en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/604197 Comments by transfluke http://hijinksensue.com/2011/09/17/decaf-just-to-recaf-pt-2/#IDComment196454746 Is that a Star Trek original series early tricorder Joel is using? If it is...sweet! Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:30:03 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/2011/09/17/decaf-just-to-recaf-pt-2/#IDComment196454746 http://hijinksensue.com/2010/11/24/i-yam-what-i-yam-and-thats-all-what-i-yam/#IDComment111780074 Oh, how I've missed Boxcar Pete. This is a great start to the holidays. Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:51:18 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/2010/11/24/i-yam-what-i-yam-and-thats-all-what-i-yam/#IDComment111780074 http://hijinksensue.com/2010/08/02/let-your-geek-gavel-fly/#IDComment90433238 Damn, this is funny. I read the rest of her ruling and she actually has some very good ideas for alternate Spawns. She does it in a way that actually casts shame and disdain on Todd McFarlane. Who is this Judge? Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:44:21 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/2010/08/02/let-your-geek-gavel-fly/#IDComment90433238 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/04/08/v-pound-of-flesh-episode-106-video-review/#IDComment67155781 It was one soap opera cliche after another in this episode. Poor Georgie, it's too bad the V's forgot all about that mind probing technology they used to scan the life memories of Erica's son. But since they forgot all about the mind reading tech they'll just torture him because they're pure evil. It's a shame that this show keeps getting worse. Too bad ABC. Flash Forward is worse, but the pony you're backing isn't that much better. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:46:08 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/04/08/v-pound-of-flesh-episode-106-video-review/#IDComment67155781 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/04/07/battlestar-galactica-complete-series-on-blu-ray-149-99-sale/#IDComment66734598 Damn, I just bought a PS3, I can't just drop another large wad of cash. I'm not made of money...Crap! But this is over half off!! Dammit, I can't do this...but I have to do this... CRAAAPPP!!! Maybe I can pretend I never saw this. Or maybe this sale will stay in its pristine state for a few months. This is going to be a tough fight....must resist....crap Fri, 9 Apr 2010 05:41:55 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/04/07/battlestar-galactica-complete-series-on-blu-ray-149-99-sale/#IDComment66734598 http://hijinksensue.com/2010/03/23/breaking-the-syfy-cypher/#IDComment63786435 First I laughed my ass off reading this comic, and kept on laughing creating absurdly horrific monsters. Well done Joel, you have made a breakthrough. Then I clicked on the "logic" of Roger Corman link and I had another laughgasm at his dead serious justification and plot synopses for these movies. SyFy channel has a good ten years worth of content with your formula, what with all the sequels and "Son of..." spinoffs. This is gold Joel! It's gold. I want to see Manosaurus vs. ArachnoWolf. Shit, I need to pitch this to SyFy and Roger Corman right away! Hell Corman referred to James Cameron as his "protege" and that's just so damn funny because it's true! I think that you putting the SyFy cipher down on paper heralds the Apocalypse or something. Freaking hilarious!! Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:35:23 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/2010/03/23/breaking-the-syfy-cypher/#IDComment63786435 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/01/26/caprica-premiere-episode-video-review/#IDComment55640678 I really liked this pilot for Caprica. I think it's fascinating to see how a convergence of different technologies brings about the creation of the Cylons. Robotics, AI and the avatar tech that Zoe creates. I think that was the key because they already had some very basic AI, but combining it with the avatar stuff makes it into a truly sentient being. I don't quite get how the believers in a one true God become terrorists. It seems to me that a polytheistic society wouldn't really care what you believed in. Ancient Rome started out very liberal and cosmopolitan in comparison. Perhaps the soldiers of the one are the result of decades long persecution that we are not aware of at this point. It easy to use "crackpots" as a scapegoat. That way you can round them all up and persecute them. That's the direction Ancient Rome took with the Christians I guess. However, I agree that suicide bombing is a pretty big leap for the "religious minority" of Caprica. I mean, so far these monotheists don't seem to have it so bad. I guess we wait and see. It does quickly explain the confounding Cylon belief in a one true god during the future Battlestar Galactica years. When you think about it, Cylons never really had a choice in their beliefs. Their progenitor, Zoe (a brilliant teenager) just happened to be monotheistic because of issues with her parents, and her apparently decadent / empty privileged life. Apparently the Cylons we've come to know in BSG were "encoded" to be monotheistic-- hardwired into that belief because of their "Cylon Eve". It will be interesting to see where they take all of this. Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:27:44 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/01/26/caprica-premiere-episode-video-review/#IDComment55640678 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/02/01/dollhouse-epitaph-two-series-finale-video-review/#IDComment55638479 I think they did an admirable job with wrapping everything up. It's a damn shame that the series wasn't given more of a chance. I was very surprised with Eliza Dushku's performance. She really did a great job bringing Echo to life this time, especially during her breakdown scene with Priya. The resolution of this universe was quite rushed at times, but given the circumstances I would have to agree that the writers really kicked ass. Hell, if they can pull that off, imagine how amazing this series would have been over 3 or 4 seasons. It's a damn shame. Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:55:49 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/02/01/dollhouse-epitaph-two-series-finale-video-review/#IDComment55638479 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/21/who-is-jason-momoa-conan-the-barbarian-thats-who.html#IDComment53457016 I agree, Jason is a good actor and an excellent fighter. He has the physicality and intensity of a young Conan as described in the books. My favorite action/fight scenes from all the Stargate series tend to skew heavily towards Ronan. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:46:07 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/21/who-is-jason-momoa-conan-the-barbarian-thats-who.html#IDComment53457016 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/21/who-is-jason-momoa-conan-the-barbarian-thats-who.html#IDComment53456290 I thought Jason Momoa did a fine job in Stargate Atlantis. He is a decent actor and he can really dish out the action. I think he's a good choice to play Conan. I know, I know... we all loved Arnold in the role. He looked great as Conan, and when I was a kid I thought he was the ultimate example of what a warrior from these fantasy settings should look like. That is until I actually read some of the Conan stories. In the original stories he's really not a perfectly defined bodybuilder type. He's physically big, but his size is closer to Jason Momoa's build. I actually would have preferred for Ray Stevenson to take on the role because he looks and moves much closer to how Conan is described in the book. But I think Jason Momoa could also do a good job moving and fighting like Conan. If anyone has ever seen his fight work on Stargate Atlantis, for a big guy (probably over 6 ft) he is very, very fast. In the books Conan moves like a panther in battle. The Arnold physique is more of a tank. Granted, Arnold was no slouch, but there is a difference. What I'm getting at is that the Conan envisioned in the books was more of a big NFL linebacker--extremely fast and very strong. Hell, if anyone has seen Ray Stevenson's fight scenes in Rome, that's pretty much how Conan moved, which is why I wish he were doing the role. But if they're going with Momoa, hell, give him a shot. I think he'll be great. What worries me more is the script and the director. Pathfinder had it's moments, but overall it wasn't that great of a movie. The other worrisome factors are the jackass hollywood studio suits butting in and ruining everything about this latest reboot. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:42:09 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/21/who-is-jason-momoa-conan-the-barbarian-thats-who.html#IDComment53456290 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/01/16/dollhouse-the-hollow-men-s2-ep12-blog-review-video/#IDComment52374646 So true. I have always been very impressed with the other actors. I hope that in the future we see more of their work, especially in well written quality projects. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:20:51 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/01/16/dollhouse-the-hollow-men-s2-ep12-blog-review-video/#IDComment52374646 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/16/review-the-book-of-eli.html#IDComment52374076 Just got back from seeing it. I really liked it. Your review was really good. I thought it was refreshing to see an action movie that was free of some of the more tired cliches. Or in another sense these cliches were handled in a more realistic or I should say intelligent manner. Partway through the film it could have easily turned into the spunky female sidekick tagging along with the grizzled hero. Thankfully any light moments were her just logically questioning some of his actions and trying to understand the concept of faith. I think Mila Kunis is growing as an actress. I thought everything was done really well with subtlety to boot. Yeah, that ending pretty much floored me. The Hughes brothers have accomplished a lot with this post apocalyptic action movie. There is so much to think about afterwards with regards to not just the main character's abilities, but also with the role of religion in all forms. At the very end, it's clearly shown that the book Eli protects may be the last, but there are others in the same "genre". Those others probably met with the same fate after the "war", and somehow their last copies made it to safety as well. I'm going to have to watch it again. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:13:45 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/16/review-the-book-of-eli.html#IDComment52374076 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/16/review-the-book-of-eli.html#IDComment52356193 This was a great review. I was on the fence about seeing it but now I really want to go check it out. Great job. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:24:28 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/1/16/review-the-book-of-eli.html#IDComment52356193 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/01/16/dollhouse-the-hollow-men-s2-ep12-blog-review-video/#IDComment52355720 It's a damn shame about the crazy spinal fluid reveal in this episode. You guys are right. Echo doesn't block imprints, she integrates them. Using her spinal fluid to make a vaccine to fight off imprinting makes no sense. I can understand Boyd's logic. As powerful as the Rossum Corporation is, the imprinting technology would both leak out and get stolen by other corporations and governments. Hell that just happened to Google in China. However, Boyd's two year plan with Echo makes no sense. The only people who seem to resist imprinting are Victor and Sierra. No matter what imprint they get, they still remember each other- they still love each other. I think the show kind of painted themselves into a corner with the whole, "Echo is they key savior of the world" crap. If anything she is just a good version of Alpha. If you take everything that's happened, but make Victor and Sierra the main focus of the series this would have made a lot more sense. It would have been a better series because the actors portraying Victor and Sierra are a thousand times better than Eliza Dushku. Unfortunately the series was taylor made to revolve around Dushku's character. The other huge WTF is Clyde inhabiting the body of Dr. Saunders/Whiskey. What the hell!? Boyd and Saunders/Whiskey genuinely love each other. What the hell was that? Boyd is ok with this?? I guess the similarity between Clyde 5.0 and Topher was a crappy red herring. I thought Saunders/Whiskey killed Bennet in order to hurt and completely break Topher. There is a sad history between Topher and Whiskey. She seriously hates him because Topher basically made her from the "spare parts" of the dead male Dr. Saunders. Who knows what happened to the original mind that was born into the Whiskey body. I thought for sure both her and Topher would have a big confrontation about all that in this episode. She's basically a Frankenstein's monster and the first Active to become a "real" person. Just like Alpha was the first Active to integrate all imprints. Hell the series didn't really need Echo at all, but Eliza Dushku is an executive producer, hence the "painting themselves into a corner". Yep, I think this all would have been better without Echo as the main focus. I was even impressed with Summer Glau's performance as Bennet. She did a really good job becoming that character. I'm still looking forward to the finale, but it is difficult getting past all this. Boyd doesn't just love Saunders/Whiskey, he genuinely cares about Echo for some damn reason as well as everyone else- his "family". Oh, and another thing. So what if they've wiped out Boyd. Like Clyde(s) said, they have multiple backups in multiple bodies. Not only that, but blowing up Rossum's headquarters would do as much good as blowing up Google's headquarters-not much. The whole system is a distributed network. Rossum's mainframe is spread out across all the Dollhouses around the world. Destroying the center just makes all the other parts independent. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:17:38 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/01/16/dollhouse-the-hollow-men-s2-ep12-blog-review-video/#IDComment52355720 http://geektyrant.com/2009/11/change-in-direction-for-rambo-5/#IDComment43004859 I'd pay to see that. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:07:58 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/2009/11/change-in-direction-for-rambo-5/#IDComment43004859 http://geektyrant.com/2009/11/2012-raising-arizona-trailer-mash-up-make-this-movie-look-so-much-better/#IDComment42379472 Ha Ha! That was great. It actually looks like a better movie with that soundtrack attached. The expression on their faces matched up perfectly with the music. I get it now. 2012 is a comedy. A goofy, absurd romp. Maybe I'll go see it with an ipod mix of this and similar music I can listen to, while the world ends onscreen. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:59:21 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/2009/11/2012-raising-arizona-trailer-mash-up-make-this-movie-look-so-much-better/#IDComment42379472 http://www.thinkhero.com/2009/10/29/dollhouse-belonging-s2-ep4-blog-review-video/#IDComment41126660 Yes! This episode was amazing. It was so well put together that at times it felt more like an intense short film. Jonathan Frakes does a fantastic job. There was a quick scene shortly after Sierra brutally kills Nolan and she rises up. It was framed with her painting brightly lit in the background and then you see her very dark silhouette rising in front of it. That seemed to me to be a very intense metaphor of how she has now become the darkness that she feared and expressed in those small watercolors she did in the dollhouse. Wow, that is great film making tying these little details together. Her scene in the psych ward was also top notch. I agree about the pivotal exchange between Topher and DeWitt. That totally blew me away and I think it was a painful look at Topher realizing exactly what he's doing with his genius. This show is so good at making you think of many many serious implications of not just the unforseen consequences of technological advancement, but also deep questions of identity, and consciousness. I can't believe We have to wait a month for more episodes. I've watched Epitaph a couple of times and I will definitely be watching this latest episode several times as well. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:52:50 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2009/10/29/dollhouse-belonging-s2-ep4-blog-review-video/#IDComment41126660 http://geektyrant.com/2009/10/new-international-trailer-for-james-camerons-avatar/#IDComment41032257 Damn!! OK, I'm sold. Now I'm really looking forward to this without the reservations I had earlier. This looks pretty amazing. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:06:02 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/2009/10/new-international-trailer-for-james-camerons-avatar/#IDComment41032257 http://www.thinkhero.com/2009/10/14/dollhouse-belle-chose-s2-ep3-blog-review-video/#IDComment38748472 I agree with your comments and I liked this episode as well. I thought it was cool that they kind of show the beginnings of what was alluded to in the apocalyptic Epitaph episode. Topher does a remote / wireless wipe of Victor(as Terry) but things go wrong and his consciousness gets swapped with "Kiki". You can see the ambition of this series and how they want to take us forward with the far reaching consequences of the Dollhouse technology. I think those core concepts of identity, consciousness and the potential ways of manipulating them make for great sci-fi. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:59:44 +0000 http://www.thinkhero.com/2009/10/14/dollhouse-belle-chose-s2-ep3-blog-review-video/#IDComment38748472 http://geektyrant.com/2009/08/rob-zombie-will-reinvent-the-blob/#IDComment32380270 Uwe Boll reimagining 2001: A Space Odyssey...man that is just wrong. That statement alone is like a dark satanic incantation. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:17:48 +0000 http://geektyrant.com/2009/08/rob-zombie-will-reinvent-the-blob/#IDComment32380270