Dr_Mayhem

Did anyone else notice in the shot of River under water that there was some kind of object in the background on her left that looked somewhat like a rope?

So I have been thinking. I recall it being mentioned in Let's Kill Hitler that his death was a fixed point in time yet the Tardis said in The Doctor's Wife that she had a number of console rooms archived that hadn't even been used yet. That now has me thinking more that the Doctor does something to fake his death so that he can go back to staying in the shadows.

After trying out the beta, I can say I am rather unimpressed.

The setup is that you do indeed follow the story but what you follow is just the basics for each chapter consisting of a few panels of art depicting the scene. A lot of the scenes have a few things hidden in them but the whole thing seems to be made to make you read the books instead of just going to the site. If someone just goes through each of the chapters in the system, it could easily be completed in an hour. There is some interesting new information that you can read about as you move through the story such as information about wands or specific people. Getting a wand and getting sorted just involves a series of questions that don't really reveal their possible correlation. I came to that conclusion because all 4 house are about even in terms of members at the moment.

I wouldn't call Pottermore a game although it has a couple mini-games like brewing potions and dueling. Dueling is currently down so I have yet to try it. Potions on the other hand have no real purpose except to get 5 house points. The process is still getting worked out but right now, it is more frustrating because of time limits. To add to that, you can't do anything with the potions once they are done except store them or send them to others.

I wouldn't call the current version much of a social networking site either because there is no way to effectively chat with others. You can post comments in places like the end of chapters, the common room, and the great hall but that is it. It doesn't even look like there is a way to send messages to friends.

With how little there is to do, it doesn't deserve the hype that some have given it. It may be worth some attention when the new books are released but there just doesn't seem to be much to keep people there during the gaps. An actual MMO would have been a lot better than what they have done.


Note: Since this thread isn't that old, I decided to just post here instead of taking up forum space with another one.

Based on how next weekend is the season finale, I guess they have been going slow this entire time to cram a whole bunch of stuff into a single episode.

I am definitely thinking that he did something after he heard "fish fingers and custard" in the Tardis. He had 30 minutes to do something whether it was to visit someone or set something in motion and here is some time missing from when he sent the Tardis off after that segment and when he showed up wearing the suit.

I seriously hope that they did not spend much on that effect in warehouse 13 since it is pretty much a preset and can be applied in just a couple minutes.

Warehouse 13 has already been picked up for another season.

Since the series finale of Eureka was already written and set to start filming tomorrow, Syfy and Universal have given them an additional episode to wrap up the show.

I posted this in the Eureka/Warehouse 13 thread but it seems more fitting here.

Eureka writer Amy Berg posted an explanation for the cancellation on twitter this morning.

Eureka writer Amy Berg gave an explanation for the cancellation.

Eureka's cancellation is just one less thing keeping me with the channel.

I agree about there not really being anything to talk about. I usually end up thinking something along the lines of "wait, that is all this episode was?" by the end of the episode.

On the other hand, the series has presented some interesting sights that normally wouldn't happen such as the person that had the bomb still being alive after they cut his head off completely, the woman with the broken neck walking backwards, and the woman getting crushed then seeing her eyeball still moving inside the wreckage.

I actually don't care for Alphas. Last week I decided to just give up on the show after giving it plenty of time pull me in. Reason for doing so was mainly because I found Gary to be flat out annoying. I gave it one more chance this week. Gary was better but the show still doesn't interest me.