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| Session Start (Succubus Club IRC Chat:#thesuccubusclub): Wed Mar 23 17:51:43 2005 |
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| *** #thesuccubusclub: @MattH |
| *** #thesuccubusclub was created on Wed Mar 23 17:51:42 2005. |
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| Elais | geez. let Terri Schiavo go already |
| MattH | Can't agree with you on this one, sorry |
| Elais | I can sort of understand Terri's parents on a gut level |
| Elais | but man, what's next? Bringing the UN? |
| MattH | She wouldn't be dying except that they aren't giving her food and water. The feeding tube isn't necessary - it was just done for convenience |
| MattH | Heh - UN peacekeepers shouldn't be let anywhere near a helpless female |
| Elais | if they had euthanasia, she wouldn't have had to be starved to death |
| MattH | Truth - although there is a great deal of doubt that she is in a "persitent vegatitve state" |
| MattH | The problem with euthanasia is that pretty soon, it becomes easier and easier. |
| Elais | ye olde slippery slope |
| Elais | sigh |
| MattH | Yep - and the old saying "hard cases make bad law" apply here |
| Elais | heard about Zombie Rampage? |
| Elais | emotions never work well in law |
| MattH | Zombie Rampage? Nope |
| Elais | seemed to be a RPG |
| MattH | Wouldn't surprise me - there is an RPG called "All Flesh Must Be Eaten" |
| MattH | One called Creeks & Crawdads (I'd love to get a copy of this one - it is hilarious) |
| MattH | There is a 1989 film called "Zombie Rampage" |
| Elais | creeks and crawdads? |
| Elais | campagins to fish for crawdads? |
| MattH | Yep - Mankind has destroyed itself in a nuclear war. The only ones left to rebuild civilization are a race of mutated, sentient crawdads. The problem is even mutated, sentient crawdads aren't that bright .... |
| MattH | Much better premise than Bunnies & Burrows, IMHO, which is just a Watership Down type game |
| Elais | looks like they will be airing the remaing Tru Calling eps |
| MattH | Yep. I am debating watching...I don't want to get reeled back in and not have a real resolution. |
| MattH | Checked on google - Zombie Rampage looks like it was a boardgame. |
| Elais | yeah, why watch when you know there is only 6 eps left? |
| Elais | boardgame? maybe so |
| MattH | I'd watch if the ending provided a real ending/finale...I just don't want to be left hanging. |
| Elais | I'm afraid they wont' have a decent ending |
| Elais | I thought the cancelled it rather quickly |
| MattH | Yeah...I may watch anyway...I have a masochistic streak l-) |
| Elais | hang on a sec, I got laundry that's probably dry now |
| Elais | back |
| Elais | drat...my jeans has a hole in a bad spot |
| MattH | A spot that reveals too much? |
| Elais | yup |
| MattH | Add another rag to the rag basket... |
| Elais | now I'll have to look for new ones |
| Elais | they're airing 'Scare' on Smallville |
| Elais | one of the better eps |
| MattH | I liked it |
| Elais | not quite sure where they are going, even after reading the spoilers |
| MattH | Yeah...it is not like Buffy at all, spoiler-wise. |
| Elais | I really hope that Lana is gone next season |
| MattH | Admittedly, the big picture is easier to grasp on Smallville than Buffy. I mean, we know that somewhere down the road he becomes Superman and falls in love with Lois Lane... ;-) |
| Elais | yeah |
| Elais | they are also both supposed to be crack reporters |
| MattH | Or reporters on crack...one or the other |
| MattH | My guess is that Clark will learn that he doesn't age or will live much longer than humans |
| Elais | yeah...they haven't touched on that much |
| MattH | Cassandra's vision of Clark in the graveyard is about the only thing I can think of. |
| Elais | I wonder if they will kill of Pa Kent? |
| MattH | Yeah...tough one...in current continuity he is alive, but pre-Crisis he dies about the time Clark leaves high school |
| Elais | they might be reduced to recurring roles next season (if there is one) |
| MattH | My guess is Smallville will continue next season...but given the nature of the WB, one can never tell. |
| Elais | unless they have Clark superspeed between smallville and Metropolis |
| Elais | they would have to set the show in Metropolis |
| Elais | I wouldn't mind a more adult show |
| MattH | Maybe...or they could have Clark taking a "Wanderjahr" |
| MattH | I think he did that in the comics...took a couple of years off after high school. |
| Elais | double ep of smallville tonight |
| Elais | I will be watching Alias next, though |
| MattH | Since Smallville is a rerun, I don't blame you.... |
| MattH | Did they show a trailer for Onyx or Spirit? |
| Elais | haven't got to the end of the ep yet |
| Elais | I'm kind of half-watching Smallville |
| Elais | the only thing I noticed was a notice that there will be a two-hour Charmed ep this weekend |
| MattH | Ack...that is twice as bad as a one-hour Charmed ep... |
| Elais | I know |
| Elais | I'm really hoping this is the last season of Charmed |
| MattH | Yeah....annoying that it hangs around while the good shows out there get cancelled. |
| MattH | I saw the first episode of the new Dr. Who - it was pretty good. |
| Elais | I've heard many a positive review about it |
| Elais | hwo did you see it? |
| MattH | Bittorrent |
| Elais | ah, downloaded it |
| Elais | I don't download eps very often |
| Elais | they take up a lot of space |
| MattH | It may be the only way to see the show - they still don't have a US network slated to show it. |
| MattH | Eh... I watch em and then delete em, generally |
| Elais | I think Canada is getting them |
| MattH | Yeah... Canada will be. |
| Elais | guess I either have to get my Canadian buddy to tape Dr Who or download the eps myself |
| MattH | I used to be a big Dr. Who fan. I saw the stupid movie they made, but this was pretty good. I rank it about as good as a Pertwee or Davidson episode, but not as good as Tom Baker. |
| Elais | Tom Baker fan |
| Elais | he was pretty much the only doctor who I saw |
| Elais | maybe a little bit of Davidson |
| MattH | I saw a lot of the Pertwee eps and all the Davidson ones. I never got a chance to see one with Colin Baker. |
| Elais | I don't think I've ever seen Pertwee or Baker |
| MattH | Pertwee was good, but his doctor was stuck in England for a lot of his time on the show, with a broken Tardis. |
| Elais | budget constraints? |
| MattH | Partly, partly they had the idea that they wanted to relate better to the average Brit or something like that. There were certainly a lot of alien invasions in that time period |
| MattH | The Doctor hung out with a UN task force called U.N.I.T. (don't recall the acronyms meaning). |
| Elais | I loved K-9 |
| MattH | K9 was wonderful...caused major writing headaches as the writers had to figure out why he *couldn't* solve a problem. He was also in the only Dr. Who spin-off show. |
| Elais | didja see any Daleks in the new dr who? |
| MattH | Not the first episode - it dealt with Autons which a friend from work tells me we in a Pertwee two-parter (I vaguelly recall something like that) |
| MattH | I am sure they'll be back. |
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| Elais | the show runs 6 eps right? |
| MattH | Dr. Who? Not sure...BBC shows are weird. This was a standard 45 episode (unlike the old one which did 4 20 minute episodes) |
| MattH | Checked the homepage - it says 13 parts |
| Elais | 45 episodes??? |
| Elais | 13 is a good number of eps |
| Elais | I've noticed a lot of the Showtime/HBO shows are around 13 eps or so |
| MattH | 45 minutes |
| MattH | not 45 episodes ;-) |
| MattH | I can't help but thinking that Christopher Eccleston (the new Doctor) looks a lot Sherlock Holmes...pointy nose, receding hairline, big ears... |
| Elais | I think Jeremy Brett is the only Sherlock Holmes for me |
| MattH | Well, yeah... |
| MattH | He is an archetype, but Chris Eccleston reminds me a lot of Basil Rathbone. |
| Elais | gotcha |
| Elais | do you watch BSG? |
| MattH | Nope...although everyone tells me I should. |
| Elais | only two eps left |
| Elais | but I gather the last ep is a cliffhanger |
| MattH | Are they searching for Earth? |
| Elais | Kobol |
| Elais | which may or may not be earth |
| Elais | I didn't delve into the spoilers very deeply |
| Elais | I would think it is a bit to early for them to find Earth |
| MattH | Struth - they were searching for it (by name) in the first series. |
| Elais | or at least an inhabited earth |
| MattH | Hmmm... just checked..in the original series Kobol was the world that founded the 13 colonies of mankind. |
| Elais | interesting |
| Elais | so Kobol wasn't Earth? |
| MattH | I don't know if Kobol means anything outside of BSG. |
| MattH | Nope |
| MattH | There was some speculation that Kobol was derived from Cobol, the computer language. |
| MattH | There is also the term kobold, which is a Germanic goblin. |
| Elais | or, they could have just made it up |
| Elais | thinking 'cool name' |
| MattH | That too. |
| MattH | http://www.sf-worlds.com/galactica/ has a sidebar on the Kobol/Cobol possibility |
| Elais | ah, thanks! |
| MattH | Anyway, it is about time for me to go. |
| MattH | I'll speak to you again next week... |
| Elais | good night and good weekend, Matt |
| MattH | You too |
| Elais | see you next week too |
| Session Close (#thesuccubusclub): Wed Mar 23 20:10:28 2005 |