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I heard rumor that Winona Ryder was cast to play Spock's Vulcan(?) mother. Hmm. Trek fans know that Spock is half-human on his mother's side. Maybe the rumor was wrong. I can't imagine Ryder playing Amanda Grayson. I remember Jane Wyman playing Amanda in ST:4. They don't look anything alike.

Nobody has been providing any updates of what has been going on. I have heard from some who think the series is suffering a sophomore slump. We'll see. Lots of interesting plot revelations and twists just got revealed tonight. Supposedly, next week will reveal much of what happened in the four months in between. Hopefully the writer's strike isn't going to cause severe problems for this show also. Beware Adam.

Poor Romano never had luck with helicopters. First his arm, then 2 years later, one falls on him and kills him. I stopped watching it about 3 years ago. Prior to that, I used to watch it religiously, but as the original characters left, I found less to keep me hooked. I started watching it again this season and was amazed how much has changed. Even the intro, with James Newton Howard's haunting theme, is gone. I almost get the feeling that Crichton and Wells aren't even involved with it anymore other than collecting a paycheck from it.

If they are trying to make fun of the whole political-correct, racial-divided, or preconceived-notions concept, they failed utterly. When I first heard the 'keep your penis in your genus' joke, I thought it was slightly amusing, but on further review, I decided that it wasn't. Character development flat. Writing stunk. Nothing funny.

QUOTE (pt2112 @ Sep 9 2007, 08:56 PM)Is the Bowie song Heroes the theme song to this by any chance? Actually, the music is composed by Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin, formerly of 'Prince and the Revolution,' with vocals by Shenkar. I never had a chance to actually watch from the beginning, even though I DVR'ed as many ep's as possible onto my computer. Problem is, I discovered that trying to watch TV on the computer, even with a 19" screen is difficult. So I never got to watch them. I got the DVD set a couple of weeks ago and had a viewing marathon. Good show. Now that I have a regular DVR, I should be able to keep up with this season. **spoiler** Now, on to Volume 2. Lots of new questions, several answers from last season, and some new story threads. What is Maya's power, that resulted in the coyotes dying, and why does Alejandro have to stay with her? Maybe he can surpress abilities, the way the Haitian could last season. The villian Molly sees, but who can also see her, may be even worse than Sylar. Gotta wonder just how bad. Not too surprising that Kensei was actually a scam artist, although it was mildly surprising that he was a gaijin. Gotta wonder how long Hiro will stay in the past. One figures it will be until Kensei actually steps up and becomes the hero of the storybook legends. Why did Nathan not take the Congressional seat, falling out of public view? Other than a sense of guilt for what his mother and Linderman tried to make him allow happen, I think he could have continued on. After all, he knew that Peter survived. Mohinder and Bennett are definitely playing a dangerous game with the Company. Interesting to see there is another flyer on the show. How long before we see Niki, DL, and Micah again? And who was it that killed Hiro's father?

"There's something on the WING!" "Wanna see something really scary?"

How in the world did this end up on YouTube? I figured shows like this were lost forever. I only recall seeing the pilot and maybe a few other episodes. But the whole adventure angle was definitely interesting to a 11 year old kid. Sadly, as is usually the problem with period shows at the time, production was too expensive to continue if the viewer numbers were not high enough. So it only lasted a year. I remember CBS tried their own adventure show, "Bring 'Em Back Alive," based on the old Frank Buck serials. I never got to see it because we couldn't receive the CBS affiliate where I lived. *spoiler* Remember that the Gold Monkey idol was actually brass? As it turned out the real Gold Monkey was MUCH larger.

I have to say Cygnus X-1. Most of the others listed, he never gets higher than a high A, but in X-1, he reaches a high B.

QUOTE (Necromancer @ May 13 2007, 12:25 PM)QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ May 13 2007, 02:56 PM) I agree with all that. Nothing to add. There's NO way that scene with walberg is REAL. Yeah... you know which one i'm talking about. The one where he does that cool dive. I'm sure it was a stunt man. I'm sure you got a few of us on that one. Funny question is, suggesting that most people have a fixation on something like that, like the money shot, does that suggest that we have some latent homosexual issues, or that we're just fascinated with the unusual, even those things that we're taught to be repulsed by? In my case, until about six months ago, I had not seen this movie, but I had seen the discussion about it on VH1's 'I Love the 90's.' And, of course, they discussed the final scene, and showed it while graphically blocking the prop. So, while I was watching the film, I knew the scene was coming, I knew what it was going to show, but instead of looking away or skipping past the scene, I watched anyway. Maybe it was just a curiosity of how big the prosthetic really was. btw, what a name. Doesn't it just make you think of acres and acres of Midwestern wheat fields?

QUOTE (liquidcrystalcompass @ Apr 5 2007, 02:05 PM)Mystery Woman: You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood in the back of the cathedral, waiting in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother. Oh, please, don't kill us. Please, please don't kill us. You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault.

Mercer: Hi! You wanna hand me the mike? Thanks a lot. Hi, this is car... what number are we? Mount: five-five Mercer: Car fifty five. Umm... we're in a truck!

Police dispatcher: Use of unneccessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers... has been approved.

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Mar 21 2007, 07:16 AM)What is the DEAL with George Lucas? IMO, his success with American Graffiti, the first Star Wars trilogy, and Raiders inflated his ego to the point that he thinks only he knows what is quality film making. Consider everything afterward. We know Howard the Duck was garbage. Tucker was supposed to be good, but it ended up being boring. Young Sherlock Holmes was a bust. The Star Wars prequel trilogy seemed to be a victim of lazy writing and directing. So many times, it seemed to me that George just said, 'I know Anakin turns evil, but I can't think of a good reason why, so I'll just hack together a reason.' So now he thinks that only he knows what is a good story for Indy 4? Ridiculous. Maybe Darabont should take his Indy 4 script, change some characters and situations, and remake it as another film.

Interesting to consider the track records of the filmmakers who are/were involved. Darabont - Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile Spielberg - need I say more? Lucas - three words: Howard the Duck That being said, I would venture that if Lucas hadn't axed Darabont's script, not only would the movie have been made by now, but it would have probably been considered the best Indiana Jones film ever. Now, if it does get made, it probably won't be any better than Temple of Doom.

I'm not familiar with copyright law, but I suspect that if you are going to do a parody, it has to be of your own design. I think the only exception is that you will not profit from it, in which case it is artistic license. A TV show like Family Guy definitely does not fall into that category. From what the story says, all they did was copy her 'cleaning lady' character, which she has exclusive rights to.

QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Mar 15 2007, 02:09 PM)from Blue Velvet: Dorothy: Hello, baby. Frank Booth: It's "daddy" you shithead, where's my bourbon? "Daddy wants to f**k."

I used to find it very amusing when Joel Hodgson was the lead in the show. He and the 'bots just seemed to have a good flow. When he left and Mike Nelson took over, I thought something was missing, even though Mike had been the head writer for the show since the beginning. Then after the show moved to Sci Fi, I couldn't follow it at all. I think at that time Trace Beaulieu, who played Dr Clayton Forrester and was the primary producer of the show, abandoned the show at the same time. It just wasn't the same. I seem to recall the most amusing episodes were "The Killer Shrews," and "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."

No Spice Girls on the list? For Shame!!!! Can you really say that Fleetwood Mac is a Brit band, considering two of the members are American? I realize their first level of success was as a Brit blues band, but their mainstream success came after hiring Buckingham and Nicks.

I was six when it originally aired. I remember it was a big deal at school as geneology was a hot topic at the time. I recall my mother wanted to watch this, but my stepfather did not as he was a racist and bigot and didn't want to watch a story about a bunch of 'n____'s on TV.' So I think she only got to see the first episode (he wasn't home at the time). And this was before VCRs were available cheaply on the home market, so she couldn't have a friend record it for her. I don't remember seeing much except one scene. The slow motion scene of Kunta on the beach surrounded by the slave traders, netted, shackled, screaming in rage and despair as he knows he is no longer a free man. A couple of years ago I borrowed the DVDs from my sister and got to watch the whole series. Some of the writing was a little dated, but otherwise it was a very good story.

Something I just read on MSN stated that New Line, which got the right to produce the movie from MGM, who will distribute it, will not hire Jackson to make The Hobbit. Apparently this has to do with a current lawsuit between Jackson and New Line regarding money owed to him from DVD sales of Fellowship. He stated he didn't want to discuss working on The Hobbit with New Line until this was resolved. So they told him they are going on without him.

QUOTE (Batman @ Nov 15 2006, 02:12 PM)Anyone still watching this. I am loving the new doctor. Trying to, although finding the time is difficult. I did think Eccleston's Doctor was interesting, kind of a rebel. Tennant's Doctor kind of hearkens back to the older ones, although he kind of comes across like Davison's version.

Probably one of the most interesting things about the first two films was the ability of Carpenter to scare the pants off everyone and show some pretty violent deaths without showing a lot of blood and gore. His music definitely did a lot to create the mood. The films are almost Gothic horror. And of course all fans know that the mask was William Shatner.

QUOTE (Maddy @ Oct 27 2006, 05:21 PM)"The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" by the Beach Boys (that's going to be me - the little old lady with the really hot car ) Go Granny! Go Granny! Go Granny, GO!

I'll probably get flamed for this one, and it's not a favorite, but... Little Red Corvette - Prince For Oldies, there was: Hot Rod Lincoln - Charlie Ryan (originally Hot Rod Race by Arkie Shibley And His Mountain Dew Boys) Dead Man's Curve- Jan & Dean

Wierd Science had a message. Lisa was trying to get the guys to be confident in themselves in order to find true love. How about Some Kind of Wonderful? I always enjoyed the look on Keith and Duncan's faces near the end when Amanda slaps Hardy... twice! She's Having A Baby: I guess this was more young adult, but Kevin Bacon's character seemed rather immature for most of the film. Even though he was an adult with adult responsibilities, you got the sense he wanted to still be a kid, until his wife almost loses the baby. That whole segment still makes me weepy. John Hughes was the master of the 80's coming of age film. Even if he didn't direct them, he still had the midas touch.