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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    09:29 AM

    In reply to Killers, Cardassians And Christmas In This Week's Comics
    But really, who can keep up with the Cardassians?
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    10:16 AM

    @Perhaps Not: Every time I hear about that show I wonder why the Federation let them on Earth.
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    10:40 AM

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: we're obviously going to severely violate some interplanetary treaty in the future. they're our punishment.

    #@!
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    ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment SpammerOvTheGods was starred SpammerOvTheGods was unstarred
    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    10:45 AM

    @SpammerOvTheGods: And as always, whenever The Federation tries to go to Earth they go back in time.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11:07 AM

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: One look at Bruce Jenner and you KNOW he's a Cardassian.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    01:32 PM

    @Hamslicer: At least he's not a tailor.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    12/07/09

    In reply to Tons Of Revealing Pics Of The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors. Plus Meet Another William Adama!
    Wouldn't that be because Harriet Jones died in "The Stolen Earth" while being awesome and heroic?
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    12/07/09

    In reply to Spoiler-Filled Caprica Gallery Reveals The Character Flaws That Launched The Cylons
    Luciano Carro, yay! But who are all the boring young people?
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    Image of Crashproof Crashproof
    12/07/09

    In reply to Was This The Decade Of The Reboot?
    This was also the decade of Firefly, District 9, and other good stuff.
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    Image of modernboy modernboy
    12/07/09

    In reply to Tons Of Revealing Pics Of The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors. Plus Meet Another William Adama!
    Hey Charlie,

    2 episodes are being filmed in Croatia. "vampires in venice" and "the doctor and vincent." both working titles of course. those pictures are from the vampires in venice one. apparently we probably won't see much of the van gogh episode being shot.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/07/09

    In reply to Spoiler-Filled Caprica Gallery Reveals The Character Flaws That Launched The Cylons
    I'm so confused about the BSG/Caprica storyline. Are they making the colonies' cylons (like the metal dudes) or the skin jobs. And how does this all fit in with the frakking mythos!!
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    Image of bioball bioball
    12/07/09

    @MargaretMoony: Caprica starts with the creation of the first Centurions and will end with the first Cylon War.

    In the time between the first Cylon War and BSG, the Cylons created the skin jobs and planted them among the 12 colonies.

    Bonus question:
    Where did they get the skin job tech?

    Well from the Final Five traveling from "Earth" at slower than light speed so they arrive during first Cylon War and agree to give the Cylons the ressurection tech if they stop beating all hell out of the colonies.
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    MargaretMoony promoted this comment Edited by bioball at 12/07/09 11:57 AM bioball was starred bioball was unstarred
    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/07/09

    @bioball: Thanks! I've just been so confused because the promos makes it look like they're developing skin jobs.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/07/09

    @MargaretMoony: Caprica is set 58 years before the destruction of the Colonies. As the story begins, Daniel Graystone is a genius computer programmer and industrialist working on a prototype for a robotic super-soldier that will become the basis for the Cylon Centurions. His biggest success so far is a headset that allows computer users to enter a a fully immersive VR world where anything goes. Meanwhile, his daughter Zoe, who is actually a better programmer, has created a better avatar for said world which becomes the basis for the technology that allows human personalities to be stored on a hard-drive. She's also a member of a monotheistic cult that is a nascent form of the Cylon religion seen in BSG. Daniel Graystone becomes acquainted with William Adama's father mob lawyer Joseph Adama when both of their daughters are killed in terrorist attack by a fanatical teenage member of the monotheistic cult. Graystone offers to use Zoe's ideas to create a virtual version of Joseph's daughter if Joseph Adama will use his connections with the mob to "acquire" the technology Graystone needs to finish his Cylon prototype.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/07/09

    @Bill-Lee: Thank you! That really helps.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/07/09

    In reply to Spoiler-Filled Caprica Gallery Reveals The Character Flaws That Launched The Cylons
    I wrote three seasons of a science fiction show and have no idea how to end it.
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    Image of hdgotham hdgotham
    12/07/09

    @twophrasebark: Pay no attention to the Deus Ex Machina behind the curtain.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/07/09

    In reply to Spoiler-Filled Caprica Gallery Reveals The Character Flaws That Launched The Cylons
    I watched the pilot when it came out on DVD. It was...alright. It was like a cross between Bladerunner and The Godfather with elements of Ghost in the Shell and ideas considered by William Gibson and then discarded. I think I would have preferred watching a documentary of the same actors eating lunch while discussing religion and robots.
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    12/07/09

    @Bill-Lee: There were elements that could make a good show. I think tying it to BSG was a mistake and will sink the show.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/07/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: I've read that Caprica began life as feature screenplay for a movie about AI unrelated to BSG. Universal Studios' feature film department rejected the script but the TV department liked it enough to arrange a meeting between the screenplay's author Remi Aubuchon and BSG producers Eick and Moore. Moore merged Aubuchon's ideas with his own ideas about a BSG prequel.
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    Image of hdgotham hdgotham
    12/07/09

    @Bill-Lee: I think I would have been much more interested in a stand alone story about AI. This seems to neither fill in the BSG universe, or expand on it, which would be the point of a spin-off.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/07/09

    @hdgotham: Frankly, I would rather have a stand alone story about AI, too. Unfortunately TV producers these days like recognizable brand names.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    12/07/09

    In reply to Spoiler-Filled Caprica Gallery Reveals The Character Flaws That Launched The Cylons
    cyclons know our human weakness; catholic schoolgirls
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    Image of earthclanbootstrap earthclanbootstrap
    12/07/09

    @evildead1971: there are twelve models...
    and they have a...
    no, not a plan - a short plaid skirt.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/07/09

    @evildead1971: We'll finally see Lucifer... in a habit, wielding a yardstick.
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    Image of RenRen RenRen
    12/07/09

    In reply to Tons Of Revealing Pics Of The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors. Plus Meet Another William Adama!
    I call for Jeremy Piven to play Cupid in Supernatural!!!
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    Image of Plague Plague
    12/07/09

    @RenRen: Agreed.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    12/07/09

    In reply to Tons Of Revealing Pics Of The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors. Plus Meet Another William Adama!
    My god......This Doctor Who xmas special better pull somthing ALMIGHTY from out of its arse!! Every season with Tennant has been awesome, Torchwoods been brilliant, the Children of Earth mini series was inspired and the last 2 stand alone Who episodes were terrific.

    Tennant is and always will be the best Doctor that this long running series has ever had. Please dont let him go out on an anti-climax!!!!

    I want a 'mini Michael Bay' Doctor Who episode!!!!! Just masse's of explosions and fire.....but with a script!
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    Edited by CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) at 12/07/09 6:30 AM CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was starred CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was unstarred
    Image of Eridani Eridani
    12/07/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I am pretty sure that's exactly what you'll get. RTD gets his Michael Bay on at the end of every season. I'm pretty sure the scripts kind of look like John Madden's scrawls on Monday Night Football.

    I don't think that's a good thing.
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    Image of No cool name here... Move along No cool name here... Move along
    12/07/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I can only hope that you totally forgot that Planet of the Dead existed, and are referring to The Next Doctor and The Waters of Mars as the last two stand alone episodes. Planet of the Dead was many things, but terrific it was not.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    12/07/09

    @No cool name here... Move along: I actually didnt mind 'Planet of the Dead' So I stand by my original statement. If there was one fault it would be that bloody flying bus!!
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    Image of Magicant Magicant
    12/07/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I'm with you on that. The flying bus spoiled it a bit, but other than that, I was very entertained. But then again, I can probably only point to three episodes of the new series that I DIDN'T enjoy so I'm probably a horrid critic.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    12/07/09

    @Magicant: It would have made more sense to fly out in one of the Tritovores broken (but fixed later) type of escape pods!! We could have had a whole A-Team in the shed scene, building something from nothing! And then a serious escape/chase scene! But all in all, I liked it.

    I also love how RTD has dropped hints throughout all the old Tennants series about the coming storm. 'Bad Wolf', The Doctor Donna', 'He will knock 4 times' and the Doctors ego getting the better of him in 'Waters of Mars' leading to his inevitable end. Oh RTD, how we will miss you.
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    Edited by CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) at 12/07/09 7:43 AM CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was starred CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was unstarred
    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/07/09

    In reply to Tons Of Revealing Pics Of The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors. Plus Meet Another William Adama!
    changing chuck to a super spy cheapens the premise, i hope they keep the fun way the show works. if the fun zaney stuff goes then it wont be worth watching
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    12/07/09

    In reply to Tons Of Revealing Pics Of The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors. Plus Meet Another William Adama!
    They really should have aired the next two episodes of FlashForward if the reveals are that big, holding them off until March is probably a bad idea.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/07/09

    @Makidian: lol the big reveal is probably that the show blows.
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    Image of No cool name here... Move along No cool name here... Move along
    12/07/09

    @GreyHammer: But that's not really much of a reveal, is it?
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/07/09

    @No cool name here... Move along: for their writers it is
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    Image of enderwiggin13 enderwiggin13
    12/07/09

    @GreyHammer: I thought that was already revealed.

    I gave it a second chance and still can't remember anyone's names - there's alcoholic FBI guy, alcoholic FBI guy's wife, retarded kid, retarded kid's dad who bangs alcoholic FBI guy's wife in the future, Harold of Harold & Kumar, Merriadoc Brandybuck, etc. so I'm done now. Maybe I'll read the book when I get a chance.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/07/09

    @enderwiggin13: i have given the show more than enough tries. i have seen every episode so far, waiting for the interesting premise to pay off.... and it hasn't. characters are one demensional and even the physicists are stupid. the plot holes are also so large that im suprised the film stock its filmed on stays together.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    12/07/09

    @GreyHammer: I will agree that the physicists are stupid but I still kinda like the show. It certainly isn't the worst thing I have seen on TV this year and I know at least three of the characters names. It seems to me that if there is a big reveal in the next two episodes then they should have shown at least one of them before the break. It was interesting to know that Benford's gonna kill his partner and I still think his wife is gonna slink into bed with Simcoe and cause him to start drinking again. Some people just can't be pleased not that big of a deal really.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/07/09

    @Makidian: i feel the opposite. this show has been bad and compound that with the disapointment. i expected the show to be good based off teh interesting premise. it has not delivered, making it worse than something i had zero hope for. the 'twist' that benford was going to kill harold wasn't hard hitting or gasp worthy, i rolled my eyes. there is also the fact of the giant goatsee sized plot holes. one of which is the fact that harold's girlfriend didnt feel emotion in her flash forward when others did. does emotion only happen when its convient for plot? cause there is a huge difference in emotion between a wedding and a funeral. and the fact that a white rose on the coffin of a random service made her realise was absolutely cringe worthy retarded. and thats just ONE small instance in the miriad of instances where the show just isnt writen well at all.
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    Edited by GreyHammer at 12/07/09 7:54 AM GreyHammer was starred GreyHammer was unstarred
    Image of Makidian Makidian
    12/07/09

    @GreyHammer: I just take it for what it is which is something to watch, nothing more really. It isn't the greatest show ever by any means but interests me enough to keep watching. I don't know who Harold is though so I am pretty sure you mean Noh who really does need to die since he just kinda mopes around. The twist will be that he is the one who told his wife he was drinking again in his FF. The writing is pretty bad and that is really David Goyers. fault because he pretty much blows. I don't look for it to be on for a second season but I would like to see this one play out. The cast could stand to be trimmed a bit also. I don't really disagree with your points but I don't think it's the most awful show ever.
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    Image of shoroko shoroko
    12/07/09

    @GreyHammer:

    cause there is a huge difference in emotion between a wedding and a funeral.

    I feel like there's a joke in here somewhere...
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    12/07/09

    In reply to Was This The Decade Of The Reboot?
    "Does Fringe count as new, or just an updated X-Files?"
    Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool X-Files fan, I don't think so.There are a few similarities. An ongoing mythos does not a copy make.
    Personally, I'm strting to like "Fringe" a bit more. Towards the end of "X-Files" it got too formulized.
    Popularity is defined by the times we live in.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    12/07/09

    In reply to Was This The Decade Of The Reboot?
    I think theres been more emphasis on reboots over the last few years. But theres also been some very cool original stuff come through aswell.

    With the current films in production (or ready to start in the near future). Things like Hellraiser, Robocop, Predators, Short Circuit, Flight of the Navigator and The Never Ending Story. It seems to me that we will look back again in a few years and ask the same question!

    And TV's not safe either. The Prisoner, Day of the Triphids and the long awated V.
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