571 - Can We Replace The Wilhelm Scream With The Vader No?, Boomblamma, The Revival Chamber In Stargate Was Needed Because Ra Kept Killing Himself, Trump Is Just The Next Stage Of American De-evolution

[9:58 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I watched Star Wars episodes 4-6 in order

Some of the changes Lucas made were insane

Like Hayden Christensen's ghost at the end

[9:59 AM] 

Awfully stupid, that one

[10:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I don't see an issue with Vader's "NOOOO" thing

It doesn't change much, unlike Han shooting first/second

[10:19 AM] 

Weeeeeelllll

Thing is, if you hadn't seen it before, you can't tell what Vader is thinking.

Saying No at that point just lays his disapproval in the audience's lap.

It also should have tipped off Palpatine, who had all the time in the world to cease and re-assess things

Vader won by total surprise by NOT saying anything.

As well-depicted by Robot Chicken, who added the line "Hey!  What are you DOING you idiot?!?"

[10:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I think it's an unnecessary change but doesn't affect much

The first no is under his breath and Palpatine might not have heard it... or might not have even cared

2 seconds later Vader's tossing him over the railing, so the audience doesn't know a whole lot earlier than they did in the original

or Palpatine thought he was saying No to Luke's cries for help

[10:44 AM] 

That last is arguable

I still want to do my recut of the scene

Looking back and forth at the Emperor taking so long to kill Luke and I cut in the "Your powers are weak, old man" from New Hope

(hurl) "Now I am the Master." 

(a very Sithy advancement)

[10:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

So he said nothing at all in the originals?

[10:47 AM] 

Nope

Looked back and forth a couple times and lunged.

Saved his kid

[10:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

For me, i think you gotta fix Han shooting first

[10:50 AM] 

There's a gif out there of Greedo just shooting and missing repeatedly, but I can't find it

[1:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The 2004 tsunami was nuts

Its weird to think that hasn't happened more in the past

I guess we haven't always been clustered along the coasts as much as we are nowadays

All it took was a few meter up/down shift on a fault line and the tsunami was felt even in Mexico

"We have no record of tsunamis hitting this area, at least not since the hall of records mysteriously washed away."

[2:11 PM] 

heh

I recall watching a thing on tsunamis.  Guy was on a beach somewhere in SE Asia

Empty expanse and wild growth

"There used to be a town of X thousand here.  They were gone by the time others wondered what happened and came to check on them."

[2:12 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

Seems like they also have to be kinda perfect

There has to be an up/down shift if there's an underwater earthquake.. a side-to-side shift doesn't displace water

Sounds like Krakatoa caused a big one too for different reasons... sent whole bits of the island into the ocean, displacing water with waves being felt all over the world

[2:24 PM] 

And what are the odds it would have such a cheesy kid's show name, too!

"Lesser known but still significant events also took place at Mount Explodia, and Boomblamma Peak."

[8:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I didn't watch it recently, it was like a few days ago, but Stargate is a good flick

Just a solid sci fi popcorn flick, with what i consider to be some OK science / no severe plot holes

[8:36 AM] 

Nod

“Stargate” is fun

They got good anthropologists and Egyptologists to consult instead of just throwing crap together

The main flaw is thinking too hard about the aliens.

Don't worry about them and you're good.

[8:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

[8:37 AM] 

Because...gotta tell you...

Thousands of years in a flying city with 15-20 slave/children?

Making the rounds through space for fuel pickup?

[8:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah?

[8:40 AM] 

I'd have just committed suicide in the first couple years

[8:40 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

If you were a slave?

[8:40 AM] 

No, the Pharaoh

Immortality so much worse than Zardoz its unfathomable

[8:41 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Oh, okay

[8:41 AM] 

Absolutely NOTHING to do

NOTHING being created.

NO conflict worth anything

NOTHING to see

Last of his kind

No one does anything but what you say

The kids don't even play...I assume they are artificially stunted.

[8:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I kinda thought he just dug the power. He probably had worlds all over.  Maybe he looked at it like a game, like Sim City or something...  He was basically slowly becoming an *actual* god

[8:46 AM] 

Fortunately they expanded on this for all the series.

But really...even if you loved lording it over feeble races across the galaxy, why wasn't that ship swarming with them?

[8:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

The way they showed him, he seemed to be bored, evil, and just liked living decadently. But an interesting take would be maybe he saw himself as as good and was just simply trying to acquire knowledge and study worlds from across the universe and felt like slave labor was justified for the discovery

[8:54 AM] 

And yet...there was also zero sign that he was engaged in any intellectual pursuit or had any interest. 

Me?  I would have grabbed a team of evolved humans from a rebel world and had 'em in the lab as soon as I could get them. 

Half the movie would be him delightedly examining and taking apart equipment (and people) 

[8:57 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

Or building weapons and an army to take over more advanced civilizations

[9:07 AM] 

I liked the bit about sending the bomb back.  I believe I mentioned it before.

He threatened to destroy the entire culture by adding a box of rocks and saying it would make the bomb like 1000 times more powerful. 

[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

yeah

[9:10 AM] 

(Col. O'Neil) "Um...first of all, there's billions of us now, and ramping this tiny little nuke up 1000x would take out like one small city.  Also, it'd be going back to an undermountain fortress and you'd kill maybe several hundred people tops.  And, if you thought we were violent before, you can't even imagine what is going to happen to you if you do it, because we have your travel tech now."

(Pharaoh) "But..."

"Turn it off, you primitive screw head.  You're F'd."

But

ALL THAT being said

I really like that movie

Solid popcorn sci-fi, as you said

Still looks great

Good scenes, suspense, good villain, discovery trip

Music is memorable (playing the soundtrack in my head as we speak)

[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heheh

yeah it was good

[9:20 AM] 

Oh, and primo anthy and art direction

[8:59 AM] 

(huge yawn)

Break was illuminating...  Love having to listen to a Trumper get everything wrong.

[9:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Which?

[9:00 AM] 

AND endorse everyone just admitting everything and going to jail so Trump can spring them

Don't recall his name

AND believing Nazis were socialists

AND thinking if the US went more socialist we'd end up like Venezuela. 

"That's what happened to them... and Germany... And that led to WWII."

(silent) "Wow you're dumb."

[9:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yikes

That's what you get when you get all your info from Facebook pages called like Pump Trump and ConservativeMemes

[9:07 AM] 

Gotta be a CSR...only staffboard section that won't open.  I thought he was anyway.  Robust build, curly hair going from black to gray.  Ruddy.

[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

And his vote counts just as much as yours

"I've said it before and i'll say it again, Democracy simply doesn't work."

[9:09 AM] 

The Founding Fathers didn't believe it

That's why we have what we have

They apparently never foresaw the masses voting, though, and horrible candidates being put forward

They were intellectuals... they never dreamed of idiots taking over.

Why would they?
Who would pick stupid people and criminals to run anything?

One of the things i enjoyed about that Brit woman's USA travel memoirs was her observations about how naive and stupid so many Americans were.

Post civil war?  not sure

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Hmm, don't know it

[9:23 AM] 

Definitely worth a read.

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Certainly something that's going on right now is not only are Americans naive and stupid but they are proud of it

[9:23 AM] 

Hate to say it...she said the same thing. 

She spoke on the bizarre way that American people of all walks took the admirable sentiment "all men are created equal" and all the dignity and rights deserved that implies and turned it into "all men are equal", which is obviously not the case and never will be in uncountable ways.

Got it...

Frances Trollope

"Francis was a keen observer, especially of faults, and she described what she saw in a most scathing manner. In her “Domestic Life of the Americans” she pictured Americans as coarse, selfish, intemperate, insincere, indelicate, and generally ridiculous. The descriptions were overdrawn and were a bitter medicine to the people she described, while they provided a vast fund of amusement to the English. Even though it was harsh, America probably profited from Mrs. Trollope’s satire. "

I think one of my fave bits was her talking about men with military titles...country colonels and such (Like Col Sanders) and her being introduced to a General, and how she tried to get his story...units, actions, battles.  Wouldn't talk about it.  

She found out he was a Postmaster General and just being a self-important ass

[9:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh