@kityglitr: This artist included Jasmine, Mulan and Tiana - [kreugan.deviantart.com] and they actually look like superheroines rather than random lingerie models.
Huh. Those don't look "comic book heroine" to me at all. They look like "illustrated pinup in lingerie". Not that there's anything wrong with pinups, but...
@Maelphaedor: Unfortunately Castiel is a stand-in for John Constantine rather than Aziraphale, so it's only almost a perfect pairing ;)
@corvus.imbrifer: That's where a lot of my issue came in here. It's like the writers pulled a bunch of names out of a hat without knowing anything whatsoever about them. Seriously, how deep a knowledge of mythology does it take to know that Odin's only got one eye? If you're going to namedrop, at least have your casting director read a couple of wikipedia articles or something.
@ultraaman: The thing is, SGU is not even multi-ethnic and multi-demographic -- it just claims to be.
Check their cast page:[www.syfy.com]
You need to go down to spot #4 until you find a character who's not a white male and to spot #7 until you find a character who's not white. And by the time you get to Ming Na and Lou Diamond Phillips, you're not really in "main cast" anymore, because those characters are in half the episodes or less.
Syfy's been dislocating their shoulder patting themselves on the back for having *gasp* a lesbian character, as if tokenism is a sign of some great open-mindedness.
Eureka is about an order of magnitude more diverse than SGU, and manages to do it without all the self-congratulatory fanfare.
In the future, there is a severe shortage of trousers.
@Alexis: It's not like Rowling invented the school for magical children either. The movies, yeah, are probably timed because someone wants another Potteresque franchise. If it helps, his school years are perfectly normal, it's the summer camp that's magical.
@Aidan_: Do you know why sexy Vader is doing the bathroom dance? Or are those traditional fetish poses that I just don't recognize? #halloween
I haven't been to one in ages, but Shore Leave ([www.shore-leave.com]) was pretty good for celebrity stalking.
Oh, I hate shakeycam. More and more movie make me ill these days. I watched about ten minutes of Cloverfield (I listened to the whole thing, but I couldn't watch without wanting to hurl.) I think I managed to watch about half of District 9, but I had to keep closing my eyes until the nausea subsided. Even Hancock left me queasy during most of the film. Sitting at the very back of the theater helps slightly, but not enough. Movies never used to make me ill - it's definitely this new shaking technique causing it. I can't wait until this trend play out.
@Infernorhythm: Well, aside from the US studio belief that mainstream American audiences will not watch imported TV, there's the issue that British series/seasons are generally shorter than US seasons. The US market is built around a certain number of episodes per season, and it's hard to sell a shorter season to the networks.
I'm so tired of having my "delicate sensibilities" protected. I'm not a Victorian matron!
Now excuse me, I need to go recline on my fainting couch. This whole conversation is giving me the vapors.
@rek: Then why am I always finding fantasy novels in the book store under the "Science Fiction" sign? Just because you're a genre purist doesn't mean that the term is not *generally* used in a looser manner.
@rek: Easy enough. For conversational purposes, "sci fi" is understood to refer to "science fiction and fantasy"
The bracelets were identifiers that would let people back into the camp.
Vibrate mode is a lovely idea -- if your phone is attached to your body. If the phone is in a bag or purse, though, there's no functional difference between vibrate and silent mode.
Marsters wasn't all that bad in Buffy, because he had Head to crib off of. And because Spike the character had a tendency to overact which nicely obscured whether Marsters the actor was or not. His accent in Torchwood was just awful though.
@thefunnyone: That's because they killed off Destiny and shoved Mystique into a quick "gay? who's gay?" relationship with Forge to make sure we forgot all about it.
And, oddly unlike many people, I was pretty sure Penny was going to die. Well, I was giving even odds that either she'd die or she'd be horrified and disgusted when she saw Billy's nature. The story was always heading for a tragic ending, because that's how origin stories work.
What bothered me was the random nature of her death. She died because the Heavy Hand of Plot wanted her dead, but not because the scene set her up to be in harms way. I'd have preferred if there had been a reason for her to be out in the open, rather than the randomness that nobody else got a scratch and she got a fatal injury.
@GlazedDonut2186 & @joemasaki: Not that bad? Candid?
When was the last time you saw any human woman standing so that both breasts and both asscheeks were facing the camera?
