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“You did catch the discussion of this very shot just a few posts above yours, right? ;-)”

The one referring to Two face? Yes, but they took that down. (I didn’t see it, but from peoples reaction I get the impression from the subsequent comments it left nothing to the imagination.) Just thought I’d show another one that was a bit more subtle.

Besides the second link was the one more interesting and provides likely proof to speculation of another character returning.

Besides… they’re 2 pics which haven’t been on this thread yet, and that’s kinda what this thread is about right?

Edit- oh ok, that was mentioned too, but it wasn’t posted.

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I was just looking at a similar thread on the 2000AD forum. A couple of guys posted these pictures, you might find interesting. Screen captures taken from trailers I believe, (i.e. stuff that might have been missed watching the live version.)

Anyhow:

Look closely at the edge of his face.
If you click on it you can zoom in.

Does this guy in the car look familiar?

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Heh. It didn’t occur to me before I read this:
I wonder if he gets his powers from eating the brains of other magicians.

… but there really is a similarity with Sylar isn’t there?

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>Next week?s episode seems kinda cheesy

It did didn’t it? Miss Doctor junior flipping between the laser beams. Show off.

Have to admit I loved it though. I don’t mind a bit of silliness from time to time. Not sure if that humor will be entirely in line with the ‘reality’ of the Whoverse (if I may borrow a Firefly term. The verse bit. Obviously.) but I don’t mind it trying something new.

Dracula’s smoke reincorporating a couple of times after getting steaked wasn’t exactly Buffyverse ‘true’ but… it was a good gag. Especially bearing in mind the old hammer horrors.

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Yes. I think someone is trying to get a message through don’t you?

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Ha ha. Possibly. I’m sure Michel D’Angelo would love the comparison. I probably got the French version of his name wrong there.

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Ok that makes sense. I haven’t seen much of Old Who so I’m sure you understand my mistake. (He does make references to knowing Michael Angelo etc, so it made sense to me he might have had one or two ‘famous’ companions in the past… off-screen as it were.)

In City of Death, I believe he make a reference to having met Shakespeare too. It doesn’t really clash with the new Who Shakespeare episode though, as the Bard seemed fairly young in that. His earlier intersection with Shakespeare’s life might have been later in Shakespeare’s life. (Does that sound confusing? What I mean is, earlier in The Doctor’s life, he met The Bard, later in his life… oh never mind…

Of course he could have been telling porky pies to impress that saucy villainess character.

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Possibly. I thought it might be another companion, but I think he mentioned Albert as well.

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I’ll put this in a different post cos it concerns an episode of old Who.

I saw the Pyramids of Mars the other day. Quite a good story, and nice alien baddy (although they should have stuck with the helmeted version. The jackal head looked rubbish.)

I noticed something at the start where Sarah Jane puts on a white dress and the Doctor remarks “That belonged to Victoria, she travelled with me for a while.” (Meaning Queen Victoria.)

So she forgot about him before the Bad Wolf episode and set up Torchwood against him, and other ‘alien menaces’? Her mind was wiped?

Hee hee.

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Great new episode I thought. Mummy saves the grandad with the sledgehammer. Whilst the doctor is getting all techy with his sonic screwdriver under the car. Lovely.

Couple of bits and pieces didn’t make a whole lot of sense (the eco rocket thing flaming the atmosphere to change the gas for example… since much of the gas was at ground level not ‘up there’) but I get that it’s part of the genius kids’ terraforming kit turning alien atmospheres into earth air.

Fair enough no biggie.

Interesting little flash of Rose.. (not that kind of flash you dirty smeggers.)

Lots of action and shooty bits. Even the characteristic surprise plot remedies grabbed apparently out of nowhere actually worked here, since they were established before, i.e Units hover ship thing and even the eco rocket, thingy, . (No doubt nicked from Rimmer’s life-pod. Just kidding.) Ok the eco rocket was sort of pulled out of the Doctor’s bottom when needed, but it made sense considering the preparations of the genius kids with their terraforming equipment. (Beyond earth tech even so but that could be put down to access to alien technology.)

I liked the twist at the end too. Some people don’t like that redemptive storyline thing, but in this case with this character, I really think it worked. Not sure why the kid put on an American accent (listen to him on Confidential) but it makes a change having a villain being an American played by an English person rather than and English villain played by and American which is often the case in US tv.

Great stuff.

Spoiler-
I’ve been very impressed with this new season so far. And interesting little twist glimpsed in next week’s episode too…

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My only worry about post credits sequences in the cinema is others further in the queue wanting to get out while your sitting there… (That being said I managed it for X3 and noone else in the row was in a hurry to budge… suggesting maybe they knew about the little twist too. Or maybe they saw me watching and thought… “Hmmm what’s he waiting for?” Probably no that.)

Still I guess it’s still possible to move out for them and hang around until the end. Assuming you don’t get caught in the exodus crowd on the way out.

I’d love to see the film. And The Dark Knight. And the new Hulk film for that matter.

Darn my lack of funds, I really need to amp up my job-hunting.

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“Please remember that this is for one weekend only.
If I were to ever see you again, I would probably kick you in the nuts.”

Ha ha! Little goer indeed.

If it’s for real, I wonder why she’s doing it? Just to annoy her parents or is it some kind of gag/social experiment thing?

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There is a whole bunch of posters here.

I think you’ve probably seen most of them already, but there might be 1 or two you missed. I quite like the last one on the bottom right and the batbike/lawmaster scene bottom left.

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An unbelievable little creature.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=xxoi0xm9cb

The Lyre bird: Nature?s Sampler

That was amazing. I saw a clip of that on the 7 O’ clock show just this afternoon. (or rather yesterday afternoon now as it’s just turned midnight as I write this.) I didn’t here those worker/saw sounds though last time.

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I agree with that. I want the film to fit in legitimately with the series time-line (original and spin-offs) but it’s a good idea that it fits in with our time-line as well. A lot of the tech in the original show looked way too tacky, with the big colourful buttons etc.

I guess it could be argued that it became fashionable to later create tech in a cheesy style over uptodate technology, like those campy 60s series… but yeah. It’s ok that this version is different. No doubt it’s been refitted over and over again in the time period between this film and the series anyway. The Enterprise was decades old by the time period of the original series.

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I used to love that show he did with the street magic. It really was good. I have gone off him during these record breaking attempts though.

Not entirely sure why… seems egotistical maybe? Partly that… and it’s just not as interesting to me as the street magic.

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Yeah, I quite like the time travel stories, but it’s being way overdone in Star Trek.

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Oh bollocks.

Is that a poll option in the list? I’d rather you kept those to yourself young man.

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Just make sure you go to the loo (properly, no pissing about) before you weigh yourself. Hey presto, you?re a stone lighter!

A whole stone, that’s quite load.

Bringing sex into an exercise routine helps

I actually saw an episode of a series that suggested this. (It was on one of those cable channels, although I forget the name. Something like sex in the future, or cybersex… Basically having sex whilst working your muscle groups…

Sounds interesting… if purely a fantasy for some of us.

Not so much the self love though, bearing in mind both arms usually take your weight in that kind of exercise. Looks like a (grantedly humorous) accident waiting to happen.

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Um… what a giving young lady…

Of course, if it is genuine how could she prove they are a virgin? Just cos they say so? I know it’s usually considered embarrassing to admit it nowadays, but I’m sure there are many lads who would tell a porkie, if they knew they would… well… get to have a free porkie.

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>I did some online karting last night?a very strange thing is that I actually did >BETTER right off the bat than I started doing later on

I’m like that when I go ten-pin bowling. Start out well, but then start doing rubbish.

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In my own task to check out Old Who, I grabbed City of Death the other day and liked it a lot. That was a nice surprise, as the little Old Who I watched previously I found rather boring. As a little kid, I found it too scary to watch (I think the spooky music had much to do with it.)

I decided to grab another Tom Baker DVD from the library today. “Pyramids of Mars.” I’ll probably watch that one tonight or tomorrow.

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>Regardless, I don?t think it?s unreasonable to not suspect that your sat-nav is >trying to kill you?

I was thinking that was her point in going to the college in the first case though, to complain that several Atmos devices had caused deaths…

… but then I remembered, the earlier deaths were caused by the poison gas weren’t they… i.e. not the sat-nav part of the system. So yeah, on further reflection you’re right about the sat-nav.

You’d still think Unit would have removed the devices when they became suspicious though, or use vehicles without it installed. Unit are mostly a secret organisation after all regardless of their connection to the main government.

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Funny nose.

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journalist was she?

I think she was a Unit operative. That was a bit dodgy actually, one minute she is complaining about Atmos, then she’s not only driving with it in her car but she is actually following the instructions. True, it could take control of the car, but she didn’t know that at that point, only that it would cause deaths.

I thought that loophole programming that the Doctor used to escape was a bit silly too. I.e. if you had a device that took control of someones vehicle and killed them, surely you would program it to ignor what the person did/said altogether rather than doing the opposite of what they asked. I.e. “Drive into the river!”, oh wait, must ignore command… yeah right.

True he had to escape somehow, but I think they could have perhaps come up with something else from that.

I did like the exploding box gag though. (It wouldn’t have happened – if an algorithm ends up in a continuous loop or faced with conflicting orders, they tend to just crash or do nothing, but there usually isn’t any actual damage. This is an amusing gag sci-fi relies on though… so not a biggie..)

Both small things though, and overall I thought the episode was really good.

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For me it depends on how long the mysteries are kept. I find myself growing impatient if we have a lot of episodes with no resolution, but part of the enjoyment is also trying to work things out. Too long though, and it get’s a little irritating. Doesn’t stop me watching though.

In the case of Lost, I found myself getting rather impatient, and I felt a bit like you did, that things were being dragged out, and possibly made up as they went along. I especially found myself growing tired of the constant flashbacks, and wishing they’d just have a few episodes (or even just 1 episode) set entirely in the present day to move things along.

However when I caught up on it using Virgin On-Demand, particularly the last series, I was pleasantly surprised. (There was always flashbacks- which let’s face it is part of the format- but there definitely was some resolution, as well as other interesting questions.)

As for Heroes, I never found the long story arcs much of a drag for me. I don’t think they left it all that long before answering questions. I’ve also heard negative things about Series 2, but so far, I’ve seen the first 2 episodes and I’m still rather liking it.

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animals if you will

I’m not sure that’s fair to animals.

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Great episode!

I’m glad they gave an explanation as to why the other stuff wasn’t initially detected in the Doctor’s examination of the Atmos, thingy. I thought they might just leave that as a magical thing that just happens. I liked the whole Sontaran gadgets hidden in temmporal pocket thing, but I didn’t like the way Doctor found it out. I don’t mind the sonic screwdriver like many do (in fact I think it’s pretty cool, although I agree it’s used to much.)Using it as a scanning device didn’t make much sense. Sure sound can be used for echo location etc, but where would the readout be?

Sontarans looked great. Genius kid was annoying, but intentionally so, so fair enough. No doubt he’ll get his come-upance.

As for when Donna told the Doctor “I’m going home.” my reaction was “here we go again…” She keeps saying that each episode so far then changes her mind… but then they switched it round on me and turned it into a gag. I.e. doctor makes a long corny speech (that whole “You really saved me.” seemed a bit of an exaggeration though.) and then… “oh right just to visit.” Heh heh!

As for Freyma, I haven’t thought she was particularly good an actress (although I like the character) but I thought she was pretty good in this. The idea that a new doctor is suddenly commanding lots of Unit troops at the start was a bit much though.

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Complete the sentence-

The only thing finer than a woman in uniform holding a gun is…

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Crikey, Here’s an image.

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Oh, I came across this link, posted on the 2000 AD forum:

Looks like it might be a sequel after all if it follows this plot.

If that’s the case, then good one!

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I was thinking the previous gladiators were too old to reprise their roles… and with the new line-up I’m probably right. (I don’t get sky so I can’t completely confirm.)

Is that really Jet from just 2 years ago. She really does look amazing though.

As for Blake 7, it’s weird that this thread and news came up, because I’ve been munching my way through series 1 right now. I was never really into it as a kid, and had only seen the odd episode here and there. From the first 3 episodes I’ve seen so far though, it’s really good. (The effects are understandably dodgy but the story is rather good. Better than the original Star Trek.)

I’m not keen on them remaking it (another weird thing, I was wondering if they might…) A continuance could be interesting….

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although concerning the ending, I’m not sure that’s possible. Yes even I got the ending spoiled (my fault for watching that ‘Cult of Blake 7’ a while back.)

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The Inquisitor in truth was nothing more than a wuss and Kryten remained in control
throughout?

Inquisitor with a small i in this case, as it was the justice computer playing role of inquisitor… but good point…

Actually it is interesting that the Justice computer found Rimmer culpable through his guilt (at least until Kryten argued the point) yet he passed The Inquisitor’s ‘life more worthwhile’ judgement.

Of course they were judging different things, but it is interesting how view the same life from different stand-points comes up with different results.

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(Unless you want to believe the earlier 3 series happened in a parallel universe temporally out of synch, but that get?s a bit silly.)

Dinosaurs are not silly?

I don’t get that. I know there’s a dinosaur in series 8 but not what that’s got to do with the part of the text quoted.

Or is that a time wand reference… oh right yeah I get it. (Penny just dropped literally as I typed that.)

To quote Holly “I might be slow but I get there in the end.”

Don’t ask me to work out the square root of anything though.

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I found the idea that he couldn’t have done the drive plating a bit strange too (since it was a mind scan that grabbed that information), but I reasoned that they actually meant, he wasn’t qualified and therefore shouldn’t have been given that job hence it’s actually the fault of his superior officers giving him the role.

Granted it’s not worded ‘shouldn’t’ but ‘couldn’t’ but that was how I reasoned it when I saw the episode.

As for the disparity in Lister’s relationship with Kochanski, I remember another theory I read some while back. I think it went something along the lines, that the events of Stasis leak changed history slightly. I.e. future Lister marrying Kochanski, and present day Lister meeting them in the room, etc. I think the reasoning behind it was that Kochanski allowed herself a fling with the Lister of her time period, since she knew he was going to have a relationship with her in future anyway.

Actually, on writing that down, that doesn’t make much sense, because didn’t the affair happen before she met up with the future versions of Lister?

Anyhow, it’s interesting reasoning out.

As for the change in crew number/time period, that can’t really be reasoned out satisfactorily except by transposing date and number when it’s mentioned. (Unless you want to believe the earlier 3 series happened in a parallel universe temporally out of synch, but that get’s a bit silly.) Not that big of a deal really as it’s only mentioned a couple of times anyway.

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What I liked is the complete lack of redemption for the PR woman. I was expecting her to join the adventure and help the Doctor and Donna but? she didn?t. And then she was killed. Excellent.

YES! I expected that too. She did show signs of conscience after all, and it would have been pretty easy to take her down the accomplice route. How many times have we seen that before? And to be fair if they had done that, that would have still been interesting.

It was great they chose not to follow that cliche too. And somewhat realistic. Often in real life people will turn a blind eye on things that they know are suspect. And those people aren’t particularly wicked themselves, they just go with the flow.

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I think that model looks great, although the eyes look a bit wide. (Open I mean not wide apart.)

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Not sure I buy that the Ood come from an ice planet (they don?t seem especially built for the cold)

I know what you mean, I think it’s the tentacles. They make us associate them with creatures like squid, essentially cold blooded. (Actually giant squid can dive very deep, which suggests they have a tolerance for the cold too although I don’t know how that works…)

I’m sure that’s just a outward similarity though, the Ood are alien and probably don’t fit into the various species types (mammal, reptile, fish, amphibian etc) we have.

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?Chloe Annett?s foaming twat?

– makes more sense with an ?A? between ?Annett?s? and ?foaming?.

Albeit it’s not true.

A lot of people didn’t like the introduction of her character to the show and many never grew to like her but she’s hardly that. And if you dislike her acting ability that’s an opinion and doesn’t make her that.

As for my opinion, I thought Chloe Annette did very well. It was an interesting change to have a female crew member I thought, and Kochanski was a good character in her own right, even if she wasn’t given as much comedy as the others (which is hardly her fault.)

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I liked it.

The brain set up didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it can be explained by the sheer alieness of the ood which is no bad thing.

The guy turning into an Ood after drinking a spiked drink was implausible and kinda silly, but cool gross out fun. I particularly enjoyed it when he coughed up his own brain! Does that make my brain wrong?

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That was great. It’s great how him stating the smegging obvious (“I pretend to be someone else”) is so funny.

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I’m not to keen on a book or DVD with details of the movie simply because that might lessen the chance of it ever being made in some form i.e. TV film, animation, play, whatever.

That being said, if it’s that or nothing, then I’d probably get it!

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It looks a bit Dickensian somehow.

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> It would be good to know *hint* anything *hint* else *hint* about *hint* the *hint* story?

Hopefully we might have news soon of ways in which you may learn more.

A hint for a hint. I like the sound of this…

No I really do. I’m not being sarcastic.

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I read a bit of Tin-tin. I wasn’t into it as much as Asterix (I used to gobble those up one after the other from the school library), but it was an enjoyable enough read.

I’m not that keen on a screen version though, but I’m sure with the plotting etc, they’ve got plenty of material to do a good job of it.

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I found it a bit simplistic that just pushing down a couple of panels was enough to turn Venusvius’s power into itself and cause the eruption… That being said, I understand there’s only a limited amount of space in the episode and quite a bit of area to cover, and in the end it was about presenting the moral conundrum… which was a very interesting twist to the Pompeii story.

Great monsters (if a bit easy to kill… I understand the shock factor of cold water on hot rock is what did it, but it would require a bit more than a bucket for that amount of body mass) and I liked the merger of the aliens with the various human villain threads.

Overall a good episode, and yes Tate was great, and I am a poet. (Well not really but anyway..)

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Nah cases are more hardy, particularly with the DVD holder stack things. Digipacks do look nice though.

I’m most pleased with the Blade Runner Digipack I purchased recently. 5 disks…, several different versions of the film, lots of documentary extras and I got it all for ?9.99. Play brought the price down for April Fools day.

I actually ordered it in the early hours of the morning that night, so strictly speaking it was no longer April Fools day, but they hadn’t raised the prices yet. I checked again and the price is now on ?17.99 again. Come to think of it I think 17.99 is pretty good for that amount of content so, I’m pretty chuffed.

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They credit Danny with Blade 1 & 2, but I’m sure he was only in the second one…

And yes it definitely looks like an interesting storyline. Only problem could be that people would criticize the Sapienoids as being a rip off of the Doctor Who cybermen… which would be a shame since the movie script was written before the new Doctor Who series came out. (I’m referring to the cybermen of human origin from the new series of course, not the alien cybermen of the original series.)

That being said, cyborgs are always cool, and have appeared in various forms in different sci-fi films/programes. I’m sure the Red Dwarf spin would do something different with the concept.

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>Re-house, re-locate, release into a safe environment. That?s the compassionate thing to do.

True, and I remember him offering to do that, although the Spider-queen (I forget her name but you’ll know who I mean) refused.

By that point it seemed too late to do that anyway. (Actually in the real world he would have had plenty of time if they were in the centre of the earth, but it was implied by the sound effects etc, that their coming was imminent.)

Ok, he is a time-lord and it could be argued that he could have rushed off across the universe and found such a world and returned to before humans were devoured, but that seems to go against the time travel rules for the show.

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sparing the life of the Adipose due to them being innocents – quite in contrast to the previous streak of unforgiving nihilism

This. Yes. Absolutely.

Much as I got the reference and what Donna was saying, I didn’t entirely buy it as Martha’s influence on the doctor. There is quite a difference between little blubber guys who had were pretty harmless (once they’d come into being) and thousands of flesh eating spider-things. I mean, it was implied that once the arachnoids got out they were going to feast on the human race…

True, it’s part of the arachnoids nature, and therefore arguably not their fault, any more than it is a foxes fault for helping itself to a chicken, but the danger was there, whilst with the Adipose, once they were created the danger was pretty much over.

Even without Martha’s influence, it seems to me the Doctor would have made a distinction between the two and acted the same. Showing mercy was never a new thing for the Doctor.

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