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Yes he is, he's just a bastard Stark, hence the white wolf he got.

Is it just me or has the music got slightly more arsom too?

Not sure how many are playing on PC, but there's an arsom looking tower defence mod arriving soon...

http://kotaku.com/5898448/this-skyrim-tower+defense-mod-looks-surprisingly-great

Key worked fine, downloading now. To Tristram!

Woooo! Cheers Gothmog!

I approve, with the usual trepidation about sequels. As long as it doesn't love itself too much (possibly not a problem in this case) or suffer from "too many stars", as they are now since the first one, it should be good.

Space above and beyond....i was gutted when it was cancelled

I really liked that too. It ended in such an exciting way too.

I'd forgotten about that, think I liked it a lot too, being orginal BSG-ish. I'm sure it would have been cancelled around the same time as Dark Skies (bastards), which isn't similar to stuff in this thread, but it did have Jeri Ryan (7 of 9) in it, so it counts 

Really liked the whole Andrea sequence and the way it was resolved wasn't comic fan baiting in the slightest - oretty standard stuff for an end of season finale of a TV show.

(The Prison less so - but I'd like to see if a normal person that saw it recognised it as a prison and what their thoughts were before I accuse it of being fanbait.)

I'll answer as a "normal person", mostly. I've got the first GN but didn't feel compelled to get any more, or more like I didn't feel compelled to continue buying something that was obviousy going to be strung out as long as possible. I did like it, but not massively. Anyhoo, I recognised it as a prison, but part of that was knowing that there was a major character called "The Governor" going to appear at some point. Loved the other character that as you say, was obvious fan-bait, but it worked on me too. "Cooooool", I thought 

Otherwise I'm glad it's over, finding too many characters way too annoying. Puts Voyager to shame 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWtuKm6C1Sw

Heh. I've never seen that. I actually quite like the idea as using VR as a space ship battle interface (I actually had an idea for that in a comic story, so slightly irate to find out they did it first.* ) but boy, did she look silly.

*In my one it was a small one man fighter with the person plugged in directly via a cybernetic implant. To their perception they're flying through space kinda like superman, with a 360 degree view all around, actually relayed to their brain via the ship's sensors. The pilot might point to shoot, etc, but none of that flipping around. Unless he/she wanted the entire ship to do that.

I'll just wade in here with a Stargate reference 

http://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Eurondan_piloting_unit

I've not watched much Babylon 5, seems like the kind of thing you'd have to watch all of to say. The bits I have watched seemed too deep into whatever storyline runs through the whole thing to get into. Of course, being a Stargate fan will probably negate any opinion I may have anyway 

Liked BSG mostly, was disappointed by the end and copying it ruined SG: Universe.

[Passion Play]

Well, it's not the first Japanese film to be copied as we all know 

I just watched Passion Play

It's had a bit of a slating it seems (just from a glance at IMDB, but you know...) . The kind of slating you'd expect of a film with Megan Fox as a girl with wings that gets whisked away from Rhys Ivan's freak show by Mickey Rourke. Also Bill Murray [spoiler]as a gangster that whisks her away from him in turn[/spoiler].

Anyhoo, I enjoyed it a lot. For me, the main metaphor (as I saw it) was as subtle as District 9's townships and given that, the ending was [spoiler]a bit of a suprise, if completely obvious in hindsight, but then I tend to accept things as they're happening in some films rather than revel in prediction. [/spoiler]

I can see why it could be hated, but I guess I was just in the right frame of mind for something quiet, weird and romantic. If it was done by Lynch it would have been weirder and possibly better, so a bit like Drive in that respect. Just a bit, it's nothing like Drive really, or as good, so don't take that as any indication.

[Battle Royale]

I approve that you don't mention Battle Royale, JC, which Hunger Games is in no way a copy of in any form whatsoever because the writer of the original novel went to very great lengths to state as much.

Heh, that's exactly what I thought of when reading that and the vague snippets I've heard about it.

Seems to be popular though, made as much as John Carter didn't 

And the obligatory Dredd pinball machine!

Also, apologies for swearing excessively above, bit more than intended 

That's a great idea, as long as the pub in question wasn't owned by bastards like Greene King.

With that in mind, my home town would be a better place, or rather, as good a place as it was a few short months ago, if my favourite pubs for food weren't taken over and turned to complete SHIT by Greene King. Food is fucking awful and of course the actual owners are nowhere so don't give a fuck if some Scottish pub is ruined by their greed.

They're the type of bastards that prevent pub landlords from buying fresh food locally, instead forcing them to use cheap shit from their centralised supply, taken from fuck knows where.

Grrr. Said pubs are now being boycotted, which of course will make little difference cos they're now stuffed with chav families taking advantage of cheap deals etc.

So yes, our pub won't be like that, will it SBT? 

Fill your lungs with blood and thuder!

lol, worst spelling mistake ever. That's drunken posts for you. 

Meshuggah practically ruined metal for me. Nothing else in the genre comes close. Tomas Haake is un-be-cocking-lievable. Go see that band live if you don't believe me

That's just... something. Going to see them in a couple of weeks, which I've been wanting to do for a long time. I will see them, can't fucking wait!

Skrillex, György Ligeti and Mastodon; that's why God invented the shuffle button. Thanks for the Meshugga link.

Yay, Meshggah. Right now I'm liseniting to Blood Ceremony, an earlier thing. Thanks for that Hoo-Haa, love it.

Mastodon though, so good. Brann Daillor is a god of drumming. So much good music everywhere, it's hard to keep up. Not so keen on their newer stuff but they're Gods of metal, Leviathan is like Number of the Beast.

for anyone who hasn't heard them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=labytsb3gfI

Fill your lungs with blood and thuder!