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One of the best things about DVD is they can include many different languages without too much trouble. This gives me endless amusement switching between them to see what various characters sound like.

Voyager has three alternate languages - German, Italian and Spanish. Spanish Tuvok sounds way too smooth and sexy for a Vulcan. Neelix... well, no one could match the original. German Janeway... Cor blimey guvna!

Ahem, anyway... :)

I was reminded after writing my previous entry that there's an episode of the cult British comedy The Goodies in which R2D2 not only appeared, but did an impression of a Dalek. Unfortunately the Interweb completely failed to cough up any pictures of the event. Bah!

If you've been reading my LiveJournal, you'll know I've been rewatching Star Trek: Voyager starting from the beginning, as a mate of mine is buying the DVD box sets. Now, at the end of season 2, I thought I'd pause, reflect, and make some LiveJournal icons. Our story so far: Lost in the Delta quadrant, thousands of light-years from home, the crew of Voyager attempt to return to the Alpha quadrant before the network cancels the show.

Continue reading "Star Trek: Voyager"

Having finally gotten LJ's feed showing full posts, I'm promptly going to post something under a cut, mainly because it has spoilers in it, but also because it's long. Hopefully I'm doing this right...

This here post is a long ramble I just wrote about Alien versus Predator and it contains spoilers. You'll probably want to skip it if you haven't seen the movie yet and want to, or if you don't really care.

Continue reading "Thoughts on Alien versus Predator"

I went to see Alien versus Predator today with Trevor and Morgan. It was a pretty good action/horror flick with nifty special effects. I saw the ending coming a mile away though.

I was interested to see the movie had one plot element in common with a Dark Horse AVP script I downloaded off the net years and years ago.

As Boing Boing reports, the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs contain a wee surprise for Xbox users - there's software on them which automatically updates the Xbox firmware without telling you. Which might spell trouble for people with modded Xboxes.

And you thought it was bad when it was just bored kids putting out viruses. :P

Wow!

So clear you can see Mark Hamill's nasal hair!

So crisp you'd swear it was filmed yesterday!

Of course, it's still version 1.2 or whatever we're up to now, but I don't care. The visuals are so clean it hurts.

What I need right now is a huge-ass TV set and 5.1 stereo system.

(Via Nostalgia) Lucas still can't leave Star Wars alone, so the new DVDs coming out have even more changes as shown here

Greedo still shoots first. Come on! With Han shooting first, it make him look like a rogue. When Greedo shoots first, it make Greedo look incompetant and makes Han slow on the draw.

Just don't mess with the classics, hey?

Nos' is right though, the fact they're fixing Jabba so he looks more realistic and less like a Playstation game character is good. Even though that scene is pointless and just covers the same one as the previous scene with Greedo.