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I felt HBP was worse then hallows 1 because really i knew when they announced the split of the final book that the first half was really just set up for the action of the last half of the book. I expected it and accepted it.

However i was really looking forward to HBP because i wanted to see on film the voldemort back story. And they basicly ignored almost all of it in favor of teenie bopper love plots and when the movie ended it just didnt feel like it was in the right place to begin the final chapters.

Alot of that problem though was that Sony took almost a week to actually admit that there was any theft of personal information. I wouldnt blame Sony either if someone hacked them and they stole stuff and such, IF sony reported the problems in a timely manner.

However in this case it honestly looks like sony was more worried about the theft of the games that was happening by way of this hack that gave them dev consoles then they were the security of those that intrusted credit cards and personal information to them. And that is there problem to pay for.

A couple weeks back someone hacked the email company for like chase bank, best buy and a few other large outfits. I had not even woken up to hear about it before i had emails explaining what was going on from chase and best buy. That is taking responsibility to your customers. Not just shutting your mouth and hoping no one notices.

Does anyone know if the american episodes will be of full lenght or truncated like they have in the past. just wondering if i should dvr it for convience of rewatching it but still find the UK edition to actually watch?

I do also. And though i am hyped about no 2 week delay this year, i dont recall seeing if there is any word yet on if the BBCA episodes will be the same lenght as the UK versions. I know they have been different in the past, for instance i was just watching The Big Bang last night and noticed that they cut out the part with the picture of the stars, and the story of the roman soldier etc. Not huge changes, but still i like seeing the full product so that might keep me finding other options to watch this season.

Pretty sure the show is being produced by the same talents that did the UK versions of it so its understandable to mirror the storylines. The idea i think was to basicly take an idea that worked in the UK and make a version with american actors and city.

The problem with any cable network that niches itself to a certian demographic is that it eventually maxes out its audience base and has to find a way to expand it. SyFy is not alone in this. the TLC/Discovery channels are running shows like Kate Plus 8 or hoarders, or coupon clipping shows is a prime example. These stations originally started off as being nature and science related channels. History went from being history to shows like After Humans and such.

I dont mind so much that syfy is trying to broaden its base and draw ratings and revenues, if those alternate to its demo shows were raising money for a menu of decent scifi shows at other times. But it seems Syfy cant support more then one good show at a time, and the rest of its programing is terrible roger corman monster flicks.

Oh Sterling from Leverage, i didnt even recognize his voice as the narrator on the clip until they showed him in the trailer. But i like that dude, he plays a good duche -bag.

You know when i was watching that episode the main thing i was thinking is how lucky eli could be. I mean he has crushed on chloe forever, and is in love with Gin, he could have nailed chloe without cheating on Gin, technically.

I disagree. I think he is a great character. And I think he is great specificly for the same reasons why you dislike him. Yes his is essentially a **** block for the doctor, however the character is the absolute perfect presentation of a dude that knows that he is the luckiest MFer on the planet for landing the chick he did, and constantly is having to handle those insecurities even though through all Amy's flirting she ends up with him anyway.

Oh and constantly tease us with his death? They KILLED him one time, brought him back and never that i recalled teased us again.

I have to admit that one blurp might have just surpassed the Pandorica speach as best bad *** dr who comment for me.

Its not a matter of sex being bad more then violence. Like my original comparison, i have had this problem with japanese animation stuff for a long time. Its like lets draw a girl that has big doe eyes, smooth features and if you looked at her face looks to be 12-13 years old, then put her in animation in a skirt up to her crotch, a v-neckdown to her belly button with DDs cleavage. Its an obvious attempt to walk a (IMO very dangerous) line between something being just outright sexy, but boardering on child porn.

Not sucker punch didnt go that far as animation does no, but they found an attractive female that might be 23 but seems to be able to play school girl/underage, and her costuming is again IMO directly attempting to have that animation/sailor moon or whatever look to it.

Im not saying sex is bad, im saying creating and mass marketing images that are intended to draw their sexual excited from the impression of a school girl image is bad. It i guess is a personal opinion yes, its the same things i took issues with a few months back when the girls from glee were in GQ. It wasnt the pictures themselves were explicted, or that the girls from the show werent old enough. If they just just been a standard maxium spread of the girls in underwear etc, i dont think the big whoop would have happened. But many of the shots were an attempt to play on the idea the girls were in a show playing highschoolers and attempted to portray those school girl images only in a much more sexualized manner. That i do have issues with.

I have to admit that as my daughter gets older and older this is begining to be a bigger problem for me also.... Or maybe its just as i get older and older my ideal "younger woman" gets older.....

But ya the idea of making something where the idea is "oh these girls ARE legal" but to make them look illegal (ya im looking at your japanese animation) is getting more and more tiresome. I mean IF i was to ask my wife to squeeze her extra 15 or so pounds into her old high school cheerleader uniform now 20 years later, i would think for some reason i would be thinking of doing a high school cheerleader, not a 37 year old woman PLAYING a highschool cheerleader.

So it kinda makes me wonder why if it isnt a part of the story that a 20+ year old needs to look like a 15 year old, then why do it? Oh ya to be true to the source material, which was basicly intended to attract people to a drawing of an underage looking sexualized image.

It kinda makes me laugh to think of that as the excuse also, i mean if the original xmen movie had "Stayed true" to the comics the movie would probably have been rejected even by fans when wolverine showed up on dayglow yellow spandex.

First off i would have to assume with an automated (mostly) fighting force that perhaps its just easier to come to a planet and syphon off the water and fight for it, then doing some Michael bay-eque landing on a comet to get it there. Not to mention but if you have ever say taken a glass of snow and let it melt, the water content is alot lower then the original volume of frozen water. Additionally organic forms also have a certian amount of other minerals in them perhaps the salt water, which the movie said they were taking the oceans is more in line with what they needed then what they would get from a space bases source like a comet.

Just saying it wasnt wasnt the biggest plausible fault of the movie really.

What i loved about that line and perhaps its a side effect of being the last of your race that sex isnt high on your priority list, but the doctor got this blank look and it took him a few seconds to catch what Amy was talking about.

As far as im concerned Highlander's continuity should have ended at the first film. Yes the series itself wasnt bad, but really should have been considered a prequel will all the series happening prior to the first movie and duncan being killed at the end so the first movie stood on its own. Then just forget everything that came after the movie.

And just perhaps they should have picked an actress that looks like she could pick up a plate of food from time to time. I guess they are going anorexic goddess instead of the amazon goddess.

Also i can already see the endorsment deals..... Wonder Womans gold lasso brought to you by Monster Cables.

Ok, but every year more and more customers are expanding what they use internet for. A year or so ago, netflix was pretty much only streaming to computers now 360s, ps3s, wiis, new tvs, new bluray players have expanded that market well beyond what it was. Essentially i look at it like the ISPs were attempting to cover expanded costs of improving their networks to allow for these newer services by charging the service providers in some form. Since that was a no-go, they are left to either eat the costs of it themselves. (keep in mind for most ISPs they have a limited number of potenial customers based on their service areas and improvements to networks might not really translate into new customers), they can pass those costs along to their customers (something i think is unfavorable IMO), or they can put reasonable limits on the service being provided (which it appears att is doing). However i think its safe to say that the one thing they wont do is allow the cost of upgrading to limit the potenial earnings of their stockholders profit margins.

But really though my local ISP is being paid by me to "Deliver" the content i request from the web, as more and more thing go online, as my options to use the web more and more go up, that will eventually strain a network that wasnt intended or thought out to provide as much bandwidth as is now becoming the norm. Kinda like an LA freeway, 50 years ago when they were built no one expected the boom in cars and population that no clog them up on a daily basis. IMO this is happening now to the internet, and everyone that stands to profit from the internet is standing around looking at the other guy to flip the bill to fix the problem.