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Alessar
09/11/09

In reply to Welcome Back Bobby! Jim Beaver Talks Supernatural Season 5
"Dean and the angel Castiel go out drinking in an upcoming episode" Best harmless spoiler EVER. !_!
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Allen_Richards
09/10/09

In reply to Welcome Back Bobby! Jim Beaver Talks Supernatural Season 5
Man, once Bobby's eyes glazed over in tonight's episode I felt my heart sink and a pain in my gut like I'd just been kicked. My favorite character on my favorite show.

I really like the idea that Beaver's up for messing with his fans and stringing them along. The man puts the show first and knows that spoilers are aptly named.
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Lassus
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
I look forward to hearing this continue to be obsessed and complained about in io9's Singularity version in about 25 years.

OH WAIT NO I REALLY FRAKKING DON'T.
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alphanumeric1971
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
Is it just me or did he seem to be just a lil' bit tipsy?
(Oh, great. Now I have that stupid song in my head.)
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Anekanta - former space marine
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
I know that many people just HAVE to know exactly what things are and how they work... But I'm okay with not knowing. It would be nice to know, but I liked the rest of the story and can accept that it's a bit of a mystery. The secret to happiness with the BSG ending is agnosticism.
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twDarkflame
08/10/09

@Anekanta: Indeed, if you dont care about things making sense, or being well written, theres much to enjoy.
Like the music.
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Anekanta - former space marine
08/10/09

@twDarkflame: But they did make sense. They just didn't make literal sense. It was more metaphorical.
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CodenameV
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
BSG had the potential to be the next "Star Trek"; to be the best scifi series of al time, and in seasons 1 and 2 it looked like that
then many writers left the show, there were massive arguments with the network, and it became apparent that *there truly was no "Plan" for the series*
Season 4 salvaged what it could, and most of the nightmarish problems in season 3 were fixed, save for the central one: You never actually knew what the heck you were doing or where the heck you were going, and resorted to cheap thrills and shock value....i.e. "Lets make 4 characters Cylons based on its shock value rather than its logical sense!"
The hype...oh the hype....I mean the way they constantly CONSTANTLY drummed it into us that "You will know the Truth"...WHAT TRUTH WAS THAT?!
The writers didn't know any more about what was going on than we did.
It was a mistake to ever trust Jane Espenson.
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twDarkflame
08/10/09

@CodenameV: Given a *whole season* though, they could have corrected s3's random make-shit-up plot a lot better.
I mean come on, they made Kara into more of a mess, not less.
Even at the eppisode before last they were still calling her the "harbinjer of death"
But no...exactly like s3 they continued with the unplanned shock-value rubbish.
("And then she finds her own body!!!!")
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okeribok
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
Mystify? Belabor? Are you sure you don't mean "piss off" and "piss off some more"? Plus: zero information/entertainment article.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
He was an angel: my angel.
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tande04
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
I always thought that it was clear that at least the six was an "angel". So to me it makes sense that the Baltar flip was too.
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PendensProditor
08/10/09

In reply to Was Head-Baltar Really An Angel? We Asked James Callis
If you asked the writers I bet they wouldn't know either. I got that sense a lot during seasons three and four.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
08/10/09

@PendensProditor: Too true. Didn't Ron Moore admit that he didn't know what the scenes of Lee chasing the pigeon represented - he just thought they looked pretty. To sum up the whole thing in two words: lazy writing.
On a side note, when Callis isn't being skeezey, skanky Baltar, he's a very attractive man.
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Roklimber
08/08/09

In reply to The Stars of Eureka Talk Nerdy To io9
I just watched yesterday's episode. It was fantastic! (well, with the exception of Fargo's car side story, which was a bit boring)
I'm really impressed so far by the writing in this season.
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Chocolate-Wafer
08/07/09

In reply to The Stars of Eureka Talk Nerdy To io9
How have I never noticed that Grayston/Fargo was adorable??
OH. That's right. They always put glasses on him.
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evildead1971
08/07/09

In reply to The Stars of Eureka Talk Nerdy To io9
lupo is a robot?! why havent they mass produced her yet?
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Roklimber
08/07/09

@evildead1971: Excellent question. I'd be willing to shell out a little fortune to have one of her.
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finite_elephant
08/07/09

@evildead1971: And how does she have DNA if she's a robot? Unless she's a terminator-style robot.
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Roklimber
08/07/09

@finite_elephant: Eureka robots aren't mechanical. Take Andy, for example. He was made of some kind of polycarbonate. Maybe whatever Eureka robots are made of, it also fakes DNA.
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Mike Noble
08/07/09

@evildead1971:
My credit card is just waiting for the day...
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Woodsie
08/07/09

@Roklimber: They're in freakin' EUREKA. They can do pretty much what they want, right?
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evildead1971
08/07/09

@evildead1971: it's like sexbot friday with all of io9's article
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Roklimber
08/07/09

@Now With More Bob!: Precisely!
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KryptonZero
08/06/09

In reply to Lying Liars And The "Captain Planet" Movie Hoax
OMG talk about making up a fake cast and photochoping an image made me want to look up who the voice actors where:
[www.imdb.com]
Let's See we have:
LeVar Burton
Whoopi Goldberg
Ed Asner
James Coburn
Meg Ryan
John Ratzenberger (Cliff!)
Martin Sheen
Tim Curry
Dean Stockwell
Jeff Goldblum
Sting
David Rappaport
Louis Gosset Jr
Helen Hunt
And many more....
If we cant get the original cast back to play the characters, at least we could make a great "End of the World" B-Movie to show on NBC.
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KryptonZero
08/06/09

OK I've come up with 3 possible Castings for this movie and will do my best to Photo-Chop these up in my spare time.

Here are the casts I came up with, castings are in the following order:

Wheeler:Fire, Linka:Wind, Kwame:Earth, Gi:Water, Ma-Ti:Heart, Captain Planet

Cast 1 Teenagers: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Elijah Kelly, Ah-sung Ko, Selena Gomez, Dwayne Johnson

Cast 2 Early 20s: Shia Labeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Bryton Eric McClure, Yifei Liu, Romina Espinosa, CGI-Brad Pitt

Cast 3 Late 20s: Jensen Ackles, Mélanie Thierry, Jimmy Akingbola, Jamie Chung, America Ferrera, Wesley Snipes
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LiC
08/07/09

@KryptonZero: Wesley Snipes? Seriously? He looked about 30 something in Blade.
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KryptonZero
08/09/09

@LiC: The idea is that everyone got a lot older since the cartoon, so yeah that means captain planet too.
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LittleDragon
08/05/09

In reply to Lying Liars And The "Captain Planet" Movie Hoax
I did not know about this rumor, but am sad it is nothing but a rumor. I loved Captain Planet. Used to wake up at 4am (or stay up) just to watch it. I would be very curious to see how they would do captain planet.
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