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I must admit I started out sceptical towards the whole time travel ordeal, but it's being handled awesomely. My only gripe is, the writers claim they are presenting their time travel in a non-paradoxal way, but there still seems to be a Terminator-like paradox in there somewhere to me. The Others' interest in Locke as their future leader seems to be a direct result of his conversation with Richard in the past. But he already needed that interest in order to have that conversation. In the end, I think Locke is never meant to truly be their leader (hence Richard's disappointment with young Locke last season), but a sacrifice the Island demands (he needs to die in order to get the O6 to return). I am also guessing that Ellie is the old white haired lady, and Faraday's mother. Daniel will probably be the reason why she leaves the island (much like Sun did). PS Desmond with cap and shades was hilarious.

Don't forget about Divinity 2, which is looking quite promising imo.

All this attention is exactly what the idiot wants. He was sick of his life so he did something people would remember him by. Not saying we shouldn't discuss this, but all the news about it is really the last thing this unfortunate event needs. Then again, not covering it would be unfair to the victims, so it's a tricky situation. But over here, his face is on all front pages of all newspapers, and it's driving me sick.

A-Team movie casting call: http://movies.ign.com/articles/949/949178p1.html Those are really lousy picks. I'd go for: Hannibal: Mel Gibson BA: Ice Cube Face: Aaron Eckhart Murdoch: Brad Pitt

I liked 'em both, but they're totally different movies. Days is more about the suspense, while Weeks is all about the action. Much like Alien vs Aliens. 28 Months Later is also coming up. Rumor has it that Danny Boyle, director of Days, will be returning.

sorta spoiler, just something I noticed

Looking back to the cast back in season 1, I've realized how far Lost has come. The cast has definitely improved over the years. Characters like Desmond, Ben, Juliet and Faraday add much more to the show than say Boone, Shannon, Michael and Charlie. Too bad though that Eko and Rousseau are gone. Would've been nice to see them warping through time. I also really hope Jin's still alive somehow.

My girlfriend's mother works in the other daycare center he had blueprints of. Pretty shocking.

It's true, Kate seems to be the only character that hasn't evolved a bit throughout the series.

Season 2 of Dexter was a lot better than the first one imo. Haven't seen the third one yet. I've also read that the books aren't really that great.

The Golden Rule is nothing more than the Ethic of Reciprocity. In its positive sense this would mean: do unto others what you wish they would do unto you. In its negative sense: don't do unto others what you do not wish they would do unto you. It would probably have been better had I simply stated that "eye for an eye" is purely another form of the Ethic of Reciprocity, rather than the Golden Rule. But my actual point was that it is much older than the Bible.

No, he basically quoted the Golden Rule (in its negative sense), which is much much older than the Bible, and of all cultures. You could say it's the first "law" ever. It has nothing to do with religion.

There's many. Sawyer in S2 upon stealing the guns from the hatch: "There's a new sheriff in town boys, y'all best get used to it." the meeting between Locke and Eko: "hello" - "hello" and just about every Henry Gale scene in S2 man season 2 really was the sh!t

Not so obvious really. For one, Faraday isn't British. Second, he said his mother was in Oxford, while the chick Ben visited is in L.A. It's not impossible though. I had this theory a while ago that the white haired chick and the bald black guy (from The Wire) are the two big players Locke suggested back in S1 with his backgammon game. One stands for destiny and course correcting it, the other for free will and breaking destiny. Desmond was the cause of all major events (plane crash, hatch implosion, keeping Charlie alive long enough to break the code so the ship would find the island), he is the two players' mutual friend (hence the title of his Dickens novel).

This happened in my country, like 10 miles away from where I live

Claire is with her daddy in Jacob's loveshack.

No one seems to give a rat's ass about Claire anymore. Also, yay for the old lady. I always knew she'd make a reappearance.

Josh, you mentioned multiclassing for spellcasters being problematic in 3/3.5E. How would you solve this?

Desmond is special yay! I like the new narrative

That's interesting, and somewhat along my lines of thought. What base classes would you include besides fighter then?

the absence of Warlock, Spirit Shaman, Favored Soul and Swashbuckler One might ask why clerics, druids, wizards, et al. don't just operate like that by default! True. Then ditch the Wizard class.

Blog update! I actually thought the new base classes were a good addition. Especially the divine spellcasters. If the arcane spellcasters get a spontaneous caster, why shouln't divine ones? Spell memorization is so tabletop. But ideally for me the system would only have about 4 base classes (warrior-type, rogue-type, healer-type, magic-type), with all specializations coming from feats.

Defiance Daniel Craig is Moses during WWII. Pretty awesome.

Yeah true that. I'm excited in the sense that it means I have another show to keep me busy on the weekends but at the same time it feels like its been 5 years since I've seen the show and I don't really remember a whole heck of a lot. Not to mention each season is basically a further degrading of the pure insane awesomeness of the first season, though if I remember correctly last season was pretty good and full of surprises but still nothing will be as good as the pure mysticism and creepiness of the first. Imo season 2 was the best, and season 3 the worst. S2 had the hatch (still the best season opener to date imo), Desmond, Eko and Henry "got milk?" Gale. Oh, and Ana Lucia got shot; priceless. It's really hard to top all of that. S3 on the other hand, started with 6 extremely dull episodes before going on yet another hiatus, which completely killed my excitement for the rest of the season, even though it got better eventually. All thanks to Desmond mind you. S4 got just a little too wacky for my tastes (a teleporting island ffs), and even though we really didn't get all that much new info (we already knew they were going to get off the island, and we already knew they would have to go back, so no big surprises there), at least the plot was obviously going somewhere. And since we've gotten this far we ain't going to quit now. S5 might actually reveal why the O6 need to return, which is kinda the point of the whole show: why oh why were they brought to the island? On the time travel topic: I feel ambiguous towards it. On one hand, the affirmation of the element of time travelling killed all possibility of reasonable speculation (which is what made the show so intriguing to begin with, but if an island can teleport then what's the use of trying to find a reasonable explanation for it all?); on the other hand, every episode up until now that included time travelling has been pretty awesome. So I'm definitely curious as to how they're going to handle it.