ADVision released it in the US alongside Neon Genesis Evangelion, and it sort of got lost. I think they paid the same for both shows, as such things are based on what the Japanese think they're worth.

The 90's anime Blue Seed has some of this. There is a family line with a special power. If a daughter from it is sacrificed by humans in a certain way, evil demon plant creatures can be banished for another few centuries. If the creatures sacrifice her in a certain way, the threat to them is over and they can just crush humanity. So, both sides want to protect the girl from the other while at the same time kill her. With the humans, morality comes into play, causing them to focus on keeping her alive until there's no other option.

Being anime, there's also lots of panty shots.

That's actually the Fourth one

What seems feminist/female centric at first can sometimes become less so the more you read it. As an example, I'm a fan of Ann McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books (most of them, at least). Lots of strong female characters, to the point where a woman once asked why the hell a guy would read them. My answer was Jaxom. I read the first two books just so I could get to The White Dragon, with that iconic cover of him riding Ruth.

A few years ago, though, while listening to the audiobooks again, I realized how... subservient almost all the women were to men. It's subtle, but there. Basically, females are powerful and independent up until the point where they get a man. After that, he takes over. It becomes really obvious in the later books, where Menolly practically vanishes once she's married. Even Lessa, as powerful as she's described, is always wrong to disagree with F'lar, and she falls apart when he's injured. There's also a very strong sense of "good breeding makes good people", for lack of a better description. Everyone from certain places are bad, because, well, it's a bad city.

I'm just impressed they're churning these out while Phase II ground to a halt for awhile. They seem to have started up again, though, clearing out the already shot episodes and doing a kickstarter to fund new episodes with the new Captain Kirk.

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com

How late were the songs added? Mulan is an interesting case in that after "I'll Make a Man Out of You", the songs end and it becomes an action movie. Almost as if the creators wanted it that way from the beginning, but Disney wanted it to have at least SOME music as they transitioned out of the musical biz. Tangled was a case where, iirc, there were changes to try and make the it less girly, something boys would want to see. If the movie didn't start as a musical, or if the songs were in and out over the course of its development, they may have become less integral to the story.

They even stopped letting Netflix carry their DVDs, reasoning that what few people now feel forced to buy them would give them more money than what little Netflix was paying. On the other end of the spectrum, they're putting huge chunks of the new John Oliver show on YouTube, as there is no re-run value to it and they need to drum up some buzz (it seems to be working).

If they're going to do Goldman, let's do one of his failures. A Bridge Too Far. I want discussion on why it doesn't work, because as much as I love it, it's not really good somehow.

A bunch of women have created a lesbian mod for Dragon Age: Origins, and I've been playing with that. It's impressive what they've done, not just changing just about every female NPC into someone you can romance, but introducing some new plot lines if you dig around. It does turn your character into a bit of a slut, and everyone hitting on you can be a bit much. It's also unstable as hell on my Mac, even with just about every other mod removed. They're slowly replacing the computer generated voices with real ones, but it's still rather bad in that department. Worth a try, though. Some of the new cutscenes are quite well done.

http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/4134/?
It's an adult mod, and you may have to become a free member to see the page.

A quick correction for Trey. Peter Graves wasn't in "Them!", he was in the lower budget ripoff "Beginning of the End" which had giant grasshoppers. The climax has them walking on a photo of a building.

They DID put criminals on the front line in WW II, much to the annoyance of the regular troops. It made it seem like fighting for your country was a punishment, so what did that mean to those who signed up?