Be Excellent To Each Other

Well, we can but hope he recovers. Whilst many may not be massive fans of his, the alternative is the likes of Bachmann handing out the death penalty for people carrying out abortions, removing the teaching of evolution in schools and replacing it with Creationism in science classes, etc.

Chris - she said the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation in children, citing 'a woman she spoke to'.

Even the other Rep candidates laughed at her, and even the staunchest Republican news networks and commentators called her an idiot.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... s-in-fact/

Oh, hah.

Thank god she's polling 3rd then.

Hah!

She's polling 6th now.



http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... omination/

Squirrels cock ruins telly bake off

http://gawker.com/5847203/

FFS. Christina Perri is doing a one off gig in London next week, for what appears to be a media showcase, as there are no tickets anywhere. She's ace, so I'm hoping I can blag guestlist passes.

For Pete

http://xkcd.com/556/

BSG s1e9 Tigh me up Tigh me down isn't very good.

Tigh's one of the more annoying pointless one dimensional characters tbh, so any episode focussing on him is going to be shite.

I just bought the first series of Robotech, so am going to have some fun this evening.

You have much more faith in the American public than I do then.

The polling said she'd lose. Which is fairly obvious, as whilst she would mobilise the traditional Republican base, she would utterly, utterly alienate the relatively moderate swing voters that either side needs to win over in order to get elected.

BSG s1e10

Babylon 5...

Babylon 5 is the sort of show that people will tell you it gets really good in the later seasons, but you have to watch the first couple of seasons to get into it.

They lie, they only say that because they have suffered the pain and can't admit to themselves that they wasted their time, so fool themselves that it was worth the investment.
From the simply awful acting from 95% of the cast, with the main actor for the first series being the worst actor to ever be put on TV, to the final 3 episodes which were 3 solid hours of everyone travelling round saying goodbye to each other... and literally nothing else, to the director's commentary posts that he made on usenet at the time of broadcast, where he is so far up his own ass he can swallow his own tongue from the inside., Babylon 5 is simply some of the worst TV ever shown.

Not purely because of how bad it is, it isn't that bad on it's own merits, some episodes even manage to raise themselves to the giddy heights of mediocrity. It's the fans who will tell you how amazing it is that really drag it down to the depths of hell. Without them it would be forgettable, with them you will be forced to remember as they bring the subject up again and again and again.

*opens popcorn*

I watched s1 to s4 with Helen a few months ago. I think it's still pretty good. So ner, Mr Poopy Head.

We're watching Twin Peaks now that the Gold Edition is out. Boy oh boy does it go batshit in season 2 - far more so than I remember. Really no surprise it didn't get picked up for a third.

It may well be a minority view, but that doesn't make it any less right...

I have no real idea if Babylon 5 is any good or not, my gut instinct was always to turn over immediately. Normally my gut instincts are pretty good with telly programmes, though not infallible. I've recently enjoyed episodes of Scrubs because my wife likes it. I don't expect we'll ever investigate Babylon 5, though.

I...
You fucking what?

You heard me.

And you're in no position to start getting all "you're soooo wrong" after your comments in the movie thread, mister.

Then again the main thing you have to remember about Tigh is



So, there's that.

Babylon 5 looks absolute gash.

I love Sci-fi films, but the only Sci-Fi TV series I've ever loved have been, Star Trek (Picard era), Original Battle Star Galactica and Buck Rodgers.

Blimey. Really?

Buck Rodgers, Star Fleet, Terrahawks, New BSG, Sliders, Quantum Leap, some TNG, DS9, GitS. Possibly some others, I'll have a think.
EDIt - Farscape, Firefly (FIREFLY FFS), Space Above and Beyond, Star Wars - The Clone Wars...

It is, don't let any of the deluded try and trick you into watching it.

Wait, no, watch the first episode and then make your mind up, it doesn't get any better...

I'm not really much for Sci-Fi generally, which is why the Firefly boxed set that GJ kindly loaned to me is still unwatched.

Firefly's not Sci-fi, it's cowboys in space.

It's not like your 'normal' sci-Fi though.

First written warning.

It...really doesn't work like that.

I don't like cowboy stuff either.

What doesn't? You don't know what you're querying.

But it's funny!

It's not like watching Star Trek or Bonanza!

I'll watch an episode or two over the weekend and report back.

Animated stuff is generally great, I'm talking about human actor Sci-Fi in tight clothes and rubber masks.

Also Quantum Leap is Earth based, rather than Spacey so that's different too.

I thought you might have enjoyed that stuff.

Don't let it put you off wearing them, I still enjoy your tapes.

I'm not going to respond to the clearly wrong in this thread about B5

First few seasons of stargate SG1 are really worth watching - the first time you watch them when you are learning what's going on and seeing everything unfold along with the characters is one of the all time highlights of television.

I want it on my desk by Sunday evening.

I enjoyed B5 thoroughly. This is, of course no reason for anyone else to like it.

Natch

I've come to the conclusion that when someone says "don't worry, it happens to the best of us", they're subtly being rude.

Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.

What difference does that make? It's still sci-fi.

The dude spoilered his own spoiler, for fuck's sake. And then, of course, turns out spoiler. And spoiler was spoiler too! You so broken!

Brilliant!

That doesn't make him less dull and annoying.

Also, as a general rule, alcoholic characters are boring.

It excellent, because I know what it means

Tigh was a far better character than pretty much everyone else except lawyer man/Badger/Crowley

MIND BLOWN

SRS?