Dark One

Come on man, it's gonna be on NBC, not Starz.

And the coining of the terms, "Chloevage" and "Lewbs". I like to think that I was the first person to use those words, but sadly, the truth is lost to the sand of the interwebs...

Don't think it was so much cancelled with no notice as the writing was on the wall and it had been discussed, along with V's cancellation. Iirc, someone mentioned (or linked to) another article that Benz and Chiklis were shopping around for pilots for next season. That pretty much states what needed to be knowed.

Of course it wasn't right. And they need to face some kind of punishment.

However, by that same token, it should never have gotten to this point. In terms of how their network was handled.

Hackers are always going to be around. If someone is determined to get in, they'll get in. But you can make it as hard as possible for them to get in. From what I've seen, that isn't what happened.

I would rather see:

Sony Security Personnel Now Working Drive-Thru

Absolute LOL at this:

There better be sum'fin after 36 frickin' volumes of manga!


I've got the first dvd collection of Axis Powers Hetalia + the second season of Negima coming. From what I hear, APH is hilarious. Being able to turn WWII-ish era stuff into comedy? Just gotta see that.

I'm starting to think I need to downsize my anime collection. I've got four bookshelves (3 4-level shelves, one 5-level shelf) filled with the stuff. Think I'm spending around two bills every month on the stuff. I'm just thankful that a lot of the distributors are going to the half-seasons rather than the 4-episode releases anymore. I know whoever finds my stuff after I croak is going to be in the money, what with the LEs and stuff... >.<

I know. And it doesn't help (for the American viewers anyway) having to try and decipher British slang and/or accents. But to be fair to Doctor Who's sound guys, it's not just their show. A lot of movies and other shows think that if volume level 3 is good, volume level 27 is better.

I know, right? Bunk beds, or at the very least a college-style loft, as an adult would rawk. Just so long as it's a decent size bed.

Though, it hurts like hell when you fall out of one. Plus there's that who panicking thing of waking up in midair...

Hell, the fight scene between Jim and the Teleporter in NOF in the first epsiode was better. And that was the first ep! You'd expect something massive for the sendout of a 10-year series. But that's about par for the course for Smallville. Don't get me wrong, I've liked the series and have most of the seasons on DVD, but they could just as well put up a black screen saying, "And then they fought. Clark kicked his butt. The End".

The problem is, that they build things up over the season and you expect some monster throwdown.

Take the Doomsday fight, or lack thereof, for instance. We get the buildup throughout the entire season that he's such a big bad. What happens? Relatively nothing for a final fight between Clark and DD. What was it? 30 seconds at best? And handled off-camera? Can't recall for sure, but it definitely wasn't even on par with the weakest fight scene in No Ordinary Family.

Granted, we aren't going to get the finale of JLU here in terms of fighting between Clark and Darkseid, but come on...

Unless you (or someone you know) are growing the tomatoes (and the herbs/spices and mining the salt, and depending upon whether or not you put meat it in, raising the animals), as well as growing and grinding the wheat and then literally making the noodles yourself, you are still supporting the agricorps.

Mixing together canned tomato sauce/paste, hothouse tomatoes, jars of bought herbs, along with feed-lot meat and a bag of dried noodles? Sorry, still not from scratch. Considering all the companies involved are most likely just subsidiaries of one of those large agri-corps, you're still buying their products. Just in a different form.

Naturally, there are different levels of what one considers "from scratch". I make my own beef jerky, but I don't really consider it "from scratch". I can customize it to what I want, but I'm not deluding myself into thinking that it's from scratch when I have bought steak, onion/garlic powder, salt, pepper, and various sauces. I may be mixing various things together and making something unique, but a lot more people did a lot more work than I did in its creation. My hashbrowns are a lot closer to "from scratch", as I grow my own potatoes (Yukon Golds are awesome BTW), my own onions (from onion sets, not seeds), and then shred and freeze 'em.

The Playboy Club...fail. Just. Fail.

Three cop dramas plus another show based on someone's stand up comedy plus another Will Arnett vehicle. Fantastic choices there NBC! Way to stretch out of your comfort zone!

Unless you, or someone you know, is growing that food then there is little difference between buying a bag of spaghetti + a jar of sauce and buying a noodle bowl to warm up in the microwave.

Of course, the limit of British agriculture is growing fog and soccer hooligans...

Best thing about Bionic Woman was MM's synopsis afterwards. He (or she as the case may be) needs to find another show to snark on in a similar vein.

Or...we could get Reality Dancing Show QR938, Over-the-hill Actor Comedy #28, and America's <insert verb> <insert noun>!

It's from, iirc, High School of the Dead. Namely, a zombie invasion happens and a bunch of high schoolers are fighting them.

It's comedy, yes. But it's basically a parody of every fantasy type setting ever. For example, no one ever talks about what happens to barbarian adventurers when they get old (presuming they are in fact good enough to GET old). Pratchett tackles that with Cohen the Barbarian...a geriatric still out there adventuring when he should be in a rest home eating a mildly steamed carrot.

To me, the Watch books are the best of the bunch. But the Moist von Lipwig ones, Small Gods, and Pyramids are right up there.

Well...you are what you eat...

And can you deny that English cuisine consists of boiling stuff till all the flavor runs out?

Hindsight is 20/20. People can look back at both those shows and learn what they did wrong. In Heroes it was the meandering plotlines, the focus on completely irrelevant characters, and the lack of any impetus to actually show superpowered fights.

They could look at what No Ordinary Family did right and build upon that.

It could just be that the average IQ in this country is hovering barely above single digits and that anything beyond the latest singing and dancing show is too much for their mushy minds to handle. In which case, NBC would be better off making the series "Ow! My balls!" to cater to that demographic.

The Cape was flawed on several levels. I don't think we can use that as a measuring stick against an established entity like Wonder Woman. Especially when his villains consisted of two guys with bad skin conditions, an eye drop addict, and someone with a split personality.

Besides, attractive woman in a leotard? Head and shoulders above a sweaty-looking, orange-colored, original creation that was saddled with a seemingly cursed Firefly alum.

They were there, but only in passing. Sorta like the episode where the boys are trying to watch the trailer for the T&P movie, but spend most of the ep running around.