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PillowRock
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February 28th 09, 00:12
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Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
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PillowRock
Re: Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
But, most of the time, you probably are the only one among the people that they meet at that party, or in that office, or whatever. Within the context where you are "filed" in their brain, you are...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
February 27th 09, 16:00
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Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
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PillowRock
Re: Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
That's ONE name, not a whole cast's worth.
One or two "unique" names amongst all of the "common" ones is memorable.
Having a couple dozen names which are all unfamiliar to the point of sounding...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
February 27th 09, 00:05
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Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
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PillowRock
Re: Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
I forgive that on the basis of pure practicality, which is why I don't find it "retarded".
By the time you include the recurring characters that you would like the audience remember (people who...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
February 24th 09, 18:09
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Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
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PillowRock
Re: Galactica Season 4 (Spoilers Within)
The "all" in that statement strikes me as a severe overgeneralization.
I've never heard of an Adama or a Starbuck or a Baltar in any classical mythology.
And there certainly is not a Boomer...
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B5.world
February 11th 09, 00:20
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WB Possibly thinking Big Screen B5 movie.
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PillowRock
Re: WB Possibly thinking Big Screen B5 movie.
Given that we are on a message board for a "genre" TV show ........
Is it really necessary to have that parenthetic identification for Michelle Forbes?
Between Cain on BSG, Rho Laren on ST:TNG,...
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B5.world
February 9th 09, 23:05
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WB Possibly thinking Big Screen B5 movie.
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PillowRock
Re: WB Possibly thinking Big Screen B5 movie.
While those things definitely *can* happen, I think that stating that they categorically *will* happen in every case is an overgeneralization.
Not all A-list actors are just themselves (or a...
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B5.world
December 19th 08, 21:14
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Just Finished - Dark Genesis: The Birth of the PSI Corps
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PillowRock
Re: Just Finished - Dark Genesis: The Birth of the PSI Corps
Certainly.
But once the Corps becomes a closed society, it won't take all *that* many generations before most of them are related (at least distantly) to most of the rest of them.
I'm not talking...
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B5.world
December 19th 08, 21:07
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Crusade timeline
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PillowRock
Re: Crusade timeline
In terms of the actual shooting, I think we've already got everything that there is to get.
Anything new would be behind the scenes connections to Oswald or Ruby (or both).
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B5.world
December 18th 08, 22:33
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Just Finished - Dark Genesis: The Birth of the PSI Corps
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PillowRock
Re: Just Finished - Dark Genesis: The Birth of the PSI Corps
I believe that the 200 year period referred to is since humans *verified* telepathy and created the Psi Corps. That would be the point at which selectively breeding teeps with each other would have...
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B5.world
December 18th 08, 22:26
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B5 glitches
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PillowRock
Re: B5 glitches
Does it count as a "glitch" if real world events *forced* it?
In the tag at the end of "Severed Dreams", after the hand-to-hand combat with Clarke's boarding troops, we see Garibaldi limping and...
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B5.world
September 10th 08, 15:22
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The Most Annoying Guest Character In B5?
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PillowRock
Re: The Most Annoying Guest Character In B5?
I would have said "distrusts telepaths", and is quick to judge them negatively given *any* reason to.
He certainly didn't "hate" Talia.
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B5.world
August 13th 08, 23:53
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The Best Guest Characters in B5!
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PillowRock
Re: The Best Guest Characters in B5!
At your age?
What in hezmana do you mean by "at my age" when you're 43?
Remember the old villager in The Magnificent Seven!
"and as to women ..... I became indifferent when I was 83." ;)
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B5.world
August 7th 08, 18:31
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Lord of the Rings?
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PillowRock
Re: Lord of the Rings?
How about the "on the fly translation" jobs? ;)
Once, in the late 1980's, I went to a technical conference called "Topographic Applications of SPOT Data" (SPOT being a French acronym for the...
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B5.world
August 6th 08, 16:12
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Lord of the Rings?
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PillowRock
Re: Lord of the Rings?
Yeah, well that's translation gets to be a really interesting problem, isn't it ..... when things like rhythm or rhyming pattern are just about as important as the basic meaning of the words.
...
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B5.world
July 24th 08, 21:56
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The Most Annoying Guest Character In B5?
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PillowRock
Re: The Most Annoying Guest Character In B5?
The thing is that "purposely annoying characters done effectively" and "poorly done characters that inadvertantly become annoying" are two *very* different concepts ...... and two *very* different...
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B5.world
July 23rd 08, 18:05
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The Best Guest Characters in B5!
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PillowRock
Re: The Best Guest Characters in B5!
It depends.
What is the threshhold beyond which one no longer counts as a "guest" character?
Neroon?
Bester?
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B5.world
July 23rd 08, 17:58
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The Most Annoying Guest Character In B5?
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PillowRock
Re: The Most Annoying Guest Character In B5?
Yeah, you don't to get Ice, Action, A-rab, and Baby John on your case. ;)
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
June 12th 08, 00:06
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Universal Film Vault Fire
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PillowRock
Re: Universal Film Vault Fire
It's not clear that that was the reason why the other footage wasn't kept.
Although I do remember hearing or reading that somebody (some other very prominent director not attached to the Ambersons...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
June 11th 08, 23:52
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Universal Film Vault Fire
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1,846
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PillowRock
Re: Universal Film Vault Fire
OK, thanks anyway. I just thought that I would check and see if you knew off hand because I remembered that you had been involved with the film festival.
It seems like Criterion generally...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
June 5th 08, 19:14
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Universal Film Vault Fire
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PillowRock
Re: Universal Film Vault Fire
A quote from an article in Variety:
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June 5th 08, 00:03
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Universal Film Vault Fire
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1,846
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PillowRock
Re: Universal Film Vault Fire
They do still have all of the negatives, by all accounts.
However, what I've been reading over the last day or so is that that for many movies the fire got all of Universal's 35 mm positive...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
June 4th 08, 16:12
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Universal Film Vault Fire
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1,846
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PillowRock
Universal Film Vault Fire
You may have noticed in the news recently that there was a fire at Universal Studios. One of the things that burned was a film vault. The initial reports made it sound like a minor issue, but what...
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B5.world
May 20th 08, 00:06
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B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
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PillowRock
Re: B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
Well, no, I don't believe that is a point that is so self-evient that it does not need to be established, actually.
In my opinion, a better analogy would be whether an American was subject to...
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B5.world
May 16th 08, 00:45
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B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
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PillowRock
Re: B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
They got involved diplomatically, because it became an issue that involved other species present in the bars etc. where the fights occurred.
They did *not* apply EA laws to the Drazi for...
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B5.world
May 15th 08, 19:57
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B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
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PillowRock
Re: B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
No, they should not have.
It was always made *very* clear that on board B5, in matters that are completely internal to a particular species it is their own planetary legal system that applies. ...
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B5.world
May 15th 08, 19:44
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Scriptbook #15 Discussion - SPOILER WARNING
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PillowRock
Re: Scriptbook #15 Discussion - SPOILER WARNING
However, it is also *possible* that the influance could have gone in the other direction. That the name "Shadows" (or, the original working name of "shadowmen") might have been what twigged the...
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B5.world
May 5th 08, 22:20
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B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
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22,027
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PillowRock
Re: B5 Episodes You Prefer To Skip?
From what I understand, it was actually pretty realistic ...... for that subset of political prisoners that the powers that be want to be able to parade around in very public repentence (and...
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B5.world
May 5th 08, 21:59
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Scriptbook #15 Discussion - SPOILER WARNING
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11,816
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PillowRock
Re: Scriptbook #15 Discussion - SPOILER WARNING
My impression, though it certainly bears rechecking the intro to that section, was that the version that appears was written down after the pilot and before the series went into production.
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B5.world
May 21st 07, 20:09
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New vote for worst episode ever: Between the Darkness and the Light
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PillowRock
Re: New vote for worst episode ever: Between the Darkness and the Light
I'm curious. What exactly felt so fake to you that it would be taken as belittling the concept or victims?
I mean, there are some concessions to necessities of dramatic presentation (such as...
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B5.world
May 15th 07, 15:09
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New vote for worst episode ever: Between the Darkness and the Light
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15,182
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PillowRock
Re: New vote for worst episode ever: Between the Darkness and the Light
There's a difference between "bad" and "no fun to watch". IiRT is a lot like such movies as Sophie's Choice or Death and the Maiden: endured more than enjoyed, but extremely good at what it is...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
May 10th 07, 21:18
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Sci-Fi Debate
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PillowRock
Re: Sci-Fi Debate
Sorry. Typing without thinking between test runs at work.
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
May 10th 07, 15:39
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Sci-Fi Debate
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PillowRock
Re: Sci-Fi Debate
Well, not really. At least not by my definition of "science fiction" (see above).
Most of Jules Verne's writing is "science fiction". The fact that we have since caught up with most of the...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
May 10th 07, 15:26
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Sci-Fi Debate
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3,174
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PillowRock
Re: Sci-Fi Debate
To me, the categories are not mutually exclusive. I'm not *just* talking about SF and fantasy, but it certainly applies to them.
To my mind, if it includes fictional science or technology then it...
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B5.world
April 30th 07, 16:18
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How good are the script books?
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PillowRock
Re: How good are the script books?
Of course, that was not really an option ........ unless they wanted to scrap Sleeping in Light and rewrite and reshoot the whole thing.
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
April 27th 07, 15:07
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Brannon Braga Rocks
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PillowRock
Re: Brannon Braga Rocks
On the other hand, "predominantly logical and analytical" doesn't necessarily equate to prudish or anti-sexual either.
(Also, it is worth noting that the Borg in question *was* Human. She spent...
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B5.world
April 27th 07, 14:56
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Languages
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PillowRock
Re: Languages
A real world note to add to the mention of the "Star Wars system":
From what I've read, that is the system generally used on the international space station. Most of the time people who have...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
April 26th 07, 20:02
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Brannon Braga Rocks
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PillowRock
Re: Brannon Braga Rocks
You've never noticed that women move differently (when walking, running, etc.) when they're wearing high heals than they do when wearing gym shoes (or something similar)?
Your eyes never need to...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
April 26th 07, 18:07
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Brannon Braga Rocks
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PillowRock
Re: Brannon Braga Rocks
I could have kinda accepted Seven choosing the skin tight jump suit (and it being an reasonably in-character choice on the grounds of sleek efficiency with nothing to catch in ships moving parts or...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
April 26th 07, 17:53
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Really Hard Question
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PillowRock
Re: Really Hard Question
I have no idea about that show (being an American). However, I would expect that tracking down a specific episode title would become much more doable if you can come up with the title of the series....
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B5.world
April 25th 07, 22:55
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How good are the script books?
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5,454
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PillowRock
Re: How good are the script books?
Well, the full version of the "party line" has always been that at the end of S1 all of the relevent parties wanted basically the same thing ...... but for completely unrelated reasons.
JMS had by...
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Non-B5 books, TV & films
March 27th 07, 14:31
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The Dresden Files
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PillowRock
Re: The Dresden Files
So far, so good. Remains to be seen how it goes as series over the long haul, though.
They're building a kinda interesting collection of recurring characters ...... well, what could turn out to...
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B5.world
March 16th 07, 18:26
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Poll:
EpDis: In The Beginning
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28,079
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PillowRock
Re: EpDis: In The Beginning
Yeah, I liked the Vir-Lennier deadpan comedy team. :D
Going back and forth with stuff about: "They never tell us what's going on" .... "until it's too late" and ending saying "It makes me nervous"...
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B5.world
March 16th 07, 16:26
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Poll:
EpDis: In The Beginning
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28,079
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Re: EpDis: In The Beginning
I agree with the last sentence that some of their worst moments were times when they tried too hard to be funny.
However, I also always found plenty of humor in the show that just flowed from the...
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B5.world
March 14th 07, 16:15
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Dubbed Voiceover on "Points of Departure" ??
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PillowRock
Re: Dubbed Voiceover on "Points of Departure" ??
And the fact that what's in PoD still doesn't match what's in ItB makes it extremely unlikely that what's there now is an after-the-fact change to the dialog.
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B5.world
February 27th 07, 19:19
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A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
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PillowRock
Re: A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
Do we know that he (Boxlietner) was batting "off-hand"?
Not all right handed people *bat* right handed and not all left handed people *bat* left handed.
It is a little bit like what you see...
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B5.world
February 27th 07, 14:53
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A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
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PillowRock
Re: A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
Remember that Sheridan was also a fighter jockey. That takes reflexes, eye-hand coordination, and the ability to track and predict (in real time) trajectories.
It doesn't surprise me that the...
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B5.personnel
February 26th 07, 20:53
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Andreas Katsulas and the Oscar 2007 memorial reel
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PillowRock
Re: Andreas Katsulas and the Oscar 2007 memorial reel
Just playing Devil's Advocate for a moment:
One could just as easily argue that the only reason that the "one-armed man" was so iconic was because of The Fugitive TV show, and all of the references...
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B5.world
February 26th 07, 20:41
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A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
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12,489
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PillowRock
Re: A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
Not necessarily with the cast involved.
Or, alternatively ......
They point was to show the character engaging in the passtime of playing a sport that he had played since childhood. So...
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B5.world
February 26th 07, 20:41
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A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
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12,489
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PillowRock
Re: A B5 Complaint From a Newbie
Not necessarily with the cast involved.
Or, alternatively ......
They point was to show the character engaging in the passtime of playing a sport that he had played since childhood. So...
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B5.world
February 19th 07, 15:17
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Could The Crusade Storyline Incorporate a New Crew?
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PillowRock
Re: Could The Crusade Storyline Incorporate a New Crew?
The other side of that coin is:
The exact reasons that you give for switching those two cast members not being insurmountable even with ACtA ...... are also exactly why those two actors could...
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