I recently underwent some sort of hypno-therapy to try and reveal things about my past that I have blocked out. Apparently there were three full seasons of the X-files after season 6. Did you guys know this?
::Going along with the direction this is heading::
No, never!
Bowie and his fans have really managed to put a lot of embarassing incidents behind them – “The Laughing Gnome”, the time he spent as a professional mime before his music career took off, his unfortunate forays into disco…it’s a testament to something-or-other that he’s managed to live it all down.
Still, all the rest seems to pale in comparison to a flirtation with Nazism (or even the appearance of such), and yet that appears to have been largely forgotten.
Name two. 
WTF ARE YA TALKIN ABOUT!! -
THE ENTIRE ENTERPRISE SERIES WAS SIMPLY THE LAST EPISODE OF STAR TREK-THE NEXT GENERATION. IT TOOK PLACE ON THE HOLODECK!
[Spoiler]Have a cite for that? The spoilers I’ve read only indicate that Riker and Troi have a reenactment on the holodeck and offer no specific details. Until the episode airs or a script is leaked, there’s no way to know if it will be a fantasy or simply some sort of historical recreation of their forebearers.
Knowing Berman and Braga, I wouldn’t be too surprised if it’s the former but I’m not so jaded as some of the other fanboys and don’t presume that they actively wish to destroy the franchise, so I have hope for the latter.[/Spoiler]
I’m so glad there was never a post #38 in this thread!
Now that I look back, I am surprised that I don’t see a:
due to all my bitching.
The OP doesn’t own the thread, Scott…
What is wrong with this statement?
I already used this on another thread, but oh well. Today **all ** comic book fans know that Victor von Doom is horribly scarred behind the mask. As originaly conceived however, he looked perfectly fine, minus a small scar on his chin. He wore the mask because he was crazy and thought of it as a huge blemish, not because it was really a phantom of the opera style disfigurement, but be cause, again, he is crazy. Infact, as a throw away joke, Kirby gave Doom Stan Lee’s face.
Later, some writer or another retroconned it so that he was horribly disfigured in the process of putting on his mask.
Or maybe it was the other way around. :smack:
Wow, what a promising young writer Neal Stephenson is, what a catchy tightly-plotted book Snow Crash was. It’s a darn shame he was killed in that tragic blimp accident during the Orange Bowl…
As enviosned by Kirby/Lee, he was horribly scarred in the explosion. John Byrne later changed it to him being barely scarred from the explosion, but massively scarred when he put on the burning hot mask.
Maybe I should have not put in the “wish it never happened part”, except than I would have only gotten five responses and then it would have died out.
L’sigh. If you can not beat 'em, join 'em.
You know, I heard that Byrne was going to make some sort of “Doombot”
I wonder what it would have been like. I would have liked to see them. I bet they would have been a perfect cross-over with Godzilla. It’s too bad he died in that (something) accident.
No, I just can’t get the hang of this. It is fun for you guys, and you seem to behaving fun, but for the life of me, I just don’t get it. I guess I am just an old/young fogy.
Well, in the spirit of the OP, I have one word to say…
midichlorians
Yesterday, while looking through usenet, I found a highly convincing explination of how midichlorians could just be a bullshit explination for how people get Jedi powers allowing the Jedi more political powers. I can’t find it right now.
In much the same way, I seem to recall one of the novels stating that the idea of a dark side,/ligh side of the force is just pschosamatic.
I’m certainly glad that the Fox network never went through with their abominable plans for a Doctor Who tv movie. They wanted to have the Doctor fall in love with his companion, kiss her passionately, and reveal that he was half-human, a la Spock. Fox also wanted to utterly redesign the insides of the TARDIS and cast Eric Roberts, of all people, as the Master! Ahhhhh!
I’m also glad, glad, glad that Marvel Comics did not go through with the much-rumored “Avengers Dissembled” stunt, in which the Scarlet Witch was supposed to abruptly become evil (even though the events that caused her to betray her team-mates had happened several years previously in continuity time, and were never mentioned, nor a factor in her characterization in many years), kill Hawkeye & the Vision, and lead to the team being disbanded, to be replaced with a ridiculous new team that includes Spider-Man, Daredevil & Wolverine!!
And Douglas Adams never did write a final “Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy” book called “Mostly Harmless” that served only to demonstrate how utterly tired of these characters he was, and to definitely kill them off to that he would stop being pestered to write “another Hitchhiker” book.
y’know what’s really strange?
the Nightmare on Elm Street series jumps right from the original Nightmare to Nightmare 3; Dream Warriors, i’ve heard vague rumors of Nightmare 5; The Dream Child, but i’m sure it’s a figment of the imagination, however, i’m convinced there’s no such thing as a Nightmare On Elm Street 2, it doesn’t exist, never been filmed, anyone who claims that it does exist is obviously either sadly deluded, or living in the Nightmare universe and is soon to be dispatched by Ol’ Razorfingers himself soon
dunno how this slipped past the people at New Line Cinema, Rob Shaye obviously dropped the ball on the numbering scheme, very unprofessional, New Line
Speaking of thing we’re glad they never did to the Avengers, I’m glad someone stepped in and told everyone how stupid they were being when some numbskull suggested a storyling called “The Crossing” that would reveal Iron Man as a murderer and villain under the influence of Kang, except only kinda but not really, and then ultimately replace him with a teenage Iron Man in a butt-ugly suit of armor and that would run forever through any book even remotely related to the Avengers.
Marvel sure dodged a bullet with that one!
Not that DC was much better. Word has it that sometime around the mid-1990’s in a pathetic attempt to be Image, they were going to publish a new Justice League book called Extreme Justice, which would have featured Blue Beetle, Booster Gold (in butt-ugly armor!), Maxima, Captain Atom, and Amazing Man (that must’ve been why they decided not to go through with it: I mean, Amazing Man?), horrible artwork, and a decided lack of anything that made the characters fun or enjoyable. Heck, there were even plans to bring the Wonder Twins into regular DC continuity with this book!
I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the idea was immediately squashed and in no way allowed to last for almost two years. Issues of the nonexistant series are rumored to haunt quarter-bins, but these rumors have yet to and will never be substantiated.
Without the makeup, don’t they look like Robbie Williams on a bad day? At least the line from “strong” (see http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/robbie-williams/116765.html) ticked them off (as did the video of “let me entertain you”) or so I’ve heard.