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[Rohirrim]

In the middle of Empire Strikes Back today. I forgot how many classic lines this movie has. You can tell Lucas did not write the screenplay!

For some reason I have been imagining the Porn Star names of the Star Wars Universe. I think it is Kit Fisto that got me started. I mean, his name is just begging to be used in Porn! I can just imagine the following:

Kid Fisto (whose specialty would obviously have to do with his last name... )
Princess Lay-Ahhh
Babe-A Fett
Jango Fetish
Lando Coxrissian
Darth Daddy
Luke Skyhumper

Obi-Long Kenobi
Anakin Skywalker only needs a couple of letters in his first name
Jabba the... Ugh, I need mind bleach
Talon Hard
D3-P0?
Wild Katarn?
...

A person could spend way too much time thinking about this

Obviously Obi-Wang Kenobi.

[SubRosa]

Just finished Return of the Jedi. Lots of fun. I was even able to suppress my natural urge to roll my eyes at the Ewoks this time. What really stood out to me in this one was Mark Hamill. Has acting in the first two films was just so-so. But he starts to show some real talent in this one. I could see where the guy who defined the Joker came from watching this.

I also noted that Harrison Ford has a great, lop-sided grin.

[SubRosa]

And to wrap up my Star Wars-athon Geek Girls are Great!

[Darkness Eternal]

I've been having a Star Wars marathon, too! I'm going to get my girl to watch it since she hasn't seen any of them. We're going to see Force Awakens when it comes out so I want to make sure my Star Wars nutrition is in order.

[Callidus Thorn]

Working my way through Trigun again. Vash is such a dork

After that I'll move onto Cowboy Bebop

[hazmick]

Can't get away from Star Wars stuff these days it seems. I've been catching up the the new season of Star Wars Rebels. I prefer The Clone Wars, but Rebels is fun enough. The new season is especially exciting since it has some familiar faces mixed in there.

[mirocu]

Just finished Return of the Jedi. Lots of fun. I was even able to suppress my natural urge to roll my eyes at the Ewoks this time. What really stood out to me in this one was Mark Hamill. Has acting in the first two films was just so-so. But he starts to show some real talent in this one. I could see where the guy who defined the Joker came from watching this.

I also noted that Harrison Ford has a great, lop-sided grin.

Haven´t watched these films in years but they really are good ones. Was a bit shocked when I learned that Luke Skywalker also did the Joker!

[SubRosa]

Watching Rocky 3. Carl Weathers is an adonis in this movie. But Mr. T is just a monster!

[mALX]

And to wrap up my Star Wars-athon Geek Girls are Great!

BWAAHAA!!!

[SubRosa]

Just finished watching Rocky IV. Well, fast-forwarding through most of it and watching the two fights. If Mr. T was a monster in the 3rd movie, Dolph Lundgren is an Olympian god in this one. Stallone was nothing to sneer at either. He didn't have a six pack, he had a whole case of abs!

[mALX]

Just finished watching Rocky IV. Well, fast-forwarding through most of it and watching the two fights. If Mr. T was a monster in the 3rd movie, Dolph Lundgren is an Olympian god in this one. Stallone was nothing to sneer at either. He didn't have a six pack, he had a whole case of abs!

Stallone buys his Catahoula dogs from the same breeder I do.

[hazmick]

Just watched the first episode of the new 6-part series, The Frankenstein Chronicles. It stars Sean Bean as Inspector John Marlott, a policeman in 19th century London who is tasked with investigating a strange body which is found washed up on a riverbank.

The setting is suitably dark and gritty, and you really get a sense for the struggle a policeman would go through when trying to solve even basic problems. Add to that the corruption at pretty much every level of the system which Inspector Marlott is caught up in and you're left with a rather interesting drama show.

The show is apparently a re-imagining of the original Frankenstein story, so I look forward to seeing how it turns out.

This post has been edited by hazmick: Nov 12 2015, 03:29 PM

[SubRosa]

Cool! That is one I am looking forward to watching once it comes out on dvd/Netflix.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 12 2015, 04:20 PM

[Decrepit]

Recent watching is almost wholly confined to gaming videos at YouTube.

Gopher, known for his Skyrim related videos (if he's known at all), recently began a series of single-player survival Minecraft live broadcasts. He uploads them to YouTube afterward, largely unedited. I watch them there, despite their hours-long length. (They are on his Gopher Live channel.)

Staying with Minecraft, Kikoskia, whose King of Dragon Pass LP I like so well, is in the midst of his second attempt at a Minecraft 'hard-core survival' LP. (His first ended abruptly when he entered the Nether to find a skeleton and creeper waiting at the portal.)

I'm half-heartedly following several ongoing Daggerfall LPs.

I watch random episodes from a variety of different ARK: Survival Evolved LPs.

I occasionally watch random episodes from a variety of different Cities Skylines LPs.

The past few days I've watched the opening episodes of several Fallout 4 LPs. (I don't plan to buy the game so watching them spoils nothing.)

I watched a few videos about Kingdom: Deliverance pre-alpha release .05. Still too soon to get a good feel for this one.

Non gaming wise, I've watched all Series 'M' episodes of 'QI' uploaded to YouTube to date.

[SubRosa]

I am into season five of The Clone Wars. Today I started a neat little arc about a group of Jedi Younglings. In the second one they learn to construct their lightsabers from... David Tennant! *Fangirl Squeee* And wow, he actually won an Emmy for it!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 15 2015, 07:08 AM

[SubRosa]

I watched Pixels. I didn't realize it was an Adam Sandler movie. If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered. It has a few ok moments in it, like fighting the centipede in Hyde Park, and Peter Dinklage was an awesome asshole. To be honest though, the best thing was the Cheap Trick song. My advice is just watch a few of their videos on You Tube instead.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 15 2015, 09:40 PM

[Callidus Thorn]

Just watched Event Horizon

Gods, what an awful film that was.

I'm genuinely angry about having wasted the time to watch it rather than doing something else.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Nov 16 2015, 11:59 PM

[mALX]

Not yet, but will be:


http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/t...ticle-1.2434274

[SubRosa]

I just finished Season Five of The Clone Wars. This is my first time seeing this season. Wow. It started off with an interesting arc about the Jedi supporting a rebellion on a Separatist world. It is notable because it is the first time we ever hear the word "Rebel" in Clone Wars or the Prequels. The whole time watching it I was thinking it was a risky move for the Jedi, as training people to rebel is not something conservative establishments like to do. It not only teaches people to use violence to achieve a political goal, but if they are successful, they also learn that they were right to do so. So what happens in the future when they believe they are right, and their government is wrong? Well they are going to rebel. Which is of course where the Rebel Alliance came from.

Then there was nice arc of a group of Younglings in Ahsoka's charge that was really neat. Then a somewhat amusing, somewhat ho-hum arc with droids. That one's high point for me was an episode with a clone suffering from amnesia, who had no idea what he was. When he did figure it out, it turns out he was a Republic Commando, straight from the video game. That was Dave Filoni's idea. He had played the game, and wanted to put a commando from it in the show. I thought that was really neat.

The Mandalorian arc was really astounding. I just loved seeing all those super-commandos flying around. The showdown between Pre-Vizula and Darth Maul was one of the absolute best I have ever seen in any Star Wars format, tv show, film, etc... My only disappointment was their portrayal of Duchess Satine. In spite of being a pacifist, in the past she was always a driving force. She had agency. Here she is nothing more than a damsel in distress. On the plus side though, the show introduced her sister, a super-commando played by none other than Katee Sackhoff (yes, I did a fangirl *squee* when I first heard her voice, out loud, very loud )

Finally the wrap up with the Ahsoka arc was awesome. It topped the Mandalorian one. You can really see the rise of the Empire here. Naturally Tarkin in prominent, as we see the Republic military pushing the Jedi Council into the back seat in running affairs. Tarkin has his own base, which is a pure brooding, monolithic, cold, intimidating, Fortress of Evil™. The clones there don't answer to the Jedi. The hallways and prison cells are vintage Death Star. Even the music, which was done with a full orchestra, is dark and brooding. Clearly, Order 66 is not far away...

Of course the stuff with Ahsoka herself is really cool as well. She is by far my favorite character in the show. Not just because she is female (I don't believe there is such a thing as a female Jedi who utters a single word of dialogue in any Star Wars movie), but because she is the character who shows the most growth and development throughout the series. With Ventriss following in second. Funny how similar both their circumstances are by the end of this season. To me, they have always been the most interesting characters, simply because they have the most depth (though Ventriss doesn't get there until the Dathomir arc in Season 3). Most of the jedi are cool to look at, but don't have much personality thanks to the Jedi nature, which precludes passions and objectives beyond the very narrow scope of the Jedi Order's vision.

In the end Ahsoka does exactly what I would have done, even if not for the same reasons. It will be disappointing to not see her again (as I doubt she will appear again in the show, though it is possible). But I do love how she went out. Especially since it means she probably won't be a target of Order 66 (and I know she makes an appearance in the new Rebels show).

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 20 2015, 04:14 AM

[mALX]

Not yet, but will be:


http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/t...ticle-1.2434274

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