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Have you watched his 50 hour documentation on movie making yet?

Sokath, his eyes uncovered. Well, it's the most fitting reply, sort of. Plus it's been a while. Not sure if I should be frightend that I remember that much or proud of my nerdiness. Great, now I want to watch Darmok. edit: Klingon is for amateurs. Yeah, well, dunno. I'd put most of season one at D- or worse. Anything that has early Wesley in it for longer than 2 minutes also auto-defaults to F. Except Where No Man Has Gone Before.

The quote function cannot your table. Well... to quote something non-trek yet strangely fitting for this forum: I'm sorry that you feel that way, old man. edit: Seriously though, in what universe is Code of Honor anything but an F-tier episode, or maybe an S-tier if you go for the absolute trashiest Trek-trash you could find? edit 2: I don't even disagree that Season 5 is the begin of the decline of TNG's average episode quality. But everything, even season seven, is ahead of one and two. Not even Sub Rosa is as bad as Code of Honor. Although it's really close. Really close to being the worst Trek episode of all time even. Yet, most of the episodes I'm really looking forward to when rewatching TNG come from seasons 4 and 5.

Zinda, his face black, his eyes red. Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.

I've been goofing about in the StarCrawlers: Chimera alpha. Still really rough around the edges, and I'm hoping they won't keep the auto-heal button in the game. When you press space, turns fly by, and you have auto-healing, so when you're down on health, instead of using your consumables or anything you just stand there and wait for a spell. Well, and press space. I sure hope that won't end in a time limit. I could get behind patrols showing up eventually, or something though. Still an alpha, after all. Not liking the Force Psyker changes so far.

*backs away very, very slowly from this thread*

Even then, they had a decent setup and potential (and in the case of Voyager, it stayed mostly unrealized). Discovery and Picard are utterly devoid of that. There is nothing, absolutely nothing you can do with these. The only time Discovery got any fun as a show was when they had mirror universe episodes, and that was mostly because they threw everything out and told the actors to have fun and chew the scenery in best Shatnarian tradition. It sure wasn't Star Trek, but it was fun to watch - unlike the DS9 mirror universe episodes that I generally found very annoying. Picard's entire premise is as dumb as Jar Jar Abram's opening narration of Star Trek 2009. No, the Romulan sun going supernova will not threaten the entire galaxy you hack, and no, Mr. Dreckzman, it will not cause a refugee crisis later that will threaten to undermine - or has undermined - the values of the Federation. It will cause a crisis for the Romulans, of course, but eh, other than that? Nobody's willing to take in refugees? And that's just the premise, never mind the presence of Mass Effect style mechanical reaper beings that look like Mecha-Cthulu and regularily cull organics when called upon by repressed AIs some 30 years after "The Measure of a Man". Man, how I wish I didn't make this up.

On a whim* I rewatched episode nine of Violet Evergarden. It's probably the bleakest the anime ever gets, but also the most hopeful. It also forgoes both the regular opening and ending credits to maximize content. I've tried to come up with posts for three times now, but I always end up deleting them. So, no spoilers here. Yet, maybe. *sigh* *Not exactly a whim, was clicking through clips on YouTube after all.

SG1's final episode is called "Unending" because that's what it was, an un-ending. It resolved nothing of the ongoing storylines. Atlantis' final episode was a hastily cobbled together mess of ideas that were supposed to be developed over a full season, not one episode. Universe was cancelled on a cliffhanger. Only SG1 got final straight to DVD films to deal with the storylines, and they were, while not bad, certainly not great. You'd have a point if SG1 ended with Season 7 or 8. But it didn't...

Cantina's having their usual summer menu, which is great. Today was tuna salad or pizza, so I went with the tuna salad. Can't eat a pepperoni pizza for lunch. I mean, I totally could, but not if I'm expected to be productive afterwards.

I figured you would be, but there's no clear cut answer. The first, say, 23 episodes are worth it, and after that point you might as well finish. It does get frustrating. "Occasionally". The OVA gives some more information that's been missing from the original series. The entire scope of the conflict becomes clear when you see the sheer amount of dead letters in this region alone. It might work better... or actually, it might mean more if you already know the characters more in-depth when you watch it after the series proper, but I think the information and interactions within are too important to not use the OVA as a bridge between the episodes where you'd otherwise have to fill in the gaps of the timeskip between 4 and 5 on your own. Not that this is impossible, it's just more... complete this way. Otherwise yes, this is "just" a 10 minutes longer episode.

Right, I forgot the part where he's actually bare chested: Yay. No, it's not. It's also really different from the weird that weirds in JoJo's. DIO gives Utena a pair of earrings and suddenly has a GIANT CARROT in his hand. I don't even WANT to know if that is supposed to mean what it maybe is supposed to mean. Now he holds the carrot to his head, like Chibi-Usa did with the horse. And there's an actual horse galloping around. Sure show!

The two are currently engaged in a photo shooting where DIO takes pictures of an almost gym god like Akio sprawled out with a bare chest on a tower of cars. Edit: Now he's eating a Rose. Presumably that Rose is Utena. Sure... really, why not. Want to take a guess? It's as good as mine, it is.

There's something I forgot to mention. It's not just DIO that is in Utena, but Mr. Screws-His-Sister is JoJo Junior from Stardust Crusaders. It's a bit weird when the two are talking to each other during their car rides.

You do have one for every episode, huh?

It's not that bad. I actually liked most of it. Closeups of Violet can get a little awkward at times. No. The last thing I watched was a never setting sun making fried camel. Been trying to get Utena done, and the rest of the week was worky hell. Hmhm. Developed from a discared SuperS script. I'm kinda glad that never happened, even though I can say that Utena is more enjoyable than SuperS. It would have been nice if it eased off of the Gainaxing at least when it was funny, but even Nanami episodes turned full weird near the end.

Yeah, just what I wanted to post too. At this point in time, Goldsman is just as much an instant no as Kurtzman is. Both of them together just means it will be terribad, instead of just terrible.

Let me know how that worked out for you. I'm kind of curious what you'll think going forward. Next episode (slight spoiler): Any thoughts on the animation so far?

That won't work (you'll see why), but it's okay. It was made after the main series anyway. edit: If you're watching on Netflix, it has both OVAs.

Initially, I watched the first nine episodes and then stopped for a while, only really picked up watching after you started. I always would have completed it of course, it's just that other things kept coming in between that I found more interesting to watch. Not counting Sailor Moon Crystal, of course, or reading some of the manga volumes (boy do I look forward to completing those). However, I actually would have recommended watching the series based on the first nine episodes. Sure there was some weirdness and some metaphor already, but oh dear, did that go places. I find myself agreeing on the language transcending the language barrier. You can hear how well the dialogue flows at times, regardless of not understanding much of it. The voice cast in general is also doing a fantastic job, and I actually like the soundtrack of Utena too. Maybe except for the jazzy pieces during the car rides. Kinda have to wonder now if the sole blame for Sailor Moon's serious mode episodes solely rests on the material they had to adapt. It sure played a big part, but is it really a coincidence that the best story arc of the show happened directly after Ikuhara left?

Yes, Ikuhara was series director for the first four seasons, then left to do Utena with his newly founded creative collective Be-Papas. Two of the writers from Utena, Yoji Enokido and Ryota Yamaguchi, were also writers on Sailor Moon. Yoji Enokido also worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion. edit: Sailor Moon is also the actual reason we're watching Revolutionary Girl Utena...

I couldn't find a decent The Test animated gif in the time I had left to post that, so I just went with the next best thing I found. SU seemed more appropriate since Ms. Sugar apparently really liked Revolutionary Girl Utena. I guess you can't argue tastes, I mean, there are individual episodes of this show that are a riot, individual ones that I thought were fantastic (most recently Jury removing the rose on her own), but overall the last batch of episode - I'm still missing a few, they'll be up next - catapulted this from Lynchian allegory into pretentious pseudo-intellectual wanking territory. That certainly changed my mind on wanting to watch more of Ikuhara's work. As much as I appreciated what he managed to make out of the Sailor Moon manga, it looks like it's not really a good idea to give him full creative reign. Funny how that goes. Maybe he should not aspire to collaborate with David Lynch, but say hello to George Lucas instead. Talk about the good old times when they came up with a collaborative smash hit only to squander it later. Hey, maybe we can give Jar Jar Abrams a Sailor Moon remake. Or an Utena sequel.

No mention of a songstress means you forgot the first OVA, right? Except Iris, of course... but you'll get bits and pieces of them through Violet working, but they do provide a stable backdrop for her to come back to. They're also mostly characters developed purely for the anime, the company was expanded a good deal to provide a backdrop for the first episodes that weren't adaptations from the light novel but almost entirely original content. Getting to know them takes a while - more than her clients, because they're co-workes, not people Violet interacts with for longer stretches of time during her visits with clients. Luculia has the best name Engrish in the history of Japanese. Rukuria Mōrubara is a far cry from Luculia Marlborough after all. Hey, you're forgetting all those war flashback scenes that show how much of an awesome badass Violet was...

Works perfectly well indeed, just substitue not blaming herself for it with blaming herself for it because she might have done something to invite it happening, or couldn't resist. That sadly happens enough in real life too.

Perfectly possible, yes. It's so open to interpretation that there's no real clear cut answer. edit: I also haven't seen all of the anime yet, so maybe something later clears it up. I don't think there will be something that clears it up, but eh, sure.