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    Monday, February 8, 2010 10:55 AM
    The Hulk Thought of the Day
     by Hulk

    Hulk still not understand why game called "Super Bowl" when not one superhero involved. Hulk would be happy to make name of game more accurate - just invite Hulk to play! Or at least do halftime show. Hulk know how to entertain large crowds; Hulk used to be robot clown.
    Tagged (?): Football (Not), Sports (Not), Super Bowl (Not), The Hulk Thought of the Day (Not), TV (Not)
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    Monday, February 8, 2010 09:34 AM
    Recyclotron
     by Fëanor

    Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

    Tagged (?): Advertising (Not), Art (Not), Captain America (Not), Cartoons (Not), Celebrities (Not), Craft (Not), Daredevil (Not), Doctor Who (Not), Food (Not), Football (Not), LEGO (Not), Links (Not), Metroid (Not), Movies (Not), Neil Gaiman (Not), News (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Sports (Not), Star Wars (Not), Super Bowl (Not), Terminator (Not), Toys (Not), Tron (Not), TV (Not), Video games (Not)
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    Sunday, February 7, 2010 03:37 PM
    On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 14 - "Jacksonville")
     by Fëanor

    As usual, spoilers are plentiful, so beware!

    So in the other universe, coffee is rare and precious? Man, that place sucks!

    Yet another awesome and horrifying opening. Dude wakes up with extra arms and legs!

    Peter: "Walter, wake up. We've just won an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City."
    Walter: "Fantastic! I've never won anything before!"
    Aww, Walter is so cute.

    A whole building leaped into our world from the other side, fusing with the building that was already here. Everybody inside also fused together. Dude even has an extra head! Excellent.

    Astrid's looking through the stuff that was in the building, and finds something strange.
    Astrid: "Richard Nixon on a silver dollar."
    Walter: "That's disturbing."

    Oh great. To balance things out, a building from our side will jump over in the next day or so. Only Olivia will be able to identify which building it will be, thanks to her magic powers. But in order to activate them, Walter has to experiment on her back in Jacksonville, at the daycare center/lab where her powers were first switched on. Luckily, William Bell bought the center and closed it down, so everything has been preserved. Creepy.

    Walter reveals Bell always used the same combination on locks: 5 - 20 - 10. He doesn't remember the significance. I have the bad feeling that's a date when something important (and probably terrifying) will happen: May 20th, 2010.

    Just thought of something: if something else has to pop through the other way whenever anything travels between worlds, then what happened when Walter took Peter from the other universe? Did a person vanish from this universe? Who? Also, oh crap. When Olivia's ability gets activated, she's going to realize that Peter is from the other side.

    A room full of large objects covered in white cloths is always creepy. In this case, the stuff under the cloths is also creepy.

    Olivia points out that even though she has an excellent memory, she can't remember anything about this place in Jacksonville. Probably not a good sign...

    Olivia's going to have another drug-induced vision! Always a good time. In it, she will face an obstacle, personal to her, that will put her at the right emotional level to activate her abilities.

    Walter wasn't sure which arm the IV drip of the cortexiphan should go in. He settled on the left arm. She says something goofy and he laughs. Walter: "The drugs are working fast. perhaps it was the right arm."
    Peter: "What?!"
    Walter: "She'll be fine, Peter."

    During the procedure, Olivia starts getting agitated. Walter asks for something from his bag - pretzels. He's hungry. Heh.

    Olivia's found a little girl in the forest in her dream. I'm betting it's her own younger self.

    Yep. Looks like the emotion Olivia's using is anger - anger at Walter, for what he did to her as a child. Unfortunately, it didn't work. She doesn't see anything. Because she's angry, and not afraid. It's fear they need, but she's figured out how to control her fear. Interesting. So now we need to scare the crap out of Olivia! This isn't going to go well. Especially considering the last time they did it, she set fire to a room with her mind!!

    C'mon, if anybody can scare Olivia, Walter and Nina should be able to do it!

    Hey, the young Massive Dynamic scientist who came on to Olivia way back when is back! And he made a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference. Nice!

    Peter realizes the building that's going to vanish must have the same mass as the one that came through. Now they have a plan, but it still means crunching an enormous amount of data in a very limited amount of time. Time that's just run out! At this point it might make more sense to just let the building vanish, along with all the people in it, than evacuate the 100 or so that they've narrowed it down to and cause a panic.
    Broyles: "There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones."

    Peter and Olivia almost have a tender moment - but then she realizes that she's scared, and she can use that to find the right building.

    It worked! But why hasn't she seen the truth about Peter yet?

    Awesome. The hotel got sucked away into nothing.
    Olivia [to the bellhop]: "I guess it's safe to say that you've got the rest of the night off work."

    Ha ha! The official explanation is that it was an unscheduled, controlled demolition. Hilarious.

    Aww, Walter and Astrid are going to play Monopoly while Peter and Olivia go out for drinks. So cute! Walter did a little happy dance when he heard his son was going out with Olivia.

    What I was waiting for finally happened: Olivia could see the truth about Peter.
    Walter: "Olivia, please don't tell him."
    Man, that's going to be an awkward date!

    Wow! Fantastic ending, and a great episode. Very tense and exciting, loaded with really awesome mad science ideas, and a big step forward for our overarching storyline.
    Tagged (?): Fringe (Not), On the Viewer (Not), TV (Not)
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    Saturday, February 6, 2010 08:54 AM
    (Last updated on Saturday, February 6, 2010 09:03 AM)
    On the Viewer - Caprica (Episode 3, "Reins of a Waterfall")
     by Fëanor

    As always, spoilers ahoy!

    In this episode, the Graystones deal with the fallout of Mrs. Graystone's poorly thought-out announcement at the memorial; Zoe-bot tries to continue Zoe's original plan of escaping off-world and meeting a mysterious contact who was supposedly going to help; and the Adamas spiral down further into darkness.

    I just know Daniel Graystone is going to end up on that talk show, and it's going to be really uncomfortable. Ugh. But it doesn't happen this episode, at least. Although there is an uncomfortable and creepy scene where the Graystones frak in front of their robot daughter, and the robot sort of averts its gaze in this really awkward way. It's also disturbing and fascinating that the Graystones are now convinced that their daughter was a terrorist and set off the train bomb, even though we know she did not. It's pretty upsetting to Zoe-bot, I think, that her parents simply take it for granted that she was a suicide bomber.

    There's an awkwardly funny scene where Lacy keeps asking her teacher to go get her more accessories for her tea, perhaps simply to distract her and keep her away. Lacy is certainly not comfortable with Sister Clarice. And interestingly the other cult members at the school that Ben was in contact with were apparently unaware of Sister Clarice and did not associate with her.

    Meanwhile, purely by chance, Zoe-bot and Lacy find Adama's daughter's avatar in that little pocket universe Daniel created to show her off to Adama, and they show her the way out into the larger holonet. Now she's just wandering around out there, lost. That's not going to turn out well for anybody. In fact, Mr. Adama is so pissed about his daughter's avatar being lost that he asks his brother to kill Graystone's wife. Woah!! That makes the show a lot more interesting. Also, it turns out Adama's brother is gay, and married to his partner. Caprica is a more forward-thinking place than I thought! Adama's brother is probably the most interesting character on the show. He's oddly likable, despite his criminal leanings, and somehow he seems to have more confidence and a stronger moral code than his theoretically straighter brother.

    I was thinking about dropping this show, and this episode wasn't really convincing me otherwise, until that final scene when Adama asks his brother to "even it out." That really shocked me, and I feel like it's going to alter all the relationships in the show, and turn the story off into an interesting new direction. We'll see.
    Tagged (?): Caprica (Not), On the Viewer (Not), TV (Not)
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    Friday, February 5, 2010 10:42 AM
    The Hulk Thought of the Day
     by Hulk

    Don't worry puny humans, Hulk can stop your Toyotas. Hulk not guarantee Toyota will ever start again, but Hulk can stop it all right.
    Tagged (?): Automobiles (Not), News (Not), The Hulk Thought of the Day (Not)
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    Friday, February 5, 2010 10:25 AM
    (Last updated on Friday, February 5, 2010 03:14 PM)
    Recyclotron
     by Fëanor

    Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.



    Tagged (?): Art (Not), Avatar (Not), Batman (Not), Celebrities (Not), Comedy (Not), Comic books (Not), Commercials (Not), Doctor Who (Not), Frank Quitely (Not), Grant Morrison (Not), Internet (Not), LEGO (Not), Links (Not), Movies (Not), News (Not), Photography (Not), Products (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Science (Not), Space (Not), Star Trek (Not), Star Wars (Not), Super Bowl (Not), Superman (Not), Toys (Not), TV (Not), Video (Not)
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    Thursday, February 4, 2010 09:37 AM
    The Hulk Thought of the Day
     by Hulk

    Bah. Puny human kids these days don't take time to slow down and appreciate finer things that old folks like Hulk still find meaningful and important. Like blogging.
    Tagged (?): Internet (Not), News (Not), Technology (Not), The Hulk Thought of the Day (Not)
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    Thursday, February 4, 2010 09:32 AM
    Recyclotron
     by Fëanor

    Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.



    Tagged (?): Aliens (Not), Art (Not), Books (Not), Comedy (Not), Comic books (Not), Football (Not), Links (Not), Mashups (Not), News (Not), Obama (Not), Photography (Not), Politics (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Sports (Not), Super Bowl (Not), TV (Not), Video (Not), Video games (Not)
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    Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:28 AM
    The Take
     by Fëanor

    Fëanor's (semi-)weekly comic book review post.

    This post covers new releases from the week of 1/27. Beware spoilers!

    New releases
    Batman and Robin #7
    Once again Grant Morrison tosses us into the middle of a story that's already in progress, and doesn't slow down for one moment to let us catch up. We're left breathless and floundering, expected to figure out what's going on all by ourselves. I love it!! The action is insanely fast-paced, with Batman defusing bombs, saving kids, and leaping onto the back of motorcycles in mid-air, all in a totally matter-of-fact manner, like he does it every day - because he does do it every day. We get a quick, fun glimpse of the British supervillain prison, meet warring gangs of super criminals, stumble into a haunted mine, and Batman decodes a domino game into a tunnel map. There's a quick Batwoman crossover, an unfortunate panel where Batwoman and Batman get their dialog swapped by mistake (oops), and then we discover the terrible lengths Dick has gone to to get Bruce back. He thinks he's doing the right thing, and indeed it makes perfect sense character-wise that he would do this, but of course we know Bruce would never have wanted it, and nothing good can come of it. Which just makes it all the more awesome as a plot development. The final page promises us Batman vs. Batman in the next installment. I can't wait!
    Thumbs Up

    Captain America: Reborn #6
    Finally, this miniseries comes to an end, well after comics have begun coming out set after its events. But that's okay, it was worth the wait. This is a fantastically fun and exciting final issue, from Dr. Pym's hilarious first line ("And that's how a real scientist punches... you hacks."), to Steve's terrifying and breathtaking final vision of a future overrun with War of the Worlds-style alien invaders. Steve beating the crap out of the Red Skull in his mind is also so bad-ass I was practically pumping my fist in the air while I read it. "There's a reason you never win... it's 'cause I never let you!" But seriously, how many things can Sharon screw up? She was brainwashed into shooting Steve in the first place; it's her fault he got lost in time; and in this issue she tries to take out the Skull and mistakenly turns him into a far more powerful and destructive giant version of himself. Somebody lock her up!

    It's a great moment when Steve calls Bucky Captain America, and they head out to fight the Skull together. Bucky: "Does shooting still count as fighting?" Steve: "It does today." Bucky: "Then we're good to go."

    Oh, and looks like Sin will be the new Red Skull. That's a nice touch. But yeah, that apocalyptic vision of Steve's is very cool. I'm looking forward to seeing where Brubaker goes next with this.
    Thumbs Up

    Green Lantern #50
    Oh, Green Lantern. I wish I could quit you. But as usual, I was suckered in by the blurbs on the cover. "50th ISSUE!" "PARALLAX REBIRTH." "Oh crap, I can't miss that!" But really, I could have. Sure, there are some fun scenes - zombie Aquaman tries to torture Mera with their zombie son, and she just says, "I never wanted children," and vomits blood all over them. Atrocitus responds, "Earthwoman, I have nothing to say but - welcome to the Red Lantern Corps." Uh, I think that turned him on. I also love Luthor getting all maniacal and excited about his new ring. Crazy Scarecrow getting all crazy is fun, too. But most of the dialog is, as usual with Johns, quite bad; the Jordan/Ferris relationship just isn't doing anything for me; and freeing Parallax to fight the zombie Spectre is such an obviously terrible idea it's ridiculous.
    Thumbs Sideways

    Irredeemable #10
    The only problem with this comic is that it doesn't have enough pages. I need to know what happens next!! Charybdis is getting creepier by the minute, taking the monumentally tasteless step of hitting on his dead brother's girlfriend while they're going together to retrieve his body. And hey, where'd that dead body get to, anyhow?? I remain curious about, and intrigued by, the big demon guy, not to mention Bette Noir's little secret. And hey, we finally got a glimpse of some of Tony's childhood trauma and got an idea of what's going on in his head. Good stuff.
    Thumbs Up

    New Avengers #61
    Bendis is so uneven! Some days I can't stand his dialog, and other days it's just hilarious. This comic must have been written on one of his hilarious days. The conversation between Spider-Woman and Spider-Man is really a lot of fun. I was also amused by the one supervillain making the classic mistake of gloating and trying to take a picture of the heroes getting defeated with his iPhone, while the other supervillain keeps saying, "C'mon man, quit it, this is what always gets us in trouble!" And indeed, it does. The thing with the bullet bouncing off both shields, a girder, the iPhone, and then hitting the dude in the neck is priceless. It also helps that artists Stuart Immonen, Daniel Acuña, and Dave McCaig filled this thing with gorgeous artwork.
    Thumbs Up

    Superman: Secret Origin #4
    I couldn't remember if I'd dropped this book or was still reading it, but I decided to pick it up anyway. I'm glad I did, because this issue was fun. Gary Frank turns in his usual great art (Lois is hot in that skirt). There's a classic Superman vs. mutated monster fight in the streets of Metropolis; Superman has a great bonding moment with Jimmy on top of the Daily Planet building; the Jimmy Olsen/Lois Lane team comes together; and Luthor officially declares war on Superman and The Daily Planet. Awesome!
    Thumbs Up
    Tagged (?): Avengers (Not), Batman (Not), Brian Michael Bendis (Not), Captain America (Not), Comic books (Not), Ed Brubaker (Not), Geoff Johns (Not), Grant Morrison (Not), Green Lantern (Not), Mark Waid (Not), Siege (Not), Superman (Not), The Take (Not)
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    Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10:30 AM
    The Hulk Thought of the Day
     by Hulk

    Iran sent rat, two turtles, and worms into space. Is Hulk supposed to be impressed? Call Hulk when animals return to Earth mutated into giant destructive monsters by mysterious energies, and Hulk will smash.
    Tagged (?): Animals (Not), News (Not), The Hulk Thought of the Day (Not)
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