- ceywren
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Re: The Grand Illusion
"It's not that it's such a mystery This new-found malaise. It's just that this mystery Has taken your place."
-Gordon Downie, Mystery-
- Genisis X
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31 pages? Hellooooo reg?
*sigh*
Its just so normal without reg :P
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- ceywren
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bwahahahahaha! there is only one ghost and i am she!
"It's not that it's such a mystery This new-found malaise. It's just that this mystery Has taken your place."
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- Ren
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Re: The Grand Illusion
Anyone wtach the Finale for Sarah Connor Chronicles?...nice! Hoping to see it come back!
"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people" - Hurley, Lost
- Ren
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I thought this was a joke when is saw it, turns out it's actually serious, seriously funny...a Muslim Sitcom...natch it's canadian cause it'd NEVER air in the US...partly because it's actually fairly respectful of Islam and it's practicioners...
Little Mosque on the Prarie http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/tele … airie.html
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"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people" - Hurley, Lost
- Ren
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LOST - Hmmm...not sure if I liked this episode didn't really flow all that well for me...no really big revelations...I mean, it's not like we can trust Ben to tell the truth can we? Though it does make a kind of sense as he was the one that bought the book...*shrug*
"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people" - Hurley, Lost
- Rook
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Ren wrote:I thought this was a joke when is saw it, turns out it's actually serious, seriously funny...a Muslim Sitcom...natch it's canadian cause it'd NEVER air in the US...partly because it's actually fairly respectful of Islam and it's practicioners...
Little Mosque on the Prarie http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/tele … airie.html
You know, that's a pretty hilarious title... but the more I think about it, the more it sounds like a pretty interesting sitcom. A small mosque in the middle of a prairie province, eh? I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work. CBC, by the way, has always have some pretty awesome slice-of-life comedies. "Beachcombers," about life in a tiny fishing community, was one of my favorite shows while growing up.
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Ren wrote:LOST - Hmmm...not sure if I liked this episode didn't really flow all that well for me...no really big revelations...I mean, it's not like we can trust Ben to tell the truth can we? Though it does make a kind of sense as he was the one that bought the book...*shrug*
Did Ben buy the Black Rock book? Did I miss that? *confuzzled*
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- Ren
- Pilgrim
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LOST - Spoilerish! . . No Charles Widmore bought the book, thus learning about the island nearly eight years ago and has been searching for it since then...
Wooo Eeenteresting episode...started off a little slow but ended up with several good bangs at the end... A flash Forward AND a Flashback?...Whooah...cool that at least Sun still likes/will talk to Hurley and they seem to be Mutually agreed on not wanting to spend time with the others...mind you thats from the very briefy exchange...
Hurley: "Anyone else coming?" Sun: "No." Hurley: "Good!" ...Both smile a little
I saw Michael's return from last week, unfortunately got it spoiled a little but had forgotten he would be back...question is WHY? and how did BEN get him to be his inside man?
And WOW was Juliette mean...effective but DAMN...THAT was shocker enough, but she was right too. Glad to see them generally doing more with characters other than Jack/Kate/Locke/Sawyer and to me in all honesty, I'm mostly kind of bored of them...the other characters are far more interesting...
"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people" - Hurley, Lost
- Em
- Mantis
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Interesting thought re Lost:
Depends on which side of the whole "Pro Life/Pro Choice" debate you line up on, but wouldn't Sun and Jin's baby count as an additional survivor of the flight? Shouldn't they be referred to as "TransAtlantic Seven"?
Someday will find you.
- Ren
- Pilgrim
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depends on how you're counting, plus Jin's Baby was not conceived until after they were on the island...so he didn't survive the crash.
The "Oceanic Six" Jack Kate Hurley Sayid Sun Aaron - unborn at time of the crash but still technically a survivor - or - Unknown body in the Coffin...
Ben was already on the island so doesn't count
"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people" - Hurley, Lost
- strangeshe
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LOST spoilers.....
Loved last night's ep. Made me go through some tissues, it did, though I was half-prepared for the twist, having guessed early that Jin's bit was a flashback (he looked too young & harried for me to think it was a flash forward -- despite the possibility of blaming it on being a new father *shrug*; plus, I didn't buy that he'd be so late to Ji-Yeon's birth just for a Panda). (Just looked it up: Ji-Yeon means either "delay" or "flower of wisdom". Nifty.)
So, is Jin really dead? His marker is dated 9/22/2004, the date of the crash. Was the marker put up when news of the crash went out? Seems there's still a possibility for Jin (or so I'm really hoping).
The discussion between Captain Gault and Sayid & Desmond: loved the question about just who has the money to stage a faked crash (Ben, of course -- if you believe as Miles does that Ben has easy access to multi-millions; or maybe Widmore? Someone who didn't want people to come looking for survivors, at least.). And just where *did* he/they get 324 bodies to fake it with?
Apparently the boat is stuck, too?? though they expect they can move to "safer waters"... but the crew is getting "cabin fever"? (How long have they been out there?)
I don't know that Hurley and Sun are mutually agreed about not wanting to spend time with the other 'survivors', necessarily. It could have more to do with the big secret they all have to keep now that they're back. And I'm still debating whether Aaron is one of the 6... technically not a passenger.
How does Abbaddon fit in with the Ben/Widmore rivalry?
And lately more idle wild speculation: could ol' Smokey be Jacob?
(Another bit picked up from elsewhere (EW.com) that's kinda cool: the book that Regina was reading upside-down was Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne, "an 1875 novel of psychological suspense about — get this — the castaways of a grounded ship who start killing themselves from madness and despair. Interestingly enough, the books that Verne published before and after Survivors of the Chancellor have some powerful Lost resonances: Mysterious Island (also 1875) is, of course, considered an essential text, but then there's Michael Strogoff (1876), about a spy on a mission named...Michael. His lady love? A woman who shares the name of Sayid's Iraqi sweetheart, Nadia.")
Gah. I want more -- now!
- Em
- Mantis
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Oops - I meant "Oceanic Six."
I interpret that to mean the people who survived the crash and were rescued.
Didn't include anyone that was on the island at the time.
Doesn't matter if they were in utero when they arrived on the island.
We have seen evidence that:
Jack Kate Hurley Sayid Sun Aaron
Were saved from the island and were on the Oceanic flight. Thus, they are the "Oceanic Six."
One could argue, that if they are including Aaron as being on the Oceanic flight (which seems to be they are), they should include Sun's daughter, because said daughter was rescued from the island, along with Sun.
Someday will find you.
- strangeshe
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But Ji-Yeon wasn't even conceived until after the flight crashed, and wasn't born until after the rescue. In fact, if Sun got off the island before all the bad symptoms were to begin, she may not even have been showing when the journalists coined the phrase "Oceanic Six".
I think Aaron is still debatable, though journalists are a lazy lot & may not be considering technicalities of flight manifests & such...
I also think there's a slight possibility that Sayid is not one of the 6 (unless someone comes along & reminds me that he was specifically referred to as one of the 6 in his ep; sieve memory, me). Since Ben is off the island & secretly so (assumedly), and Sayid's working as his hit-man, perhaps Sayid came along with Ben & not with the "Six" when rescued, so he could move around and work fairly anonymously.
Just saying there's still some wiggle room.....
- Em
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strangeshe wrote:Just saying there's still some wiggle room.....
With Lost, there's always wiggle room. I think they'll be throwing things at us and not explaining them until the final episode.
Someday will find you.
- Ren
- Pilgrim
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Hrmmm I need to peruse more of the Lost Sites for some of that, it seems that EVERY book ever shown or referenced has meaning...
I am guessing that Abaddon is Widmore's "Right Hand Man"...ie his Dirty Works Guy
Smokey = Jacob...it DOES make sense as when Jacob was pissed off he slammed stuff around...the question though...what is Jacob then?
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- Jendaiya
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ARGH!!! I've missed, like, the whole Lost season. I'm going to have to pick it up somewhere. I feel really stupid for missing it.
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- fangler
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Just thought some of you might be interested. As reported in Variety:
Sam Raimi's syndie original "Wizard's First Rule" is set to bow in all of the top 50 markets in the US. The ABC/Disney show, based on the "Sword of Truth" books by Terry Goodkind, is greenlit for 22 episodes and will begin production in May.
Now it looks like the action/fantasy show will preside over a nonfictional kingdom, as well: "Rule," which is sold station-by-station, has been cleared in 84% of the country in the not quite six weeks it's been on sale.
The weekly hourlong series follows Richard Cypher, a young man who makes his living leading people through dangerous forests, as he investigates the murder of his father and finds himself opposing Darken Rahl, the son of an evil wizard.
Goodkind's popular novels, first published in the mid-nineties, span 11 volumes so far.
"Wizard's First Rule" will be shot in HD.
- Pretzalz
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Watched the first 2 episodes of the Return of Jezzebel James. Coco, Claire from Six Feet Under, is good(but to be fair she didn't have many lines and maybe its the writers that suck). But the other female lead really can't act.
Jane: Ohh, you are trying to deal with your loneliness by surrounding yourself with friends, hmm, how's that going to work?
- fangler
- Pilgrim
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That's funny, because I love Parker Posey and think she's great. I have yet to watch JJ but I have heard it is terrible and Posey is horribly miscast, which could be why the first two episodes are still sitting on my DVR.
I did watch an incredibly fun show on G4 last night, though. Ninja Warrior: Female edition. Basically 100 women from all walks of life compete on a massive obstacle course. They take the course one at a time and try for the fastest time. Most don't even get past the first few obstacles. It was extremely fun in a hokey sort of way. Catch it if you can.
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Rook wrote:Ren wrote:I thought this was a joke when is saw it, turns out it's actually serious, seriously funny...a Muslim Sitcom...natch it's canadian cause it'd NEVER air in the US...partly because it's actually fairly respectful of Islam and it's practicioners...
Little Mosque on the Prarie http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/tele … airie.html
You know, that's a pretty hilarious title... but the more I think about it, the more it sounds like a pretty interesting sitcom. A small mosque in the middle of a prairie province, eh? I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work. CBC, by the way, has always have some pretty awesome slice-of-life comedies. "Beachcombers," about life in a tiny fishing community, was one of my favorite shows while growing up.
I know this is kind of an old post...
It's a pretty cute little show. I *think* it's in its second season. I don't watch it much because I don't watch much tv anymore.
It seems fairly respectful (I can't really tell for certain), while at the same time challenging several side of issues--in a cute and harmless sort of way. :)
Beauty will save the world.
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The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- Ren
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Yes it does a fairly good job in not being insulting to any viewpoints. Though for a sitcom even the "fanatics" are kinda tame, but I think the idea is to show Muslim's in a more respectful and day-to-day life kind of way. Though the humor and exchanged barbs are pretty well done.
Great line from one episode I watched last night; Sarah - "Don't we have a new testament around here, or even an old one?" Yasser - "If I had a new one, wouldn't I just throw the old one away?"
"You know, if you ate more comfort food you'd probably kill less people" - Hurley, Lost
- Musa
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Jendaiya wrote:ARGH!!! I've missed, like, the whole Lost season. I'm going to have to pick it up somewhere. I feel really stupid for missing it.
Go to ABC.com. You can watch all the episodes this season online for free. :P
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- Musa
- Pilgrim
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Wolfshade wrote:only if you live in the US I think
Really? Oh, my....
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