Anyone catch the Scy-fy channels Riverworld?
Story chugging along well enough, then, out of nowhere, Japanese-girl (who, seriously, does not look Japanese, or speak with a Japanese accent) suddenly gets samurai armor, complete with a pair of asian-style swords, even though the only other equipment we see is Spanish conquistador style. Naturally, she hacks the crap out of the armored Spanish (credible), although Pizarro holds his own quite well (not credible--he's an uber bold badass berserker-style swordsman, quite capable of personally killing hundreds of stone-club-and-feathers equipped savages in an hour, but probably not a swordmaster).
Anyway, the clothing and weapon appearance is bizarro-land, which is something considering the whole premise of the story.
Bonus points if someone can tell me what happened with the FIRST sci-fi channel's Riverworld, which had basically the same story, but curiously vanished without a trace, about halfway through (i.e., it was obviously a two or more parter, but part one is the only part that ever showed).
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The big spoiler for Riverworld is:
Aliens resurrect humanity; because there was some catastrophe humanity never had the chance to hit its stride or some such. So the aliens bring back humanity on this planet so they can get a second chance, or some shit like that.
Good guys win, bad guys lose, but not decisively enough to stop it from becoming a TV series if people wanted it (which they didn't).
Aliens resurrect humanity; because there was some catastrophe humanity never had the chance to hit its stride or some such. So the aliens bring back humanity on this planet so they can get a second chance, or some shit like that.
Good guys win, bad guys lose, but not decisively enough to stop it from becoming a TV series if people wanted it (which they didn't).
I've pretty much just gone with the understanding that what they call "Emotions" are really mental states and qualities. With the exception of Black, the "emotion" of which is death. Yeah, it's dumb. In fact, the actual black lantern, Black Hand, is kinda dumb too. I mostly kept up on them to see all the other corps.Cynic wrote:When the fuck did Willpower and Greed become god damned emotions?
Reading the dc storyline "blackest night."
I haven't read DC in ages. I vaguely knew of the other lantern corps and stuff from looking at the comic shelves. But I didn't know that they were divided on the "emotional spectrum" Willpower, fear, rage, love, avarice, and compassion.
I don't even know what the fuck black is supposed to be?
Lets see.. for those wondering:
Orange=Greed
Yellow=Fear
Red=Rage
Green=Willpower
Violet=Love
Indigo=Compassion
Blue=Hope
Black=Death
and I haven't read the part where they intro "white lanterns" yet, so I don't know.
sweet jesus. white lanterns?
I miss Alan Moore writing the green lantern corp where he introduced interesting and fun concepts such as MOGO the green lantern planet and the mathematical equation green lantern and the green lantern based on sound and not light as it was blind.
I miss Alan Moore writing the green lantern corp where he introduced interesting and fun concepts such as MOGO the green lantern planet and the mathematical equation green lantern and the green lantern based on sound and not light as it was blind.
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Also Riverworld?
Like the P.J. Farmer novel series?
I love that stuff but if syfy is the one doing it, I think I'll pass.
A quick peruse shows me that they seem to have kept a basic setting of the novels and then gone in a different direction. if it was any other production company, I might be okay with it and give it a try. But SYFY is pretty atrocious.
HBO is also doing "Song of Fire & ICe" sometime in the future. I'm hoping it'll be good and not the way spawn or the legend of the seeker crap is done.
Like the P.J. Farmer novel series?
I love that stuff but if syfy is the one doing it, I think I'll pass.
A quick peruse shows me that they seem to have kept a basic setting of the novels and then gone in a different direction. if it was any other production company, I might be okay with it and give it a try. But SYFY is pretty atrocious.
HBO is also doing "Song of Fire & ICe" sometime in the future. I'm hoping it'll be good and not the way spawn or the legend of the seeker crap is done.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
Sinestro was the first person, I believe, to wear the white lantern ring. It's the opposite of the black ring, so White=Life; and as far as I can tell, it's way more powerful than any other ring. It's been given to anyone who died and was resurrected, can be used to bring the dead back to life (disconnecting them from the Black Lantern Corps), and can temporarily turn any other power ring into a white ring.
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Put a greatsword a maul and a greataxe in a room and ask them to take their pick
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HBO also did 'Rome' and 'The Tudors', which are both pretty similar in tone to A Song of Ice and Fire. I'm cautiously optimistic.Cynic wrote: HBO is also doing "Song of Fire & ICe" sometime in the future. I'm hoping it'll be good and not the way spawn or the legend of the seeker crap is done.
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Rome was good. Tudors was laughable at first for it's historical inaccuracy and then when they realized that they had so many history geeks as fans they started paying more attention.Still they left some major details out.
HBO does good shows, I'll admit it. But hwen it comes to their fantasy/scifi stuff, they kinda flop.
Spawn was bad. Tru Blood is an act in getting me want to stab a 51' tv with a pick axe until I somehow process that rage directly into all the TRu blood electronic information out in the ether.
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HBO does good shows, I'll admit it. But hwen it comes to their fantasy/scifi stuff, they kinda flop.
Spawn was bad. Tru Blood is an act in getting me want to stab a 51' tv with a pick axe until I somehow process that rage directly into all the TRu blood electronic information out in the ether.
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Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
Rome was a pale shadow of the uber awesomeness of Deadwood (which made Tim Olyphant's career---he plays basically the same character on Justified).
Deadwood tried reasonably well to be accurate, and it's also fun to read what the 'real' people of Deadwood were like compared to the characters on the show.
The only major digression is the language of Deadwood is very profane, but only used modern profanity. They tried using 19th century profanity, but lines like "Get your sheep-fornicating Sunday-school skipping caboose over here you lilly-livered injun-loving bastard!" tended to come off too much like comedy, so they drop lots of F-bombs instead.
Deadwood tried reasonably well to be accurate, and it's also fun to read what the 'real' people of Deadwood were like compared to the characters on the show.
The only major digression is the language of Deadwood is very profane, but only used modern profanity. They tried using 19th century profanity, but lines like "Get your sheep-fornicating Sunday-school skipping caboose over here you lilly-livered injun-loving bastard!" tended to come off too much like comedy, so they drop lots of F-bombs instead.
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Frank Trollman wrote:A government is also immortal ...On the plus side, once the United Kingdom is no longer united, the United States of America will be the oldest country in the world. USA!
speaking of historical shows.
Spartacus on Starz is pretty good. I mean the violence is 300 style and I hate 300 but I like Spartacus. because it actually involves intrigue and stuff.
It's a nicely done show.
Spartacus on Starz is pretty good. I mean the violence is 300 style and I hate 300 but I like Spartacus. because it actually involves intrigue and stuff.
It's a nicely done show.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
They helped finance is, but they didn't really have a shows division at the time.
I went to an G RR Martin reading about the time he announced negotiations, and he hoped they'd do it well, too. My thoughts on the subject is it would be perfect for having more than one production crew, similar to how animations are done: Each hero or thread would have their own episodes, director, and producers, but would be informed by the same production values. This would allow you to have the show filmed on location in BC, NZ, etc to have the right backgrounds; and having different producers would make the chapters feel different as having different narrators.
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I went to an G RR Martin reading about the time he announced negotiations, and he hoped they'd do it well, too. My thoughts on the subject is it would be perfect for having more than one production crew, similar to how animations are done: Each hero or thread would have their own episodes, director, and producers, but would be informed by the same production values. This would allow you to have the show filmed on location in BC, NZ, etc to have the right backgrounds; and having different producers would make the chapters feel different as having different narrators.
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Ah-ha! I have found the NCIS episode with the retarded two-people typing on one keyboard.
Season 1, Episode 22 "A Weak Link".
Abby helping type over McGee's shoulders.
As an added WTF moment in the show, about 21 min into the same episode my wife noticed (and I missed since I was playing on my ipod at the time) that at the start of one scene when Gibbs, Kate and Tony all exit the car, Gibbs' pants are totally unzipped and undone and they practically do a close-up as he tucks in his shirt and zips up. No explanation is given, I have no idea what was going on or was supposed to have been going on.
Season 1, Episode 22 "A Weak Link".
Abby helping type over McGee's shoulders.
As an added WTF moment in the show, about 21 min into the same episode my wife noticed (and I missed since I was playing on my ipod at the time) that at the start of one scene when Gibbs, Kate and Tony all exit the car, Gibbs' pants are totally unzipped and undone and they practically do a close-up as he tucks in his shirt and zips up. No explanation is given, I have no idea what was going on or was supposed to have been going on.
The close up!
And then buckling his belt afterwards...
What the fuuuuuuck?
And then buckling his belt afterwards...
What the fuuuuuuck?
Ah, that's season 1.
I remember seeing something about the computer-tech-stuff being...well, bullshit in season 1 and as time went on, it got more plausible as apparently someone cracked the whips on the writers to do (gasp) some research.
I remember seeing something about the computer-tech-stuff being...well, bullshit in season 1 and as time went on, it got more plausible as apparently someone cracked the whips on the writers to do (gasp) some research.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
3. It seems to me that you're suggesting that IQ should not be inheritable, or that geniuses can't be connected in the world. Or that son-geniuses of geniuses shouldn't be connected. Isn't it apparent that everything in Marvel is connected?Psychic Robot wrote:Things that annoyed me about Iron Man 2.
1. The end fight scene was not long enough. It needed about another two minutes of smashing and killing to satisfy me.
2. The entire discovery of vibranium felt very rushed to me.
3. I felt that it was cheesy that Ivan McRuskie was a genius on par with Tony Stark. If he hadn't had direct ties to Stark, I wouldn't have complained. Seeing as he did, however, it left a bad taste in my mouth.
4. How did the Don Cheadle get out of the Warmachine suit when he flew it to the Army base?
5. The movie acted like Hammer was an idiot, when he clearly wasn't.
4. Did the war machine suit not have an escape? It seems to me that all the suits you can get out of, it's just the speed and ability to get back in. They did reassemble it differently.
5. What did Hammer do that was not idiotic?
I totally agree on 1 and 2. In fact, it seemed that Tony was a little bit pigheaded on the discovery of the element. But I sorta wonder what triggered the other two?
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Hammer wasn't idiotic...just terminally uncool and endowed with anti-charisma.
He sometimes seemed out of his depth, but...Somehow, I dunno. He seems like a credible threat. Albeit a sleazy one.
He sometimes seemed out of his depth, but...Somehow, I dunno. He seems like a credible threat. Albeit a sleazy one.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Fucking Prison Break. It's a damned good concept for a tv show. An escape-the-room concept is wonderful for a tv series as it gives you time to flesh things out more than But the character portrayal and logic used for some of the reasoning is absolutely god awful. I only watch the show to see where this escape-the-room concept fleshes out. Granted I'm only 7 episodes in.
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I really do dig the fact that Stargate Universe is basically Alpha Centauri: the Show. I mean fuck, they just did a Mind Worm episode. Yeah, they were ticks and not worms, but the effect was the same.
But honestly, I cannot understand why the crew doesn't kill the Colonel. He's basically Yang, but they keep having him not making hard choices that save everyone's lives and instead just being a dangerous asshole. Yang is supposed to be evil yes, and also crazy, but competent. Colonel Young just comes off as a lunatic that should be spaced.
But I forgive it all of this, because they got a really excellent Zakharov.
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But honestly, I cannot understand why the crew doesn't kill the Colonel. He's basically Yang, but they keep having him not making hard choices that save everyone's lives and instead just being a dangerous asshole. Yang is supposed to be evil yes, and also crazy, but competent. Colonel Young just comes off as a lunatic that should be spaced.
But I forgive it all of this, because they got a really excellent Zakharov.
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