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anarky wrote:Grievous was well-done, and I actually was impressed by some of the facial expressions various characters showed (especially Ahsoka biting her lip while skydiving--nice detail). But Ahsoka is annoying as hell, even in small doses, and Anakin is like a wooden caricature of himself. And the Battle Droids bug the fuck out of me.

Ahsoka was a lot better than she's been, though. If she bugs you now, then you would fucking hate the movie beyond belief, I guess. She annoyed me in the movie but she's growing on me, partly since she's been toned down a lot since then. Same thing with the droids. I couldn't stand them at all in the movie, but I'll deal with it and now they're not as prevalent as in the movie. The "try not to drop it" was kind of funny in a slapstick way, though.

What's that about Anakin? Didn't everyone already think Hayden was a wooden caricature? I mean, they're not really showing his darker side, and they've said that that's their intention. This is just him as a hero. He still has flaws, though, with the attachment to R2-D2 (while Obi-Wan couldn't give a shit about the droid, or any droid). For me, his characterization is not a problem.

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anarky wrote:DB, if you don't like it, why'd you buy the DVD?

Or he could have JT syndrome...

There's a difference?

I'm still not a fan of the look they're using for the human characters. Thunderbirds inspired or not, it just looks half-assed and sloppy. Especially the lip-synch and the cold, dead, lifeless eyes of the characters. From droids to ships to Grievous to helmeted clones, everything else has a damn near Prequel level of realism, so why not the humanoid characters?

I don't have a problem with most of Anakin's characterization in the series. The only part I don;t like is his relationship with Ahsoka. They act more like partners than student/teacher. And the whole thing with Anakin being assigned a padawan (as well as Anakin going along with it) is so fucking retarded.

I think it's just too much silliness for me. I expect Star Wars to not be this transcendent work of high art, but I expect it to be better than an episode of the Punky Brewster cartoon. I could probably forgive a lot more about it if they weren't going for a quasi-realistic look. (The cartoony, abstract look certainly made it easier to forgive craziness like a Padawan based on Shaggy or a reference to a Coke commercial in the previous series.)

A buddy lent me Force Unleashed two weeks ago. I have yet to pop it in my XBox. I might do that tonight If I ain't got nothin' else to do.

The guys in my shop have been playing that lately. I'll no doubts end up playing it at some point but I wanna give myself time as I know I'll get hooked on it.

I watched all the cinema scenes on youtube.
Wasn't all that impressed.

Dengar is Grimlock's daddy.

Since this seems to be our go to Star Wars thread...

30 years and 1 day ago - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired.
30 years ago today - The Jonestown Massacre.

Coincidence?

I don't want to deal with blind devotion from anyone but JJL, but I'll say it here:

Swing and a miss.

The "Meesa?" "You sir!" bit from the preview was the only funny bit in this episode. Sad.

anarky wrote:I don't want to deal with blind devotion from anyone but JJL

Aw, shucks!

I didn't think it was as good as it could/should have been but I still thought it was pretty funny. It was certainly better than any of the battle droid humor.

Diabolical wrote:Dengar is Grimlock's daddy.

Since this seems to be our go to Star Wars thread...

30 years and 1 day ago - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired.
30 years ago today - The Jonestown Massacre.

Coincidence?

Are you serious? That's fucking awesome...in a morbid kind of way...

I understand they're planning on a new marketing strategy for Clone Wars next year. Here are the taglines:

Clone Wars: Because sometimes "suck" just isn't enough
Clone Wars: It's like there's a child molester getting gangbanged in a toilet stall in your mouth, and everyone's invited!
Clone Wars: The Special Olympics of cartoons

Honestly, man, that fucking Cad Bane episode was so godawful bad that it was amusing.
"We need some bounty hunters!"
"There's Aurra Sing, who was replaced with Zam Wessel in AOTC and no one ever did anything with."
"Awesome! Who else?"
"Cydon Prax?"
"Dead."
"Jango Fett?"
"Also dead."
"Durge?"
"Dead. I think everyone else is dead. Except Boba, who's like nine years old."
"Well, there is Dengar."
"Dude, do you want to animate all those band-aids? We just barely figured out mouths!"
"Crap, we need to make up some. Anyone got any ideas?"
"My dad used to make me watch Clint Eastwood movies. There could be a cowboy."
"Awesome! An alien cowboy! Anyone else seen any movies lately?"
"There's that movie with that chick who didn't play Padme, with Willy Wonka and a lot of pirates."
"Are you saying there should be a Willy Wonka bounty hunter?"
"No, a pirate!"
"Awesome! ARRRRRRRRRRR!!"
"Oh, and that one dude from that movie was in those other movies that were too complicated and didn't make any sense, and there was this cool little monster who kept saying stuff about his ring."
"That's four! Washed-up Aurra Sing and a cowboy and a pirate and that Lord of the Rings midget! Perfect!!"

I was watching a contractor clean a storage tank at the county treatment plant. They pulled a water sample when we realized there was something alive in there. It looked like an overgrown sea-monkey. The contractor had a delay waiting for a part, so I was bored and started thinking about the Death Star, more specifically the trash compactor scene. Nothing about it makes sense. The monster, the contents, its purpose. And why is there a vent leading to the hallway of the Detention level?

One would think they would either burn the garbage or just jettison it like the Star Destroyer does in ESB. And where does the Star Destroyer get those big chunks of garbage from?

I've been in the "industrial" area of some pretty big military facilities and none of them are as nice as the outside of the Trash Compactor. You know why? Because high ranking important people don't go near garbage, so you do the bare minimum maintenance.

Ran wrote:I was watching a contractor clean a storage tank at the county treatment plant. They pulled a water sample when we realized there was something alive in there. It looked like an overgrown sea-monkey. The contractor had a delay waiting for a part, so I was bored and started thinking about the Death Star, more specifically the trash compactor scene. Nothing about it makes sense. The monster, the contents, its purpose. And why is there a vent leading to the hallway of the Detention level?

One would think they would either burn the garbage or just jettison it like the Star Destroyer does in ESB. And where does the Star Destroyer get those big chunks of garbage from?

I've been in the "industrial" area of some pretty big military facilities and none of them are as nice as the outside of the Trash Compactor. You know why? Because high ranking important people don't go near garbage, so you do the bare minimum maintenance.

I figured that they would do the whole walls-closing-in thing to make the garbage smaller and then jettison it. Why, I don't know.

How don't the contents make sense? It's probably broken shit or parts that they didn't need. Not to mention just general type garbage. Same deal with the ESB garbage; probably just broken down machinery and so on.

Apparently the dianoga could burrow into one of the walls so it was safe from getting smashed. I have no idea how it could get there. I smell a new EU novel . . .

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote: I figured that they would do the whole walls-closing-in thing to make the garbage smaller and then jettison it. Why, I don't know.

Yeah, that kind of makes sense, but I got the feeling that compactor was deeper in the Death Star, not near the outside.

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote: How don't the contents make sense? It's probably broken shit or parts that they didn't need. Not to mention just general type garbage. Same deal with the ESB garbage; probably just broken down machinery and so on.

It looked like construction debris, but metal and insulation doesn't smell. And being on a space station, you'd think they would want to recycle the water.

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote: Apparently the dianoga could burrow into one of the walls so it was safe from getting smashed. I have no idea how it could get there. I smell a new EU novel . . .

Amazing it has gone this long without one.

I've always wondered about the dianoga. If it's that big of a creature where does it go and why don't our "heroes" follow it instead of just waiting to die?!