Tolwin was in SM2 for wing 1? i dont recall that, i know for a fact he wasent there there. like Jazz and Doomsday were, but maybe they did refrence him i dont know, but ill take your word for it till i play it over for the zillionth time. (i go threw em all cronilocialy, now im on 5)
anyways, i think Maniac is a great character to the series and all and am well aware of all the refrencses of there past. just saying that "orignaly" it wasent there, and you can write all the fill in's you want but i personaly like the orignal scripts to things. having said that i do apreciate expecialy in such a vast universe such as wing commander the added character depth they do put in. and thought it fitting that eventualy in Wing Commander 4 they do develope more of a Friendship there. but i was uncomfortable with them being friends right away in the movie. the series has taken alot of turns. orignaly blair was very modest saying things like spirit helped me out alot in the mission and stuff. and a total personality shift in wing 2 cause then hes like i knew i was the best pilot for the job. (im guessing it came at the end of wing 1 when he says to hunter i guese it was pretty empressive huh?) things like that i just excepted and it turns out most of those "glitches" actualy improved the story, its the greatest series ever in my opinion, just pointing out the little things
in order to enjoy anything you cant be caught up in too much detail, you have to suspend disbelieve, but when you see those departers you cant help but say hey, thats wrong! lol. and ive read some of the posts on how the movie can fit in to the games, frankly ive totaly dismissed them all because honestly i dont want the movie to fit into the games, it was just so badly done in my opinon i dont want to think about all that crap and ruin the gamming experence. frankly i dont believe you can ever truly fit that movie into the wing commander universe cause the most dirrect reason, Angel and Blair wernt items till Wing2 (course i dont know what the "depth" fillers will say about dates and stuff in defending its place but the Wing Commander movie, i just hate hating it. because id love to love it, and ill watch it, but its one of those movies you watch thinking, no one else would like this. while something like the X-Files movie you could get others to watch it and theyd like it. you can get people to play Wing Commander 3 and theyd like it, but the Wing Movie EH! the Game series filled in Depth so great because they explaned it throughout slowly and it made sense, and the those little thing you could suspend disbeliefe on and forget about the maniac things and stuff. but the movie just asked to suspend way too much disbeliefe and tell me if im wrong here but if you need all these people on message boards to explain and defend how the movie fits in with all these persice dates and such, then its already not a good movie. now Contact, that was a book that spaned many years, but the movie justfied the book well i think... great compliment to it, The Wing Commander movie i dont believe will compliment the series in the end.
sorry, guese that was a little more the just 2 cents huh?