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dave_is_slick posted...

No they don't. I'm on episode 4 and the only reason I know it's a giant flashback is because of spoilers.

Well then that's on you because they really club you over the head with it

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Kami_no_Kami posted...

Y tho?

This. Never understood the point of vids like these. They arent good, interesting, or fun to listen to

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They make it clear as day in the first episode.

Ciri mentions queen calanthe winning her first battle when she was Citi's age

The very next scene, geralt and renfri bring up that queen Calanthe of Cintra just won that same battle

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KillerSlaw posted...

Also wtf were they thinking with nilfgard armor?

The director said that since it's the early days of the nilfgaardian conquest, and most of their soldiers are very recently conscripted conquered people, their armor is basically shit to reflect that. The blitzkrieg-esque nature of their warfare hasn't yet allowed them to make the super ornate, or even good quality, armors that they'd be known for in the later parts of the war

Still looks like shit

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RoS would have been a lot better if it were two movies.

On paper, the film actually addresses a lot of problems people had with TLJ. It gives Rey an actual arc, with personal struggles/demons that mean something (and makes her fail, and have to recover). It gives Poe a background, gives Finn someone/thing to bounce off of regarding his stormtrooper background. It gives Luke an actual compelling reason to go off to the jedi ho.eworld, other than hiding and cowering. It gives background to the first order, it shelves a lot of useless filler plots and characters. And much more.

Its problem is that it's clearly two movies shoved into one running time. Meaning we're getting arcs introduced and resolved within minutes. Jumping from place to place without a minute to breathe or digest. And a lot of these developments dont get properly explored, because, whoops, been here too long, onto the next place!

If Disney dropped the tradition and "let the old ways die," and made this a quadrology, the end result would have been much better.

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MFBKBass5 posted...

Its a droid. They dont have respiratory systems.

Considering obi wan shot his after ripping off his chest piece, I'd say he did.

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He has some cool story behind him, and Christopher Lee is of course great.

But his presence in the movies is weak. Not a lot of presence, very little buildup to him, even compared to Maul who was a friggin mute. His dialogue didnt serve to make him particularly interesting or intimidating, even with Lee's acting chops. And his climactic fight as the final boss of episode 2 is easily the worst lightsaber duel showdown we've had, save episode 4 (and even then that had better stakes, even if the fight itself is famously lame). Coyple that with the notorious shot of him flying away with his Grandpa blanket tucked up to his chin, and he just didnt leave a great impression in the only movie where he was important.

Eggs he was better in episode 3, at least for the role he served. And he died almost immediately there.

So. Yeah. Like everything else in the prequels, he's great in every way except in the execution

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A Few Good Men On Ice

Aquaman On Ice

Jurassic Park On Ice

Batman and Robin On Ice

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No love for Rogur Squadron 3!?

... that's fair. I didn't like Star Fox Adventures much, either

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Garioshi posted...

Bayo 2 is significantly better

Bayo 2 is so great that it made me like bayo 1 much less.

After playing 2, I have so much less patience for bayo 1's bullshit

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Oh really? Nevermind then lol.

Dont get me wrong. The video games have a clear influence on the show. Lots of little nods and slight alterations.

But yeah, the actual events are pulled from the written stories. The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny short story collections, mostly

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Is this the first live-action media based on a video game to actually be legit good? And not just in the "Mortal Kombat" way?

No. Because it's based on the books and not the video games

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Shablagoo posted...

The name is Exogol, in case you were wondering.

Thank you.

Ffsi'd have settled for Korriban, too. At least itd be thematically relevant.

What? Lucas renamed it to Moraband?

fuck off, Disney, lucas, the lot of ya

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Jabodie posted...

Yeah, it's really obvious that the Sith blade was used as a plot contrivance to move the movie along as quickly as possible. I doubt it would have been so important if this were two movies.

It's very easy for me to imagine Rey and Kylo at the Death Star being the end to an eighth movie, with more time spent on Poe's girlfriend and the new former storm trooper recruits.

This was basically my exact thought process through this. Also, retroactively, I can see smoke's order to bring Ren to him at the end of episode 7 being used to bring ren to palpatine himself. Luke's journey to the jedi homeworld actually being a journey of research, for the Express purpose of counteracting what was happening on the sith homeworld (would it have killed them to call it Dromund Kaas? Really? At least then I'd remember it) Among many other things.

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Jabodie posted...

No. Rose is basically dropped like a bag of dirt in this movie.

Tbh I feel really bad for the actress. She took a shit ton of abuse for what was really the writer/director's fault, and gets so massively downgraded and disrespected by the movie itself that tbh I'm amazed she even bothered to return.

Dont get me wrong, the character was a waste of cinema, but, like... it's not HER fault

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Hoe posted...

@LostForest thanks for that. Going by that only, it doesnt seem as bad as people are making it out to be

For me the issues arent WHAT happens. If anything, it addresses a lot of issues I had with the sequel trilogy. Rey is given an actual, compelling, character driven struggle. So is Poe. The directions the characters are pulled are fine.

The issue is that this really should have been two movies. The first half blows through scenes so quickly they practically give you whiplash. Plenty of things that should be given time to settle dont really get any opportunity to.

Abrams basically made not only episode 9, but also the episode 8 he wanted to write. All stuffed into one movie. And it shows.

And yeah, it's very VERY obvious that Leia was supposed to be a big player in this one. And, for obvious reasons, she cant. And while they do their best with it... the way they have her sprinkled in, building dialogue around obvious stock footage leftovers feels very bare and sticks out quite badly.


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CM_Ponch posted...

Togashi originally wanted 3 Kings saga to be a deconstruction of the main group and have more politics, but Jump wasn't letting that happen so we got the rushed 3 Kings arc and ending instead.

As much as I would have liked it, it didnt make a ton of sense with how it was set up. Especially the sides that were taken.

Hiri and mukuro I can understand. But the lynchpin of the whole thing was, and always would be, Yomi and Kurama. And I'll be honest, I NEVER understood that alliance. Yeah, I get the two had history in kurama's demon fox days. But Yomi's ideology was basically diametrically opposed to the person kurama became post-reincarnation. To say nothing of the bad blood and inevitable backstab from Yomi that someone like Kurama would inevitably calculate. Idk. Always felt super weird seeing those two share a corner.

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OctilIery posted...

Still can't forgive that the asshole author is why we won't have Witcher 4.

Not true anymore, fyi.

That said, even if it was... witcher 3 was a pretty perfect capping-off point, as it is. Definitely wouldnt say no to more, mind. But if it had to end, it's a near perfect place to do so

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Southern food is fucking delicious.

Which goes hand in hand with it being basically consumable heart attacks

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Villain posted...

He did end up as the strongest human so that's kinda cool

And to be fair, his dimensional sword is nothing to sneeze at

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Villain posted...

He wasn't significantly more powerful after the tournament in the chapter black arc.

Eh... he was powering up pretty steadily throughout chapter black. Had to be. Sensui was so stupidly beyond toguro that yusuke tangling with him at all basically necessitates that. Still nothing on his massive post-awakening spike, but a steady growth nonetheless.

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dawiseone4 posted...

poor geralt had no idea. like being with a- nevermind i'll stop there.
anyways i should start on the books.

He did know. He mentions in the books that in the right light, squinting, you can sort of glimpse past the magic she used to glam herself up. A little.

Shit like this isn't uncommon among sorceresses in-universe. The season they tend to be so hot is that many/most of them are actually hideous, but use their magic to make themselves look like whatever they want to be.

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St0rmFury posted...

Someone remind me again why/how were Urameshi & co forced to participate in the dark tournament?

Toguro liked what he saw when he and his bro fought tusuke/kuwabara at Tarukane's when they rescued yukina.

He showed up, showed off a fraction of his power to yusuke, and threatened to murder all of his friends/family if they didnt participate. That got yusuke and kuwabara in. Also had yusuke shitting his pants.

Hiei and Kurama were drafted/volunteered due to needing to fill out the team, and being the only competent allies they had.

The masked fighter should be obvious.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

The Last Jedi followed TFA's trajectory perfectly, people are just mad their innately sucky predictions didn't come true.

We have word of God evidence from the writers and director that that is not true.

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Hyped in the sense that its star wars, a franchise I've loved since I was 5, and there will always be a primal id in me that is hyped to see a new one.

That said, TLJ really killed anything special I felt for THIS movie. TFA had problems, but it clearly had a planned trajectory. Rian Johnson literally threw out that trajectory because "what a twist" and didnt leave much compelling left in its place. Now we have the original director coming in to course correct. And we have a final chapter of a trilogy where we know shockingly little about most of the characters, know very little about the conflict/war beyond that it's happening because... nobody knows why, and have little to actually care about.

There's only so good a movie like that can realistically be.

TBH I feel really bad for JJ Abrams, here. Again, whatever problems TFA had, he was really put in an unwinnable situation with RoS. And it must suck to see something you had clearly charted out in a state like this.

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Defeat_Unknown posted...

As in "execute them"?

That's really sickening.

As in "literal mistranslation."

You read the title. Surely you can read the rest

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Poor baby Yoda is getting run into the ground.

He didnt ask for this. FFS DISNEY didnt ask for this, if the lack of merch is any indication.

Fuckin meme culture. Just let something be popular without killing it with overexposure

As for the video, meh

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ScazarMeltex posted...

Yeah people just aren't used to episodic tv anymore. There was a time when thats all there was.

And it was pretty damn successful, too. And it can be emotional and powerful, with *gasp* arcs and development!

Source: M*A*S*H*

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EffectAndCause posted...

You typically die in one shot, you operate every physical part of the gun individually, and taking down enemies requires very precise shots

Sounds boring.

Agreed.

Believe it or not, most video games arent fun because they're realistic. They're mostly fun because they aren't.

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I mean, this is kinda Filoni's MO. Did it with Clone Wars, Rebels, and now the mandalorian. Plenty of Problem of the Week episodes, with big plot running scarce for a while (hell, usually nonexistent in season 1). Just like those shows, the big arcs will inevitably come.

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JebronLames posted...

dark fate was awesome

I mean, other than the fact that it basically invalidates and throws out the entire franchise so they can... tell the exact same story with worse characters

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2>1>3>salvation>genisys>dark fate

God damn, was dark fate special. It's one thing for a movie to be bad; it's another for it to fail so spectacularly that it manages to ruin the two I actually like

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EnterTheTekken posted...

Do these world leaders include India and China? The world's most significant polluters?

I mean, probably? Just because the US has been most proactive in engaging in "dialogue" (read: trump tweets), I dont recall any time she said India and China were a-ok number 1

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YellowMustard69 posted...

Ignore them and let the smarter, wiser, more experienced, and more emotionally mature adults handle things.

Yeah, but where the hell are they?

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No love for pillars of eternity?

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So like, I get why kids feel the need to white knight their platform/company of choice. They get what their parents get them, so of course they need to validate themselves to their friends.

What do grown ass adults get out of it, again?

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Conflict posted...

I just remembered this dude being an obnoxious anti-Nintendo fanboy that would troll Switch game boards. Not surprised that he's this level of unhinged

THAT'S where I remember him from. Now I remember why I had him ignored.

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Tropicalwood posted...

Booby trapping a house is illegal.

And yet he still gets off scott free

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FuneralFroth posted...

Basicslly everybody fucked up bad in the movie.

Except Kevin who gets off Scott free

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

You only get 1/12 of Jack Chan's net worth. He probably wouldn't even sell you one.

Never said anything about buying them

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_Rinku_ posted...

Nope. Way too risky that you could end up blind and deaf. You would essentially be trapped in your own body, and it would be agonizingly easy for your "caretaker" to steal all of your money.

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Overall, painfully easy. It's the exp candies that do it; makes it way too easy to get too strong too fast.

There are a few good difficulty jumps between badges 3 and 4, and again just before the champion fight. And the champ himself is the best champion fight weve had since cynthia, I'd say.

On the whole, though? Still painfully easy.

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1. Take money
2. Use money to acquire talismans
3. ????????
4. Profit

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PowerOats posted...

There's nothing wrong with humanoid Pokemon, it's just that the humanoid gen 8 Pokemon look like OCs/Anime/Sonic/Pixar rejects

Pick a gen. Any gen. At random.

Strike it from history.

Release it today.

"Omg wtf these designs are SHIT! GF out of ideas."
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"If he did it, and I'm not saying he did, but if he did, it wouldnt be a big deal. It wouldnt even matter."
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Hitmonchan is humanoid and is literally named after a human.

Yes. Just hitmonchan.

No others.
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Ryven posted...

The fact that its retconning both Genesys and Salvation alone makes it a winner in my book.

If only it wasnt retconning and invalidating 1 and Judgement day, too.

Literally retconned/burned down the entire story of the franchise so far just so they could tell literally the exact same story but with ladies now.

Series was much better when the time loop was stable.
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