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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator the Series
« on: May 20, 2009, 08:28 AM »
Still not buying that schedule...SYTYCD as part of the fall lineup?  It has never been anything but the bastard step brother of American Idol that they play in the summer.  13 hours of Dollhouse, but on both schedules?  Glee, which premiered this week and has not ratings data in both fall and spring?

I would say the Terminator cancellation was inevitable as Judgement Day.  They may be kicking themselves if the new movie does really well.

I guess we can kiss Fringe goodbye now.  In yet another brilliant move, FOX is putting it up against ratings juggernaut CSI.  Look for Fringe to go on hiatus, end up on Friday and then be cancelled at this time next year.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 24
« on: May 20, 2009, 08:09 AM »
Funny how 24 hours can change a person...I would have liked to see the interrogation while Janice was handcuffed to the wall.  I am guessing the last 15 minutes or so was set up so that they could have killed off Jack if there wasn't going to be an eighth season.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator the Series
« on: May 18, 2009, 08:22 AM »
That seems like a seudo schedule...SYTYCD is strickly a summer show, as well as Glee.  I doubt they would pick up Glee for the fall without even seeing how it does during a summer run.  Of course the dancing will be replaced with American Idol...I guess Lie to Me goes on hiatus when 24 returns.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Fringe
« on: May 14, 2009, 08:12 AM »
Quote from: JabbaJoe on May 14, 2009, 07:10 AM
Cool Season Finale.  Interested to see what happens next season.

I think it put to rest the "where could it go after this season" speculation.

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1:6 Scale Figures and Collectibles / Re: Sideshow 12" Han & Luke Stormtrooper 2-Pk (SDCC)
« on: May 14, 2009, 08:11 AM »
Quote from: DSJ™ on May 13, 2009, 09:29 AM
Quote from: DSJ™ on May  6, 2009, 11:20 PM
The 1st to hit the bay.

SDCC 2009 Star Wars 12" Luke Han Stormtrooper

Good god! Let's bump the price up from $229.90 to $279.90.  ::)

SDCC 2009 Star Wars 12" Luke Han Stormtrooper Sideshow

Like I said earlier, I didn't see how they were going to make much money assuming the price was around $200.  $10 less at the con, but there is tax.  Having it shipped for non attendees will probably be around $10.  After ebay and paypal fees, $230 is just not much of a price to make a profit.  However, why someone would waste their time trying to win this auction and not trying to buy it direct from SS is beyond me.

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Latest vintage acquisition
« on: May 14, 2009, 08:07 AM »
Quote from: solrac on May 13, 2009, 04:29 PM
Quote from: DSJ™ on May 13, 2009, 02:25 PM
Good luck on the hunt for General Madine.


Vintage Tri-Logo General Madine AFA 60
:o :o :o is Brian's toys doing collectors a favor or hurting the hobby

I've said for a long time that they are really nothing more than a big scalper ring.  While vintage prices are always what the market bears, just look at what they have done with the modern line through the years pricewise...especially exclusives.

People can argue all they want about them being a business and making a profit, but when a company like New Force Comics, which appears to be a much smaller business, can sell cases for a much cheaper price, you have to wonder just how much profit someone like Brian's Toys is making.  It seems half the vintage auctions are very high priced items from Brian's Toys.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 24
« on: May 13, 2009, 08:00 AM »
Quote from: Darth Vlad on May 13, 2009, 12:11 AM
Quote from: Darth_Anton on April 15, 2009, 10:27 AM
24 may have jumped the shark. My wife and I discussed not watching it anymore.

I'm upset with last night's episode. Here we were having a good season and the writers go and put Kim in another damsel in distress situation like every other season she's been in. I thought for once her role would be the dutiful daughter who turns around and tells Dad that she's going to save his life for once. But, no. She's been held 'captive' to persuade Jack to help the terrorists. Ugh! Now I only hope she is finally killed off so that there is no way this can happen again.

I don't think that will happen...I have heard they are already casting an older version of her daughter for next season.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Star Trek
« on: May 11, 2009, 08:18 AM »
I grew up watching TOS in reruns after I would get home from school.  I still prefer TOS to TNG because I felt the stories were more compelling, while you can argue the acting and effects were cheesey.  The first couple seasons of TNG to me felt like more style than substance.

The only complaint about the new movie that I have was that the digital projector went down to a lightning strike during the young Spock scenes and we had to get shuffled off to a regular theater...I can't wait for the Blu Ray.

I would say this is probably one of the best uses of time travel in a movie.  What a way to shake things up in the Star Trek universe...it accomplishes both having a tie to the original series and a reboot of the series overall.

I liked the look of the ships interiors, especially the engine rooms.  More reminescent of a submarine with all the close packed piping and everything...not the totally clean and sterile look of TNG era.

I thought all the core characters were great, and I even enjoyed the over the top accents of both Chekov and Scotty.  I had been keeping away from spoilers so the Spock/Uhura relationship was a shock.  I do like it though.  It will interesting to see Spock take a completely different journey that we have seen before.  It took the character quite some time to embrace his human half, but this Spock seemed to do so with his decision not to enter the Vulcan science academy.

I like all the one liners from TOS and even the nod to Pike with him in the wheelchair at the end.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator the Series
« on: May 7, 2009, 08:16 AM »
Quote from: BillCable on May  6, 2009, 12:39 PM
Quote from: EdSolo on May  6, 2009, 11:59 AM
I think if you look at a list of cancelled shows on Fox, you will see that they either started or were shifted to Fridays.  Without American Idol, Fox probably wouldn't crack the top 10.  Fox has very little patience with any show that isn't a blockbuster for them.

That's not always true.  King of the Hill was never a big hit, and they kept it around forever.  They've given a long run to American Dad despite ratings well below Family Guy.  This year Fringe took quite a while to get established, but they stuck with it.  Now it's the top new series of the year.

Of course I'll always be pissed at them for canceling John Doe...

I fully expected Fringe to get cancelled just because of the type of show that it is.  If you look at the Fox cancelled list, a lot of the shows are sci-fi/fantasy type shows.  I'm surprised the Lone Gunmen wasn't on the list...I thought it would have ended up on Fridays at some point.

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1:6 Scale Figures and Collectibles / Re: Sideshow 12" Han & Luke Stormtrooper 2-Pk (SDCC)
« on: May 7, 2009, 08:04 AM »
Quote from: DSJ™ on May  6, 2009, 11:20 PM
The 1st to hit the bay.

SDCC 2009 Star Wars 12" Luke Han Stormtrooper

I will laugh if SS decides to put say a $225 price point on this set.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator the Series
« on: May 6, 2009, 11:59 AM »
I think if you look at a list of cancelled shows on Fox, you will see that they either started or were shifted to Fridays.  Without American Idol, Fox probably wouldn't crack the top 10.  Fox has very little patience with any show that isn't a blockbuster for them.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator the Series
« on: May 6, 2009, 08:01 AM »
The only difference with Bones and House (besides ratings numbers maybe) is that Fox didn't move those shows to the dead zone of Friday nights...that is where they put any show they want to kill off for low ratings.  Boston Public, Dark Angel, Prison Break among many others have been moved to Fridays and then promptly cancelled.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator Salvation
« on: May 6, 2009, 07:58 AM »
Quote from: JediJman on May  5, 2009, 11:21 PM
Quote from: BillCable on May  5, 2009, 08:12 PM
You missed a dozen posts ago where we demonstrated that the only way Reese gets the photo Sarah has taken at the end of T1 is if she's impregnated by Reese first.  The photo proves Reese was always John Connor's father.

No, I read that, but re-read my last paragraph and see if that makes sense.  Here's a possible "chronology of events"

- Sarah Connor has a baby with some other guy.  Don't know who, don't care.
- Skynet takes over and John Connor grows to become the leader of the human resistance for whatever reason
- Skynet decides to send a T-800 back in time, so Connor sends one of his best men, Kyle Reese to protect him
- Reese travels back in time and impregnates Sarah before she gets pregnant from someone else
- Reese dies, Sarah gets her picture taken and heads off to raise John

At this point, he does not have a picture of her and the future is radically altered.  John is not the man he was from a DNA perspective, but he is prepared from birth to become the leader of the resistance.  Knowing it is his destiny, he makes choices that lead him to the leadership role his previous self discovered more naturally.

- In the future, this different John remains a threat, so Skynet sends a T-800 back in time. 
- At this point, John knows Reese is his father, so he sends Reese back after him.  Again.
- This time, John knows its his dad and he gives Reese the picture.  Maybe this version of John is sentimental because of his different DNA or maybe its just that he now knows its his dad or maybe he just didn't have a picture of his mom in the initial timeline because that John didn't know what was coming.

This is the point at which we see Terminator 1.  From this point on, there is no reason for anything to change.  Reese has the picture, saves Sarah, dies.  John is born, becomes the leader, knows Reese is the father, gives him the picture, sends him back in time with the picture.  Its an endless loop from that point that has no reason to change unless something else in the timeline causes a change. 

I've always thought the intent was something similar to this and I find it fairly plausible (outside of machines taking over and time travel, etc.!), but that's just my opinion.  We do know from the TV show that history can be completely re-written.  Hence the T3 storyline becoming null and void when Sarah avoids her death by jumping into the future.



This is exactly what I have been arguing...Sarah could have gotten pregnant from a one night stand and for whatever reason decides to go off to the desert and gets her picture taken.  John could have been a bad kid who got sent off to military school.  There had to be some sort of original timeline that we do not see on screen in which there is a John Conner who grows up to lead the resistance.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator Salvation
« on: May 5, 2009, 03:25 PM »
Quote from: BillCable on May  5, 2009, 08:15 AM
It's not a flash forward, though.  He's imagining it as he's talking to Sarah about the war, IIRC.

Yes, but my point is that all we see of Kyle Reese is a Kyle Reese that is a Lieutenant to a John Conner that knows that Kyle Reese is his father and thus that John Conner tells Reese stories of his mother knowing that he (Conner) must send Kyle back in time at some point to become his father.  Thus why he has the picture and so forth.  In a way, it could become an endless loop in time.  However, from the events we see in T-1, the timeline is changed to benefit Skynet such that Judgement Day is sped up and Skynet has greater tech (the T-1000).

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Terminator Salvation
« on: May 5, 2009, 08:06 AM »
Quote from: BillCable on May  4, 2009, 09:58 AM
We're all aware it's not possible.  Logically John Connor had to exist before Reese went back in time.  But the only way that the photo of Sarah Connor exists for Reese to fall in love with is if he went back in time and impregnated her.  It's a plot hole.  And you can't explain it away by claiming it was a similar photo.  It is what it is... a flaw.

Unless the Kyle Reese post Judgement Day scenes that we see are after he has gone back in time the first time...meaning that John Conner grows up hearing about Kyle via Sarah and how he came back from the future to save her.  Thus, John knows that in the future he must send Kyle back to save his mother.  That is the part that isn't clear from the movie.

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