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Real-Life Plague May Delay The Second Season Of BBC's Survivors
Which Major Franchise Is Getting A Lesbian Leading Character?
New Watchmen Trailer, Dragonball Stills, Dollhouse Finally Makes Sense
Major Hints For Flash Forward, Transformers, Stargate And Doctor Who
Will Arnie Be In Terminator 4?
J.J. Abrams' Trek Confessions, Summer Glau's Terminator Warnings
More Watchmen Ending Details, And A Telltale Transformers Toy Pic
Survivors On Ecstasy!
Could The Survivors Cure Your Doctor Who Withdrawal?
The Human Race Drops Dead, But At Least We're Still Pretty

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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
05/12/09

In reply to Real-Life Plague May Delay The Second Season Of BBC's Survivors
Are the BBC execs watching American news or something?

Or are they using this as an excuse not to do another batch of episodes, covering for some other reason?
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Evdor
05/12/09

In reply to Real-Life Plague May Delay The Second Season Of BBC's Survivors
Oh please. H1N1, AKA the swine flu is a flu. It's not the worst fears of an Ebola-like virus devastating our population, it's a damned flu. It will claim some lives, just like any new strain of flu would, but the world will emerge alright and we probably will not lament the 'winter of 2009' as the night humanity got cut in half by a ravaged flu as some epic disaster.

I'd expect this sort of ridiculous over-reaction from American Network execs, but I credited the BBC with a little more common sense. I guess it's a relief that they're as silly as ours!
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RodericaCotys
05/12/09

Ya because the Spanish Flu wasn't devastating at all.

Note I'm not saying that the Swine Flu is going to have the same impact as the Spanish Flu (though they are both H1N1 viruses which is where the concern comes from), I'm just refuting your claim that Swine Flu is just like any other common flu which it is not.
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Theoutlet
05/12/09

@RodericaCotys: Yeah, but the differences are irrelevant, because in the end it's just going to end up like any other flu.

The only thing that was scary about this flu was the unknown.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
04/16/09

In reply to Which Major Franchise Is Getting A Lesbian Leading Character?
I was hoping it would be Astrid on Fringe, but I don't think that's considered a MAJOR franchise...

A girl can dream right?

oh yeah - the REAL Astrid (Jasika Nicole) IS a lesbian.

never mind.

commence. awesome. overload.
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IraeNicole
04/16/09

In reply to Which Major Franchise Is Getting A Lesbian Leading Character?
Hooray lesbians! Well that increased my likelyhood of watching the show. Hope they handle it well.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/16/09

@IraeNicole: She's a lesbian, but her girlfriend's back on Earth. So she's just a woman who isn't gettin' any.
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Mav
04/16/09

In reply to Which Major Franchise Is Getting A Lesbian Leading Character?
I like that Camille will (could?) be gay. It's nice to have more than just the heteronormative represented.

Still. I want to see hot guys together. Malozzi and co? Get on this.
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Blazeldude
04/16/09

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Wait so theres 2 more deaths coming on LOST? Is Juliet Major enough?
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Arceus
04/16/09

@Blazeldude: Fingers crossed!
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/16/09

@Arceus: Me too!

Keep hate alive!

(Kate can die too, whatevs. Just as long as Juliet bites it.)
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Weirdsmobile
12/12/08

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[Disparaging remark about Heroes]
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tetracycloide
12/12/08

@Weirdsmobile: [Pop culture reference to some humorous fact that confirms the disparaging remark while building artificial camaraderie between two posters who will more than likely never share any real world interactions]
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AmishJohn
12/12/08

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The 'cover' on the first Heroes clip:

'Oh, crap. I'm pregnant. I hope it's not Sylar's...'
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ultra_balexbot
12/12/08

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True Blood:

"Bill and Sookie also go to Dallas to find one of their own who has gone missing."

what does that mean, "one of their own?" did he just spoil Sookie getting turned?
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Alexis
12/12/08

@ultra_balexbot:

Um, it's not Sookie. If they stay close to the book (which it looks like they're doing) that is.
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Aethelred
12/12/08

In reply to New Watchmen Trailer, Dragonball Stills, Dollhouse Finally Makes Sense
Wow, each trailer for Watchmen looks better than the last. I cannot wait.
About Dollhouse though ... WTF is he thinking? Another pointless, empty-headed show about empty-headed people. Great. I mean, I know the writers are just all frothy about working on a show with that few character rules (JW to Writer's Pool: See, she can be ANYBODY!!! Who's in??!!) But why should we be asked to invest even the least attention/emotion in a fleshdoll with no personality other than what some four-eyed dork and his buddies think would be "cool" next week?
Pass.
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braak
12/12/08

@Aethelred: I kind of liked it better when I thought it was going to be more like a Philip K. Dick novel.

Also: am not satisfied that Eliza Dushku is a good enough actress to make wildly disparate personalities compelling.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
12/12/08

@Aethelred: I agree. I like this trailer A LOT better than the last one. I think I'll just sleep until March.... that way it'll be instantaneous - or something. I don't know how this *sleep* thing works.
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tetracycloide
12/12/08

@braak: i am not satisfied that eliza dushku is a good enough actress to make ONE personality compelling.

the entire show seems to center around a central theme of extreamly pretty girl that can be programmed to do whatever you want which does not sit well with me in spite of my typically lax moral compass.
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Taed
12/12/08

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The bit about FlashForward is interesting; in the book, the flash is about 17 years or so in the future, not 5 months. So, a fair number of people see new technology (which spurs its development and investment), but as I recall, some of it is mis-interpreted. I seem to recall people think that there were "floating" cars, but it then turns out that they really just end up using invisible crystal wheels or something like that.

The people who happened to be reading a newspaper (particularly the stock page) get some nice knowledge. Some of them end up selling that information to the highest bidder. Some others do the same, but are scam artists.
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braak
12/12/08

@Taed: So....so, wait a minute.

Everyone blacks out for two minutes, but their minds jump forward into the future.

Everything is the same, only they can remember two...

Oh! Okay, okay, I get it. For two minutes, we're all living seventeen years from now, then we go back to the present.

What if you were dead seventeen years from now?
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van_line
12/12/08

@braak:

What if you were dead seventeen years from now?

those people didn't experience anything, just a complete black out.
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thewriteguy
12/12/08

@van_line:

"those people didn't experience anything, just a complete black out."

That's creepy and scary. I wonder if the series will address this with people who saw nothing.
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braak
12/12/08

@thewriteguy: @van_line: Oh. Hm. What if you were about to die? Like, you were about in a plane that was crashing? Did those people attempt to change their fates? DID THEY SUCCEED?

I'm not sure there's any way to do a story about predicting the future without making it a story about fate and the changing thereof.
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Meirelle
12/09/08

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Laserbeak is not bird-like. This makes me sad. :(
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tetracycloide
12/09/08

In reply to Major Hints For Flash Forward, Transformers, Stargate And Doctor Who
"Admit it, you're curious."

we are not being coy or snarky when we tell you that knight rider is a piece of KITT and the sooner you stop covering it the sooner we can all save ourselves the trobule of scrolling past it on 'morning spoilers' and 'what to watch.' there is no secret, hidden message. we are not protesting too much. we all genuinely and deeply hate this show. it is not a guilty pleasure, indeed it offers not pleasure what-so-ever.
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Pessimippopotamus
12/09/08

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I'm sure that's Hasbro toy only Laserbeak. For one, it's not even a GM car.
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Meirelle
12/09/08

@The Gawker Empire will increase Parkington's productivity b...: Exactly. We all know that in the Bay-verse, any car that's not a GM is incompatible with Cybertronian transformation technology.
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tetracycloide
12/09/08

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i have discovered that heroes can be quickly and easily fixed by simple removing every clause in the plot outlines that begins with the words 'but' or 'however.' consider the following:

peter lost his abilities but will get them back later. elle dies but it was all a cover-up. sylar was an evil, brain munching maniac but then he turned good but then he turned evil. hayden paneterie wears cheerleading outfits but then switches to a full out emo ensemble.

the implications are obvious.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
12/09/08

@tetracycloide: I stopped halfway through season 2, and yet somehow those points are still relevant.
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