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    Bioshock Paintings Take Glourious Neon and Art Deco Underwater

    Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms

    Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis

    Stargate Gets A Couple Of Wise Guys

    What Is "The Aquaman Problem"?

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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/21/09

    In reply to Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
    And you're absolutely sure this has nothing to do with turning watery worlds into deserts?
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    Image of theCrippleCricket theCrippleCricket
    11/21/09

    @Bill-Lee: The Spice must flow, dude. My cripple bene-gesserit program is gonna be totally awesome!
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/21/09

    @Bill-Lee: Oh, Dune. It's the sci-fi gift that keeps giving.
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    Image of Insomnia Bob Insomnia Bob
    01/06/09

    In reply to Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis
    Having seen the final episode of SGA, let me tell you... if you took issue with the fact that no one EVER stayed dead on this show, the last episode is gonna be a TREAT for you!


    Thank God it's over. At this rate, we'd have had people dying and coming back to life in the same damn scene.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    01/05/09

    In reply to Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis
    I saw the final episode.


    At the end, Robert Picardo walks into an apartment where Beau Bridges is sitting in an armchair.


    A little boy is playing with a snowglobe. Picardo says "I wonder what he sees in there."


    CUT TO CLOSE-UP OF SNOWGLOBE WHERE WE SEE ATLANTIS


    FADE TO BLACK

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    01/05/09

    In reply to Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis
    I saw the final episode.


    At the end, Robert Picardo walks into an apartment where Beau Bridges is sitting in an armchair.


    A little boy is playing with a snowglobe. Picardo says "I wonder he see in there."


    CUT TO CLOSE-UP OF SNOWGLOBE WHERE WE SEE ATLANTIS


    FADE TO BLACK

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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    01/05/09

    In reply to Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis
    "Alice from the fist movie."


    Whoa. Hawt.

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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    01/05/09

    @Smeagol92055: Whoa whole new meaning. FTFY
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    01/05/09

    In reply to Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis
    I could watching 4 hours of Kate Beckinsale reading the phone book and watching ice melt and call it a hit movie.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/05/09

    @Lassus: That's a way better script than Van Helsing was.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    01/05/09

    In reply to Clips From The Series Finale Of Stargate Atlantis
    "A three-and-a-half-hour version of Superman Returns..."


    ??


    is this because of commercials?

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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    01/05/09

    @goldfarb: 2:15 of movie. You do the math ;)
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    01/05/09

    @Gearhead_42: thanks...I don't watch TV so I wasn't sure if FX had commercials...
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    Image of Moe-B Moe-B
    12/16/08

    In reply to Stargate Gets A Couple Of Wise Guys
    You just made my day!! Although in doing so you reminded me how god damn depressed I am that my favorite show is ending. I do have to say though, after seeing the preview for this after Fridays episode I am beyond excided!!! I LOVE Alternate realities!! And I absolutely die for John/Rodney centric episodes! Janurary 2nd can't come fast enough!!!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/16/08

    @mourghan: It's only a year away!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/16/08

    In reply to Stargate Gets A Couple Of Wise Guys
    Wasn't this a TNG story?
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    12/16/08

    In reply to Stargate Gets A Couple Of Wise Guys
    So the Wraith are headed to Earth, but they decided to detour in Vegas before enslaving our population and feeding on us?


    I don't get it.

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/16/08

    @Log1c: We find out that the Wraith are paralysed by flashing lights. And burlesque shows.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/26/08

    In reply to What Is "The Aquaman Problem"?
    I still think they should just run with the idea that his powers are (at least compared with the rest of the DC universe) sub par, but he's still a hero, and he does the best he can, even if it means he has to try twice as hard.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    11/26/08

    In reply to What Is "The Aquaman Problem"?
    Maybe if he didn't spend so much time summoning his friends from the deep...
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/25/08

    In reply to What Is "The Aquaman Problem"?
    Yeah, that's pretty much how I always figured his powers worked as well.


    Face it... fish are pretty goddamn stupid, and "communicating" with them would be a lot like using one of those clunky voice-control robots from the mid 90's that only knows about 5 commands, and responds to them with about as much finesse as Stevie Wonder learning how to parallel park.


    Most basic marine organisms only respond to four primary impulses: eat, fuck, run away, and do whatever the hell the fish in front of you is doing.


    I've always figured that when Aquaman summons up a giant squid to attack Black Manta's nuclear submarine, what he's really saying is "Hey Squiddy! Check out that hot lady squid over there! Go get you some and hump that thing!"


    Oh, and as an added benefit, most of the animals Aquaman pulls out of their natural habitat probably end up dying as a direct result of his commands. If the rapid change in pressure doesn't get them, then you can bet the wounds they'll inevitably sustain while following Aquaman's dumb-ass orders will finish the job. (or attract predators that will accomplish the exact same end)

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/25/08

    In reply to What Is "The Aquaman Problem"?
    I'm currently about 600 words into a Chandleresque novelette tentatively titled "Gilman Takes the Case," about a universally ridiculed superhero with crappy Aquaman-style powers, who gets one last shot at respectability when he's called upon to investigate the gruesome death of a grade D supervillain in an Eastview aquarium shark tank.


    So far, I'm having a blast.. not so much thinking up ways that Gil's powers can be useful (they aren't) but coming up with new and vindictive reasons why everybody hates him. (especially PETA)

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    11/25/08

    In reply to What Is "The Aquaman Problem"?
    This pretty much sums up just how terrible of a superhero Aquaman is.


    [www.jibjab.com]

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