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10/05/09
10/05/09
Also Dollhaus looks good this week. Nice to see BSG Fanboy Enver getting more screen time.
10/05/09
Admittedly, I did not follow the past Stargate shows so maybe this sort of magical nonsense is part and parcel of the franchise, but couldn't they at least half ass some sort of semi-believable psuedo-science sort of way for them to communicate with Earth like Voyager did with the micro wormhole just big enough to shove a signal through?
10/05/09
10/05/09
My question (assuming Rush really used the stone) is what Dr. Lee did on Destiny while he was in Rush's body.
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10/05/09
Oh, Spidey; you deserve better than this.
10/05/09
Yoda: "Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice" or something like that.
So if you are a Sith lord, why would you want to train more Sith? Either they fail, or they replace you. And it doesn't seem to me that the Sith have much of a 401k.
10/05/09
Yet another reason most SW fans hate George Lucas and the prequels. Having two Sith only at any given time makes no sense whatsoever. It's a poor, poor training scenario if you're trying to take over the galaxy.
10/05/09
you take an apprentice so you don't have to waste your time on buzy work. who wants to be chasing down some orphan and his stolen plans when they could be unraveling the mysteries of the force? sith are much too vain to assume their apprintices could be any threat to them anyway.
there was not always a rule of two though...
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Seriously, why haven't we seen evil jedi clones? Mace Wintwo, initiate order 67!
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Even Jedi are, on occasion, full of crap.
10/05/09
I'm not trying to retcon what has been said previously, just pointing out the inherent flaws in the Master/apprentice system of government have been addressed in future works and because they happened in a Star Wars novel, are now part of canon for the future of the Star Wars universe.
Clone Wars era and before, the Rule of Two definitely is still in application.
It's the inherent nature of geekdom to argue these minute points as they come up, is it not?
09/28/09
On the contrary. Having Allison Scallioti (aka, Warehouse 13's Claudia) be one of the twins will renew my interest in Smallville. I hope she steals the show as she's done with W-13.
09/28/09
You are dead to me, Caitlyn. Dead.
09/28/09
When they got to the part about everyone in the world having a clue about what is going to happen... Then they suggest making a website where everyone can put in what they saw...
While I was very very mildly intrigued by the guy that was still walking around, I can't see myself getting into this show.
09/28/09
The show lost me when the little girl spat out "I had a bad dream. I dreamt there were no more good days left."
Really? What kind of a 5 year old says stuff like that, besides that little girl from Poltergeist?
I had a revelation. I revealed there were no more good writers left at ABC.
09/28/09
And I guess I also ought to confess to kinda loving 'Eastwick', too. At least the acting is better...?
I don't know what's wrong with me. All I can surmise is that since I started working again at the beginning of this month (at a full-time job and a part-time job, which means I have practically no days off ever), my exhausted self can only handle mindless brain candy TV.
...although, this is much more mindless than I ever thought myself capable of.
09/28/09
09/28/09
I dont understand how anyone can take the current president seriously. What an embarrassment.
09/28/09
I may not agree with every thing Obama has done or not done, but Palin was the huge embarrassment. I cannot imagine mayor of hicksville ever becoming President let alone Vice-President. There were evidently enough people fooled in Alaska where she didn't have to deal with national issues, but I dont see how she could ever win a national election.
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08/18/09
1. James Parriott and the other writers need to learn how to show the relationships between the characters without the use of poorly timed flashbacks.
2. James Parriott and the other writers need to stop relying on voiceovers. Anything said in the voiceovers should be worked into the dialog. The voiceovers are mostly annoying pseudophilosophical fluff or rehashes of information already mentioned in dialog.
3. James Parriott needs to stop copying Carnivale. Beta is too much like Carnivale's Management.
4. James Parriott needs to learn how to reach the show's run time without adding musical montages.
5. James Parriott needs to replace his cliched, cardboard cutouts with actual characters.
08/17/09
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