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Beta Ray Bill

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  1. Piper was one of my favourites, and seemed to be better adjusted to the reality of the business than many. Interesting article on drug abuse from a few years back : http://musclepumpworld.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/wwe-stars-uses-steroids.html
  2. I have not read all of the books yet. I enjoy both media as do the majority of readers/viewers. It is quite perplexing that someone tries to take the moral high ground for an entertainment form. Almost as if there's some intellectual snobbery going on, but you'd never be egotistical enough to think your views are the only ones that matter, would you?
  3. There is not one single film or tv adaptation that could ever totally replicate a book. It is a totally different medium, narrative structures are vastly different, and audiences require different stimuli. There is nothing wrong with anyone only liking one or the other, but if you're dismissive of a tv series purely because it isn't 100% reflective of the source material, then how do you view Bond films? Or Gone With the Wind? Or... anything? The tv series of GoT diverges on page 1. How old are Jon and Robb? And Dany? It could never do on screen what's on the page. Sneer all you want, but for many the TV version is the only version. And that is all that matters to those fans. And the MU analogy is totally valid. It us a different universe with similar characters and plots. But it is impossible to do the 50+ years continuity in a few movies. Or more precisely,even bring a single plot line or issue, on screen in the exact manner and storytelling. It has to be adapted for the screen and things change. Some fans won't watch the films because it's not 'real', as if their vision of a pure MU is the only valid one. That's effectively what you're saying about GoT. Dislike the programme all you want but it's rather bizarre to criticise primarily based on it not being a book. Santa was raped?! That's one horrible Christmas image!
  4. Wouldn't hold your breath about Paul Kaye replacing Capaldi as he's guesting in the next series. They'd never cast a guest star a few years later as the lead. On the books vs series, is the divergence really that important? Then again I am still a bit miffed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe isn't following every detail of 53 years of comic continuity...
  5. Oberan only had himself to blame, fannying around. Equivalent to sitting back on a 1-0 lead and conceding twice in stoppage time.
  6. Watched it live in the States last week and it's ad free!
  7. Looking forward to the new series of 24. Hopefully the hotels I'm staying at in California will have decent screens as so far they have all been wrong ratio and locked down. Athough after watching The Big Bang Theory last night with 5 or 6 advert breaks, I am not sure I could cope with 3 minutes of Jack saving the world interpersed with 5 mins of car adverts, repeatedly. Considering American viewers have the right to bear arms, how do they manage to avoid shootng seven shades of hell out of their screens every day with the ludicrous number of adverts? Steve Moss, can you explain this ?!
  8. Last week in London, me and two colleagues at a pelican crossing. Traffic lights change to red, little green man appears, we start to cross. Ahead to our left before the otherpavement is a white lorry at the front of a queue of taffic, next to it we can just see the front wheel of a bike close to the pavement. No issues there so far. However, just as we are at the far side of the lorry, just about to walk in front of the cyclist, guess what happens? If you think the cyclist decides to set off, you'd be wrong. It's another cyclist who whizzes up on the inside of the traffic and the cyclist who has been waiting patiently at the red light, almost sending a colleague flying as he goes through the red light at speed! We all stop and stare at what happened and the well behaved cyclist shakes his head in disbelief. Not only a menace to other road users, this idiot was a risk to his own life and perfectly innocent pedestrians. Two steps further across the road, my colleague would have been sent flying (and possibly the other 2 of us) along with the cyclist. All within a couple of yards of the pavement.
  9. Or 50% of the actual wrestlers if you happened to be in Montreal, November 1997.
  10. I was out with some work colleagues in an Indian in Edinburgh. First of getting text updates from a mate who went, and then following on phone via Twitter. Only downside of the evening was managing to launch a methi covered piece of naan onto the phone when Rhodes scored the penalty.
  11. Although I enjoyed Prometheus, I didn't as much as I thought I would - and that was even with lower expectations than when the film was first announced. I couldn't shake the feeling that it was a solid sci-fi idea (admittedly not a massively original one) that had the Alien mythology grafted onto it to make it more marketable. Fairly certain that wasn't the way it was developed?
  12. I wish! No, just had some time to spare on holiday.
  13. Watched both Adjustment Bureau and The King's Speech at the wonderful AMC at Altamonte Springs just outside Orlando this week. Very different films (obviously) but both great way to spend $6. Jeffrey Rush was magnificent in TKS.
  14. I've posted this link in the Kean thread, as that game more than anything else, shows that no statistics other than goals for and against mean anything. Rovers could have 5% possession in a game (and against Crewe it was probably 95%!) for all I care as long as we win. Still, for how depressing that result was, it is a game that has remained fresh in the memory!
  15. Clapping would be totally inappropriate for memorial of death eg 9/11, but to celebrate the wonderful life and career of a great it does seem the right thing to do. especially if the family were consulted and showed a preference.
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