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    Image of shaunmcilroy shaunmcilroy
    02:46 AM

    Jerry O'Connell has signed to co-star in NBC pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.

    The former Sliders star is to replace Heroes actor Sendhil Ramamurthy, who was previously cast, says The Hollywood Reporter. Ramamurthy reportedly left the project due to scheduling issues.

    O'Connell will play an ambitious lawyer who falls in love with Rex's fiancée, played by Abigail Spencer.

    The 35-year-old joins David Tennant, Jeffrey Tambor and Jane Curtin in the quirky legal drama.

    Source: [www.digitalspy.co.uk]

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    Image of shaunmcilroy shaunmcilroy
    03:26 AM

    @shaunmcilroy: i.e Heroes

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/07/09

    I've mentioned before that I live in Denmark. Well, here's a bit of what life in DK is like...

    This is an advertisement for, of all things, washing machines.

    Warning: it's very NSFW...

    [www.m2film.dk]

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/07/09

    In reply to DC Celebrates 75th Birthday By Starting Over
    I've never been much of a fan of comic books, but I'm curious to know what was the first comic book reboot ever, and what was the reaction among comic book fans.

    May I suggest an io9 article on the *history* of reboots, in comic boots, movies, and TV?

    #earthone #comics #reboots #tips
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    12/07/09

    @Roklimber: Oh, this does sound like an interesting article idea.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    12:50 AM

    @Roklimber: Do you mean on the history of reboots in general? For instance, one might argue that soft rebooting started with Miller's Daredevil or Claremont's X-Men, or they might argue that the first real comic book reboot was all due to Crisis on Infinite Earths... and so forth.

    Alternatively, they might go with the modern, millenium-era reboot and say that it began with Batman Begins or something.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    01:17 AM

    @DocSeuss:

    I mean all of that.

    As I said, I was never into comic books, so the specifics of what you mentioned make little sense to me (out of my own ignorance about the subject), but I'm still interested in what people's reactions were to all these different reboots and, in particular, to the very first one.

    After all, it must have been a revolutionary idea, no? I suppose a lot of fans didn't like it much at first, but eventually got used to it.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    01:33 AM

    @Roklimber: I wonder, would a remake count as a reboot? In essence, they're telling the same story, albeit on a stricter level.

    Hm. An interesting subject.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    01:40 AM

    @DocSeuss:

    "would a remake count as a reboot?"

    Personally, I don't think so.

    A reboot, as I understand it, is a complete start-over, from a blank slate, where only the absolute most important aspects of the story and/or characters are kept unchanged. Everything else can be changed.

    A remake is not as radical, I think.

    In any case, my interest as expressed in previous posts extends beyond comic books. I'd like to see an io9 article that presents some of the history behind reboots in comics, TV, and movies.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    02:04 AM

    @Roklimber: Yeah. As you'll notice, I didn't really touch on what media that involved in my second statement.

    I think the concept of reboots stems from comics, and has gradually extended into other kinds of media. The only major film reboots I can think of were Batman and Hulk, oddly enough. Oh, and Star Trek, but whatever.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    What the heck was the opening act, vampire song thing, for this Carrie Underwood "Special" on Fox tonight?

    I expect some kind of scathing recap of the song tomorrow.

    To be honest though, the background dancers seemed less flimsy than the Twilight folks...

    #observationdeck
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    12/07/09

    #tips #badasstrailers

    I caught this on the awesomer.com, its a trailer for a sci-fi show that is looking to be picked up called Slingers. It reminds me of Cowboy Beebop except with thieves instead of bounty hunters. It looks pretty awesome and they want to shoot a pilot in 2010. [vimeo.com]

    Second, I caught this trailer for a sci-fi samurai move from Ireland. Yup, that's not a mistake. The description for the movie is as follows "Follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall into a permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a gifted samurai, sets out to find the cup and one who can break the spell."
    The trailer though is a more of just visuals as it follows a more "something stolen, civil war ensues...etc" type of vibe. Its pretty interesting in the end because it steps out of feudal Japan and becomes some guy stabbing a spaceship.
    [www.firstshowing.net]
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @Log1c: I'd watch Slingers if it was made.

    The Cup of Tears also looks pretty cool. It takes that weird turn at the end. It's like they arbitrarily changed the whole setting at the 1:47 mark. Clubs, hyper-modern cities, missiles, go-go dancing geishas, and VTOL jets? (Bonus: filmed in Slovenia. So an Irish sci-fi samurai

    EDIT: While looking for a wallpaper size image of the top pic at the link for CoT, io9 popped up because Meredith covered it on 10/27! I even promoted comments on the thread! Way for my memory to fail tonight...

    #tips
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 12/07/09 10:14 PM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    12/07/09

    [web.mit.edu]

    AI reloaded.

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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    12/06/09

    Today in the LA Times Magazine, there is a list of 50 holiday albums... I got a kick out of No. 44, something called "Space Age Santa Claus", a blue cover with Santa in a retro 50's space suit. I would like hearing the skinny on the existance of this 45... Thanks.

    [www.latimesmagazine.com]

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    Edited by Bigdamnhero at 12/06/09 8:31 PM Bigdamnhero was starred Bigdamnhero was unstarred
    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    12/05/09

    Hey guys, see what you can find out about this:

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    The 9 most incredible NASA missions during the 2000-2009 decade (photos)

    [www.huffingtonpost.com]

    #tips #nasa #spaceporn #space
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    Edited by Roklimber at 12/04/09 11:48 PM Roklimber was starred Roklimber was unstarred
    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/04/09

    Woohoo! The Doctor Who spoilers just keep coming. In addition to the new youtube trailers, Digital Spy has nabbed a few more promo pics, most of them ones' we've seem before, but they've got a good shot of the Vinvocci, mischevious green shape-changing aliens related to the red spikey Bannakaffalatta from 'Voyage of the Damned.'

    #tips
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    12/04/09

    New sci-fi series in pre-production. Warren Ellis was talking up the sizzle reel, and his enthusiasm was well placed. Check it out:

    Video:
    [www.vimeo.com]

    More info:
    [www.sizemore.co.uk]

    #tips
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/04/09

    There are two new BBC Drama trailers featuring a few previously unseen clips from the final Doctor Who specials

    [www.youtube.com]

    [www.youtube.com]

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    Brain dissection of the world's best-known amnesiac to be streamed live

    CNN article:
    [edition.cnn.com]

    UC San Diego research institution doing the dissection:
    [thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu]

    Watch it live here:
    [thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu]

    #tips #brain #madscience
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/03/09

    If you're interested in learning something about black holes in general and super-massive BHs in particular, and if you can stomach her annoying way of talking, Dr. Andrea Ghez ([en.wikipedia.org]) has a really interesting and informative TED talk on her hunt for a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

    #tips #blackholes
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    12/03/09

    Not sure if this warrants a post, but a few might appreciate the link. My favorite Fantasy/Sci-Fi writer Nina Hoffman has a free short online that someone just mentioned on the Nina mailing list I run.

    [whidbeystudents.com]

    I hope you dig it.

    #tips
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