MentalMaden

I'm not one for long goodbyes and if I don't call any names it's only because I don't want to miss anyone.

Thank you so much Guardian for being my home for 8+ years. Thank you for the teams, the leagues, the TFs, the raids, the global chats, the gatherings (big or small), the contests, the protests, the praising and all of the laughter.

Thank you Guardian Controller and Dom community for the many ACTFs we owned and even the ones that owned us. Thank you to everyone on my friends list and all of you in Guardian and Level 50 global channels. Thank you to all of you who have organized raids, TFs and other server activity. Thank you to those people who stuck with Guardian not because it was the most LEET server but because it was the most FUN server. (Old school hami raids are probably my favorite thing ingame ever....who remembers the raid where everyone in the Hive used the word jello in movie quotes?)

Thank you to my small band of Super Group and coalition mates for 8 years of friendship and gaming. We're heading over to SWTOR for the immediate future on the Harbinger server.

But most of all thank you all for the cookies.

Guardian For Life!

Mental (mentalmaden@yahoo.com)

First, thank you developers for making my favorite AT/Class I've ever played in a game and thank you for the work you put in after launch to improve it even more and giving us the powersets we begged for. But most of all thank you Controller Forum regulars for being one of the most polite, knowledgeable and helpful groups on these forums. Thank you for all the builds, advice and debate you've provided the CoH community over the last 8+ years.

Here's hoping someday we find the combination of crowd control, support and damage that we found here and the community and developers to back it up. Best of luck in your post sunset travels. Hope to see many of you down the road.

Thank you for 8 great years of geek information, discussion and lively debates. Some of my favorite moments in CoH actually happened out of CoH and happened right here. Thank you to all of those that took part in our big threads on various books, television shows or movies: especially Lost and Heroes. Thank you for introducing me to so many things I may have never tried before without your recommendations: specifically and especially Firefly, Dr. Who and A Song of Ice and Fire. And thanks for indulging me with things like Mental's Bionic Woman Synopsis Theater and other fits of silliness that came out of my head and into this forum.

I'm not one for long goodbyes and I don't want to mention names out of fear of missing someone. You've all been a big part of my life and I thank you, sincerely, for the opportunity of being part of this little portion of the CoH community. Best of luck to all of you after the sunset and safe and happy travels wherever you may go. My small group are migrating over to SWTOR for the immediate future and there is a Mental Maiden (spelled correctly over there) running around CO every once and a while. I hope the day will come when many of us are together again talking, gibbering, debating and laughing over all things nerdy.

(One last time: Hickman! Hickman! Hickman!)

I have given serious thought to setting up a forum just like this one. Same conduct rules, no religion no politics, but like the old days of the CH/VC forums with games, comics, movies, tv, geek stuff. I love this little group we've had over the years. Some of the most fun I've had was watching Heroes and sifting through the pages of hilarious snark. (esp. Hickman! Hickman! Hickman!)

Yeah, I saw it. That's not really what I'm getting at. It just feels like they are dealing with the character in a ham fisted way. Where I think they successfully show people as three dimensional beings I feel Michonne is very one note and because of that I find all of the ways they show her as a loner comes off almost obnoxious. It's obviously a personal thing and like I said I get all the reasons she should be seen as awesomesauce. I don't think it's the actress' fault, just the way the show wants to present her.

While I know it's sacrilege I find Michonne almost on the verge of being unlikable. Yeah yeah I get she's bad and she's calculated and all that. I appreciate that and I understand she's a very beloved character, but personally I feel like the show's potrayal is veering close to "I don't care if she gets killed". It won't take much for me to just decide I don't like her. While Andrea is way over on the other end of the spectrum, I just feel they are making Michonne way too far in the other direction and it doesn't work for me. I get the character on paper, but something about the live action potrayal almost doesn't work for me. Sue me. Well almost sue me.

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Noooooooooooooooooooo!

The book was pretty forgettable so I'm not so sure this is really that much of a travesty.

But yeah I always pictured it as shot almost like an expose or documentary.

He must wear this.

Must.

I heard they were wanting to go to a more "GQ" type feel and talk fashion as well as tech.

Yeah......I know.

The original story involved the Beast looking normal then transforming when he gets angry? I thought the entire point to the Beauty and the Beast story was the fact this beautiful woman falls in love with something that on the surface looks monsterous because she found the beauty within.

That girl does awesome videos.


(I secretly think it's Arcanaville)

Has to be the most violent episode in television history. What a way to start a season.

Saw this storyboarded unshot scene on Nerdist that was to serve as the epilogue for the episode. It's pretty nice.

What's the point of the beast if he looks normal and only "changes" into a beast. I mean it could be a good show and all, but that's really not the point of Beauty and the Beast.

Interesting.