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  • Werewolf
    Inhuman
    • Jul 14, 2003
    • 14616

    This is the new Ming!? You’ve got to be kidding me.

    I understand and respect wanting to avoid offending people by what could be seen as a negative stereotype. Nothing wrong with that, but there is really only so much “re-imagining” you can do to something without making it totally unrecognizable from the source material. Go the Filmation and Defenders of the Earth route and make him more alien with the pointed ears, green skin and fangs. Dress him in gothic robes like a European Vampire. At least have him bald with a goatee!

    He is just not Ming anymore.



    To be totally honest though, all the character designs look pretty bad. But Ming’s is by far the worst in my opinion.
    You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47242

    #2
    Darn,
    I was hoping Jon got the part as Ming .......

    Looks like the whole cast is pretty lousy.

    The Aura actress would make a good Dale.

    Flash looks like he has a square head.

    I don't think i'm going to be watching this.
    Last edited by Mikey; Aug 7, '07, 12:53 AM.

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    • ABMAC
      User
      • May 16, 2002
      • 9665

      #3
      Ming the Band Camp Counsellor

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      • The Sentry
        Persistent Member
        • Jun 3, 2007
        • 1032

        #4
        *totally speechless*
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        • kingdom warrior
          OH JES!!
          • Jul 21, 2005
          • 12478

          #5
          wow that's really Bad....Good ole' sci fi channel...Imagine the meeting when they introduced him...and Guys Ming will look like a third grade teacher from the 80's..oooooohh

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          • thunderbolt
            Hi Ernie!!!
            • Feb 15, 2004
            • 34211

            #6
            uggh, yet another reason I'm glad I don't have cable.
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            • Meule
              Verbose Member
              • Nov 14, 2004
              • 28720

              #7
              Terrible, awful... No way I'm watching that if it ever finds it way to Belgian TV
              "...The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair..." - Edgar Allan Poe

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              • The Bat
                Batman Fanatic
                • Jul 14, 2002
                • 13412

                #8
                Geez...They could have atleast given Him a Goatee, or Beard, or something? not good.
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                • monkeyboy
                  Museum Patron
                  • Jul 31, 2007
                  • 100

                  #9
                  im not happy

                  From what ive seen wont like it!but thats what i said before smallville and i dig that show now!

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                  • toys2cool
                    Ultimate Mego Warrior
                    • Nov 27, 2006
                    • 28605

                    #10
                    what the hell? that Ming sucks man.W/E won't be watching it anyways
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                    • ctc
                      Fear the monkeybat!
                      • Aug 16, 2001
                      • 11183

                      #11
                      HEY!

                      It's a young Adama from the new Galactica!

                      Already it looks like everything else. So... they get to Mongo through a dimensional portal? A STARGATE perhaps....? Ming looks like a generic pseudo-space army guy, Zarkov is Comic Book Guy's long lost brother.... Baylin looks like Andromeda. They're looking for Flash's FATHER?!?!?! (Even odds he's now an evil cyborg in black armour.)

                      It's like fan fiction gone horribly, horribly wrong..... HOW TOUGH is "Flash Gordon?!?!?!" Guy flies to a sword and sorcery lookin' planet on a 30's looking spaceship! Hell; the 80's MOVIE was closer to the original strip!

                      Don C.

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                      • palitoy
                        live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                        • Jun 16, 2001
                        • 59204

                        #12
                        I was expecting a woman, I don't know why, this doesn't even phase me now.
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                        • Dave Mc
                          Administrator
                          • Oct 20, 2002
                          • 17827

                          #13
                          Wow. Perhaps he'll sell the part with his acting, but boy does he look like a wuss.

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                          • palitoy
                            live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                            • Jun 16, 2001
                            • 59204

                            #14
                            He's shown in robes in a couple of clips, so it's not a complete wipe of the character.
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                            • Mikey
                              Verbose Member
                              • Aug 9, 2001
                              • 47242

                              #15
                              I'm sure it's probably a matter of having an Asian nasty performed by a Caucasian actor.
                              Today it's probably non PC.

                              If that is the case though --- they should have got an Asian actor and everything would be fine.

                              Did you guys see Zarkov yet ?

                              I'd be surprised if this series made it past 6 episodes.

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