TerraDraconis

The purple plush velure robe of funkiness.

That is a guess? I thought that was obvious from the trailer. Blatantly obvious.

That is a perfect description of my opinion of Cloverfield. And yes Skyline sounds like the same kind of movie. Nice special effects and we have to put up with annoying characters until they are killed.

Oh exactly. Having the occasional movie, book, or series be gritty/realistic is great. Having them all be that way is tedious, boring and unwatchable/unreadable. What is fine in little doses becomes nothing interesting if it is all you can find.

Thats why I found the dismissal of No Ordinary Family as to Disney etc so fascinating. Frankly it makes a nice break from the dredging the bottom of the well with the too gritty etc shows.

I watch/read for entertainment not to be depressed or otherwise given a downer. I generally want to smile at the end of a show.

Exactly, I regularly eat out at least once a week and my meal costs $13 - $18 depending on what I get. I can easily afford a once every few month pack for $10.00.

And yes I'll be buying this one. I saw some aura's and capes I want.

Does it stop time?

Exactly, I'm sorry that Chris and the others are gone. I liked Chris' posting style and enjoyed the work he did on the game that I know of. It definitely made things better. And I wish him and the others long and successful careers that start as soon as they want.

Wait a minute you hadn't heard about the black clad teams of assault troops that Paragon Studio's keeps to send to posters houses? I thought everyone had heard about them.

Just a moment I have to go see who is knocking on the door. .....

But that is just it, the lawsuit in this case isn't frivolous and the corporation can lose a lot of money fighting and losing the lawsuit. Blame lawyers and the way the laws are written.

They were written with the intent of 'protecting' people but the side effect is that they enforce such silence policies on a company. Even when the company would love to praise etc someone.

Actually legally it is. Bob can turn around and sue for a lot of money because of that simple statement. Blame the government and blame lawyers. It is because of them that businesses have to have no comment policies on employee separation.

As the example that your dismissing shows even glowing comments about departing employees can and often will be turned against a company by other departing employees.

So basically as annoying as the policy is it is a big huge CYA policy.

SGU improves as the season goes on but not a lot.

I'm not sure if I'll bother watching it this season. I suppose I'll go ahead and give it a try simply because I watched all of season 1 and they look like maybe they have a clue where to go this season. But it is low on my list of shows, I'm more watching it because of inertia than because I like it.

Exactly, people stuck with Heroes because it had potential. The problem is that it never appeared to even try and reach any of that potential. Even with that Season 1 of Heroes was pretty good.

NOF actually had the story move along in the first episode which is something that Heroes would have taken several episodes of Heroes. That is why people are saying that NOF is what they wanted Hereos to be. They wanted the story to move along not drag out while the characters angst this week over this or that.

Except to have the story move along at a decent pace. Heroes would have taken 6 episodes to get to the teleport vs ss/inv fight there at the end of episode 1 of NOF.

In part that is because there were so many individual story lines to move forward in Heroes. Mind you the first season of Heroes was good but it never fully lived up to it's promise.

Exactly. Heroes had all that awesome potential and didn't do anything with it. Here we had an awesome knockdown fight between a teleporter and a SS/Inv right at the end of the episode. With the expectation that we might have more such fun action in future episodes.

Earlier someone mentioned that heroes was built around an event at the end of the season while NOF is built as an open ended story. Oh certainly there appears to be an intermediate threat lurking on the horizon of the boss and the meta's working for him but the story doesn't revolve around that.

My guess is that much of the problem with Heroes was that every season basically revolved around the end of season event and so every story line in it had to aim for that. This limited its options.

Anyway here is hoping that No Ordinary Family lives up to the promise of the first episode. It has gone on my DVR to watch along side NCIS.

Preview for next weeks episode does show her being worried about the potential health problems.

I'm certain the answer to this is no.

Yes but while the higher powered characters are more powerful so are the weaker powered characters more powerful. And we are still far short of the power level of the most powerful characters that existed prior to ED and GDN.

Basically ED & GDN narrowed the gap between the least powerful characters and the most powerful characters. The most powerful characters where gutted by these changes while the midpower and lower characters generally didn't see any change in the power of their characters.

Since that time the changes that have come along have acted to boost all characters in power while keeping the gap in power between the least and greatest narrower than it used to be. And this has allowed for nice things to be given to us of which making the fitness pool inherent is just the latest.

Actually I realized after thinking about it that you won't have to respec if you haven't used your alternate builds. Since nothing changes with the existing character either to benefit or harm. That said the pain of using the alternate build would be having to find enhancements to slot which you wouldn't have a problem with if you repec your primary build. Ah well the fun of choices.