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geebsTV commentary:
Fringe- Well, that's interesting. So why the hell did Peter get Lincoln new glasses? Is he trying to hook Lincoln up with Liv?
Also, so Nina has a team knock out Olivia (and she'll end up missing her little date! Poor Linc!), and apparently they've been secretly observing her and drugging her. Now, was that visit something that happens every so often (given she had headaches at the beginning of the ep), or did Olivia do something that had Nina worried that prompted the break-in?
Nikita- Again, its crazy, but Nikita has vastly improved this season. Emotional ep. Aw, who knew Nikita cared about the nerd so much? So much it caused a big breakdown, causing her to be all, "Why the eff aren't you here?!" to Mikey. She had to trade the black box for Birkhoff which Sean promptly destroyed to protect his mum, but Nikki did figure out that he is Maddie's son. And wow, Amanda is just friggin evil. I guess she really does know how to really put the screws to someone. I mean, breaking Birkhoff's hand because it is important to his livelihood, then threatening to lobotomize him?! rjv('Cold blooded!') Heh, and was he kinda flirting with Sonja there? (It was weird they did have her go for corporate chic to "naughty schoolgirl" as Birkhoff put it)
In the Alex story, she poses as an illegal Russian prostitute and gets herself deported in order to sneak back over to take out Semak. She does run into a little hitch when the crooked ICE agent tries to sell her and the girls to slavers, but she kills him and the slavers, and then sets the girls up with money so they can go into proper hiding. Since one of the girls is that one chick who plays a lot of Russian/Eastern European chyx, wonder if she'll figure into the story later?
Chuck- So they took the intersect out of Morgan to fix him, but what the, so that memory loss is permanent? I mean, even if it is "inconsequential stuff" like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, that's kinda effed up.
Also, didn't expect the "fixed" Jeff to last for more than one episode. It is the last season, so I wonder if it is a permanent change?
Dynasty Warriors blather- I take back my lukewarm feelings towards Xiahou Dun's Podao. Sure, its not an as big an improvement as Zhao Yun's Dragon Spear is for him, but I think its still better than the sword. It may be slower, but as I said previously, it is stronger and does have a much better range.
The movements are slightly similar to the original sword, with slight differences, but its those differences that make it more fitting to Xiahou Dun. As I said, I'm not pleased with the slower C5, because it makes it harder to juggle with (because of the slowness, I do end up hitting triangle again and inadvertently end up doing his c1 attack while the enemy is still in the air, which can put him out of position to continue the juggle) But, his new c6 is great! Its like a mini version of his air musou. Between that and his EX-attack, he's an excellent crowd cleared. But it also has another good utility in the harder levels! So, when the enemy turtles up, that c6 will end up being a guard break, which you can quickly capitalize on by doing his musou!
However, I'm also annoyed that his high level weapons are ice element, being a fan of the lightning/death element combo. Thank goodness Lu Bu's chaos-level weapon is death element. Of course, while him having built in synergy means he can equip two death element weapons and freeing up a slot for another element (I choose the great axe for the secondary, since its a 5 slotter and appropriately sized for Lu Bu) which is fine in lower levels, but since you have to play in chaos and nightmare to get all the best weapons, you prolly want wind/death since the officers clam up like little bitches. Though I guess with Lu Bu, his unblockable c5 makes up for it.
I did progress far enough in legend mode to unlock both sides of Guan Yu's escape. Heh, it looks like a lot of the legend maps are basically the same maps from the older games. That Guan Yu's escape (which is definitely the exact same map from DW5) stage brings back memories. It used to be a grinding stage for me in that game, and while its prolly not as useful (its a very quick stage, but the conquest DLCs have spoiled me with their +2/+4 and +4/+8 drops, so the drops just aren't gonna cut it) for stat leveling, it does seem like a great stage to get everyone's 2nd and 3rd titles, since its a high enough level stage to fit that requirement, and the titles are variations of kill X number officers by this amount of time or while having maintaining a certain amount of health. And Guan Yu's escape is easily set up to let you do that, and short enough you can complete it really quick (easily 5-7 minutes at most!)
Fringe- Well, that's interesting. So why the hell did Peter get Lincoln new glasses? Is he trying to hook Lincoln up with Liv?
Also, so Nina has a team knock out Olivia (and she'll end up missing her little date! Poor Linc!), and apparently they've been secretly observing her and drugging her. Now, was that visit something that happens every so often (given she had headaches at the beginning of the ep), or did Olivia do something that had Nina worried that prompted the break-in?
Nikita- Again, its crazy, but Nikita has vastly improved this season. Emotional ep. Aw, who knew Nikita cared about the nerd so much? So much it caused a big breakdown, causing her to be all, "Why the eff aren't you here?!" to Mikey. She had to trade the black box for Birkhoff which Sean promptly destroyed to protect his mum, but Nikki did figure out that he is Maddie's son. And wow, Amanda is just friggin evil. I guess she really does know how to really put the screws to someone. I mean, breaking Birkhoff's hand because it is important to his livelihood, then threatening to lobotomize him?! rjv('Cold blooded!') Heh, and was he kinda flirting with Sonja there? (It was weird they did have her go for corporate chic to "naughty schoolgirl" as Birkhoff put it)
In the Alex story, she poses as an illegal Russian prostitute and gets herself deported in order to sneak back over to take out Semak. She does run into a little hitch when the crooked ICE agent tries to sell her and the girls to slavers, but she kills him and the slavers, and then sets the girls up with money so they can go into proper hiding. Since one of the girls is that one chick who plays a lot of Russian/Eastern European chyx, wonder if she'll figure into the story later?
Chuck- So they took the intersect out of Morgan to fix him, but what the, so that memory loss is permanent? I mean, even if it is "inconsequential stuff" like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, that's kinda effed up.
Also, didn't expect the "fixed" Jeff to last for more than one episode. It is the last season, so I wonder if it is a permanent change?
Dynasty Warriors blather- I take back my lukewarm feelings towards Xiahou Dun's Podao. Sure, its not an as big an improvement as Zhao Yun's Dragon Spear is for him, but I think its still better than the sword. It may be slower, but as I said previously, it is stronger and does have a much better range.
The movements are slightly similar to the original sword, with slight differences, but its those differences that make it more fitting to Xiahou Dun. As I said, I'm not pleased with the slower C5, because it makes it harder to juggle with (because of the slowness, I do end up hitting triangle again and inadvertently end up doing his c1 attack while the enemy is still in the air, which can put him out of position to continue the juggle) But, his new c6 is great! Its like a mini version of his air musou. Between that and his EX-attack, he's an excellent crowd cleared. But it also has another good utility in the harder levels! So, when the enemy turtles up, that c6 will end up being a guard break, which you can quickly capitalize on by doing his musou!
However, I'm also annoyed that his high level weapons are ice element, being a fan of the lightning/death element combo. Thank goodness Lu Bu's chaos-level weapon is death element. Of course, while him having built in synergy means he can equip two death element weapons and freeing up a slot for another element (I choose the great axe for the secondary, since its a 5 slotter and appropriately sized for Lu Bu) which is fine in lower levels, but since you have to play in chaos and nightmare to get all the best weapons, you prolly want wind/death since the officers clam up like little bitches. Though I guess with Lu Bu, his unblockable c5 makes up for it.
I did progress far enough in legend mode to unlock both sides of Guan Yu's escape. Heh, it looks like a lot of the legend maps are basically the same maps from the older games. That Guan Yu's escape (which is definitely the exact same map from DW5) stage brings back memories. It used to be a grinding stage for me in that game, and while its prolly not as useful (its a very quick stage, but the conquest DLCs have spoiled me with their +2/+4 and +4/+8 drops, so the drops just aren't gonna cut it) for stat leveling, it does seem like a great stage to get everyone's 2nd and 3rd titles, since its a high enough level stage to fit that requirement, and the titles are variations of kill X number officers by this amount of time or while having maintaining a certain amount of health. And Guan Yu's escape is easily set up to let you do that, and short enough you can complete it really quick (easily 5-7 minutes at most!)
