Aug. 21st, 2012

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TV commentary-

True Blood- Interesting setup this episode. spoiler cut )

Warehouse 13- Heh, its Lassie and Captain Vick. Does this show do one ep a season with a pair of folks from other shows? There was the ep with Simon and Kaylee from Firefly, and the one with Jo and Zane from Eureka. spoiler cut )

Major Crimes- Hey, couple of cuties in this ep, Jenn Proske from Vampires Suck and Haley Webb from the Final Destination! The Jenn girl was blond in this ep, which is slightly disappointing, because she looks way hotter as a brunette.

Perception- Cool, the Stimulus Package girl with the nice rack is back. She should be around more, after all, it doesn't seem like too much time has passed on the show, so he should still be in the same semester and thus still have her as a student.


WO blather- more character commentary:

Orochi/Orochi-X: Obviously, being the bosses of the game, they're quite beastly. Orochi-X is definitely the more powerful one, but he has a smaller moveset than others. He only gets as high as a C4. Not that he needs that much else. And apparently he can't be hit out of attacks, so that means I don't need to use up one of his item slots for Iron Gauntlets.

Zhuge Dan: He's actually pretty good, mainly because of his R1 special. It summons a whirlwind shield around him, which you can stack. So you can put that up and just wade into the thick of it.

Magoichi: Ah, I can see how he ranks so low. The ranged weapon users definitely have disadvantages, particularly with keeping people off them. But he also has sucky weapon attribute activation. I'm not even sure which attack they activate off of! I guess brilliance will help, but it doesn't work on absorption/osmosis. Before I played him, I was going to give him osmosis since he's a wonder character. So I was trying to figure out what I needed to forgo, because it seems he definitely needed typhoon and echo to keep people off him and briliance to put a hurt on them. But since it doesn't seem like osmosis will get activated all that much, I don't see the point.

Huang Gai: Huh, I thought when they decloned the DW7 movesets in WO3, at least one person had the original moveset? Because I know Xu Zhu has some new moves, as he has the bouncing ball thing. But Huang Gai definitely doesn't have the normal club moveset. Is there another club user I'm forgetting about?!

Zhu Rong: She seems a tad safer than Yuanji, since her attacks aren't solely knife throwing. She does have a nice charge that's good for wading into enemies and I guess fighting you war out of trouble.

Ma Dai: Eh, he's not bad, but not particularly good either. His EX-attack is a little long, leaving him vulnerable, but luckily, he's a wonder character, so he can spirit charge out of it.
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Finally saw that Raid: The Redemption movie. Its a pretty entertaining action movie. Quite brutal though. But that's to be expected, given the protagonist is a silat master. The south-east Asian martial arts have always been about effing you up big time quickly and efficiently. I still don't see the point of an American remake though. I guess I did hear it was using the same fight choreographer, which makes it easier to stomach. Because the story isn't that deep- a bunch of cops RAID a gangster's tenement and it goes horribly wrong, and they get trapped and have to fight their way out. (Which also seems to be the plot of new Judge Dredd movie!) The appeal of Raid were the fights, which were done by skilled silat folks. You can't just transplant some established American actor in the role and think it will be as appreciated. Like, you can't do a Hollywood version of Ong Bak without Tony Jaa, or do District B-13 with Hollywood actors instead of parkour professionals!

TV commentary:

Pretty Little Liars- Hey, Maggie is Alex Mack! I always like seeing Larisa Oleynik in stuff. spoiler cut )

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