My grandmother, whom I had been best friends with my entire life had been having breathing problems for the past year was moved to hospice 2 days ago and died yesterday morning. Then my uncle lost his battle with leukemia and passed away today. Despair doesn't even begin to describe
My heart goes out to you. I'm really sorry to hear that.
My grandmother, whom I had been best friends with my entire life had been having breathing problems for the past year was moved to hospice 2 days ago and died yesterday morning. Then my uncle lost his battle with leukemia and passed away today. Despair doesn't even begin to describe
I'm so sorry you lost your loved ones. My heart goes out to you.
Looking for more series to watch, as I'm still out of a job, and there is a lot of time left after you're done handing out resumes. What would you guys suggest that would be easily available (for instance on hulu or netflix)?
I would have a preference for comedy right now, as I've been watching a bunch of serious shows. I'm still catching up on Star Trek, which I watch with Sean, so something that isn't sci-fi would be appreciated as well, for more variety.
I have no idea what's on netflix, because Germany doesn't get netflix.
But if you haven't seen these, look them up. They're all decidedly non-sci-fi.
Boston Public
The high school where Ferris Bueller would be drugged and killed on day one. What the heavy social issues destroy, the teachers - here the heroes of the story - have to make up for with dedication and moral compass. One of the better David E. Kelley series, right up to the moment of mid season cancellation.
Gilmore Girls
A VERY small town, mother and daughter as friends, a host of pop culture references and the looming doom of a noble heritage. Sometimes, there's no need for more elements. Seasons 1 to 6 were a blast - And they kept getting better with each Season. But don't ever watch Season 7! They kicked out the original writers and all went to shambles within a year.
The Good Wife
Beautifully written, at least the first three Seasons (while Season 4 is still running, I wasn't particularly impressed with the first episodes I got hold of). There's always the "case of the week", but what really keeps you watching are the character developments. A former chief of justice imprisoned on charges of corruption - and it's mostly his wife's story, struggling to raise her children as a lawyer.
The SPC games and pseudo lore series are HELLA FUN for anyone into indie projects with horro flavor. I spent hours last night in their website and watching the playthroughs of SPC Containment Breach.
Thanks for reminding me that the latest episode must be out now! I do really enjoy this series, although there are also things that annoy me about it.
I like it, but there are a lot of filler episodes.
I think they should have made it with 13 episodes per season instead of 23/24.
The CGI is absolutely horrible by the way, this makes the series a little too childish sometimes.
As a fan of Doctor Who, I started watching the new series' from the beginning (ie. the ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston), but if you just want to watch it to see if you might be interested, I'd recommend watching David Tennant's 10th Doctor.
Man, I wish we had Netflix over here. Well, maybe not, I don't know if I'd ever leave the house again.
I do want to start watching Dr. Who however, I have to, I am a geek.
As a fan of Doctor Who, I started watching the new series' from the beginning (ie. the ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston), but if you just want to watch it to see if you might be interested, I'd recommend watching David Tennant's 10th Doctor.
although Christopher Eccleston is a great actor, i just didn't think he was doctor who and that put me off so i never watched the david tennant one, and what little i did see of it (some Christmas episodes and odd bits) it didn't seem very sci fi to me, more a soap opera with a sonic screwdriver tacked on, is this common? or have i mainly just seen the soppy drama/weak sci fi bits?
i have just realised i haven't given it a chance since maybe 2008-9 but still i cant watch it unless i watch it all, so i will have to watch all of david tennant doctor before i see matt smith
Doctor Who is more fantasy than sci-fi. The "science" generally makes sense within the universe, but it's always subject to change given the enormous number of writers the series has had. If you want to see what the show is capable of without too many spoilers, I'd suggest watching Blink. It's a standalone episode and gives you a great taste without too much character backstory to slog through.
Also, if you don't like Blink, then the show probably isn't for you.
If you want to see what the show is capable of without too many spoilers, I'd suggest watching Blink. It's a standalone episode and gives you a great taste without too much character backstory to slog through.
Seconded. Blink is always my go-to episode for introducting people to Doctor Who.
Soooo ... everybody here is talking about Doctor Who. And I have to admit that I had to look up Doctor Who in wikipedia, because I didn't even know that it is a TV series prior to those posts.
All right, it's Blink in reality. But let's face it, Blink isn't really much about the Doctor.
That's actually why I chose it. The Doctor is a very strange character with so much backstory that it's a bit intimidating to try to figure out who he is and why he's doing stuff without context. Since he barely shows up in Blink, there's a nice way of seeing how the show generally operates without having to deal with all of that.
This was actually my introduction episode and honestly I'd recommend it over Blink. First of all because I'm that weird fan that honestly didn't like Blink as much as everyone else did, but also because Blink is one of those tonal exception episodes. Now, those are important bits of punctuation that define what Who is as a show, but like all punctuation it doesn't really do much without a context-setting sentence.
It also has its own fair amount of campiness, but it's just enough tongue-in-cheek to make the show funny and endearing rather than stupid.
Some people don't like David Tennant's Doctor that much, but really only because of how his fondness for Rose Tyler affected him after she left. I, on the other hand, loved him for it.
I'm creating my own fictional universe in which super powered humans work in conjunction with human agents to detain, kill or cure rogue supernormals of varying danger keels, while also investigating paranormal beina such as The Hatman. Website coming soon.
Wouldn't you investigate a paranormal set of legs?
Also, you'll probably find that most science fiction series have an element of soap opera in them. On the screen, they're used to portray human reactions more than actual science.
Well, of course science fiction portrays human reactions more than science. Books that just do the science part are called textbooks. The human interest is there to give the science context in the real world and make the improbable seem possible.
Of course, the end goal should be to tell a good story and raise some questions. A buddy of mine is really good at that when writing sci-fi. In a short story, he managed to show the complete regression of a group of people from a super-advanced society to hunter-gatherers in a single generation. And it was just due to a change the speed of a planet's rotation. And he only used three characters. It was pretty brilliant... but also depressing to see how close to the edge we walk.
HISTORY
Matthew McConnell was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1922, shortly between the end of the first World War and the start of the second. Born under the occupation of the British army in Ireland, and a product of the rhetoric of freedom circulating throughout the world in the face of German aggression in WWII, he became a fighter in the military operations occurring in Europe. He was present on D-Day and demonstrated incredible skill, strength, tactical ability and speed. He was actually favorably compared to the American hero, Mr. Amazing [ES003] due to their comparative skills. Mr. Amazing always held the superior place due to his ethnicity and background, while McConnell suffered from discrimination and oppression within hiw own military ranks.
McConnell was also, unfortunately, captured in the European Theatre. At this time he was subjected to the Third Reich's Sephiroth Program, the same program that formed the foundation of the future SWORD agency. An attempt to understand super, supra and paranormal activity, Sephiroth sought to weaponize human, non human and unusual relics in the hope of developing new tools for the Reich to use against the Allies it was fighting. Because of his superior abilities as well as his regenerative healing factor, comparable with Mr. Amazing's, he was subjected to a series of experiments testing his limits and introducing him to mutagenic agents.
The end result of these experiments would never have a chance to be unleashed on the Allies, and the full scope of them is still not known. McConnell's experience left him in a state of suffering and mentally broken, a situation that would not be remixed by the British. He was returned to Ireland, subjected to the same discrimination he had faced previously, and landed himself in close alliance with local revolution groups hoping to establish home rule for Ireland. He established a name as a particularly effective resistance leader, and particularly violent, a reputation that led to his expulsion from the resistance groups he had previously found a home with. Rumors broke out concerning certain, unique capabilities he held. In addition to his previously held capabilities, he was demonstrating a "corruption", an ability to degrade biological and nonbiological matter in his presence, at will, which made apprehension by normal means impossible.
In the late 1960s, standard SWORD agents were sent in to apprehend McConnell, although they were ultimately unsuccessful. Ever larger teams were deployed, all which McConnell resisted through a combination of his own powers and the terrorist group he was establishing, whose influence was spreading throughout continental Europe. A concerted counter effort was made by SHIELD, the paramilitary wing of SWORD. In addition to agents, Mr. Amazing led the team which began a series of combative efforts to break McConnell's terrorist group, Lamh Laidir. This would be the first of a number of encounters between the two and, although they would fail to apprehend him, would drive his group underground.
CONTAINMENT
To date, no permanent containment solution has been devised for holding Black Sunday. His strength allows him the ability to break through concrete and steel. Heavily reinforced walls are effective at containing him physically, preventing escape by battering the walls with his physical strength alone. However, the corruption effect that Sunday produces is capable of progressively deteriorating the walls of his room. This effect is slowest upon superhard metals but regardless of the nature of the wall, the corrosion effect will eventually be sufficient to allow Black Sunday to penetrate it via his superior physical strength.
The current cell devised for him and previously used is located at Facility Abaddon, an imprisonment facility for the most unpredictable, dangerous and hardest to contain super and supranormals. The cell is a multilayered wall of diamond, carbon tungstide, concrete and titanium in interchanging layers that are seven feet thick. These walls are resistant to temperatures up to 1370 Celsius (2500 Fahrenheit) and could withstand a blast exceeding the detonation force of the Hiroshima bomb. Sunday is allowed no television but is provided a set of a dozen books once every month. 24 hour monitoring of his cell is required. Because of the corruption effect he produces, cameras must be changed once a week, as well as plumbing. Because IRIS bullets degrade before they can make contact with Sunday, they are ineffective at delivering a dose of IRIS blood to the subject. Similarly, blood transfusions are impossible due to the corruption effect. This makes indefinite detention the only method of containing Black Sunday.
All method of food, book and other utilities conveyance must be done via conveyor system. All camera replacement must be done only with active ESP agents working to hold back Sunday until replacement is complete, a process that should not exceed one half hour. A replacement cell must be constructed once every three months, and Sunday transferred to it with the help of ESP agents. This is a costly and ongoing expenditure that has not proven entirely effective. Sunday can, at random, exceed the bonds of his agent handlers. The intensity of his corruption effect has also been known to tear apart the walls of his cell with little effort. Attempts to terminate the subject have all been ineffective. Like Mr. Amazing, his cellular regeneration capabilities seem to be beyond the scope of normal medical understanding. Gunfire is ineffective due to bullet degradation, as are all physical methods of attempting to kill Black Sunday. Energy based methods, such as lasers, have literally torn his body to shreds, only to have him regenerate. Incineration has only led to his regrowth from the cells that survived the process, with explosive force producing the same result. Regeneration time can take several months, but always occurs.
ADDENDUM
Black Sunday is the perfect counterpart to Mr. Amazing, nearly equal in strength, speed, agility and tactical ability. What Sunday possess that Amazing does not is a corruption effect, which appears like a black smoke coming off of his body. This field of smoke extends at will in what appear to be tendrils, and can begin immediate degradation of all surrounding matter. When contained to a cell, Sunday allows this field to expand to consume almost the entire room, cloaking it in black and beginning a corrosion process. Only those with heightened regenerative capabilities, such as Mr. Amazing, have any place in direct contact with Sunday.
Sunday can retract his corrosion field and regularly does so as part of his role as leader of Lamh Laidir. Uncorrupted, he appears as a male in his late twenties, a consequence of his cellular regenerative capabilities. He stands mid six feet tall, with bright red hair, a broad jaw and muscular frame, the equivalent of any Olympic level athlete or above. When in his corrupted state, Sunday appears to be consumed in black, like a walking ink blot, with no distinguishing features save the outline of his frame and musculature. Even his head appears rounded and smooth. At this time, his corruption field, the smoke tendrils he is typified by, become visible.
hey do you guys know what to do when your at the part where your by the truck trying to get a weapon but you cant break the window for the screwdriver?
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I'm so sorry you lost your loved ones. My heart goes out to you.
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hard to change the topic.
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I have no idea what's on netflix, because Germany doesn't get netflix.
But if you haven't seen these, look them up. They're all decidedly non-sci-fi.
Boston Public
The high school where Ferris Bueller would be drugged and killed on day one. What the heavy social issues destroy, the teachers - here the heroes of the story - have to make up for with dedication and moral compass. One of the better David E. Kelley series, right up to the moment of mid season cancellation.
Gilmore Girls
A VERY small town, mother and daughter as friends, a host of pop culture references and the looming doom of a noble heritage. Sometimes, there's no need for more elements. Seasons 1 to 6 were a blast - And they kept getting better with each Season. But don't ever watch Season 7! They kicked out the original writers and all went to shambles within a year.
The Good Wife
Beautifully written, at least the first three Seasons (while Season 4 is still running, I wasn't particularly impressed with the first episodes I got hold of). There's always the "case of the week", but what really keeps you watching are the character developments. A former chief of justice imprisoned on charges of corruption - and it's mostly his wife's story, struggling to raise her children as a lawyer.
Thanks!
Less then a week till one of the most exciting events in WWE the Royal Rumble!
That's a marionette.
Even though calling it such would ruin the Metallica song.
Don't even joke about puppets!
Thanks for reminding me that the latest episode must be out now! I do really enjoy this series, although there are also things that annoy me about it.
I like it, but there are a lot of filler episodes.
I think they should have made it with 13 episodes per season instead of 23/24.
The CGI is absolutely horrible by the way, this makes the series a little too childish sometimes.
I've never seen anything from or with Dr. Who...
*runs away and hides from the lynch mob*
As a fan of Doctor Who, I started watching the new series' from the beginning (ie. the ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston), but if you just want to watch it to see if you might be interested, I'd recommend watching David Tennant's 10th Doctor.
I do want to start watching Dr. Who however, I have to, I am a geek.
although Christopher Eccleston is a great actor, i just didn't think he was doctor who and that put me off so i never watched the david tennant one, and what little i did see of it (some Christmas episodes and odd bits) it didn't seem very sci fi to me, more a soap opera with a sonic screwdriver tacked on, is this common? or have i mainly just seen the soppy drama/weak sci fi bits?
i have just realised i haven't given it a chance since maybe 2008-9 but still i cant watch it unless i watch it all, so i will have to watch all of david tennant doctor before i see matt smith
Also, if you don't like Blink, then the show probably isn't for you.
Seconded. Blink is always my go-to episode for introducting people to Doctor Who.
Rose is a good ep to introduce people as well.
All right, it's Blink in reality. But let's face it, Blink isn't really much about the Doctor.
That's actually why I chose it. The Doctor is a very strange character with so much backstory that it's a bit intimidating to try to figure out who he is and why he's doing stuff without context. Since he barely shows up in Blink, there's a nice way of seeing how the show generally operates without having to deal with all of that.
It also has its own fair amount of campiness, but it's just enough tongue-in-cheek to make the show funny and endearing rather than stupid.
Some people don't like David Tennant's Doctor that much, but really only because of how his fondness for Rose Tyler affected him after she left. I, on the other hand, loved him for it.
It apparently also means "legs" in Norwegian.
Also, you'll probably find that most science fiction series have an element of soap opera in them. On the screen, they're used to portray human reactions more than actual science.
Of course, the end goal should be to tell a good story and raise some questions. A buddy of mine is really good at that when writing sci-fi. In a short story, he managed to show the complete regression of a group of people from a super-advanced society to hunter-gatherers in a single generation. And it was just due to a change the speed of a planet's rotation. And he only used three characters. It was pretty brilliant... but also depressing to see how close to the edge we walk.
Name: Matthew McConnel
Age: 89
Classification: Delta
HISTORY
Matthew McConnell was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1922, shortly between the end of the first World War and the start of the second. Born under the occupation of the British army in Ireland, and a product of the rhetoric of freedom circulating throughout the world in the face of German aggression in WWII, he became a fighter in the military operations occurring in Europe. He was present on D-Day and demonstrated incredible skill, strength, tactical ability and speed. He was actually favorably compared to the American hero, Mr. Amazing [ES003] due to their comparative skills. Mr. Amazing always held the superior place due to his ethnicity and background, while McConnell suffered from discrimination and oppression within hiw own military ranks.
McConnell was also, unfortunately, captured in the European Theatre. At this time he was subjected to the Third Reich's Sephiroth Program, the same program that formed the foundation of the future SWORD agency. An attempt to understand super, supra and paranormal activity, Sephiroth sought to weaponize human, non human and unusual relics in the hope of developing new tools for the Reich to use against the Allies it was fighting. Because of his superior abilities as well as his regenerative healing factor, comparable with Mr. Amazing's, he was subjected to a series of experiments testing his limits and introducing him to mutagenic agents.
The end result of these experiments would never have a chance to be unleashed on the Allies, and the full scope of them is still not known. McConnell's experience left him in a state of suffering and mentally broken, a situation that would not be remixed by the British. He was returned to Ireland, subjected to the same discrimination he had faced previously, and landed himself in close alliance with local revolution groups hoping to establish home rule for Ireland. He established a name as a particularly effective resistance leader, and particularly violent, a reputation that led to his expulsion from the resistance groups he had previously found a home with. Rumors broke out concerning certain, unique capabilities he held. In addition to his previously held capabilities, he was demonstrating a "corruption", an ability to degrade biological and nonbiological matter in his presence, at will, which made apprehension by normal means impossible.
In the late 1960s, standard SWORD agents were sent in to apprehend McConnell, although they were ultimately unsuccessful. Ever larger teams were deployed, all which McConnell resisted through a combination of his own powers and the terrorist group he was establishing, whose influence was spreading throughout continental Europe. A concerted counter effort was made by SHIELD, the paramilitary wing of SWORD. In addition to agents, Mr. Amazing led the team which began a series of combative efforts to break McConnell's terrorist group, Lamh Laidir. This would be the first of a number of encounters between the two and, although they would fail to apprehend him, would drive his group underground.
CONTAINMENT
To date, no permanent containment solution has been devised for holding Black Sunday. His strength allows him the ability to break through concrete and steel. Heavily reinforced walls are effective at containing him physically, preventing escape by battering the walls with his physical strength alone. However, the corruption effect that Sunday produces is capable of progressively deteriorating the walls of his room. This effect is slowest upon superhard metals but regardless of the nature of the wall, the corrosion effect will eventually be sufficient to allow Black Sunday to penetrate it via his superior physical strength.
The current cell devised for him and previously used is located at Facility Abaddon, an imprisonment facility for the most unpredictable, dangerous and hardest to contain super and supranormals. The cell is a multilayered wall of diamond, carbon tungstide, concrete and titanium in interchanging layers that are seven feet thick. These walls are resistant to temperatures up to 1370 Celsius (2500 Fahrenheit) and could withstand a blast exceeding the detonation force of the Hiroshima bomb. Sunday is allowed no television but is provided a set of a dozen books once every month. 24 hour monitoring of his cell is required. Because of the corruption effect he produces, cameras must be changed once a week, as well as plumbing. Because IRIS bullets degrade before they can make contact with Sunday, they are ineffective at delivering a dose of IRIS blood to the subject. Similarly, blood transfusions are impossible due to the corruption effect. This makes indefinite detention the only method of containing Black Sunday.
All method of food, book and other utilities conveyance must be done via conveyor system. All camera replacement must be done only with active ESP agents working to hold back Sunday until replacement is complete, a process that should not exceed one half hour. A replacement cell must be constructed once every three months, and Sunday transferred to it with the help of ESP agents. This is a costly and ongoing expenditure that has not proven entirely effective. Sunday can, at random, exceed the bonds of his agent handlers. The intensity of his corruption effect has also been known to tear apart the walls of his cell with little effort. Attempts to terminate the subject have all been ineffective. Like Mr. Amazing, his cellular regeneration capabilities seem to be beyond the scope of normal medical understanding. Gunfire is ineffective due to bullet degradation, as are all physical methods of attempting to kill Black Sunday. Energy based methods, such as lasers, have literally torn his body to shreds, only to have him regenerate. Incineration has only led to his regrowth from the cells that survived the process, with explosive force producing the same result. Regeneration time can take several months, but always occurs.
ADDENDUM
Black Sunday is the perfect counterpart to Mr. Amazing, nearly equal in strength, speed, agility and tactical ability. What Sunday possess that Amazing does not is a corruption effect, which appears like a black smoke coming off of his body. This field of smoke extends at will in what appear to be tendrils, and can begin immediate degradation of all surrounding matter. When contained to a cell, Sunday allows this field to expand to consume almost the entire room, cloaking it in black and beginning a corrosion process. Only those with heightened regenerative capabilities, such as Mr. Amazing, have any place in direct contact with Sunday.
Sunday can retract his corrosion field and regularly does so as part of his role as leader of Lamh Laidir. Uncorrupted, he appears as a male in his late twenties, a consequence of his cellular regenerative capabilities. He stands mid six feet tall, with bright red hair, a broad jaw and muscular frame, the equivalent of any Olympic level athlete or above. When in his corrupted state, Sunday appears to be consumed in black, like a walking ink blot, with no distinguishing features save the outline of his frame and musculature. Even his head appears rounded and smooth. At this time, his corruption field, the smoke tendrils he is typified by, become visible.