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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    04:58 AM

    In reply to The Ghost Of Henchman #24 Reveals All About The Afterlife
    Heh, the hench-midgets got served in this episode. Can't wait to see the backstory behind that development.
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    Image of Davio Davio
    01:48 AM

    In reply to Your 5-Year-Old Knows More About Doctor Who Than Catherine Tate
    Kneel before Simm!
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    12/14/09

    In reply to Lucas Brings Back The Secret Apprentice, But How? Plus New Star Trek MMO Trailer
    Wow. That guy won't be getting nominated for best VO at the 2010 VGA's. I sure hope the rest of the VO cast for STO isn't as deeply hooped up on valium as that guy was.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    12/14/09

    In reply to Lucas Brings Back The Secret Apprentice, But How? Plus New Star Trek MMO Trailer
    What I don't understand is why the animation in the Clone Wars cartoon can't be this good, or the story be this... not cringe-inducing.

    Subjective, I guess, but this (and that last trailer, I guess for Force Unleashed I? I'm not a gamer) looks 100,000 times better than Clone Wars in all ways.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    12/14/09

    In reply to Your 5-Year-Old Knows More About Doctor Who Than Catherine Tate
    As a fan of both Doctor Who and the Buzzcocks, I'm basically speechless at this clip. I need to see this whole show.
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    Image of jbq jbq
    12/14/09

    @Lassus: And Vince Noir, even! This is pure win.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    12/14/09

    In reply to The Ghost Of Henchman #24 Reveals All About The Afterlife
    Or he could be crazy.

    Cigar?
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    Image of smirkette smirkette
    12/14/09

    In reply to Your 5-Year-Old Knows More About Doctor Who Than Catherine Tate
    Static electricity's a pain, isn't it?
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    12/14/09

    In reply to Your 5-Year-Old Knows More About Doctor Who Than Catherine Tate
    Now now don't make fun. I only got Cheerios were "cheery oh"s a few weeks ago.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/14/09

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck: Woah.

    My mind has been blown.
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    Image of ophmarketing ophmarketing
    12/14/09

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck: Ask me when I figured out that "Ice Capades" was a pun on the word "escapades."

    Yeah, about five years out of college.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment ophmarketing was starred ophmarketing was unstarred
    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    12/14/09

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck: I'm embarrassed to say that it took me forever to realize "Voila!" was not pronounced "Vee-oh-la!"

    Thank god nobody ever heard me say that out loud.
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    Image of Polymath Polymath
    12/14/09

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck: Wait...

    What?

    Really....
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    Julius Seizure - Canuck promoted this comment Polymath was starred Polymath was unstarred
    Image of starjade starjade
    12/14/09

    @Polymath: haha, i know right...haha
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    Julius Seizure - Canuck promoted this comment starjade was starred starjade was unstarred
    Image of Cal Hawks Cal Hawks
    12:51 AM

    @Bigdamnhero: Hmmm... since we're recounting embarrassing... I only got the pun of the Mayor in Nightmare Before Christmas being a two faced politician a few months ago... I proceeded to get someone to slap me hard...

    Anyway, awesome clips... I wish I could see that whole episode of buzzcocks.
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    Julius Seizure - Canuck promoted this comment Cal Hawks was starred Cal Hawks was unstarred
    Image of Davio Davio
    01:49 AM

    @Cal Hawks: Oh wow, I only just got that Mayor thing now. That is embarrassing...
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    01:52 AM

    @Polymath: Yup. I had a mild reading issue though school. The counselor said it was like, for me, there was the written word, the spelling of the word and the spoken word and they don't really wander around with each other in my head.

    Puns like that have always escaped me (much to the consternation of ad men I assume.)

    There used to be a candy when I was a kid - shaped like soda bottles called "Soda Licious"(sp?) I was 30-something before I said "Wait. 'So Delicious', D'oh!"

    It's one of the reasons why I read voraciously. It constantly reinforces the word to spelling connection.
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    01:54 AM

    @ophmarketing: I'll add that to my list - and I've been out of college a LOT longer than 5 years HA!
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    Image of dkissam dkissam
    01:58 AM

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck:
    Alien Nation|alienation didn't hit me until around 2003.
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    Dirk Anger promoted this comment dkissam was starred dkissam was unstarred
    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    02:58 AM

    @dkissam: Well, I had to see it written (right now) to get it so...
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    03:52 AM

    @dkissam: oh crap.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    04:15 AM

    @dkissam: that just hit me now
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    12/14/09

    In reply to Lucas Brings Back The Secret Apprentice, But How? Plus New Star Trek MMO Trailer
    See, one thing that has ALWAYS bugged me about Star Wars is the existence of the Light and Dark sides of the Force. It's like, sure, the Dark side is more seductive and easier to access, but really, I'd say that unless you're just a general asshole to begin with, if your intentions were pure, you could probably access it without any permanent addiction.
    Starkiller appears to have made the transition from angry Sith badnik to righteously pissed-off force of nature.

    Also, that thing made a Rancor squeal like a pig. In the words of Obi-Wan, "There's always a bigger fish..."
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    12/14/09

    @Smeagol92055: Pretty sure that Was Qui-Gon. . .
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    12/14/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: Just as long as it wasn't Jar Jar.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/14/09

    @Smeagol92055: Isn't that the opinion they formed for Kyle Katarn?
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    12/14/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Yea, I think that's how it ended up. I dunno which was the canon ending on those though. I was too busy being the Raccoon King.
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    Image of Imagism Imagism
    12/14/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: I thought that was a brilliant evolution of the theory behind the Force.
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    ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Imagism was starred Imagism was unstarred
    Image of maythetechbewithyou maythetechbewithyou
    12/14/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: It was PT so does it really matter?

    Not a fan of Force Unleashed and II looks even less appealing
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    ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment maythetechbewithyou was starred maythetechbewithyou was unstarred
    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    12/14/09

    @maythetechbewithyou: PT? Post-Tattuine? I don't know what you're talking about.
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    12/14/09

    In reply to Lucas Brings Back The Secret Apprentice, But How? Plus New Star Trek MMO Trailer
    Seeing as The Force Unleashed was a thousand times more interesting than most of the stuff to come out of the Star Wars milieu in the last ten years, yeah, let'm make a sequel.
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    Image of zark169 zark169
    12/14/09

    @Aidan_: Except that the explaination as to how he's still alive in one piece is probably going to be Pure Lucas BS (tm).
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    12/14/09

    @Aidan_: A thousand? Thousand? Not "twice"? Not "ten times"?

    :-)
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    12/14/09

    @Aidan_: I'd like to throw the Republic Commando hat into the ring. It would go into the 'Best Star Wars game no one ever played' category, though.

    That's the sequel I want to see. I mean, the first one had a cliffhanger ending, and now that the books are cancelled, we'll never know what happens to Sev.
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    Image of Westender Westender
    12/14/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: Couldn't agree with you more.
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    Aidan_ promoted this comment Westender was starred Westender was unstarred
    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    12/14/09

    @zark169: Don't care. Really, I don't. You give me a fun game with a fairly engaging setting and you can hand-wave to high holy hell.
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    12/14/09

    In reply to SGU Gets Another Season And Takes Responsibility For Sexism-Gate
    Maybe if the writers/producers step back from the characters and instead of trying to write "Lt Dumbass, sounds/acts like Colonel Competent", they just wrote people and assigned genders to them, they could figure out what they actually want versus what they actually need. Perhaps we'd get some more solid characters in general out of that.

    I in fact recommend this as a writing excessive -- just write a character without pre-assigning a gender to them and see whether they turn out to be male or female. The results can be freakish/cool.

    But back to the show, it's fine to have characters that have sexuality, but what's the point in forcing them to put it out there and let it all hang out when that isn't something they would be doing in a realistic situation? If SGU was realistic, somebody would have gotten raped by somebody by now. How's that for sexuality? Where are the abusive relationships, the psychotic mind-jobs and vindictive revenge-sex sessions? If we have to deal in extreme sexual situations, at least make it interesting. Don't just throw random naked people at us. It's crude.
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    Image of Cjay79 Cjay79
    12/14/09

    @firstanointed: You've got a point with the writing theory - CCH Pounder's character in The Shield was written from day one as male, and they continued that long after she was cast in order to make her a formidable presence within the testosterone hothouse that was The Barn.
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    Image of zark169 zark169
    12/14/09

    @firstanointed: And the done-to-death love triangle of "nerd loves slutty girl loves jock" really offends me. They seriously couldn't some up with a better angle?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment zark169 was starred zark169 was unstarred
    Image of IraeNicole IraeNicole
    12/14/09

    In reply to The Ghost Of Henchman #24 Reveals All About The Afterlife
    I, for one, will now switch my diet to fetuses and one year old infants! But then I am a lesbian and a feminist so I am pretty sure I am supposed to be eating those anyways.

    While it was a good episode and I liked the end, I didn't feel like much actually happened in the episode.
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    Image of phypidialown phypidialown
    12/14/09

    @IraeNicole: But does anything ever happen? This show is at the corner of Seinfeld and Awesome.
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    12:38 AM

    @IraeNicole: Baby food, baby shoes, baby suitcases. All from 100% free range organic babies... I'm pretty sure this post is going to get me in trouble some time in the future.
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    schrodingers-katana promoted this comment Jesse Astle was starred Jesse Astle was unstarred
    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    04:56 AM

    @Jesse Astle: If it does, I'll help you make a getaway to the border in my car. It runs on babies.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    12/14/09

    In reply to SGU Gets Another Season And Takes Responsibility For Sexism-Gate
    "There's been criticism about the female characters. Some of it seems to suggest that having characters who are at all sexual automatically makes a show sexist, that anything less than a neutered "Star Trek" ideal is somehow bad."

    Lot's of scifi shows deal with sex on a regular basis, but in an adult manner. What you do is portray women as gun toting blow up dolls, complete with lingering nipple-level POV shots and steamy shower voyeur clips. That wasn't sexual, you say? O RLY? So, where was Eli's magical scrub session? Uh huh, that's what I thought.

    "I don't think we over-use it; I directed the Kino episode."

    I don't think my sh*t stinks, and I should know, as I'm the one who just shat it.

    *rolls eyes* Whatever Cooper, keep blaming the fan base for your ineptitude.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/14/09

    @Cash907Censored: What you said.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    12/14/09

    In reply to See Caprica's Extended Pilot Online
    Can they really describe it as "extended," seeing how all the nudity has been cut out?
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    Image of Torley Torley
    12/14/09

    @Cash907Censored: The nudity thematically reminded me of Stargate SG-1, which had nudity in its debut on Showtime but didn't show so much flesh again in the years that ensued.

    V-CLUB! V-CLUB!
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    12/14/09

    In reply to Lucas Brings Back The Secret Apprentice, But How? Plus New Star Trek MMO Trailer
    Maybe this is a clone of Starkiller?
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