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Is Spiderman dancing to "My Sharona"?

Perhaps I am the secret alias you alluded to in the Hardcore Folder and this discussion is just one person. But who is the puppet, and who .. the Puppetmaster?

Because Jennifer has a disturbing 2nd personality that threatens them with murder if they say anything bad about her. So they leave her because they fear for their lives, and say it was their fault because... they fear for their lives.

There *has to be* some in-jokes. HAS TO. If it's not in the script, they'll improv it. Cause they won't do that to their fans. They'll give us a wink.

Well, we will get this line... WASH: Yeah well if she doesn't give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burnthrough the landing is gonna get pretty interesting. MAL: Define “interesting.” WASH (calm suggestion): “Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?”

The thing with Wash is - even though he's one of my favourite, favourite characters - he didn't really have that deep of a story like say, Book or River or Inara had, where there are still questions to be answered. The only thing I can think of that they could really expand on is Zoe wanting to have a baby and Wash being reluctant to. And really, that's something that is something for TV, not film. That is not to say they couldn't expand on his character, it's just saying there is a difference between "losing" and "not gaining", in terms of character-time. ::Edit:: But yeah, I agree, Wash needs to have more dinosaur time. I will be severely disappointed if we don't get some "Everything looks good from here..." and reveal a T-Rex on Zoes backside with Wash having post-sex fun.

I think Ripper has posterior motives for posting his defense of Mrs. Lopez. ::Edit:: I mean, "ulterior" motives.

I was thinking it would be Alan - cause, I mean, it's The Summer Of Tudyk - so the man is on a roll. *Checks* Both Alan and Gina are in movies that are currently filming alongside Serenity. I would venture to say that Alan has a bigger part in his respective film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/fullcredits

"I am proud to be an American. And as an American, I am free to say and do whatever I please -and there are thousands of good-hearted men and women fighting overseas to protect that freedom and I thank them every day. And that freedom also allows me to say and do some things that I'm not always proud of. And I will be man enough -American enough- to admit that I was wrong to do what I did in Germany. Because I -as an American- can do that. I can admit that I was wrong. However. Some people don't respect my freedom. You know, for a country that likes to bash George W. Bush and talk about how intollerant Americans are, Germans don't seem so tollerable when they get poked at a little bit. America gets ridiculed every day and do you see us crying? No, we're America, we shrug it off and keep fighting. When 9-11 happened and those sonsofabitches attacked us, did we stop and cry? No. We fought back like Americans and turned them bastards into a parking lot. And did we stop there? Hell no. We went and cleaned up that part of the world and now it's so much safer than it was before and they love us for it. Cause that's what we do as Americans - we take a bad situation done to us, and turn it around and make it good for everybody. What has Germany done? Nothing. They can't get over something that happened a hundred years ago when we SAVED them from the oppressive reign of Adolf Hitler. Their country was responsible for the death of millions of people and *I'm* the bad guy? They can't take a joke, and that's downright sad. Now I'm fired from CNBC because of their intollerance and ignorance. I wish I could go back in time and change what I did, cause if that was the punishment, I would have done more! I'd like to thank the McMahon family for standing by -like true Americans- and saying that I did something wrong and that I should be punished. And like an American, I will take that punishment and try to do right by it and them. I'd like to thank the Undertaker, especially, for pulling me aside after the match and say that I should apologize to the McMahons for what I did. And I did. Because I am an American, and I'm free, and sometimes that means I am free to mess up and free to make it better. Thank you. - JBL"

Shiny! Whedon’s SERENITY Screenplay Reviewed!! I am – Hercules!! What are you worried! What resides here is a reasonably spoiler-free review. But feel your eyebrow make a run for your hairline as you read that there’s “a compelling and heretofore unheard reason for why the Alliance wants to track down River Tam (Summer Glau) so badly.” And which of the regulars is so busy he or she had to settle for a reduced role in the movie?? “Firefly,” for those who enjoy Coaxial News boilerplate, was the brilliant, short-lived starship TV series created by Joss Whedon, who created the perhaps even more brilliant “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series. “Serenity” is the big-screen "Firefly" sequel, and marks Whedon's feature directorial debut. Here’s “Miranda” with a review of the film, which began shooting on Monday. After reading the New York Times article in which Joss Whedon compared the spoiler junkie websites to bullies who beat him up and stole his lunch money, you sort of had to ask yourself: who’s the asshole that’s going to run out and write a review of Serenity before they’ve even had a chance to finish shooting the damn thing? After receiving a script for the Firefly movie from a buddy of mine who works “in the industry,” as it were, the answer becomes clear: that asshole would be I. But considering that the good folks on the Serenity set have only just now started filming, and considering that the film doesn’t come out for almost a year, and most of all considering that the movie will be way, way cooler if you know as little about it as possible, I’m going to give as close to an entirely spoiler-free review as I can. I won’t mention any plot points or characters not already widely reported in the trades and the more respectable internet sites, and frankly I hope that the rest of the Firefly fanbase will do likewise should they have a chance to get their mitts on the script (was Joss Whedon joking when he said that Mal dies? Do you wish you knew for sure? Wouldn’t it be cooler to actually find out in the theater?). I’m not sure how recent a draft of the screenplay I have – there’s no proper title page to it, and the Serenity title is only listed some thirteen pages in (for security reasons, I presume), with nary a written-by credit or a draft date anywhere to be found. There are a couple of scenes that seem in need of a polish here and there, but for the most part it reads like a pretty complete and close to shoot-ready script. First off, to allay some fears: every member of the original cast is back, and for the most part none of the characters seem short-changed in the screen time department. Though the central character is clearly Captain Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), there’s plenty of time spent with the other crew members, and certain sub-plots from the series have carried over very naturally to the big screen version. Only one cast member has notably fewer scenes than the rest, and I almost wonder if there wasn’t a rather severe scheduling conflict that necessitated that person’s absence from much of the filming. The first ten or so pages of Serenity are a lesson in graceful screenwriting – Whedon manages to set up more or less the entire Firefly universe, from Earth-That-Was to the Reavers to the War for Unification to River and Simon and right on down to the ubiquity of the Chinese language all in a concise, folding-flashback format that should prove intriguing to new viewers even as it offers faithful fans of the series some expanded information that hasn’t been explicitly covered before. Afterward we meet The Operative (recently announced as being played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), and following a cool little sequence in which we’re given a compelling and heretofore unheard reason for why the Alliance wants to track down River Tam (Summer Glau) so badly, we get introduced to the film’s titular ship and her recently-truncated crew as they prepare for their latest job. And that’s as much of a plot description as I’m gonna give. Perhaps the single most impressive aspect of the script is how it manages to maintain just the right balance between giving those familiar with the T.V. series plenty of new material to chew on even as it draws in complete newbies to its world. My buddy had never seen the show before he procured the script, but after reading it he immediately went out and bought the DVD box set – and actually thought that the movie played better without having seen the series first. The script seems to err generally in favor of the new viewer, which is as it should be, even while it reads like Firefly through and through. Whedon resists the Star Trek temptation to put in a bunch of distracting fan in-jokes, and the story is all the stronger for it. There aren’t an over-abundance of set pieces to the film, but if those that they do have play out right, Universal should have a profitable little franchise on their hands with a very promising direction for future films to take. The action sequences are unique and engaging, and more so than in the series you really get the sense that Mal used to be a soldier, and a good one at that. There are also moments to Serenity that are supremely creepy, and I note with interest that they’re obviously looking at a PG-13 rating for the film – some of these scenes are just going to be too gruesome for anything else, and not all the swearing is in Chinese. You also have to give Whedon props for not merely sticking with the series’ theme of losses of faith and how you deal with them, but on going out of his way to expand upon it. The character arc that Mal Reynolds began in the first Firefly episode doesn’t quite reach its climax here, but it certainly progresses further than it ever did on the small screen. And of course, there’s the trademark Joss Whedon dialogue: WASH: Yeah well if she doesn't give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burnthrough the landing is gonna get pretty interesting. MAL: Define “interesting.” WASH (calm suggestion): “Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?” As far as weaknesses in the script go, there are a couple: though The Operative is an interesting character with an intriguing worldview that serves as a nice counterpoint to Mal’s, he’s still one good Agent Smith human-beings-are-a-virus monologue from being the truly memorable badass that I think Whedon wants him to be. Getting Ejiofor to play him is a stroke of brilliance – anyone who’s seen Dirty Pretty Things or Amistad can attest to the intensity and depth that he can bring to a role, and it’ll be nice to see him playing against his good-guy type here – but you kind of end up wishing that the script would give him a little more to work worth. Hopefully, this problem was rectified before shooting commenced. The other (slightly larger) problem is the film’s mid-point confrontation, which read a bit hokier to both my friend and I than it should have – it was the only scene in the entire script that seemed like T.V. writing. At exactly the moment that the tension should be ratcheted up, Mal is cracking wise and dressing in an inappropriately comedic manner. (Also, and just to be anal-retentive here, Whedon on occasion seems to use the words “galaxy” and “solar system” interchangeably in some of his descriptions, though I trust that’s a problem that’ll be worked out by the f/x boys long before post-production time.) One of the biggest criticisms of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise that Paramount managed to run right into the ground was the fact that they never really felt like movies – they were just over-glorified episodes of the series, in which nothing really changed afterwards. Sure they blew up the Enterprise, but you knew they’d have a new one next week. Sure they killed Data, but they set up the means of his return so obviously that they needn’t have bothered. Sure they married Riker and Troi, but honestly – does anyone give a fuck? The difference between those Star Trek movies and Serenity is that by the end of this script, you feel like things have changed – both personally for the characters and in the universe of the story at large. If there’s a sequel to this film it won’t be just another interchangeable episode of their lives. It will build inevitably upon the foundation laid here, and I imagine it’ll be a much bumpier – and even more interesting – ride. Here’s hoping. I am a leaf on the wind, Miranda P.S. Isn’t it about time that somebody leaked the Whedon version of the X-Men movie script online? I mean, seriously

I'm sorry... I am... but... I have to bump this. FrigidSoul reminded me and... oh lord I'm sorry.

I am very subtle.

I think Sara is really S.A.R.A (Secret Advanced Retention Agent), a robot programmed by the evil GAMMA Corporation to maintain the Undertakers supernatural powers through her fake robot love.

Vince had nothing to do with it. Despite his fixation on WWII and portraying his Mr. McMahon character as a facist using Nazi WWII stock footage, he had nothing to do with it and -in fact- was shocked and disgusted by the actions of Mr. Layfield. The WWE stands for WORLD Wrestling Entertainment and as such believes itself not only to be a proudly American company, but one that appreciates and honours and respects all the countries of the world... even if they constantly belittle various countries every single time they enter it to get cheap heat.

Well you liked the Trio, right? And they've all sound like they've been sucking on helium. The BEAST, he is the Russian Barry White of Demons.

YOU won't like him Anyanka because he doesn't have a high pitched voice, but THE BEAST is the fucking man cause he threw both Angel and Connor off the top of various buildings.

Cause no one else is MAN* enough to do it! WITH COMMENTARY~! (Assume British Tone of Voice while reading) Round 1: Soulless (4) - 1 vs. A Hole in the World (5) - 14 Damage (5) - 0 vs. Not Fade Away (5) - 15 In what came as no surprise, Juggernauts "A Hole in the World" and "Not Fade Away" steamrolled through their first-round competition. "Not Fade Away" began with a clean sweep over "Damage" - the story of the psychoslayer looking for revenge and finding it... in Spike! An seemingly throw-away episode, landmarked by the realization that Buffy is not on Angels side and the poignant "We were once (Innocent)" proved to be too weak for the Series Finale. "Soulless" - the episode were Angelus returns in top form- was taken to the woodshed by "HITW" and left beaten and bruised. Had you told me that this episode would have been left as tablescraps in a tournament of champions, I would have been astonished. Round 2: A Hole in the World (5) - 13 vs. Home (4) - 1 Not Fade Away (5) - 13 vs. Lineage (5) - 1 While "Lineage" and "Home" proved strong in the first round each gaining 11-4 and 10-4 votes respectively, they were no match for the two finalists. "Home", the stronger episode of the 2 in my personal opinion, was a bigger win for HITW than that of Not Fade Away over Lineage. Round 3: A Hole in the World - 12 vs. Origin - 2 Not Fade Away - 14 vs. To Shanshu in LA - 0 Perhaps the biggest battle of the competition yet for each episode, it proved to be a cakewalk. "To Shanshu in LA" - a pivotal and powerful episode that molded the series from then-on fell in a clean sweep to the Series Finale in what had to show the true strength of "Not Fade Away". While "A Hole in the World" faced a Season 5-mate in "Origin", an episode which tied up loose ends and threw in a twist, and came away with another strong victory. Round 4: Not Fade Away - 12 vs. Shells - 0 Hole in the World - 7 vs. Apocalypse Nowish - 5 Another clean sweep by Not Fade Away brings it's total to *3* shut-outs and only 1 vote against it. Truly, this is the odds-on-favourite to take the Angel Cup of Champions. It's opponent, HITW, had a tough time against Season 4 favourite "Apocalypse Nowish". In a tight semi-final which came down to a singular vote against it (which would have lowered HITW to 6 and raised AN to 6), the better episode triumphed in the end. However, it's Sister Episode "Shells" was slaughtered and it may end up that way again for this powerful episode that reshaped the last few episodes and ultimately defined a season. (*Nerdy.)

THE BEAST and Jasmine would have been an AWESOME team. "Do you want me to destroy him?" "No sweetie, he is one of my beautiful followers" "Oh" ... "Can I destroy him now?" "*giggles* No" *THE BEAST wimpers* "Oh alright! How can I say no to this?? *squeezes THE BEASTS chin*"

Someone (coughKeeperoftheTournament!cough) should go back and see all the previous matches involving the two episodes.

After watching "Hole in the World", I am sure of 2 things. 1. It deserves to be in the finals 2. It will be very hard to beat it. "Not Fade Away" better stand up pretty DAMN well in order for it to get my vote, because "HITW" is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Every single thing.

Sakuraba beat Rampage, does that mean he was a bigger favourite in the tournament than Jackson? FEDOR ( ) is the top fighter in terms of position, however, in this tournament Noguiera is better money to bank on. Why? Because Noguiera has a better chance at beating _any_ competition than Fedor does. Fedor -while brilliant- does not have the same adaptibility as Noguiera. He had not faced the same calibre of opposition -and variety- that Nog has. Against Tim Sylvia, who do you think would be more guaranteed to win? Against Cro Cop? Against Randleman? With Fedor there is a bit of doubt, a doubt that I don't have with Nog. Cause Nog can take a brutal beating and still manage to pull it out. Fedor hasn't been tested like Nog has, he hasn't been pushed the edge and rallied to come back (and if you say Fujita, you'd have me saying right back "Nog would have taken that shot better").

Wouldn't a "walk out" be the opposite?

I'm going to have to re-watch both.

Post of the Day, Brian. Post of the day.

But CNBC didn't have him penned in their main event program.