a question left best unexplored.
Must....resist....going....SWgeek.....
The count of three isn't a plan. It's Sesame Street.
Buffy ,'First Date'
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Una - Jun 26, 2005 8:08:10 pm PDT #4617 of 10002
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Mr. Broom - Jun 26, 2005 10:07:07 pm PDT #4618 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
On a planet that is mostly desert, I don't see why moisture could not be considered a crop.
Volans - Jun 26, 2005 10:59:03 pm PDT #4619 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Why these vaporators, which almost certainly use a very, very simple running principle, are so likely to break down in Star Wars canon is a question left best unexplored.
They get clogged with sand?
"Sexist McCrucifixion" is PERFECT.
Nicklas - Jun 26, 2005 11:08:52 pm PDT #4620 of 10002
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
But...it's really good.
"Nooooooooooooooooooo!"
Jim - Jun 26, 2005 11:15:45 pm PDT #4621 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Why these vaporators, which almost certainly use a very, very simple running principle, are so likely to break down in Star Wars canon is a question left best unexplored.
Because the Fremen sabotage them lest they reduce the amount of moisture available for Liet-Kynes plan to make Arrakis a garden?
Nutty - Jun 27, 2005 3:20:17 am PDT #4622 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Good morning, all. I saw Batman Begins last night. I found it big and explodey and dumb, and it totally failed to transmit any real city-ness in its cityscape. It just screamed fake, to me, and not in that "I am so fake I come around the bend back to a wack realism" thing that Tim Burton does.
Also, call me picky, but aren't humans 80% water? If your weapon is designed to vaporize the water supply, why isn't it also vaporizing humans? And if you have a weapon that can vaporize humans, why the elaborate hoodoo with the water supply? Get your act together you stupid villains!
Katie Holmes is a waste of skin. Not that that is news. The best character by a very long stretch was Scarecrow, although his motivation made no sense (and, Cillian Murphy is wee!). Batman did nothing for me, and that is a bad sign when he is the title character. He should have been scarier. Even if the plot had made a lick of sense, I wouldn't have liked the movie with that anger-management Batman.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2005 3:52:07 am PDT #4623 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nutty, how do you feel about the Batman character in general? When you describe him as anger management, I think, well, that's Batman. If you don't buy that, you don't buy my Batman.
tommyrot - Jun 27, 2005 4:21:44 am PDT #4624 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nutty, I picked the same nit.
I'm glad that I had fewer nits to pick with Serenity than Batman Begins.
Because the Fremen sabotage them lest they reduce the amount of moisture available for Liet-Kynes plan to make Arrakis a garden?
That, or they're constantly getting clogged with sandworm droppings.
Nutty - Jun 27, 2005 4:56:06 am PDT #4625 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
When I say anger-management Batman, I mean, he is too sane and has thought everything through too much. I think he works much better as someone who does not know himself, or knows himself poorly, or lies to himself at regular intervals. I am not interested in anger-management Batman; I am interested in anger Batman.
Because, someone who knows himself in the fullness of day would also be self-aware enough to know how silly the bat-suit looks.
Scrappy - Jun 27, 2005 5:14:13 am PDT #4626 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I thought the water vaporizer worked only on loose water--water in combination with other elements (like in a tree or a man or pudding) would not be affected. This didn't seem odd to me--the machine would only vaporize water if, say, certain parts of the molecue were intact, ones which wouldn't be affected by the drug but which would be affected by being part of a living organism.