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    10:56 AM

    In reply to Belated Comics Offer Superhero Overload And Sneaks At Movies
    Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love continues this week, for more of the world's greatest spy.
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    09:43 AM

    In reply to Belated Comics Offer Superhero Overload And Sneaks At Movies
    The Iron Patriot vs Dr. Doom art gives be chills. I'm that much of a nerd.
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    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    I just realized you aren't promoting Titan Maximum! It airs before The Venture Brothers and is a spoof of the Voltron series by the Robot Chicken team. It's set on Titan's moon and they travel across the solar system fighting one of their former team members gone supervillian.

    I agree with Thursday night, 30 Rock is always the first show I watch. Kenneth is just too cute!

    Go Team Venture! #house
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    I'm 60% sure they'll explain it, and maybe is an excersize in futility even asking this but....

    Wasn't Peter Petrelly on NY and Matt on Texas when he got shot? Why are both in the same hospital? #house
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    11/16/09

    @Falsoman: Forget it, Jake... it's Chinato-- err, Heroes.
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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    It would be hard to find a better statement of how tough things are at NBC than Heroes running during sweeps...
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    11/16/09

    @Chuck: I'm honestly suprised they didn't go with a second hour of Jay. #house
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    11/17/09

    @AmishJohn: Can anyone please explain to me how filling precious primetime space with that big chinned weirdo's face is a good move for the network? #house
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    11/17/09

    @JimBonJovi: Sheeple like the bulldog. #house
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    Okay, I admit that "The Vampire Diaries" is my guilty pleasure for this fall season. And while it is full of angsty teen melodrama (Kevin Williamson after all) I don't find nearly as insipid as "Twilight." At least in this show the vampires, you know, actually kill people or change them into other vampires.

    And every time I see the name of that SyFy "Fire and Ice" movie, I'm reminded of how sad it is that we don't have a movie/series based on G.R.R. Martin's awesome epic. At least the first three books anyway. #house
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    11/16/09

    @EdificeComplex: HBO is at work on a movie of "A Game of Thrones".
    [www.imdb.com]
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    11/16/09

    @Mathmos: @RizzRustbolt: You just made my day! With Mark Addy as the King, it should be interesting. Although I didn't see anyone listed as Bran on IMDB. Hopefully that doesn't mean they've cut out his character. #house
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    Hey, let's spend a significant portion of our show set in an unexplored region of the infinite void back home dealing with family drama! #house
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    It's been said before and will be said again, but please put me in the all-caps House-is-not-sci-fi camp.

    Although, if they marketed it as such, that would be awesome, because then it would be canceled. #house
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    11/16/09

    @Lassus: I think it's to show you have an alternative program to the travesty that is Heroes for those who can't read/understand T.V. Guide listings. #house
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    Graeme, you left out Merlin on Saturday. It's a surprisingly entertaining show for those who like magic, fantasy, dragons, kings, and such. #house
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement For The Dark Side?
    I don't watch CGI sci-fi cartoons to watch the main characters work out their feelings or develop relationships. No, I watch CGI sci-fi cartoons to see big battles and explosions. That's what The Clone Wars is giving us this season. Last season was all talk and I almost didn't watch this season. Ask any Cartoon Network addict below the age of 10 what they thought of episode 4 "Senate Spy" and they won't even remember watching it. Ask them about the Super Tanks in the last episode and they will give you an ear full.
    Hooray for violence! #starwarstheclonewars
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    Thats some good news right there. But has anybody seen or mentioned the new Clash of the Titans film!!! Im not sure if io9 has run a feature and ive missed it like an idiot. Or everyone is avoiding the innevitable backlash! Personally I think it looks great, even if it has overtones of 300!!!
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    Edited by CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) at 11/16/09 9:22 AM CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was starred CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was unstarred
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    11/16/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I saw the teasers at least 3 times , I heard the budget is around 70 million ,liam neeson as zeus and ralph fienes as hades . march ,2010 .

    looks great . #house
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/16/09

    @disatess: Hell yes it looks great! Whay-hey #house
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    11/16/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): And Sam Worthington? Looks good, I havent even heard about it.. That music was a poor choice but the movie looks good. #house
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    11/16/09

    @burlybax: It was a song by 'The Used'. Not sure which one but I thought it went well. But I suppose thats all about music tastes. At least we all think it looks cool!!! #house
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    11/16/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I love the Used, I didn't catch that it was one of their songs.. I like epic music for movies like that, but yeah doesn't really matter becauseit looks awesome.. #house
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    11/16/09

    @burlybax: they picked the music just to get your blood pumping . #house
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    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) promoted this comment disatess was starred disatess was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/16/09

    @disatess: Of course. They know what they're doing!!! #house
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    Image of RizzRustbolt RizzRustbolt
    11/16/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): No Bubo?

    Pass. #house
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/16/09

    @RizzRustbolt: oh well. Your loss!! #house
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    Image of RizzRustbolt RizzRustbolt
    11/16/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Bubo was the best part of the last one!

    Or at least, the best actor. #house
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    This is why it is important to have a strong collection of DVDs #house
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/16/09

    In reply to Dragon Movies, Alien Marathons And Dying Pornstars Oh My!
    turns out the first 2 hours of the prisoner will air on AMC from 6 to 8 PM tonight followed by the new episodes. fortuantly they're running the same gag on tuesday so anyone who wants to watch house at 8, like me, can just watch 4 hours of the prisoner tomorrow night instead. i think i still might record it either way since, in my opinion, the only annoying thing about the show is the constant and repedative commercal interuptions. #house
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    11/15/09

    In reply to Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement For The Dark Side?
    The one thing left out of this conversation is the slow creep (pardon the pun) of Palpatine towards his end game. My guess (and this will stand forever here) is that he will show his hand as the series progresses and will "decide" that the Padawan (whom he interestingly excludes from his briefings with Anakin) could create an extra complication. He kills her off with a new villain and Anakin will summarily execute the villain. A tidy set-up for three characters to RotS. #starwarstheclonewars
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    11/15/09

    @HyMinded: The fact that both sides are being played against each other completely undermines any drama there could be in each engagement for me.

    The actual drama is happening in Palpatine's head, but we never get to see that. Just a bunch of battles that ultimately will not lead to victory for either side. The actual bad guys are nowhere to be seen.
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    Image of HyMinded HyMinded
    11/16/09

    @cylon_conspiracy: That's part of what makes the series intriguing to me: the onion skin (borrowing from mystery novels) of conflicts that the Big Bad throws at everybody. The war is a series of bad decisions with good people and bad people doing what they would normally be doing, except that they are doing it for somebody who's in the end going to betray them both. Having him sit in the background reinforces the idea that while you may think you are the master of your own fate, you really aren't. Then again, I'm a fan of Michael Moorcock's "Elric" series, so YMMV. #starwarstheclonewars
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    11/16/09

    @HyMinded: I suppose so... seems to me the Republic are actually the bad guys, the separatists the good guys... at least the separatists believe in being independent of a large, oppressive government. And no matter which side wins or loses a skirmish, there is not even a moral victory: each side literally does not exist in the form they think they do.

    I see your perspective. I suppose all of it seems a little anti-climactic because we all know what happens.

    That, and I can't emotionally invest in battle droids. I really don't care if a zillion of them get blown away. I think Lucas made a bit of a miscalculation when he made the enemy army, droids. There's no payoff when one gets blown away. So what?

    I'm just over the prequels. I've been obsessing over that era since the very first image of the bus on Coruscant from TPM was revealed online.... just overkill. It's been ten freaking years. The OT only lasted six years.

    I'll watch the series though. I think the newest episodes have been good because it's a little darker and it's more about character than just explosions and battles, which is actually my least favorite part of SW.
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    Edited by cylon_conspiracy at 11/16/09 4:49 PM cylon_conspiracy was starred cylon_conspiracy was unstarred
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    11/16/09

    @cylon_conspiracy: The Droids, to me, are a sort of MacGuffin or like the ninjas you see in the old DD comic books. Disposable bad guys that just make Anakin & Co look like bad-asses. It also brings to light why droids are held in such low esteem during Empire Era--they were instruments of destruction and people loathed them for it.

    The Clone Wars series did touch on something that Lucas just waved his hand over in the films (not surprising since he had 6 hours in the prequels)--the essential enslavement of the Clone Troopers. Anakin and Ahsoka are making quips while dozens die horribly around them. I'm sure the series won't mention this much beyond that--since RotS just ignores that truly alien aspect of the SW universe. I just have this strange vision of a Sepoy style revolt afterward where the Emperor just decides that his troops may start to evolve to a point where they may start to question their orders.

    I agree that Lucas did not deliver what people thought he would. I'm also past the prequels--because I actually find myself liking the baroque world he presented more than the actual story. I admire the world-building--the story not so much---but there are questions with precious few answers here. The series does do something that Lucas couldn't do--give us CGI actors with lines that don't make me cringe with awful dialogue. #starwarstheclonewars
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    11/16/09

    @HyMinded: I agree that the world-building is cool, and that's part of why I watch, and also basically to just see faint traces of designs and characters from the OT. Like some screen-capture I saw of Obi-Wan on a snow planet wearing similar gear they wore on Hoth. That's really why I watch (though to be fair, I've only seen a handful of season 1 episodes.)

    And I also think the acting (in a freaking cartoon) is actually better than the movies. You can actually believe that Anakin and Padme had a real relationship.

    Besides the battle droids, the thing that bothers me about the era, and the show, is that color palette is always BROWN, or reddish brown. The ships, planets like Geonosis, the color of the droids, everything is tan or brown. Yuck. But I'm sticking with season 2, if it's going to be more grown-up I'll keep watching.

    Oh well, enough complaining. If the live action series ever actually sees light of day, maybe my desires will be met there. Until then, I have Legacy.
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    11/16/09

    @cylon_conspiracy: Good chatting with you. :-) #starwarstheclonewars
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    11/15/09

    In reply to Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement For The Dark Side?
    What struck me about this is how tenuous the relationship between Anakin and Ahsoka has gotten. In the first Ryloth episode, Anakin basically turns the reins of a major operation over to her without hardly any direction, basically saying "I trust you" with a nod and a wink and goes off expecting her to save him after he kamikazes that cruiser. In THIS episode, he won't even let her finish a briefing, and then they stand around yelling at each other a LOT. (It's an inconsistency, but I have to think that it's intentional and not just writers forgetting what they wrote before.) Contrast that to Luminara and Barriss; it's really kind of fascinating.

    I love the character of Ahsoka. I think they've come up with a rather awesome warrior (it's like, what happens when a natural predator evolves into a skilled combatant with supernatural powers? This.) and the writers and animators have put some real flourish into her; watch how she fights, it's all creeping and lunging and pouncing. I almost expect to see her with fangs. But I also know that she doesn't make it into ROTS, and more than anything, that's the big question of Clone Wars. Not how Anakin progresses, but what happens to her. #starwarstheclonewars
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