It’s Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom episode 3, and it’s time for Zwei to face his first real test as an assassin.
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 02
It’s Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom episode 2, and Zwei’s story picks up from after his initial encounter with Ein, where his training to be an assassin begins.
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Live Action Review – Star Trek
I kind of hate it that my first “real” post coming back from my hiatus is for a live action movie, but that’s how it is. Now, on to the review…
Star Trek is a sequel/prequel/reboot/whatever/all of the above of the Star Trek franchise which has been dead in the water since Star Trek: Nemesis flopped in 2002 and Enterprise ended prematurely in 2005. This 4 year span was the longest stretch without any new Trek episodes or movies since the end of The Original Series in 1969 and Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979 (unless you count the animated series, which aired in 1973 and ’74).
J.J. Abrams decided to go back to Star Trek roots for this movie, ditching the tendency to extend Star Trek‘s legacy by extending the story further into the future (obviously Enterprise is a rather significant exception to that) and by exploring the origins of the original Enterprise crew. However, to do this he decided to do something that no one had done before, and which probably wouldn’t be possible for virtually any other franchise but Star Trek: make a movie which is simultaneously a sequel, prequel, and reboot all in one.
What results is an overall exciting and action packed movie which should satisfy a good number of original Star Trek fans, but is still palitable enough for those who may be new to the Star Trek universe.
Scores
Story: B/B-
Acting: B
Sound: A
Special Effects: A+
Music: C+
Overall: B
Stop reading if you don’t want spoilers. If you want the full review with spoilers…see below the fold.
Masters is finished = I’m Back
Yay! My hellish last month of getting my masters is over! The only thing left is for them to mail me my piece of paper.
However, that also means that I should actually have time to do, well, anything animated related as the number of episodes I’ve watched in the last 2 or 3 weeks can probably be counted on my fingers. I know I’m rather behind on everything, so I’ll need to catch up. However, now that I don’t have to spend several hours a week working on the masters (and several more hours studying for the final oral exams that wouldn’t die), the blog should be back up and running like usual in a few days.