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I don't think they're wasting Hiro, as his bits are probably the best parts of the current crop of episodes, but I get what you're saying about everything else seeming same-old same-old.  Claire's storylines seem like the writers are trying to go back to the really obvious stuff they managed to avoid doing in series 1, not noticing that series one got along just fine without yet another anaemic riff on Mean Girls.  Isaac is dead, yet his storyline remains healthy, and Sylar mopes about doing nothing much.  Expository dialogue threatens to make up about ninety percent of what comes from the character's mouths, too.
Interesting that the girl from new Orleans doesn't have a New Orleans accent - even Uhura made the effort.  Bloody kids.
This could all be feet-finding, however - there could be a big turnaround being prepped for the mid-season cliffhanger for all we know.  It would certainly explain the cliched big threats if they were nothing more than red herrings - I'm not convinced by the virus that came from nowhere, for a start.  Mohinder's sister had it decades ago and now suddenly it's everywhere over the season-break?  Whatnow?  And why does everyone call Mohinder 'Suresh'?  That's his family name, and it seems a little rude now.

Okay the second series is a little underwealming - but it still ain't Flash Gordon.  That sounds like damning with faint praise, but it's actually something for which we should all be thankful.

This is available on DVD in the US if you've got a region-free player. I only watched it because I remembered the (damnably catchy) song, but the film's good, too.  Especially liked how the idea of just doing something dumb for its own sake can be a major motivating factor when you're no age at all - I suppose we can thank post-modern American yuuf-oriented screenwriting where the kids always talk like forty year-olds for that.

Densho Otako is good fun, too - I preferred the tv show, but the film's alright.

It might have tried *too* hard in the end, but at least it tried to be different from the basic premise of virtually every other 2000ad story of that era, which were basically recycled action-movie ideas padded out until the stories became parodies of what 2000ad used to be about.  If the editorial-types at the time had been a bit firmer about upping the pacing, adding some characterisation, and actually printing the whole story rather than letting it peter out and end with a whimper in a holiday special, Tao De Moto might at least have found some niche affection with long-time readers.

Mark Miller's Robo Hunter.

Rich Larson did quite a few covers for the US reprints, too.  That might be one of his.

I've played Lego Star Wars 2 on PS3, but I can't speak for the first game's compatibility.

It'd be fun to have an online multiplayer version of this.  The last straw for me with online gaming was how top-heavy with aggressive kids the Halo 3 arenas were and I swore never again - but the one-shot-kill shotgun brawls on Resistance: Fall Of Man have turned me around.
I'm itching for a multiplayer Lego Battle of Endor, now.

Youtube has a few of the webbies uploaded, so that's always a last resort if you can't watch them through the official BSG site.

"And as bad as Galactica 1980 was, it's concept is sound"

You mean that bollocks with super-powered boy scouts and flying bikes?  Even as a concept, that sounds pish!  Could have been worse - there's a persistent fan-rumour that Buck Rogers' second season was originally to have seen the two series cross-over so they could save money by reusing the Galactica stock FX as Buck's base-ship for the series.  I can't help but think that'd be a step too far for both shows, no matter how bad their respective second seasons were.

My money's on Galactica getting to Earth in the closing moments of the last episode.  Granted there's a danger that's a bit close to the closing of Star Trek Voyager's finale, but STV's finale was about the only thing that show actually did right, as it made the journey - and not the destination - the focus of what went before.
There's probably an outside chance of a 'twist' ending, where it's post-apocalyptic Earth, but the Colonists turning out to be our ancestors is so obvious a twist that you'd have to be mental to think no-one would see it coming.  Or Warren Ellis - am I right, Ministry Of Space fans?

Link: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/ill-lyteracy/rob-liefeld-shoots-on-alan-moo/" target="_blank">Alan Moore denigrated by a much better comics crea

The tpb of Mike Baron's Bruce Lee comic from the mid-90s - Bruce Lee travels the world making fillums and fucking people up.
Like Jeph Loeb and Rob Liefeld's Onslaught, it's one of those comics that instantly disperses any doubt budding comics creators might have about their own abilities, as once it sinks in that it's not meant to be a joke - or so bad it's entertaining - you know in your heart that even if you can't do better, you'll never do worse.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/theboy/woot-1.jpg">

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk" target="_blank">"And how are we today, Mr Creosote?"

How often do we hear about the citizen leadership of the Big Meg in 2000ad Dredd anyway?  PJ being mayor is no more important to 2000ad Dredd continuity than if he was head of a bakery.  It could be part of a slow-boiler plan for a larger story coming up later, perhaps, but I've been under the impression that Meg/Tooth crossovers don't go down so well with core readership.

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T9MuEA2eF8c" target="_blank">But... Chris Lee is teh shit!11!!  (etc)

"pushed shit through the letter-box"

See, this reminds me of that Lenny Henry anecdote where he tries to figure out how people wrote something racially offensive on his door in poo - did they take it from home in a jiffy bag?  Did they hold someone up and squeeze it out like cake-icing?

The mechanics involved in pushing poo through a letterbox makes me think the enterprise isn't one worth undertaking.

"inviting the reader to an irrevalent conclusion"

Though only one saw fit to turn a qualified statement into a broad generalisation just to score some imaginary brownie points - everyone else seems to have taken it as it was intended, which was an *individual* tale of woe and not a "fukk all posty skum" tirade.




I love Vzzbux too.  We should all just get along.

I don't have a problem counting - that'd be why I even qualified the statement by beginning it with "Our local post" and went on to qualify LOCAL examples of poor service.  I made no claims as to what was the prevalent state of health of the industry - that would be yourself.

As a personal favour for me if not for yourself, can you hitch the high horse you rode into town on at the "read the post in future saloon" and maybe drop the condescending attitude?