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Reese was his character in Terminator. In Aliens, he was playing Hicks. Just for the nitpickey.

Good luck Malc. Well the first bout of my mother's chemo has gone well. Or at least, has gone without any serious issues. There's a batch of people issues that caused stress, but the medical side has seemed to go fine, with just general tiredness rather than anything else the result. Although now it's added fun of looking after her supply of oxygen tanks as well as the meds. Hm, I'm having that late night pondering on a spurt of retail therapy. Although Far Cry 4 is down to about £22 from Amazon now, so that might be worthwhile for a bout of pretty death dealing.

What's quirky with Alien 4 is that in many ways its prototype Firefly. Just look at the Betty and her crew of grey-traders / mercenaries / scoundrels. Although Whedon did give the good quote on what they did with his script: But he did aim it to be a touch more tongue-in-cheek and playful with everything, while the Director made everything play it straight (also he was a Frenchman who spoke very little English, and had to have a translator around).

From an author in a "I woke up and had this scene running through my head.." moment.

Everly. An hour and twenty odd minutes of an apartment and corridor outside it, with Salma Hayek as the forced mistress of a Japanese Mob Boss holding off the assorted killer's he's sent after her when she tried talking to a non-corrupt cop. A fair bit of gruesomeness, a smattering of torture, a whole lot of blood letting and some quite good (if disturbing) performances.

Since we do tend to be a concerned bunch of why tv shows get made and cancelled... This io9 article might catch some interest io9 - The Whole Crazy Process of Creating A TV Show, From Pitch to Pilot

Well, we have Vikings. We have Pirates (at least two shows). How long before we get shows about Ninjas and/or Catgirls?

Heh. For the Short film surprise... io9 - Holy Hell This Power Rangers Reboot is Dark as F... (I won't actually link in the NSFW version here, but leave it to folks who want to see it to go to the article)

I kind of enjoyed watching it for the performances of the actors.. and for the really silly way it looks at Europe and the Police. Something about that just amused me.

Or for that Star Wars edge... http://youtu.be/mBz--oWMvWU

NewYorker - Student Debt Revolt Begings

Just took my Sith Juggernaut to Oricon for the first time. I have to wonder have they changed anything there? Considering I was able to solo the Heroic with my SI Assassin when I was 55th, level, it seems weird that my 58th level Juggernaut with Rishi gear keeps getting trashed by a constant spam of stun abilities.

The Toast - Empowered Female Heroine

"It was as if a serpent had entangled my legs!" Thing I thought really worked on that show was the repertorie approach - so many of the same actors showed up every week it became difficult to guess who might be the killer (unlike a lot of shows where the murderer and/or the victim is always the biggest guest star). It also helped that the troupe was made up of some damn fine actors. Colin Fritz, Conrad Dunn, Saul Rubinek, Bill Smitrovich, Kari Matchett, Debra Monk, and Ron Rifkin to name but a few. And it had plenty of amusing lines.. http://youtu.be/mgecY8oAkwU

I kind of go through bouts of one or the other. I think I've tended to use my Sith Inquisitor as my primary, since he was the first one I created when it first got released. I went through in alternating sides really, Sith Inquisitor > Smuggler > Sith Warrior > Jedi Knight > Bounty Hunter > Jedi Consular > Agent > Trooper. After I'd focused on completing my SI's storyline, I would focus mostly on a chapter of another class, take a pause, then a chapter of the next, then bounce back to do chapter 2, then to the next class to do chapter 1, cycle to the next chapter two, then the first class chapter 3, and so on. It gave some sense of break between the planets and let me satisfy different moods. With occasional moments just for pure dabbling, or poking at end-game stuff. Although I still haven't actually done any Operations. Did do some guild flashpoints, and we all meant to do some Ops, but by the time everyone had characters levelled up to do so, people had started dropping away with real life issues getting in the way of gaming, and moments of burnout.

I've got my collection of characters on Shadowlands, which I'm still poking along on. About to start my Trooper on Belsavis now, so he's in the final run up to end the class story. The rest of my toons are pretty much scattered around in that 50-60 area, occasionally making money and gathering resources when I have a bout of crafting, or occasionally just wanting to have an idle play around.

To go with the musical interlude.. http://youtu.be/oi7KPDi_yQI

Mildly amusing for a card game..

I woke up this morning and realised I both wanted to kill something, but also wanted to enjoy breathy female noises. Since I can't spend time with the girlfriend, I decided to meet my desires halfway, and replay Tomb Raider for a laugh. Now I kill things, skin animals, and hear breathy female gasps.

I thought I'd take the plung and picked up the Shadow of Revan. Ran through it with my SI, and I have to say it worked quite well. Especially the option to solo the big story point flashpoints as part of the arc. Although to be fair, if you're doing that, the support bot pretty much tanks through the whole thing - kind of like it turns into story/easy mode. But I will say, doing the "face revan" and having all those named faces turn up as your allies instead of some group of random people from group finder did have an interesting epic feel to it. Even if it did turn it into a lack of challenge. It would be nice if they gave that option for some of the other things. Ala the macrobinocular or corruption storyline arcs that end in Heroic 4+ that no-one ever wants to group for nowadays. I'd like to clear them away instead of having them stuck hanging there.

I'm still a firm favourite of the Nero Wolf Mysteries that ran at the start of 2000, Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton perfectly captured the lead roles. But yes, there's that holy trinity for tv produces isn't there? Cops (detectives) / lawyers / doctors - the standard that you can base nearly any show around.