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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] I loved Starblazers, but I don't think it'd hold up. I mean for more than one or two episodes. Better than Voltron to be sure. Also Battle for The Planets did rule. (So do people who take disproportionate offense whenever the Westernly corrupted names of anime are used fall into the same catagory of those who feel compelled to like differently for the sake of setting themselves apart? What are the rules regarding subbed/dubbed? I am asking and not only trying to be snarky.) [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb]...I can sorta see the wings unfolding, but those long spikey arms that open up like flowers reminded me of the old Inspector Gadget cartoon, where impossibly large devices retracted into his tiny head...[/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah it's pretty bad when you're giggling at the bits where they're trying to build tension. I didn't really get the whole thing with the [i]Scimitar[/i]. Because when it shows up, clearly it's massive, intimidating: mission accomplished. One might even just assume that because of it's size that it is possessed of some catastrophicly destructive power. But so yes, a gigantic unstoppable dreadnought, and then they put a cloaking device on it (which seem to do bugger all these days), and it's ducking and weaving invisibly through the space battle. And had I written it would have been all about the fuck-off impenetrable shields and just soaking up whatever everyone threw at it and kept lumbering towards it's increasingly nebulous objectives (kill Enterprise, no the entire population of Earth, no Starfleet, no wait, save Picard, I need his blood for some reason and using our transporter logs couldn't possibly be feasible or something, but kill everyone else including all Romulans). But so with the mega weapon and the gigantic and the invulnerable and maybe just stop there and not feel the need to go to invisible and sprightful as a frolicking lamb. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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