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Vulcan Has No Moon
11/26/09

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Neon Genesis Evangelion. The damn writers/producers couldn't think of a way to end that train wreck except by killing off the whole damn cast. They should have just ended it with Kaworu Nagisa and success of the Human Instrumentality Project....if not sooner.
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Alvarez
11/28/09

@Vulcan Has No Moon: I liked the ending for one simple fact: I hated every last character on the show. Oh I was enthralled by it and couldn't stop watching it until I'd seen every last scrap of the shows and movies but, they seemed to be great examples of humanities selfishness and propensity to destroy itself. On the one hand I hated Shinji's father but also couldn't stand Shinji's whining.
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Vulcan Has No Moon
11/28/09

@Alvarez: Actually, I don't really care they killed everyone, just that it seemed like they had run into a brick wall with the story and took an easy out. Like they never planned the story arc out to the end. It's like the writers got together and said, "Show got cancelled, and we've got an hour to rap this up. Any ideas on how to tie up all the loose ends?" "Let's just kill everyone off." "Cool!" and then everyone knocked off early for lunch.
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Wookie1972
11/25/09

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Oh, and is it blasphemy to suggest that Professor Tolkien's work, despite the lack of sex, was just a wee bit soap operatic?
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Burke
11/25/09

@Wookie1972: Or that (per Randall from Clerks 2) the hobbits were gay?
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Wookie1972
11/26/09

@Burke: If I could pick a point where I got off the Kevin Smith train, it would be that. What a schmuck.
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firstofnormalin
11/26/09

@Wookie1972:
Then so was Wagner's Ring and the whole Nibelungenlied. And, of course, Puccini.
How about The House of Atreus? And the Oedipus cycle?
I'm gonna do my PhD dissertation: Buffy As A Universal Human Archetype
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Wookie1972
11/26/09

@firstofnormalin: Well, those were real operas, soap or not. Except for Oedipus. (although Oedipis, with its use of hidden parentage, would obviously count)
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firstofnormalin
11/27/09

@Wookie1972:
Well, I'll grant most weren't _sf_ soaps, but look at Wagner's Ring--dwarves (maybe even dwarfs), dragons with magic blood, hero screws his sister, magic swords, magic gold rings, tarnhelms for invisibility, Rinemadens living under the river...if that ain't a fantasy/soap opera combo, I'll eat my Furtwangler CDs.
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Wookie1972
11/25/09

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Soap operas aren't all that bad- doesn't War and Peace have something like 400 characters?
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ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
11/25/09

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And yet, Sonic's comic books were so much better than any game released this decade.
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Alessar
11/25/09

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ALIAS? Here, I can explain Alias:
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atrus123
11/25/09

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Another weird thread in BSG was Starbuck and Leoben. They have this long, complex, tormented relationship throughout the series, and then when they discover Starbuck's dead body on the Earth (that is Earth but maybe isn't Earth), Leoben gets creeped out by her, runs away, and.... well that's it. The relationship just seems severed; they never cross paths again; the event is never discussed. Nothing.

I always found that a little strange.
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Dirk Anger
11/25/09

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what about the Summers family tree? It's even worse than that x-men relationships map:
[tvtropes.org]

Here's the text version: [members.core.com]

(I'm sure somebody must have done a beautiful one somewhere)
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CleverName
11/24/09

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Holy shit! John McCain is in Stargate Universe?
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
11/24/09

@CleverName: No, see, it's... oh wait.

I see what you did there. Heh.
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♠ Final ♠
11/24/09

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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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erika
11/24/09

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Aw, I thought that you were going to talk about daytime soaps that went sci fi. General Hospital and Days had some great sci fi storylines in the 80's and 90's.
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blackoak
11/24/09

@erika: The Ice Princess freeze ray trying to destroy Port Charles (along with John Colicos and Elizabeth Taylor as bad guys) was much watch tv in college.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
11/24/09

@blackoak: It TOTALLY was. Fun stuff.
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Counterglow
11/24/09

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Thank god Wolverine isn't bi. If he was, he'd have banged the whole Marvel universe by now.
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raptor170123
11/24/09

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Ok, potshots at BSG are fine, but let's be fair...Head Six showed Baltar the child, and SIX EPISODES later she told him that "Boomer" (the copy later known as Athena) would be the one to physically bear the child. And then Baltar and Caprica Six save the child's life during the Battle of the Colony, then becoming symbolic parents.

The only reason why it's semi-wonky is that the original plan was to kill Helo and Athena, leaving Caprica Six and Baltar as the child's guardians on Earth. But the writers figured they'd be burned at the stake if they killed those two in the last ep.

I totally agree on the Saul-Six-Ellen love triangle though, that was a clusterfuck. "Deadlock" was the worst episode of season 4 by far, even if you hated the last 20 minutes of the last ep.
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vonamarak
11/24/09

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Yay for the Marvel comic soap. It's the ultimate soap, that stretches across alternative realities! Actually beyond alternative realities, in alternatives of the multiverses. Even Heinlein sticks to time travel and immortal characters - Marvel goes way beyond that.
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YanaH
11/24/09

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I am giving SG:U one more episode and then I give up! I was so POed after the last one I made a list of what is wrong with the show.

What is wrong with Stargate: Universe?
Commander is thinking with the little head -he is going to get people dead.
Scientist is sociopath/jackass -he is/did get people dead.
HR lady is so mousy
Senator's Daughter is a whore/slut alternating with mousy
Medic lady is too nice to people who need bitchslappin'

Basiclly it is Stargate 90210
I didn't sign up for a soap opera, I signed up for a Sci Fi show.
It is on the Sci Fi channel...Oh, wait, now I know why they changed the name. So crap like Scare Tactics won't seem so out of place.
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Dirk Anger
11/25/09

@YanaH: Don'y you mean you were PedO?
hmmm... let's leave it at POed
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brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
11/24/09

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Let's not get forget Brock's crazy ass relationship with Molotov Cocktease, the Russian assassin who seduces him then betrays him on a frequent basis, The Monarch and Phantom Limb fighting for Dr. Girlfriend/Queen Etheria, The Monarch's absurd but never explained hatred of Dr. Venture, Dr. Venture almost hooking up with Dr. Girlfriend before turning into a giant caterpilllar, Dean's obsession with the goth girl next door, Dermott--the supposed son of Brock (if he is, the nature vs. nuture argument is over and nuture won), Dr. Venture's crazy ex-bodyguard attempts to kidnap him so they can be a happy family....
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