ObiWan

Originally Posted by Kelenar

Could we compromise and have them mention the Maw complex, then say 'AND THERE IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING CALLED A SUNCRUSHER THERE'?

'... ALSO DARKSABER WAS A STUPID BOOK TOO.'

Originally Posted by ShoNuff

Digging this..
and I want a Lair... with WiFi.

Originally Posted by Old_Man

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Gets me everytime.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

Well, let's be honest about the tv show. With Spider-Man, it was being made on a shoestring budget and did amazingly well for the seasons it was on air, and it had to be sold on 'The Fugitive' premise, where Banner goes from town to town, with the reporter chasing down Hulk sightings.

There was no way you could do justice to the Hulk as shown in the comics at that point, not without CGI or a much larger budget. And if you look at Spider-Man with Nicholas Hammond, that show suffered way more than Hulk did. As for Bill Bixby, he's in 90% of each episode. The show was Banner-heavy, because it needed to be. And honestly, I think he sells Banner brilliantly. Out of all the characterisations of Banner, his is probably one of the strongest, and every time I hear the 'Lonely Man' theme (I think that's the right name), I can feel the sadness and loneliness as his Banner walks off to another town.

Show me another portrayal of Banner that's as haunted by the Hulk as his and I'll concede that to you happily.



S.