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It continues to be quite good so far. Was nice to see Cap starting to show off his leadership skills. While they haven't immediately throw Ironman aside and made cap leader out of the gates(like the ultimate avengers did.) they re giving both chances to show their stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the movies follow a simliar progression.

Even the most fit man can not outrun death. It was a good race though jack.

There was no need for sequels since after the cat was out of the bag with the mind blowing reveal that to what the matrix was; it had nothing more of substance to work with. I was asking myself could they possibly add to the story that would be remotely as interesting as the first film....the answer...nothing.

Hence why they really just piled on the action scenes to point they went on all too long and got silly. (particularly the opening fight with agent smith in the beginning of the second film.) They had nothing else up their sleeve that made a lick of sense. Every additional reveal was just crowbar crap into the mythos that unraveled more and more of the story.

Like why in the world would the Machines had to rip apart zion multiple times before. You'd think after them laying waste to all humans outside the Matrix there would be no surviving humans around to ever set up shop to that level again (it was plausible prior to the war humans would had the resources to have done it, but once they killed the majority of the rebels and wrecked their home they'd never have a chance at rebuilding it.) as there was nothing to live off of or any where safe to build up their resources and numbers unless the machines Allowed them to. A bunch of naked humans randomly escaping the matrix here and there would be really easy for them to contain. Making the whole story so short bus it's unreal.


As some people said, the matrix trilogy was 2 movies too long heh. I've watched the original dozns of times as I own it on DVD. I've never rewatched the sequels as I watched the third just for sake of seeing it once and hoped was something there worth seeing. I really don't see why we need another 2 films unless they come up with something that isn't some really stellar that should have been in the story in the first place.(besides more wire frame porn.) I highly doubt they will as they seem to have blown their load on the first film and been meandering since. Definitely waiting these till they hit DVD if I ever bother seeing them.

I have a question, With the 13th zodiac serpentis(like most of us heard about from playing final fantasy tactics back in the day heh.) What element is it supposed to be? All the other 12 divide into the groups of 3 for 4 basic elements Earth, fire, wind, water...( heart!....when your powers combine I am captain planet!) I didn't see that aspect listed anywhere. So anyone know what the heck element it is? Just seems like the odd man out, and breaks the set if they added it. Not that I care about astrology by any means but I am a stickler for consistency and a proper pattern heh.

Oh no it looks someone just Smershed all over this thread heh.

I will always be a Leo, as I say this lion is keeping his mane about my hair heh.

Wow that's really bad. It's like someone took a tube of 90's extreme and injected it into 3 issues.

Congrats Stan the Man. If anyone deserves one from the Comic Book world it's you.

yeah having costume pieces be account based would be wonderful. Including capes and auras since there's tons of perk ones that are open from lvl 1. Just make the fifth costume unlocked by doing both the cape and aura missions so there's still a point in having them around for players who already have them as an alternative to having to score halloween salvage.

Otherwise give me a check list for my entire account so I can just run down the list and get all the bell and whistles. I don't mind doing the work I just don't feel I should need run all of it for every single alt or have wait for most my career lvling up to look entirely as planned. Heck make it a perk pack if you have to. Find a way to get this done.

Yeah you're fine and that's normal. I'd ask the mods to delete this at once heh.

Reading this topic, I get the impression Super Oz has a bigger issue with the fact DC basically went back and twisted a happy ending send off than anything else. These characters were crapped on in his mind and that irks him as almost some someone dug up and murdered his childhood all over again heh. (Ultimately they were throw away characters the bulk of fans couldn't give a rat's behind about it's merely what they represent that I think is the issue. Given this topic exists I think their commentary was warrented.)

The irony is that's the metacommentary Johns is trying make in the first place. Continuity can be a wonderful thing(it seems to exist best in limited runs handled by a single team or writer that keeps their vision consistent to a predetermined end. ) but the problem is if you write something with an indefinite end (basically until becomes unprofitable.) and all other cooks into the kitchen as books get handed off to other writers all time then things are going have contuinty errors. Problem if continuity gets too big and complex it becomes it's own enemy after awhile. It's hard to remember everything that's happened as there's so many issues and details to cover, and .... comics are ****king weird sometimes. (those links are highly relevant to this topic heh. I thought about the first and saw the second as I was writing all this.)

Ongoing series have the ugly role of trying stay relevant. Change too little you get stagnant; Change too much you alien the fans. It's really a dark art to survive and still maintain fans as you can't make everyone happen. Sometimes characters change due to a natural progress (for example Robin/Dick Grayson becoming Nightwing.) Others because of shockvalue or largely of poor quality story telling. Sometimes the changes spawn from some trend that writers think fans want because something is successful, that means they must want more of that so they superimpose that condition of the rest of the industry as perceived success is sure to follow. (such as the Dark knight returns and watchmen seems to helped kicked off the dark age because grittiness = good not because people like well written stories. Someone will always try use gimmicks in the place of quality in all industries not just comics.)

This problem compounds when older fans become the writers as a adults. As we've seen people think the current version of the character isn't their version of the character. Such as Joe Q wanting make Brand New Day (not the Album by Sting. ) Again with Kevin Smith wanting to litterally crap all over batman's continuity heh. You have this war of old vs new. Mine is better the old way and you better like it. Heroes who don't have serious issues or kill people are boring...bleh.

I guess the sad part is these people are selflish and miss the point of it all. These characters don't belong to any person or generation. Not to their characters or the companies that publish them. Once you let something into world it takes on a life of it's own and people can on their own take on how it's viewed. They belong to everyone, and become whatever they need to be as the legends that live on will be eternally retold. I think there's room for all kinds of different versions of every character that exists. There's some middle ground in all, even if it's rarely found.


Ultimately if something is well written and awesome people will enjoy it regardless of it's origin as quality is universal. Gimmicks are not. That will never change.

It's basically getting to go thru an entire game with some sort of cheat code on that ensures you get to play all way thru no matter how badly you play thru, or getting the watch a fast forwarded playthru on how to do it but never get to apply it in any shape or form. I fail see how this is even a remotely close decision.

The first option is infinitely more interesting. Rather than just get the cliffnotes of all existance and take some beings word for it all you get to go out there and see as much of it as you can for yourself first hand then be wiped out(like having a super villain monologue to you and then get killed by them...Unless of course this supreme knowledge gave you a window to survive on which I imagine knowing everything you would. Only down side is may be existence has no purpose once you do so again I'd rather experienced it all firsthand that simply imput the I win code and vanish from reality.I got to do it all on my terms.). In which case you probably end up becoming the being who presented this question in the first place to yourself as thats usually how those things go. If you were immortal you likely could find all the answers you'd ever want to on your own making the second choice completely moot.

Granted I'd picture there would be very long periods of really boring stuff that happened between anything cool. Like oh look there's this awesome civilization...now there're all dead due to nuclear war....great now I need go find a new planet to hang out on till the human race shows up. Nope still dinosaurs..only the Jurassic era. I'll be back in a few million years.

I've been kicking around reading the books to see how they were par to movie. I've been diving deeper into world of Scott Pilgrim partly as a result of playing the game.

Honestly the best thing I've seen with Scott Pilgrim attached to it is the video game heh. It's awesome.(especially with the DLC update as it unlocks Knives my favorite character of the series.) I highly recommend it to anyone whom likes classic beat em ups, Scott Pilgrim or regularly has people hanging around play games with. My brother whom had no knowledge of Scott Pilgrim was excited to watch the movie(which I loaned him my copy as I snagged it on blu ray to give it another shot.)...though he was underwhelmed as his opinion on it was alot like mine. Which despite having no voice overs it conveys Scott and Ramona being in love better than the movie did.

I will try and get around to picking up the Scott Pilgrim books, but I guess the movie is disapointing because I see potential of what might have been a cool lil universe and unfornately it just didn't hit it's mark. Michael Cera is by far the biggest weakness of the film. He had no business being Scott Pilgrim , as he just has no swagger to him. He's flatter than a week old soda. It didn't make him feel believeable that anyone would be bent out of shape over him.

It's not that he's someone I have issues with, he just wasn't meant for this role. Someone more confident and less whiny. They needed be the determined underdog who's just too dense to know when they should have quit. Someone out of the same vein as Yusuke Urameshi from Yu yu hauksho or Inuyasha. That's the vibe I get when I read anything about him or see his character in game. That's not at all what Cera gives us as he comes across as this scared lil manchild most the time.

Well back to the original idea here, thanks for your insight on the book Baffling beer man. I will really need snag it and see for myself at some point. (after Xmas I need buy alot of presents today heh.)