twister111

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Post: #517978
Topic: Random Thoughts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/517978/action/topic#517978
Time: 29-Jul-2011 1:28 PM

Alright, so the past few days I've been exhausted and, just spending my free time watching videos instead of posting/tweeting... So, random images!!!

Post: #517224
Topic: \b\
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/517224/action/topic#517224
Time: 26-Jul-2011 6:45 PM

Post: #517220
Topic: PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/517220/action/topic#517220
Time: 26-Jul-2011 6:35 PM

Ziggy Stardust said:

I was trying to find a "That's Age-ist" gif, but I had to settle for this one.

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/7091/ageism.jpg

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7091/ageism.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6560/ageismsocialissue.png

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3852/ageismshouldneveraffect.jpg

There ya go some pics found for you...

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7405/cooly.gif

Post: #517216
Topic: Random Pictures and Gifs (now with winning!) [NSFW]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/517216/action/topic#517216
Time: 26-Jul-2011 6:21 PM

Post: #516781
Topic: Youtube finds
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516781/action/topic#516781
Time: 24-Jul-2011 4:51 PM

Bingowings said:

Why waste money on nightmare inducing illegal drugs when the Youtubez <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfmPREbTd8" target="_self">puts this creepy crap</a> out there for free?

If that interests you check out my earlier post in this thread. Makes the above vid seem normal.

Post: #516755
Topic: Chuck [The final episode has aired. Chuck is concluded.]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516755/action/topic#516755
Time: 24-Jul-2011 2:03 PM

none said:

Why hasn't twister111 talked about the big news yet?!!!

If you're talking about the possibility of a Chuck movie that's just something the cast would love to do. Not yet in the works though.

If you're talking about the casting for season 5. . . I think it'll be a jokingly good time with much lightsaber.... Okay this a lame joke. Got to use the force to get myself out of this one. Like Luke did with the Death Star approach... Okay, yes I know I just post so much about Chuck already that if I posted everytime I found out new Chuck info that's all I would ever post about.... It's exciting and, gets me jazzed up for Chuck's 5th season!!!

Post: #516737
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516737/action/topic#516737
Time: 24-Jul-2011 12:17 PM — Edited 24-Jul-2011 2:19 PM

Currently watching live stream of Nerd HQ for Zachary Levi panel!!!! Running a bit late but, that's okay :).

*edit* It's now over great quote from the the stream.

(talking about shows he'd like to do)
"I'de love to be in space with Adam Baldwin and, Nathan Fillion! And maybe this guy(hugging Joshua Gomez)." - Zachary Levi

It turned into an impromptu Chuck panel!!!! With Adam Baldwin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Joshua Gomez, and Zachary Levi!!!!

Post: #516535
Topic: Rebecca Black - My Moment
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516535/action/topic#516535
Time: 23-Jul-2011 9:18 AM

Post: #516532
Topic: Random Pictures and Gifs (now with winning!) [NSFW]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516532/action/topic#516532
Time: 23-Jul-2011 9:06 AM

TV's Frink said:
RedFive said:

^Holy carp, twist, where is that from!?

Sounds like someone's never seen Romero's Day of the Dead.

<_< >_> Uh yeah 'tis that...

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9540/tumblrlnsj8owb241qghr5r.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7310/tumblrldic01po0l1qe3s7p.jpg

Post: #516526
Topic: \b\
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516526/action/topic#516526
Time: 23-Jul-2011 8:52 AM

Post: #516512
Topic: ot.com Dance Party!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516512/action/topic#516512
Time: 23-Jul-2011 6:47 AM

Just past my 1110th post!!!! This is my 1111th post!!!!

Post: #516511
Topic: The "I Just Bumped The Hell Out Of An Old Thread" Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516511/action/topic#516511
Time: 23-Jul-2011 6:42 AM

TV's Frink said:

Ha-ha, you bumped the bump thread.

Indeed I did!

Post: #516510
Topic: Random Thoughts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516510/action/topic#516510
Time: 23-Jul-2011 6:36 AM

Kay I was going to respond to the BSG thread but, tired me makes random things more appealing... Viva la randomness!!!!!!

Young apricot dancing in tree. Going to get bucket after hilly pole tries to knock it down! Never, never, never understand the ray of hit. If you do becomes, applesauce!!!!!!!!!!!

Post: #516163
Topic: Favorite Beer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516163/action/topic#516163
Time: 22-Jul-2011 6:36 AM

Post: #516162
Topic: Random Thoughts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/516162/action/topic#516162
Time: 22-Jul-2011 6:30 AM

Holy crap I got a lot of stuff to reply to in this thread! Didn't expect a single reply to be honest... Will go back to gifs/randomness for a bit. Then later on I'll reply to that thread.

Tyrphanax said:

I had a bad day.

Post: #515902
Topic: The "I Just Bumped The Hell Out Of An Old Thread" Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515902/action/topic#515902
Time: 21-Jul-2011 7:28 AM

to http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Screaming-Yoda/topic/7660/

Post: #515898
Topic: Screaming Yoda
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515898/action/topic#515898
Time: 21-Jul-2011 7:11 AM

Stinky-Dinkins said:
I thought the Screaming Yoda was a rare sexual maneuver.

Roleplay!!!!!

http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/1693/happyx.gif

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7/yodajf.jpg

http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/7280/grin.gif

Post: #515897
Topic: Facepalms, Fist pumps, Whatever Faces, Don't Care Meters, Angry Faces, Crotch Kicks, Crying Faces, STFU, Deal With It, Derps, Oh Snap, Double Takes, and So On...(NSFW Language Advisory)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515897/action/topic#515897
Time: 21-Jul-2011 6:56 AM

Post: #515895
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515895/action/topic#515895
Time: 21-Jul-2011 6:35 AM

Recently I watched the latest Switched at Birth episode. OMG!!! If the next episode is as good as the that one was I'm a start recommending this show!!!!! Want next episode now!!!!!! DO WANT!!!

Post: #515894
Topic: Random Pictures and Gifs (now with winning!) [NSFW]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515894/action/topic#515894
Time: 21-Jul-2011 6:29 AM

Post: #515884
Topic: 2ndBSG a review and, analysis of season 3 - the finale + Caprica observations (Spoilers)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515884/action/topic#515884
Time: 21-Jul-2011 6:17 AM

Moved discussion:

RedFive said:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Last-web-series-tv-show-seen/post/514695/#TopicPost514695

Bingowings said:

There is the author's intension and a reader's interpretation and as we know from 'Lucas Watching' both are movable feasts with no set menu but if you go back to the original inspiration (the Classic series) and the NuGalactica pilot (mission statement of the new interpretation) the God thing is there right from the beginning.

So where is the surprise?

THIS! I always make this argument. And "Head Six" said (or at least implied) from very early on that she herself was an angel, so why all the complaining at the end?

In this OP I'll explain my point of view on the parts of 2ndBSG I do not like. Essentially it's not so much the supernatural element. Afterall, many aspects in LOTR boil down to "A Wizard Did It". However, I still like those movies. It's just easier to pick a point in the show to have as a catchphrase to express dislike over it. "Han shot first", "nuke the fridge", and "jump the shark" are all examples where if it really was just that it really would be petty to argue over it. We all know though that if say, Lucas were to only fix Han shooting first for the Blu-ray there would still be the problem.

Okay, "a God did it". Okay, I ask "why?" The show in it's early 2 seasons welcomed such questions. It is a great sci-fi exploration of the human condition and, welcomes us to ask questions about each episode. Just prior to Season 3 though it changes. "Why wasn't the cylon hybrid blood explored more in story? You basically tell us it's a cure all. Why aren't other humans benefiting from this? Why aren't they making a stockpile? Why aren't they saving more human lives?" The show now doesn't welcome this questioning "Shut up! We're hand waving it away to keep our actress on the show. Shut UP!" is basically it. I heard there was some kind of explanation but, it was deleted for being too technobabbley. So the show as stands just basically asks us to shut up about it.

After that it brought up even more questions. Questions we're just meant to take at face value and, just go with it. Kara returning from the dead with a corpse in a trashed viper and, scattered memories of elsewhere. The incident with the Cylon virus. Admiral Adama being absolutely right during the mutiny. All these things and, more we're just meant to take at face value or, subsitute "God did it" for the answer and, be done with it.

Well if a vast majority of the answers are going to be "God did it" then "why???" Then seconds later the most stupid phrase in the whole show is uttered out "Let a complex system repeat itself long enough eventually something surprising might occur." What that tells me is that billions or, more lives could've been saved if someone gave BSG God a card that states the following on both sides "Wait for it!

If you want to see something exciting... Wait for it!

Turn the card around!!!!"

We're essentially not given any indication of what might be BSG God's motivation for any of this. Other then possibly it's a stupid idiotic moron. Who can't tell the difference between a hole in the ground and, television set. Meanwhile in other sects of fiction we are given motivation for the characters actions. Gandalf's motivation here:

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2175/100506plaqueheader.jpg

is clear. He wants to save the fellowship. A wizard still did it but, we know why and, it's understandable. Unless BSG God is a complete idiot who suffers from mental retardation it doesn't make much sense at all.

Furthermore the tone of the show changed and, it carried that same tone into Caprica. It became a more "day in a life" type show. In it's effort for realism they took it way too far. Showing mundane stuff that doesn't move things along at all. Adama crying many times, looking at paint dry, painting a single color on a wall. Well yeah that's realistic but, it's not the type of show I was watching prior. Joseph essentially being a deadbeat neglectful father who ignores his real life kid to chase a computer file. Went on for 9 episodes... Yeah it's realistic but, it's not entertaining to watch on any level. I say "entertaining" not because, I just wanted more fighting. No it wasn't that at all. If I'm engaged on an intellectual level in something I feel it's entertaining. Such as "Moon" or, "Intersections in real time" - Babylon 5 episode. Only "Moon" has a fight scene and, yet I'm entertained by both.

" You Can't Go Home Again" I feel is an excellent BSG episode. They showed all the important things that were needed for that episode. They didn't delete important scenes just to have Adama stare at the wall some more which did happen in "Deadlock".

Another thing where Caprica failed at is the fact the show is set-up around a faulty premise from a viewer point of view. Caprica starts introducing us to Zoey. She's somehow a computer prodigy, creates an avatar of herself, shows some bitchy qualities then dies. . . Okay bye character that was only a unappreciative jerk for the few minutes we saw you! *waves* ... Wait what? The entire show is going to be grieving over this girl??? WHY???? She's the type of character you're glad dies in horror movies!!! WHY SHOULD THE SHOW REVOLVE AROUND HER???? The audience didn't get to know her. Fast forward past the grief with a "2 years later" title card and, get on with the story!!!! No her avatar does not count as "being" her anymore then Athena "being" the same character as Boomer. It's uninteresting to watch a show revolving around the grief of a character we never got to know. Everything about her from then on is told via hearsay or, conjecture. Which means if you question the validity of any of it all you're going to (metaphorically) get from the show is "Shut up!"

I think I know what they were going for though. Attempting to recreate a BSG type setting on a smaller scale. Throwing us into the aftermath of a sudden death. The problem largely lied in the fact that Zoey wasn't a character to appreciate at all. She's a rich, healthy, technically smart person. With all the opportunity in the colonies given her birthplace and, she's a complete ass to her parents and, wants to run away to some cult? Mabye she had some redeeming qualities but, she wasn't around long enough to show it.

Back on to BSG God. It essentially forces us to except the fact the characters have no free will. By the whole repeated cycle/plan thing. It's like those "it was all a dream" type endings.

Finally it doesn't matter what the hell you call BSG God. Call it Jamaharon for all I care. The problems still stand no matter what it's called.

So, yeah, my opinion...

Post: #515882
Topic: Who is Ignoring You, and Who are You Ignoring? (was: Who is Ignoring You? (was: Hello all, I'm back!))
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515882/action/topic#515882
Time: 21-Jul-2011 3:24 AM

Warbler said:

Twister, sorry about that. I meant to ignore twooffour, but I accidentally clicked ignore on one of your posts instead. Anyway, I am no longer ignoring you.

Cool.

TV's Frink said:

Yay! Now all we need is for twister to apologize for posting a planking picture and we can all be friends again.

I only posted a planking pic because, planking confuses me. Same as Warbler ignoring me confused me. I just thought it was appropriate.

Post: #515739
Topic: When Remakes are a Bad Idea
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515739/action/topic#515739
Time: 20-Jul-2011 1:14 PM

So,... about remakes. I say they have their purpose but, there should be some kind of time limit. About 10 years in between. I mean remaking stuff so soon after the last one like the Fantastic Four remake. It's just so soon from the last one.

Post: #515710
Topic: Who is Ignoring You, and Who are You Ignoring? (was: Who is Ignoring You? (was: Hello all, I'm back!))
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515710/action/topic#515710
Time: 20-Jul-2011 11:48 AM

You have no users on your ignore list.
2 members have you on their ignore list:

Jedi Temple34

Warbler

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Post: #515708
Topic: This Thread Is Currently About...Bingo and/or Wings!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/515708/action/topic#515708
Time: 20-Jul-2011 11:41 AM