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Lots of good looking teenage girls and boys with their teenage problems. Love triangles and all that bullshit.

I can't be the only person who's watched Hollyoaks or One Tree Hill and thought everything would be more interesting if the characters viewer could shoot death rays from their vacant eyes. Time/Warner might have missed the boat there, though - the teen TV market is all scripted reality, like Jersey Shore, these days. What they should do is put the real Batman and Bane in scenarios devised by the production staff, and then let them improvise their own dialogue.

I like Pro Bear's suggestion that Gotham might be like Cop Rock - imagine Gordon's squad of detectives and Tom Wilkinson's mobsters circling each other, clicking their fingers, singing about how great it is to be a cop/hood, and pulling ballet moves instead of actually fighting.

FTFY

[Alien 3]

Alien 3

Saw this on TV over the weekend and although I am well aware of all the production problems and criticisms it has received, this still remains one of my favourites of the Alien films.

I love the Brit-heavy cast and the low tech setting and I can even forgive what happens to hicks and newt.  And the ending - well, what finer way to finish than the shot of Ripley disappearing into the furnace. 

I do own the Alien Quad box set but Alien and Alien 3 are the only ones I ever watch and I could watch them both every day of the week. 
P.S. Alien Resurrection has never been disturbed from its packaging! 

The Director's Cut of Alien 3, the one where the alien comes from a cow (or bovine alien livestock) is very, very good. It improves the film, if you ask me, even if there are a couple of scenes where the picture quality takes a dive.

I like Alien 3 quite a lot. Then again, I also am a big fan of the Godfather Part 3.

So, is this thing still a thing?

Can we have a roll call?

Who's going, and who's got a note from their mum to say they can't make it as they have a sniffle?

I wish more film posters still used art instead of whatever the hell that is.

It's called "Photoshop".

When it comes to law, Common Law is all we really need. Legislation might have a small role to play in an 'advisory capacity' to help the courts arrive at an appropriate sentence but otherwise it's just fluff. Doing away with or drastically reducing legislative law would have little effect on criminal trials and would free up a lot of court time currently wasted  enforcing illusory statutes on otherwise innocent people.

I've shied away from this thread for its entire existence, but while procrastinating have dipped into its delights tonight.

It's like being in a student union.

I had a long post on the operation of law, the difference between law and legistation and the critical distinction between "illegal" and "unlawful", but - frankly - I sounded a bit pompous.

What I would say is that it is inherently easier to criticise the system than to fix it. Arguably, our very ability to complain about what we don't like demonstrates it works as well as can be expected.

Indeed. These seemed to fly off eBay when folks first put them up, but (crazy prices aside) they seem to hang around a bit longer now.

Has the bubble burst?

Frigging hope not!

I'll give you £100.01 for it.

That's not very helpful.

But thanks for your kind thoughts.

The Sov judge is a bit off for me - it's not really a character.

But I'd buy the others, God help me.

I'd pay £40 for a Robo Hunter, especially if it came with his three helpers.

I love these jumping on Progs, always have. They are what make the comic special. Wait a few weeks, and something new always comes along.

I though Outlier was the standout. Nice sci-fi noir set up, and I love Karl Richardson's art (I see some don't - again, the joy of anthology).

So.

At the risk of re-igniting the flames here, what should I be flogging my sealed complete Zenith for?

I bought it to re-read it, thinking it would be the only edition. I was on holiday when it came, and when I heard what they were going for decided not to open it: Mrs X would nag me forever for doing such a thing. Then, when I first listed it, bloomin' LMS announced Tharg was doing a four Phase collection.

I'll buy them, thanks, and not feel guilty when my boys read them.

Long story short: what's a fair price?

It better be. I've got an afternoon pass.

This week I've been mostly playing... Starcraft

The first one; thought I'd replay it before hitting Starcraft 2.

It looks okay for its age, and it plays very well. It's a bit easier than I remember but then maybe AI has moved on in the last 17 years!

So, Mario and Luigi pack for £190:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/351028607544?lpid=83&clk_rvr_id=606265711051

I'm taking the plunge. I'm not sure how cheaper this is going to get.

OKAY - it's "refurbed". But it is from Argos, with a 12 month guarantee

What pleases me is, this is in addition to digital copies.

I have been - and still am - anxious that the print edition might wither and die. But if it's selling out then maybe not.

As an aside, I was once flying down to London from Glasgow for a meeting. It was an Easyjet flight, and as I looked for a seat in the usual scrum, I saw a guy with an empty seat to his side.

I instantly recognised him... but didn't know where from.

I eventually came to the view that he was a B-list actor from a soap, or something similar. Everyone was very polite and ignored him. I thought I'd better not sit with him and chose a different seat.

90 minutes later I remembered who he was: my client.