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I believe I did refer to that as a 'nitpick'
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# | Buzz Williams teaching players about honor, country and service, honors Veterans HOOAH!, Buzz Williams
The twin concepts of a "dark lord" who feels seduced by the light, and a storm trooper with a heart of gold, create space for some interesting story telling.
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10 years 7 months
# | Buzz Williams teaching players about honor, country and service, honors Veterans My dad and brothers are all Navy jet jock retirees (just dated myself). I shared this with them. They thought it was great. My dad blasted it to a bunch of his veteran buddies. He got several responses on how much they appreciated what VT and Buzz were doing.
What Buzz is doing here is good team and individual development and its sells VT as well. Serendipity occurred!
thats a pretty solid jump in salary for a lateral move for a position coach. $64,500 increase.
This is exactly what I thought. I also noticed we share a first name, and until I clicked, I thought we graduated from VT the same year ('87). Which would make us, like, twinzies.
Then I saw 1987 is the year you were born, so, not so much.
Anyway: the story was definitely weak. I like the new characters they are developing, though there's a long way to go. And I loved the way they portrayed the characters from the original trilogy. The sets, effects, costumes, and all that stuff was spot-on, which was a great relief. Most of the acting was good. There were no major stupid ideas (no teddy bears, no Jar Jar, no blue stuffed elephant like the one in Return of the Jedi). But for this trilogy to work there has to be a story worth telling, and I don't really know that there is.
Also in related news Mooreheads salary was released and it's not the big jump many people thought he would get. He got 250,000 at AM, he made 185,500 at VT.
Yes it is. I should know.
Thank you for posting. My daughter asked if the movie would appeal to someone who had never seen any of the Star Wars movies. I have so far been unable to answer, because I just saw it last night, and I still can't believe there is someone in the English speaking world who has never seen any of the Star Wars movies.
So your view is helpful.
The one thing I worried about this season that didn't happen was Gallo acting like a freshman.
I left the theatre thinking she was Luke's daughter 100%.
I would not be surprised if we see a full scene in the next episode of her being left on the desert planet, and it being revealed that Luke left her there to hide her from the First Order before he went into hiding.
Too many clues. The fact that the lightsaber called out to her through the Force, and then the line Kylo Ren said to her about the "ocean and the island..." when he is interrogating her, and that being the exact image when she finds Luke. Luke wasn't just waiting for someone to be strong in the Force and then reveal himself so he could train them, it really pointed to him waiting for her specifically.
Why would they want to interfere with old star wars when they are making new star wars? Doesn't make sense to remake old ones.
I'm glad to hear the next generation say so. I remember when Red October was published, and the excitement of reading it knowing our subs were chasing theirs around. From then till about Rabbit Run I read everything Clancy wrote as soon as I could get my hands on it. But I have wondered how those books would be received by readers who didn't grow up during the cold war. I'm glad to hear you don't have to remember that era to appreciate them.
I thought the R2 thing was pretty much explained explicitly by C-3PO. He said that he went into low power mode until Luke came back, hence the next line about "we may never see that R2 ever again" or something to that effect.
Luke is "back" in the sense that he finally ready to reveal himself.
I want to read Aftermath, especially after seeing VII. But damn, that would get real old real quick, although I will admit that setting different variations of the death star seems interesting, just out of the pure novelty of it
I am excited to watch him this weekend at the Skins-Bills. Got suite tickets from work.
Have you ever read any of the Star Wars novels set after the original trilogy? Obviously those arn't canon, but there is literally a new planet destroying superweapon in like every other story. I think JJ kinda went in that direction because it certainly is something Star Wars fans can relate to. I do agree if we see another floating ball of death in the next 2 in some fashion it will be very played out.
A thought on Kylo, I think JJ showing his lack of emotional control is setting him up to be the most powerful enemy yet. The ability to give in to your anger/fear/hate and not controlling it is what gives the dark side it's power. I think he was always one foot in/out while the possibility of his family getting back together was around which is why even with some training Rey was able to fend him off.
We would probably be 8-2 or 9-1 if we had him. He is the best wing defender on the team and his energy is contagious.
The only thing the program has made official is that Outlaw is redshirting this year due to a medical condition. I have heard the same rumors that it is worse than that but until the program puts it out its just #sauces. I hope they take their time with Hill, and lean towards a redshirt season because having three more seasons of him and Clarke together one year further into Buzz's rejuvenation makes more sense to me than having him back just for the ACC slate.
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10 years 7 months
# | QB Jerod Evans Sees Situation at Tech That's "Almost Too Good to be True," Picks the Hokies I was there that year too, that sucked
Agreed, they even got the colors right.
That's definitely possible, but I still want to see him go HAM on something other than a keyboard.