At Planet Brumas
Eager and Nova notify the crew that they're closing in on planet Brumas. They get an urgent message from the Marine base there. Wildstar orders Venture to full speed. Then we get an astronomy lesson--Brumas is the formerly-inhabited 11th planet of our solar system. It is home to rear minerals, and a base was built as part of the EDF.
Eager detects a number of contacts. Wildstar recognizes them as the same planes he's already seen. They open fire with the pulse laser guns. The enemy fighters fire back with missile, but take losses and veer off. They look like a cross between the original Cylon Raiders from Battlestar Galactica and horseshoe crabs.
The base on Burmas is taking heavy damage. The personnel try to resist.
The Comet Empire commander is watching the attack when he's told that the Star Force is approaching in the Argo. He orders the second squadron to destroy them before they reach Brumas. Wildstar orders the fighters launched to counter the second attack. Wildstar orders Conroy to stay close to the Brumas base. Nova picks up a fleet of larger ships--Sandor surprises Wildstar with an increased range on the main guns. Pleased with this new capability, they range in on the approaching enemy and fires. They destroy the first group. Wildstar ignores a second pair of ships closing from the other direction and moves to support Brumas.
The Comet Empire ships bombard the Brumas base. Liquid oxygen begins leaking, reducing the oxygen supply to several compartments. The base personnel mount a rescue action to the damaged sections. Outside, the Comet Empire ships deploy ground forces in tanks.
The base personnel pull back to the central unit and see "robot" tanks approaching. They plan to fight back, using the terrain to their advantage. The tanks begin firing missiles into the base. As the tanks close in, the men on the base open fire. They use the emergency radio to call for help again.
The Argo closes in and engages the Comet Empire ships over the base.
The marines on the base send ten men out to hit the tanks in close quarters as the Comet Empire officers see the Argo. The long range guns catch the comet empire ships by surprise. The Comet ships fire back, but Wildstar responds with torpedo fire. The main enemy carrier withdraws. Wildstar lets it go, concerned with the base.
The enemy tanks and fighters are meeting heavy resistance from the marines. Then Conroy's astro-fighters turn the tide and route the enemy. Rescue ships deploy from the Argo and land. Sandor meets Sergeant Knox and Corporal Kane. The marines are taken to the Argo.
The Comet Empire commander apologizes to Desslok for not listening to him about the Star Force. Desslok gloats.
Dr. Sane is tending to the wounded marines while Sergeant Knox shows that he's got the mental maturity of a 13-year-old and leers at Nova. And she essentially maces him with antiseptic. Knox is also freaked out by IQ 9.
Sandor gathers the department heads and analyzes the wreckage of the tanks. The EDF commandant calls them, and Wildstar briefs him on events, warning him that Earth is under threat from a new enemy. He welcomes them back into EDF command and orders them to address this new threat. General Stone is still an asshole.
The bridge crew summarizes events, and then Orion starts the wave motion engine. The marines are in the mess hall using up the Argo's supplies. Sergeant Knox is watching the receding planet Brumas from the observation deck.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Monday, November 14, 2011
Paladin
Paladin
Gantz reports to General Krypt about the power of the wave motion gun. And Krypt is purple. So there are different races of Gamilons. Huh. (Gantz has caucasian skin tones like the Star Force characters).
On the Argo, the bridge crew is dismayed to find their gravity shut down. They need some unobtainium macguffin from the Saturnian moon Titan. Apparently the wave motion gun burnt out part of the engine. Avatar orders Venture to orbit Titan so they can get Titanite. Fortunately, Titan is similar to Earth, just cold.
Gantz analyzes the Argo on his video scope and sees they are low on power. Or is it a trick?!
Nova, Firestar, and IQ 9 are sent to look for Titanite. Sandor is sent to . . . do something else. He and Wildstar make bets on who'll be back. They take shuttles. Except Wildstar takes Nova in his fighter. Why not?
The Titan environment looks pretty cool. Gantz sees the survey ships and deploys a patrol ship that's in the area to see what they're up to.
Wildstar, Nova, and IQ 9 are following IQ 9's readings to Titanite. Venture and Homer (?) have the bridge watch. Big yellow survey vehicles pick up blocks of ice as Sandor supervises. He and WIldstar's crew see a shooting star. The bridge crew identifies it as a ship, and they recall the surface details.
Wildstar is still looking for Titanite. They go to the other side of Titan and find Titanite deposit. He calls the ship and tells them, then ignores the recall orders. He lands in a canyon of some sort and IQ 9 points out the Titanite. They harvest the Titanite.
The Gamilon ship lands and two solders emerge to scout. They see Wildstar's fighter as they process the Titanite.
The patrol unit tells Gantz that they're mining Titanite. Gantz orders them to capture them. They launch, um, drone tanks. The tanks chase Nova, Wildstar, and IQ 9. Wildstar goes off on his own shooting at them with a handgun. The Gamilon soldier mocks him. The tanks split up, one after Wildstar, one after Nova and IQ 9. Wildstar jumps on the tank, opens the hatch and um, totally kills the remote control. Yeah. There was no crew.
The remaining tank is closing in on Nova and IQ 9. The girl trips and IQ 9 stops the tank and lifts it up. Huh. Then he throws the tank. Then IQ 9 says he'll do anything to protect Nova.
Aww. Narm Charm at its finest.
The Gamilon soldier gets out and captures them, while IQ 9 sends an SOS signal to the Argo. Venture calculates their coordinates.
Wildstar sees a gun, he tells IQ 9 to protect Nova as he . . . triggers an avalanche and buries the Gamilon soldier. He looks at the gun . . . And sees his brother's name. He realizes the ice berg they are next to is the Pa;adin, his brother's missile ship covered in ice. This results in a flashback of Alex Wildstar's death.
IQ 9 and Nova comfort the grieving Derek Wildstar. Then the Argo appears through the clouds of Titan in an awesome shot. Nova, IQ, and Wildstar board the fighter and return to the Argo.
The repairs are completed, and the Argo launches. Back on the bridge, Avatar orders Wildstar to report to his quarters, then he floats away. Nova and Wildstar arrive, and Venture tells him he bets Avatar is angry that he disobeyed orders. To Wildstar's surprise, Avatar asks him to tell him about the wreck of the Paladin. Wildstar says there were no survivors. Avatar says his brother lives on in Derek. And the Star Force.
There are 359 days left.
Gantz reports to General Krypt about the power of the wave motion gun. And Krypt is purple. So there are different races of Gamilons. Huh. (Gantz has caucasian skin tones like the Star Force characters).
On the Argo, the bridge crew is dismayed to find their gravity shut down. They need some unobtainium macguffin from the Saturnian moon Titan. Apparently the wave motion gun burnt out part of the engine. Avatar orders Venture to orbit Titan so they can get Titanite. Fortunately, Titan is similar to Earth, just cold.
Gantz analyzes the Argo on his video scope and sees they are low on power. Or is it a trick?!
Nova, Firestar, and IQ 9 are sent to look for Titanite. Sandor is sent to . . . do something else. He and Wildstar make bets on who'll be back. They take shuttles. Except Wildstar takes Nova in his fighter. Why not?
The Titan environment looks pretty cool. Gantz sees the survey ships and deploys a patrol ship that's in the area to see what they're up to.
Wildstar, Nova, and IQ 9 are following IQ 9's readings to Titanite. Venture and Homer (?) have the bridge watch. Big yellow survey vehicles pick up blocks of ice as Sandor supervises. He and WIldstar's crew see a shooting star. The bridge crew identifies it as a ship, and they recall the surface details.
Wildstar is still looking for Titanite. They go to the other side of Titan and find Titanite deposit. He calls the ship and tells them, then ignores the recall orders. He lands in a canyon of some sort and IQ 9 points out the Titanite. They harvest the Titanite.
The Gamilon ship lands and two solders emerge to scout. They see Wildstar's fighter as they process the Titanite.
The patrol unit tells Gantz that they're mining Titanite. Gantz orders them to capture them. They launch, um, drone tanks. The tanks chase Nova, Wildstar, and IQ 9. Wildstar goes off on his own shooting at them with a handgun. The Gamilon soldier mocks him. The tanks split up, one after Wildstar, one after Nova and IQ 9. Wildstar jumps on the tank, opens the hatch and um, totally kills the remote control. Yeah. There was no crew.
The remaining tank is closing in on Nova and IQ 9. The girl trips and IQ 9 stops the tank and lifts it up. Huh. Then he throws the tank. Then IQ 9 says he'll do anything to protect Nova.
Aww. Narm Charm at its finest.
The Gamilon soldier gets out and captures them, while IQ 9 sends an SOS signal to the Argo. Venture calculates their coordinates.
Wildstar sees a gun, he tells IQ 9 to protect Nova as he . . . triggers an avalanche and buries the Gamilon soldier. He looks at the gun . . . And sees his brother's name. He realizes the ice berg they are next to is the Pa;adin, his brother's missile ship covered in ice. This results in a flashback of Alex Wildstar's death.
IQ 9 and Nova comfort the grieving Derek Wildstar. Then the Argo appears through the clouds of Titan in an awesome shot. Nova, IQ, and Wildstar board the fighter and return to the Argo.
The repairs are completed, and the Argo launches. Back on the bridge, Avatar orders Wildstar to report to his quarters, then he floats away. Nova and Wildstar arrive, and Venture tells him he bets Avatar is angry that he disobeyed orders. To Wildstar's surprise, Avatar asks him to tell him about the wreck of the Paladin. Wildstar says there were no survivors. Avatar says his brother lives on in Derek. And the Star Force.
There are 359 days left.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Right Arm of Voltron/Death of Shirogane the Hero
The Right Arm of Voltron
Is this because Sven is like Keith's right hand man? 'Cuz he flies blue lion. And blue lion is Voltron's right leg . . . Oh, right. Not dwelling on the obvious stuff.
Wew. At least we don't open up with vultures and Castle Doom. We see the Arusian coat of arms as the first image of the episode. And we see Alura in her pink jumpsuit outfit (instead of the elaborate Renaissance Festival outfit). They decide to celebrate with a feast. And they have a secret storage room. In the castle that just appeared out of the ground? Better check the "use by" dates on those packages, guys.
Naturally, the space mice are the first ones in. 'Cuz, yeah, mice like cheese. If they started shooting dogs and deer, I'd think I was watching Disney. But this time, the mouse early warning system is even more useless, because Yurak catches even them by more surprise than usual. Coran has the shiny new castle position it's "robot defenses." All robots, all the time. Except for the emplacement Allura uses.
Again, we only see Keith getting into chute 1 when they launch the lions. We get a couple of shots of the energy and missile weapons that are part of the castle defenses holding off the Doom fighters. Are the side sponsons on the Doom fighters air intakes or radiators or something? We only ever seem them firing out of the top and bottom protrusions.
Allura takes a cannon emplacement over from a fallen robot.
They don't waste any time in forming Voltron this time. No Robeast, just a lot of fighters and the Rooster Frigate. The Voltron formation sequence has a weird bunch of extra clanky sound effects in this episode. He immediately forms the blazing sword and takes a slice out of the Rooster Frigate bridge.
We're back to the victory feast, and yeah, Hunk and food.
Ah, now we're back to the obligatory "Castle Doom" intro. Jack Angel has finally settled into his Zarkon voice, and Zarkon is now the bungling windbag we all remember. Evil will always fail because evil is silly. Haggar proposes lowering their sights to just taking out one member of Voltron rather than all five.
She goes out to the Pit of Skulls (still creepy as hell) and find the "magnificent blue fiend." A slightly darker version of one of the Robeasts who got his ass kicked last episode. Haggar and the Blue Fiend take space coffins to Arus. Damn. I'll never call airliners "mailing tubes for people" again, compared to the space coffin. Well, the name says it all, I guess.
We cut to Galaxy Garrison. Been a while since we last checked in with those guys. At least two episodes. Lennie Weinrib is doing Steele's voice in this sequence. I think it's Lotor in disguise. Oh, wait, we haven't met Lotor yet.
Back on Arus, the team takes a cart of food out into the city ruins. We now see the same footage as yesterday; instead of insulting the Arusians into helping them, they're just advertising food. Cheddar (?) helps Pidge coax the survivors out of the ruins. They sure brought a lot of apples with them. People start spontaneously bowing in from of Allura. Haggar is watching, and sends the blue cat to, y'know, lure one of them. The cat's got three toes on each foot and claws it can't retract.
Lance tears off after the cat and gets caught in Haggar's glowing net bag. Fortunately for him, Sven comes up after him with a sword. He cuts Lance free and sends him back for help. Then Sven slashes at Haggar, but each cut just creates the illusion of more duplicates. One of the illusions blasts energy at him.
Keith sends Hunk and Pidge back to the castle with Allura, and then he and Lance go to help Sven.
Sven does an ancient Swedish Ki trick and detects the real Haggar, but is distracted by the cat. And then put down by the blue fiend. Sven is real bad hurt. Fortunately, they take him to the doctor on planet Ebb. Too bad he doesn't do house calls--wait, the doctor is on a totally different planet?
The Rooster Frigate appears and supersizes the Blue Fiend. In true Godzilla monster fashion, he tramples his way through the ruins. What? Keith even says Sven is Voltron's right arm.
They take the lions out after the Robeast. They do a lot of crashin', then black lion uses the harpoon launchers. The robeast retaliates with missiles from his kneecap and a launger on his right wrist. The lead the robeast to a cliff, and do the old playground "I jump on your face while my buddies push you into lave" trick.
Yurak is upset at the beast's failure, but Haggar feels it was a success that they took out one of Voltron Force. The Arusians now resume the feast. Wow, that was an upbeat ending. I feel good about myself and the world I live in now.
Death of Shirogane the Hero
Well, maybe the death of one of the original team members is so expected in the genre that the writers didn't see the need for, y'know, not blowing the big surprise in the title?! This episode marks the last time we see Shirogane in the opening credits. It's probably a good thing the princess starts wearing her jumpsuit in this one. It'd be an awful lot of work to get into that dress just to wave at the camera for the opening.
The castle is known as "Castle Gradam." Anyone know anything about this title? Former Altean soldiers are returning to the castle to rejoin the princess' forces. That's where all the dudes in the green uniforms come from. At least they get to exchange their spears for more effective weapons. Kurogane mentions the fact that Raible had all this food stored away in expectation of this day. Naturally, the mice have always been in there.
Sadak's force appear. Are the fighters carried in the Rooster Frigate, or do they just fly alongside it? It's a good thing all those former Altean soldiers have had time to train on the weapons batteries, seeings as they've been hiding out with spears and arrows for fifteen years.
Fala takes out at least one fighter.
During the fight with the fighters, the lions seem to predominately just ram them, though red lion uses some shoulder mounted missile launcher for the first time. They go right to Golion, and we're treated to the theme song in full vocal glory while Golion combines. No cries of "Juyoken" when they form the sword. Maybe Kogane needs more practice?
Suzuishi tries to make friends with the mice. Clearly to just betray and trap them later. What're friends for?
The music that accompanies the POV switch to Galra totally makes me think of old Heckle and Jeckle and Quackula commercials.
Daibazaal and Sadak are actually discussing strategy. Sadak says continued frontal assaults would be too costly. Honerva brings up the image of Fala because this is the first time they realize a member of the Altean royal family still survives.
Honerva goes out to find her beastman, who's name is Galcia. Galcia? Ooo-kay . . .
Fala and the boys take the food truck out to the ruins/ When they go looking for people, they actually have footage specifically for this. It's like the Voltron editors were really padding out this episode. Why might that have been? What did they cut out that would have reduced the running time so much?
Huh. Fala was handing out lollipops.
Since Shirogane is about to bite it, let's talk about his voice actor. Ryusei Nakao does a lot of crazy villain voices--I recognized him as Frieza from DBZ. Yeah, that's a bit of a different delivery than the one he uses for Shirogane.
I never realized from the Voltron footage, but that energy blast from Honerva's witchin' stick blinds Shirogane. He's not closing his eyes to use his inner Swede, it's because he's blind.
Things they apparently teach at the Fuji Space School (where the Golion team all went to school--we learn this later): the use of swords (well, maybe they all took Kendo) and how to ride horses.
Once again, the editing here suggests more time between Shirogane's death blow and Kogane and Kurogane discovering him. So it doesn't seem like Honerva and Galcia just teleported out to the desert to await Sadak. Oh, there are scenes of weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over their fallen comrade. This must be all the time Voltron was covering for.
There's something I've always wondered about the name "deathblack beastmen." In japanese, that's "Desaburakku Jujin." When it's spoken, it sounds a little to me like "desaburak-Kaiju jin," Kaiju being giant monsters like Godzilla. (The -jin suffix just means "race" or "being." Like Saiyan-jin from DBZ). Could this be a possible pun in Japanese? I know that at least older terms in Japanese are full of puns.
Is this because Sven is like Keith's right hand man? 'Cuz he flies blue lion. And blue lion is Voltron's right leg . . . Oh, right. Not dwelling on the obvious stuff.
Wew. At least we don't open up with vultures and Castle Doom. We see the Arusian coat of arms as the first image of the episode. And we see Alura in her pink jumpsuit outfit (instead of the elaborate Renaissance Festival outfit). They decide to celebrate with a feast. And they have a secret storage room. In the castle that just appeared out of the ground? Better check the "use by" dates on those packages, guys.
Naturally, the space mice are the first ones in. 'Cuz, yeah, mice like cheese. If they started shooting dogs and deer, I'd think I was watching Disney. But this time, the mouse early warning system is even more useless, because Yurak catches even them by more surprise than usual. Coran has the shiny new castle position it's "robot defenses." All robots, all the time. Except for the emplacement Allura uses.
Again, we only see Keith getting into chute 1 when they launch the lions. We get a couple of shots of the energy and missile weapons that are part of the castle defenses holding off the Doom fighters. Are the side sponsons on the Doom fighters air intakes or radiators or something? We only ever seem them firing out of the top and bottom protrusions.
Allura takes a cannon emplacement over from a fallen robot.
They don't waste any time in forming Voltron this time. No Robeast, just a lot of fighters and the Rooster Frigate. The Voltron formation sequence has a weird bunch of extra clanky sound effects in this episode. He immediately forms the blazing sword and takes a slice out of the Rooster Frigate bridge.
We're back to the victory feast, and yeah, Hunk and food.
Ah, now we're back to the obligatory "Castle Doom" intro. Jack Angel has finally settled into his Zarkon voice, and Zarkon is now the bungling windbag we all remember. Evil will always fail because evil is silly. Haggar proposes lowering their sights to just taking out one member of Voltron rather than all five.
She goes out to the Pit of Skulls (still creepy as hell) and find the "magnificent blue fiend." A slightly darker version of one of the Robeasts who got his ass kicked last episode. Haggar and the Blue Fiend take space coffins to Arus. Damn. I'll never call airliners "mailing tubes for people" again, compared to the space coffin. Well, the name says it all, I guess.
We cut to Galaxy Garrison. Been a while since we last checked in with those guys. At least two episodes. Lennie Weinrib is doing Steele's voice in this sequence. I think it's Lotor in disguise. Oh, wait, we haven't met Lotor yet.
Back on Arus, the team takes a cart of food out into the city ruins. We now see the same footage as yesterday; instead of insulting the Arusians into helping them, they're just advertising food. Cheddar (?) helps Pidge coax the survivors out of the ruins. They sure brought a lot of apples with them. People start spontaneously bowing in from of Allura. Haggar is watching, and sends the blue cat to, y'know, lure one of them. The cat's got three toes on each foot and claws it can't retract.
Lance tears off after the cat and gets caught in Haggar's glowing net bag. Fortunately for him, Sven comes up after him with a sword. He cuts Lance free and sends him back for help. Then Sven slashes at Haggar, but each cut just creates the illusion of more duplicates. One of the illusions blasts energy at him.
Keith sends Hunk and Pidge back to the castle with Allura, and then he and Lance go to help Sven.
Sven does an ancient Swedish Ki trick and detects the real Haggar, but is distracted by the cat. And then put down by the blue fiend. Sven is real bad hurt. Fortunately, they take him to the doctor on planet Ebb. Too bad he doesn't do house calls--wait, the doctor is on a totally different planet?
The Rooster Frigate appears and supersizes the Blue Fiend. In true Godzilla monster fashion, he tramples his way through the ruins. What? Keith even says Sven is Voltron's right arm.
They take the lions out after the Robeast. They do a lot of crashin', then black lion uses the harpoon launchers. The robeast retaliates with missiles from his kneecap and a launger on his right wrist. The lead the robeast to a cliff, and do the old playground "I jump on your face while my buddies push you into lave" trick.
Yurak is upset at the beast's failure, but Haggar feels it was a success that they took out one of Voltron Force. The Arusians now resume the feast. Wow, that was an upbeat ending. I feel good about myself and the world I live in now.
Death of Shirogane the Hero
Well, maybe the death of one of the original team members is so expected in the genre that the writers didn't see the need for, y'know, not blowing the big surprise in the title?! This episode marks the last time we see Shirogane in the opening credits. It's probably a good thing the princess starts wearing her jumpsuit in this one. It'd be an awful lot of work to get into that dress just to wave at the camera for the opening.
The castle is known as "Castle Gradam." Anyone know anything about this title? Former Altean soldiers are returning to the castle to rejoin the princess' forces. That's where all the dudes in the green uniforms come from. At least they get to exchange their spears for more effective weapons. Kurogane mentions the fact that Raible had all this food stored away in expectation of this day. Naturally, the mice have always been in there.
Sadak's force appear. Are the fighters carried in the Rooster Frigate, or do they just fly alongside it? It's a good thing all those former Altean soldiers have had time to train on the weapons batteries, seeings as they've been hiding out with spears and arrows for fifteen years.
Fala takes out at least one fighter.
During the fight with the fighters, the lions seem to predominately just ram them, though red lion uses some shoulder mounted missile launcher for the first time. They go right to Golion, and we're treated to the theme song in full vocal glory while Golion combines. No cries of "Juyoken" when they form the sword. Maybe Kogane needs more practice?
Suzuishi tries to make friends with the mice. Clearly to just betray and trap them later. What're friends for?
The music that accompanies the POV switch to Galra totally makes me think of old Heckle and Jeckle and Quackula commercials.
Daibazaal and Sadak are actually discussing strategy. Sadak says continued frontal assaults would be too costly. Honerva brings up the image of Fala because this is the first time they realize a member of the Altean royal family still survives.
Honerva goes out to find her beastman, who's name is Galcia. Galcia? Ooo-kay . . .
Fala and the boys take the food truck out to the ruins/ When they go looking for people, they actually have footage specifically for this. It's like the Voltron editors were really padding out this episode. Why might that have been? What did they cut out that would have reduced the running time so much?
Huh. Fala was handing out lollipops.
Since Shirogane is about to bite it, let's talk about his voice actor. Ryusei Nakao does a lot of crazy villain voices--I recognized him as Frieza from DBZ. Yeah, that's a bit of a different delivery than the one he uses for Shirogane.
I never realized from the Voltron footage, but that energy blast from Honerva's witchin' stick blinds Shirogane. He's not closing his eyes to use his inner Swede, it's because he's blind.
Things they apparently teach at the Fuji Space School (where the Golion team all went to school--we learn this later): the use of swords (well, maybe they all took Kendo) and how to ride horses.
Once again, the editing here suggests more time between Shirogane's death blow and Kogane and Kurogane discovering him. So it doesn't seem like Honerva and Galcia just teleported out to the desert to await Sadak. Oh, there are scenes of weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over their fallen comrade. This must be all the time Voltron was covering for.
There's something I've always wondered about the name "deathblack beastmen." In japanese, that's "Desaburakku Jujin." When it's spoken, it sounds a little to me like "desaburak-Kaiju jin," Kaiju being giant monsters like Godzilla. (The -jin suffix just means "race" or "being." Like Saiyan-jin from DBZ). Could this be a possible pun in Japanese? I know that at least older terms in Japanese are full of puns.
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