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The first three episodes of the new television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are not encouraging. Series writers have under-done themselves by replacing the villainous Hydra organization with different adversaries for the TV version of S.H.I.E.L.D., namely, a lame ensemble cast, average scripts, and the Damocles sword of boredom.
My number one reason to watch Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was Agent Coulson. He lives! American actor Clark Gregg's portrayal of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson is a star-making role, on a par with Australian actor Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith in the trilogy of Matrix films. Gregg portrays the perfect, buttoned-down, Competent Organizational Man, at home with S.H.I.E.L.D., or the I.B.M. of the 1960s. Gregg's agent Coulson is always calm, cool, and collected, because he's very well trained, but he's no automaton. He has a brain, and a sly, understated, dry, sense of humour. This has been the role of Gregg's career.
I thought Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be first-and-foremost a starring vehicle for Clark Gregg's agent Coulson, but not quite. Figuratively, and literally agent Coulson is not the one driving this bus.
My number one reason to watch Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was Agent Coulson. He lives! American actor Clark Gregg's portrayal of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson is a star-making role, on a par with Australian actor Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith in the trilogy of Matrix films. Gregg portrays the perfect, buttoned-down, Competent Organizational Man, at home with S.H.I.E.L.D., or the I.B.M. of the 1960s. Gregg's agent Coulson is always calm, cool, and collected, because he's very well trained, but he's no automaton. He has a brain, and a sly, understated, dry, sense of humour. This has been the role of Gregg's career.
I thought Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be first-and-foremost a starring vehicle for Clark Gregg's agent Coulson, but not quite. Figuratively, and literally agent Coulson is not the one driving this bus.
◄ The fourth in a series of posts. Previously: Patlabor: The Movie
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Nono, the starry-eyed girl, is on fire![/caption]
DieBuster is a six-episode OVA produced by Gainax to help mark their 20th anniversary as a studio -- it is a sequel to their ground-breaking 1988 six-episode OVA GunBuster (my review).
Tens of thousands of years after the events of Aim for the Top! GunBuster, when the Human race desperately fought malevolent space monsters to a standstill, the Space Monsters are still out there; still a threat. Humans are restricted to the massively terraformed planets and moons of their solar system. When they look into their night skies, they see the wall of Space Monsters as the so-called Red Milky Way. The only thing keeping the Monsters at bay is a fraternity of psychically-gifted teenagers known as Topless, and the ancient, and awesome biomechanical Buster machines only they can pilot.
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Nono, the starry-eyed girl, is on fire![/caption]| Title: | Aim for the Top 2! DieBuster | ||
| Studio: | Gainax | ||
| Air date: | October 3, 2004 – August 14, 2005 | ||
| Episodes: | 6 |
DieBuster is a six-episode OVA produced by Gainax to help mark their 20th anniversary as a studio -- it is a sequel to their ground-breaking 1988 six-episode OVA GunBuster (my review).
Tens of thousands of years after the events of Aim for the Top! GunBuster, when the Human race desperately fought malevolent space monsters to a standstill, the Space Monsters are still out there; still a threat. Humans are restricted to the massively terraformed planets and moons of their solar system. When they look into their night skies, they see the wall of Space Monsters as the so-called Red Milky Way. The only thing keeping the Monsters at bay is a fraternity of psychically-gifted teenagers known as Topless, and the ancient, and awesome biomechanical Buster machines only they can pilot.
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Blueberry pie, and ice cream -- in a cup! Tastes better than it looks, which in itself is different for McDonalds. Click the image to enlarge it.[/caption]
Yesterday evening, while enjoying some weak McWiFi, I witnessed a flash young couple breeze in. Very fond of themselves, and each other, I thought. They proceeded to order a single McFlurry -- perhaps negotiate is a better characterization of what ensued. The weren't interested in standard McFlurry toppings -- they wanted blueberry pie -- A blueberry pie, McFlurried. This was far above the pay grade of an ordinary McDonalds counter-person, so a manager stepped in, and I became really interested, because, the manager not only agreed to do it, she instructed her young McMinion to charge it, not as a McFlurry, and a pie, but rather as an ice cream cone in a cup, and a pie -- much cheaper; the manager then took charge of the delicate operation of filling the cup with ice cream, then taking the blueberry pie out of the box and breaking it up in the cup, and then mixing it all together with the McFlurry mixer. The couple took to their their custom mcFlurry like they were having sex with it. I thought, "I gotta get me some of that action!"
This afternoon, as luck would have it, the same manager was on shift, and I asked her about getting a blueberry pie McFlurry, just like the couple, the previous evening. "Oh sure," she said, and again, explained to a young order-taker how to charge for it. It cost, $5.01 CAN, about a dollar cheaper than if I'd been charged for a McFlurry and pie.
It does make a very tasty McFlurry. The pie breaks up into many different-sized bits, which is more interesting than the rigorously-uniform standard topping. I found it somewhat less sweet than a stock McFlurry, which was a bonus. And, yes; it's blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream as many of us prepared it when we were five-years-old: mash, mash, mash! One big flaw was the high temperature of the pie, which warmed up the ice cream too quickly, so after the first few ice cold spoonfuls, the McFlurry became warmer and runnier, but still tasty. My favourite is still a McFlurry with plain strawberry mixed in.
Blueberry pie, and ice cream -- in a cup! Tastes better than it looks, which in itself is different for McDonalds. Click the image to enlarge it.[/caption]Yesterday evening, while enjoying some weak McWiFi, I witnessed a flash young couple breeze in. Very fond of themselves, and each other, I thought. They proceeded to order a single McFlurry -- perhaps negotiate is a better characterization of what ensued. The weren't interested in standard McFlurry toppings -- they wanted blueberry pie -- A blueberry pie, McFlurried. This was far above the pay grade of an ordinary McDonalds counter-person, so a manager stepped in, and I became really interested, because, the manager not only agreed to do it, she instructed her young McMinion to charge it, not as a McFlurry, and a pie, but rather as an ice cream cone in a cup, and a pie -- much cheaper; the manager then took charge of the delicate operation of filling the cup with ice cream, then taking the blueberry pie out of the box and breaking it up in the cup, and then mixing it all together with the McFlurry mixer. The couple took to their their custom mcFlurry like they were having sex with it. I thought, "I gotta get me some of that action!"
This afternoon, as luck would have it, the same manager was on shift, and I asked her about getting a blueberry pie McFlurry, just like the couple, the previous evening. "Oh sure," she said, and again, explained to a young order-taker how to charge for it. It cost, $5.01 CAN, about a dollar cheaper than if I'd been charged for a McFlurry and pie.
It does make a very tasty McFlurry. The pie breaks up into many different-sized bits, which is more interesting than the rigorously-uniform standard topping. I found it somewhat less sweet than a stock McFlurry, which was a bonus. And, yes; it's blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream as many of us prepared it when we were five-years-old: mash, mash, mash! One big flaw was the high temperature of the pie, which warmed up the ice cream too quickly, so after the first few ice cold spoonfuls, the McFlurry became warmer and runnier, but still tasty. My favourite is still a McFlurry with plain strawberry mixed in.
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