It's still not actually that bad, though. I mean, it's not great, but it's a perfectly competent film, unlike many of the remakes and unnecessary sequels going around.

There being no reference to Galactica ends up making it conspicuous by its very absence. Like, not even once? I swear there's even a shot where you can still clearly read "Galactica" on the side, so surely they recognised it.

Because the moment he sees them coming, they've failed. And if he works out what their plan is, he concentrates every resource he has on getting the ring back and it's game over, man. And you can't just drop the Ring in the crater on a flyby either - you have to destroy it in Sauron's forge over the Cracks of Doom.…

It's not "creative" as such, in comparison to others here, but I've had a lovely day building a few models. I've a nearly-finished Dapol BR Standard Class 5 on the go, and I'm building the Revell VII-c U-boat at the moment (that's the one from Das Boot, if you don't know your U-Boats).

Is it a part of the regular Usagi continuity like the old crossovers? I only ask because a while back someone implied it was a crossover with the IDW Turtles rather than the Mirage turtles this time - I just thought that would be a pretty strange place to go (because Usagi's met the original Mirage turtles, so he'd…

I'll probably move over, but I doubt I'll find the site half as attractive or readable on Kinja. I'll probably hit the Avocado more, maybe join the Tolerability Index. I like this community.

I actually just stuck on Boys And Girls In America there a minute ago. Still my favourite HS album. One of these days I'm going to properly listen to Lifter Puller (as opposed to just dipping in and out).

Drinking a Grafters "kölsch style" (I actually have no idea what this means) at this very moment. I think they're a new brewery, from Kildare. There's a lot of good Irish breweries at the moment. Got a four-pack of the ever-reliable Tuborg for after.

I have heard he does a lot of great work for special needs kids, which is probably why I don't particularly dislike him as a person, even if I don't like his work and find his popularity baffling.

If you get rid of the helmet, he's just another space giant! A distinctive silhouette is one of the most important visual design features of a good villain.

I have a real soft spot for Warren Ellis's UFF work - "N-Zone" was the first time I read a story about realistic First Contact (starting with H = 1 and Pythogoras and working your way up), my first exposure to Ellis's love of universal structure (the Marvel Universe as part of a "multiversal stack", something that…

All of time and space, and they had the climax take place in the CG equivalent of the BBC Quarry.

Pfft. Like a twelve year old can afford to buy comics anymore.

Hmmm.

I think Gruffudd was pretty great in the role, and could have really worked with a stronger script.

The main upside to this is that the phenomenal artists he somehow convinces to work on his half-baked ideas will get a decent cheque out of this. (To be honest, I assume "decent cheque when I sell the film rights" is how he convinces them.)

I remember him talking about voting Labour once, and thinking, does he only vote Labour because he's Scottish? Because in Scotland, you just don't vote for Tories - for most of his lifetime you could count Tory MPs in Scotland on one hand.

Something something Marvel universe medical technology? They can invent helicarriers, something like that might even be covered by her insurance (or however American healthcare works, I don't know).

Was it Byrne? I was just wondering about that earlier, because I've always thought it was such a stupid move.

I was just a little too young for Goldeneye's Golden Age, so all my Bond Multiplayer experiences were with my brother and my two cousins on Agent Under Fire, mostly because of the jetpack and the Q-claw. So you could have "Spider-Man" house rules where it was just shotguns and the Q-claw, swinging between buildings.