The ONLY problem I see with this is that it's as ugly as sin. Other than that, GREAT!
That man has huge, gigantic, Ann Coulter-sized hands.
@Doctor How: oh crap. I have a tesla coil. I've used it for years for fun or to zap electronics to death. or bugs. Am I gonna get cancer now?
I wager Google will pay more in fines over this than BP for the Gulf.
@philselmer: Gladiator? You bet he was!
Looks like a fairly WT spread, to me.
And for jack cheese, you're better off with a planar than a cleaver. [tinyurl.com]
I guess I really could make a movie. I mean, if shit like this is making it to the tube, why not? I could scrape a more interesting idea off the bottom of my shoe.
@A3rd.Zero: B5 Season 5 sucked. It was stupid and didn't need to be shot. And I think this kind of balances out the originality of the arc and the fact that it ended when it was supposed to rather than when it ran out of mojo.
I agree, though, with your point. B5 is not overhyped. People tend to describe it as a decent show and worth watching, but not the greatest thing ever. That's not overhype.
(there are, of course, people who overhype B5 and Who and BSG and Trek and everything else, but who really listens to comic book guy?)
The fact that Battlestar Galactica is not winning this poll tells me people did not understand the question.
Of all the shows above, BSG is the one that was the most irrationally defended in the presence of a clearly, vastly superior "reboot" of the series. By far. And on this very blog.
@.- -. --- -. -.-- -- --- ..- ... / .. ... / .-.. . --. .. --- -.: Why do you think we are the primary target for terrorists? We've had a big one, yes, and a couple small ones, but nothing like Israel. Or Iraq, for that matter. Question your assumptions.
@weatherman: Our government does not have some super-secret, magic computer (a la Superman 3) that can do more than any other computer. They just don't. The NSA probably has the best---banks of networked super computers---but computers all work along the same principles. Brute-force decrypting techniques can tie up a computer farm for weeks or months.
The thing about reality is that the rules of reality always apply.
"Given those numbers, I guess I'm OK with it. As long as it's only the terrorism and kiddy porn stuff they're after."
Bullshit. I don't care if some guy on the plane has actual photographs of donkeys having sex with six year old girls - it is not a flight safety issue, which, ostensibly, is why they are snooping through our stuff.
Bombs. Not contraband. Get it through your head.
Worst. Comic-Con. Ever.
They sold WAY too many tickets. WAY too many.
This was my 16th Comic-Con (I missed last year). Two years ago you could walk around the place. This year it was hard to walk anywhere in the whole place. I needed to get into line at 1:00 to get into the 5:30 TruBlood panel. Fucking ridiculous.
Ugh. I will not be going back.
one more thing you should mention in your rules: don't eat in the convention center. The food is shit and extremely overpriced. There are many GREAT restaurants in the Gaslamp district, just a short walk North across the trolly tracks, and none of them overcharge like the the convention center cafes.
I am so very sad my plane will be landing just as the i09 panel is starting. Rule #1: you can't do it all.
:-(
"Actually, I wish there was some kind of global Wi-Fi system-one that will allow any citizen in the world to access information freely, without intervention of dictators and authoritarian figures in China, North Korea, Iran, or Cuba."
How about that a-holes in our own, Unites States government who've decided you and I cannot gamble online? Just try connecting to a gambling server from the states. It's not easily done. And if you do it, you might go to jail. JAIL. For activities on a website in ANOTHER COUNTRY.
We should clean up our own mess of shit before imposing our "freedom" onto other countries.
It is sad how we Americans will not even entertain the possibility that we were wrong to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@Metrolang:
I don't think this episode was all that great for an otherwise great season. Kinda slow, the revival of that annoying shipper drama I could not care less about (you are so right, dead_red_eyes), and not much happened on the b-story.
Interesting backstory on V: it's not science fiction, it's a repacked WWII war story. V only had spaceships and lizard people because the script writer couldn't get a WWII story approved at the time. So he made the Nazis into aliens and voilá, we had V.
Go read the wikipedia page on it, which has some of the back story.
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@the artist formerly known as dolo54: Damn. Anonymous roofer guy makes his point so much better than I did.
