The final trailer actually looks decent.

I only watched the beginning of the interview with Rodriguez. When asked about the decision behind Alita's eyes, his answer was basically "because we can". It's a tech demo.

I had hoped for someone like Summer Glau or Ziyi Zhang. The role needs an ass-kicker who still has a certain grace.

Aga m'Badi that is. He must have realized that there were several Nova copies, and thus means to backup himself, brain and biochips and all.

"I do think he has painted himself into a corner with nigh omnipotent Alita, but we'll see how that goes."

But it was kind of fun in its own way. It's like Yukito at some point said "fuck it" and just started piling the deus ex machinas on top of each other.

I can haz phase 122 raw?

Many thanks!

A word of caution: Mediafire advertisement tries to run a trojan, according to Avast.

Many thanks.

AR-99 wrote:-How did Ido register as a hunter-warrior if he had to have had the ID code stamp burned into his neuroglia? Did the deckmen stamp it on his brain bio-chip and say nothing?

Jot it down to "artistic freedom". Yukito hadn't thought about brain chips yet.

othergrunty wrote:I know i shouldn't say this but he isn't the youngest anymore and the series is only monthly.

Meh, he's only around 43 years old. That's not old.

othergrunty wrote:Also did anyone else noticed that the strange black symbol below "From 1 von" and Mars?

What symbol? The square with the dots? It's a digital stamp. Like a bar code, but in two dimensions.

Could it be that Yukito has hidden som sort of message?

And/Or she's a mercenary like Tzykrow.

It was SO common in Samurai Champloo, I couldn't even watch that show! Seriously, how many times does forced sex in brothels need to be brought up in a 26 episode show!?
Three times, two of which were a double episode. Fairly common theme in samurai manga (Blade of the Immortal, Lone Wolf and Cub ...

DowJones wrote: to escape that mountain of boobs...

I can't believe nobody's said this before: It's a booby trap!

(Although I guess it could be too obvious to mention, plus it's probably what Yukito intended as well. )

^Ripper wrote:Its out!

Woot! A million internets to you and your friends, sir!

Dream wrote:Damn, his voice his so different from what I imagined. I pictured him with a slower, graver voice for some reason.

Like a Russian bad guy from a James Bond movie?

Meh. This has been discussed to death on IMDB.

What you need to consider is that Gally will be CGI. Anybody could play her. What's important is how she moves, therefore someone like Summer Glau, Zhang Ziyi or even Michelle Yeoh - women who can believably kick some butt - should be considered.

Concur. Big thank you to all of you!

Hmm, sounds like a hoax to me.

I remember reading somewhere that they're aiming for a PG-13 rating. That would mean:

* No Makaku (definitely not eating brains anyway).
* No stealing of backbones.
* Zapan story-line seriously nerfed.
* No Nova lab in future installments.
* Tons of other stuff also ...

HumanRage wrote:if i remember correctly, everything is explained in vol 1 or 2 of GLO ...

GLO 3. The purpose of the orbital ring is explained yes, but not how it works. Easy to understand, since it's quite complicated.

If I understand the papers correctly, the ring imposes a different orbital path on the construction, giving the elevators a longitudinal push and negating some of the centrifugal forces of the elevators and orbital platforms.

(I hope that made sense.)

Toji must weigh several tons. Just think of all the damage he must do just walking around!

hepar wrote:You can build Elevator wherever you like, but it would bend to equator because of rotation. Earth ring won't help it to be perpendicular - that's what I tryed to say.

Yes, it will, according to the concept. Here's the site with the papers. Go have a read if you like.

and also Tiphares itself has to be located only on eqator to exist.
Actually, no. That's what the orbital ring is there for.

The ring is actually an intersection of two orbital ellipses, and supposedly it makes it possible to place the orbital elevator anywhere you like.

I saw some mathematical ...

I really liked this detail. Todays' spectrum of global politics have been adapted into planetary scale. I wonder where Norway would have fit in. Probably as one of the minor asteroids, or maybe one of Jupiter's demolished moons, heh!
Europa? Only extra-terrestial place I can think of where there ...