Bingowings

The kids killed the man, I had to break up the band.

Jeebus said:

I’ve had depersonalization panic attacks before, but I don’t think that’s what this is. I’ve fallen into a bit of a depression, but it’s strange this time. I’m not angry like I usually am when I’m depressed. My room feels smaller and darker than usual. Interacting with the family feels strange. I thought I had carbon monoxide poisoning a little earlier, my left ear and the area behind it was pressed by a dull pain and I felt strange. I really don’t know how else to describe it but strange. My vision feels blurry, but I can see fine. I don’t know, man.

You should have you ears examined. It sounds silly but inner ear damage caused by an infection can have the strangest effects. When I had Labyrinthitis for the first time I really did worry for my sanity. The other odd thing is it’s very common and hardly anyone talks about it.

Good news. I hope he continues to improve.

Jonno has The Sorcerer trailer in his simulation project.

Don’t give me that. I don’t believe in fate. And I won’t say it…
All right, you win. You win. I give. I’ll say it. I’ll say it. I’ll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!

I think of David Icke watching They Live, Society and the original series of V while reading the Illuminatus trilogy wearing a turquoise shell suit.

Them eighties aye?

When I was little wireless was an archaic term for a radiogram.

^LoOk

Mike O said:

Holy fuck, so much for progress! I had another COMPLETELY random set of compulsions followed by an anxiety attack unlike any I’ve ever had, I actually thought I might go crazy. I’m still sweat hours later, my heartbeat doubled, my hands shook, my face went numb, it was easily of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had. I think I’ll hope for a heart attack from it if that shit happens again. Don’t know if I can hide it from my parents. I dot know what the fuck to do. I’m amazed I managed to make it through the rest of my work shift. Jesus fucking Christ. That was…God.

It sounds like almost every anxiety attack I’ve had or my mother has had in my presence. The last one I had was watching Game of Thrones. I was running around shouting “I can’t breath” at the top of my voice until the rational side of my brain kicked in and reasoned that if I can run around shouting I must be breathing. I then calmed down. Scary as hell while it was happening though as you know.

I didn’t want to set the world on fire. Just thought the line sounded funny.

I know you are very against Doctor Who references in your edits but I was just thinking about Sid Sidious’ “Unlimited Power” line.
The Seventh Doctor is played by Sylvester McCoy who like Ian McDiarmid has a mild Scots accent.
He famously (for those who follow the show) mocks a arch enemy’s plans to take over the universe with the line “Unlimited Rice Pudding!”. Regardless of if you like or are indifferent to the show it might be funny to swap the lines out.

“I can almost see the remote”

Maybe the ridiculous original trilogy could be about Sid Sidious trying to get his hands on the remote control. So many characters talk about control in the films.
You could replace Luke’s lightsaber in ROTJ for a generic remote control to give the gag a bit of closure.
“You want this don’t you?” (he could pause, rewind to the prequels, fast forward into the sequels) “I seen it four times”

HAN : Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe that there’s one remote control controlling everything.

(suddenly film fast forwards to battle sequence Han looks confused… then it rewinds).

Han also says remote and control I think. You might have a running gag there about the edits trying to switch off your television.

I’m reminded that Tarkin says Dantooine is too remote and that the region governors now have control over their territories.
So it might be possible that he could reply to the chap by say “Remote Control”.

I had another weird one the other night. In the dream I was away visiting a ‘friend’. Presumably a long term one but somebody I have never actually met in reality. He, like myself grew his own food and we had some sort of deal where he would grow my special giant tomato seeds for me. He grew them on his kitchen ceiling and by giant… these suckers were huge like giant pumpkins and collecting them must have been an annual event because my mother (who in reality isn’t that keen on tomatoes) was really looking forward to getting some. So I’m in the guy’s kitchen catching up and checking on these tomatoes only to find he has a bit of pest problem in the form of these giant weevil bugs which are about the size of a babies fist and have totally hollowed out the giant tomatoes growing on the ceiling. The plant has tried to compensate by growing smaller giant tomatoes (about the size of a grapefruit) inside the hollowed out shell (like those baby peppers you find inside bell peppers) but the weevils are eating those too.
They make this audible hum as the tomatoes sway on the ceiling like balloons in a breeze. The kitchen is also home to several hedgehogs. Living with them is another creature that is also covered in spines but walks on two legs and has penguin flippers and an owl like face. It’s wearing blue trousers and is treated like my friend’s child it is very cute in a WTF was I eating last night sort of way.

TV’s Frink said:

Sex Fools

Is that anything like a Raspberry Fool?

Thanks Jonno. Time travel made a bit easier (with a bit of divergent universe hopping on the side).

Bossk’s peeps were in the Cantina. Though his mask is much more articulate and his toes were impeccable.

I didn’t see that coming

I’d love it if Maul and Ben ended up as pals and Maul ended up being killed by the Empire.

Tobar said:

My problems with Into Darkness all center around the unbelievably poor writing. Abrams has a long history of employing bad writers and then overcoming that with style over substance. To him, as long as it feels right, it doesn’t matter if it makes sense. The writers don’t have even a basic grasp of science. Back in the first film, a single star goes supernova and that literally threatens THE ENTIRE GALAXY.

Look at the introduction of interplanetary transporters. It’s incredibly stupid and something that’s far too advanced for even that period of time. Just transporting something between two planets in the same system would be miraculous but to do that between planets that are in completely separate quadrants of the galaxy? Virtually impossible. Not to mention the rippling effects that would have on galactic civilization as a whole. Who needs starships when you can beam to wherever you need to go even if its on the other side of the galaxy.

Then you have Khan’s miracle blood that can bring people back from the dead. Solely introduced just so they can ripoff WoK and then immediately bring the character back to life afterward. Completely undermines the scene and is unfathomably cheap. Then the miracle cure for death is immediately swept under the rug and will never be brought up again.

I won’t even get into the idiocy of Benedict as Kahn. It was a crap script for a crap movie.

^THAT

MathUser said:

One thing GL did right in the prequels, he saved the Vader reveal for the end. It made a much better ending than any of the prequels before it. I think JJ might have copied him a bit when he saved the Luke reveal in Ep 7 for the end too.

Not in my book.
I would have had Anakin missing assumed dead by the beginning of Episode 3 and Vader pretty much as we see him in Episode 4 only helping the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi wearing a mask to hide who he is. Something that becomes more necessary when Kenobi makes him go all meltyburnburn.
I would have done this by having Anakin a young adult in Episode 1 with a wife who isn’t a queen that he gets pregnant before running off to be trained as a Jedi by Obi-Ben.
I’d have given Mon Mothma Padme’s role but not Anakin’s bed.
That way when you see her in ROTJ it’s a call back to the heroes of the first episodes.

Just in time for me to not only forget my password but also my username. It’s days like like this that vex the soul and tax the memory.