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- 2014-02-14 05:52pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Recommend me some Doctor Who audios
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4369
Re: Recommend me some Doctor Who audios
I recommend the Kaldor City series. It's technically a Doctor Who thing - Kaldor City is the home of the storm mine from Robots of Death and the character Uvanov from that serial is basically the main character - though the Doctor doesn't appear. It's even a sort of wink wink tie-in with Blake's 7, ...
- 2014-02-09 06:05am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Captain America's Shield: The Physics thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4298
Re: Captain America's Shield: The Physics thread
It is both that and an actual physical object supposedly made out of an actual physical material, though by 'actual physical' I mean 'not real'. One of the endearing things about fiction is the way in which objects can stand for an represent ideas and those ideas can in turn have effects upon the ev...
- 2014-02-09 03:13am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Captain America's Shield: The Physics thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4298
Re: Captain America's Shield: The Physics thread
The shield is like Steve Rogers' patriotism made manifest as a physical object. It certainly has properties, but none of them really correspond to the material universe as we understand it.
- 2014-02-03 03:53am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Rowling says Harry and Hermione should have gotten married.
- Replies: 112
- Views: 13082
Re: Rowling says Harry and Hermione should have gotten marri
Ron and Hermoine makes more sense in the films because it started getting teased as early the third movie, while the books are pretty silent on the idea for ages. Harry and Ginny makes more sense in the films because, like, people grew up in the films, you know? You can actually see the physical cha...
- 2014-01-02 04:25pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: There's too much fucking Dalek's in the new Doctor Who
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6147
Re: There's too much fucking Dalek's in the new Doctor Who
Those people are going to have to grow up at some point.
- 2014-01-02 02:10am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Why Has Namor Been Forsaken?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6813
Re: Why Has Namor Been Forsaken?
Well it's a very Namor thing to do.
- 2014-01-02 02:04am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: There's too much fucking Dalek's in the new Doctor Who
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6147
Re: There's too much fucking Dalek's in the new Doctor Who
The problem with Daleks in Manhattan is that it didn't stick. If it had actually been a game changer for the Daleks it would have been better, but it feels like a whole lot of go nowhere. Which is a pity because it has what is probably one of the few truly great moments in Doctor Who (Dalek Caan rem...
- 2013-12-21 04:04am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Robocop 2014
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10803
Re: Robocop 2014
The new film looks like ass. It particularly shits me that the cool and smart Officer Lewis has been replaced by a man who dies, leaving the major female presence in the film to a weepy wife cliche trying to get the cold protagonist to feel again.
- 2013-12-13 01:40am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Edge of Tommorow (Movie)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4022
Re: Edge of Tommorow (Movie)
Yeah, it still had the name of the Japanese novel it is (badly) adapting.Ahriman238 wrote:I remember when this project was first unveiled and it had a different name.
- 2013-12-09 06:20am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: A manga gem
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2709
Re: A manga gem
Your lack of omniscience, probably.bilateralrope wrote:If it finished 5 years ago, and is as good as krakonfour says it is, why is this the first I've heard of it ?
- 2013-11-27 01:56am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Questions on Sahaquiel from Evangelion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1931
Re: Questions on Sahaquiel from Evangelion
All of this shit is actually addressed in the episode. Speculation based on a couple of clips is pointless. Critically, Sahaquiel isn't a purely kinetic impactor. In both versions it is reliant on using its AT field as part of its suicide attack. They can't 'put it down' because the only thing stopp...
- 2013-10-17 09:20pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Pacific Rim Re-Pick: grab some Mecha for Kaiju defense
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6592
Re: Pacific Rim Re-Pick: grab some Mecha for Kaiju defense
Size isn't everything. God Gundam can jump into space.Majin Gojira wrote:These have powerful weapons, certainly, but if the Kaiju gets in close, they can be thrown around like rag dolls or ripped apart in seconds.
Frankly Domon on his own is arguably capable of knocking the teeth out of a lot of kaiju.
- 2013-10-17 09:45am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Pacific Rim Re-Pick: grab some Mecha for Kaiju defense
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6592
Re: Pacific Rim Re-Pick: grab some Mecha for Kaiju defense
Evangelions are more than 60m tall in the television series, going by some production art in the Evangelion Newtype 100% Collection. The new theatrical editions Evangelions are more more than 80m.Formless wrote:Evas [...] ~40m tall
- 2013-10-04 10:04am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: New Pokemon Anime
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1924
Re: New Pokemon Anime
Oh my god Charmander is losing his shit.
- 2013-10-01 04:51am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Korra book 2- Spirits- trailer and discuss
- Replies: 239
- Views: 36378
Re: Korra book 2- Spirits- trailer and discuss
Unalaq being outed as a villain this early on makes me think there's a twist coming.
- 2013-09-24 06:37pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Korra book 2- Spirits- trailer and discuss
- Replies: 239
- Views: 36378
Re: Korra book 2- Spirits- trailer and discuss
It was a tad irresponsible of Kya and Bumi to try to guild-trip Tenzin when his daughter is missing isn't it? They didn't exactly bring it up out of the blue. Here's my question why are Kya and Bumi both childless, they are the son and daughter of an airbender after all. Because they're human being...
- 2013-09-20 09:14pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
Well, since the thread's already off on tangents, I'm curious as to why you think Finch was a fuck-up (I'm not saying that in a negative way - I'm genuinely curious). You know how Atticus' whole thing is how he's the only guy that will stand up in the racist town and defend Tom Robinson? And how th...
- 2013-09-20 07:04pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
So wait, you're allowing that specialist knowledge is a reason for people to be less engaged with a film - even hate, to use your own example - but then still mocking him over it? Yes, that's exactly correct. I've come to hate To Kill a Mockingbird because it presents Atticus Finch as a shining her...
- 2013-09-20 02:11am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
Attitude or not, it's just a different level of willingness to suspend disbelief. Just because you can do it entirely for this film doesn't mean that everyone else can or should, especially if they have some knowledge of the subject matter. I don't know shit about orbital mechanics but had absolute...
- 2013-09-20 12:18am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
No it's not. Yes, it is. It doesn't actually further our intellectual understanding of and engagement with the film. Films being dramatic products made up of many varied aspects all coinciding due to the work of many people, as opposed to just this one thing about the special effects that takes up ...
- 2013-09-19 10:01pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
Except you're not. You're right, I'm actually just engaging in the 'mockery of stupid people' thing proudly displayed on the SDN logo. This stuff is meaningless. It's not a documentary. It doesn't market itself on being a highly realistic depiction of orbital mechanics. It's a film, it's a dramatic...
- 2013-09-19 06:42pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
I'm critiquing the critique.Guardsman Bass wrote:If you don't give a shit, Ford, why the fuck are you even posting in this thread?
- 2013-09-19 09:05am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
Ford, would you say "Who cares?" if the movie had someone's car break down in New Mexico and they ended up having to walk to Melbourne to get to safety? Yes. ps. I bet you liked The Good, The Bad and The Ugly even though it's geographically nonsensical. The point is that literally none of...
- 2013-09-19 01:50am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
This is serious cry me a river territory.
Really, it is. I could make an article for every single episode of Boston Legal and its (sometimes very serious) errors in its depiction of the legal profession, but who gives a shit? It's just a TV show.
Really, it is. I could make an article for every single episode of Boston Legal and its (sometimes very serious) errors in its depiction of the legal profession, but who gives a shit? It's just a TV show.
- 2013-09-19 12:01am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoilerish
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11821
Re: Orbital Inclination? What's that? Gravity (film) spoiler
Nobody cares. The film is about human drama in circumstances of isolation.