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Quote:Or puddle jumpers or that prototype Goa'uld death glider designed to "thread the needle" or...Originally Posted by Mandu
Or to put a large mass inside the ring which will prevent the gate from operating. As opposed to putting something close to the event horizon which will allow the gate to open but won't allow the vortex to form or matter to fully materialize. If you just leave it in a vented cargo bay people could still send MALPs or some such through. Even ones which carry explosives. And people in spacesuits could still come through. -
Stephen J. Cannell has passed away. I wouldn't normally start a thread to note the passing of someone but he was such an icon. His resume reads like a list of tv shows that I loved; The Greatest American Hero, Wiseguy, The A-Team, and so on.
Goodbye, Mr. Cannell. Thanks for everything. -
Quote:No, I think the Lucian Alliance are mainly just humans with access to high technology. They're largely a crime syndicate composed of smugglers and mercenaries that have seized political power after the fall of the Goa'uld if I recall correctly.Originally Posted by spice_weasel
i can't help but wonder as well about the lucien alliance invaders as well. ex jaffa right?
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Quote:Well, we know that some explorers from other planets have splatted on the iris because that was covered in SG-1.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Which brings up the question on how many alien exploration teams were killed because of the Iris or buried stargates. Not all races have the technology to create a robot to see if the other side is safe and unobstructed.
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Well, when you spend millions of dollars making a movie, you'd like some sort of guarantee that you're going to get your money back. It used to be that your guarantee was your movie stars. Names like Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, and John Wayne would sell tickets and put butts in seats. Those days are over. Very few modern stars guarantee ticket/DVD sales. In fact, some stars have the opposite effect since they don't seem to understand that insulting 50% of their potential audience isn't a good way to fill seats. The remake of True Grit is actually a good example of this. I've been hearing from people who would normally be very interested in this movie that they won't go see it because of Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.
So with the waning influence of movie stars, Hollywood is looking for a new guarantee and right now probably the best guarantee of sales is making a remake of or sequel to a successful property. Daniel Craig and Chris Pine might not sell tickets but the James Bond and Star Trek names do. -
Quote:Or put it in a cargo bay like room and leave the atmosphere vented whenever you're not actually using it.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
On a starship the easiest way to defend a gate is to put it in a cargo bay like room and vent the atmosphere if an unfamiliar wormhole is incoming.
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Quote:Well, they had the iris on the Earth gate and a force field on the Atlantis gate. In both cases that simply meant that the Goa'uld/Orii/Replicators/Wraith had to travel there via FTL instead of through the gate.Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
Why are these stargates never repositioned so they're over a pit, with drawbridge to allow normal use?
To reach Destiny you need a ZPM, which don't seem to be that common, and knowledge of how to dial Destiny, which is apparently even less common than a ZPM, and you have to be willing to make a one way trip because right now there's no dialing back from Destiny. So hacking a big hole in the deck of a ship they don't control or understand and then building a drawbridge probably doesn't seem like a real high priority to the folks stranded on her. Especially since the main threat to Destiny so far appears to be an alien race with superior FTL capabilities who haven't bothered attacking Destiny through the gate so far. -
Why would there be a crate of super flower on the plane? It was a sight seeing trip that the Dad arranged. Counting on the pilot to crash land in the water and expose everyone without killing them seems pretty haphazard. And that's assuming the company has a weather controller to whip up the bad weather that caused the crash to occur in the first place.
As for why the whole area isn't teaming with superpowered people, perhaps the flower isn't located in a highly populated area. We are talking about the Amazon after all. How fast was that plane? How far could it have traveled in a half hour? I wouldn't be surprised if they'd been 100+ miles out of Belem at the time the plane crashed. -
I really do think it's going to turn out to be the flower that Stephanie is studying in her research. It was probably pollen from the flower that was in the water that gave them their powers.
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Seeing as there isn't a thread for it I figured I'd start one for the SGU season premiere.
I don't know why I keep watching this show because I'm really not a fan of it. I don't like most of the characters, many of the actors don't particularly thrill me, and I hate the writing. Yet I keep watching. Go figure.
Can't say I was real thrilled by the season premiere. I found the resolution of the Lucian Alliance takeover of the Destiny to be kind of anticlimactic with no real tension. And the magic aliens save the day storyline was just stupid, possibly the worst bit of writing on the show so far. -
Quote:Funny story: I watched about half of the latest season of Warehouse 13 on Hulu because the people behind the show won't let Hulu show an episode until 8 days after it first airs, presumably because airs again right before the next episode. So I missed an episode, couldn't watch the repeat, and didn't want to watch the next episode until I'd seen the episode I missed. Since I couldn't see the missed episode on Hulu until after the next episode had aired, that meant I'd miss the next episode which, again, I couldn't see on Hulu until after the episode after that had aired making me miss that as well.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
True Story: I haven't had an interest in "first showings" of shows since I found out about Hulu. Doubly so after Netflix.
I presume they were trying to force people to catch the repeat airing but by making me wait a week and a day to see a missed episode on Hulu they instead wound up forcing me to watch the rest of the season on Hulu instead of Syfy. -
Quote:Never watched it, mainly because I was expecting the typical stereotypical portrayal of Texans complete with over-the-top cornpone accents. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people around here had the same expectation and consequently never bothered to tune in.Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
AHAHAHAHAhahahaaa....
Wow. I can't say I cared for this show, but 2 weeks? That's among the fastest cancellations in TV history. -
Quote:Learning disabilities go beyond being stupid or mentally handicapped. For example Dyslexia is a learning disability but it has nothing to do with IQ and someone who is dyslexic is a lot more likely to go undiagnosed for a long time than someone with an intellectual disability.Originally Posted by Teikiatsu
And the son, dunno about. He doesn't seem to be stupid or handicapped per say, just disinterested with a chip on his shoulder. I find myself wondering if his power is figuring things out without actually learning or comprehending the subject.
I'm beginning to wonder how much wish fulfillment is involved in what powers manifest. Both the mother and the son got powers that helped them deal with what they consider the biggest problems in their lives. Coincidence or something more?
I suspect the mom's new research project is the source of their powers and the corporation knows it, hence the head of the company flying in immediately to discuss her research project. The assistant may or may not be a spy but if not will probably blurt something out to the wrong person at the wrong time. She seems like the sort who would do that. Stephen Collins will eventually be revealed as just an intermediate boss with the head of the corporation being the real big bad. -
Yes, a lot of Avatar is CGI but the great thing about CGI is that you can render stereoscopic frames. Because everything in the computer is defined in three dimensions you can render separate left and right eye frames. You can't do that with Star Wars. The best you'll get is an approximation and so you wind up with something that looks more like Clash of the Titans than Avatar.
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I don't mind Human Target being bumped from Fridays, where it conflicts with Smallville, but I can't say Wednesdays is much of an improvement for me since I'm gone half the time on Wednesdays and don't have a DVR.
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Quote:The problem is that there is one gigantic difference between Avatar and the Star Wars movies. Avatar was filmed in 3D. Star Wars wasn't. Turning Star Wars into a 3D movie will have to be done through post-production processing. It may not have Jar-Jar's tongue shooting out of the screen to lick your face but it also isn't going to look anywhere near as nice as Avatar.Originally Posted by QuiJon
I would expect the conversions to be much more like Avatar in such that it provides a depth to the experience and film.
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Quote:I did but then I have to help my father put on his slip-ons because at 86 it's hard from him to reach down to his feet and get the heels. Something like this would certainly be useful to him.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Did no one pay attention to the part in the video where the inventor said she made them to help old people, perhaps with arthritic hands?
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If Han doesn't shoot first, Lucas doesn't get my money.
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Use Spider-man in a one shot three panel comic strip like Penny Arcade and you're probably alright, especially if done as parody of something.
Use Spider-man as a recurring character in an on-going web comic and you can expect to receive a cease & desist letter from Marvel's attorneys regardless of whether you're making money off the comic or not. And if you ignore them, Marvel is likely to take you to court since failure to defend their copyrights and trademarks can result in Marvel losing them. -
Quote:I gather his level of invulnerability has increased since the days of Power Man & Iron Fist but I can remember Luke Cage complaining that bullets still hurt even when they didn't penetrate his skin and his having to improvise shields from objects at hand when someone showed up loaded with armor piercing bullets or the like. It would be nice to see something like that.Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
i actually kinda like this mechanic - he's a bit like an invuln or willpower tanker. he RESISTS damage but isn't impervious to it. So catching a bullet or jumping from tall buildings,ok(but it still hurts): stepping in front of machine gun,not ok. Means the writers can have a lot of fun with it while still making him,well,vulnerable.
I do find myself wondering about the dad's sensory ability and the speed of his reflexes. They've got to be amped up beyond normal human levels if he's able to do things like catch bullets. It would be nice to see the show touch on this. -
I'm just wondering when we're going to get to the point where we find out why Stephanie says she could have chosen someone better to confide in. That suggests that her assistant is going to cause them problems at some point in time but we didn't see anything along those lines in the episode. So is she a spy planted by the boss to keep an eye on Stephanie's work or will she accidentally blurt something out to the wrong person?
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Quote:Sorry Abs, it's not you, it's Mark Harmon. Since he ran Donald Bellisario off from his position as showrunner I'm just not feeling the NCIS love anymore. You're cute but there's this new family in town and they're anything but ordinary so I think I'm going to hang out with them for a while. But hey, if Bellisario comes back give me a call.Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Okay, so you're going to tell THIS FACE that you're abandoning her for someone else?
...I dare ya. And there's online catch-up for Americans anyway. Stay true to the faith! STAY PUNK! -
Quote:Wolfram & Hart brought her back as a human but in the condition she was in before she became a vampire, dying from an STD she had contracted while working as a prostitute. They were hoping to get Angel to revamp her in order to save her life but he refused. However Lindsey had fallen for Darla so he brought in Drusilla to do the deed and she did. Darla and Drusilla then caused considerable havoc for a while pushing Angel towards his dark side. My favorite moment was Darla and Drusilla crashing a Wolfram & Hart party intending to feed and Holland begging Angel to save them only to have Angel throw Holland's words from earlier in the episode back in his face and close and lock the doors. Tried to find it on YouTube but good luck finding anything but Angel/Darla music videos.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Yeah but wasn't she reverted back to a human or something when she came back? I thought most of the popularity of that character stemmed from her being a pre-Spike Spike, that is, a psychotic, sadistic vamp.
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Quote:To be fair I remember Darla more from Angel than from Buffy. She was only on 6 episodes of Buffy but she had 20 episodes on Angel.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
It occurred to me when I picked up almost all the Buffy seasons that Darla appeared in very few episodes, yet people still remember Julie Benz as Darla.
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Quote:And perhaps it's an awareness thing. If he's aware of an attack, he's invulnerable. If he's not...Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
The fact that he was wounded in the back of the head made me think that perhaps he only had invulnerability on the front half of his body or something, but maybe it's just more of a drainage thing like Molly from Runaways.