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That pretty much covers it. It was a decent episode.
Damn but why couldn't most of the series have been like the last several episodes? Then it wouldn't be being canceled. -
This has definitely moved up my to see list. Each trailer makes it look better.
Hmm, one quick scene that flashed by makes my wonder if the nameless dude is really human. -
Quote:This is what they should have been doing all through the tedious sucky 1.5 seasons that preceded the current episodes. They implied some exploration but really they should have shown a bit of the ship each episode and found some useful supplies to tide them over from time to time.I'm trying to figure out how they're still exploring the ship after gaining full control of the bridge and computer system. Eli should not have to open a door with no clue of what's on the other side; he should be carrying a printout of the ship's blueprints with a nice label for "Stasis Chamber Room". Or whatever the Ancients used as an output device.
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Quote:I was rather taken with his approach to teaching a lesson in caution. And I don't think it is an approach he would have taken even 4 episodes ago.So this week we got to see how Rush dealt with Eli's rebellious feelings. I have to admit I liked how he sneakily asserted his authority without them figuring it out.
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Quote:Yes.I didn't think my original post was *that* long.
Okay for you tl;dr people, listen up --
It's not whether your incarnate powers help your character. It's whether you are made obsolete by the powers on the rest of your team. All ATs can now buff, rez, and nuke. Is that healthy for the game?
The idea that a team must be composed of specialists each with their own area of powers should be taken out into a field and staked through the heart. -
Yes and it is a pity. Eli is the only character on the show I even like a little and he just doesn't get any breaks.
Is it me or did Rush seem a bit more human at the end. I think the events of late have been slowing changing him into a better Rush. Not a perfect one, but a better one. -
Quote:Disturbingly I would like to see that movie.
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Very cool. I'm glad to hear that we get another season of Fringe.
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Quote:Invasion got it's start as a group of podcasts put together by Misty and several fellow players of COH. They filed the numbers off of COH and make it a bit more generic but really this got its start as delightful roleplaying carried on between a writer and aspiring writers.FYI: http://www.baen.com/contests.asp
Mercedes Lackey was a COH player in the past. I don't know if she's still around. Maybe Black Pebble/Marketing can work something up for cross promotion.
Eventually they got enough story for a trilogy and so looked to see if they could sell it anywhere. -
It's .... not horrible. But it certainly isn't great. I think of it as a guilty pleasure since you get to see dinosuars in the modern age. <G> I mean watching a T-Rex wading down the motorway is just fun. Not sane or good but fun.
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I know the contrast of the last few episodes to the previous year and a half is almost painful. Isn't it.
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Quote:Ah if they patterned their shaky cam after real combat footage then it wouldn't be as obnoxious. I'll probably toss this into my netlix que and see it later.The shaky cam didn't bother me too much in this flick, I've seen some footage from Iraq where some soldiers have cams filming and it actually made the movie marines a little more believable for me. Unlike how shaky cam irritates the hell out of me in other shows.
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Well it sounds like a fun movie to kick back with a lambic and popcorn to watch except that I loathe shaky cam. I mean LOATHE it.
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Quote:Oh you have a good point, I'm simply willing to suspend disbelief on it because A) they could have had ammo in that snafu of using the gate in the first place, all kinds of boxes got tossed through and I can believe the military types would have thought to grab some cases. Mind you they wouldn't have a lot of ammo, but they would have extra. And B) they haven't actually shot that much ammo yet. I would think they are probably through about half of their ammo though.Actually TD's ribbing me because one of the things that bugs me about the show is that I believe they should have run out of ammo by now because they have no way of resupplying what they brought thru the gate.
Even if they confiscated the weapons brought by the Lucien Alliance, Their ammo can't be fired out of Earth weapons, and they aren't using the LA guns.
Hmm, what did the ancients use for weapons? I'm sure they had some. Ie Personal hand carried weapons. I don't think we have ever actually seen what they used. Those should be somewhere on the ship, probably an energy weapon like the zap, which is probably based on an ancient weapon. -
I'm still waiting for them to find the repair/fabrication shop. Hell I want to see them find that on Stargate: Atlantis, clearly the ZPM's were not hard for the city to build if you used the right shop and equipment, the ancients who took over the city briefly built a full set in weeks and had them installed.
What we have seen no sign of aside from one lonely robot are the ships self repair systems. And repair shop. For that matter the ship should have foraging robots that can be dispatched through the gate to scavange raw supplies and return freeing the crew to focus on their primary mission the signal. Heh.
Of course I expect that the writers never even thought of any of that.
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Yes the primary point for the show was to resupply and get telford of the ship again. But think the equally important theme was Rush meeting Rush and really getting a look at himself from outside. It goes back to his conversation with Chloe earlier in the show where he talks about destiny, not the ship, and things happening because they need to.
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It's strange. I really really should have liked The Cape. It had all of the elements that should have popped for me but it never quite worked. And I have no idea what didn't work for me, just that it had everything I should have loved in a campy fun super hero show. Still it is sad to see it canceled after only 10 episodes.
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Damn you SGU! DAMN YOU!.... Why did you have to take a year and a half to get good?
The last two episodes have been fantastic, actually the last several episodes have been great. But it took a year and a half to get there and now that if finally is paying off it is getting canceled.
Anyway I loved this episode, and I think it gave Rush a real solid look in the mirror and I don't think he liked what he saw. It was interesting that he even doubts himself the story told by Rush Alpha. Just goes to show how untrustworthy he has been all this time. And I think he doesn't like what he saw gazing at himself at all.
But DAMN YOU SCFY and SGU for taking so long to get so good.
I'll admit that this episode pays off for that year and a half of his character and how. -
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Except that when they had the gate preping to open you can see them hauling in cases of everything they could get their hands on. I rather expect someone probably made a quick trip to armory and grabbed some cases of ammo. Look at the unholy mess of things being tossed through the gate while they had it open and I figure ammo was one of the things. Mind you probably not lots of ammo, but the likely have a few thousand rounds, and then there is what got brought for the invasion of the ship.
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You can actually buy styluses for the IPad. I'm not certain how good they are but they are available from 3rd party vendors.
I suspect that not upgrading the display is a combination of factors. First of course is cost. Second is that it doesn't look significantly better on a tablet at typical viewing distances so that the cost doesn't really justify the incremental improvement in graphics. My educated guess is that those two factors go into why Apple didn't upgrade the display. I did see an analysis of it comparing the existing display's DPI to what it would be with a Retina display and their is improvement it wasn't really that significant.
Now the trick would be to actually look and see comparing the two. And again I would guess that they tested it and the Retina display didn't significantly better. At least not better enough to justify increasing the cost of the whole tablet.
Oh and I agree, I don't really see the value of either the front or back camera but then I'm a barbarian who is perfectly happy that there is no Flash on my IPad. -
Quote:The problem is that it took 1.5 years for them to start to show promise. They needed to be showing that promise oh somewhere in the first 3 - 5 episodes to really grab and keep an audience. Better if there was some hint of it sooner.The thing is this was a good episode and goes to show you that this show had promise if they had got it up and running at this level to begin with instead of that whimp fest of a first half of the season it launched with that was all episodes dealing with finding water or food etc.
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Exactly, I love my IPad but my desktop computers and laptops at home are all running windows and the one mac I have to use at work is set to dual boot to windows which mode I prefer to run it in except for when I need to manage a mac computer or mac server from it. Oh and I have an android phone. Hmm, right fanboy. Yet I love my IPad for all of the reasons I posted earlier.
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Quite a few discussions of theoretical physics I've read over the years. Basically the assumption, and yes it is an assumption is that once you get to manipulating small enough elements of the universe you can directly manipulate the so called laws. At least potentially in the small scale.
A lot of science fiction has taken this and run with it where you see the ability to do just that. Hell a huge amount of magic could be managed just by having the right kind of nanotech everywhere and a way to control it.