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10/19/09
I think we need to cram a few more genres in there. #ironman2
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In Space!!! #ironman2
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How about making it a musical? #ironman2
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Can I buy tickets for the sequel now too? (yes that was a double tap)
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Nothing ruins a geek fantasy like a cold splash of reality. #ironman2
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It's just geek wish fulfillment and I get it, but it's funny next to analogies for Palestine. #ironman2
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tigh was a robot himself so i dont know if that fits.
and caville as well was a robot. and 8s were pretty damned easy on the show. sharon models were pretty much just giving it away. #ironman2
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You do know I love you, right?
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10/20/09
It's funny because you can imagine either saying that. #ironman2
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LAME. #ironman2
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Damn, they really aren't wasting any time with Lt. MacDaddy, are they. I wonder to whom he'll be doing his confessing? Poor Eli, perhaps??? Double Pisser!!!!
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While I've been enjoying the show, they spend too much time on the annoying characters. And there are a lot of annoying characters. Off the top of my head: Rausch, Greer, and Scott, the whiny Greek Chorus (the rest of the cast that doesn't qualify for names).
And they didn't explain where one of the (four? three functional?) shuttles went at the end of the last episode. Not even a "status update" to let us know that it was a plot thread they did intend to pick up on later. Nobody even noticed it was missing. #ironman2
10/19/09
The reason nobody noticed it was missing was because it is NOT a destiny shuttle.. re-watch episode 1-2 again and you'll see some outside shots of the senators shuttle. Besides, there are only two. the broken one with the senator and the functional one we saw in darkness.
gotta admit though, i was hoping it would be eli/chloe and not lt. scott/chloe... but from the darkness, i guess Elis going to be the good friend that's secretly fallen for chloe but doesn't want to say anything. #ironman2
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I do think the ship is flying to the sun for a reason other than killing everyone on board and destroying itself. I am hoping it is doing something to reharge the itself, I mean it did send them to sand planet to get the ingredients to scrub the filters. The ancients made a ship that is practically sentient, so it's possible the ship is going to get fuel for power and used the gas giant to slingshot itself closer to the sun and not the planets. #ironman2
10/19/09
The show seems to be doing its best to avoid most sci-fi televsion cliches, and if the show falls for such a basic plot contrivance, I'll probably tune out sooner rather than later for fear of what it'll become - a show digging itself out of the cliches. #ironman2
10/19/09
Does anyone remember the Who episode where that kind of refueling led to crew-members being infected by a lifeforce bent on killing everyone though? #ironman2
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There's something about the idea of a shipfull of people having "we're gonna die" sex, only to have the lights and power come back on that I find extremely funny. When this is happening on what would be episode 5, of what IMDb has listed as a 20 episode series, you know the situation can't be too dire... #ironman2
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@Allen_Richards: I married the girl that could kick my ass, so I know what you're talking about. #ironman2
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On another note it seems like they are trying too hard to make Eli funny. It's kind of annoying with the continued Planet of the Apes references. #ironman2
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btw, i do have to admit that i enjoyed it and the pace (despite most action taking place off screen) is quite relentless. now i only wish that they could somehow explain the finale... #ironman2
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i was like, oh cool, maybe theyll explain the second cut they made on starbuck, then they skipped to a next part, was like, guess not.
meh.
10/19/09
I watched the entire series, and if this was helpful or explained anything significant, then my Alzheimer's must be setting in early, and I've forgotten a lot of important details that would have made this something other than "Omigod. BSG just sucked another 2 hours of my life away on lunacy!"
I don't want to toss out any spoilers (I don't think this is officially out for another 8 days or so), but I was expecting a whole lot more "here are those answers that we didn't get to in the series" than I got.
That was your whole plan Ray? "get her?" #ironman2
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What about the Alien series? Who is the hero of those? Sigourney Weaver. The Alien movies (at least the first two) are effective because the heroes are portrayed as fully realized characters with wants needs, and desires. They are vulnerable human beings facing the challenges of the unknown not muscle bound supermen who know no fear.
As far as the Predator series is concerned, we've already seen the testosterone fueled action picture featuring macho throw downs. As fun as those first two movies were, I think it's about time we let loose some questing, thinking humans into the Predator universe and see what happens.
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For frak sake man! The second an interesting and thought provoking plot pops its head up in the third act, an alien shows up and starts to kill people! Whats better, a bunch of drawn out dialogue heavy scenes where they explain their histories and motivations, or laying an entire ecosystem to waste with a minigun? That movie is so manly if it were a smell it would be that smell your shirt has after you work out. It's that mantastic!
I do agree that more flushed out emotional characters are just as or even more entertaining than butch he men trouncing through the jungle, but the argument is that thats not what makes predator so endearing. People shaving with a dull razor without shaving cream, or bad one liners after you pin a guy to a pillar with a bowie knife are what this movie is all about. The sheer excess of it all is what gives this franchise its longevity.
10/07/09
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