Ironik

Maybe a lifetime dinghy, then.

Holy crap, you made a pun!

That's me, always saying something that gets me into trouble and making others look good by comparison.

That will be the challenge in front of the Devs. I suspect CoH2 will be announced at Comic Con next month. Probably called something like "City of Heroes 2: Planet of Heroes." Not as catchy as "City 2: Electric Boogaloo," but what can you do?

Jeez, dude, you gave a woman's age.

I got dibs on July 17th as the day Zwill is vaporized by the orbiting laser cannon.

Grats to EM.

Wall Street.

Oh yeah, I remember this one. This is how one goes about redesigning an NPC. I think just slapping together some bits from the costume creator is doomed to failure because there aren't any unique or iconic pieces there.

I don't think Swan needs a redesign so much as a freshening, and I think Synapse is perfect as-is. He's got a great iconic look to him, with a unique chest emblem.

Don't worry, I'll go with you. Then we can go out for a drink afterwards and talk about movies for hours and braid each other's hair and get into a pillow fight....

And yet they lifted the primary bad guy and his motivation for Star Trek right out of Nemesis, bald-headed Romulan and all.

It shouldn't be the beginning of the end. It's just an over-saturated summer with sub-standard fare. Jon Favreau commented last year that summer 2011 was going to be a bloodbath, and he's right so far. Sadly, Hollywood (in the collective sense) never gets the right message. When Jaws was a huge hit, Hollywood saw this movie with engaging characters, terrific cinematography, superb acting, direction and scoring and didn't think, "Let's make good movies with those elements," they thought, "Let's make movies about angry fish eating people."

They're already moving toward adult comedies en masse, which means endless Hangover and Bridesmaids clones for the next 5 years.

This brings up a good point that's been stated before: there's something to be said for a lot of people either liking or disliking a movie. Not to say that groupthink is always right, but the old adage "where there's smoke there's fire" does come to mind. It's not like critics all get together and decide how to rate something. When you have people across the spectrum loving a movie like Dark Knight or hating a movie like Green Lantern, there's *something* going on there. It's not prudent to simply dismiss that reaction out of hand.

That said, I think Rotten Tomatoes is utterly useless. Whoever runs that site clearly spins the "fresh/rotten" meter based on whether they liked a movie. Superman Returns got a HUGELY inflated "fresh" rating despite many of the reviews essentially saying it was bad. When SR came out and people were quoting the RT number, I looked at the reviews and found the RT icon erroneously applied. I think a fairer assessment would significantly downgrade the RT rating of such movies.

Of course, the only way to ensure a real cross-critic rating is to standardize the system. Personally, I think only pass/fail ratings should be accepted, but we do have a tendency to rank things. Siskel & Ebert were really onto something with the "thumbs up" thing -- although it led to hilarious phrases like "thumbs way up!" which sometimes evoke peculiar images.

I am drowneded by your wordologisms!

I might buy that, but every other element of the movies departed significantly from Trek continuity (such as it is) in dramatic fashion. The first warp drive in the wrong place, Picard having a Romulan clone that wants to kill him because he was nursed enough or something.... the Borg queen is really bad, though, because it changes the Borg from a cool enemy into just another villain group.

Now you've done it.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Nomad.

I agree with my friend who postulated that Picard never came out of the Nexus. Which actually helps explain all the weirdness that followed in the Trek universe, such as the Borg queen nonsense and Picard always being Kirklike catnip to the ladies.

D'oh! Now that was one I completely forgot about. It's utterly brilliant and belongs on the list. If you've seen the DVD, it's even more impressive because they wrote an entire second musical as a commentary.