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Well, if they'd quit blowing up, crushing, burning, or launching Carter's police vehicle every other episode...they might have the chump change to survive.

Seems to me, if you've got a winning show, whose concept is too expensive to maintain, you launch a budget-fitting spin-off with a few vital characters and bring the other characters in periodically as guests.

This...actually makes sense for Castle as his annual Halloween look.

Having never had the opportunity to visit the UK, I find the lane markings and lane changing system in that video to be confusing and disturbing. Kind of like driving in the South, only without the yellow line.

scarey, I had the exact same thought before I read your note. He may be a bit long in the tooth to play the younger Khan though.

It was the invention of the Queen that broke it for me. The Borg were so much more interesting and harder to hurt as a decentralized hive mind. But I still wouldn't want Borg stories everywhere. That'd be like...Daleks. *runs for cover*

In counterpoint to the idea of "overpowered", it is my understanding that the cut Klingon segments revealed what the universe was doing with a ship with technology from 150 years future: learning. Apparently the movie didn't express it well, but the Enterprise of the movie was different because of retro-engineering from the scans of the Romulan mining ship which the Kelvin crew brought back. And the Klingons advanced by having the ship in their possession for a time. Ironically, in that situation, the one TOS power that might not advance as fast were the Romulans, unless Nero transmitted the tech at some point. Therefore, though still outgunned, the Alpha and Beta quadrants might be a bit better prepared for the Borg.

That's also got me thinking: if they are going to tap into established lore for their next story, let it be against Kor, Koloth, and Kang. Test the new Klingon tech against the new Fed tech.

Nah, they need to zip over to the center of the galaxy, like its the next city over, and push through that impossible barrier which can't possibly be a warning of anything dire.

Neelix and Rom, too. They're both such easy-going personalities, they would have hit it off together, and it would have been double nails-on-chalkboards to Quark.

That said, Neelix got left pretty far behind. I think he's close to the Delta/Beta border, which puts him years of travel away.

What does an HGV license entail? Might it cover a single car carrier, like a tow truck? If so, he might have used such to move the McLaren or other show-off car around, at such time as he didn't want to run the odometer up higher (than he already had)

I've a sudden urge to make a Penguin knock-off.

lol. but that may be, loosely, a point to consider about his potential specialty. Artie comes from the cloak 'n dagger community. His hyper-suspicions, which I'm assuming come from his NSA days, have saved the team more than once, most notably with the threat from H.G.W.

Alternatively, Artie's NSA specialty was cryptography, which we've not seen him use a lot, although this latest episode he was learning Egyptian at an accelerated pace, which might be an outgrowth of his cryptographic abilities.

excellent point. I'm all ears, er... fury wings.

ok, I lol. I can get behind that idea.

And Leena can see people's "auras". Its almost like agents are picked solely on a unique ability. At least Claudia's tech skills and Mika's powers of observation are learned traits (for now)

Yeah, I'd forgot about Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (actually, I had confusingly thought that was an edit-into-a-movie of the TV series) but I'd remembered the events of Beneath... and Escape From the Planet of the Apes. I was trying to think how this film fit with Escape From... and now understand it totally rewrites who Caesar was.

When the question of a recycled concept being inferior comes up, I love bringing up that ol' chestnut that points out that Shakespeare liberally borrowed stories, and made his version so important that most forget they were ever based on some other work. Then the cycle goes 'round, and works like Forbidden Planet and West Side Story are created (Forbidden Planet borrowed concept from The Tempest; West Side Story from Romeo and Juliet)

Yes it was. He didn't get a full sniff, obvously, or his lungs would have liquified instantly, but he did get enough to scar his lungs and make him die slowly.

further spoilers


shots elsewhere on the web show what appears to be a prison break with two tan camouflaged tumblers, aka, Batmobiles. Bane is standing on one. Its probable that the photo caught both the main tumbler and one of its stunt doubles. I'm guessing lore-wise that this is the second of the paired tumblers. I seem to recall Lucius saying the tumblers were designed to work in pairs for bridge building purposes. The first was, of course, destroyed in the last film.

I'm guessing something akin to the jailbreak in the Breaking of the Bat storyline (Knightfall) is being done, and that (hopefully) Bane being as razor-sharp as he is, figured out where Batman got all those wonderful toys and raided Wayne Enterprises. He takes the remaining tumbler. That leaves Batsy with his main transport as still the batpod from the wrecked tumbler. Enter Catwoman who seems to be swiping the ride.

Hmm, interesting. I am aware of certain times Supes wore armor or some sort of protection (such as space suit for the extended space walks in JLU on TV), but I seem to recall it was only if he was potentially out-gunned, or de-powered (didn't he wear Kryptonian armor for a time after his "death"?)

folks'll still have to go out to the cave doors in the Hollows and such. And the Pumicites got word there's fresh meat coming. *shudder* There's also going to be sewer teams, probably, and a high level taxibot with teleport and rez patrolling the area will keep them down there and learning, rather than the team breaking up and headed to the hospital on a wipe.There are a lot more tricks to keeping it safe in the game now, but we're talking potentially a lot of folks who are just learning what Brawl is. So a Taxibot can be more than just a transport service this time 'round but the guides and greeters to the game as well.

hmm...let's see. Did Cole go through his clothes and look for loose change? If not, he might indeed just be mostly dead.

Just finished season 1 on Netflix DVD and loved it. JLU still better, but this is a solid show.

As to the change in Fury, they could always do what JLU did for a cameo of Hal Jordan: rewritten time changed Green Lanterns from John Stewart to Hal Jordan briefly. 'Cept in the Avengers case, the change to Fury (and assumably his ancestry) would be permanent.

I'm actually looking forward to Red Skull more than Dr. Doom.

Was just thinking that Wil Wheaton, who is currently annoying Fargo over on Eureka, would have been a good fit for the cameo. He already has the beard.