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Ok bear with me.

Orlok is back. Great we all say. Hmm I am not so sure this is such a great idea.

This is the reason why...

In Doomsday (Prog 1150) Orlok wanted to let Dredd go if he didn't have a fair trial but the Direktorate refused. Orlok went a bit crazy and killed the supreme direktor, Natalie Kazan.(War Marshal Kazan's daughter) Later on Dredd had a fight with Orlok. Dredd and Anderson escaped.

Now we flash forward to Sin City. Orlok is still alive, held prisoner. Hmm... Seems unlikely to me. More likely he would have escaped from the destroyed med state, or been executed. Why would the sovs trust Orlok, the man who killed their leader?

They wouldn't! He killed their leader!!!!!

Sorry but it's just dumb.

He would have been executed. They would have used a new agent to attack MC1. One they could trust.

My Name Is Death.

Just where did this block jump net come from? How did Anderson survive? I have never seen a block jump net before! Ever.
Was it part of the block or did the judges deploy it.

So where did it come from?

It spoilt the end. Oh look Death is about to kill Anderson. On look she just happens to fall onto this jump net. How convenient!

Again just dumb.

Oh well, I still really like the stories but a contrived plot is still a contrived plot...

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Sad to see Otto go the way of all flesh. Rumour that his murderer is Orsen Wells' great great great great great great great great great grandson cannot be discounted...

Durham Red - with fangs like that, I almost wish I were a haemophiliac!

Hmmm oh well back to shooshi towers with me.

scojo fangstatic

Eh?

I don't get it.

scojo

For those who have Judge Death withdrawal symptoms....

72 hours (or so) to my Possession screenplay!

The countdown has begun!

scojo

England 1 Argentina 0

Nuff said.

scojo with a smile

Ok you lot, here's a quiz.

Whoever gets it right, or closest, gets shooshi dry food for a whole month FREE!

Ok one rule. Frazer Irving can't post the answer. Cos he'll spoil it.:)

Question is as follows...

You want to buy the first page of My Name Is Death. You know the one? The very first page of Death with the child at the bottom.

So how much money does Frazer want for that little page?

Good luck.

He told me how much he wants so this is a fact!

If you don't get close, I'll tell you later or tomorrow.

Here's a clue. It isn't a fiver!

scojo

The time to hesitate is through

No time to wallow in the mire

Try now Jen Mek, my love is just for you

And our love becomes a funeral pyre

Come on Jenny light my fire

Come on Jenny light my fire

Try to set the night on fire

Try to set scojo's love on fire.

La la la la

scojo prat idol

 

Odd thing.

If you listen to the scene in the Wanted CD where Dredd goes to the face change parlour, he fires a warning shot. Now that sounds like the lawgiver firing a bullet. But later on Steel fires her lawgiver and it sounds like someone stepping in a puddle. It also sounds like that in the convention scene in Death Trap!

I think BF should change the sound of the lawgiver cos it's not how the lawgiver should sound.

Just an idea.

scojo

...Logan keeps sticking his pictures up all the time.

Nearly everytime he posts, he sticks up another picture associated with his class of 79.

Harry Heston for example.

So it's wrong for me to mention my s*****s, yet you can promote your class of 79 all the time?

Maybe I don't want to see all these pictures everytime you contribute to a thread.

Seems a bit hypocritical to me but anyway...

scojo na na na na na

When I saw Attack of the Clones, the bit that was really impressed me was the attack of the clones sequence. Thousands of clones fighting the robots. Amazing sequence.

So imagine my shock when I found the AOTC screenplay and read the lines of action that make up that amazing sequence.

How many lines make up that epic scene?

Have a guess!

Well the answer is...

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About 11 lines including the dialogue!

11 lines?

Can you imagine how much time and money went into that scene and on the page George wrote 11 lines!

This is the key line:

The CLONE TROOPERS open fire with artillery. EXPLOSIONS wreck the parked Battle Starships. CLONE TROOPERS advance, firing at the massed DROIDS. FIGHTER DROIDS fly overhead, exchanging fire with the Gunships and JEDI fighters.

That's it!

Less is more!

I guess he must have added some more detail at the storyboard level!

scojo

Hershey sat in her office. She hadn't had a good day. If some respects, although she would never publicly admit it, being chief judge had become a bit of a chore. An endless routine of paperwork and meetings.

The Argutarian Ambassador one week, signing the amended goldfish vaccine bill, the next. Frankly it was getting a bit tiresome. Hershey yearned for the streets, to be out there in the heart of the city she now ruled over.

But it wasn't to be. More paperwork. In fact she had so much on her desk, maybe she could build a small block out of the damn stuff then watch as she knocked it over. Hmm...boredom she thought - the cancer of the mind.

There were advantages being chief judge, this were true of course, and power was the most heady of brews - but something was missing. Hershey sat there thinking what it was. What was lacking? Then it came to her. It was simple. Excitement. She wanted something exciting to do. Something that would test her mettle.

Pull a few 59'c, a strip search or two. Hell maybe just a litter rap offence. Something, anything to get her out of her office. But no, she had accepted the office of chief judge and that was that.

Hershey got up and walked over to the large plas windows of her grandiose office. She looked out onto the city, her magnificent city, and sighed. Power she mused, a deceptive thing indeed.

Maybe the future would test her, give her a challenge worthy of her position. Until then.....

Chief Judge's office 2124

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Oh god not that again. Just quit with it scojo. QUIT it.

Ok sorry.

Do that again and I take the cat back to the rescue home. You have been warned.

Yikes.

Moo moo

scojo

So I was sitting on the Bristol pavement, no ticket you see for this Comic convention thing, and I so wanted to see Little and Large too...

Anyway, I was sitting there and this idea popped into my head. How about a multi part Big Finish Cd in the future.

Instead of the one off format at the moment, the story continues on a second cd!

It would have to be a story worthy of 2 hours, but it's worth BF considering it.

Oh well about this comic convention. I hear the Krankies are on next and I do love my women in school uniform....

scojo

It's the best thing I have seen on the net about the new trilogy.

I think George Lucas should read this before he shoots a single frame
of Episode 3!

 
Comment: It seems that Lucas still has quite a lot of plot to squeeze
into Ep III . . . it'll have to be at least 3 hours long. Consider: 1.
We have to see some more of the Clone Wars. 2. Anakin has to slowly
turn to the Dark Side. 3. Palpatine has to be made Emperor. 4. Anakin
has to pledge himself to the Emperor. 5. We have to finally learn more
about the Sith Lords, who they are, and how they came to be. 6. Anakin
& Padme's marriage has to start to fall apart. 7. Anakin's Turning
Point, where he becomes a Sith Lord. 8. Padme has to get pregnant. 9.
Padme has to be gotten away from Anakin before he finds out she's
preganant. 10. The children, once born, have to be adopted by the
Lars' and the Organas. 11. The Emperor must be revealed as Darth
Sidious. 12. The Sith Lords (presumably with the help of the clone
army) must wipe out the Jedi (presumably in a series of long,
protracted battles). 13. There must be a climactic battle between
Obi-Wan and Anakin, at the end of which Anakin must be so horrifically
wounded that he can only survive by wearing the mask for the rest of
his life. 14. Obi-Wan and Yoda must retreat to their respective hiding
places and await Luke's coming of age in Episode IV. 15. Anakin must
complete his transformation into Darth Vader by putting on the
costume, and dubbing in James Earl Jones' voice. Sounds like a hell of
a lot of plot for one movie. I just hope Lucas can pull it off.
 

So do....so do I!

Seriously, print this out and keep it for 3 years. After you see Episode 3, see if all the above is in the film!

scojo

Sorry to go on but I read this from another site.

Sidious want to use train Anakin as his apprentice in episode 3, right?

So why does he let Dooku chain Anakin to that pole to be eaten by the monsters?

He would be killed! No apprentice then for Sid!

As I say the plot is meaningless.

Lucas can't write a logical plot.

Argue that.

scojo

Well England actually.

Yes it's World Cup time! Starts today.

So who's gonna win the cup?

Not England sadly.

scojo

Yeah, just seen it.

Well it is not bad at all!

The effects are amazing. The battle at the end between the clone armies is well, words can't describe it! Astonishing detail. Imagine your favourite war movie action sequence, set in the future. Thousands of clones killing each other. Worth seeing the film for that battle. Well done ILM! They deserve an Oscar.

The film is much darker then Phantom. I think someone told George to make it a little more mature and he listened! Hayden whats his name is good as Anakin. The acting and dialogue isn't that bad. The romance is not that bad either. Hayden does show Anakin's torment. As I say, a much darker tone is most welcome. Obi Wan is also the star of the film. Loads of action from him . That fight with Jango Fett on the rainy platform is very good. Who would have thought Bobba Fett's dad was Australian.:)

Not to sure about Anakin's father suddenly reappearing. Where was he in the first film? And why did George go for that silly virign birth plot device in ep 1? No mention of mitochloridians thingys and hardly any Jar Jar though! Hooray!

What else?

Hmm well the first action sequence is a bit like the first action sequence from my Dredd Reckoning. Ho hum.

The plot?

Well not that important really? The usual battles and battle for the force/senate stuff.

Of course deep down Lucas can't write a coherent plot to save his life! Why you ask?

MAJOR SPOILER

Well at the end of both episodes, Darth Sidious has lost and yet he still seems victorious.
In Ep 1 he failed to get Queen Amidala to sign that treaty thingy and his army were forced off Naboo but he was smiling at the end, and in episode 2 his clone army are defeated and yet he says all is going to plan!

Eh?

Geroge your plots don't make any sense. All this Count Dukoo really working for Darth Sidious twist lark. Don't make any sense. If Dukoo was working for Sidious all along, why are they pleased that their clone army was destroyed in the final scene but everything is going to plan?

Complete nonsense. Drivel.

Anyway I think it's the best Star Wars episode so far. Great fun, not bad acting, amazing visuals, and old muppet man Yoda does the light saber dance too! Funny that!

The blue screen effect still doesn't work. We all know the actors are not in front of the cgi backdrops and motion capture characters. Something to do with ILM not getting the focus and lighting right I guess.

Oh yeah one last thing...did you know that George Lucas is more or less making the same film over and over again.

Clever is George. None of the audience have sussed it out. But I have George....:)

I rate it the best Star Wars episode thus far. Meaningless plot but great fun. However take way ILM's magic and it may not be quite as good.

8.5 out of 10.

scojo

Well being a writer I am into story structure. Now John 'the beast' Wagner is one of the best, no doubt about it. But....

Are these possible mistakes?

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1] The female undercover judge was apparently killed by Joe. Remember? Now I think she's the one leading the undercover division. If she returns to Sin City, Linus could spot her. I guess she may not return. Just something to watch out for.

2} This week started with the discovery of Mega City 1 agent Yankee. Now I'm guessing John explains how he was discovered cos last week the judges were looking for him! It seems like there was a prog missing. My guess is, when they capture Danser, she will explain how she killed Yankee and hopefully we'll find out how the judges found him. It is a flashback technique used by writers. Just something we should watch out for.

Cos as it stands, there is a big gap in the cause and effect narrative. One minute the judges can't find Yankee - next minute, here he is!:)

Anyway, still enjoying the story.

scojo

Got the big Finish cd this morning. Wow it came a few days early!

Had a little listen. First thing I noticed - it has a very groovy disco (yes disco!) theme tune. Better than Dredd's music!

Second thing is the scenes seem longer. Well the second scene is. Feels more like a film scene. Most of Dredd's were pretty short but this one has a nice pace to it. Just something I noticed.

The other great thing about it - there are no news breaks! I really think Dredd doesn't need Enigma Smith and her news items.

Anyway Simon Pegg seems fine as Johnny. He plays the character hard. Haven't heard the other characters yet.

But from what I heard, it sounds pretty good. Much potential.

scojo - Wanted dead for message board crimes. Earth Time Period: 21st century.  1 Million credits. Time job.

Search and Destroy Agency: Warrant no 346/72

Yes, not that one!

My new Comedy script.

Fart and Burp.

It's well good. About these two pensioners who go back in time and fight crime. They use nature's very own bodily functions to dispatch their victims. Hence the title!

Clever ain't I?

scojo great writer, bad at(f)art.

I just thought I'd be a nice scojo and wish the Mongoose flock good luck with their new Dredd and Slaine RPG's.

I'm not into role playing, (well does being a casual transvestite count?) but if I can afford it, I may buy it. So I can look at all the piccys.

How many players do you need for a Dredd rpg to work?

Cos me and shooshi are here, and shooshi is one purrfect player.

scojo