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Glad to hear you're O.K.

I got two feet of water in my house and no power. 90% of L.I. is without power and the guy I work for sent out a text on Tuesday morning that the office had power, was up and running, and "I'll see you all soon."

I texted back that I had gotten two feet of water and was without power and would see him when I could. Came in today and he's walking around whistling. At least I have access to the internet - filed my flood insurance claim first thing.

Driving through my neighborhood is dangerous. Trees and power lines are down every couple of blocks. I don't see how they're going to get power back anytime soon. Yesterday the house smelled like salt water. Today it just smells bad. I'm on Servpro's list for cleanup and am hoping they get to us soon.

I just found out I like Elton John's music.

Wait, why was it racist? Do we have a race of amphibious duckfrogmen living somewhere that nobody told me about?

Gungans.

If memory serves correctly, Maz has a soft spot for Lady Sylvanas. For Maz.

Leia was also brought up as the crown Princess of Alderaan. Part of that was weapons training and tactics. Padmé likely only got a brief version of that, since she was an elected ruler.


I have a soft spot for her too.

...err, not soft spot?

It's never too soon.

Also, is there a reason we should be surprised Padme got "lame" when pregnant? The entirety of Episode III takes place when she's pretty far along in her pregnancy. She wasn't exactly going to be running off into battle just to put her childrens' lives at risk, would she?

I do think the "broken heart" explanation was dumb as hell though. Because no. No one dies of a broken heart.

They could have at LEAST tried to explain it through the force or something. Like losing the will to live after having such proximity to Vader's evil actually means the dark side of the force sucked the life out of her. Still stupid, and clearly contrived, but at least it's an actual explanation.

What Gaxe said, although it wasn't anything directly physical that caused her death in the movie. The droids can't figure out why she's dying, but guess that she lost the will to live. Still stupid and overly sentimental, but not entirely unrealistic. My mom works at a nursing home and she says that a lot of the old couples there tend to die together. Like, not instantly together, but one of them dies and then the other one dies a week or two later.

It was stupid in this movie because there was no @#%^ing chemistry between Anakin and Padmé whatsoever. If they wanted to go with death by heartbreak then they should have put way more focus on their relationship. And hired someone else to portray Anakin, because the only thing I could think when Padmé realized that Anakin was a douche bag was "Thank God, finally!" The rest of us hated him from pretty much the moment he started talking in Episode 2.

So, yeah, the heartbreak thing didn't really work because Hayden's Anakin was so unlikable throughout the two episodes that you didn't identify with him or Padmé at all. There was no "Aww, they were so cute together" or "They deserved each other, sniffles," just relief as Padmé finally got the glitter out of her eyes and saw him for the whiny, egotistical brat that that we, the audience, knew him to be... and then she died.

Edited, Nov 1st 2012 8:51pm by Mazra

I thought he was cute, but yeah he acts like a spoiled brat for most of episode 2. If I had been Padme, I might have been initially attracted to him, but as soon as he told me he had killed all those sand people, I would have booked it. I mean seriously, how could you love someone who is so filled with rage that he killed innocent women and children who did absolutely nothing to his mother or him? You can tell that she's pretty disgusted with him, but she still stays by his side after that. WTF?

Sean Connery is the best James Bond, period, and that image from Thunderball is a perfect example of what the new Bond movies lack. In my opinion, of course. Has anyone seen Skyfall? Has Craig acquired sly womanizing skills since the last movie or is he still all Jason Bourne?

Edit: I seriously have no idea who the various people posting on the OOT Facebook page are. I'm getting 5+ mails a day from Facebook because someone wrote something on that page. Silly Facebook.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2012 1:46am by Mazra

Nope.



I'm sorry, could you run that one by me again? Moore and Brosnan were robotic in their performance, but Stoneface Craig wasn't? Are we talking about the same movies here?

Cowboys and Aliens
Tomb Raider
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
James Bond

Notice a pattern? And I know Moore and Brosnan were typecast as well, but at least they are typecast as likable. Craig looks as if he witnessed someone taking a piss in his morning coffee, and he's now debating with himself if he should reach across the table and punch the guy or get up and walk away in an indifferent way.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2012 4:46am by Mazra

I like Pierce Brosnan's 007, but I'll admit he is a bit stone faced. He was sexy, charming, and sneaky. Roger Moore has the charisma of a wet mop. Daniel Craig is just lacking something. I don't know what it is though. I've seen Casino Royale 2 or 3 times, and I can't put my finger on it. Haven't seen the other two newer ones.

The thing is that 007 isn't supposed to be "sexy" or "sneaky." He's supposed to basically be a badass that, while he knows wine, cigars, cognac, etc, can beat the sh*t out of even the best Special Forces guys at a moments notice.

Daniel Craig embodies that. Every action scene he's in, I get the feeling that he's one moment away from snapping.

Try reading Casino Royale (it's only like 100-150 pages) and then watching the movie and tell me that Craig did a bad job.

Also, the third Craig movie isn't out yet.

Gratz!

Val Kilmer was much worse.

I can understand that, I'm just a traditionalist. After I saw my first Bond movie my dad took me out to get a copy of Casino Royale so I could see the differences between Bond movies and books, and I've always preferred the book version until Craig started playing Bond.

I've seen Casino Royale too many times to count, and I'm one of those people that actually liked Quantum of Solace.

The last bond movie i saw was goldmember. the moles jokes was funny.

I just assume he's always joking.

I see Craig's Bond as a modern times special agent while I see Connery's, Moore's and Brosnan's Bond as a 60's/70's secret agent, if you know what I mean.

Craig pulls off the ex-military agent who was born and raised to kill sh*t with his bare hands, like Matt Damon in Jason Bourne and Liam Neeson in Taken (I love that movie). The "old" Bonds were more about being a British gentleman and throwing punches when the bad guys, usually sporting a sinister voice, tried to have him assassinated while in the company of a beautiful, rarely innocent, girl in his hotel room. Not to mention the gadgets.

There was an FPS video game back in the days where you played a (female?) secret agent in a universe that reminded me of a mix between Bond, Evil Genius (game) and Austin Powers. You had tranquilizer perfume, explosive lipstick and all kinds of crazy gadgets. Loved that game, but I can't remember its name.

Edit: No One Lives Forever!

Holy crap, that was 12 years ago. I feel old.

Edited, Nov 4th 2012 3:40pm by Mazra

I've been doing that for ten years already. Damn kids with their hippity hop music and baggy pants.

24 hours with no internet... so old school, ugh!

Thank god I still have some offline games available.

Election Day, meng.

Good reason to drink into a coma.