The opening of the Silmarillion is even tougher than the famous tough opening of LoTR (which is to say, about 75% of the stuff between The Shadow of The Past chapter and Bree). It's a less interesting version of Genesis. But it does get going after a while, and is quite the steamroller.

Texas is a whole other country… I live here, was born here, etc. and people are always "You don't sound like you're from Texas." And I want to say, "No, I don't sound like some damn fool Hollywood idea of a Texan. I'm the real thing."

You folks have heard of neutering, haven't you?

Edible roaches…

Weird Al is awesome and all but…
This lineup is seriously lame without Deathtongue.

Oh I get why they did it. And it isn't the worst way, really. Serious injuries, start from scratch, etc. Though of course it doesn't explain why your team, which includes people from the previous game, gets a kind of start from the bottom as well, despite supposedly being accomplished bad-asses in their own right…

What's wierd about the game
Is the way they totally seem to skip over the fact that Shepherd is basically resurrected. I got the impression that Shep was completely dead, not just mostly dead, and was that way for quite a while before Cerberus got him. And no one really bats an eyelash at the implications. Or did I…

Well, I'm technically undead…

They were just looking for things to make them go.

I'd watch that movie. Though I suspect the Japanese already have a version of it.

I am not ashamed
to say I have stood in several bars (dive and not so dive) and belted out, at full volume and totally unironically, the final verse of "You Never Even Called Me By My Name". I did however, wait until the song was played.

Santaland Diaries
One of our local theaters does this every year. It is essentially a one man show, but they mix in a couple of musical numbers to break things up. Freaking hilarious.

I don't know what these movies are you guys are talking about. The alien franchise ended with Aliens. I know they wanted to make more, but the scripts all sucked and so they gave up. Good thing, too.

@Riker, I can;t recall and am too lazy to look it up. The point was, Kirk only gave the tribal people the same level of tech as the city folk.

Beast Rabin FTW!

I'm not sure what's sad about that. It must be said she's pretty hot naked as well.

@Soylent, it certainly had that vibe, but it was really confused by the fact that the Bajorans were essentially Space Jews, and they came off that way even in the TNG episodes where they were still oppressed by Cardassia, where one might see a Palestinian analogue as more obvious. It was quite strange.

The problem with 11001001
Was any explanation given as to why the Binars had to *steal* the Enterprise? As a clearly respected and trusted race, who did useful work for Starfleet, couldn't they have just asked for and gotten a whole stack of tape drives or whatever they needed for their backup? Somehow I think the…

Actually, I think Shatner gave them rifles (muskets?), to match the rifles the Klingon's gave. Maintaining the balance of power was the point of the ep.

I liked her boobs in Shakespeare in Love. I liked that whole movie. Best Picture it wasn't, but it was fun.