Dark One

Obviously, in regards to shaky cam. Stargate: Universe used that combined with horribly darkened sets to pretty much hide everything. But still, the beginning with shaky had no point whatsoever. It was so off-putting in the beginning, I almost walked out.

Ya know...I really do want SOMETHING to happen on Dec. 21st*. If only to shock the world out of the self-destructive, malaisic path we are on. If said something happens to include green-skinned space babes with a penchant for geeks, then rock on.

Rock on indeed.



*I don't think anything is going to happen, but it would be neat if it did.

I saw it. I liked it.

However, whichever ********* thought that shakey cam is appropriate for major motion picture should never work in cinema again. Or at the very least, busted down to the PA's PA.

Good god, the shaky was bad in the beginning, for no apparent reason. I seriously wish that trend had never started.

I'd gladly take them things over skunks any day of the week. Skunks are truly useless creatures that have no redeeming factors. Even mosquitos have a use as a food source for birds. But skunks? I would feel no sorrow if they go extinct.

When I watched the finale, I got this weird vibe that both this show and Event Horizon exist in the same universe...

Did Artemis get put on a bus or something? She's basically been absent the last couple of episodes, though she did have like one line in telling Wally about Megan.

Also, Clark needs to pull the stick out. The more he ignores Connor, the better chance he has of going all dark smashy. Clark's basically making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Feel kinda bad for Dubillex now.

If you like the Halo games, the books can be good, in particular Ghosts of Onyx. Halo: Cryptum is set during the time of the Forerunners and is an interesting read.

If you have any interest in the Warhammer 40k books, the Gaunt's Ghosts series (starts with The Founding omnibus), Eisenhorn omnibus, and the Ultramarines omnibus are good reads.

For more a fantasy-side read, you could try the Death Gate cycle (7 books) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It's about two factions of wizard-y type peoples that split Earth into four different realms (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) and one of the groups was imprisoned in a magical, ever-shifting, murderous Labyrinth.

There's Peter F. Hamilton's Confederation series. It's split into two sections, The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist (can't recall which was the first). There might be more books, but can't recall.

David Brin's Uplift books. Two trilogies. The first is Sundiver/Startide Rising/The Uplift War. The second is Brightness Reef/Infinity's Shore/Heaven's Reach. They're set in a universe where every sentient species is "uplifted" to sentience by an older species, but humanity has bucked the trend by bootstrapping itself to spacefaring. The galaxies (five of 'em) are bound together with an all-encompassing Library that contains pretty much every technology imaginable. A lot of races are hostile to humanity and want them either wiped out or forced into modification by an older race.

Finally, there's the Endymion/Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. Don't recall too much about them as it's been a while since I've read 'em.

Whatever. It's not like we don't know who is being talked about. Lori, Laurie, Lauri, etc. It doesn't make that big of a difference. Could just call her Moron #1 and the point would still get across.

Ya, I lol'd at that. I can't hit the broadside of a barn when I'm in the passenger seat in a Warthog in Halo 3, yet these guy are plugging 'em like it ain't no thang.

And Rick's right, in a way. In a situation like that, a democracy just doesn't work. You can't sit and debate while Rome is burning around you. When you're deciding what crops to plant and people are voicing their opinions? Ya, that's fine. People need strong leaders to take charge of a situation. I think he did the right thing by telling them his way or the highway.

I admit it. I squeed when Michonne was on screen.

And Rick grew a pair. Finally. Though, I wanted him to say to them, "What would you have done if I had told you? Huh?". Him telling them that would've killed the last bit of hope that they had. I don't fault him in the slightest.

And Laurie. Acting all high and mighty after finding out he killed Shane.

Well, that's one plot thread that's not-gunna-happen.

See, I have no connection to those other companies minis. They are "meaningless" to me. OTOH, I can look at a squad of Ultramarines and imagine that universe. Or I could do a mockup of an Imperial Fist vs Iron Warriors battle.

I don't game with them, just like making them. The Siege of Terra and the Dropsite Massacre are the two that I'd like to make a diorama of someday.