Glark was angered by Star Trek. Since he liked the first one, I was curious enough to read spoilers. I'll just say that I don't think Prometheus was a fluke; Lindelof has a remarkable gift for comedy.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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Strega - May 14, 2013 4:58:16 pm PDT #24374 of 30000
Zenkitty - May 14, 2013 6:17:14 pm PDT #24375 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I expect STID to be grimly ridiculous, or ridiculously grim. I expect Cumberbatch has been directed to chew the scenery and he will chew it with grim gusto. I expect to watch the pretty people and pretty explosions and lens flares and pay no attention to what's going on, beyond the chewing and the flaring and the pretty.
Jessica - May 14, 2013 6:47:55 pm PDT #24376 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh wow, I loved Dot and the Kangaroo when I was a kid - haven't thought about that movie in years!
Jessica - May 15, 2013 4:02:44 am PDT #24377 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It makes me crazy that they say there have been no people on the planet for however long, so all the animals have evolved to kill humans. Is that not the opposite of evolution??
Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!
Trek was better the second time around, and the HUGE GAPING plot hole that had been bugging me is actually not as huge or as gaping as I'd thought. The plot is still silly and convoluted, but that one specific thing is explained ok.
(Once the movie comes out we can talk about the scene where my suspension of disbelief broke into tiny pieces and fell to the floor. Not a major plot point, but an insignificant little bit of actor business.)
bon bon - May 15, 2013 6:45:33 am PDT #24378 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Living on a planet where the megafauna can kill you sounds UNREAL. that'll get me in the theaters!
My bet is that the Smiths are, like, cows all along and it's all a dream. MAKES YOU THINK!
Tom Scola - May 15, 2013 6:47:14 am PDT #24379 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
(Holds up mirror) The apex predator is YOU!! It was YOU ALL ALONG!!!
billytea - May 15, 2013 7:06:22 am PDT #24380 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!
The wallabies will cut you, yo.
Oh wow, I loved Dot and the Kangaroo when I was a kid - haven't thought about that movie in years!
It's quite a charming piece of Australian film history. The platypus song - sung by Spike Milligan - proclaims its scientific name to be Ornithorhyncus paradoxus. It's now been determined (there are rules, you know) that its name should be Ornithorhyncus anatinus. (It's Ornithorhyncus, not Platypus, because Platypus had already been made the genus name of a group of beetles.)
There were a bunch of (I suspect rather dubious) sequels made, including one where Dot winds up in Hollywood. For some reason.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2013 7:14:50 am PDT #24381 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!
Which makes me wonder, are rabbits immune to poison or something? Australian fauna seems to have adapted quite nicely to killing human beings over the past 50,000 years...
billytea - May 15, 2013 7:22:43 am PDT #24382 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Which makes me wonder, are rabbits immune to poison or something? Australian fauna seems to have adapted quite nicely to killing human beings over the past 50,000 years...
I am at this moment watching the series Planet Dinosaur. There was a small gliding dinosaur in China named Sinornithosaurus that has been hypothesised to have had a venomous bite.
Meanwhile, Australia has a longer life expectancy than the US, and indeed most countries on Earth. I blame bears.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2013 7:48:57 am PDT #24383 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I assume there are cardiovascular benefits to fleeing from all the poisonous animals and deadly birds.