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So far, it seems a worthy Lord of the Rings series. I am enjoying it more than the Hobbit trilogy and far far more than the animated Hobbit.

Prime also has Wheel of Time coming out later this year for its second season. Netflix has another season of The Witcher as well. It is a good time for high fantasy type movies and shows!

Rebels leads up to Rogue One. One of the ships from Rebels, the Ghost, is visible in the battle over Scariff. Also, the Ghost's astro-mech, CH-1P "Chopper" appears in the base before that battle. Finally, "Captain Sindula" is called over the PA system at the base, tying in both Star Wars: Rebels and referencing the Sindula family that fought to free Rhyoloth.

The main character in Rebels was born the same day that Leia and Luke were born, so it takes place about 16 years after Episode 3.

Ahsoka was pretty much a child in the early Clone Wars episodes. She is a young adult by the end of season 7. This would put her in her thirties in Rebels and around forty by The Mandolorian.

Retro, the first episode is, well, it is Star Wars, but the first few seasons do start slow.

I really liked what they did with the Obi Wan story.

From watching Star Wars: Rebels, I saw scenes where he is still on Tattooine years later. It was a fresh part of the story seeing him in the uncertainty of his place in everything, then having to face his past. I also thought the casting was exceptionally good.

Knowing the end of a story does not always bother me. Afterall, Halo: Reach is one of those games where you know Reach will fall, but it was still great to play the story through to that fall.

Renee found a shadow box of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night pixel art!

I also got the NES and SNES Classic.  It is kinda funny because I have an original NES, SNES, and Genesis still too. I was never sold on the PS1 though; Sony had so much backwards compatibility that it did not seem that necessary.

I mean, it does look like a cool console. Sonic CD is a pretty necessary game library title. I am not seeing much beyond Sonic CD that really nails it as a must-have console though.

I bought the Genesis Classic for Renee a couple of years ago. I really think that she has only played it twice though. I have an original Genesis console in storage at the moment. I am pretty sure that her brother still has the games for it somewhere at their mother's house.

It sounds cool, but I do not know if I could rationalize spending money on another revamp of the console.

I donno if it needs its own thread, but the Netflix Resident Evil series is great so far. I binged seven episodes last night!

Disney Plus has it all.

The animated movie is meh, okay.  It introduces the character of Ahsoka though.  She really starts off as Anakin's bratty padawan and really does not grow up and become a respectable character until about the 3rd season.

The clone troopers Rex, Cody, Fives, Heavy, Gregor, and Jesse are worth noting. Their stories really fill out during the course of the series and culminate at the end of season 7, which coincides with the end of the Clone Wars and Order 66.  Ahsoka, Rex, and Gregor also show up in Star Wars: Rebels; those stories lead right up to the Rogue One movie.

The series as a whole does have some tedious story arcs, but all of it goes better as the seasons progress and each character's story becomes more complete.  The Bad Batch is really a spin-off of a special group of clones that is introduced in one of the later seasons.  The Bad Batch is not essential viewing at this point, but a good spin-off story.  With the tie-ins to Episode II, Episode III, and Book of Boba Fett.  I would consider the later seasons of Clone Wars to be highly recommended to help give more depth to the main storylines.

This video is a pretty good summary of what happened in chronological order. The motivation makes a bit more sense when things are in that order.

That video is pure art.  I miss the days when the internet was more about stuff that happens when one star wars fan has vision, and empty apartment, and minimal video editing skills.

10/10 will watch it on repeat play.

For a while back in 2010 or so, Target had Monster component video GameLink series cables for Wii, PS2, PS3, and 360.

If I recall, I have a Monster Gamelink HDMI cable (white with black weave, matches early xbox 360 aesthetics), a Monster PS3 component cable, a Monster GameCube S-video cable that works with SNES, N64, or GameCube, and even a Monster-branded hybrid PS2 / Xbox S-video cable.

I have a full Rubbermaid storage bin full of A/V cables.

Hah, no RF switches here. I do have an S-video switcher, but right now it is just the PS2 on component and SNES on S-video.

My oldest pet was my catfish, Blink, who passed away a few months ago at 17 years old. That is a long time for a small catfish! This TV is currently on year 16 of still working with no apparent issues.

I mean, you are entitled to an opinion.

The movie just made no logical sense. The character development... well, there was no character development...

That TV has survived since 2006 through 4 apartments and a house.  Bluevoodu actually helped me move it twice!

So, back in 2006 I bought a Sony WEGA flat screen CRT.  I have used it for years through a DVD changer, PS2, SNES, PS3, Xbox, and 360 and it still looks great.  It was one of those peak of CRT technology ones that had a component input along with S-video.

Over the last few years, my home theater/dvd changer died (during a move) so the TV has mostly sat unused since 2019.  I figured that it was time to get a new Dolby Pro Logic II capable receiver and get everything hooked up.

So, I currently have the PS2 on component video and optical digital TOSLink audio through a 5 channel Sony speaker system... and it looks and sounds so wonderful.  Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken 5, and even old SeaLab 2021 (so last year) DVDs look and sound phenomenal!

Now I am just debating if I should keep the SNES on S-video or move my OG Xbox to S-video and TOSlink audio by way of the Xbox HD breakout pack.

@Grindspine  --> Good advice, I think we will do that soon.  We were watching the seasons at one point.  We made it to 3 I believe, but other stuff took over.  Clone Wars need a topic.

Seriously, The Clone Wars only gets better.  I still cringe a bit at the movie and the first season.  The story really starts getting deep with the Mandalore story arc (Obi-wan's almost lost love story) and the backstory on some of the clones; Capt. Rex, Fives, Heavy, and Echo in particular.

Oh, Moon Knight...

not mooninite...

It is one of those Marvel movies that I probably will never watch again. And that puts it in a basket. Unlike other movies that I tend to return to just to rewatch again like Black Widow.

It puts the lotion on the skin...

I feel like we all got hosed for watching that travesty.

Throwing this out there... it's been on my mind... Eternals is probably the most disappointing Marvel movie to date.


Thoughts?  post it up

Yes.  Yes it was.

I'm not sure to #1... but maybe primitive humans were never really primitive. I mean.. that does make sense and that technological breakthroughs still happened.  IT could be humans always had intelligence (beyond cave people and how they're perceived)... and it's simply technological breakthroughs happened to progress humanity.

Yet they still did not make myths out of future events.... (some guy flying into the sun.. not even a spoiler since his name was Icarus.)

Vegetarians eat vegetables.

So, what does a humanitarian eat? 

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (again)
Supernatural (16 seasons... why not? again..)

Can we see more of this though?

  IE organic, human meats and eggs...etc. 

Where the eff are you buying human eggs?  I would really question that grocer.

Great!



Also, if you have not, at very least, watched the last 4 episodes of The Clone Wars (Season 7, Episodes 9, 10, 11, and 12) after watching Revenge of the Sith, DO IT!  Those episodes shed so much more light on Order 66. 

Know what? We're getting old.

$12,000 in 2002 dollars is about $19,000 in today's dollars.

I don't know much about Moon Knight but this series has been consistently good in my opinion. Oscar Isaac is doing a phenomenal job.

Who are these Oscar and Isaac fellows, and what do they have to do with Steve, Mark, and Poe?

All we get is four episodes?.... noooooooo

The show was a tease so far. As soon as you get hooked, they're all like, "that's it for now."

Guess I will just have to settle for waiting for Obi Wan instead of albino Deadpool.

I watched the first ep tonight.  It was hard to follow, but I can start to see pieces coming together.

Besides, the main character, Steven... or was it Mark?.. is also Poe from Star Wars episodes VII, VIII, and IX.  I have not seen any rebel X-wings yet.

So, if the myth of Icarus was based on the Eternals character, how did the story of him flying into the sun come about before he actually flew into the sun?

Were primitive humans experts in things that had not yet happened?