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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12:01 AM

    In reply to io9 Book Club, Winter Edition: Jacqueline Carey's "Santa Olivia"
    Yay! I got the book from the library today! I can participate this time.

    If I haven't forgotten all about it by then.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Tomorrow's V Asks Who You'd Rather Have As Your Mom: Erica Or Anna?
    Is this going to be the "official" thread for the show that aired tonight?

    If so, I'm really pleased with this series. I was bracing myself to not like it during these last months that we've been reading all the developments on the creation of the show, but for a network series, they did a good job.

    Some people complain it's not as good as the original mini, but I think if you've seen the original mini, it's even more enjoyable.

    The writers have payed serious homage to the original, there are so many elements from the original that are being remixed here... for example, tonight it was the "evil scientists", just like in the original, the scientists were the evil ones who were being ostracized.

    I am really enjoying this series. I hope it makes it a full season.
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    Image of queensowntalia queensowntalia
    11/24/09

    In reply to Twilight Heroin And Biting Fans: More WTF Twilight Stories
    Twilight slash? Yeah, I could dig it (and I'm sure it exists.. heh :P).

    I honestly do like the books, setting aside Bella's ludicrous fawning. Haven't seen the movies yet, but I'm sure they do Jacob an injustice. Unlike all the rest of the characters in the series, he's actually quite well developed.
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    If you really want to sci-fi it up, how about a giant Tripod lumbering down the street? A firetruck of firemen setting fire to copies of Twilight. An Area 51 "weather balloon". A flashmob of zombies fresh from an outbreak of the Rage virus. Darth Vader's Helmet balloon. An army of cylons marching along. Alien Vs Predator - they could stage a mock battle in various locations as the parade progresses.
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    11/24/09

    In reply to Scariest Dinosaur-On-Dinosaur Violence Ever Filmed?
    Aw fuck it:

    DAMN NATURE! You scary!

    Edit: advance apologies to all.
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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    11/24/09

    In reply to Top 10 Most Ridiculous Soap Operas Of All Time
    I'm still waiting for Forge to show up in Wakanda to take Storm from the arms of T'Challa. Storm out in the rain is still one of my favorite covers of all time -sigh-
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Traci Lords Is "A Princess Of Mars." God Help Us All.
    I thought she was ok in First Wave.
    Sabato Jr. makes this a car wreck worth watching.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/24/09

    In reply to Scariest Dinosaur-On-Dinosaur Violence Ever Filmed?
    Good Lord.
    I once watched two of those giant-assed scary lizards in Iraq duke it out. I'm pretty sure those were real lizards in that video clip; scariest part of the whole thing was that the ones I saw in Iraq were about that size...
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    Image of holographicProfessorMoriarty holographicProfessorMoriarty
    11/24/09

    @Smeagol92055: Of course those are real.. its a small doctored gator VS and larger doctored monitor lizard. Good pates on stuff though since none of it came off in the shots
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    11/24/09

    @holographicProfessorMoriarty:

    Im pretty sure one of the top ones is a dwarf Caiman.

    I remember this movie because once I saw it, I immediately glued some cardboard to my do to make it a Triceratops. Brianna was NOT amused.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Or they should just invite the entirety of the east coast 501st Legion to the parade, along with the balloon...
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/24/09

    In reply to Traci Lords Is Deja Thoris. God Help Us All.
    That trailer had more WTF moments/minute than anything I can remember.

    Lords herself
    Tying it in to Cameron and Avatar
    Antonio Sabato Jr!!!!
     Reply
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    I need help with this. There is an old, John W Campbell era short story where a race of intelligent crustaceans try to invade earth. They attempt to infiltrate basically by canning themselves so they end up getting eaten as delicious lobsters and the humans win (typical for the era). Campbell may have even written it. Can anybody remember the title?
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    If the Kandy Man doesn't turn out to be the approaching darkness threatening the entire universe in the Tennant finale, I'm going to be incredibly disappointed.
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    11/24/09

    @Lassus: The Kandy Man freaked me out when I was a kid. Heck, it freaks me out now!
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Jesse Astle was starred Jesse Astle was unstarred
    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    11/24/09

    In reply to David Tennant's Final Whos Add Some More Fanservice
    I hate Mickey Mouse!

    Wait, who are we talking about?
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Somewhat surprised at the absence of one of the great tie-in novel series of all time: the Battletech books. VERY symbiotic, and canon to both the RPG and the computer games.
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    11/24/09

    @Daveinva: Oh, also, another -tech: the Robotech novels, in particular the "Jack McKinney" ones.

    For some stupid reason, they were always very divisive among the fans, but I thought they were excellent, especially once they got to the Sentinels books (which were MUCH better IMO than Carl Macek's goofy story-sketch he had for that ill-fated series).
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    11/24/09

    In reply to Scariest Dinosaur-On-Dinosaur Violence Ever Filmed?
    Okay, am I the only one freaked out that the filmmakers made these two animals fight pretty viciously to get their shots?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/24/09

    @Aidan_: I keep going back and forth about whether those are real lizards... I guess they are. At first I thought they were but then it seemed like they were too choreographed, and weirdly fake looking. I guess they're well trained and the stuff stuck on them is the fake-looking part.
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    Image of Counterglow Counterglow
    11/24/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: They're real. I recall reading something about it when the movie first appeared on television.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/24/09

    @Aidan_: @vworp: @julie.ws: I went ahead and researched it a bit more, and tweaked my writeup to make it clear I don't condone mistreating poor lizards for the sake of a crappy dinosaur fight.
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