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I'll take "Things no child would ever actually say" for 200, Alex.

I absolutely would have said that as a child.

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Watched the "lost" episode first. It was about time a perverted old man popped up, I guess? I like how Gary shows up to trash-talk Ash, but then when Ash calms everyone down, he just stands there with a weird grin on his face and then disappears before the denouement. Also, there were several prolonged ass shots of Ash's mother in the final scene. Huh.

Nastina -- or whatever her cousin's name is -- is a real piece of work. Art-wise, I mean. Her character design, it's something else. It's just so mesmerizingly hideous.

Of course, James and the Giant Breasts is the highlight of the episode, and makes it worth watching. I guess Ash's "First Place In Our Hearts" is kind of d'aww-worthy, and it's great to see Oak getting out, although I could live without him showing up to save the day by suggesting that our heroes showcase all of the women on swimsuit display, up to and including Ash's mother, a twelve-year-old girl... even Jessie winds up part of this. Jessie! Wait, that's normal.

I also have to comment on how when Ash's mom asks if he's keeping out of trouble, we get a flashback to his ferry crashing into a dock. You know, it doesn't occur to Ash that a better example of running into life-threatening situations was that time like a week ago, max, where he and his friends had to escape a sunken ship before it fell deeper into a trench. Man, this anime is a real loose canon.

Next up was "Tentacool and Tentacruel", and... holy what, I don't remember this episode trying so hard to be strangely epic. What with the awkward, over-the-top, booming "giant mysterious Pokemon" monologues and a major character (Misty, in this case) taking an environmental stand, I could have sworn I was watching a super-condensed version of one of the movies. Throw in a ridiculous villain (Nastina, in this case... also, was this woman/family thing supposed to be a recurring idea or something? What the hell is going on here) and you have all the familiar trappings for "Pokemon the Movie Zero: Black-Eyed Horsea and the Mystery of Terrorism Tentacruel".

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fact that Nastina has a harem of 14-year-old cabana boys, each with their own unique anime hair. Collect all five on specially marked boxes of why-do-both-these-episodes-promote-child-porn cereal.

I tried typing "horsea black eye" into Google to make everyone feel really bad about poor, abused Horsea but instead of what I was looking for, I found this, so we'll close tonight's thoughts with more uncomfortable feelings.



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Finally watching more. Sorry about the delay, girlfriend's in another state. We're watching "together" right now though. Will probably watch episodes 18 and 19, and possibly 20.

Gotta catch ('em all) up on Anagram's main event reviews afterward, too.

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From: ninkendo | #492

Jeff stuck to his guns

Yep, sure did.

I die free.

From: LordEmbok | #495

i actually just started so1 since i need something to play when my laptop overheats (which happens constantly)

god the voices are awful

If you make it to SO3 and SO4, you may well find yourself begging for those SO1 voices.

They're awful alright, but it's like the difference between a quick death and the Sarlaac.

...this entire post brought to you by death, apparently.

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I really like that one! I'm big on atmospheric episodes. Dank prison sequences where likable heroes have to overcome cruel pseudo-fates always do it for me.

Fourth season's memory-loss ep is a much better example of it though.

As below-average as the first season is compared with later seasons, it definitely has a superior season finale/premiere sequence than the second season/opening to the third does. Not that Out of Mind and Into the Fire are bad, although Out of Mind having clipshow elements is pretty saddening for a season finale. But that two-parter up there is just great, great stuff for early SG-1, and holds up well today.

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I legitimately love cliffhangers. They get me so hyped. What sucks is when things end on them, obviously, but otherwise they're great for building suspense in me. <3

I will have more to say about the previous few episodes now, at this rate. Still tired. I really need to hit the sack now... stupid coffee is keeping me zombie-tastic. Knew I should have had tea.

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ya go my good SG-1 opinions

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Oh god my girlfriend had so much fun hating Kinsey. He's literally everything she hates piled into a suit. Which she also hates. Suits, I mean.

The clips really do drag. I like the framing story a lot though, it ends on a high note and introduces that smarmy bastard. The sixth season's clip show is better though, the one with Thor telling Kinsey off.

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Have you skipped any episodes to-date?

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Ghost in the Shell rocks.

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Also, the shift to 20 was brought by SGA airing alongside, but I guess once SG-1 ended, Sci-Fi rather liked only having to foot the bill for 20, because unsurprisingly SGA's episode count never went up!

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I'm drop dead exhausted so I'll post some more thoughts tomorrow. But yeah, that one's good. It was also the only one written by Farscape's David Kemper. <3

Anyway, Showtime started with 22 even in '97 because the budget was pretty high up there for them at that time. And because they're premium cable. Nowadays premium cable shows get 13 or so. >_>

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More from me either super-late tonight or early tomorrow morning, by the by.

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Might be my favorite of the season, yeah. Absolutely fantastic. Torment of Tantalus, There But For The Grace of God and the season finale are the only real contenders for me there.

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You're quite right about the Arab world. :)

Most of the follow-up to that race is good. And Maybourne gets better once he and Jack start the "Jack and Maybourne Comedy Hour" episodes later on. >_>

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ME2

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lmao

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Haha, you actually managed to like Singularity. Yep, I'm convinced. My girlfriend and I are the only Stargate fans on Earth who dislike it. I'm sorry, but the Carter turnabout stuff you mentioned, and the schmaltziness of the very heavily manipulative music, and the "I love you! XD" crap from Carter... it's supposed to be touching, but it's just a wreck to us. A complete trainwreck of what happens when writers try to force you to care about something at literary gunpoint. Awful, awful episode.

I'll seriously take Hathor over it. Hathor is 45 minutes of XMFD the-writers-are-drunk, as you very poignantly agreed, but it's good for... a... drinking... game. o_o

Cor-Ai kinda rocks as far as the first season is concerned. I'd put several episodes above it, but between it and Bloodlines, it's my preferred first-season Teal'c episode. Bloodlines is fine, especially because Bra'tac's introduction is so important and handled fairly well, but it too feels a bit forced-drama for my taste. That's a common thread in the first couple of years; I feel like that they got much better about making the drama feel more natural later on. As a bit of an actor, this stuff is important to me. I write too, so yeah.

I like Fire and Water. But I'm also a huge Daniel Jackson fan. I wanna be an archaeologist, among other things. I don't have any delusions of grandeur that I'll wind up living the life of Dr. Daniel Jackson, but he's always been my go-to inspiration for recognizing the splendor of other cultures, not Indiana Jones. Seeing him have to work with that alien was pretty cool, I thought.

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Damn man, you're on a roll. Reading now.

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They're the actual fourth race, but we never see them, ever. Season 10's "200" has a great joke about them.

"Torment of Tantalus" is generally regarded as one of the finest episodes of the first season, and I mostly agree. It seems you didn't like it quite as much as the majority of the fandom, but yeah, it's not bad at least.

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Why the heck is Bowser so perpetually strong in these things, anyway?

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You will see the Nox in the future, but yeah, not nearly to the extent of the all-important Asgard. :3

Great write-ups man, keep 'em coming. You're so clearly a fellow fan, and that's refreshing. Not having to excuse the show for its growing pains left and right takes a load off my back.

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Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2)

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The Teal'c/Daniel thing is excellent, I forgot about that.

I just... I'm sorry, I just lose it every time O'Neill's ex-wife yells "Charlie!" in glorious 1997 Showtime slo-mo.

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giant enemy spiders

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From: ninkendo | #003

dat music

hahaha, and people said the Dragon Quest X trailer had lots of jumping

this one's got people flipping repeatedly, I love it

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Alright episode by early-series standards. It'd be slaughtered in the later years. :D

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ME2

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From: TsunamiXXVIII | #442

...Whoa, seriously? How did I miss this topic for so long?

...And how did they manage to f*** this up that badly? I was excited when I first saw this topic, but then I saw what anime they actually had here and it's either stuff that I haven't even heard of--a rarity for someone who spends as much time on TV Tropes as I do--or stuff I already know to be s***. And Cowboy Bebop which has been in reruns on adult swim for over a decade despite having only 26 episodes.

It's not f***ing up. It's doing what you can with the budget you're given. And what's wrong with shows you haven't heard of, exactly...?

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Bonus Question: Who is your favorite video game villain?

Grahf, followed by Sephiroth and Ocelot. Saren and The Illusive Man are somewhere in the top ten. Krelian, Miang, The Boss, Sin and Wiegraf as well.

Bonus Question: What game has your favorite art and/or graphics?

Probably FFX. So f***ing beautiful was that color pallet.

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Oh god, great write-up Leon. Possibly the best moment in the series for me. Possibly not, but all the same, quite possibly.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite moment where two characters reconcile with each other?

The one you just mentioned, as far as gaming is concerned.

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(Especially in my case since I do some VA stuff.)

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Yeah, "Broca" isn't too bad. Daniel and his... mate was pretty silly, but really, the whole thing was silly, but not in a terrible way. Seeing Janet Fraser for the first time was neat. And lolol @ the Womens Rights thing with Carter. Yeah. She gets a few obligatory "I've fallen in loooove" episodes too, and her feminism really gets toned down over time as well. But she evolves into a far better character for it, because the writing was so hamfisted on the issue to begin with that it's not like she was legitimately thought-provoking with those organ insults.

I actually read an interview with Amanda Tapping a few years back when she complained to high heaven about that line. I feel ya, Amanda.

My girlfriend and I adopted one of our many mainstay in-jokes when I showed her this episode. "Me. Give. Give." O'Neill's Neanderthatlic requests have been re-used quite a few times when one of us has asked the other for water and such.

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Zero Saber X

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No opinions on any MK characters here.

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Yep. Pretty much.

On the other side of... the known universe
An elite team of the galaxy's finest
Will stop at nothing to
FIRE THE RED MATTER

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LMAO, I forgot the movie said that. Holy smoke, gawd, that movie's canon compared with what came next. My bad. I completely erased that from my brain until now.

Also, that line. Oh god.

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Brought a probe out and watched it get transported to another gala...the closest planet to earth with a stargate lol retcon.

Abydos was never outside the Milky Way, and the show didn't start exiting our galaxy until the fourth-season finale, and it didn't do it with any real regularity until Atlantis.

Good write-ups though. "The Enemy Within" is probably SG-1's best first-season episode out of the first several, not counting the pilot.

Most people seem to love "Cold Lazarus", which is coming up not too long from now for you, but it is way too damn cheesy for me and useful only for laughing. You'll probably at least see what I mean toward the end. It's just the climax of that episode that is just so goddamn awful, but laughable as hell, but most Stargate fans hold it as some mighty lofty sign of amazing dramatic character development. It's great to do an O'Neill's-past ep, but man.

Also, "Singularity", the one that introduces Cassandra. Cheesy as all gitout, for similar reasons. But a lot of fans like it. To me they're possibly the worst in the first season not counting "Emancipation". The first year was really... I mean, Stargate has always been cheesy, but it learned to thrive on that cheese in all the right ways. Not so much early on.

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Catching up now

"Emancipation" more like "Worstipation"

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#24 Yoshi (Super Mario World, Smash Bros)
#22 Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Laharl (Disgaea, Shadow Bombplex)
Ike Griel (Fire Emblem, Smash Bros)
Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed II, Playstation All-Stars)
Dunban (Xenoblade, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
Prince of Persia (Prince of Persia, Game Jumping)
#23 Link (Legend of Zelda, Smash Bros)
#3 Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear ACE)
#8 Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear ACE)

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Who? I remember everyone else, but... oh yeah, the kid with the creepy stare.

Yes, sure, why not. He didn't offend me. He was really quite inoffensive.

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DarTHEMANitan

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JEFF ZERO the LEVEL 12 WRECK, still close to KAHU who has unleashed the KRAKEN, has no interest in falling weapons... for he possesses the legendary FLAMING LONGSWORD, henceforth dubbed HELLFIRE in all international releases because kids love those kinds of words. He swings it forth proudly, its vile flames licking. The preceding three words are complete garbage; please don't ever actually include crap like "vile flames licking" if you become authors, people.

But anyway, that's what happens, and he swings at some nearby Mermen, hoping to strike his own blow to the fiends. "If only JOLTEON were here to zap these Water-types..." And then he lets loose a terrible scream.

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Oh man. My two favorite Electric types. Y u do this, Board 8? But on the other hand, I'll be overjoyed either way, so really, it's quite fine. These are seriously two of the best Pokemon out there, and I'm really tempted to vote for Lux on the one hand, but my loyalty to the Eevee line must persevere. Best wishes to you, though, Lux. Either of you winning is <3.

Jolteon

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Wow, FFIV! It's like... the last several years combined!

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From: charmander6000 | #046

The episode wasn't that great (better than a 3/10 sure, but nothing to get worked up about).

Anything with a DarTHEMANitan in it deserves at least a 7 as far as XIII is concerned.

It's OK. I'm... I'm the same way with Eevee and its evolutions. /tears up

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I pull it out
Dig in deeper
Just to throw it away

Or whatevs

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From: Anagram | #047

This is too important not to post.

YesYesYesYes.

That is EXACTLY what I was talking about in the previous topic. Probably the best thing to happen in the Pokemon anime up to where I'm at.

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