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I know what they mean though.

And I quite liked the longer blades of AvP... although it can be overdone.

Cheers! Unable to upload to my profile unfortunately. It's 'not writable' apparently. Maybe something to do with the change of server, etc, but never mind. Still a nice thing to have.

Snigger. Don't worry that preview of next weeks cover is pretty spoilerific. Although I thought it might mean something more gruesome. (It's a bit worrying considering my morbid turn of mind sometimes.)

Is it weird I'm already missing Dante's crest?  I realise she's not had huge dialogue in the strip for a long time, but when she DID speak, she was always fun.

Oy! I haven't read the latest prog yet!

(Mind you I guessed something like that would happen from the ad for next prog, so no real harm done.)

A shame the pages tend not to be numbered too. (Well, okay, you get to look through the artwork...)

I was looking through the Halo Jones book and I was nearing page 100* and I got to that bit with Toby the robo-dog. Brilliant, disturbing and action filled. Then I reached 100 and it had Halo at a ball attempting to ask a bloke to dance. [spoiler]Before another cheeky little missy turns up and drags him away.[/spoiler] Sigh.  On saying that, there's nothing to say the history of what happened can't be incorporated into the artwork somehow. A kind of comparative piece... so it could still be interesting...

*or thereabouts. I wasn't sure if we should include the start cover pictures...

MARDLE

Please.

Please don't inlude the 'Please' on the badge.

Or the "Please don't inlude the 'Please' on the badge." bit.

Or the...

Okay, I'll get my coat.

What kind of music, bands, themes and genres would you have for the Official Soundtrack for the Dredd Movie ?

Im going to add this track if i had a selection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHgqTbdgns&feature=player_embedded

what do you think ?

Not bad but... German? Nothing against Germans... I'm just thinking in terms of the fact it's a Dredd film. Unless it's the german-nazi connection but even then...

For a scene in a weird mega-city night club, it would work well though. So yes, it could be part of the film's track but not the main theme tune.

Talking of themes, I think one thing the first Dredd film got right was the theme tune. Pretty epic and cracking. Not that I'm suggesting it be reused...

Speaking from the point of view of someone who has only been reading 2000 AD for a couple of years...

Samantha Slade. -I know her old man is the popular one amongst many long time readers, but I actually haven't read any of those older stories, although I plan to grab the collections at some point. She's the only Sam Slade I know.  I know many don't like the strip but I'm fond of the more light hearted nature compared to other strips. That's not to say I don't like the dark stuff... but variety is good.

Oh and of course Halo Jones. (The first 2000 AD GN I bought, by the way. Actually, I still only have two, the second being Judge Dredd: Origins. Money is always a bit tight, but considering I have a job now, I think I might increase my collection.) Although part of me like's the open ending of her story also.

I guessed that that the second world [spoiler]was probably fake too, having seen that plot twist in a film before.[/spoiler]  It really was rather good though.

I'm not convinced that the rest of the team are people pulled into that world like Tyler and Drake.  I know things in this series suggest this, but I can't help thinking that the sudden appearance of two people making strange claims would have sparked a recognition in them, even despite the memory loss. Through all series of Life On Mars and Ashes to Ashes these folks have been intrinsic to the world with histories they remember. (I know Drake and Tyler have sort of 'placeholder' histories in this world too but they don't remember them.)  It's only in this series that the weird stuff has started happening to the other characters as well.

I think think they're still very much part of this world, they're just becoming more aware of the nature of it. Particularly as someone else (namely that cockney copper whose name I forget.) has come to disrupt it. Seeing the starfield is part of that, looking outwards to other world than these (to borrow a Stephen King expression) as it were. I think that darkness and music which happens at times of reaffirmation with Gene indicates the climax of their self awareness of their place for good or ill in that world and also the knowledge that the world is unravelling, becoming soft,  around them. (I say 'climax', I think they'll always have more to learn as long as they live, like everyone else.)

I do however think that Gene Hunt could be a 'real person'*, although he probably isn't called Gene Hunt in the future world and may be a very different person. I know Sam wasn't shown trying to trace Gene when he returned to the Noughties, but surely he would have tried off-screen?

I think all of them (besides Tyler and Drake) are creations of Hunt's mind, but people who have now progressed beyond being just that, become true characters in their own right able to stand on their own two feet as shown when they stood up to him... and were in turn accepted. (I wonder if the young soldier with the damaged head is him, as others have mentioned. Maybe he has been in a coma all those years.)

Conversely Tyler and Drake stood up to Gene from the start. They were always 'real', but they had to learn other things from Gene. Trust in colleagues and the heart in policing rather than just the future education they brought, for example.

*Real from the point of view of the future 'noughties' world from which Tyler and Drake hark I mean.  I think all the characters are real in their own right. That's the nature of self-awareness after all. It was indicated right at the start of Ashes to Ashes when we started seeing things from the point of view of other characters appart from the traveller, and now they've truly become.

I can't remember exactly what the explanation was, but I didn't take it as the mind being unable to understand what it was seeing so much as the machine was still working at altering people's perceptions, but wasn't sophisticated enough to mirror the illusion in a reflected surface so it was actually the machine leaving it blank and not the minds of the onlookers. Like a programming flaw or something.

That makes more sense, certainly, and it might be what they meant. One thing I'm not keen on with new Who is how rushed some explanations are.

[WHY?!]

Yes - that was why - but I meant WHY?! I wholeheartedly agree with Mr Dandontdare about it for sure.

Ah, as opposed to just walking in and telling him? I think the Doctor meant to be melodramatic. Which rather backfired on him, which was the joke really.

Weakest so far, very RTD episode - but the next one looks Amazing.

It had weak points, but usually RTD resolutions involve pulling something apparently out of thin air. I found this did make sense.

The forest was inside the ship, which was at right angles to the actual ground ...

Course it was. Oxy-generation units. And after they were all wandering around cavernous ruins before entering the ship, I manage to get confused about that. It's a wonder I don't hear a rattling sound when I shake my head...

[spoiler]
It was getting bigger and bigger, don't think it developed vacuum qualities, though- when the gravity turned off, the ship was orientated in such a way that everyone started falling down towards the crack - which had the effect of looking like the vacuum was sucking everyone one in, but they were, in fact, just falling downwards.
[/spoiler]

That actually makes some sense. [spoiler]Weren't they all standing on the ground outside the ship though? I.e. the ground they were standing on had gravity of it's own, right? Then again there was another scene where the ship was upside down in relation to the ground (although that was a different doorway I thought) so... okay I think maybe my perspective just got confused there. What appeared behind was actually bellow... and what appeared to be falling back was actually down.... right? The background scenery looked like a ground level forest-scape to me though, which isn't saying much considering what else I got wrong. Heh.

Even without the vacuum I still found that big crack awfully convenient though.[/spoiler]

Still a decent episode overall.

[the vampires were aliens?!??!]

Tonight's was a bit of a throwaway one. Why was he in a cake at the start?

It was Rory's stag do. The Doctor had replaced the stripper.

Also the vampires were aliens?!??! - I'm afraid my mind is out. BLOWN OUT.

It's a science fiction show. Most mythical/horror monsters in Doctor Who turn out to be aliens. There is a long history of this. They even had an alien werewolf a few series back.

The scientific explanation as to why you can't see them made little sense though. Basically it boils down to, your mind can't understand what you're seeing, so you see nothing.* How come they don't appear to vanish when their perception filters are deactivated then? Okay, maybe the queen's explanation of why their teeth remain is an explanation, i.e. perceiving a threat, your mind cancels out the,er, other cancelling out. But that's the teeth when the filter is applied! The teeth are hardly the only threatening thing about the creatures appearance, are they?

Also, even if the human mind works like that, the Doctor's wouldn't. He has a wider scope of awareness, has seen many strange things. If the girls actually look like buxom insectoid fish, then that's what he would have seen in the mirrors.

That being said, I thought it was a great episode overall. I'm also glad it didn't rely on the sudden appearance of a cosmic event to save the day like last week's (otherwise good) episode. [spoiler]Machines create disaster. They destroy machines. Simple but makes sense.[/spoiler]

*This is reminiscent to me of a certain Ginger Ninja's invisibility powers.