Nemo_Utopian
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Quote:It should also be noted that Amy was in a more advanced form of the flesh,hence why the Doctor was exploring it's foundations.Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
Honestly it wasn't quite like that,
the Real Amy was controlling the Ganger Amy the exact same way( well sort of), as the people did on the island before the freak accident that gave them Sentience. The difference was, Amy didn't realize she was in remote control of the Ganger( hence why she kept seeing the Eye Patch lady. The other difference( and I hope they explain this at some point), is the unit she was using, was capable of remote controlling Ganger Amy across Time and Space, and even Pocket Universes. That strikes me of Time Lord lvl tech.
Things like unwanted innate identity may have been ironed out later on. -
Small Gods and Hogfather are my favorites among Pratchett's Disc World books. Soul Music was the only one I did not much enjoy.
I would advise some understanding when reading the early books of the series though, you should not expect them to be as rave worthy as the more modern books you see people on these boards enthusing about. The Disc World books represent a learning curve and a great maturation in Pratchett's writing.
My favorites of Gaiman's work would probably be the Sandman collection Season of Mist for his comics,though the whole series is pretty good. I really liked What ever happened to The dark knight detective? also. Neverwhere was my favorite book. -
Same crap,different day,bigger scale.
Renumber so things seem new and fresh.When you think that has worn off,switch to the old numbering(better yet the numbering you would be at if you had never rebooted) so that you seem like a venerable classic.
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Sleeping because I work graveyard also.
And I get woken up by my roommate's step daughter coming home rather then the mostest biggest earthquake ever.
And today I get home from work and find a pamphlet in front of my door,made me wish they had all been taken away. -
Quote:My best guess is that Digitized River Song in the forest of the dead now has full access to her suppressed Silence memories,and will prove a most valuable resource to the Doctor after she dies.Originally Posted by QuiJon
I liked the episode alot. Though at first i had a problem like someone else mentioned with putting the TARDIS into a body, but as the episode progressed i minded it less and less. Infact i think by the end i rather liked it. I think they handled it just right also in that really everything she did was really related to being the tardis. It would have been alot worse IMO to have the TARDIS longing to keep her human form and so on as they could have done.
"The only water in the forest is the river." cant help but think that means something especially since there was no other sighting of the eye patch lady or other forshadowing in this episode. -
Quote:I think this may be the reason for the semi-pregnancy. He has Schrodinger's sperm,Thus Amy has Schrodinger's womb.Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
I'm guessing that Rory being in one sense 2000+ old, is going to have some impact at some point, its funny in a way, he's older than the Doctor
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After all It is Thor's day,the day is named after him.
Can't you imagine the commercials? "This Thursday is Thor's day!!!". -
Quote:When did Wonder Woman murder him? I recall her killing him when he mind controlled Superman,but I guess I missed the comic where she murdered him.Originally Posted by BatFan
What was the point of Bringing Maxwell Lord back? It cheapens Wonder Woman's murder of him... or has that been retconned out of existence?
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More GJ wanking, I am happy I skipped it.
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Quote:I see little reason to think that. The doctor's power relationship to head scumball did not seem to map in the same way in reality that it did in fantasy. Real world interaction gave no indication that she was a powerless victim who's usefulness had bought some measure of comfort and the illusion of authority.Originally Posted by BrandX
I myself got the impression that all that happened in the imaginary world, mapped out to the real world. It was just the visual world that was changed.
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Quote:It is certainly what many say.Originally Posted by BrandX
god working in mysterious ways.
Isn't that basically what all spout off in the event of any and all tragedy's?
But that seems little justification to turn a painfully bad theodicy into a secret central premise so ineptly. -
I did watch the movie, and no it is not answered.
We see the fantasy answer, but how well that maps to reality we have little indication.
In the fantasy she ran away to look after her sister. In reality? Does she have a sister in the institution? Does some lethal tragedy befall her sister there?
What about the other women,Do they map to women in the institution? If so what happened to them when the were taken out of play? How much of her internal fantasy managed to catch their true essence? beats the hell out of me. Nobody could be bothered to flesh out the foundational layer of the story between admittance and lobotomy. -
Quote:I would have to say that watching the movie felt like watching the trailer,but with a lot more filler killing it.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
But how did what you saw in the trailers compare to what you saw on the screen? Did the trailers build up too much expectation and you left the theater feeling disappointed?
The trailer showed action and a hint of plot,perhaps even depth.The movie had a trailer's worth of plot and depth in it. -
I loved the German steampunk zombies,but that was about it.
The first tier of fantasy was just painful to endure,and not because it sucked you into a richly textured world of suffering and despair.But because it failed to do that and instead left you enduring shallow acting and scripting that seamed mainly to exist scrawny young women into lingerie.
And because reality was abandoned so quickly,and the first tier of fantasy was so weak,the second tiers of fantasies felt like a shallow excuse for a boy to play with his toys.
The initial empathy I felt for the main character and the circumstances regarding her arrival into a state of impending doom were swiftly washed away into painful tedium,broken up by shallow spectacle.
SPOILERS!!! READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!
The big story payoff? Catatonia girl helps someone that may or may not in any way map to her delusion escape. She may say "this is your story",but that is bull crap. Escapee is rather weakly developed in fantasy,and not developed at all in reality.
But the final layer of crap on the sandwich? God was working in mysterious ways through a cliche spouting sensei-general/real life bus driving angel. His divine plan seems to involve child molesting fathers, misfired bullets killing children. and young women getting lobotomies (but it was a mercy lobotomy, they spell out that she wanted it). All so that he could spring a gal from a mental institution that for all we know could be in dire need of psychiatric assistance.
But I really did love the German steampunk zombie solders, that was pure win. -
I think pretty much any of the sub series need to be read in order with the exception of Equal Rights for the witches. the first two or three Rincewind books are fairly safe to skip, though the first two are pretty much the foundation of Interesting Times,and could make reading that one book perhaps slightly troublesome.
I do not think it is to good of an idea to get much farther in any series then any other, as there is some degree of cross over. this is also true with some of the individual one off books. It is nice to have the background of the Omnian church from Small Gods before you read Carpe Jugulum. So there is a lot to be said for trying to maintain some chronological order.
More then anything I just think it needs emphasized that the series represents a hefty amount of evolution in Pratchett's writing style, and if someone picks up Colour Of Magic and finds themselves a little perplexed by why folks on these forums rave so much about Terry Pratchett, you may want to skip ahead just a bit instead of stopping. -
Orphaned Land.
Israeli heavy metal with lots of Arabian influences.
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Devin Townsend has a very diverse body of work to draw upon, some amazingly experimental and progressive.
however this is him just being heavy as all hell.
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Heavy music you say?
Currently loving the hell Out of Madder Mortem, progressive,heavy as hell, and their singer can sound like she is either an angel or demon.
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Today is the day,and my copy is delayed to to a glitch with my debit card.
Once upon a time my town had a bookstore, but no longer.
Damn you all. -
So you may want to get your pre-orders in for I shall wear midnight(the last Tiffany Aching book).
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The current art looks like *** in my opinion.
I have always been more of a story guy then an art guy, But if the art is bad enough it is damn hard to get me to pick it up. -
Quote:i am not sure if one title can be called "a phase"(even if i agreed that it was retarded).Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Yes he did. It was called Final Crisis.
to put it bluntly as someone that has read damn near everything of his that i can get my hands on, he is about the most experimental comic writer around. some of his stuff works out better then others(hell very little of Doom Patrol was all that great), but he has never fit any sort of metric for good,bad,sane,or coherent.
i am thankful as all hell that he continues to try and get the thoughts in his head poured out into comic book form though. -
Quote:Morrison had a full retarded Phase?Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Just pick up anything from DC that has "Johns," "Waid," "Rucka," "Dini," "Brubaker," "Simone," or "Busiek" on it.
Loeb and Morrison are fine before their respective full-retard periods.
did he do something as bad as life in the universe originated on earth first? or that emotions have colors? -
Quote:yes,we have had a few more crisis's since then....Originally Posted by Veritech
seriously? it was the Crisis that killed DC for you? just to let you know, a few things have changed since then.
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Quote:From what I have read online, the Ross we see in all interaction with the red hulk is indeed a LMD.Originally Posted by Agonus
A Life Model Decoy, or LMD, more'n likely. The all-purpose US versions of the Doombots that get the blame for some of Dr. Doom's actions.
I happened to see the first trade at my local library the other day. After Rulk is defeated LMD Ross delivers the line"most importantly, you let YOURSELF down". Methinks this is meant to be a clue.
Though this all still adds up to the current level of Marvel cheep trick. This right up there with Ronin being Echo in a man suit,Menace being Harry's girlfriend transformed into an ugly renascence fair/goth male(dropped about as soon as the mystery was revealed).