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10:20 PM
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10:06 PM
Chew centers around Tony Chu is a police detective who is "cibopathic," meaning he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats.
[en.wikipedia.org]) #5comicsyoushouldbereading
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11:11 PM
I see where you're coming from, but this is too much of a cheating death device to be included as a faux death one, imho. #startrek
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07:33 PM
*Update: Does Deadpool and/or Anyone from Smallvile count?
06:57 PM
[www.starwars.com] #thebox
06:54 PM
07:21 PM
Amen. #alexisrockman
06:41 PM
Did you find the Easter Eggs? #starwarstheclonewars
06:09 PM
Now how about a full review of the episode? #starwarstheclonewars
07:20 PM
05:19 PM
Died by hanging, but then undied when he "returned" to the Island.
Cause of undeath: WHO THE FRAK KNOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #startrek
07:22 PM
The real John Locke is dead.
So far. #startrek
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05:03 PM
Died: 2026
Undied: altered future 2007-2026
Cause of death: Trachea crushed after interrogation by Terminator Cameron, ostensibly for failure-to-cooperate in an attempt to kill 2026 John Connor.
Does it count as death: "Apparently not".....
Allison's failure-to-cooperate was a self-sacrificial attempt to save John Connor in 2026.
Which may or may not have worked.
Terminator Cameron was caught, whilst attempting to kill John, scrubbed and sent back to 1999 to find John and jump him forward to 2007.
2007 John and Cameron caused the removal from Depot 37 of the Coltan that Terminator Cameron would have been built from, at Depot 37 in 2026, thus preventing Cameron from existing in 2026 and killing Allison. Thus establishing a future where Allison continues to live.
Later John jumps from 2009 to this 2026.
Thus establishing a future where no John Connor had existed since 2009 because he had jumped out of its past.
So John and Allison then exist together again in an altered future 2026.
Cameron's chipless endoskeleton is left back in this future's 2009 past, along with the physical Turk/John Henry AI (which may have merged with Cameron's chip either just prior to the jump or earlier when Cameron's chip briefly merged with the (Crom?)ARTIE traffic control network) and Sarah Connor.
Cameron's chip (+AI?) is in Cromartie's endoskeleton along with Terminator Catherine Weaver in this future, with a live Kyle Reese and Uncle Derek Reese,
who.....
Died: 2009
Undied: altered future 2009-2026
Cause of death: "Bullet to the brainpan, squish."
Does it count as death: Every death counts. #startrek
05:11 PM
05:19 PM
I suspect that Season 3 of TSCC may have been more complicated...... #startrek
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03:49 PM
If you include "Riverworld" does that mean everyone is included on the list? #startrek
03:46 PM
Honestly, it was handled a lot better by Genndy Tartakovsky, who decided to treat the Clone Wars as a series of moments. If you try to create large arcing stories, you have expectations of actual plot or character development, but that never happens. But if you turn it into a series of timeless moments, like Sergio Leone movies, the lack of plot or character development is an artistic choice rather than a hindrance.
I dunno, just my 2 cents.
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04:41 PM
the CGI series was the opposite -- barely registered with me at first, but after a while it started snowballing. the episode they aired this last week was nothing short of amazing. #starwarstheclonewars
04:56 PM
Knowing that he really was an upstanding Jedi Knight and watching it all unfold makes his fall even more horrible. #starwarstheclonewars
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10:46 PM
Last week's episode was just fighting and explosions, looks nice but that's what video games are for. #starwarstheclonewars
11:18 PM
I dunno, if anything it just makes everything much more awkward, and I think the developers of this series knows that, so they're just sorta running with their own thing. #starwarstheclonewars
11:24 PM
What would Mace Windu do when facing an army of droids and a city-flattening machine without a lightsaber? How do Jedis fight underwater? What would Anakin and Ventress do to each other?
That made it a lot more interesting.
On the other hand, this Clone Wars series is more serialized in nature, depending on the development of factions and alliances that necessarily have to conveniently disappear by the time the third film comes around.
If could just ignore the third film and have these stories go crazy, that would be nice. But they can't because they're bound by the resolution of the third film. So, ultimately, everything that happens here is meaningless. It's as though the series were structured as an extremely long sitcom episode: there has to be a return to normalcy by the end of the series, you're just waiting to see how it happens.