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They're replaying their roles from the 1st season when Sam also decided he needed to walk away. At least, that's the cue I was getting. That said, it's not the first time Supernatural retread old ground.
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I started plotting out a CoH-themed story, but decided it would make for a better AE arc, instead. So my NaNoWriMo efforts will be devoted to a slightly different style of writing now.
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Quote:And the less-well-known "Six Ways to Sunday."Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy
If you're not familiar with Norman Reedus, I suggest "The Boondock Saints". -
Technically, the game's T for Teen rating is for "Suggestive Themes" and "Violence" and not language. Ratings aren't all-inclusive, it only takes one factor to change the rating of a game; but that doesn't mean that all other aspects which affect the rating factor into what's being rated. Kind of like how a movie rating of "R" doesn't automatically mean nudity. No matter how much we sometimes want it to.
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Caught the pilot last night. Not a bad show, but, for some reason I just kept thinking about The Charmings the entire time.
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Personally, I just wish he'd make a return performance with Angus McGonagle.
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There was a game thread a few weeks ago that seemed to last for a few days before being consigned to oblivion, so I'm guessing video-gaming talk is still verboten. PnP game talk should be allowed, though. I don't see anything in the rules which would apply to discussing the merits and cons of the FATE system against D20--but I only skimmed the rules, so I might be wrong on that.
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Did anyone else pick up the "Teen Titans: Games" TPB that hit stores last month? I thought it was really well done. It's set in the later era of the Wolfman/Perez Titans and had this story been released then, I have to wonder if it would have helped rescue Danny Chase from the "Scrappy Heap."
It's interesting that in the midst of a relaunch with muddled continuity, a book that sits solidly inside the "old" continuity is probably the best thing I've read. -
Not to mention how much easier the interwebs have made it to get through any continuity questions. When I got back into comics 4 years ago I had no problems looking up character and past references if I got really curious. I don't think it's continuity that drives away potential readers, it's when stories are tied up into multiple books that require a higher price-point to understand (and hopefully aren't contradictory between writers). That is to say, it's price and potentially bad story-telling that are the killers. The constant events which culminated to Brightest Day pushed me out of regular subscriptions.
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Quote:Although he's great in the Big Finish Doctor Who audios. The audio dramas can be a lot of fun--especially the McGann and Colin Baker runs.Originally Posted by Zikar
Arg, no. Don't start with the film. Aside from being not particularly good, (it stupidly Info Dumps the entire show's lore on you in the first 10 minutes) if you end up liking McGann you'll be out of luck since you'll never see him again.
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Yep. The Boom! Studios Farscape comic, written/directed by series co-creator Rockne S. O'Bannon is still in production. Like most series transfers to a different medium YMMV on how well it works for you. I think it started off well, but was put off by all the different one-shots and mini-series comics which they surrounded the primary series.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Well we just got it announced there is a cannon casualty...
Teens Titans and Young Justice aren't cannon because Teen Titans #1 will be the first meeting of those characters and that group apparently.
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Hey, I liked Mars Attacks!
...Wow, I'm never inviting most of you folks to my movie party.
Are Uwe Boll movies too easy a target? Because of the director, are they auto-bad despite containing usually awesome cast members? In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale particularly stands out for me. -
Quote:This. I thought it was fine spiritual successor/homage to It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Also, I liked Rat Race.
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Quote:That's funny, I feel most of the same way about Alien3. I think I'm one of the seven people who actually liked Alien: Resurrection.Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
While not nearly as high on the scale as other peoples' choices, I'm gonna add Alien: Resurrection to the list. It was full of really good character actors, all stuck playing one-dimensional characters in a mediocre film that could have been better had the original version been made.
For what it was supposed to be delivering, I thought The Expendables fell short on delivery, though it did an excellent job of why you typically want your action star to be surrounded by eloquent villains. That way someone in the movie could be understood! -
Now that I've finished my re-read of the books 1 through 4 of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, I've begun reading Dance of Dragons. Once that's read, I've got Jasper Fforde's One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jim Butcher's Ghost Story to catch up on!
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Quote:Unless he drew Optimus like one of Jack's french girls...Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
There's nobody of a significantly-larger-than-human scale; the biggest specimens here are things like Gort and Big Guy. "Outside the scope of this document," as it were. It's like people were grumbling about the lack of the Iron Giant. If he was shown as anything other than a single foot in the background, the "camera" would have to be so far back you couldn't see the smaller robots at all...
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Sorry about the quality, the outlines and image didn't 100% match, so it might look a little blurry around some edges. I got tired of looking up and down, though, so hopefully this might help finish up the mapping.
1 Robot soldier - Laputa: Castle in the Sky
2 B9 - Lost in Space TOS
3 Larry 3000 - Time Squad
4 Maximilian - The Black Hole
5 Robot John - Planeta Bur
6 Gort - The Day the Earth Stood Still
7 Chani - Devil Girl From Mars
8 Ro-Man - Robot Monster
9 Robot invader - Target Earth
10 Hector - Saturn 3
11 Torg - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
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13 Carl - Meet the Robinsons
14 ED 209 - Robocop
15 Robot - Mother Riley meets the Vampire
16 Dr. Chaotica's robot - Star Trek: Voyager
17 B9 - Lost in Space (movie)
18 T800 - The Terminator
19 Johnny 5 - Short Circuit
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21 Police Officer - THX 1138
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24 Weebo - Flubber
25. A.P.E.X. - A.P.E.X.
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27 Tobor - Tobor the Great
28 Malfunctioning Robot - Zathura
29 Tachikoma - Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
30 Dot Matrix - Spaceballs
31 Wheelie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
32 Wheelie - Transformers cartoon series
33 Jet Jaguar - Godzilla v. Megalon
34 Scooter - Gobots cartoon
35 Good Bill - Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
36 Good Ted - Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
37 Crichton - - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
38 Kryten - Red Dwarf
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40 Box - Logan's Run (movie)
41 Andy - Quark
42 Robby - Forbidden Planet
43 ABC Warrior - Judge Dredd
44 QT1 - Out of the Unknown
45 Trade Federation B1 battle droid - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
46 Butler bot (Woody Allen) - Sleeper
47 Maria - Metropolis
48 C3PO - Star Wars
49 Metal Mickey - The Saturday Banana/The Metal Mickey TV Show
50 Rodney - Robots
51 ZETA - The ZETA Project
52 Thundercleese - The Brak Show
53 Plex - Yo Gabba Gabba
54 Sherman - Millenium (1989 movie)
55 Gog - Gog
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57 Cylon - Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
58 Wild robot - A.I.
59 Big Guy - Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
60 Cybus Cyberman - Doctor Who
61 Cyberman - Doctor Who
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63 Lynn Butlertron - Clone High
64 Sentinel - The Matrix (movie)
65 Horde bot - She-Ra
66. Zero - Earth 2
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68 M.A.R.K. 13 - Hardware (movie)
69 X-5 - Atomic Betty
70 Calculon - Futurama
71 Necron 99/Peace - Wizards (movie)
72 Robotic dog - K.O.P.S.
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75 Sonny - I, Robot
76 Bicentennial Man
77 Bender - Futurama
78 Eve - Wall-E
79 Tin Woodsman - The Wizard of Oz
80 Nomad - Star Trek (TOS)
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84 Atlas - Portal 2
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86 Kamelion - Doctor Who
87 Bubo - Clash of the Titans (original)
88 Octus - Symbionic Titan
89 Grounder - Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
90 Haro - from numerous Gundam series
91 XR - Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
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94 Dalek - Doctor Who
95 Smash! robot - commercial
96 Alpha 5 - Mighty Morphing Power Rangers
97 Robot Jones - Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?
98 Humping Robot - Robot Chicken
99 Cooker robot - Wallace & Gromit: Grand Day Out
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101 Jenny - My Life as a Teenage Robot
102 Robot Head 790 - LEXX
103 IQ-9/Analyzer - Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato
104 Blinky
105 SICO - Rocky 4
106 Marvin the Paranoid Android - Hitch Hikers Guide (TV series)
107 AMEE - Red Planet
108 Evolver - Evolver
109 Asimov - Mr. Robot (RPG/Puzzle game by Moonpod Games)
110 Jinx - Space Camp
111 Crossing Robot - Green Cross Code PSAs (UK)
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113 Cylon - Battlestar Gallactica
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115 Tick-Tock of Oz - Return to Oz
116 Droid - Droid phone commercials
117 Dick Spanner - Dick Spanner, P.I.
118 Fix-It - *batteries not included
119 Marvin the Paranoid Android - Hitch Hikers Guide (movie)
120 Rosie - The Jetsons
121 Robot - Heavy Metal (movie)
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123
124 B.E.N., the Bio-Electronic Navigator - Treasure Planet
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127 Robot Boy - Robot Boy
128 K9 mark 2 - K9
129 Wall-E - Wall-E
130 Serge - Caprica
131 S.P.O.T. -The Eliminators (movie)
132 GIR - Invader Zim
133 Preston - Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
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135 Nono - Ulysses 31
136 Naughty Nu Nu the vacuum - Teletubbies
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138 Conky - Pee-Wee's Playhouse
139 Sam the Robot - Sesame Street
140 Muffit the Daggit - Battlestar Galactica (TOS)
141 Quark - Doctor Who
142 M.I.C. - Telebugs
143 S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. - Telebugs
144 Killobot - Chopping Mall
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146 Evil Edna - Will O The Wisp
147 V.I.N.cent - The Black Hole
148 Bad Robot
149 K-9 - Doctor Who
150 Henry Hoover (vacuum cleaner) - Numatic Vacuum Company
151 7 Zark 7 - Battle Of The Planets
152 H.E.R.B.I.E. - Fantastic Four cartoon (1970s)
153 Robot Man - Robot Man cartoon series
154 Sgt. Bash - Robot Wars
155 Tom Servo - Mystery Science Theater 3000
156 Twiki - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
157 Dr. Theopolis - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
158 Cube - Terrahawks
159 Charlie - Heartbeeps
160 MSE "mouse" droid - Star Wars
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162 Tiny - Little Robots
163 Clank - Ratchet and Clank
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165 R2D2 - Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
166 Ludwig
167 Sergeant Major Zero - Terrahawks
168 Tee-bob - M.A.S.K. cartoon
169 Huey - Silent Running
170 Dewey - Silent Running
171 Louie's foot - Silent Running
172 Scutter - Red Dwarf
173 Zax - Benji, Zax, and The Alien Prince
174 Mouse robot - Tom & Jerry cartoons
175 Cat robot - Tom & Jerry cartoons
176 Goddard - The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius cartoon
177 Jump - Astro Boy
178 DRD - Farscape
179 Rover - Planet 51
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Quote:I was referring more about the reasoning of why they were restarting the count than if it worked or not. Comics were experiencing a boom in the 90's thanks to speculative purchasing and releasing #1's and alternate covers and the like cached in on that. The releasing of #1s now is just the hope that it'll bring in new readers because the comic bubble has burst. Whether lower numbers will actually help... *shrug*Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
It just doesn't. Coming in at issue #3 is no more daunting than coming in at issue #543. The whole sentiment of "getting in on the ground floor with issue #1" is simply the same turd from the 90's with a slightly different packaging.
Personally, I find the current comic medium outdated, especially the concept of "issues" which typically fail to tell a concise story in a solitary purchase. I think DC would have been better off looking more at releasing trades (electronically or via paper) which would have been 4-6 issues thick all at once because, you're right, coming in at the middle of a story (#3, using your example) is still off-putting and lacks a sense of where the earliest place to start is. -
I think there's a difference between the collectible comics game and trying to get new readers in. DC isn't trying for a cash cow at this point, they're trying to survive. For many various reasons they're hemorrhaging readers at this point and are looking for a fresh start; not only in the paper market but also expanding that to the digital market. By giving lower numbers, they're trying to entice new readers so that character history isn't as daunting. In the 90's, #1's came out to pander to the audience that already existed, cashing in on the relatively new market of comic collecting/buying. The 90's weren't going for readers, this reboot is.
I'm not a fan of a lot of the redesigns or the exact way their handling the line between keeping old fans and new (the never-ending problem with continuity), but I am pulling for the company. I'd not be playing CoH today if it weren't for DC helping me fall in love with comics in the first place. -
Well, if DC is able to push through then it should probably begin the era of the "Digital Age." For me any reference to the Post-Modern age would basically be Morrison's run on Animal Man.
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Quote:My friends and I got to see Stewart at Wizard World and it's crazy how he really doesn't much different than he did in 1981's Excalibur. May we all age so gracefully.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
That was cute. It's good to see Sir Patrick looking well.
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Quote:But it has nookleyer wessels!Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I hope not. I hate that movie more than any of the Star Trek movies.
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The casting for this show may be some of the best casting yet. Just perfect picks almost nearly across the board. Dillane should make for a very good Stannis.
