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#284303
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284303/action/topic#284303
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Most people don't want to except the EMP thing as a possibility. And when it does happen, everybody will go into shock just like they did with 9/11, if we could watch TV all over the news they would be calling the event that shocked a nation... again. Imagine how much more damage it would do to the county, just by merely shutting down our power. If our army over there is dependant on our technology over here. It would make one big mess of things.
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#284258
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"BRING BACK STAR WARS" Channel 4 UK documentary coming soon...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284258/action/topic#284258
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What do you all bet Ford will refuse to participate? I think the chances are rather slim. He seems to have anything but fondness for the series these days. It is still funny to me to listen to any of his early intervews from right after the first movie was made and how excitedly he talked about the film. Enthusiasm that we are sure to never hear about from Ford again regarding SW.
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#284184
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Younger brother expelled from school for being "asian and quiet"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284184/action/topic#284184
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I doubt it. I don't see how "The cops wanted to come to our house and search the place immediately, at least my mother had good sense enough not to let that happen." could be true based on the him being "asian and quiet". You can buy those stupid shirts at the mall. If they take offense to them they could just ban them rather than "arresting" every person that buys one and wears it while being "asian and quiet". Also, "So they asked the school if it was pressing charges, the principal said they hadn't decided yet" This would also be pretty hard when there were not any charges to press.
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#284172
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Star Wars Radio Drama - *update in 1st post* - completed review
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284172/action/topic#284172
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corellian, those labels do really fit well. I love McQuarrie's stuff.

"They do totally make me feel like a kid listening to a radio drama set back some time in the '50s."

Yeah me too. From a very young age I thought it would be cool to have lived in the 50s listening to radio instead of TV. I even bought one of those vintage old bookcase radios to give my radio drama listening habits a more authentic (though anachronistic, since most of what I listen to was made in the last 30 years) feel to them. If your a Tolkien fan by any means at all, there is a good deal of his works adapted to very high quality productions done by the BBC. The Lord of the Rings adaption is quite good.
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#284164
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Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284164/action/topic#284164
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Of course evil exists. There is no denying that. But you can't say someone is born evil. I, personally, wouldn't even call Cho evil, what he did was an evil act. But was he actually evil? He had a family who loved him, even if he was a difficult child. His family is mourning the death of someone they loved, while at the same time dealing with the shame of his final deed. You cannot blame society, video games, bullies, guns, movies, the parents, or anything of the such for his willingness to snuff out so many lives. No doubt under different circumstances he wouldn't have commited this horrible crime, but another person under the same circumstances, or even worse than his own, would not have done the same thing. It takes a lot to kill somebody. It takes a lot more to kill 32 somebodies. There was something about him that wasn't right. Does that make him the devil incarnate? I find him to be more tragic than purely evil.

And to show I am not in "fairy princess land", here is a quote from my very first comment in this thread:

"Can't we just take responsibility for our own actions? Maybe the guy went bezerk not because of id software, but because there was something terribly wrong. Though I know I am wrong. If the experts says Doom made him do it, then Doom it was."

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#284130
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Star Wars Radio Drama - *update in 1st post* - completed review
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284130/action/topic#284130
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Yeah, Han and Darth are the most jarring to get use to. But in a way I really like the different actors portraying them. I like Darth Vader, because he seems like he is right out of an old science fiction radio serial. He may not be James Earl Jones, but if you unlearn all you have learned and let the story take you as if for the first time, Brock Peters really does a good job of the stereotypical evil menacing villian, which is what Vader was originally. I always felt the radio drama did a great job of taking Star Wars back to its roots without all the baggage. It is something plain and simple you can enjoy, even if you havent seent he movie. I always felt bad for people who never read LOTRs until the movies came out, because instead of getting to discover and imagine all these fantastic places, you only get to see what others imagined them to look like. For many people Frodo will always be Elijah Wood. For me, Elijah Wood merely portrayed Frodo in a movie at one time. With the SW Radio drama I like to try to forget everything and reimagine it all as if for the first time. I like to force myself to think of Vader more as how he appeared in the early conception art. I am not sure why I like to do this, but I find it very refreshing. Another thing I like about the NPR series is the catchy episode names! Aren't they great?

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#284119
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Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284119/action/topic#284119
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Evil is evil and crazy is crazy. Everything else just colored or compounded those issues.


If you mean that in the way that I think you do, then I can't agree at all. I think the issue lies between ADM's view and the view of Chaltab and lordjedi. I don't think you could say the kid was born evil. He could have been born with a mental disorder that contributed to handeling this differently than the average Joe would have, perhaps. But I could never agree that he was evil because he was evil. Even Hitler was human. I feel sorry for Cho, what isn't to feel sorry about? It is sad that he felt justified to do something like he did, that is plenty to pity right there.
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#284116
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Alec Baldwin's Phone Message to daughter
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284116/action/topic#284116
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Yeah, a lot of anti-Bush folk made a lot of big talk about what they would do if he won the second term. But, he won the second term and I have yet to see any of them do anything. Just goes to confirm the statement "talk is cheap".

Back to the evil Baldwin and his damnable verbal abuse of his daughter which should land him in jail and is bound to destroy his career (for a couple of months). I heard on the his wife has hired body guards for Ireland to protect her from her dad. That is so crazy. It is not like the guy is going to hurt her. Even if he was that type, he wouldn't try it after the huge media thing. She is just doing this crap for show. Very over dramatic, but the media and the masses seem to be eating it up.
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#284113
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284113/action/topic#284113
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America. Let's say there is a nuclear attack, which is all to likely these days, even if the actual location of the hit is small there are ways they could potentially knock out electricity across the continent. If that happened, it could cause all sorts of grief for us. Mass panic, nuclear powerplants melting down, followed by a fun adventures with fallout. It could potentially be the sheer definition of terror with very few people actually dying from the bomb blast itself, and multiples of that amount dying in the following days, weeks, months, and even years. Of course we cannot say exactly what would happen in that event, but what I described is a small part of the general theory.

Also who knows what other events the future may bring us? Who could have foreseen this bee thing? I suppose there are other things that could render us without electricity.
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#284102
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284102/action/topic#284102
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Originally posted by: Tiptup


I probably shouldn't be analyzing fictional characters this much but it's enjoyable for me. You never know where the actual writers are going to go and if they will contradict how I believe they've presented their characters in the past. I shouldn't want to set myself up for disappointment. Oh well.


Ah, I sometimes think that about over analysing to, but I also really enjoy doing it as well, so why not.

Hmm, for the Locke and the button thing, I think that was one of the greatest things of season two (the "button" that is). Locke has been a bit off since the beginning, from the first moment he ran into the smoke monster he has refered to the island as a living entity. It is true it would make more sense for him to have rationalized the button thing, but his character had been portrayed as an irrational "man of faith" from the very beginning. With the whole button thing may have been a little off on Jack's thinking the button was a fake since they are on a strange island with a strange underground hatch and strange smoke monsters and weird primitive people who abduct children, with parachutes of food dropping from the sky. I guess the end of the world for not pressing the button seems extreme, but it is foolish not to assume the thing might blow up and kill them all, or at least have some nuclear meltdown or something. But I felt Locke's insistence fit with the crazy "faith" thing he had going on. It is funny how different we preceive the characters. This has been a rough week and Lost is the only show I actually watch on TV, so I am looking forward in kicking back and watching the new episode on Thursday morning (I don't even waste time watching them when it airs on TV anymore, ABC.com posts the whole episode in pretty high quality with only four 30 second commercial break the day after it airs, so I just see it that way. Much more enjoyable without those disruptive, long 5 minute commercial breaks.)
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#284082
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284082/action/topic#284082
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It is discomforting to me with how very dependant on technology we are. I think it would be a good thing to take a step back by choice and with caution and planning rather than be forced back by some sort of disaster. We are getting to the point where electricity and electronic information is as vital and essential to us as water. That is what I meant by my "this time carbon offsets wont save you", if it came down to giving up cell phones there would be no squirming out of it for the rich folks. I think we could do it, but it would hurt. In fact, I would be totally if we decided to fight global warming and loose of bees by getting rid of technology all together and going back to oil lamps and horses. That would be a dream come true! Imagine, no more media? Something dumb like VT happens and we wont know about it for weeks or months, and best of all, no copycat nonsense. Ah, one can only dream...
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#284067
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BSG
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284067/action/topic#284067
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I was watching the first epiosde of the old Battlestar Galactica last night, it has been a long time since I have seen that show. In the very first episode you see Starbuck topless!!!

That old show isn't so bad. I remembered it being a lot cheesier than it seems now. But I am still on the first episode, or perhaps it is episode two... somewhere in the middle of the long made for TV movie that counts as the first three episodes, so there is still plenty of time for it to live up to expectations as far as cheese goes.

EDIT: ALRIGHT!! Finally, it took about half way through the movie/3 part pilot to live up to the cheese I remember it being.
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#284015
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'Kryptonite' discovered in mine
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284015/action/topic#284015
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Ouch! Painfully memories of nearly failing geology in college are flooding back to me. Man, I hated that class! But my professor could have very well been one of the guys in Anchorhead's post. If there were/are forums for these things, he would be the equivelent of a "Jedi Spirit" in their rankings system I'd bet. He was unbelieveable enthusiatic about the subject he taught.
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#284012
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284012/action/topic#284012
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See, these types of things really do bother me. I have a hard time getting worked up about global warming because it seems like complete bull. But things like this make me thing we need to change a few things. I have never been a fan of genetically altered crops (or anything genetically altered for that matter), we make all thses changes to grow things faster and more sufficiently without taking much consideration into anything else. I don't the idea is that radiation from the cells phones are causing this as the brain tumor argument was. They have very delecate navigation systems, I believe it is the cell phone signals that they believe may be throwing off the bees own signals. Not knowing much at all about bees or cellphone, I think it sounds like it could be a possibility. Anyway, IF it is due to cell phones I can proudly say I have contributed nothing to this issue! (Saying that kind of makes me feel better about owning an SUV), I have always hated cellphones and as of 2007 I still refuse to own one.
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#284008
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284008/action/topic#284008
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Locke has been great the last few episodes, but his character seemed totally off from the end of season one through to the beginning of season three. These last few episodes have been fantastic though. It makes me wonder how many different writers compose this show. It seems like the characters are on and off half the time as if they're constantly being taken two directions. The main strength of this show was the character drama in my mind and they need to be consistent for that drama to continue.

Oh, and I also jokingly wonder why this show kills off, removes, or ignores every African-American character. (Seriously, I really liked Rose and Bernard. I want to see them in the show more.)


Yeah, they can sometimes be pretty inconsistent with a character, and that really spoils the show IMHO. Like Jack playing football with the others. That was retarded, Jack is extremely distrusting, put you shelf in his shoes and think if they said "Alright you can go free. In the meantime... wanna play some football" you'd look at them like they are nutz and say "Just get me off this f-ing Island!" Then in the very next epiosde we have distrusting Jack back. It made no sense, they just did it for a end of episode gag, but I don't think it is worth being inconsistent for the sake of gags. However, in the case of Locke, I felt the way you to, Tiptup, at the beginning of the season, now I think they have him much more back to himself. Season one he was this myterious great outdoorsman, then we find out more about him and realize he was NOT at all the way we thought he was. Then as we learn more and more about his past we learn more and more about how insecure he is. The guy had been taken advantage of his whole life. In most of his flashbacks we see him being taken advantage of. Even Ben tried to take advantage of him when they had him captive in the hatch as "Henry", because he know he was an easy target. Since he was on the island he always tried to be the tough guy and the peacemaker. Now he is making a stand and deciding he doesn't want to be the insecure John Locke he has always been (but he still is) and is trying to take the inititive on things. He has some rational reason for what he is doing, what that is, we don't know. He intentionally blew up the communication center, and he intentionally blew up the "only way off the island". By the end of the season Locke is going to be backup on top as one of the best characters of the show.

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#283910
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Anyone else nostalgic to the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283910/action/topic#283910
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Originally posted by: Major fatal Moebius
I feel more nostalgic towards the times that the PT didn't yet exist.


Us older SW fans tend to have a bitterness towards the PT and the SE, which is understandable. Our SW is only very remotely related to the SW of now, plot lines and whole characters have been greatly altered and changed by the PT and SE, to most of us these changes were very unwelcomed and it terrible taste. But regardless of that, I still think it is great that younger generations love Star Wars, I hope they enjoy it as much as I did when I was there age. I also think they are lucky they have toy lightsabers durable enough they can really beat the snot out of each other with them. What I wouldn't have given for one of those $7 telescoping lightsabers with the belt clips when I was a kid. Probably good I did not have one, because I may very well have worn it all the time if I had.