Pilgrim Stars Shipping Now

This time the indications are coming from Amazon.com's direction. Karl Frank received his shipping confirmation order:

Subject: Your Amazon.com order
Date: Donnerstag, 02. September 1999 00:45
We thought you'd like to know that the following items have been shipped using standard surface mail (Averages 2-12 weeks).
Please note that these shipments do not have tracking numbers.
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1 Pilgrim Stars (A Wing Commande $5.20 1 $5.20

Combat Alert In Deep Space!
Welcome to the real world! Christopher Blair, his sexy flymate, Dev, and his pal Maniac graduated from the Confed's elite Academy straight into a nasty, three-way war. Their ship, the Tiger Claw, is battling not only alien Kilrathi destroyers, but rebels who have stolen the swift Rapier and Broadsword fighters of the Confederation!
Claw and crew are caught in the middle of a deadly rebellion, led by rogue Pilgrims who want to cleanse the Universe and reseed it with perfect humans. Choosing sides isn't easy. Especially when your former friends are even more ruthless than the aliens you were trained to fight!

Episode Two Released!

After three weeks of tense anticipation, episode two of Byydo's Happy Secret Thingie has been released! There's about 800 k of graphics, so most people will have to let the page load for a few minutes, but it's definitely worth the wait. You can find episode two here. Oh, and this would have been to celebrate Byydo's birthday if I had updated about it on time. Happy Birthday By!

Wing Commander Ratings Poll

As many of the updates we have in the lineup for today, this one is from Brazil. The majority of people might not be able to read the review, but the voting booth is fairly simple. You can rate Wing Commander from 1 to 10. The poll is through zaz.com.br and you can find it here. Wing Commander currently has a 5.81 after 105 votes.

Brazilian Movie Roundup

• Another movie site in Brazil. It's old, has some pics including a WCIV tolwyn: here
• The official site for the Brazilian distributor of WCIV(with portuguese subtitles): here
• It's also mentioned in article about SW that it's too dumb to translate: here

(The first movie review, negative as expected. This is from one of the Brazilian main newspapers, O Globo. At least he didn't compare it with other computer game movies. He is wrong in his statement about the fans...)
1 of 5 (sleeping)
Wing Commander
by Tom Leão
"A game that doesn't change level"
The space adventure "Wing Commander" (released today on Rio Sul 1 and circuit) is the cinema recreation of one of the most famous computer space combat games. However, the game is much more dynamic and interesting than the movie, despite the fact it was directed by the creator of the games, Chris Roberts.
The Confederation (us) faces the threat of the Kilrathi, an alien race (that looks like poorly articulated Ninja Turtles with a cat face) that intend to invade Earth which results in some space battles (the only point of interest in the movie). And that's it. The rest is a rain of cliches, that would be even tolerable if it weren't the amateurish performance of the main actors. The teen actor of the moment, Freddie Prinze Jr. (she's all that), for example, is laughable on the dramatic moments.
The bottom line is, prefer the computer screen to the cinema. Or rent the legitimate space war trash "Starship Troopers". Not even the fans are going to stand this.
(Note: Episode 1, TPM got 2 ratings, 1/5 and 2/5. Thomas Crown also got 1/5.)

Brazilian Public Opinion Report

I watched it yesterday and as reported before it looked very dark comparing to the DVD version. It has now been shown in several movie theaters across the country and despite of the official reviews, sci-fi lovers are really enjoying the movie. I interviewed some people and took some pictures and I'm working on a graphic which shows several different points such as visual effects in the public opinion. It will be ready in some days.