well I think I know the shocking one, and I suspect that I get the other two. but reading the books means remembering some small details and that gives it away. But as much as I love reading spoilers, I don't want to be the one to spoil it for others.

Yes, I know that feeling from the big city perspective. The tourists say "how awesome" and I reply "what, this dump?" but hey so long as there are good pubs about, what else matters?

Still sounds like it's worth a visit, whether it's Darwin or Cadfael related scenery. :)

I know it doesn't count exactly as science fiction or fantasy, but medieval fiction brings us Cadfael the former crusader turned mystery busting monk! And wonderfully played by Derek Jacobi in the TV episodes based on the pseudonym Ellis Peters :)

it would be nice to build that PoV, yes, at least for a few seasons. :) though from here if they can take the Catelyn and blend the Robb view with it, kind of contrast the story between them. through the first three books I've been a big Arya fan, so I hope her season two adventures really align with the story. :)

Exactly! Give Robb a chance to show what he's got. I know we'll get to see some Jamie skills in future seasons, but it can be done with but a few more bodies than the fight with the hill tribes in the Vale where even Tyrion got to show some killing prowess "with a shield!" And depending on the labour laws for acting…

the cure for missing battle scenes that are too expensive to film is to really zoom in on something small and add a heaping mountain of sound. Why is it always just the visuals? Having about a dozen people swirling around in some battle scene with a lot of noise and chaos quickly cut into reactions outside the battle…

I watched the episode with my sister, she was shocked, so I know the show is working. I can't say some of the things I want to without spoilers and I won't go there. But Ned had to die. Having him live and go to the Wall would change far much of what is yet to come.

That's all well and good but can someone make me a Mospeada cyclone costume? Obviously I'd like the VR-038. Is there anything on the net about someone making a Cyclone costume that transforms? That would be wicked, and probably very difficult.

If I can make a request to NASA it's that all Space footage be set to NIN Ghosts. It's hauntingly wonderful. As a fan of outer space, and Nine Inch Nails, it's the perfect way to start my Sunday.

@aLynHall: You deserve a cookie, that was awesome. :)

@HK-47: Maybe the amount of information in color is larger, so for efficient signals they made it black and white? Just a guess. There has to be a reason in the technical realm.

Normally I avoid the genre where people from our world end up in another, but Guardians of the Flame was fabulous. And I allways love any book that blows up slavers real good. It might also be why I've always wanted to marry an engineer, though he doesn't have to be named Lou, I suppose. :)

The idea aeems to work for the Warhammer 40K universe so it might have merit. But as we all knw, for every inovation there's a counter-measure.

Meh, people dabble in strange things for no reason. It's not the killing of the animal that makes ot sustainable or natural. It's everything leading up to that point.

Well the sphere is the perfect shape, so it makes sense that whatever can be a sphere will be a sphere. Look how tricky it is to make a square bubble! but I was hoping there was a cosmic llink to the couloumb measurement and the resolution mentioned. Not in numerological senses, but some sort of physics breakthrough…

well now that you mention it I could use a good breakfast instead of jam on toast tomorrow. mmmm links and eggs.

I like electrons, I like eggs, so now they might merge in a flimsy way on a tiny scale. 10^18 huh? How interesting that in measuring the electrons in one amp second (couloumb or however one spells it) the measurement is 6.25*10^18 so is that some sort of link? It makes me wonder. The universe has some strange…

Well they did find plans for and test that German stealth fighter design that was being developd at the end of war, so I like that thought, testing a stealth craft, but the crash caused them to feel it was flawed and the project was abandined. Your hypothesis is far more credible. I mean the real way to demoralize…

@angusm: It was a theft by American infiltrators, that's my thought. Nice new flying saucer, stolen and crashed, bodies mutilated beyond proper recognition on impact.