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The Worst Love Spells Gone Wrong
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High-Tech Gadgets That Detect Magic
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a_pink_poodle
07/15/09

In reply to Forget The Nimbus, I Want To Ride A Magical Elevator With A God
Why do these amazing things happen in New York? Why not Seattle or New Orleans or Shanghai once in a while?! Spread it out!
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MargaretMoony
07/16/09

@a_pink_poodle: According to the tv the only things that happens in Seattle is mass murder sprees and extreme coffee drinking.
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Alessar
07/16/09

@a_pink_poodle: Stuff like this happens in Tokyo all the time. Tokyo Tower is extremely popular as a mystic/dimensional nexus in anime.
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Ghede
07/16/09

@a_pink_poodle: Everything happens in New York, because it's The City.

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thesis
07/16/09

@a_pink_poodle: I'm confused. A lot of amazing things happen in New Orleans. It's got a long history of voodoo and mysticism. For example, some of Interview with a Vampire takes place in New Orleans. Additionally, the 1987 cult film Angel Heart changes the ending to New Orleans instead of the novel's original New York ending, which shows the city's association with voodoo, Satanism, etc.
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tetracycloide
07/16/09

@thesis: i do not belive it sufficent to post two films with new orleans in them to refute the premise that new york is in many more pictures; even with an ect. thrown in at the end.
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Mathmos
07/15/09

In reply to Forget The Nimbus, I Want To Ride A Magical Elevator With A God
The Percy Jackson stories are very popular with kids. My nephews went to "Camp Half-Blood" summer camp. Rick Riordan's book signings at Book People in Austin are big events, drawing thousands of people. His Tres Navarre mysteries, set in San Antonio, were also well received.

That said, I wasn't tremendously impressed by this trailer, but hopefully there will be more to the movie as a whole.
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Stueymon
07/15/09

In reply to Forget The Nimbus, I Want To Ride A Magical Elevator With A God
i loved the bit where it said "not available in your region" that was awesome...

yes i am still going on about this and i will continue to do so! *bangs fist on table and such* Harrumph!
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Alessar
07/16/09

@Stueymon: I live in the US near the Canadian border and receive CBC TV stations. Yet, despite being in the broadcast area I can't view their website's streaming content. It's a problem all over.
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Stueymon
07/16/09

@Alessar: then surely it'd be better to stop using region only videos at all? Its not like io9 pointed to the BBC iPlayer to watch Children of Earth while it was on
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phayte28
07/15/09

In reply to Forget The Nimbus, I Want To Ride A Magical Elevator With A God
I just thinking that if they can make this why not American Gods
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badmotherfucker
07/15/09

@phayte28: Theoretically, it could work. But I'm guessing most audiences can't fathom spending hours, let alone minutes, listening to dialogue inconsequential to the plot. In Hollywood, this is known as a deleted scene. Everywhere else, it's called character development.
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tetracycloide
07/16/09

@badmotherfucker: it's really the nature of the medium. films are expensive, even cheap films are expensive. write a book and sell a million dollars worth and you'd be doing alright, a film that only grosses a million is a complete failure by studio standards. it really isn't hollywood's fault that character driven stories are unprofitable on film when it's the consumers that ensure films like TF2 and Star Trek stay at the top of the market.
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Mister_Bump
07/15/09

In reply to Forget The Nimbus, I Want To Ride A Magical Elevator With A God
I hate Chris Columbus. A lot. By the way, HP carried the 'Under the Mountain' trailer posted on io9 yesterday here in NZ.
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Cash907Censored
07/15/09

@Mister_Bump:

I have to agree. After being drug to "I love you, Beth Cooper," I'm pretty much going to boycott every single Chris Columbus film from now on.
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Cash907Censored
07/15/09

In reply to Forget The Nimbus, I Want To Ride A Magical Elevator With A God
I thought the trailer was a bit "meh," with the loudest applause (at least in the theater I was in) going to the trailer for "Where the wild things are," but I haven't read the story so it could be good. Time will tell.
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bluehinter
04/15/09

In reply to The Worst Love Spells Gone Wrong
You also forgot the Red Dwarf sexual magnetism virus, which Rimmer quickly discovered wasn't nearly as positive as he might hope. (Especially when Lister pours an entire vial over him while standing in line for prison roll call)

Then there's also the super-horniness date rape spray Owen used in the first episode of Torchwood. The spray itself worked fine, Owen just discovered that when you spray a hot chick at the local bar and try to lead her home for a hot night of horizontal lambada, you should probably make sure she didn't go there with her husband.
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MonkeyT
04/15/09

In reply to The Worst Love Spells Gone Wrong
How could you possibly rate the jacket of love over the Buffy classic "Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered"? The writing is so much better in Xander's love potion tale...

Buffy: "Slaying is a tad more perilous than dating."

Xander: "Well, you're obviously not dating Cordelia."

Giles: "I cannot believe that you are fool enough to do something like this."

Xander: "Oh, no, I'm twice the fool it takes to do something like this."

Angelus: "I'm still trying to decide the best way to send my regards."

Spike: "Why don't you rip her lungs out? That might make an impression."

Angelus: "It lacks poetry."

Spike: "Doesn't have to. What rhymes with lungs?"

Buffy: "I seem to be having a slight case of nudity here."

Oz: "But you're not a rat, so call it an upside."
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Meredith Woerner
04/15/09

@MonkeyT: I loved them both!
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Alexis
04/16/09

@Meredith Woerner: Arg. While the hard-core Buffy fan in me sides with "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Him" actually had more laughs.

Him had laughs. I sound like a caveman.
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miss_so_unknown
04/15/09

In reply to The Worst Love Spells Gone Wrong
When I saw love potion, I immediately thought of the first episode of Torchwood when Owen uses that potion to pick up women and ends up taking a couple home with him instead.

That being said, A Midsummer Night's Dream is still my favorite love potion gone wrong story.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/26/09

In reply to We Met Apprentice Wizard Jay Baruchel
"If I just... act real wacky, maybe I can let this little squeaker out real quiet-like and no one will notice. The subway smells like shit already anyway, right?"
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WiseGuy487
03/26/09

In reply to We Met Apprentice Wizard Jay Baruchel
So, is this a science fiction and fantasy site now? Because the last time I checked, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" dealt with magic and fantasy, not science.

That's like putting a live-action show on "Cartoon Network" and still calling it "Cartoon Network".

Oh, wait: [io9.com]
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goldfarb
03/26/09

@WiseGuy487: it's urban fantasy...

?
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Meredith Woerner
03/26/09

@WiseGuy487: Urban fantasy, is included on this site we've talked about this before.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/26/09

@WiseGuy487: Indeed you live up to your name...
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WiseGuy487
03/26/09

@Meredith Woerner: Oh, gotcha.
Sorry about that.
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Meredith Woerner
03/26/09

@WiseGuy487: no worries!
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LittleDragon
03/26/09

In reply to We Met Apprentice Wizard Jay Baruchel
"escorted back to the subway set"? Please tell me by Stormtroopers. You make it sound like he was an escaped convict of something.

"quick the actors are trying to escape again"
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/26/09

@LittleDragon: Perhaps escorted by a brigade of security guards, as obviously io9's investigative journalism is more like an interrogation amirite
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LittleDragon
03/26/09

@crashedpc: But we didn't even use the comfy chair on him.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/26/09

@LittleDragon: NO ONE EXPECTS THE IO9 INQUISITION!
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lightninglouie
03/06/09

In reply to High-Tech Gadgets That Detect Magic
You know, of all the things I'm looking forward to in the upcoming Ghostbusters game, using the Wiimote to control Egon's Ecto-Gauge probably tops the list. (And yes, I realize it sounds dirty.)
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jeffedsell
03/06/09

In reply to High-Tech Gadgets That Detect Magic
Oh, and isn't the show "Danny Phantom" about Danny's ghost-hunting parents who use Ghostbusters-like tech? (Haven't watched it, but I understand that's the case.)
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Platypus Man
03/06/09

@jeffedsell: If I remember correctly, then yeah, that's basically the case. And if Fairly Odd-Parents is included, then I don't see why Danny Phantom (which I actually quite enjoyed) shouldn't be included, except for maybe the fact that it's mostly the same that Ghostbusters has. Also that it wasn't on the air for very long. They even had the same creator.
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hughie522
03/06/09

In reply to High-Tech Gadgets That Detect Magic
I would complain about the absence of the Doctor's "Timey Wimey Detector", but then that's not really magic (although: any suitably advanced technology and all that. And it's not like the TARDIS isn't bordering on the realm of "magic" already).
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lightninglouie
03/06/09

@hughie522: Don't forget the Fifth Doctor's stalk of celery, which would turn brown in the presence of a particular toxin (and probably went very well with Buffalo Wings).
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Tee for Ten
03/06/09

@lightninglouie: only if accompanied by timey-wimey ranch dip.
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