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Hmm, wouldn't the easy lore explanation be that Anakin used the force to cushion her fall? Its been so long since I've seen the prequels, I can't rightly remember if they'd explicitly said Anakin at that point wasn't able to use his force powers. Obviously the Geonosians and Watto are also force users, but only at low levels and only for the ability to support their weight when flying.

SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA the 1980s US pilot. An attempt was made to sell the 1979 Cobra series to the US market. Like other anime at the time, significant changes were made to try to make the show saleable to early 80s tv stations as a kids adventure series. Americanizing Cobra, he becomes a key figure of the rebellion against the Darkside Pirate Guild which has taken over the galactic government. Using the idea from the pilot that Cobra has changed his face and become a galactic Salary man named Johnson. Lazy and incompetent, Johnson is sent by his company to look into the theft of a gold shipment. But instead he gets his robotic butler to detour to a casino which happens to be where the gold is being held. His butler is revealed to be hiding Galaxina (Lady) like in the Japanese show and Cobra fights the theif (in a sequence taken from Episide 13: Roulette of Death). Lots of animation is reused, but recontextualized. A lot of death, but everyone is robots (which leads to a horrific lingering shot of a burning robot boy, which is part of new animation made for the pilot). If it'd been a syndicated series when I was a kid, I'd have watched it.

Weirdly, I tend to like most things. I've only ever walked out of one film, for example (and ut wasnt an Alien film). I've seen a lot of truly terrible z grade films and had a blast. I've enjoyed art films, international films and all sorts of other films. I think, EVENT HIRIZON, MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION, and the AVP films are terrible films but I was mostly entertained by them, often despite themselves. Heck I watched the original Street Fighter video game live action adaption last week for the first time in a decade, the one with Raul Julia who was actually fantastic as a live action cartoon villain, and found it to be quite amusing even if it's a poor adaption of the source material and a compromised narrative taken on its own terms. Ultimately the worst thing a movie, book or TV show can be is boring.

Necrobiotics: Researchers are turning dead spiders' legs into robotic grippers

Volume 11 of GLEPNIR I figured we were setting up for a transition, and that proves to be true. I don't know if it'll turn out to be a three act story, but it feels like we just finished the first act.

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I had a hard time believing that Prometheus was a Ridley Scott film. I didn't hate it, but there was some mind numbingly dumb things in it that I don't typically associate with Ridley Scott (who isn't perfect, but...) I guess I should be thankful for Alien: Covenant, because I could totally believe the director of that film would also have directed Prometheus.

Haha, that may well be true! Yeah, I admit he didn't seem to me to be a super programmer either (and actually what he did appeared to be no more than submitting "Cogito ergo sum" through a wonky keyboard).

And Ron Perlman, Michael Wincott, and Dominique Pinion too. I actually enjoyed it, as I mentioned. There's a couple of of patented JossWhedonisms™ that are a bit of a groaner, and I don't think its Jeunet's best film from a direction standpoint, but its a purer realization of what it is trying to be than Alien³ as I recall (I've only seen the extended version of ³ and then only once).

Hhaha, I may be watching all the Leprechan films later this year...

Space Cobra Episode XXX "How to Defeat Salamander" aka "Saramandā o Taosu Hō" and Episode XXXI "So Long! My Cobra!" aka "Abayo! Ore no Kobura" Fun series, if you like pulpy 70s-80s anime sci-fi.

In space, no one can hear you scream while you watch Alien3, Alien: Resurrection, Alien vs Predator, Alien vs Predator: Requiem, Prometheus, and Alien: Covenant.

RIP - I can't tell you the number of times Irenicus' dialogue comes back to me due to David Warner's voice acting. "You will suffer. You. will. ALL. suffer." I just saw him on a Midsomer Murders over the weekend, and I watched Time after Time a few months ago. One of those actors who was always a delight to find out he was in a production.

AvP's badness is only surpassed by AvP2

I liked Alien: Resurrection. But in my defense, I first saw it on a double bill where the other half was Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the armpit of filmdom. Plus Alien: Resurrection had Michael Wincott in it, who always raises a film. Then again, I don't think Alien3 works really and is probably my least favorite Alien film (with the only one I'd definitively recommend being the first one), so... EDIT: That said, I want to rewatch Alien3 as I've only seen it once.

Well the Time Tunnel exploded itself to show it was working when it was used, but it also exploded when it broke, as did all the computers in the bases. Don't get me started on their poor base security too...although Seaview was worse, letting people without clearance anywhere on the sub....sheesh.

You know who was worse than TREK in this regard? The Irwin Allen shows (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants). There wasn't a terminal that couldn't explode at any minute in those shows. I'm not sure how the Seaview, in particular, could keep running when its entire operation system went up every episode. Heck, in Irwin Allen shows, thin air could explode at any minute, since that's how all the cosmic aliens got around.

"Stay awhile, and listen..."

GROUNDED tv show in development

I wouldn't mind seeing someone making an animated film based on that poster.