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I prefer season 3 to season 4, but all of it was fun to watch, and anyway I was so addicted at that point that it probably didn’t matter anymore.

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I?m probably going to get shot down for this, but I?ve never been able to understand why BSG is rated so highly. I?ve seen the first season and, yes, it was enjoyable and the production values were good, etc, etc, but I?ve never liked it enough to stick around for subsequent series. Or indeed re-watch S1.

When you watch (all of) it, you will reconsider this.

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Letting it start go on as “series 1” at this point makes sense only if the title is changed from “Doctor Who” to something else.

Otherwise there will be two “Doctor Who Series 1” on amazon, and people will end up buying the worng one for their grandchildren on christmas, and everyone will be pissed off.

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> Marleen, do you think that Lexx is, in all honesty, a better show than Red Dwarf?

I think that all those programmes shouldn’t even be on the same list. I don’t think you can really rank / compare shows of so different genres.

I personally like Red Dwarf better (and own the DVDs, and I don’t have the Lexx ones).

Anyway.

I thought Red Dwarf deserved to be placed higher.
But that doesn’t mean I thought all the other shows deserved to be placed lower. You know what I mean?

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I liked Lexx

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I don’t have to post anything anywhere anymore. Ben does all the work for me!

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> But do you now share your passionate geekery with one another? :-)

Well, yes, although I’m a lot more geeky than he is.

Truth is, I did chat him up because I thought he looked like he was into pen-and-paper RPGs and rock music.

One of the first thing I did to impress him was to send him a photo of himself photoshopped to look like yoda. It was a sloppy 5 minute job but it worked.

I only introduced him to Red Dwarf much later.

Hmm :)

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I met Vincent on the street in front of my office building. There was no geekery involved whatsoever :(

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Yeah, if no one else needs the double room, I’d like to switch. Thanks for all the help with this, Jo!

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Fair enough.

Anyone else want a cheap ticket + double room?

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That’d be great.

When will you know whether you’re going?

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Moon is awesome and everyone should watch it.

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Someone else had to resell their tickets (over at reddwarf.co.uk) and James seemed to be cool about it.

I’m annoyed as well – I planned to go with 3 other people, and now none of them are coming and I’m alone in an expensive double bedroom :P

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> Getting veeeeeeeeeery tempted to book for this year?s Dimension Jump?.

I’ve got a spare ticket (as Vincent’s not coming…) non-fanclub-member, reduced rate – a super-saver!

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I liked Hyperdrive.

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British Science Fiction in the 21st century…

Red Dwarf Seasons 1 & 2.

… well. :\

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OMG celebrety alert.

Well done, Ian Symes’ smeg list!

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I don’t have an iThingy, but I’d really really like to read Jump Leads… the book.

:x

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I’ve seen all of them, but some I wish I hadn’t (some of the remakes).

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I like the original three Alien films (some more, others less ;)) for being Alien, and I like Resurrection for being Resurrection.

It’s different from the old ones, but hey, Sigourney’s crazy-sexy Ripley clone made it worthwhile all by herself, although there were many many small things that I really enjoyed in the film, like, almost the entire cast. I wouldn’t have cast Michael Wincott for the role, but it was still good seeing him up there. And Brad Dourif. And some details that I didn’t much like but there’s (unsurprisingly) few films that don’t have those :P
I liked those two hours of my life and I’ve occasionally rewatched it and it’s always been a good time. I know I’m relatively easy to please, and I get why the film pissed of the die-hard Alien fans, but… I really don’t see why everyone’s giving Resurrection such a hard time, overall.

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> Ali(b)en

Haha! Love it!

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That’s pretty cool.
But I prefer the in-character one.

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Ta.

“Conspicuously” with a “u”, there.

God, your language is so confusing.

As I’m not watching Big Brother, I’ll shut up now.

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> ?What is ?egregious???

I can’t pronounce it.

Edit: And I don’t understand it either. According to my dictionary, it can mean anything from “outrageous” over “put-and-out” to “brilliant”… eh?

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Oh, very good.

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Hah!

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I’m with Cappsy, again.

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The more the merrier!

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The Star Trek Rimmer excites me.

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All of this: Hmpf.

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I think he’s the only one of the cast who takes money for his autographs as well.

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A rude cake, excellent. Thanks for the photos, Jo :)

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That was really clever of me, asking for help immediately before leaving the town for the weekend. Ben, I really appreciate it!! I’ll message you in facebook tomorrow :D

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Is that real? If so, more photos please!

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Surely the version with TotBF cut into it is going to be virtually unwatchable in one sitting??

If it takes less time than The Lord of the Rings (SEE)… cakewalk!

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Has anyone else seen the Directors Cut of Watchmen? Doesn?t look like it?s going to be released in the UK so I may have to import the blu-ray. I saw it last week and much preferred it to the original. It?s worth getting the Directors cut if only for this scene of Hollis Mason?s death. http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=8531

Or you might NOT get the director’s cut and instead get the ULTIMATE cut that you THOUGHT the director’s cut was going to be.

http://geekadelphia.com/2009/07/15/rant-with-watchmen-we-find-out-double-dipping-now-starts-even-before-the-first-version-is-released/

I’ll wait for the full thing anyway…

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In my dream this morning, the G&T people were making their own new Dwarf, and I was assistant something and I was allowed to hold something (might have been a camera) and everything took place in an environment looking like a shopping mall’s childcare unit (playpen ball pit and such).

But then I got ill (in a way) (disturbing) and couldn’t take part anymore and went to see doctors instead. Ugh, tragedy.

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I want this:
http://io9.com/5302979/a-picard-lookalike-and-a-sisko-lookalike-open-a-star-trek%20themed-restaurant

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That’s right, but only if the part in the brackets are still part of the sentence (like these).

If there’s an entire sentence of its own right inside the brackets, it’s getting its own full stop. (I’m talking about a whole sentence in brackets.)

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And me.

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So I guess I have to start watching Torchwood now, for real.

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Sure as hell not Terminator 4. And I haven’t seen Transformers 2 yet, but I doubt that, too. :p

Haven’t seen Coraline yet either, and waiting for Parnassus, Surrogates and Red Sonja.
Especially looking forward to Fanboys. (Not sure if they’re technically still “of the year” since we get films with a delay, and the delay is significantly bigger for small/indie productions than for blockbusters)

Watchmen was really good, waiting for the cut that’ll include Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood (which was even better than the main film).

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Complaining is a lot easier than being constructive, I know I know.

karcreat, I don’t know the last thing about writing comedy so I can’t help. Also, I’m trying not to read the script. I’d rather see the finished thing, ho ho. Loved the trailer!

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A friend of mine works for MTV, and she told another friend of mine (who then told me), that she saw that Comedy Central Germany is going to show The IT Crowd (not iTeam), German dubbing, from September – all three series. The internet says it’s true, too.

Yay!

More to review :D

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That wasn’t bad at all.

And I was impressed with the voice acting, actually.

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*claps*

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I saw it on the news this morning before work.

It was a bit surreal. Hard to believe. It was the same when Diana died, or Heath Ledger last year.

I used to be a huge fan, HUGE one, when I was, uh, 13-15 or something. I’m not too sad now, not more than about anyone else’s death anyway, but I was looking forward to seeing what would come of his comeback “tour”, and it’s a shame I’ll never know.

I feel sorry for his kids and the rest of his family.

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Yes.

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I learned how to pronounce feasible.

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… oh dear.

:D

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