The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Jan 28, 2007, 08:44:35 PM
-
In the interest of generating a new topic, I'm posting about the Voltron DVDs. They're releasing the darn things in color-order of how the lions connect to form Voltron. Merla bought Blue Lion when it first came out and I bought her Yellow Lion as a belated X-Mas gift. Inside each tin is one of those folding DVD cardboard cases. There are three discs and a purty booklet which briefly overviews the content.
Despite having Spanish Voltron here on Telemundo on and off for a couple of years, there is no alternate audio of any kind and no subtitles or closed captions. So all deaf and non-English folk are shit out of luck. It's barebones but it still manages to look way better than Talespin: Volume 1 which had alternate French (but again, no Spanish despite the fact that Toon Disney simulcasted it in Spanish), subtitles and captions, but the world's ugliest menu, packaging, and no chapter stops besides going to the next episode and no extras. Voltron's episodes are divided into four so you can skip around better at least.
There are 15 eps on each, with six on each of the first two discs and the final disc having three episodes and extras.
On Blue Lion's foldout DVD ma-jig, we have Allura and Sven sharing space with the Blue Lion, another picture of Allura in Voltron gear, and Coran and Nanny. Eps of interest include Episode 6 where Sven's killed and Episode 8 where they just hand over the Blue Lion's key to some weirdo prince. The extras are the "original pilot: the voltron trilogy", which is as uninteresting as it sounds; staff interviews, where Peter O'Keefe's determination to keep his blonde hair and black moustache combo over the past twenty years will astound you; and making of the DVDs, which is semi-watchable but about as engaging as a community access show.
On Yellow Lion, Hunk graces the artwork. Interestingly, he has lost weight, possibly dropping some of the excess to a new ginormous package where his penis used to be. Zarkon, Hagar, and her dumb evil cat are also on the DVD packaging. Eps of interest include Eps 16 where everyone except the questionably gay Keith vie to portray Allura's romantic interest in a corny bridge re-enactment; 17, introducing Princess Romelle and her robeast brother who instead of dying swims out to sea to join the other dolphins;
(http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/images/voltron/princessbraless.jpg)
whichever one where the princess loses her bra; and 28, Prince Lotor's birthday party where, like Faye, he gets a giant gold statue of himself as a gift. The extras are the sucktacular Buckethead video, which was probably born and should've died in someone's warped YouTube fantasy; International Voltron Featurette, which is cool but makes me want foreign language Voltron all the more. Japanese theme music is included; More staff interviews, which I didn't bother with and some short about the toys which wasn't all that good.
There's some shows that you see as a kid that just aren't rewatchable years later, but groovy dumb monsters of the week, dudes voicing every other woman in the show, camp value, and weird goofs here and there along the lines of the clearly dead Sven going to "the hospital planet" (but attending the feast in his honor at the end) make it enjoyable.
Proposed drinking games:
Hunk or Pidge clearly change proportion
Lance gets kissed by the princess
Pidge gets kissed by the mice
Micheal "Lance" Bell voicing a woman
(http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/images/voltron/nipplemonster_sm.jpg)
A nipple robeast appears
When people are obviously killed; a sip if an explanation is provided, a gulp if it's laughable, two gulps if the person just disappears inexplicably and is never mentioned or seen again.
-
Sven is on the hosptial planet...he must be!!!!!
I've actually looked at these a few times and considered buying them, but as of yet havn't picked them up.
-
I bought Yellow Lion at Deep Discount DVD, which was cheaper than Amazon at the time. I don't know how much it is there now. Might be better to just wait it out until the price goes down even more.
I forgot to mention in my post that Green Lion is next. Pidge has to be my least favorite Voltron member.
-
I saw that episode where she loses her bathingsuit top on CN the other night. I was tempted to write some fanfiction but I can't type fast enough one handed.
-
I think I'm going to wait and see how low they go before I bite. Anything below 15 will get me to cave on sight...but that could be awhile.
-
I saw that episode where she loses her bathingsuit top on CN the other night. I was tempted to write some fanfiction but I can't type fast enough one handed.
Wouldn't you rather see Nanny without her top?
-
No.
-
Oh please, it's a known fact you'd hit anything.
-
Anonymous slander!?
On MY INTERNET!?
Besides, that makes no sense. I'm in a position to be selective about who I see topless and who I "hit".
-
Selective my ass!!! :lol: When you're drunk every chick is attractive.
-
No no no. Have you ever seen robocop? The way his sight scans something and classifies it? That's how I operate.
*scan scan scan*
height...5'9''
weight...145 lbs
face...unnatractive
REJECTED!
(each "..." represents a series of 3 beeps that I make under my breath)
-
Have you ever seen robocop?
Under the helmet? Yes. Bleh.
-
His name is Murphy you insensitive bastards.
-
Have you ever rejected uhmm.. I mean spared a chick because of her height? 4'11" too short. 6' 6" too tall. And how tall are you any how?
-
You can't tell us you wouldn't tap a hot dwarf, you just can't.
-
Height doesn't really matter. I'm 6'2".
But I rejected a girl last night that was hot on the grounds that she is a whore. She was tied for #1 on the list and it was kind of sad to cross her off. I drank so deeply that I had nightmares about full metal alchemist and threw up stomach acid thrice this morning effectively rendering me mute.
-
I think that men that fuck REAAAALLY short women are perverts that wish they were fucking children. Just because the woman is a midget.
-
Height doesn't really matter. I'm 6'2".
But I rejected a girl last night that was hot on the grounds that she is a whore. She was tied for #1 on the list and it was kind of sad to cross her off. I drank so deeply that I had nightmares about full metal alchemist and threw up stomach acid thrice this morning effectively rendering me mute.
Sorry dude but I am laughing so damn hard my side hurts?!? :lol: :lol: :lol: But you rejecting a chick because she is a whore is like the pot calling the kettle black. I don't get you at all. What does it matter if she's a whore, your just looking for a one night thing not a lasting meaningful relationship. Do you only sleep with virgins or what?
-
Yeah I know it's a double standard. But I'm not always just looking for a 1 night thing either. It's a gray area really. I don't like girls that are handing out their crotch like club flyers for some reason. I like to know that I broke down the resistances they set in place because of society. Women that act like men going around sleeping with whomever they please are not my bag.
But see this is the kind of girl I would have to be afraid of sleeping with because I got too drunk not some fugmo.
-
I think that men that fuck REAAAALLY short women are perverts that wish they were fucking children. Just because the woman is a midget.
I disagree. I don't only fuck short chicks but there is something attractive about little girls. The fact that you're so much bigger than them and you're gonna try and put this big thing in that little box and it's gonna hurt'm a little at first but they want you to do it regardless of the size difference it's like they're little fierce sexy fairy warriors who want to take on the Spartans (not the real spartans but the guys from 300. I was definitely someone like them in a former life).
-
But you rejecting a chick because she is a whore is like the pot calling the kettle black. I don't get you at all. What does it matter if she's a whore, your just looking for a one night thing not a lasting meaningful relationship. Do you only sleep with virgins or what?
Crap...I'm agreeing with Merla. I feel dirty now.
-
Well it seems this chick is not only currently into me but also one of my friends. She's already done one of my other friends. The friend she's interested in now outlined his plan to me of how he's going to fuck her and never talk to her again.
And see that's what you guys probably think I do but I don't and the thought of someone doing that to her irks me a little. Sure I laughed about it with my friend, but that isn't my MO. I'm very...I guess affectionate is the word. Sometimes I hurt girl's feelings but it's never intentional or through pre-meditated cruelty like what my boy is planning.
-
A small woman isn't a child. Unless she throws tantrums over blocks or something. It's not like anything can be done about height.
-
it depends.
i saw this woman in maury that never developed, and she looked like she was 13, and she had a bf. disgusting, i can assure you he was a pedo!
-
Well that was just 1 mutant. There are plenty of hot short chicks out there and it's perfectly healthy to want them.
-
Well that was just 1 mutant.
:lol: True. And even mutants need love.