

#10
The “Trial” doesn’t actually begin until the last panels of this issue. Until then, there’s some great moments such as one particularly wonderful scene with Spock and Sarek, and then there’s an awkward moment where a lady in love with Kirk is swimming with Uhura and they talk about their sex lives (which is weirder than the fan dance in Star Trek V, which this takes place after).

#11-12
The Trial begins and it’s great. The Klingons are upset over Kirk’s “murder” of Kruge and his crew in III, and an alien named Salla is upset because Kirk allegedly violated the Prime Directive (in a previous issue, I guess), so he calls on various characters from Original Series episodes to testify against Kirk for repeatedly breaking the Directive. It’s a lot of fun, and the conclusion is rather explosive.

I’ll be gone for the next week or so.

I’m Only A Whore

I had a dream that I was dying. I don’t know why I was dying, but I was. I was lying on a mattress on the floor and I started to see statistics of my life (as if life was a video game). People standing around me were talking about people long dead and keeping “old country death traditions” in the way they told me goodbye (involving lots of prayers, speeches, and tiny pillows). The whole time, I thought of my grandmother, who passed in March (actually died, not just in the dream). When my dog approached me and I began petting her, I woke up.

This whole thread:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I took a nap today, ended up having a most memorable dream.

It began with me hanging out with my son. He was about three or four, and looked like Robert Sean Leonard. I was feeling very happy, joyful 'cause I was married; though she didn’t make an appearance in the dream, I knew right away who my wife was.

NeverarGreat said:
There’s also the small irony that without Japanese films, Star Wars may not have ever existed.

Live action films count as anime?

I was just watching an episode of TOS on Netflix (S2 E13: Obsession) and suddenly it had what seemed to be the original effects, rather than the updated CGI version. It’s never played the original version of any episode for me before, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this. However, the next episode (S2 E14: Wolf in the Fold) is the updated version. Anyone else experience anything similar?

RAWR xD i’m totally RANDOM!!

*dyes hair pink*

*cries in a hot topic store*

*still has a myspace page*

F•R•I•E•N•D•S is my favorite anime.

Can all 11,000 of these thoughts truly be random?

Man, everyone here is so defensive of their animes. Most of my friends watch plenty of anime but when I make fun of it (or them for watching it), they all laugh.

What do you have against Forrest Gump?

YESIMADETHATJOKE

DuracellEnergizer said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

The only anime I’ve ever watched was one episode of something called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Needless to say I won’t be trying to watch any anime for quite some time, if ever.

Must. Have. ELABORATION.

This guy named Jotoro (or JoJo) is in prison and his grandfather (who doesn’t look nearly old enough to be a grandfather) tries to take him home because his sentence is over but he won’t leave because there’s some “evil spirit” haunting him. Grandpa brings out some Egyptian guy who has his own evil spirit and their evil spirits fight. JoJo then decides to leave prison now (because reasons) and his grandpa says his family is cursed to have evil spirits follow them around because one of their ancestors died on a boat but apparently didn’t die and just became an evil spirit himself.

The only anime I’ve ever watched was one episode of something called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Needless to say I won’t be trying to watch any anime for quite some time, if ever.

EDIT: I watched various Transformers shows when I was younger, and I think some of those might technically be considered anime.

I have a friend who keeps wanting me to watch it, but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. He’s joked about being a furry since he saw it, but the joke has gone on for quite a while and now I’m not so sure if it really is a joke. I’m worried about him.

I know a guy who absolutely loves Into Darkness (even more than its predecessor) but the only reasons he ever gives are “Action! Explosions! Boobs! The guy from Sherlock!”

suspiciouscoffee said:

Star Trek: Into Darkness

C

I’ve decided that I don’t quite hate this movie as much as I did yesterday. The performances are mostly very good and it feels like it tried to be a good political drama and tried to address the issue of whether Starfleet is a union of peaceful explorers or the Space-Navy (the line between the two is blurred sometimes in Trek). That said, it’s still a mess, and The Wrath of Khan retread-y bits (worst offender being the Kirk death scene, of course) still reek of a lack of confidence on the writer’s part.

Anyway, it’s definitely more enjoyable 3/4 TNG-era movies.

SilverWook said:

I get the feeling Beyond will more than make up for The Wrath Of Khan Redux.

I’m pretty confident in Beyond. I have been since the moment where Kirk told the villain “I think you underestimate humanity” in Trailer 2.