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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    "Gretchen is doing the whole "if you love someone set them free" thing"

    If I was her, it'd be "if you love someone, set their teeth free."
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    OK, so now I'm missing the remake of Day of the Triffids as well as the End of Time Part 1? Denmark really doesn't deserve the attention it's getting from me this Jul.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    Johna Hex, Triffids, yay I say!
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    Is it wrong that this Christmas/New Years I'm seriously considering trying to catch swine flu, just so I can stay home and geek out with all the great Sci-fi on TV?
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    Image of smirkette smirkette
    12/10/09

    @bluehinter: Not at all. We all need a mental health day every once in a while. Tell everyone you're going to see the Doctor.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    I'd rather Chuck were just a straightforward badass. There's nothing more annoying than a superpower that fails whenever the writers can't find another way out.
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    Image of Magicant Magicant
    12/10/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: A "fail-us" ex machina?
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    12/10/09

    @Magicant: "Fail-us ex machina..."

    That's funny... No? Little bit?
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    Edited by Magicant at 12/10/09 8:05 AM Magicant was starred Magicant was unstarred
    Image of Lassus Lassus
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    The Potter epilogue was infamous? Really? I admit I don't recall any controversy about it - in fact I seem to recall Harry and Hermione futzing about in the woods for most of the school year being more infamous. I'd be interested to read some of the reaction - I rather liked the epilogue.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    12/10/09

    @Lassus: Reportedly, Rowling was set to kill off Harry at the end of the book from the beginning, but changed her mind at the last minute and made the epilogue that's there now. I guess a lot of HP faithful felt it was a rather disappointing way to end it all.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    12/10/09

    @TemporalSword: She did get a little blood-happy, but the faithful were disappointed that he didn't die? First I'd heard that.

    I admit I hadn't heard he was supposed to buy it. In fact, if he was and she changed her mind, I can see how that probably made her so death-happy with everyone else.
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    Edited by Lassus at 12/10/09 6:42 AM Lassus was starred Lassus was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    12/10/09

    @Lassus: I'm not sure if the disappointment was solely that he didn't die, or just that the whole "flash forward to their 30's and living a normal life" aspect just felt cliched and out of place.
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    Image of ctuley ctuley
    12/10/09

    @Lassus: My problem with it was similar to my problem with the final Buffy episode: it was way too happy and did not reflect the tone change of the book. If all the Harry Potter books had been like the 1st book, then the super-happy "We have fabulous lives!" epilogue would have made sense, but it had become a much darker, more grown-up series and the epilogue just sort of pushed that aside.
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    Image of t3knomanser t3knomanser
    12/10/09

    @TemporalSword: That implies they didn't really read the series. The whole thing was cliched. I read it all, it was mildly enjoyable, but nothing to be excited over.

    //'s'no Dresden Files.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    12/10/09

    @ctuley: Eh. I disagree about that. Their friends and family are still dead, they still lived through a horrible, scarring time. I think getting down on the level of happiness and closure that they have as adults in a 15-minute window is based on subjectivity and not really an empirical narrative problem. (Which, ironically, I DO feel was present in the portion of the book I refer to above, the endless hanging out in the forest.)
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    Image of Mary Ratliff Mary Ratliff
    12/10/09

    @Lassus: There were a lot of people pretty angry over it. Reasons bounced around from too cliched, too happy, didn't fit the tone, didn't match the rest of the book, felt tacked on, was written as well, showed that Ginny went from being a bad-ass who fought death eaters to a housewife, focused on how many kids they'd all had, ignored important characters, didn't deal with the repercussions of any of the deaths very well, and my person gripe with it, somehow in only a few pages managed to be confusing and contradict itself (at least, that's what I remember).

    But it should be said that because I didn't like it, I read a lot of the things where people were talking about not liking it. If you liked it, you probably didn't notice them, it wasn't a huge firestorm.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    12/10/09

    @Mary Ratliff: "...showed that Ginny went from being a bad-ass who fought death eaters to a housewife..."

    Er, wasn't Ginny's mom a housewife who was bad-ass and fought death-eaters? I would say that extrapolating definite specific aspects of a life not shown from a short epilogue is a mistake. I read it as a snapshot specifically showing a happy time in their adult lives because we just finished a seven-book battle where a lot of people died and were incredibly unhappy.

    However, I think a lot of what you say is definitely valid. I was never that invested in the series on a deeper emotional level. I can see how for those who WERE invested, it was troubling and had problems. That is probably a big part of how my opinion doesn't match up. I am not part of the decidedly adult "YA IS AWESOME" meme. I personally think the happiness was done for the original audience, the kids - I'd wonder how all the 11-to-13-year-olds felt.
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    Image of Mary Ratliff Mary Ratliff
    12/10/09

    @Lassus: Yeah, that's definitely true about Molly Weasley. I never really got into that whole debate, it was just one of the things I read people arguing about, mostly people who already didn't like Ginny for one reason or another (she was never my personal favorite actually) but they never could back up why it was such a bad thing since we didn't know for sure that she wasn't still the same way as she was before.
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    Image of Enferris Enferris
    12/10/09

    @Lassus: I don't buy the 'they're living normal lives' deal. Harry and Ron are the Wizarding equivalent of secret agents, Hermione is like the Wizarding attorney general, Neville is a Professor, and Ginny (wee found out in interviews) is a Professional Quidditch player.

    However, I still think it was unnecessary. I could have imagined most of that (Although I would have had Neville as the DADA professor); and we never found out what happened with a lot of the civil-rights issues.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    12/10/09

    In reply to The Inside Scoop On Doctor Who, Lost, Jonah Hex, Elm Street And Harry Potter!
    i cant wait for day of the triffids either; eddie izzard in a PA scenario?! until then io9'ers get your DOTF fix via Netflix, the BBC miniseries was awesome. more about how society goes on after the apocalypse and not blowing the "heads" off plants. [en.wikipedia.org])
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/08/09

    In reply to Best And Worst Geek Holiday Decor: From Santa Cthulhu To Fetus Baubles
    Is the fetus from the Twilight collection?
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    12/08/09

    In reply to Best And Worst Geek Holiday Decor: From Santa Cthulhu To Fetus Baubles
    So, does the redshirt stocking come with a Horta?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/08/09

    In reply to Awesome Clips From Doctor Who And Avatar, Plus A Major New Lost Clue
    "And the explanation of Charlotte's survival will blow your mind (and presumably has nothing to do with Juliet's hydrogen bomb.)"

    She's still time traveling. And it could technically be the same Charlotte but from before she died. That pretty much allows her to pop up anywhere.
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    Image of DoctorZoidberg DoctorZoidberg
    12/08/09

    @twophrasebark: That's a very likely explanation... and didn't blow my mind.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12/08/09

    In reply to Awesome Clips From Doctor Who And Avatar, Plus A Major New Lost Clue
    Yay for "Chuck"! Anyone else experiencing "Supernatural" withdrawals yet? Where do they get off taking a vacation, don't they know the Apocalypse is happening?
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    Edited by schrodingers-katana at 12/08/09 7:23 AM schrodingers-katana was starred schrodingers-katana was unstarred
    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/08/09

    @schrodingers-katana: Chalk me up for the "Supernatural shakes." I can't wait for the new year.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12/08/09

    @Im_your_Huckleberry: I know, it's killing me! Where did I put that time machine, so I can warp a few weeks ahead in time?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to Awesome Clips From Doctor Who And Avatar, Plus A Major New Lost Clue
    Dear God I love Wilf.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/08/09

    In reply to Awesome Clips From Doctor Who And Avatar, Plus A Major New Lost Clue
    Has anyone not figured out that the Island on LOST is Eden? I mean that goes back to season one clues.
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    Image of GodofMonkeys GodofMonkeys
    12/08/09

    In reply to Awesome Clips From Doctor Who And Avatar, Plus A Major New Lost Clue
    I'm wondering if I can persuade someone (among the decision makers) in my company to adopt the Better Off Ted model...
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    Edited by GodofMonkeys at 12/08/09 6:17 AM GodofMonkeys was starred GodofMonkeys was unstarred
    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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