I remember playing Pong with my family. We also used to play this castle defense type game for Atari. Forget the name though. The first video game I played was Tetris. I also fondly remember playing duck hunt. 
xhonzi said:
twister111 said:
I'm a woman so, in response to #1 it depends on what my goals are repopulation or, just surviving 'till the death of the last of us.
#1 if repopulation Hm, Christian Bale and, a good guy Doctor.
#1 if just surviving My mom and, sister.
So... what are your goals? I mean, they are your goals. Are you interested in repopulating the planet with Mr. Bale or did you just want to be selfish and go on a window smashing shopping spree with your girls?
Well, I'm 22. I have plenty of childbearing years left. So doing drugs for the first few years wouldn't be bad. The Doc would be neccessary to choose drugs that wouldn't harm reproductive possibilities, kill too many brain cells, or do too much damage to our bodies. Also needed for abortions early on so, I could be helpful building a sustainable aquaduct system, electrical system, and possible farming. Also, early on I'de suspect we'd just like to explore more. The Doctor should be helpful for assistance in the event of an injury or, illness. Even if he gets injured/ill he could tell us what to get. Well unless he's in a coma or something. Then, we could refer to a book for the info.
xhonzi said:
#2 I'de probably just get stuck with two other people in China or something. Or, worse get stuck with that guy that married a pillow and, that guy that married that Love Plus game character.
#3 If in scenario #1 repropulation lots of sex would happen. Since we got a doctor to tell us the safe amount of certain drugs. There'd probably be a lot of that going on too.
Wait... so you have the whole world to yourself. You're free to do anything you like and you choose 'lots of sex and illicit drugs"? You chose a doctor to be with you, and I thought: yeah, that makes a lot of sense.... probably someone you can't live without and he's going to come in really handy once those babies need someone to deliver them! But you, if I understand you correctly, just want him to make sure you don't OD?
(I'm smiling as I type this, I quite enjoyed your answers even if I am struggling to understand them.)
xhonzi said:If scenario #1 just surviving. Have fun with my family 'till we die.
If scenario #2 just hunt and, gather. It'd suck though since I'de have to do everything myself. Oh, well at least there'd be plenty of canned goods to last a while.
I think the canned goods are key. I think there are more canned goods than the three of you could consume in a lifetime within a 5 square mile suburban area.
I'm a woman so, in response to #1 it depends on what my goals are repopulation or, just surviving 'till the death of the last of us.
#1 if repopulation Hm, Christian Bale and, a good guy Doctor.
#1 if just surviving My mom and, sister.
#2 I'de probably just get stuck with two other people in China or something. Or, worse get stuck with that guy that married a pillow and, that guy that married that Love Plus game character.
#3 If in scenario #1 repropulation lots of sex would happen. Since we got a doctor to tell us the safe amount of certain drugs. There'd probably be a lot of that going on too.
If scenario #1 just surviving. Have fun with my family 'till we die.
If scenario #2 just hunt and, gather. It'd suck though since I'de have to do everything myself. Oh, well at least there'd be plenty of canned goods to last a while.
Anything huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcmuER4OzUE&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhlbtp_5z4
May contain spoilers from Babylon 5 season 1
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/dw/dwr/21146-phantom-menace-01
Davnes007 said:
Anchorhead said:
...I've always dug the Back To The Future handling of it - he goes back and does start to erase himself.....[etc.]
And then they did something weird in BTTF II.
"2015 Biff" steals the car, and takes the book to 1955....changes the timeline....and then returns to the original 2015.
...
If Doc and Marty couldn't go back to the original 2015 to stop Biff from stealing the book, how come Biff could return himself to 2015?
In Power Rangers Jungle Fury episode 29. The idea that all you have to do to stop clone creation is kill the original is so wrong. Also the clones happen instantly.
...What?
...Why you looking at me like that?
*some person whispers* "Power Rangers doesn't count it'-"
Ah hogwash! If a series with a shuttle that can go to infinty, turn people into lizards loosing tounge/legs/hair, that can mate/reproduce/spawn in three days, the shuttle can withstand the forces of infinity speed, and the transformation into lizard is reversed in no time at all! Can go on to win an Emmy for that episode and, Star Trek Voyager is still considered sci-fi. Then damnit Power Rangers does too! Besides the most outrages stuff in Power Rangers happens because of a magic spell. Aside from air in space and, an atmosphere on the moon I about listed the biggest science flaws in it I think.
Go Go Power Rangers!
^Click for bigger pic.
Kings was a cool tv show. I wish it wasn't cancelled. Damn NBC wanting to spend it's money on Jay Leno show that tanked. Anyways you can see Kings on Hulu.
This'd require changing the story a bit in the prequels but, whatever I'm posting it.
Padme's being used as assasin bait in the other room. Obi-wan and, Anakin are talking.
ANAKIN
I haven't been sleeping well lately.
OBI-WAN
Why?
ANAKIN
Every time I sleep lately I get the feeling my Mom's in danger. I remember her being a slave all those years ago and, I wake up.
OBI-WAN
You shouldn't worry about her. Remember we freed her? She's at my fathers place and, she encouraged you to finish your training.
ANAKIN
I know she's supposed to be safe. It's just that, I have a bad feeling about this.
Outside Padme's window the assasin droid is there.
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So, yeah just something I thought about while reading this thread. The idea is that Owen's Obi-wan's brother. Anakin follows Obi-wan on the quest to become a jedi at the encouragement of his mom. Good or, bad?
^Dairanger image. Any shots you see with the white ranger and, the other rangers in Power Rangers is footage shot by Saban. As for when they started shooting footage with the rangers suits/monsters for power rangers. Well in different drum there's some footage shot with the monster getting the girls into the trap. In Peace, Love, and Woe there's some shots of the ranger's in their suit. Production wise it could've been started at the beggining. Since, Tommy and, Thuy's Trini was casted at the same time. Jason David Frank was actually in the suit fighting Austin St. John in Rita's dark dimension. Jason David Frank talks about that fight here.
Gaffer Tape: I'm not really sure it'd be noticable from an editing point of view. Considering they still had the actor for Zordon. All they'd have to do is get him to read another line. The only thing that kind of gives it away is Jason's attitude about the situation. He not only doesn't acknowledge that Zordon gave away his leadership. He outrightly says "This is great!"
I watched that review and, it mentions the video quality difference. Well rumor is Disney's gonna fix that and, restore the first 155 episodes of Power Rangers and, air them in their original versions. After Disney took over they re-aired MMPR for a little while but, edited down some voilence. So now it seems they're just gonna undue their alterations for the original and, restore them. That and, there's rumors of them possibly getting another company to produce more Power Ranger stuff. Whether that's adapting Shinkenger, comics, or an animated series I don't know. It's also funny that MarzGurl mentioned Tommy's many appearances. He also came back again into Power Rangers Dino Thunder as the black ranger. What's funny about that is even though it was undoubtibly unplanned for Tommy to be back as the black ranger. The symbol on the ranger's chests for that season is nearly the same as the green ranger's power coin.
About the changeover of actors. It's possible that you just didn't notice because, they had several episodes with already shot footage of them before they got fired. The ADR just wasn't done at that time. So they brought in voice over actors to fill in the gaps. They also had time to do a quick edit on Tommy's White Light episode. So that Zordon made Tommy the leader. I think he was just supposed to become part of the team again originally. Basically, I think that becuase the change was eased into it wasn't immediately noticable at the time for you. I actually noticed at the time but, I assumed that they had gotten sick with something serious and, they were just doing that until the actors got better. When they had to go to the peace confrence that's when I knew they had been fired. Anyways, when a movie does something similar there's not much they can do to ease a person into the change. It's basically one moment George get's nearly an entire movie with Marty. Then the next movie they hardly acknowledge eachother and, George spends most of his time on screen upside down.
Thinking about it right now though. They probably spent just as much money if not, more getting the voice actors, holding auditions for Adam, Rocky, and Aisha, and trying to figure out how to shoot around the fact that they had body doubles for Jason, Zack, and Trini. As they would have had they just gone and, given the actors better pay.
bkev:
I didn't know that about Time Force but, I've heard that they were actually thinking of making a second season of Time Force. They just ran out of Timeranger footage to adapt and, that made it hard to justify another season.
About Wild Force Zen-Aku's arc was good.
Prepare now for the info dump!
M'kay originally Saban was gonna take Jetman and, adapt that series for America. Then Zyuranger came along and, they decided to go with that instead. Super Sentai started in 1975 with a series called Goranger. It has continued on until today and, is still creating new Super Sentai teams. The latest being Shinkenger. Also if you're interested in more surreal experiences you could check out Dairanger. Dairanger's most noted character is the white ranger. Who was adapted for the character Tommy in Power Rangers. Kou or Kibaranger is actually a kid in the original source material. The rest of the Dairanger task force is made up of un-adapted rangers. Saban didn't want to change the Power Ranger team suit entirely becuase of fear kids wouldn't like the change. So the only reason for the change over to using Kakuranger and, Ohranger footage was becuase they ran out of Zyuranger footage to adapt. So they were paying Toei to create more. Meanwhile they wanted to transition the Zords quicker so they spliced the original Megazord/Zyuranger out of the footage they ordered and, spliced in the Thunderzord/Dairanger footage for the zord battles. This footage has since been called Zyu2. It's been theorized that Toei was thinking of making a second Zyuranger season with the footage but, abandoned the idea. Just a rumor thus far. Futhermore there was actually a different pilot filmed for MMPR with a different actress for Trini and, Zordon was called Zoltar. It's up on Youtube if you want to watch it. There's two versions if you search for "Power Rangers unaired pilot" you can see the original version at the top of the search list. The second version was aired as a special with Austin St. John and, Walter Jones. With some violence cut down. It also takes place in a bowling alley. It's been rumored that there actually was a pilot shot for the Jetman footage. If there was it hasn't been leaked at all. About Dairanger in the PR: Lost Galaxy season it was planned to use the unused footage or, suits as the "Ancient Warriors" for Power Rangers. That plan was abandoned for some reason that I don't know. Kakuranger was the source footage for the Alien rangers, some of MMPR's monsters, and Ninjor. From Ohranger onwards it's basically a season to season adaptation from there. In Ohranger the gold ranger is played by a kid too named Riki/King Ranger. The gold ranger was adapted for Jason and, Trey in Zeo. After Time Force/Timeranger Disney bought the Power Rangers series and, continued it with Wild Force until today. The current season of Power Rangers deals with the death of all but one city in the entire world.
End of info dump.
negative1 said:just curious, why do you think the second was even necessary?
basically it screwed up a lot of the continuity, subtleties, and plot points
from the first one, and destroyed what the image of the 'terminator' was
down to a wimpy robot that protected john...... no, that one for me wasn't
needed either..
later
-1
-1 you are a walking talking paradox. I find it hard to believe it's you who posted this message man. You who procliam that OT fans should "stop living in the past." You who say "anything that continues the Star Wars story is good." Despite what that continuation does to the characters. You seriously wonder why someone else likes a continuation of another story!?!? Really, this is just too contradictory for words.
Anyways about Terminator: Salvation I'm looking forward to it. As a fan of Christian Bale I hope he pulls off a good John Conner.
Gaffer Tape said:Referring to twister's earlier comment, I happened to be thinking about that as I glanced at my Trek calendar. This month is Spock from Amok Time, and it gave me an idea. Maybe Spock is beating the crap out of Kirk in the trailer because he's pon farr-ing! He certainly had no trouble beating up Kirk in the series because of that. Granted, that would totally ruin continuity as well, but before I got pissed off because of it, I would certainly laugh heartily at the thought that Spock was choking Kirk on the bridge because Spock wasn't gettin' any!
Really now? Spock beat on Kirk becuase of Pon Farr? Heh, I agree with you that would be funny if that's the reason in the film. Why would it ruin continuity though if that's the reason?
Two notes:
1) What with all the comments of Star Trek 90210 someone's actually combined them into an intro. Star Trek 90210 Youtube style!
2[completely off-topic so you can ignore this if you want.]) Apparently my cool smiley was used in spam mail and, now urlcut won't link to it... Strange. Anywho, I forgot the original url for it. So I re-uploaded and, use tinyurl now. Premiering the tinyurl link to it in this post.
C3PX said:Okay, so this is what happens when I make assumptions without knowing that much about the backstory.... I shall back out of this thread now. *leaves*
No big deal, you don't have to know everything to qualify for discussion in this thread. I really don't know that much about ST myself, I guess I have seen about every episode of TOS and TNG, and all the films, but not so much of any of the other shows or the deeper lore, I find myself pretty lost and uninterested in ST fandom and nerdy details about it all.
*returns* Ah well that's good to know. I kind of felt I overstepped some boundaries or, something. Seeing as 70% of my TOS knowledge comes from that Tribbles episode... Mabye if I hadn't seen that TOS episode Naked Time on YT I'de be more receptive to the idea of Spock beating on Kirk. As it is, it(the episode) showed Kirk hitting Spock over and, over again and, Spock just taking it. This without inhibitions Spock just taking a hit after hit and, only throwing one punch. Yet, in the trailer Spock is just hitting Kirk and, choking him... Kind of a disconnect to me... I mean if thier friendship starts with choking why wouldn't Spock just choke Kirk after the first slap? To me the Spock fight Kirk thing is just a way to bring in the Heroes fans and, the sight of Sylar on the big screen... Hell, it might just be a dream sequence of Kirk's or, Spock's....
Count Dushku said:
I need to make a comment before I log back out for a real long time.
The reason why Star Trek began to suck began with TNG. Some hack job liberal writers got together and began to spew their evangelical message with all the fervor of fundamentalists. Sure, Rick Berman has his share of the blame, but the writers were the ones who ultimately burned the ship. It got to be too preachy.
If you look back at the list of fan favorite episodes, none of them had a moral message. Best of Both Worlds? All Good Things? Those were when Star Trek was fun. DS9 understood this, as did the last season of ENT. Voyager never did, and certainly the latter half of TNG didn't.
JJ Abrams understands this and has always understanded this in his other work.
I don't give a damn if most of the Trekkers don't like the new Star Trek. Go watch your TNG, you who were in your twenties and thirties when TNG came on. Give those of us who grew up with Star Trek from a young age something cool again.
That is all.
Concerning Voyager, it's about as happy go lucky fun as you can get when you're stranded 70,000 lightyears from home. Seriously, no real worry about loosing many a shuttlecraft, no lasting injury on the ship, whole bunch of food from the replicators, go to the holodeck whenever you're bored, and the majority of the established crew beyond the pilot stayed alive. The happy lives of the Voyager crew become more apparent in Equinox. Ransom(?Not sure that's the name)'s ship also got taken by the caretaker and, thier ship was crap. No replicators, no holodeck, hardly anyone of the crew left alive. Yet, Voyager crew's so happy that assimilation is easy stuff to get over for Janeway, Torres, and Tuvok. Voyager is also hardly preachy. Twice captian Janeway okayed the extinction of two species and, the assimilation of another one. Doesn't sound preachy to me... Then again the big world flood thingy is part of the bible that killed almost everyone on the planet so, mabye I'm wrong about that...
C3PX said:twister111 said:I've only seen a few Trek episodes. Even I know it's a big frakkup to have Spock go all Midevil on Kirk. Hell, I remember an episode that implied that Spock loved Kirk as much as 1960's Trek could...
...Also, I know in that episode Spock hits Kirk but, it's only once... Not like in the Trek trailer where he's choking Kirk.... That and, Spocks inhibitions are gone from some virus in that episode. . . So, I guess that Spock gets brainwashed or, something in the Trek film...
It doesn't have anything to do with brainwashing, the new movie takes place before TOS, I think what they are going for in the new movie is a twist where Kirk and Spock didn't get along when they first met. I am guessing after they go through the hardships that are the films main plot, there will be a touching moment where we will realize they have developed a deep respect for one another, which will be the beginning of a life long friendship...
Either way it's hard to imagine them playing it out that Kirk was okay with becoming life long friends with someone that started out choking him. There's got to be middle ground there...
^Can you see life-long friendship coming out of that?
Also that scene from the naked now that implies Spock loved Kirk as much as 1960s TV would allow, is not what you seem to think it is. Vulcans, are a highly evolved race who have evolved beyond the need to show emotion. Spock's dad is a Vulcan, but his mother is a human. That is why he is talking about having had to suppress his emotions all his life, never having told his mother he loved her, and being ashamed whenever he thinks of his friendship with Kirk. He wasn't ashamed because he had some kind of supressed romantic feelings for Kirk that he was admitting to under the influence of the virus, he had a normal strong kind of brotherly friendship many of us guys have with our closest friends. He admitted to having felt ashamed of those feelings, because his Vulcan upbringing told him he was not suppose to have those feelings at all.Spock going medieval on Kirk wasn't a frakkup because Spock would never do that to Kirk, but because as a good overly logical little Vulcan, Spock would not loose his temper and smack anyone. Vulcans are suppose to be beyond that. Maybe the movie will try to focus on how Spock has to struggle with his human side. Which again would be contrary to not only continuity, but also to the spirit of the character, since Spock has often expressed his confusion and difficulty in understanding humans and their emotions and why they do the things they do.
Okay, so this is what happens when I make assumptions without knowing that much about the backstory.... I shall back out of this thread now. *leaves*
After seeing the trailer... I think this movie will be a failure among TOSians. . . Not sure about mainstream wise but, I've only seen a few Trek episodes. Even I know it's a big frakkup to have Spock go all Midevil on Kirk. Hell, I remember an episode that implied that Spock loved Kirk as much as 1960's Trek could. I think it's called Naked ... something I don't know it's on CBS's YT channel. Spock said something like "When I think of my feelings for you. I feel embarrased." Why the hell have Spock do the beat down on Kirk!?!?
This is a movie I'll only watch if it's on TV or rent it....
Edit:
Also, I know in that episode Spock hits Kirk but, it's only once... Not like in the Trek trailer where he's choking Kirk.... That and, Spocks inhibitions are gone from some virus in that episode. . . So, I guess that Spock gets brainwashed or, something in the Trek film...
CNN went the way of Sci-fi with this. It's stupid to set up about 80 HD cameras just to fake a hologram to wow audiences on a news network. 4 cameras on either side would've gotten the effect and, been less costly. Sure the camera angles would've been limited but, after anyone finds out it's fake who the hell cares!?
Here's a tell all video of the fakery. Also the reason they bothered is explained too.
All this is going to do is create more news programs to find the next flashy thing to add to draw people in. Real or, not. They might not even cover real news after a while. Just concetrating on whatever's the trendiest thing at the moment. Local news soon to become Entertainment Tonight complete with sci-fi special effects. This reminds me of that time Oprah had the pregnant "man" on her show. However, that pregnant "man" was born in a completely female body.
bkev said:Baronlando, with the "film modified" thing, that's used to warn otherso f a Pan-&-Scan airing of a movie. But it wouldn't be a bad idea for Star Wars to have something like that.
It's also used when they edit content out to fit in the time allotted. Tv show reruns are exempt from this warning though.
This person should play the lottery:
I believe the article referred to is the one that mentioned Lucas
and Ronstadt celebrating with Spielberg and Amy Irving (back together
again!) over the release of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
From what I've read, Lucas wanted to take a vacation of six years
or so from the whole Star Wars thing for the sake of his health and
his family. I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that after a few
years have passed, Lucas will start itching to do another one.
The trilogy released is the second. I think he will at least oversee
the making of part of the first trilogy. I'd be willing to bet on it.
M. Ashley
ihnp4!ihuxm!marno
Or at least they should've made that bet with someone if they didn't.
LOLs even back in '83 a dude from MIT was looking for, well see for yourself.
Also LOLs at "Explanation for Imp. Armor"
Why is Imperial armor so ineffective? Ever hear of the M-16 rifle? The M1
tank? Perhaps the armor is made on a planet with powerful lobbyists... or
made from Wisconsin cheese.
There's even an '83 double post in that subject.
Strange thing is that one guy mentions in the early notices of different versions of Star Wars films:
In my first viewing of the original Star Wars movie, Biggs appeared in an
early scene. He was a friend of Luke's, and was trying to convince Luke
to go with him and join the rebellion. This scene has been omitted in
subsequent releases which I have seen. But Biggs still shows up as one of
the fighter pilots who go out to tackle the Death Star, while Luke shows
particular concern for him.
I have a SW4 story book which has a picture of Biggs talking to Luke
on Tatooine.
Also another one mentions a longer version of Star Wars. Plus, early Lucas hate and, more early Lucas hate.
Give into the Darkside! We have cookies! Originator!
Lols all around reading these postings.
negative1 said:Actually yes, that is what kids show do now and, days. Power Rangers a kids show. Has masters dying, villians talking about killing the entire planet, explosions, fights, draining life from others to use for machines, killing of monsters in every episode pretty much, to top it off it's live action to boot. CGI is mostly only used for special attacks or, Zord formations/attacks. The vast majority of the show is live action. With all this said it is a kids show.
i think you need to go back and watch more power rangers,
and stay away from these 'adult' cartoons..
later
-1
I sincerly doubt that if this didn't share the name "Star Wars" you'd be defending it as much.
First two episodes of Power Rangers Time Force
First two episodes of Power Rangers Jungle Fury(the current season)
This Clone Wars series seems to be on par with both of those. Besides this you're the one that asked if that's what kids shows do. Death, destruction, the answer is yes. Anyways, I gave the latest episode a chance. It was better then the first two episodes. I still think of it as a kids show though. Beowolf is adult animation, Death Note is adult animation. This is a kids show. The good thing that'll come out of this series is that it'll give fan editors plenty of fight footage to work with.
negative1 said:this episode was even better than the others..
the 2nd part of the 3 series arc..
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so many cool things..
lots of battles
the shadow squadron
of course, lots of general grievious..
and more people dying, explosions, and death.
yeah, and i like how in the first few minutes,
the empire talks about killing off 60000 people.
so, thats what they do in kids show nowadays? , HA HA, LOL..............
Actually yes, that is what kids show do now and, days. Power Rangers a kids show. Has masters dying, villians talking about killing the entire planet, explosions, fights, draining life from others to use for machines, killing of monsters in every episode pretty much, to top it off it's live action to boot. CGI is mostly only used for special attacks or, Zord formations/attacks. The vast majority of the show is live action. With all this said it is a kids show.