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#310689
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Originally posted by: Tiptup


Essentially, the gal on the boat was getting a reading which told her that the rocket landed at its destination before her conversation with Daniel had even ended. He didn't see the rocket land until a long time afterwards, however, and its clock was faster than his by about a half hour.

Exactly 31 minutes.

How extreme time dilation and other effects could apply to an island that can be reached by air and sea from our earth seems rather silly to me, but perhaps the writers are smarter than I give them credit. I'm guessing it will be the typical, sci-fi-fudged version of physics. Perhaps in the end we'll find out that the Island intersects some sort of extremely weird gravitational phenomenon.


Well, the show is sci-fi. We have a deadly monster who consists of what appears to be black smoke, we have a guy who seemingly has visions of the future and may have even traveled back in time after surviving the implosion of an under ground concrete bunker, a decent quantity of people surviving a plain crash relatively unscathed. I mean comon, we have Jack lying on his back in the jungle, having seemingly fallen out of the plan and hit the ground (ouch) he gets up and finds just about every other survivor walking around with a few scrapes and bruses. In real live that would have been an extremely messy scene with ambulances and just about anyone who managed to servive by some miracle would be very likely rushed into the ICU. Not to mention Mikhail and Naomi who seem to have a couple of lives to spare each or the canonical comic con 07 Orchid Station Orientation video having to do with bunnies and the cashmire effect (more fudge sci-fi physics most likely). The show most definitely fits in the sci-fi category, so definitely expect a sci-fi answer for the island.



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#310644
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Is George Lucas a fan of Star Wars?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310644/action/topic#310644
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Originally posted by: Mielr So, you're saying that he was out of practice, and that's why he sucks as a director now? It's a valid argument, but in my opinion it seems that his talent was more limited than he or any of us originally thought, and his revived desire to direct simply surpassed the limits of his directing ability.


No, I don't think it was because he was out of practice. I think he is a very different person now than he was then. I honestly think had he continued directing, while a few stinkers would have been inevitable, we would have seen many great things from him. Surely you have read books by a writer where his earlier books are better than his later ones, it isn't because he is out of practice, it is just because he seems to loose whatever it was he had when he was younger. I think this is the case with Lucas. I think he lacks the same focus he had back in the 70s. Something that once came from his heart and an ambition to succeed, was now replaced by the idea that this could bring in a lot of dough and the feeling that he had already succeeded and was now a well known and well respected director who's name is often listed among and associated with the masters. In other words, going from the young, I want to be all I can be and really make some great films to the old I've got something that will rake in boatloads upon boatloads of cash, and who better to do it than myself, master director extrodinare, a one man creative team who knows no wrong.

To sum it up, I think ambition was replaced by pride, and the desire to make good movies was also replaced by other motives. Show me top director who has not ended up doing at least a few crappy films. George kind of top out as a high status director after just a couple of successes and never got around to doing anything that bombed so as to tell him he too was mortal and capible of bleeding. We learn through out mistakes. Failure can sometimes becomes a stepping stone to success. Nobody is perfect. We become wise by realizing we are fools with much yet to learn. The bigger they are the harder they fall. And so on.
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#310622
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Is George Lucas a fan of Star Wars?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310622/action/topic#310622
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Well as shocking as it seems, the first movie George directed since Star Wars in 1977 was a film that came out in 1999 called The Phantom Menace. I don't think Grafitti and Star Wars were flukes. 20 years can have a big impact on somebody. My take is that he went from a young ambitious director who wasn't afraid to go against the grain a little and do things that people told him he couldn't do. Over that twenty years of fame and praise, I think he got to the point where he felt he could do no wrong, which was bad mistake. If there was a way for young George to meet old George, I think young George would be pretty disappointed in himself. I honestly think he had some greatness left in him after Star Wars and that to quit directing at that point was a big mistake. 1977 wasn't the time to stop directing, and 1999 certainly wasn't the time to start again. Now out of the few movies he has directed, half of them suck, and that is only if you consider THX 1138 a good movie (to me THX 1138 is to Lucas what Duel was to Spielberg, something that was interesting and showed great potential for a new young director, a foreshadowing of great things to come, but certianly not timeless or destined to rake in mass home video sales for years to come).
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#310603
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How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310603/action/topic#310603
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Is the 360 HD-DVD add on really that bad? In your position I think I would just accept my losses and hang onto all the movies and keep the 360 player as a means to play them. Then maybe as time goes on I would slowly replace the HD-DVDs with Blu-rays as the films in question became available at less expenisve prices. Releasing these titles in Blu-ray later means more money for the studios, so I wouldn't expect anything that is available exclusively for HD-DVD to stay that way for too long. If it gets to be anything like the BETAs when VHS won out, then you might be able to score a really inexpensive HD-DVD player sometime in the next several months as they get phased out.

For my part, I wouldn't want to waste so much as another penny on the format.
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#310536
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Video Game VIOLENCE causes DEATH
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310536/action/topic#310536
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Due to the conversation in a different thread, I zipped over to WoWRadio.com (imagine all the revenue their site will get out of my link!) just to see if they were still around and if ol' biscuit was still leading the crew. As it turns out they are and he is. Anyway, I found this news story being discussed in their forum and found it interesting. It happened back in December.

Originally from: Sky News

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1297829,00.htmlhttp://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1297829,00.html

Girl Killed After 'Video Game Violence'
Updated:14:23, Thursday December 20, 2007

Two teenagers have been charged with killing a seven-year-old girl by beating her to death with moves from the Mortal Kombat video game.

Heather Trujillo and Lamar RobertsLamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, killed Trujillo's half-sister Zoe Garcia while they were babysitting her, prosecutors have said.

They have been charged as adults in Colorado on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said.

Police reports say Zoe lost consciousness and stopped breathing after the teenagers hit, kicked and body-slammed her, imitating moves used in the video game.

Trujillo and Roberts reportedly tried reviving the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before they called her mother and paramedics.

However, the girl died in hospital.

An autopsy showed she had a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine.

Roberts said he was downstairs playing video games while the sisters wrestled upstairs, police said. But a witness quoted in a police affidavit said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl.

The witness told police that Roberts said Zoe had told them to stop wrestling.

According to the affidavit, when the witness asked why they didn't stop, he responded: "I don't know; I was drunk."

If convicted, the teens could be sentenced to 48 years in prison.



Guess there are more tragic things happening in the world than police officers loosing their temper and hurting the feelings of young skate boarder kids. Pretty sad. Kind of retarded that the title says she was killed by "video game violence" though. Pretty misleading.
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#310534
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310534/action/topic#310534
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Originally posted by: Sweeney599
ah ha! so you were indeed calling me a total biscuit, after I(and not CP3X) tried to make peace.

Yes, you said,

Originally posted by: Sweeney599I'm no young kid looking for attention, and I don't want your pity. Lets just leave each alone.


And I posted saying that just because we don't agree politically doesn't mean we have to disagree on everything else. I told you that I do not enjoy picking on you and that I was not going to do it anymore and that you had my respect. So yeah, I did try to make peace with you. I am not trying to take credit for your initive to peace making.

Then Nanner told me not to even bother trying to make peace with you, because you were a "total biscuit", which is our term for someone who tries to stir up trouble, or says absurd things. It is not that big of an insult, and even if it was a huge insult, I am not the one who said it. None of my responses from then on have had anything to do with you at all, up until you started calling us jerks and telling us to shut the fuck up. Nanner did call you a total biscuit, and his total biscuit comment got us talking about the real total biscuit and remembering old times.

I am probably wasting time spelling all this out to you. Calm down, take it easy, we do have more entertaining things to talk about than you. In fact, I am getting pretty sick of talking about you, no offense, but you just arn't that interesting of a person.

So, let's try this getting along thing again, shall we? If you have no interest in trying to get along, maybe you ought to find another forum. The forum at this site, http://wcradio.com/, I have heard are quite good.

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#310488
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310488/action/topic#310488
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Sweeney,where do you get off? Are you just bent on disrupting all conversation on these boards? I said let's make peace, and then you start acting like even more of an ass.

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Real English biscuits are awsome. Nanner, depending on the size of your area, there is likely an import store around somewhere. Most decent sized towns have one hiding around someplace. They are usually have things like McVitie's. They are usually way over priced though... they prey upon desperate foreigners seeking a taste of home and world travelers unfortunately enough to have tasted and fallen in love with products not generally sold or produced on their continent. Man, now I have a hankering for a good European beer and foods that just aren't quite the same in the states. I wonder how long it will be before they invent site to site transporters... how great would it be to zip over to Italy for lunch and zip back when you're done.
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#310475
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310475/action/topic#310475
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Damn right Total Biscuit isn't you! The Great Lord Total Biscuit was the king of the orcs! You're hardly orc king material, but alas, neither are any of us...

"If were a mod of this forum, I'd ban you all for a week for going off topic. Jerks."

Well, then I must say I am quite happy Jay does not share your Totalitarian forum governing philosophies. So, are you going to just stick around and punctuate our every conversation by calling us jerks for talking about whatever it is we are talking about? Because that won't get old fast.
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#310470
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310470/action/topic#310470
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The Indy-craze never died down. Indiana Jones has become a pop culture icon. Even Disneyland has an Indiana Jones ride, there have been serveral Indiana Jones video games which appeal kids who were way to young to have seen even The Last Crusade in the cinema. Thirty-somethings and over like youself, and twenty-somethings like me, have passed these things onto our own kids who loved them every bit as much as we did. Don't forget how many young kids filled the theaters in 1999 when the Phantom Menace was released. I went to see each of the SE in theaters in 1997, and I remember the theaters were filled with a ton of parents, fathers mostly, taking their young kids to see them. I bet there will be droves of people within the 16-24 generation there on opening night.
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#310374
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310374/action/topic#310374
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Originally posted by: Number20I really hope Lucas doesn't go this route. This will be a great way to destroy the IJ saga. Lets turn it into a clearly anti-religious statement. All that would accomplish is to offend many people and get people riled up.

I don't see that Aliens will fit into the story at all. I hope this isn't true.


It is probably absolutely nowhere near my little prediction. But even if it was spot on, it wouldn't really be anti-religious as much as it would be rationalizing the superstition of the other films. I am sure plenty of people would see it as anti-religious, which would make sense of the Lucas quotes I added to my post. I certainly don't think it would ever go as far as to spell out what I wrote in my post, even if that was the direction I went down.

The evidence for the alien aspect of it is overwhelming. We have the words of one of the producers, we have the picture of the crystal skull itself, and now we have the Roswell thing. The only thing I really meant to speculate on this is that I am expecting that they will use the alien plot, which I think is probably George's MacGuffin that "was a little too ‘connected’ for the others", to rationalize the supernatural stuff from the other three films. Thus the supernatural artifacts from the past end up having something to do with aliens. I don't think this will be the main focus of the film, just an underlying plotline.

It would be interesting if through some strange turn of events the aliens will make a clone of Indy, or some how aquire Indy's baby or a woman impreginated by Indy, and through time travel take him back to a time long ago in their own galaxy, which is rather far away and raise him under a different name. Then they could make another series of movies about him when he grows up. He could save the galaxy and stuff. Hmm, maybe he could even have one of the aliens be his partner, kind of like Tonto and the Lone Ranger. Instead of the Lone Ranger, maybe he could be called the Solo Ranger or something to that effect. Perhaps somewhere along the way he could fall in love with a princess. I don't know about you guys, but I'd be buying my tickets opening week.

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#310368
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How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310368/action/topic#310368
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Yeah, I always thought the PS2 thing was funny. But look at the alternatives, we have the GameCube, which really didn't have that much going for it. Unless you were a Nintendo fan, there just were not that many games that were GC exclusive. Xbox had a lot better games than GC did, and some extremely good Xbox exclusives, but I think the PS2 really rode off of the fame and popularity of its older brother and its wide variety of games. Not to mention all the fanboys who were waiting in line to buy them even back when virtually no games for it existed.

The PS3 is pretty cool. I still haven gotten over the Spider-Man movie font it uses for its logo, but it is a really slick system and the Blu-Ray player just makes it that much better of a system. PS2s ability to play DVDs wasn't that big of a deal, but given that the PS3 came around during the middle of a format war and when HD players where at top dollar, it really adds a lot of value to the system. Now that Blu-ray has won out, it'll make the PS3 an even more practical buy. I think the PS3's problem as far as low sales goes, is that it is pretty expensive. You can get a Wii for half the price. Even at its reduced price of $450, it is $100 dollars more than the Xbox.
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#310365
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310365/action/topic#310365
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Not a whole lot happened in that episode, but what did happen was some pretty big stuff. The thing with Ben off island at the end was pretty cool. Seems like Syid is being forced to work for him to protect the people who are still on the island. Maybe it is Syid that is in the coffin the the season 3 finale. It could explain why that person's death was reported in a news paper that would be available on an international flight, rather than an obituary in the local paper, since he was a celebrity. It could explain Jack's huge breakdown about it, and it could explain Kate's discust about Jack having wanted her to go to the funeral, since she knew what he had been doing over the last few years. Perhaps Ben plays a large role in the lives of all the off island survivors. A sort of soul sold to the devil sort of thing, as part of their agreement to be able to leave. Sometimes I start to think that the freighter may not play that big of a role in their rescue, as we are lead to believe. All this is just speculation and not based off of anything other than last night's twist.
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#310348
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310348/action/topic#310348
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Originally posted by: zombie84
Indiana Jones movies have always had an absurdly fantastic element in it somewhere.


No doubt about it. But I think we all liked to see Indy hunting for magical relics and the likes, not taking over the role of F.B.I agent Fox Moulder and uncovering the hiden existence of aliens in Rosewell New Mexico.

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#310340
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310340/action/topic#310340
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Thanks for posting the link Nanner. As you can see it was last January, not that long ago really. The first couple of pages are really fun to read, but after that it just meanders on about nothing. Considering Hotrod's comment was as pointless as it was, it is really funny what that thing evolved into. I wonder what other communities the orcs have attacked in the past. I like how they kept going on about "all the extra revenue" they were going to get because we mentioned their name. How much revenue would they get due to the few people that were following that thread, I'd be surprised if they got 50 cents out of it. Those guys were a lot of fun. It was even funnier going to their board and reading their postings on the situation, they were seriously making a huge fuss about it and treating it like a major crisis. On our side it was just someone making a passing comment that nobody really even cared about. Seems they have scouts scouring the web for any dishonorable mention of their name.

They seriously ought to start a business where you can pay them to come and invade your forum for a week. It would be great forum revitalization, and as long as they sayed in a single thread and didn't interupt conversation elsewhere, it wouldn't bother anyone who didn't care to participate. Someday I shall build my own army of WoW orcs, and maybe even a squad of OT Ninjas, and whatever else I can come up with, and I will really market this pay-per-forum-invasion stuff... I bet it could really take off, maybe even the biggest thing to hit the interwebs since ebay...
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#310316
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310316/action/topic#310316
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Back on topic...

in memory of the orc attack lead by their Great Leader Total Biscuit, who defeated us in a forum war in a mere total of four post, I just thought I would bring out some classic TB quotes. Man, that was a funny week. Sometimes I wish Hotrod would inadvertantly get other forums ticked off at us more often, especially if they are willing to go through all the trouble of registering here and posting funny things for our personal entertainment like TB's crew did.

Originally posted by: TotalBiscuit

I'm sorry I've just had to compose myself due to laughing my arse off at the irony...

This one is my personal favorite, it is a lot funnier if you read the whole post though. The a-r-s-e spelling of ass really adds a lot to it; it really drives home the idea of him being a Total cookie type biscuit, rather than a total KFC type biscuit.

Originally posted by: TotalBiscuit

No please keep talking! There are still a few of my braincells that you haven't murdered with stupidity.

Gotta love that dry Brittish humor. If a movie were to be made about this incident I think John Cleese should be cast to voice TB. Just imagine the above line being read by John Cleese... pure poetry!

Originally posted by: TotalBiscuit

TB - WoW Radio Owner, and a far better geek than you will ever be.


Pure gold. That was one of the most disheartening insults I had ever recieved.

Originally posted by: PaulG
You should get your facts straight before trying to start a forum war... you can't beat TB in a forum war. Ever.


Though this was not posted by Total Biscuit himself, it ranks #1 as my all time favorite post made in any forum anywhere. Ever. I still remember when I first read this post, had I been drinking anything at that moment I would have blown it out my nose. I didn't even know there were such things as forum wars before that moment. I wonder if ol' TB is still an undefeated forum war champion, or if he has fallen, like all great leader must one day. Hmm, still not sure who would voice PaulG in a dramatic renactment of the orc invasion... it would have to be somebody definitively nerdy...
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#310301
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310301/action/topic#310301
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My prediction is that the aliens in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be to the Ark in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Holy Grail in The Last Crusade what Midiclorines (sp?) were to the force in The Phantom Menace. It will serve as a purpose to totally de-mythologize them supernaturally, and re-mythologize them as alien technology. I suppose it is not very likely, but I suppose since he moved the force from religion to science, it wouldn't be too far fetched for him to do the same with the Ark (now sort of an alien death ray box) and the grail (now an advanced alien medical technology).

Likely the Hebrew patriarch Abraham made a deal with aliens, but since he was an ignorant primitive he mistook them for a god. The aliens used their technology to help Abrahams wife have a baby at the age of 90, a miracle. Later when Abrahams decendants were held in captivity by the Egyptians, the aliens helped them escape and guided them to an area with better land and helped them to defeat the original occupants. Around this time they made them the Ark. Many years later one of the aliens named Jesus came to live among the humans teach them how to aspire to be a better race, but they didn't agree with him so they killed him. But aliens prove to be a bit of a challenge to take down, and he got back up, stuck around for awhile and went home, accidently leaving his healing device behind. A couple of thousand years later a guy named Henry Jones Jr. comes into contact with both of the alien artifacts. This summer, he'll get to the bottom of it all.


"I discovered a McGuffin," continues Lucas, still reluctant to name said McGuffin. "I told the guys about it and they were a little dubious about it, but it’s the best one we’ve ever found… Unfortunately, it was a little too ‘connected’ for the others. They were afraid of what the critics would think. They said, "Can’t we do it with a different McGuffin? Can’t we do this?" and I said "No". So we pottered around with that for a couple of years. And then Harrison really wanted to do it and Steve said, "Okay". I said, "We’ll have to go back to that original MacGuffin and take out the offending parts of it and we’ll still use that area of the supernatural to deal with it".




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#310287
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310287/action/topic#310287
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And so ends another episode...

I swear, a lot more use to take place during these episodes. The story telling is so slowly paced, each episode it feels like absolutely nothing happens. In one episode of Stat Trek the whole of man kind can be threatened but the issue gets resolved before the credits roll. Hard to believe that each episode of Lost is pretty close to the same length of an episode of Star Trek, yet it feels like less than half the length.

Anyway, an interesting spin at the end of the episode. Maybe the same thing also has to do with Jack's conversation with Hurley and his concern of whether or not Hurley was going to say anything.
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#310284
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310284/action/topic#310284
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It is kind of cool. They give some interesting information that doesn't show up in the episode. For instant at the beginning of Confirmed Dead we see Daniel watching the news and crying and a woman in the background asks him what is wrong, the pop up box tells us that the woman is not his wife but his care taker. Not really anything big, but kind of informative. It seems they are mostly for the benefit of new comers to the show, because they explain many things we already know, like Locke's dad stealing his kidney.
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#310276
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310276/action/topic#310276
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I don't think you missed anything important. Probably just the part where they decide they need to kill Ben, but Ben tells them they can't kill him because they need him for answers, then he tells them the full names of the four new comers to the island. Ben says that the reason why he knows these things is because he has a spy on the freighter. Meanwhile Kate, Jack, Syid, and Juliet are with the new comers and they discover that Juliet was not on flight 815 and Miles pulls a picture of Ben out of his pocket and asks where he is, and that the real reason they have come to the island was to collect Benjamin Linus. Interesting thing about the picture is that in it he looks like he is in an off island office dressed in clothes I would estimate to be from the 70s or 80s. The little pop up text box at the bottom of the screen admits that this photo seems to indicate that Ben has been lying about never having left the island during his adult life.
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#310260
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310260/action/topic#310260
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Other than having read about Confirmed Dead before it aired, I like to stay spoiler free myself. I have read the names of each of the eight episodes and who each epsiode is centric on, which is why I am really looking forward to episode eight, but other than the names and centricity I know nothing about them.
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#310259
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310259/action/topic#310259
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
OK, folks, there's no "alien plot" here, it's just a meteo balloon, now move along, move along...


http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3117/indy4roswellqm2.jpg


Damn, why do I have to be always right when it comes to bad things? I wish I was wrong...

IJ4 will be just what Prequel Trilogy is to Star Wars... we see a trailer, get enthusiastic because we hear music we know so well, the movie makes money - "so why are those people complaining?".

It won't go above "Lara Croft" or "National Treasure" level in terms of quality... which is way below old IJ movies.




Crap! That picture isn't lifted from the trailer is it? It really isn't part of the movie right? Maybe they are going for a Guiness World Record for most disappointing highly anticipated sequel. Then Lucas will hold the record for most disappointing sequel and prequel, and that would be a pretty impressive run.