Samothrake
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You got Princess Bride in my Doctor Who thread!
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Well we are led to believe that this is most probably the case, which is why I think it probably isn't. It's just too expected.
We are told that the first time River meets the Doctor he dies and the first time the Doctor meets River she dies. If it really is the Doctor who died in this episode, it would seem that it is River in the suit and would expain the Doctor telling everyon to stay back, as was explained early in the new series with Rose meeting her infant self about same matter and same space. And would explain her 'killing a good man.'
There is also the fact that the Doctor in the very beginning was 200 years older than the Doctor Amy and Rory left. And why had he been 'running faster than he had ever run. And why did he think 'I'd never get done saving you?' Just which 'you' did he mean? Amy and company? Humanity in general?
So many questions and only so many episodes to give us answers! -
Let's see if this will help us figure some things out. Someone posted it on another forum I frequent.
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Well many of the futures DC has shown us has the descendants of Superman. So somewhere there has to be a super child. DC 1,000,000 had a massive super legacy.
But I think they tried the super child with the child of Zod a couple years ago. Not sure how that went over with fans. Perhaps DC is just afraid to detail any complication a hybrid pregnancy would entail, and maybe they are not sure how long they would have to drag the whole "we're gonna have a baby" story lines. -
Quote:At this point I don't think that the supreme Marvel diety could kill Aunt May. I think she's made some sort of pact with Marvel Death.Originally Posted by BrandX
Now only if Magneto could kill Aunt May!
Oh wait! She IS Marvel's Death! That's why she had no children of her own, and why she's still around! -
Considering that BBC "series" (what we call a season) seems to be 13 episodes, I would expect that they have to cram a lot of stufff into each episode.
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It is brilliant.
I hadn't realized the wedding was today until you posted that pic.
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Remember those scenes with TJ's decline because of ALS? Well at the end of that little montage, we see Young and his two children at the table eating. On the table is a early oil lamp. By what we have heard in the episode, this is about 8-10 years after they get there.
When Young dies (about 30-40 years after the start of the colony, judging by the age of the young people at his side and the way Chloe looked), they still look like they are using oil lamps.
Even with the dedication of the "Eli Wallace Elementary School" and Chamille's speech, it's difficult to tell if the town had electricity. Doing a quick generational to time computation here (it was Eli's grandson who introduced Chamille), this is somewhere between 60-80 years A.C. (after colinization). So we can safely say within the lives of the colonists there was no electricity. But with all the geniuses in the colony, it can be postulated that they wrote a lot of stuff down.
The biggest thing that streches credulity within the confines of the show's universe is just how long the power in those six kinos lasted (years!), when we are shown earlier in the series that a kino's power only lasts 18 or so hours. -
Apparently Gateworld has a transcript of the episode from last week. From there, the word 'million' only appears twice. Once when Camille Wray is talking to Young after the first visit to the new planet: But they claim that Novus - the planet they came from - has a population in the millions; and from the sounds of it, they were fairly advanced technologically."
Second time is at the end of the episode with shuttle flying over the abandoned, aparently then-unnamed city "JASON: But millions of people lived here. Where did they all go?" And that's the last line of Common Descent
They don't have a transcript for this evening's episode yet. I think we may have been given better numbers with the scenes in the vaults, but I'm not sure.
Still woulda been a great episode to close out the series. I'm wondering what they are going to do with the last two. Apparently the drone story line is going to come to a head, but other than that...dunno. -
Quote:Didn't last week's episode say there was two million people in that city? the only semi-accurate synopsis I can find online says that Novus had a population "in the millions"Originally Posted by Dark One
They are starting from utter scratch with barely more than the clothes on their backs. And I don't think their civilization reached anywhere near a billion people, much less the level of population we have to generate the amount of info we do.
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I'm not sure I agree with you on the 'faily modern' school. Escecially when they panned out. I'm thinking early to mid-1800s. It didn't look like they had electric power yet, let alone lightbulbs or paved rodes.
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Makes one wonder how long it took the refugees to go from wood/rock tools to metal tools, to water wheel powered stuff to steam powered (steam punk!) to electric and computers to solar/wind/geo powered stuff to making big ships to get the frell off the planet.
Sure we know that they got a lot done in 2000 years, but how long was the highest tech on the plane the kinos? Their tech actually looked more advanced than modern day stuff, even somewhat more advanced than what we see in SG1 at the end of the series in places. -
Also, remember that that 2700 exabytes was compressed so it could be uploaded (in 37 hours!)
Depending on the the compression algorithms it could be at least 100 or more times that size.
All in all, I felt that the way this episode ended it would have made a GREAT series finale.
And Old Man Brody. "Always dancing! Messing up my lawn!" -
Funny, I distinctly remember the previews saying "new time" at the end last week for this week's episode.
And knowing the head of the station's dislike for the channel's programming, amd how Sanctuary has been bounced around the schedule before, I think it's disctinclty possible that she's trying to kill off Sanctuary. After all she seems to have a grudge with the Stargate universe, and Sanctuary stars a SG1 alumn with Amanda Tapping. -
I see that they have moved SGU's time slot again starting this week.
They really don't want people to enjoy these last few episodes.
It's almost like someone at the network realized after they canceled the show just how much better these eipodes are and is trying to mess with the viewers so there's not a Firefly-esque backlash.
Thank goodness my TiVo takes care of these kind of things. -
Again, we had some good character growth. Especially with Greer and Rush. We even got some with Volker and Park.
So, how many people died on the planet? I think I counted 4, two each of the Lucians and Destiny military. But, Im not sure. And are we left with only the one Lucian dude now? And TJ did jump to the they recognize intelligence by fire thing awfully fast. But at that point in the show, they just had to wrap things up and it was probably the easiest way to do it.
Overall, I enjoyed the episode. I am however, miffed with the whole moves to a new time next Monday that I heard at the next week preview. Its like the network doesnt even care if its viewers want to see what happens. Which is probably true at this point -
So, having seen more of the comic, I have to wonder when Red Tornado stopped being Earth's Air Elemental?
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Oh wonderful.
I click the link and see its the last remaining life force of the Tchk-Tchkii race.
And NOW I have some of Jim Carrey's Mask music in my head! Chick-chicki boom, chick-chicki boom, chick-chicki booom! -
Well, Brightest Day isn't quite finished yet that I know of. So no to that one.
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Quote:I had forgotten about this one, and it is probably number three for some actors, and number two for others. Depends on how high they are placing their family on thier list of priorities.Originally Posted by BrandX
Not to mention how it allows a lot of them to live in one location.
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Looks much better than what was seen before.
I too have a few qualms with his costume. At times it looks literally painted on. Like body paint. Especially his hands and neckline. At others it looks a bit too CGI’d.
My biggest worry is that with these four minutes they have shown us the best parts of the movie. Especially since what we had seen before was rather “meh” inducing. In fact, that’s always my biggest fear when I see a really compelling four-five minute trailer for a movie. They show all the good parts and you pretty much saw a synopsis of the movie. I hate that. -
Quote:Actually, there are two main reasons that I have heard from "Movie Stars" turning to television in recent years.Originally Posted by Ironik
It's kind of the way TV used to be perceived by movie stars: just something beneath them. there was the occasional good show, but overall it was pretty sad stuff. Over the past couple of decades, though, TV has been a launching point for movie stars and they often come back to it because some of the best entertainment is there, now.
The first is a regular paycheck. Yeah, the big names can make 10-30 million or more per film, but then there's the not so big names. And if a show goes on for a while, the paychecks get bigger and bigger. Just look at the stars of 'Friends' by the last few seasons: a million dollars per episode! 22 million for a season. At that time, not one of those actors would have been able to command that much for a leading role in a movie. Even now, for those actors of 'Friends,' I don't think any of them can command that much for a starring role. Well, perhaps Anniston, but I'm not sure.
The second reason for a "Movie Star" to go to television is that they get to play a character for a long time. During that time they get to portray someone with all sorts of quirks and things that happen to them. We see this called "character growth" when we sit down and discuss what has happened this week. We hear all the time from Stars "When I read the script, I just connected with this character" or "I just knew that I HAD to portray this character" and such. Yes, actors get payed to portray different people, but many of them acutally LIKE to do that, and some, when confronted with a script and character that really appeals to them jump at the chance to do television.
So, steady paycheck and the chance to portray a character through many changes and for long periods of time can trump a large paycheck and the limelite of a Movie. -
Quote:Right. Somehow in the next 6 episodes.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Besides it is only "temporary" so they believe it to be fixed soon.
Uh, huh. -
We had good character growth from Greer and even a bit from Chloe.
And they managed to find a use for Telford as well. -
Quote:I'd agree with you if not for a few quibbles. First, Ramirez's and Kastagir's quickenings weren't early in the movie. Ramirez was about half way through and Kastagir was about 2/3. Kastagir did have the glowing, floating body, however.Originally Posted by Nericus
As to the quickenings early in the movie not having lighting, I chalk that up to budget problems and not having properly defined what the Quickening is at the time.
Second, if it was a budget issue or ill-defined concept, when Panzer/Davis went back over the movie for the 10th Anniversary edition in 1996, or the Immortal Edition in 2002, those things could, and probably should have been added. And yet they weren't. The fixes that Panzer/Davis made to H2 in the Renegade and Special editions prove that if they had the money and will, they would make changes. But they didn't. By the time the 10th anniversary and Immortal editions were made for H1, the series had been out for four seasons and had established quickenings pretty well. Yet they leave the quickenings that the Kurgan recieves the same as the original movie. Wierd, huh?