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Post by K-Box on Aug 16, 2011 20:17:32 GMT -8
Excellent.
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Post by K-Box on Jul 26, 2011 18:24:50 GMT -8
Holy shit, this one went meme INSTANTLY:
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Post by K-Box on Jul 25, 2011 17:15:01 GMT -8
Happy birthday.
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Post by K-Box on Jul 22, 2011 19:33:12 GMT -8
Ha! Good to see you.
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Post by K-Box on Jul 22, 2011 8:48:17 GMT -8
You're assuming it was his choice to erase the Super-marriage. In addition to what Michael said, there's also his 2000 proposal (with Waid and a few others) which was pretty much OMD before OMD.
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Post by K-Box on Jul 19, 2011 16:23:40 GMT -8
WELP SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE SAYING THAT WEBB'S FILM WOULD BE BETTER THAN RAIMI'S FILMS BECAUSE WE'D FINALLY GET TO SEE A WISECRACKING SPIDER-MAN
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Post by K-Box on Jul 17, 2011 20:50:14 GMT -8
Seconding Michael.
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Post by K-Box on Jul 8, 2011 19:23:34 GMT -8
Yeah, I was about to post that myself.
Between this and the spate of superhero porn parodies already out there, it's a real sign of how much of a recognized market force fandom has become.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 29, 2011 20:21:56 GMT -8
A bonus screenshot for Kirk, from the "Earth Story" DVD: Mary Tamm today: Okay, maybe it's for me too, as older imperious women in glasses just DO something for me. The lady in "Partners in Crime" was particularly delectable ... RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS
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Post by K-Box on Jun 24, 2011 21:46:54 GMT -8
Jesus, this day fucking sucked.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 24, 2011 21:46:28 GMT -8
Lt. Columbo was honest-to-God one of my role models as a kid.
That being said, with as much as he was suffering from Alzheimer's, I suspect it might have been for the best for Peter Falk.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2011 23:10:47 GMT -8
And congratulations to Kirk for his internet-Aikido victory over Stephen Wacker. I think that's the first time in my entire life that I've ever beaten anyone else by being more RESTRAINED in my behavior.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2011 21:45:12 GMT -8
Put me down for Batwing as the first cancelled too, simply because everything about it SCREAMS that it's the sort of book DC publishes KNOWING that it's going to get cancelled, but they publish it anyway simply to give themselves PC cred, so that they can say they TRIED to support a minority character.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2011 21:43:06 GMT -8
There are a lot of hobbyists, though. Imagine a 24th century SCA (after the schism when Corpora decided the cutoff was 2000, not 2012) This reminds me of an idea I'm pretty sure I stole from someone else: In the Medieval fantasy-themed world of Faerie, which still exists parallel to our own, actual paladins and barbarians and rogues relax by playing a tabletop role-playing game about a world that seems just as fantastical and unusual to them as Lord of the Rings does to us. It's called Cubicles & Computers, and it treats 9-to-5 office jobs the same way that Dungeons & Dragons treats swords and sorcery: "You failed your saving throw against getting called in to work the weekend shift! Roll to see how much damage this does to the time you'd spend watching the big game on Saturday!"
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2011 21:36:47 GMT -8
I think there's a happy medium to be struck between Roddenberry, who wanted no conflict at all, and Nicholas Meyer, who wanted the Enterprise crew to be overtly racist toward the Klingons in The Undiscovered Country (IE. "They look ugly and smell bad," that level of prejudice).
I think that intelligent, principled and well-intentioned people can have seriously snarling conflicts with one another (see also: at least one of the currently active threads on this very forum), and I don't think it compromises the idea of a better future to show people having passionate, occasionally even angry debates on those grounds, WITHOUT having the characters be racist or sexist or whatever-ist.
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