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Discussion in 'In the Media' started by Ra, Dec 12, 2010.

  1. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    "No. You'll Take Deathstroke."

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  2. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member



    Now this is the type of "Hero vs Hero" fights I thought you were originally talking about. The only drawback with these particular Ultimate Fan Fights are they don't use any fighters/actors with actual physiques to match the characters and the results are based on fan votes.



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  3. Morning Star

    Morning Star Well-Known Member

    Nope nope. I was talking about the likes of these...

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  4. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    JJ Abrams taking over the Star Wars franchise. Abrams is a very astute director. Look at his success with Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. Even Cloverfield(I had heard a sequel may be in the works. I almost got into a heated argument about Cloverfield).
     
  5. Thump

    Thump Well-Known Member

    --spoiler--

    I'm glad the are getting back around to fixing Aqualad. Also great to see Deathstoke doing his thing.

    I know that Aqualad is soon going to have to betray his father. I however am not looking forward to that. I know his dad is evil and all, but it's still terrible to see family against each other, even super powerd fictional families.;)
     
  6. pettyofficerj

    pettyofficerj New Member

    i liked cloverfield...liked it enough to watch it multiple times

    the star trek reboot was better than I thought it would be, having grown up on william shatner, leonard nimoy and patrick stewart

    perhaps it is time for Star Wars to take a new direction:smt023
     
  7. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member


    I kind of wish they would reveal more of the back story on this version of Black Manta. He's seems for more noble and purposeful as to why he's a villain than the actual comic version.





    Shouldn't be that hard since Lucas won't be involved with any story telling aspects. Funny how others do a better job at handling the story aspects of the Star Wars universe in cartoons, games and novels than the man who created it.
     
  8. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Come on Ra creating something is far harder than building on it. Star Wars is iconic for a reason.
     
  9. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Yeah it is, but the thing is Lucas created Star Wars with the intent of it being only the one original film and never really fleshed shit out beyond that because he never expected it to blow up and become the iconic property that it is. If he had everything fleshed out properly, ala J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series, then a totally different situation we're talking.
     
  10. pettyofficerj

    pettyofficerj New Member

    Black Jedi lead for the win
     
  11. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Dream on little black boy lol
     
  12. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    HP didn't span for 35 years and a novel is burdened with the same visual element.
     
  13. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member


    Doesn't change the fact that all of the substantial elements and expansion of the Star Wars universe was done OUTSIDE of the movies by people other than George Lucas himself. That may have been part of the reason why he sold the Star Wars property to Disney to allow others to properly continue building it.
     
  14. Thump

    Thump Well-Known Member

    One big prop I'll always give George Lucas, is the diversity of the cast in the prequel trilogy. He had every race you could think of in those movies. Compare that to the people in charge of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (cartoon, comic books, video games, novels etc.) were nearly every new character introduced is white.
     
  15. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member


    We'll probably see the same thing in the new movies as well. The same thing thing can be said for the original Star Trek series compared to the Next Generation and all the other spin offs series that followed.
     
  16. pettyofficerj

    pettyofficerj New Member

    Which is why I truly embraced deep space nine
    It handled race and bigotry in quite a few episodes, and sisko could be seen wearing African colors and hats

    I loved it
     
  17. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    I think it is and it will do very well if the script is written well.
     
  18. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member


    The Klingons became my favorite aliens during the Next Generation due to the fact they had a number of black actors and athletes popping to play them. And I always looked at the whole "Worf being raised by humans" as a play on a black person being raised by a white family, since Worf always seemed to have to prove his "Klingoness" to other Klingons at times.
     
  19. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was the most diverse of all the franchise. It was interesting that Captain Sisko changed from grieving widower to badass commander. Avery Brooks brought a lot of heart to the role and he was easy to relate to(so did Kate Mulgrew as Catherine Janeway in Star Trek Voyager).
     
  20. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    My late older brother loved Worf. He called the Klingons, in his own loving way, "The n$ggas of space." It was to say that the Klingons were tough and didn't take shit from anyone. I refer to them as a combination of black people and Native Americans. Both are strong and proud, yet misunderstood. ET's John Tesh played a Klingon in one episode.
     

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