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    A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games

    What Does Watchmen's Weekend Mean?

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    My friends and I would just sit around drink and watch StarWars. There was no organized drinking game but there was a hell of a lot of arguments and quoting.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    04/29/09

    @OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.: You could take a drink every time the characters say something that could be a double-entendre.


    But you'd probably pass out before they even got to "Pull up, Porkins!"

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    It isn't SciFi at all, but my favorite drinking game was always the one for the animated version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.


    The only rule is that you had to take a drink any time anyone said the word "who."


    It's really just a fancy way to commit suicide by alcohol poisoning.

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    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    I only do my drinking games with Tranya.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    04/29/09

    @BadUncle: If you need recipes for Tranya and other trek drinks.


    [www.geocities.com]

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    Image of cadrina cadrina
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    Does heroes get better when watching drunk?
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    Image of ejs2000 ejs2000
    04/29/09

    @cadrina: Everything is better drunk.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    04/29/09

    @ejs2000: Except Driving.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    You know, I pride myself on writing creative drinking games, but I haven't done many for sci-fi. Usually more for events. But I have got:


    Drinking game for Harry Potter 7 [written before the release] - [sometimeslizwrites.blogspot.com]


    and, a bit more esoteric but may entertain some:


    Drinking game for JK Rowling's 2008 Harvard commencement address - [sometimeslizwrites.blogspot.com]

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    What about the Blakes 7 drinking game?


    * Drink every time Avon makes a snide comment. (or if you want to survive the night... drink every time Avon says something that ISN'T a snide comment)


    * Drink every time Orac refuses to help the crew because his circuits are busy, possessed, or he just plain doesn't feel like it.


    * Drink every time you spot a recycled Doctor Who prop.


    * Drink every time the Liberator crew have their teleport bracelets confiscated or otherwise rendered inoperative.


    * Take a shot for every ship The Federation sends against the Liberator. (usually doesn't exceed 3)


    * Down the bottle every time somebody calls Servalan a "sexy bitch"

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    Image of okeribok okeribok
    04/29/09

    @bluehinter: And one for every time that Blake ignores the fact that Avon will one day kill him.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    04/29/09

    @okeribok: Only if for seasons 3 & 4 you take a drink every time they namecheck Blake, and comment on how incredible a leader he was or how he's the only person that could ever bring the resistance together.


    Oh, and you can also take a drink every time you spot a costume that features metal studs or diamond-shaped quilting.

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    04/29/09

    @bluehinter: Tangentally, you can also play the Winter Olympics Figure Skating drinking game, where you take a shot every time a team shows up wearing an outfit that looks like it came straight off the set of Blakes 7 or Doctor Who:






    and Tarrant for the win...

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    Image of NotArthurPDragon NotArthurPDragon
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    1) There's no rule listed for the Batman game

    2) 300 isn't science fiction or even fantasy

    3) If you're gonna list 300, you might as well include Troy because gods were supposed to be in that one and my rules for the Troy drinking game are thus: Anytime any character speaks of how their place in history or through the ages, you have to take a drink. Your first will actually occur in the friggin' pre-credit narration.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    04/29/09

    @NotArthurPDragon: the 300 is absolutly fantasy. fantasy inspired by histioric events maybe, but fantasy none the less.


    Troy drinking game rule:
    any time the camera does a cutaway reaction shot to peter o'tool you have to take a drink.

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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    So, do they mean leading man's real name or name in the movie? If it's realy name then you could drink during the movies Sting has done.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    Also to include: The Star Trek TNG drinking game, whose best rule, I think, is when a problem is solved by reconfiguring the main deflector.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    04/29/09

    @braak: i'd have to go with: 'a crew memeber explains a complex solution to a persistant problem by using a simple analogy.'
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    The SciFi Original's drinking game is backwards. First you should get drunk, then watch the SciFi Original Movie.


    Likelihood of Intoxication: 100%

    Likelihood of SciFi Movie Enjoyment: Extremely High.

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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    04/29/09

    @Log1c: Yes, I have found that to be the best way to enjoy the SciFi Original Movies. I think the only times my boyfriend and I watched entire movies was with the aid of alcohol.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    Drink it - its Tranya!



    [www.geocities.com]
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    04/29/09

    @NotChoinski: Dont get between me and the bloodwine!
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    Image of gertymac gertymac
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    Played Doctor Who/Torchwood drinking game this weekend that included taking a drink every time someone died and drinking during any running sequence.


    Oye.

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    04/29/09

    @gertymac: Those are definitely the only two you need to get totally plastered.


    I'm pretty sure following the 'drink every time the sonic screwdriver is used like a magic wand' rule would kill you.

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    04/29/09

    @gertymac: everytime someone dies? ye gods man. with the body counts in Dr Who, you'd need a full brewery / distillery!
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    04/29/09

    In reply to A Dozen Science-Fiction Drinking Games
    I have definitely done one for Heroes. That one left me incapacitated for a week.


    I also did one for Twilight. I'm still recovering.

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    Image of iameleveneight iameleveneight
    03/10/09

    In reply to What Does Watchmen's Weekend Mean?
    I love how everybody is blaming this and that on watchmen's gross but nobody wants to look at the big elephant in the room that is the shit ass economy. I mean seriously, not acknowledging that is ridiculous.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    03/10/09

    @iameleveneight: Actually, trends show that movie attendance is still as consistent as it was the same time last year.


    [[www.cnn.com]]

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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    03/10/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: I wonder how many times you need to post this story before people get the point.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    03/10/09

    @TrueCrime: about as much as people keep blaming the recession, or more. It's actually my new signature. Please dont make fun of it.
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    03/11/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Don't misunderstand -- I'm totally in agreement with what you're doing.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/10/09

    In reply to What Does Watchmen's Weekend Mean?
    "...whether the movie will, accidentally, have as big an effect on superhero movies as the comic did on superhero comics."


    I think it's pretty safe to say that, almost no matter how successful the Watchmen film turns/had turned out, that would be impossible. Even Dark Knight hasn't had that great of an effect.


    Yes TDK was dark and gritty and successful and rode on a martyr effect of sorts, but it didn't open doors to new ways of thinking about the genre the way the Watchmen graphic novel did.

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