I MISS JUSTICE LEAGUE!
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, daikaiju66 <daikaij...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: daikaiju66 <daikaij...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Samurai Jack" Reruns on Boomerang
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 9:23 AM
Cool. There were quite a few episodes I never got to watch so
now I can play catch up.
--- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ ...> wrote:
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> Can't agree more, Keith. I still can't quite get Boomerang on my set yet. The
> digital signal keeps popping in and out constantly. Comcrap says that they
> may have given us bad set-top boxes. *Four* of them...
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> "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
> hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
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> http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
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> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> From: KeithBJohnson@ ...
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:25:44 +0000
> Subject: [scifinoir2] "Samurai Jack" Reruns on Boomerang
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> For the past couple of weeks I've been enjoying reruns of this, one of the
> greatest animated series I've ever seen. If you've never seen "Samurai Jack",
> then do yourself a favor and check it out. Don't let the oddly flat looking
> animation throw you. Don't be turned off by the idea of a Samurai nicknamed
> "Jack" in a strange future. If you see a couple of eps that seem kinda silly
> or light, don't give up. Tartokovsky crafted an incredibly good show here,
> full of action, adventure, and some surprisingly effective drama. I can think
> of a couple of shows that literally had my mouth hanging open, and a couple
> that had me near misty eyed (see Jack battle the cursed Viking warrior for
> example). It's fun when they riff on that anime standard of characters
> freezing in moments of high action: you know, when a character delivers a
> fatal sword stroke, then freezes in that move, while the enemy dies, or
> explodes, as the case is here. There's good music, good
writing, and memorable characters.
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> If Boomerang had to replace Justice League, this is one of the better choices
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