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Actually I think this implies Arthur Conan Doyle is one of Spock's ancestors since TNG establishes that Sherlock Holmes is fictional within the Trek universe, pretty sure those episodes of TNG predate ST 6, good try though.
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he's the very incarnation of Sherlock Holmes, no literary allusions needed. And the show is science fiction without the space travel, aliens, or robots.
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"Wait a minute, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character. How can Batman meet him?"
It took me a little while to remember, that indeed Batman is also fictional.
03/22/09
"It took me a little while to remember, that indeed Batman is also fictional."
Since when? Go to google maps and search for Gotham City. Batman's real, I'm telling you. :)
By the way, in 1994 I visited the Sherlock Holmes Museum, in London. It's located, where else, at 221B Baker Street. Awesome place.
03/22/09
Most amusing part of the gift shop: the poor Sherlock Holmes snuff boxes and pipes that had to be emblazoned with huge SMOKING KILLS stickers.
03/22/09
[www.gotham-city.com.au]
I really don't think that Bats is down with prostitution. But if I have to investigate I guess I will.
01/14/09
He cares deeply for the quality of his art, and when he sees the crapfest which have been every single one of his film adaptations, he becomes understandably incensed. He's also been screwed over by the big companies, little companies, colleagues, mouth-breather fanboys, high sheriffs, and the ever-present censorship christitard asswipe brigade. I'd be a little miffed myself.
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My problem with V for Vendetta is manifold: Transforming Evey's character from a waifish semi-urchin to an far more self-satisfied career woman dilutes the character and removes some of the motivation required to drive her decisions; the loss of the Helen Meyer, Derek & Rosemary Almond subplot; the lack of the grand epic sweep needed to see the UK fall into anarchy; and the chopped up exposition of the Larkhill visit by Eric Finch. That said, Hugo Weaving was brilliant and I enjoyed the updated mass media manipulation presented in the film.
01/14/09
Alan Moore may be a genius, but he's also kind of a madman.
Which, I guess, lends credence to the proposition.
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Also, would you please sign my beard?"
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The Godfather. But yeah, freak occurrence.
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I've yet to see any kind of concrete sourcing on that one.
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Beaver Patrol RULES.
01/14/09
It comes from that Pop Will Eat Itself song (Can You Dig It?). The song just lists things from pop culture that they like. It has lines like:
"We dig Marvel and D.C"
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"We dig Optimus Prime and not Galvetron, We dig The Leader of the Pack and the Do-Run-Run, Spinderella and Bruce Lee, The Bad and the Ugly,
V for Vendetta, and Into the Groovy"
and finally
"Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn, Dirty Harry, Make my day,
Terminator, hit the north, Alan Moore knows the score"
I've just always thought of the song as a nerd anthem. Plus it has samples from The Warriors. You really can't go wrong with that.
01/14/09
@Mount_Prion: hell yeah bitch! my sister turned me onto them way back when. i can't hear "Def.Con.One." without thinking of her and giggling.