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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    09/08/09

    In reply to Marvel Wants To Show You Spidey's Calling
    Id rather they got around to expanded support for devices for their digital comic book archive.
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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Bomb Jack
    09/08/09

    In reply to Marvel Wants To Show You Spidey's Calling
    X-Men (90s)! I'd set that ringtone to my boss, so the bad of him calling would be offset by the good of that theme song.
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    OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling promoted this comment Mighty Bomb Jack was starred Mighty Bomb Jack was unstarred
    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/08/09

    @Mighty Bomb Jack: When I am old and Alzheimers ridden--barely able to remember my own name--my children will wonder come to visit me in a nursing home.

    "Hows he doing" they'll ask the nurses. "Hes fine." they'll respond. "But he keeps on humming this strange tune no one can identify."

    "We've asked him about it, but he never gives a clear answer. All he ever says is..."

    "...this ones for you Morph!"
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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Bomb Jack
    09/08/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: The difference between us, my good man, is that I will make sure that this tune is unmistakable to my children's children's children.

    But,

    "...this one's for you, Morph!" indeed.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    05/09/09

    In reply to Robots To Hop Into US Military In 2010
    [www.gamersyde.com]


    Skip to six minutes in. Yeah. We're gonna have that by 2014. Hideo Kojima never lies.

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/09/09

    @meirelle wants an F-15:


    They'd probably start with human sized ones first.

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    05/10/09

    @corpore-metal, has sympathy for Skynet: what if they already have human-sized ones?
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    05/09/09

    In reply to Robots To Hop Into US Military In 2010
    METAL GEAR!?
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    05/09/09

    In reply to Robots To Hop Into US Military In 2010
    Boston Dynamics... hmm... sounds like Massive Dynamic, and it's in Boston. I smell Fringe.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/09/09

    @Roklimber: My thought exactly. We know they do amazing artificial hands already.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    05/09/09

    In reply to Robots To Hop Into US Military In 2010
    Guns. Awesome.


    "Remember hopping for our lives? Do you remember? All that hopping? Yeah? Hopping for our lives? No?"

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    Image of Plague Plague
    04/12/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    I am satisfied.

    It is quite nice to have a show (most likely) end this coherently, yet with lots of surprises.

    And yes, I'm saying this looking at you, BGS.
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    Image of fraying fraying
    04/12/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    Just watch this again and realized something: Sarah Connor did what any divorced mom would do with her son when she couldn't protect him anymore: She sent him off to live with his dad.
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    Image of SankulBabalindo SankulBabalindo
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    Wait. John Connor has been protected all this time to lead a resistance against Skynet. How is the resistance existent or at least going off strong if the uprising of it was supposed to be fueled by John Connor? How can John skip over x years and find a fully functional resistance? Does it even need him anymore?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    04/12/09

    @SankulBabalindo: The resistance could definitely exist without John Connor. It just might not win without him.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    "That sequence where Cameron cuts herself open and gets John to inspect her insides seems like she was testing her readiness for the jail and ZeiraCorp. missions. But maybe it was something else?"


    I'm pretty sure it was just a quick bit of "what can we do include Glau nuding up". She had John put his hand in below her ribcage and reach up inside. WTF logical reason would there be for her to take off her bra first? Shirt? Yeah, fine, whatever, but the only reason I can see to go further was to get all the Glau fanboys drooling.

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    Image of Laughtrey Laughtrey
    04/12/09

    @Purple Dave: Yeah, maybe it's that simple. Or Maybe they were talking about it earlier and Cameron has been known to be damaged, the thought crossed his mind that maybe she was leaking radiation and giving his mom cancer. She said she was fine, but she's lied before and they both knew it, to prove that she could be trusted when it came down to it she showed him that she wasn't lying.


    It's really more symbolic also, she let him reach inside and put his hand on her heart. That's pretty much ultimate trust.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/12/09

    @Laughtrey:
    Congratulations on totally missing the point of my post. The whole "check for damage" bit makes sense. The whole "take the bra off to check for damage through the belly, which is not immediately adjacent to anything the bra covered" bit was clearly just thrown in there for the Glau-fappers.
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    Image of Iamtehawesome Iamtehawesome
    04/12/09

    @Purple Dave: I think she had him cut beneath chest, not her belly.


    If that was the case, then a bra would possibly get in the way.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/13/09

    @Iamtehawesome:
    No, she had said something about reaching up underneath the ribs, so it would have to be a belly entry. In retrospect, I suppose it could have been worse. I'm sure if they thought they could have snuck it past the Fox censors, they would have had her fully nude up and cross her ankles behind her neck before handing the knife to John.
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    Image of aspiringexpatriate aspiringexpatriate
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    I would love if the show just stopped with the modern day. There are about 900 ways to play it, but for our purposes Sarah Conner is gone. Maybe Dyson is leading the resistance, and he recognizes John and hates him for not being there when they all needed him. Dyson was 'saved' by Sarah and Ellison 'twelve years ago' or something. Or John just starts saving the day in the future, and earns himself a place as a leader quickly. Also he could gain experience fighting them here, and be the first to be sent back, thus setting up his timeline again, with him maybe just a little older.


    Who knows? There was that 'flashback' of the future that showed John Conner in silhouette about twelve episodes back, and he was the same height as John is now, hinting that he was maybe a year older, and not twelve years older.


    They basically have all the possibilities in the world to do whatever they want, including sticking with Sarah Conner and ditching John in the future, but it looks like they'd rather stick with John and leave Sarah alone.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    I thought the ending was amazing. I realized after the show was over that I had been gripping the sofa cushions really really hard. My fingers hurt!


    It was incredibly interesting that Josh Friedman and the gang to turn the ending into another alternate future. Loved it. Spooky and cool. I was also gratified to discover that there is a Terminator resistance to Skynet, and that Catherine is a foil to Sarah. "Watch who you call bitch" - great scene. I agree that Catherine was clearly the liquid metal Terminator on the submarine, and the scene with the eel merging into her body sort of confirmed that by visual reference (since she swooshed eel-like out of the submarine in the future).


    The sexual tension scene with John feeling up Cameron's breastplate? Whoa. Seriously intense. Someday she may become John's greatest enemy.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    @Annalee Newitz:


    "Someday she may become John's greatest enemy."


    Wow. That's an interesting comment. Care to elaborate?

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    Image of ninjajazza ninjajazza
    04/11/09

    @twophrasebark: they'll get married?
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    04/11/09

    @ninjajazza: ZING
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    @ninjajazza: LOL.


    JOHN: Hey, honey, it's been a week since, ya know.


    CAMERON: My shielded nuclear generator has a headache.


    JOHN: Oh, c'mon!

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    Image of ElimGarak ElimGarak
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    The more I think of it, the more messy the ending seems to be. We had that whole cutting open scene, the priest, the agent who claimed to believe in things, the T1000 who claimed to be lost without the daughter, the pointless and weird attack (just fly a drone into the building - that's their plan?), the extra piece of T1000 that joined with it, trip to the future for some strange reason, that comment that John Connor is about to become famous for taking the coat, etc.


    Too many threads flapping loose in there.

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    Image of Cruds Cruds
    04/11/09

    @ElimGarak: What extra piece of the T1000? Do you mean the eel that felt out the aquarium?


    Apparently a lot of people didn't get that it was the fish.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    @Cruds: Yeah, but why did she have a piece of her metal goo as an eel?


    And does that mean that T-1001 can separate itself into two or more terminators?

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    Image of Bender Bender
    04/11/09

    @twophrasebark:


    Because the T1000's have to take the shape of something of equal volume. The original Weaver was smaller than the T1000 so it had to store part of its bulk elsewhere to maintain Weaver's size.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/13/09

    @Bender:


    Cool info. Thanks.

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    twophrasebark was starred twophrasebark was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    Hey Charlie Jane: If the series doesn't get renewed, maybe you can ask Josh Friedman where they might have gone next season...
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    twophrasebark was starred twophrasebark was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    In reply to Summer Glau Plays With Knives. A Lot.
    Questions:


    - Why did John Henry jump to the future?


    - Why did Sarah stay behind?


    - What was that final bolt of time travel lightening at the end? Did someone else or Sarah decide to follow?

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