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HelloChieftain
09/01/09

In reply to To Catch A Time Traveler: Dateline
You know, I'm not saying that the whole "implying someone is a pedophile for spending time around a child" thing has become the most noxious meme of our time...I'm just sayin'.
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NerD: Blattella
09/01/09

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I'm tired about hearing about other people's wives.

Astronauts' Wife. Time Traveler's Wife. Zookeepers Wife. Blah.

Fuck those people. Tell me about the Zookeeper, don't force me to ask their bored wife for information.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have not read any of these novels. I'm just putting them in the same category as those stupid books written about paintings that were so fucking popular 10 years ago.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
09/01/09

@NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: So tell us about your wife.
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JRD_2
09/01/09

@NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: The trend is broader than that. Browse a bookstore sometime and you'll be surprised how many titles follow the formula "The [Occupation's] [Daughter, Wife, Other Female Role]." I'm sure there's a feminist critique to be made of this, but mostly I find it annoyingly trite.
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tetracycloide
09/01/09

@JRD_2: well, it certainly conforms to the expected female archtype in a patriarcal society of defing women by the most important men in thier lives.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/01/09

@tetracycloide: "The Astronaut's Husband", maybe? Flip it around a bit.
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NerD: Blattella
09/01/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: Maybe I'll write a story about her.

The Shitbag's Wife has a nice ring to it.
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EBone
09/01/09

In reply to To Catch A Time Traveler: Dateline
Why don't you have a seat right over here...
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92BuickLeSabre
09/01/09

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Actually the reason we didn't go see it.

As the wife said..."I don't see how they can make this faithfully, without it just being really, really creepy. It's one thing to read..."
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Cash907Censored
09/01/09

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Did the condom commercial play at the end for anyone else?

And am I the only one who finds that absolutely hilarious, given the video it's attached to?
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tetracycloide
09/01/09

@Cash907Censored: yes and no.
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Lee
09/01/09

In reply to To Catch A Time Traveler: Dateline
Something about the previews (not to mention the title) made me think of "The Astronauts Wife", which was basically a chick flick dressed up as science fiction.
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tetracycloide
09/01/09

@Lee: well, the two have that in common then.
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bookling
09/01/09

@Lee: At least there were alien babies in that one!

Also, how is The Astronaut's Wife a chick flick? All I remember is creepy Johnny Depp, an attempted abortion, some lady kills herself with a radio in a bathtub, and alien babies. None of which are especially chick-flick-y.
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laughingacademy
09/01/09

@Lee: Do you consider "Rosemary's Baby" a chick flick? I saw that movie in a theater with a friend, and he considered it a straight up horror film; "Astronaut's Wife" is basically the same premise with a sci-fi explanation rather than a religious/supernatural one.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/01/09

@bookling: Not chick-flicky at ALL. Straight horror.
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Hello Mister Walrus
08/18/09

In reply to Time Traveler's Wife Leaps onto Television
After watching the trailer for this stupid movie, my girlfriend keeps talking about things that we'll do "when we are married". Stupid sexy Eric Bana.
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gorehound
08/18/09

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lame.i will stay way way away from this type of show nor will i be going near the romantic movie.
sounds like a great movie for the drama hounds out there and i am more of a gorehound than a dramahound.
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RaveX
08/18/09

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I liked this idea better when it was Faraday/Charlotte subplot in Lost's season 5.
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Smeagol92055
08/18/09

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Good, good... our evil plans are all coming together.
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CanisPugnax
08/18/09

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If ABC remains consistent, this will be produced, promoted in the pre-season, then ignored, buried and let to die EVEN if some one manages, against the odds, to do it well and make it into a viable season spanning vehicle.

ABC has treated some damn good shows like a prom date they are embarrassed to be seen with and who will be left by the punch bowl early in the evening.

Unless ABC convinces themselves that it really isn't science fiction and then it can exist as romantic drama.

Sorry ABC, me no trust
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DeltaGuy
08/18/09

@CanisPugnax: Yes, I'm sure this will become an ABC series, just like Football Wives, Secrets of a Small Town, and many other high profile non-spinoff pilots they've had.
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WestMantooth
08/18/09

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Oh, God? Why do you foresake your children?

Journeyman should never have been cancelled in the first place.

Second. The only people I would trust with this is the British. They'd limit it to 13 episodes for two years and actually kind of make it funny.
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BlueBeard
08/18/09

@WestMantooth: Journeyman was decent enough and had some potential. This I don't understand. A series needs to have long term potential to get greenlit these days- they all want their magic number of 100 episodes to hit syndication. You can't just arbitrarily decide to drag out a story that already has a complete structure, unless you throw out the book and call the series a reboot of the original... and I am getting really tired of the word reboot.

I'd rather ABC bring back the Unusuals.
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redqueenmeg
08/18/09

@WestMantooth: I miss Journeyman soooo much, there's no way I'd want to watch this show. :(

Oh, Kevin McKidd, why can't you be on a show I care about again?
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Ruthless, If you let me
08/18/09

@BlueBeard: Yes to the Unusuals!
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BlueBeard
08/18/09

@The BullLifter, Emotional Zombie: I hated the Unusuals before it aired, due to ridiculously lame commercials, and I only watched the first episode because I was at a friend's house watching Lost and he didn't change the channel. After that I found myself looking forward to it every week.

Sadly, good stuff gets canceled while they recycle old canceled shows so they can cancel them again.
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SaryuFrog
08/16/09

In reply to Can This Time-Traveling Marriage Be Saved From Its Own Banality?
I loved the book. Thought the movie was ok, but not as bad as this review or everyone who is piling on here. I think it would have been a difficult task to adapt this one in any screenwriters hand, there is so much back and forth in the novel, and without the "Claire is 25, Henry is 47" bits at the heads of each section even the book would have been a challenge to get through. Its not one to own on DVD certainly, but for a few hours I was entertained. I went with someone who didn't read the book and they liked it quite a bit, I think the essential ideas put forth in the novel are there. As to the romance aspect, the poster will pretty much sum up how this was marketed.
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Apple Brown Betty White
08/15/09

In reply to Can This Time-Traveling Marriage Be Saved From Its Own Banality?
Incredibly minor nitpick re "Clare grabs Henry's cock through a hole in his suit, during their wedding, to try and keep him from slipping away through the timestream during their wedding (and it doesn't work.)"

I just finished the book this afternoon - the cocksqueezing scene happened when Clare brought Henry home to meet her parents for the first time. (It works momentarily, but not for the entire evening)

And alas, I am not planning on seeing the movie. The book was just too perfect.
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Conrad
08/15/09

In reply to Can This Time-Traveling Marriage Be Saved From Its Own Banality?
I just figured the woman had a brain disease. And it's all her craziness unfolding. I'm not planning on seeing the movie, so I'll just stick with my version.

Haven't they found that our brain knows what to do a few seconds before we do it, making the idea of choice a moot point.
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emerson999
08/16/09

@Conrad: Close. With some things at least the point is that we've observed the part of the brain dealing with action activate before the portion of the brain which is responsible for making decisions.

So what we think happens during a game of catch. Someone throws a ball at us, we see it, and decide to catch it. What really happens is that the ball comes toward us, we instinctively raise our arm and catch it, and then after that's happened our brain creates a little story where we decided to catch it and inserts the memory.

A little oversimplified, but that's the basic gist.
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