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    Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date

    Father Teaches his Son Klingon as a First Language

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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    star trek quote makes sense.more intelligence less popcorn fodder
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    Something tells me AltWalt will be quite sane and quite scary.

    Also he'll hate to be called AltWalt. And he can probably read this somehow so I'd better stop tyf=y3ht0y8op;/////////////////////////////////
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11/20/09

    @allium: I would also imagine he's gonna be pretty pissed about his kid being taken to the other side, and if he's sane Walter then there is no telling what kind of even crazier shit he could come up with.
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    Image of WLDaywalker WLDaywalker
    11/20/09

    @Makidian: Something tells me that Alt-Walt might be instrumental in the Alt-U's war against Our-U, motivated by the theft of his son. Something along the lines of "You stole my son, now I'm going to destroy your universe."
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    Image of allium allium
    11/20/09

    @allium: I should probably replace "sane" with "functional"
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11/21/09

    @allium: Sane and completely functional vs. insane and moderately functional, two Walts will decide the fate of two universes...
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    As if Marvel actually cares about Fahir returning to the Iron Man sequel. They replaced an actor for a core character, they can easily replace a minor character, who's undoubtedly a henchman.
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    Am I the only one exited about the Game of Thrones HBO series? I ask because I don't see much news for it outside of George R.R. Martin fan sites. Maybe it's outside the more sci-fi oriented scope of io9.com.

    Anyway, they finished up photography in Scotland and Morocco for the pilot yesterday, and everything I'm hearing makes it sound like it was a very positive shoot. That said, it could be as late as March (though it'll likely be sooner) before we hear whether or not HBO is ordering more episodes.

    *Fingers crossed*
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    Image of Harlot Harlot
    11/20/09

    @atrus123: No, I'm totally looking forward to it. To be honest, I never read the books for some reason, but when I first heard about the series, I was instantly intrigued. Hope HBO doesn't screw it up...(Sorry, I'm still bitter about Deadwood & Rome.)
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    Chuck promoted this comment Harlot was starred Harlot was unstarred
    Image of Chuck Chuck
    11/20/09

    @Harlot: ...and Carnivalle, and John from Cincinnati...

    Okay, maybe not that last one...
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    Image of fhbals fhbals
    11/20/09

    @atrus123: I'd be a lot more excited about the HBO series if GRRM finished the *book* series (and if he stopped his constant blogging about the HBO series)
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/20/09

    @atrus123: I found out about THE GAME OF THRONES after I started watching episodes of NEW AMSTERDAM at Hulu. I never saw the show on TV, and liked the first 3-4 episodes that I watched. I liked Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @atrus123: I've been vibrating with excitement about it since the beginning. If HBO doesn't pick it up, I shall perish, I tell you. Perish!

    Still and all, I'd rather have the next book in my hands.
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    11/20/09

    @Harlot: Pick them up. You won't be sorry.
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    Michael Emerson is awesome. Great actor and a very humble guy.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    Hmm, John Noble is a Kiwi. For some reason I thought he was a Brit. And Anna Torv is...what exactly is that accent? I hear a bit of the down under but it sounds like a mishmash...
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    11/20/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: Yep, Torv's of Aussie extraction.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    jj should think about bringing star trek to tv with the movie cast
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/20/09

    @evildead1971: not enough money in tv for it, I would think. But that would be cool. We would get a chance to see more of the other characters.
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    Three hours of "Chuck" in one week? Oh, momma! Bring it on!

    I'm trusting the writers to keep Chuck (the character) likable and relatable even though the Intersect has the potential to make him an action hero god.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: I'm a little concerned with all the "new romantic interest" action that's supposed to be happening, but like you I'm going to trust in the writers.

    Plus I'll watch pretty much anything with Adam Baldwin and Zachary Levi.
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    11/20/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Hear, hear. Everything Adam Baldwin does is art.
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/20/09

    @ProfessorSara: I was laughing all throughout the Chuck clip. It kinda reminded me of the first season (not knocking the second season, of course).
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    I'm hoping Mandarin will show up. Maybe IM can break the curse and part 3 won't suck (or part 2, goofy-looking Mickey or not).
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/20/09

    In reply to Does Iron Man 3 Already Have Its Villain? Thor's Asgard Gets a New Defender, and Lost Gets A Premiere Date
    I'm a doctor dammit, not a Jiminy Cricket.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/19/09

    In reply to Star Trek 2's Khan Could Be Way Different Than You Expect. Plus New Avatar And Daybreakers Posters!
    The news of Khan maybe in the 2nd new Trek makes me want to vomit.Whatever happened to Trek having no remakes/alternate remakes and to the Trek that made social comments.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/19/09

    In reply to Father Teaches his Son Klingon as a First Language
    To my knowledge, this is the first attempt to experimentally verify the Sapir-Worf Hypothesis .

    All puns intended.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    11/19/09

    @Chip Overclock: Marry me.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/19/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Alas, I've enjoyed the last twenty-five years of wedded bliss to Mrs. Overclock (a.k.a. Dr. Overclock, Medicine Woman).

    But I know exactly how you feel. :-)
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/19/09

    In reply to Star Trek 2's Khan Could Be Way Different Than You Expect. Plus New Avatar And Daybreakers Posters!
    Except in the alternate universe, Khan was already rescued and owns a salon in Queens called "Botany Bay Hair Stylings."

    "Yeah, I thought maybe I'd like to be a dictator again but I got into counseling and realized I was very angry, ya know?" said the former leader of millions.

    "Then I told Joachim my feelings for him and we opened this store. It's just lucky we're still not out there in space. Who knows what could have happened?"
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    11/19/09

    In reply to Father Teaches his Son Klingon as a First Language
    Klingon is not a useless language. What is athe hubbub about teaching a child Klingon since day one?

    As if his son's life had been negatively impacted because Klingon was his first language. Please... and you've currently got a mom on national news who may have sold her 5 year old into prostitution. That's more disconcerting.
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    Image of amy.a.sisson amy.a.sisson
    11/19/09

    @CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): Just because one parent abused a child in a worse way (the prosititution) doesn't mean this man is not utterly wrong for doing this. The first three years are the most important time for language acquisition. Assuming this is true, now this child will be significantly behind his peers in developing the language he will need for school, work, and social interaction in general. Consider how little vocab Klingon has in relation to English. The father has deliberately put his son at a disadvantage on nothing more than a personal whim. (I'm a huge Trek fan, so this is not a matter of making fun of the Trekkies.)
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    Image of 1Grand_Marquis 1Grand_Marquis
    11/19/09

    @amy.a.sisson: Eh. My mom was spoken to in Italian for the first few years of her life, because my grandparents were immigrants. Didn't actually affect her much. She was bilingual in elementary school, less so as time went on, and now she can't even speak the language.

    So whenever someone brings up childhood language learning as somehow special, I call BS.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/19/09

    @amy.a.sisson: What does one have to do with the other?

    You know how many words I knew for shoe I knew when I was two years old? One. This kid knew two and knew when to switch between one and the other. Sounds like a huge freaking advantage for developing further language skills later in life to me.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    11/19/09

    @amy.a.sisson: What? I don't get this. I have two friends who were born in Germany, and moved to the states at 2 & 6. (Well, one went Japan then the U.S.) Both speak perfect English, and have a very good grasp of German. I see no disadvantage.

    My fiancée is also a native French speaker, and since were getting married in Switzerland, I imagine our children will have a few years of nothing but French before we return to the states. I may try to slip some English in, but even if I didn't, I would call this an advantage and not a disadvantage.

    Calling this abuse is like crying wolf.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/19/09

    In reply to Is Nestor Carbonell Bringing His Guylinered Stare To Star Trek's Khan?
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