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| Ranger Green |
[26 Nov 2009|04:05am] |
So yeah, gonna go ahead and finish these. And likely in order.
Uh-oh, it’s a Ziggy solo episode. This oughta be something to see.
The Zig-ster’s playing around with a gun that looks Beetleborgs-esque, though it’s not an item I distinctly remember. Of course, it could just have parts from an existing prop.
And yes. Ziggy. Playing with Ranger-class guns. If anyone wants me, I’ll be in the nearest bomb shelter.
The vertically challenged Doc pops out from behind a computer and tells him not to play with her sonic cannon. She’s still no fonder of Ziggy than before. Ziggy can only respond “I thought you’d be a dude.”
Maybe Ziggy and the Doc will be even more of a fun duo than Ziggy and Dillon.
See, I’m not a heavy ‘shipper.’ There are some pairings that do appeal to me, but “they should totally shag” is far from my first thought when two characters happen to wind up in the same room twice.
In fact, often, when two characters have a certain chemistry, the last thing anyone needs is for them to cease behaving the way they did to make us interested in them in favor of acting couply. The fans of “Who’s The Boss” found that out the hard way when Tony and Angela got together and started being significantly less interesting.
So, no, by ‘fun duo,’ I don’t mean Ziggy and Doctor K would be fun to see acting all sappy. I mean they’re awesome being exactly the way they are right here, right now, and it’ll be great to see more.
Turns out the suit’s got a teleportation gadget. No word on whether or not it’s mentally directed like the shield. If this guy has to focus to make it work, he’s in trouble.
Maybe that’s why when Ziggy activates it, only his boots reappear. Ziggy’s still standing where he was... wearing only his helmet and his boxers.
Ziggy starts to go into a flashback sequence, his helmet going somewhere between shots. Failing tests is a habit of his.
In the style of the show’s title appearing in the first episode, we get the CHOOM! sound with the words “Ranger Green.” Unfortunately, this won’t stick. Wouldn’t it be an awesome way for all titles to be introduced this year?
Dude. The mob won’t take you if you can’t drive properly?
( Take off, every Zig! )
In other (fandom) news...
Turtles Forever was a lot of fun, though I don’t recall the old-school TMNT being quite that goofy, or Leonardo's voice being anywhere near that deep. According to Wikipedia, Nickelodeon now has the TMNT franchise, which means whatever’s next for it will likely be on Nicktoons, which means I probably won’t be seeing it. Don’t have the kind of money to go to the next package up. Bad enough having to watch the new X-Men series one three-episode disk at a time.
Kamen Rider... dude. I can’t imagine what’s going to happen from here, and that’s a good sign. And what are the likes of Drew and JTC gonna do if they get sprung? And who’s going to be Onyx? (Where does the second Advent Deck come from, anyway? Though a better question is, where the *smeg* does the second *dragon* come from? An even better question... where did any of the Advent Beasts come from, come to think of it?)
And WHEN WILL WE SEE SIREN'S FINAL VENT?
And Heroes... the new season is genuinely good. Not quite as amazing as the first, not yet, but... after the mangled mess that was last year, with no writers’ strike to excuse it like season two, I’d started to wonder if season one was a one-off fluke. I didn’t think they’d ever again rise above the “well, it’s my habit to watch TV with dinner, so I’ll have this on and look up whenever there’s a Hiro and Ando scene” level. But they’re doing much, much better.
Oh, and speaking of Hiro (only barely - “Scotty, beam me up” as a post-brain-fry non-sequitur”) why does everyone remember “Scotty, beam me up?” It’s not like Scotty does a lot of beaming! He’s the chief engineer - the guy who keeps the ship from blowing up. He’s got more important things to do than routine transporter operation, and is seldom seen in the transporter room unless something is going wrong (like, you’ve gotta beam through one of those fuzzy send-you-to-another-dimension clouds.)
Seriously. When I first watched the original Trek series, I waited and waited and WAITED for the famed Scotty-beam-me-up catchphrase. I thought they said it every *day.*
The actual transporter operator was a guy named Kyle. Just Kyle. So thankless is the role of pushing those three levers that he doesn’t even merit a first name. He’s called John Kyle in some books and Winston Kyle in others because John Winston is his *actor.* He never got a first name!
He does this every single week, and yet nobody says “Kyle, beam me up.” (Or better yet, the *actual* oft-used transporter command, which is “[Number] to beam up. Energize.”)
Come on, people, Mr. Kyle deserves some credit! His job in life is to just *stand there* until someone needs the transporter, and then pull three levers! On special occasions, he gets to set it for a time delay by pressing one additional button! Seriously, somebody give this guy a hug. Whatever your job is... you don’t just stand there hour after hour, day after day, waiting for someone to need the transporter. (It's a long time between stops on a starship!) And you likely have a minimum of two names. He deserves to be remembered.
Scotty saves the ship almost every single week, and is known as a miracle worker! Routine transporter operation is the one thing he doesn’t do! Don’t take the one thing poor, poor Kyle does away from him!
Sad that Stargate Universe has little to nothing in common with SG-1 and SGA. Seldom leaving the ship and leaping right into the wangst before we’re given a reason to care about any of these people (except Dr. Rush.)... and they know it, or they wouldn’t have felt the need to throw in the pointless sex scene in the premiere. Of the five episodes I’ve seen - counting the premiere as one - only one (the one with the recordings from the future, and the disease) made me feel like I was watching Stargate. (I have a five-episode rule, though I can’t remember if it’s supposed to be five or three.) Anyway, I don’t think I’m going to be watching any more... at least, not for a while. They can’t sit around having essentially the same conversations over and over forever and stay on the air, so... let’s try this again in mid-season two or thereabouts. If I feel like it.
Chuck is coming back! Woo-hoo!
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| Movie thing |
[30 Aug 2009|01:52am] |
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It wasn’t a disaster, after all. And I knew it wouldn’t be. Though there was apparently a bit of miscommunication somewhere along the way ‘cause they seemed to expect me to be there a lot earlier than I was... I don’t know. But it wound up not being a big deal. Will definitely have to do it again sometime.
Movie was District 9. It was very interesting. Not a single name in it you recognize, and you won’t care after all of two minutes. It’s basically about apartheid, with defunct ship of aliens being kept separate from humans and receiving... less-than-ideal treatment. I won't say much more.
Seriously, you can probably count on one hand the number of humans in this story that aren’t downright sadistic, even if you had a few fingers get chopped off in the garbage disposal. Even Our Hero only gets better once his own hide is on the line. The humans in this movie rank high on the most-pure-evil-movie-villains-ever list. Any aliens who might’ve watched this movie: please don’t vaporize us from orbit, we’re not this bad, really. Well, most of us aren’t.
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| PRRPM #5: Handshake |
[25 Aug 2009|02:36am] |
In what looks like an enclosed area (“I like to live dangerously,” indeed!) Scott and Dillon are revving up their cars and bragging. Summer has to go get them because they don't hear their communicators over the music and engines.
Y'know, I'm still surprised to see Kelson Henderson isn't around. He's a great actor, it's just that his characters aren't so great, except for the ever-awesome Phineas. It's not his fault all he normally gets to play are guys like Flit. And here we’ve got two Flit-esquely useless bad guys... and he’s not either!
Speaking of Flit, I was so sure he was going to turn out to be the sixth (well, fifth) Ranger. You gotta admit he’d have made a more interesting one.
Meanwhile, Venjix cooks up a new monster: the Nozzbot. We have met the enemy, and he is Windex.
Turns out he’s a replacement for one of the usual baddies. Venjix says that for her failure, Tenaya’s gotta go! She doesn’t look impressed. At all.
You’d think he’d choose one of the other two first. Most likely the blue one. The gold one makes some of the monsters, but the blue one... what does he do?
( The Fridgecannon > you. )
“Real” entry on the way. Tomorrow, maybe. And I still need to find or make an RPM icon.
What's "pingback?"
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| Yes, this is that rare for me... |
[16 Aug 2009|01:08am] |
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Tomorrow, I'm going to see a movie with friends. I forgot which it's going to be, really... too busy being scared. Like, first-date scared. Two people I've talked to at work sometimes... we like a lot of the same sci-fi stuff (it remains to be seen if they have the proper appreciation for Doctor Who... since they like trying to stump me with trivia questions, I'm not gonna admit to watching or reading anything I haven't been with long enough to be able to hold my own. I do, after all, have a reputation to protect!) have invited me to go see it, and...
...you'd really think it's such a simple thing. But I haven't done anything like this in ages. Didn't do it that often when last I had the chance. Knowing a week in advance helps the that-wasn't-in-the-script factor that would have made it much worse, though... If I had said no, it wouldn't be the first time I turned down something I really wanted to do just because it was unexpected. Still, it's... way scarier than it should be. Part of me wants to do come up with a reason not to, but... I've always had to remember that the most comfortable thing to do is not the most rewarding.
My biggest dissatisfaction with life lately has been that it’s not very interesting. I can do the same thing every day until I look back and I hardly remember doing it - just not worth the brain cells it’d take up. I need other people screwing up my schedule and putting in a reason for me to remember today, sometimes, in certain doses.
Anyway. Yeah. I am looking forward to it. Will look forward to next time more, once this time isn’t a disaster (I know it won’t be.)
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| PRRPM #4: Go for the Green |
[24 Jul 2009|12:12am] |
Ranger audition? This has gotta be some kinda first. Ziggy organized it, so you know what that means.
I love the Idol setup thing... main Rangers even have glasses of water with them.
Back at the lab, Dr. K is technobabbling it up. Dillon reacts predictably, so K explains about the burst attacks. Dillon’s is a force field, but you gotta have faith in it for it to work. Usually, it’s the magic-based gadgets that work that way... can you see Dillon going “I believe in magic!”
Meanwhile, the others do not believe in talent shows.
( Corinth’s Got Talent )
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| An old fannish5 or two... |
[29 Jun 2009|03:00am] |
It's not Friday and it's been a long time since I've done one of these, but it's too delicious to skip. Also, I've been neglecting this thing for a long time and don't want everyone to go away or forget I exist.
Also, it'll be fun to see who recognizes these names and who doesn't.
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) fannish5:
Name 5 characters who'd be most pleased if they ever got the opportunity to see what fandom is writing about them. (and the 5 characters who'd be most shocked ;)
I think Sky, Bridge, Sari, Kenta, and Blurr would like how they're written... Kenta purely because he gets actual screentime. Blurr would probably skim the ones where he's slashed with Bumblebee... unless he got to be dominant. He'd never let anyone know he was reading it, though. And, of course, he'd read it all in five seconds flat.
(Why, why did he have to die after only three episodes? Let's have a moment of silence for the coolest Autobot of all time.)
And yeah, I did mean the Animated version. (Not that the only-three-episodes thing wouldn't make that obvious.) Haven't seen much of fandom's portrayal of Armada version, and I really don't care for G1 version... he basically had the fast-talking gimmick but nothing else, so he repeated the same thing over and over, just to remind us that was his gimmick, and seldom added anything. Animated Blurr had the same gimmick, same actor... and actually had something to say. That last thing is what makes all the difference between my least favorite G1 character and my all-time favorite TFA character. Ironically, most people would say those two versions are a lot alike.
Shocked is easy. Harry Potter, Starscream, Orlando Bloom (seriously! Any fanfic about LOTR's production as opposed to the movie itself... man, what I wouldn't give to have been there to see the look on his face the first time he surfed the 'net and found a fanfic about himself - not any of his characters, but him - as a hermaphrodite who impregnates himself. Stuff like this is... not rare. You don't see it happening to whoever played Aragorn.) Davis, and Rika.
Harry and Starscream for the sexual, uh, adventures. Even non-NC-17 stories are the same half the time, the gory details are just taken offscreen. Davis and Rika, on the other hand, are... a bit different.
See, in the show, he could be a jerk early on, but half the time I felt the way the others treated *him* was worse, and waaaay out of proportion against anything he did. Somebody spank Kari, especially. In fanfic, he makes Osama Bin Ladin look like the Easter Bunny and all other aspects of his personality don't exist. Rika, on the other hand... in the show, she's tough, and a fighter, and a professional snarker. She grows over the course of the series and learns to open up and trust more, but she never stops being a fighter... she just learns everyone's not the enemy. In fanfic, she basically cries and whimpers and can barely face getting out of bed in the morning without her prince [insert whoever she's being paired with here] to rescue her. Uh... you did watch the show at least once before you started writing, right? If the show Rika could appear in this world and see her typical fanfic portrayal, I'd feel sorry for those writers. A lot of serious butt-kicking would be administered in short order.
And from earlier, "Name 5 characters you think really need a hug."
Let's see... Jack Bauer, obviously. Tough and awesome as he is, the havoc it's all wreaked on his life... dude. Not to mention the fact that the people he works for have screwed him a few times (let's let him rot in a torture chamber until we get him out because a bad guy wants to see him executed!) and then there's the fact that nobody ever listens to him when it's obvious. I've heard it said that if he was listened to from the beginning, it wouldn't be called 24, but 6. (Or is it 8?)
Then... Daniel Jackson, Peter Parker, Jeri Katou, Chuck Bartowski. (Chuck's life's not quite as screwed as the others, but the kind of things that happen to him episode to episode... well, he and Peter Parker would get along. I say "Poor Chuck!" aloud at least once almost every time.
Unrelated except in that it's also connected to the world of fiction: "Clownhouse" is seriously. Messed. Up.
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[28 Jun 2009|11:57pm] |
I officially feel like death warmed over. Or really, like someone started to warm over some death, went to play Warcraft and forgot about it, and now it’s burnt beyond recognition and setting off fire alarms.
(Warcraft being Warcraft, whoever’s cooking it still doesn’t notice.)
Mostly, was up to 5 AM last night because I was coughing on and on and on, and no medicine I took was working. Woke up this morning with the kind of headache that makes you wish there was a handy cliff to jump off of, and nothing helped. At all. Spent most of day lying in bed, writhing in pain, and allowing as little light into the room as possible.
WTH. I’ve been sick twice this year already. I don’t need any more. Really.
But at least I managed to find the little missile that goes with a toy I want to sell on Ebay.
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| PR RPM 3: Rain |
[23 Jun 2009|01:49am] |
Got all five RPM figures, with the combining weapon thing. And I don't plan on talking about all the toys... my windowsill's only so big, and my bookshelf's too full of actual books, so I don't have a place for the Zords or anything. There are people who review every figure ever to come out, but... I guess they've got more money and space than I've got.
Anyway, this is the "Full Throttle" set. (The 'full' is important, though: there's a set that's apparently just called 'throttle,' and those are a bit smaller and less detailed. They've got weapons - oversize enough that I don't see how the figures can carry 'em and stand - but I don't know if they combine. Oh, and some shuttle-shaped daggers that you'll become well familiar with later.)
What's funny is, Yellow is so dainty. Usually, the toys for the girl Rangers are 90% like the male ones, but this... somebody stuck a Ranger suit on Barbie. The tiny, high-heeled-ish feet mean she really likes to fall over. And she's got her own, smaller, daintier Nitro Blaster. The 'gas pump' design is improved, with the trigger being a proper squeeze handle, and her finger can actually pull it like a trigger, but she can hold the regular one, and if you want her to hold one in gun mode and one in sword mode like the she did during the fight in Ranger Yellow (say what you will about what they made her backstory, wasn't that one fight awesome?) you'll wanna use one of the normal ones, or the "there's no way this can turn into that!"-ness just screams at you.
( In living spandex... uh, bio-armor. )
I'd meant to do these once a week like before but that doesn't seem to be working so well. I think I'm going to skip to more recent episodes and then fill in the blanks. Coming soon, Embodied... coming eventually, Handshake. Coming when I feel more motivated, a real entry. [Shrug]
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| PRRPM 2: Fade to Black |
[23 Jun 2009|01:42am] |
Ziggy still tries to explain just what a Ranger is to Dillon, as the newcomers attack with their personal weapons. Yellow's is... interesting. This little yellow car thing zips around, hitting the monster over and over, actually lands, kicks up dirt as it swings around to hop up again and hit the monster right in the teeth! Ouch.
Yeah, it's funny when the sentai leftovers and the tone of the PR story don't match at all.
Oh, and when Ziggy explains what a Ranger is, and points at the RPM team, he says "There" for Scott, "That" for Flynn, and "Those" for Summer. Interesting choice of words, Zig-ster...
As for the monster, it's got a bunch of guns on it, but only uses the two big ones. I was hoping it'd do something like Kamen Rider Torque's finisher. I wanna see some totally destructive overkill!
(Speaking of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, how awesome was it to actually see the KO-35 area again? I kept waiting for Ecliptor to form T-1000 style. And speaking of Torque, we lost him waaay too soon. Which seems to be going around lately [glares at Transformers Animated writers for what they did to my favorite character, after he'd only been around for three episodes.])
( Mad Max: Beyond Rangerdome )
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| PRRPM #1: The Road To Corinth |
[30 Mar 2009|12:53pm] |
Hey, it's been a while. A bit late with this, and can't promise any better - life doesn't always leave time for it. Also working on a 'real' entry, but will get to that later.
May as well start from the beginning: the opening. We haven't had an opening theme I could really, really love since DT, but I might just be being picky. Scenes used are just okay. We get full names for everyone, for the first time since Lightspeed, which is the only other time.
The last name we see isn't with a character, or given an "as" part; just "and Olivia Tennet." That's common with a lot of shows, but for PR, it's a first.
However, one thing makes this perhaps the sweetest PR opening of all time:
The name Bruce Kalish is nowhere to be found.
I hardly dared hope, but it's true! [Tears roll down cheeks] Mr "who needs things to make sense, we've got slow-mo and explosions!" has left! The! Building!
( The beginning of the end? )
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...and because I forgot to say it before... a moment of silence to remember the great Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park was my favorite movies (and books) ever, and if it's all you've seen of his work, don't stop there. You don't have to agree with his environmental views (or reaction to one person who disagreed with them...) to enjoy his work, after all... and more often than not, you will enjoy it.
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| [Pokes self] Yup, still alive. |
[06 Nov 2008|12:09pm] |
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YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAH!
That’d be about the election result. I’m still all bouncy about it. [Dances on ceiling] There’s still a reason to have faith in humanity. I’d be *almost* this excited even if he wasn’t black... okay, maybe not. But it'd still have been a very good day.
Oh, still not dead. Keep meaning to write a mega entry of epicness but never get around to it. Working at the zoo now, actually. And supervisors I don’t hate! I never thought I’d see the day! Don’t plan on being here for life or anything, but it’s a huge improvement over past jobs (not to mention the times *between* them.)
And if I buy any more comic books, especially when I still need new shoes, hit me. Hard. Still... the entire Marvel Transformers series. At the Half Price that's ten minutes from me. Now. [Drools] It's calling me... can't resist...
Now, if only they also had the Marvel UK run... of course, it might be on Amazon, somewhere... NOOO! BAD! [Makes self go sit in the corner]
PS: Oh, and if you're gonna post your icons in communities by linking back to your own LJ, remember that it helps to unlock those posts. Can't tell you how many times I've followed a link to someone's icons and gotten "you are not authorized to view this entry."
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[31 Mar 2008|01:11am] |
Sigh. It's been a long past few months. As usual, not much of it is interesting enough to talk about, though. Or maybe I'll feel like it later. Sleepy.
Was gonna save icon for the next Star Trek movie, but that’s in almost a year, and I’d rather hope that it’s good. (I’ve lost count of Star Trek movies. Is it even or odd?) Sylar as young Spock! Dude! Not to mention Leonard Nimoy back as old Spock. Though you gotta feel sorry for an actor who’s always had such a hard time getting a role not involving pointy ears because there’s this one role from ten, then twenty, then thirty, then forty years ago that nobody can un-see. (Though I think he’s considered himself as having retired from acting before it reached the 40-year mark.)
I didn't plan to make this an all fandom journal, but... when I don't have work, all I have to talk about his how much being broke sucks, which isn't very interesting. When I do, all there is to talk about is work, which isn't very interesting.
I wonder what I could do that I would find interesting enough to talk about all the time.
There is the matter of the rest of the Overdrive reviews. Rather than make a buncha posts, I'm going to post the last few at once. Unfortunately, I don't have Home and Away pt. 2 on tape, and the one after that was a clip show and doesn't really count. (No, really. I mean, Koragg's Trial had a story and a point to the clips that fit it. Way Back When, uh, didn't.)
(Actually, since writing that, I have found what I did with Home and Away 2. But don't want to wait any longer. I'll get around to it... uh... when I feel like it. I actually had most of these done months ago but wanted to post them all at once.)
( Better late than never... )
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Nothing to say at the moment, but... just so you know I didn’t fall off the edge of the earth. Hi, everybody!
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| PROO #26: Red Ranger Unplugged |
[03 Oct 2007|01:15am] |
I AM CAUGHT UP! Boo-yah!
Nice bit of continuity with the sequel to the book Mack was reading in the premiere. I wonder what the rest of the fandom has to say about that, considering the (over)reaction Mack's little dream sequence at the beginning of the season got.
(Speaking of which... I guess androids don't dream of electric sheep.)
Dax is amusing. Wonder what his dad's like. To have said "you can be anything you want to be, so long as it's not a stuntman," he might have also been in the movie business...
While Mack sets out to find himself, the Fear Cats are... uh, where are they? It looks a lot more interesting than most villain lairs, but they don't show enough to tell what it is. There's a new Fear Cat in town, and it's... Zen-Aku's mother?
Seriously. That looks a lot like ZA and nothing like a cat.
And Flurious has a Fear Cat detector? There's a diagram of a small downtown or industrial area on his screen, with three little triangles, green for Mig, yellow for Benglo, and light blue for the newbie.
Norg's got a cold. And Flurious decides three Fear Cats is three too many and sends Norg to get rid of 'em. Because Norg has shown himself to be that competent in the past, right?
( Heavy metal )
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| PROO #25: Things Not Said |
[03 Oct 2007|01:10am] |
I didn't get the beginning of this one. What I've got starts with Mack showing pictures from a childhood fishing trip that, as we know, can't have happened, what with Mack having popped out of the test tube only two years ago. Wonder who the kid in the photo is and when it was taken.
Down in the batcave, Mr. Hartford's working on the tablet and talking about a Star of Isis, and Rose has done her first Billy-esque feat, a new weapon that's got a few bugs working out. Prepared for the Zords but likely to cook human users.
The alarm barks, and our heroes rush over to an office building. Once they get their, the Trackers can detect whatever the batcave's computers picked up.
Mack decides he's going to go around back 'cause something seems fishy.
Ooh. We've not had a Kamdor episode in a while. At least, not an all-Kamdor episode. He's doing something on one computer (looks like downloading but that doesn't fit what happens later) and turns another computer (monitor, actually) into a computer monster called Datum. Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised if most people didn't even know 'data' had a singular form.
While he takes on the Rangers out front, the real fun's inside as Mack shows up. Miratrix is having trouble fighting him alone, and Kamdor's saying "nah, you can handle this" and just ignoring them. Miratrix's expressions are priceless.
( Mack 2.0 )
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| PROO #24: Ronny on Empty, Part 2 |
[01 Oct 2007|11:02pm] |
Man, that's a lot of Zords.
The word "Egypt" at the bottom of the screen (in case we missed the pyramids) now has snazzier, more Egypty looking script. The gang's not having a great time.
Of course, stuck with Norg, Will just may have it worse. Or maybe not. Norg's tracking capabilities prove to be pretty impressive. Between that and healing dance... how come he never shared any of this with Flurious? May turn out in the end that he's smarter than he looks.
Meanwhile, the bad guys notice Will and send in the goons. It would happen right after Mig said they'd never find the lair.
( Four Rangers walking through the sun for five minutes )
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| PROO 23: Ronny on Empty, Part 1 |
[01 Oct 2007|11:02pm] |
A shiny new opening that's got major ADHD. Which is a good thing. ^_^
It's got most of the Zords we've seen and a few we haven't. That aircraft carrier is sweet. But how many Zords does one team need?! I think we're approacing Wild Force's record by now.
Also of note: usually, any change to the opening after the change that adds the sixth Ranger is a step down, with more and more cool scenes replaced with transformation stock footage, or just the various toys in order. Good to see that not happen. In fact, there's less of the Flashpoint transformation.
How not to do it is like last year, with virtually the entire battlizer scene, or DT and that truck. (I still wanna know just how a truck that was in one episode only deserved to be shown very prominently in the opening for half the season and Hayley didn't merit being in the opening at all.) TF's opening became something of a gadget showcase near the end, too. One more transformation scene of gadgets we see frequently isn't exciting.
( Did anybody get the license plate of that carrier? )
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| PROO #22: One Fine Day |
[01 Oct 2007|11:00pm] |
Well, first, some things I didn't remember to say about Once A Ranger.
One, who says Thrax was imprisoned for thousands of years? Just like Koragg, who also wasn't imprisoned for thousands of years, he said "all these" years, not giving a number. If you were stuck in a jar for three years, with no minions to talk to unlike Rita, you'd be glad to get out, right? It makes a lot more sense to me for his imprisonment to be short in cosmic terms but longer than you'd want to be locked away, and for him to have simply started his evil career young.
Though it's not implausible that Zedd wasn't above having his way with a pretty underling (at the end of Countdown to Destruction, we saw what Rita really looks like, remember?) and so realistically he could have been around a while... but you don't have to try quite that hard or go quite that far outside something likely to happen in Power Rangers to fit him in.
Born during MMPR or PRZ. Got old enough to use magic staff. Did bad stuff. Got locked up. Got out. Just that simple.
( Because you didn't ask )
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| 9/11 Is Over |
[01 Oct 2007|12:29pm] |
By Thomas L. Friedman
Published: September 30, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/30/news/edfried.php
Not long ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a fake news story that began like this:
"At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11. 'My fellow citizens of 9/11, today I will make you a promise,' said Giuliani during his 18-minute announcement speech in front of a charred and torn American flag. 'As president of 9/11, I will usher in a bold new 9/11 for all.' If elected, Giuliani would inherit the duties of current 9/11 President George W. Bush, including making grim facial expressions, seeing the world's conflicts in terms of good and evil, and carrying a bullhorn at all state functions."
Like all good satire, the story made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true - how much, since 9/11, we've become "The United States of Fighting Terrorism." New York Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there's no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don't need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.
( What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. )
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