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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/15/09

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"I need a job. One with non-shitty writing would be nice. Please ignore everything I said about how I thought the character was done, how much I hated living in Hawaii, that driving bust, and how I thought the writers/producers sucked before. I take it all back! Hire meeee!"

I certainly understand his needing some time to grieve when his parents died, but he could have kept his mouth shut about all the other stuff and made his personal life the official statement instead of burning bridges.

Actors.
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Edited by Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. at 08/15/09 3:01 PM

gods-n-clods
08/15/09

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Adewale has PTSD from Joe maneuvers. Let's bring him home. To the island!
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Dustin Cahill
08/15/09

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In regards to GI Joe bashing in the main article, I'd like to say it was amazing. Aside from having SPOILER an entire ocean under Egypt to do military exercises and dudes jumping through Bus/Trains, it had some surprisingly creative transitions, a strange Star Wars motif (love the Darth Vader-without-his-mask lookalike putting on the mask in the end as the base crumbles around him, a reverse of 'Jedi'), and innumerable instances where you think we are seeing a real characters interacting but SURPRISE it’s a hologram!

And the best part, rather than being incredibly racist like those terrible Transformers movies, the most incredible (but accurate) leap in logic is given to the Wayans brother in a sort of apologetic affirmative action moment for the sins of this year’s previous blockbusters.
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Kpibca
08/15/09

@Dustin Cahill: An entire what under WHAT? What?
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Cash907Censored
08/15/09

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I remember reading he hated what the writers were doing to his character, and got pissed when it became clear that lindloff and Cuse were pretty much just making it up as they went along.

Plus, the whole "parents suddenly dying" thing left him in a less then tolerant mood, I'd imagine.
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Blue_Thark
08/15/09

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According to the producers he simply hated living in Hawaii. Also I believe I read he felt obligated to depart once both his parents died suddenly.
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Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
08/15/09

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On another note, I'm just now starting to watch Lost since it's streaming in HD from Netflix. Maybe I'll get caught up before the last season starts in January?
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dazoid
08/15/09

@Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me...: If you watch LOST the same way *everyone* does when they start, you'll be caught up through 5 seasons by Halloween. I don't know anybody that took longer than a week to get through the first season on DVD.
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krztov
08/15/09

@dazoid: week for first season? pfft, me and my wife started watching lost on a thursday, had never seen an episode, watched 2 episodes that night, that friday we watched abotu 3 episodes, that saturday we spent 12 hours watching, to sum this up, we watched all 5 seasons within 7 days, :)

was probably the best bonding moment we've had in terms of tv (shes not a huge tv fan)
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Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
08/15/09

@krztov: well, I've watched 3 episodes of the first series and dozed off during the 4th. Not because of the show, I was just tired...
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dazoid
08/15/09

@krztov: I don't think I believe you did all 5 seasons in 1 week as that would be about 10.5hrs a day every day... 2 weeks I'd believe.

But yes, people who haven't watched before tend to fly through the seasons incredibly fast, and then get annoyed with how slow the show moves when you only get 1 episode a week!
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krztov
08/15/09

@dazoid: considering that saturday/sundays were 12 hours or so per day, then i was on a work trip to dc during the week, watched episodes any spare time i got since the wife was back in boston, she watched them on abc.com as did i any spare time we had. was easy to do, may have been 8 or 9 days honestly, but thats at most, even then, its a feat in itself :)
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Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
08/15/09

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Yeah, I feel really bad for him for being in GI Joe. Now he's got that tremendous hardship of being able to leverage his role in a #1 summer hit (and no, I'm not equating ticket sales and box office rankings with overall quality, all of you who are looking for a quick and easy route to get your snarky retorts in) when negotiating salaries for future movie and TV gigs...
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GreyHammer
08/15/09

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i really feel bad for the guy his parents were ill and he had to leave probably the best acting job he has had to go to them. which i think most people would have done. it was a shame since his character was the only taily that i actually liked and found intrigueing.
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