Ta-metru_defender

When it came time to name me, Turaga Vakama looked at me and said one word:

"Oops."

What'd you do with the wine?

I wouldn't say wrong, no.

 

Perhaps "slightly distressing", but then again I could just be focusing on the negative here.  I think we need a third party to say for sure.

'Slightly distressing' applies to Tekulo in most circumstances.

Good article - with one caveat. It wasn't intentional, to say the least, but I would argue Revenge of the Sith (along with Attack of the Clones) did give a very good explanation as to why Anakin turned the the dark side: because he was a terrible person. And unfortunately, this does have a significant impact on a successive viewing of the next three movies, because it contradicts basically everything about Darth Vader's character arc in the original trilogy. After all, if he wasn't a good man as Obi-Wan claimed and Luke believed, there really wasn't much of a reason for him to turn back to the Light in Return of the Jedi, was there?

It's really a lose lose. If you accept what the prequels show us (Anakin is a futzin' creep), Vader's redemption is weaker. If you accept what the prequels tell us (Anakin... stumbled into the Dark Side?) it also undercuts everything.

Gragh.

Well. Okay.

My brother and I spent a lot of time playing "Star Wars Episode I: Racer" on the N64, reading the movie's tie-in "Incredible Cross-Sections" book, collecting fast food toys from KFC and Pizza Hut,

Same, though it was Racer on the PC and I may still have those Gungan Sub squirt guns somewhere.

But darn it, they tried.

I may disagree here. 'cuz I think they had some ideas but never really tried anything with them (ie: Anakin and Padmé's 'romance,' the politicking, even Anakin and Obi-Wan's relationship)

So I clicked this blog entry thinking "maybe I could give this one a read" but after skimming the length and never ending bullet points I'm just like "lol nope"

 

Let me clarify: I just finished my weekend by completing the Alola Pokedex and I am still in a bit of a crazed mood.

 

But oh, I will get to reading this entry, be sure of that. But right this moment I am not in the right mood. Rain check.

It's okay. I still love you.

The Force Awakens had a weak soundtrack compared to TPM or A New Hope

See, I think TFA's soundtrack rivaled the prequels in someways. Where the prequels used music to get by TFA showed more restraint. Consider how it uses flourishes from the original trilogy and where it shows up The first time we hear the Force theme in TFA is a massive gut punch, whereas the prequels use it every third scene.

There's no 'right' way, just different ones with varying effects.

That's a dope bird.

I will be seeing this movie the same way I watched Dark Side Of The Moon: With a flask and drinking for every:

• AMERICA! moment.

• Explosion/mass destruction

• Objectifying shot of a woman.

It makes the movie much more fun!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Had a 4s for four years and hardly a scratch. Woo!

SE so far is okay.

Just do what I do and don't wear a shirt.

I'm worried about you.

And which charming, handsome fellow might have introduced you to this sunbeam of a show?

When Josh gets lazy, Josh gets hairy.

Dibs on secondborn.

Does the shadow hand in question auto-stabilize? If so, it solves every single here-hold-my-drink issue I've ever had.

Hi!

Why not "Love Is a Battlefield" for a Pat Benatar song?

I get that, but that's not enough. Love can't be reliant on truth, I don't want someone not to love me because we don't believe the same truth.

Love is unconditional, love loves despite flaws. Love is selfless, kind; it protects, it hopes.

Love stops hate.

Love will win.

 

And hey, how often do we get to see women be the wise old masters?

You clearly haven't played MGS3 because the old master was a women. No joke they call her the mother of special forces.

 

MGS is so wild with how it uses tropes that it devolves into its own beast half the time. But Boss is the super special master soldier, not the sort of Wise Old Master we've been tlakin about (Toph, person in Teen Titans, The Ancient One etc).

 

In an episode of Teen Titans called The Quest, Robin must journey to Japan to learn martial arts from someone called the "True Master" who turns out to be an old woman.  So... there's that.

 

He also fights a bunch of talking animals, and that's never explained.  It was a weird episode.

But isn't that half of Robin's MO in the show? His super power is martial arts? I dunno. Teen Titans is also super anime-inspired so it almost makes contextual sense?

 

Like I said, it's a frustratingly murky thing.

 

Thinking more on this, I think Teen Titans gets away with it because the whole show is very Asian-esque, that when you have an Asian Wise Old Master it doesn't stick out, because a good chunk of characters already are.

 

Yup. The blind woman is not a minority.

 

I was more talking along the lines of being a minority through race, as was the point of the journal entry, but your sarcasm is accurate nonetheless.

 

~Soran

 

Yeah, I'd argue that race in Avatar is inconsequential, because, y'know, duh. Toph is wonderful as a Wise Old Master because she's a she and also blind. 

In an episode of Teen Titans called The Quest, Robin must journey to Japan to learn martial arts from someone called the "True Master" who turns out to be an old woman.  So... there's that.

 

He also fights a bunch of talking animals, and that's never explained.  It was a weird episode.

But isn't that half of Robin's MO in the show? His super power is martial arts? I dunno. Teen Titans is also super anime-inspired so it almost makes contextual sense?

Like I said, it's a frustratingly murky thing.

My girlfriend and I went as Jamie and Cersei Lannister last year.

(This year we were Nancy and Barb [i was Nancy])

i love you tmd

I know.

I love its toes.