Jess♥

yes most certainly, great stuff. the comparison to cannes film festival is excellent. I wholeheartedly agree. it is hollywood and similar studios that are the problem. well, the main problem is money and the idea of making a film to make profit. this is going to be your problem in any media or in any industry. the ones who have the money will not invest in any talent, because they see it as a risk. so you see the talent coming through in independent cinema instead. it is indeed hollywood and similar studios losing their talent. they are not investing in their 'fertiliser' and their soil is not yielding good crops. there have been some good films coming to our cinemas though. i don't know if this is due to dealing with different studios or due to some other influential factors. you'd have to ask an industry analyst. films like stardust.

i don't watch cartoons either. they are pretty tacky. I mostly invest my time in sitcom, documentary and a few good drama like true blood.

to expand on one of my points, speaking from personal experience here, when the matrix came out, everyone was fussing about the special effects. there was documentaries and all sorts, everyone was flocking to see such an amazing film with amazing techniques. that was the big fuss at the time, now years on, I still love that film so much. when i watch that film these days, do you think i am marvelling over the special effects? of course not. the great thing about good special effect is that you don't notice them.

this is what i was talking about earlier. there is no difference now than there was before. people were just as focused on special effects in the past. lawnmower man will be my prime example. that movie was not great by a long shot, but it was hyped to hell because of the groundbreaking CGI. starwars has it's current status in part due to the special effects. in my personal opinion, most of the star wars movies are very poorly made. the 2nd one in particular is very badly paced and seems to drag on forever. i have fallen asleep through that film and that is a very rare occurrence for me. there are just as many films made today with good story etc than there was in the past. you name me the top movies from a certain year and i will name you a similar number of quality movies from this past year. as for saying that about avatar, that it's just a retelling of pocahontas? well there is a very important principle in storytelling. that there are only 7 stories. every book or film you can look at, can be compared directly to a classical story archetype. by comparing avatar to pocahontas is a classic comparison the same ilk has been done a thousand times before. it's as you said, the skill in storytelling is hiding where your influences are. I would agree with that, but it's not always down to the creator, it's also down to the viewer. if you approach something with a highly critical mind, you are going to find flaws in it. no matter how well done it is. you could take the best film in the world and with the right mindset, you could tear it to shreds.

yeah sure it's ok. like i said, i know you guys are not vindictive. spectre has been talking a lot about creativity going out of the window. and from what i can gather, he hardly watches any western stuff. I can list a whole host of very original and creative stuff that is produced in my own country and in america. perhaps you aren't even aware of a lot of it. maybe you get exposed to a lot of stuff that is 'copied' because your media networks decide it would be more familiar or accessible to you?

then how about making it more generalised to 'popular media' since a grand majoprity of popular media comes from hollywood. at least the way i see it.

additional, do you think the focus on "the west" could be construed as discrimination? please edit your first post to make it clearer and more fair. if you want to pick at certain studios etc. that is fine, but please do not label a whole group of countries and races under one banner. you guys need to be careful because i am finding myself slightly offended. i know you guys and i know you are not that kind of people which is why i am struggling here.

some things you guys need to understand is that the majority of american and british only understand 1 language. english. it is normal for you guys to know at least 2 languages so that is why you will get a lot of western movies and be able to understand. it is not true in the reverse. the americans making an english language version of a certain film, is not because of lack of creativity it is because the original version will not be very accessible to the general populace. power rangers is not a copied concept either. it is a strict adaptation to start off with. and for the same reasons as stated above, english actors and voices were used. eragon is not a medieval star wars, eragon was based on a book and any similarities are due to influence. I can't even believe that you would use that as an example of copying. and making movie adaptations of things is also not a very convincing argument. i don't see you complaining about the death note movie for example. and japan has plenty of sequels to things. i don't suppose gransazer can be accused of copying off sentai series? what about rescue fire? I could go a lot further and start by saying that magiranger seemed to appear at around the same time as harry potter reached it's peak of popularity. i can cite many other example if you wish. durendal, through my research long ago, I learned that a lot of the original influence for sentai was heroes like spiderman. the original sentai series did not have a giant robot. obviously it has evolved a lot since then and grown so many original ideas. heres a link, skip down to the part in italics. http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/sentai.htm

i'm not seeing it. do you think you could provide some examples?

it reminds me of gransazers. so are we sure this is goseiger? because that doesn't seem right. i mean, i don't prnounce that as you would pronounce the katakana. I would write it as goseijer. the pictures look incredibly harsh at first. those designs are brutal. but they have an unavoidable charm in that brutality. which translates into a certain grace. which now makes me feel like i'm eating candy when i look at them. of course i don't need to tell you why it makes me think of zyu ranger. it has been a long while since they had mouths. it will be very bizarre. I'm looking forward to it.

this is an old issue. no. nobody is losing anything. classics are made by time, not by people. you look back and see greatness, but remember, at that time there was just as much crap as there is today and the good ones at that time were not seen as the 'greats' that they are seen as now. this is the same in movies, games, animation, books. EVERYTHING. this surprises me. a lot. since sentai was essentially, japanese trying to mimic marvel. and astro boy was trying to mimic ... i think it was betty boop or something like that.. also, you might be forgetting things like "the fifth element"

yep, relics point is in mount minakami.

excellent stuff. yes, i think this would probably replace the zoalord navbox. it is very efficient. one thing before we continue. we need to agree on a name for inspector val. i had replaced some instances with valkyria, since that is what it says on the front of the book 26. should we stick with valkyria or are we using valcuria?

oh thats good. yeah you had no way of knowing that the anchors were being used.

ok so you decided to keep the ISBN here. I think in that case, we can work on a way of embedding this in the merchandise page. I need to make note of the anchors in this page. the anchors were linked to from the zoanoid files. I don't want to disrupt your tables so I have needed to find a new way of making the anchor. edit: since, for whatever reason, anchors do not work, I have found that i have had to split the large table into small separate tables. I found that this made a very large contents table, so I have suppressed the contents for the synopsis page. I added the missing ISBN for the 1st 3 chuangyi books. I have the japanese book 25 so I will translate the chapter titles for that one.

cool, the ISBN is an excellent touch. however, I think that would be more suited to the merchandise page, would you agree? unless you think that there could be some way to combine these? also, I think that the link to the actual synopsis could be clearer but I could try and do that myself when i get chance. i like the idea of linking the chapters.

thanks bobby I'm putting that in my folder. ( i have them on an auto rotation)

yeah that was a very effective way of describing the meaning of the different labels. we get so much confusion about it, I think it's a very good thing to have.

hey that's pretty awesome!!!

bobby, I love your current desktop! can you give me that picture please?

that all sounds good. I'm not sure about making guidelines for the pages. I'm actually reluctant to do anything like that because up til now, there has been nobody editing them. now we have some guys doing a great job and there is a possibility that it may bring more people. certain guidelines may prove discouraging. all the pages can always be edited afterwards for consistency. and i'm sure that once somebody starts doing a page, we can always ask them if they would like to make it more consistent or if they would mind if somebody else did it. feel free to do some editing on the synopsis page. I would like it if all the page were presented like book 1 with the title of the chapters. I just don't have access to the japanese books to translate the titles. otherwise i would have done it already. oh, and i went over the names. moved a few pages and corrected the links in places that i could see. maybe we could have a page dedicated just to spellings...

apparently there is a fix coming to allow images to be saved again.

ha ha I love eddie izzard, he's ace. and of course, I always love when a comedian talks about language. the one thing that irks me more than anything is when i go on a website with a spell-checker and it keeps telling me my spelling is wrong. it's so annoying, my spelling is not wrong. I spell English words in English. the damn website has my contact details and it knows full well I reside in Wales. thank goodness firefox has an english-english dictionary as well as american-english.

wow, that is pretty impressive! I wonder how many in my blog.. nowhere near 600 i'd bet

monochrome is certainly a beautiful song. it is a song that can potentially make me sad, but when i associate it with binbo danshi I remember kazumi's attitude and it makes me feel so warm. such conflicting and such strong emotions. [emote=onion]loss[/emote] thanks for posting that durendal. [emote=monkey]lala[/emote]