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Why not? Your extraordinary deus ex machina ending is no worse than the actual mess that we watched. Seriously, though, I would expect that a major plot point like holding/reconstructing the Ebon Hawk by the Exile / crew would warrant a mention in the story. Might as well start the credits at the beginning of the game, flash up "A bunch of stuff happens", and then roll the end credits, starting with "... And they all lived happily ever after." I personally didn't think the Ebon Hawk was as damaged as you are making out, so it didn't surprise me that it flew off at the end. What did surprise me --- oh, nuts: you know the rant ...

Go talk to the Mandas

The only reason paranoia is regarded as a malady is because there is no way to express the feeling of justified fear when everyone is against you. Apealing in a "I want to wear a dress like that" way, or a "I'd like a date with Cath dressed like that" way? BTW the tea-drinking, soggy-bottomed, lice-infested, green-fingered, naval-gazing, joe-jamming link is sstill forbidding me.

Does this answer your unquestion Metadigital? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Y'know, before I opened my big mouth I thought what you said rang a bell, and I thought: "Check before you type", "Check before you type", "Check before you type", "Check before you type" -- "Oh, Zarquod! I've posted. Oh well, let someone else check." Thankyou for highlighting my laziness.

Just burn the church down -- they're sure to blame some muslim extremists.

So Dr Who isn't being broadcast in the Us at all, then? Just a narrowcast to grab ... Only wondering because I'm interested in how the US will react to the new Russell T Davies series. If it gets a decent platform it should be huge: the writing is the ducks's nuts. Once the audience is in place, they're sure to do a game. Then we can just hope that it is good.

I don't want to agree with Baley, but Lego SW is the ****... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are so right! I was trying to work out why I like it so much .... I think it's the irreverent fun, the way the lego characters are caricatures of the movie characters. Oh, and the fact that Obi-Wan keeps acting like a clumsy drip. Those graphics are cool. I think Lego Star Wars is better than KotOR: you can do all the force powers and use your lightsaber to attack and deflect blaster fire back at the shooter ... big jumps and spectacular acrobatic fight moves. Man, you can even attack the other players! Edit: forgot it was Phantom Menace and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, not Obi-Wan and Anakin. :">

New Jedi Power: Force HairStayUp New Sith Power: Force BadHairDay

Nothing wrong with them, good stuff.

Teenagers don't need more sleep, they need to sleep later in the morning. As for your particular sleep patterns, hey, whatever gets you through the day. My father was late seventies when he died six years ago, so your father has a few years to catch him up. Drugs have aprofound effect on the sleep cycle. Alcohol basically puts the brain in a coma-type state, so very little sleep stages 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 and REM take place -- you will wake up more tired than when you passed out the night before after a big night on the tiles. I try to break my caffeine intake regularly -- less than 2 cups of instant / tea a day is not an addiction, but anything over that is. Dang headaches are worse than a lot of other illnesses, I find. nothing beats regular exercise to regulate sleep and all physical systems; there is a definite somatopsychic effect of good health helping better thinking as well, I've found. Nicotine is a very powerful drug too. Wonder drug, almost. Especially good for concentration and memory and even raises aptitude a little. All temporary, all subject to the same diminishing returns and caveats of all drugs (e.g. caffeine). Obviously smoking it causes smoke damage to the lungs. (Lungs are the fastest way to absorb a drug after mainlining it due to the large surface area -- straight into the bloodstream.) I expect it will turn up in other forms (like the gum) for use on its own, soon. Robert Downey Jr interviewed last week (clean) said he got to the stage where he would have a triple espresso to go to bed. (I have got to the stage where I fell asleep after a cup of tea at night.)

As a matter of interest, who voted for Dr Judith Mossman? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Demon King did <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I won't ask how you know that, but -- anyway -- that still leaves one very quiet person. (That rules out Baley. " ) I was really trying to understand what made Dr Mossman an appealing character. (Sure she had some depth ...)

Don't worry too much; I only listen to Radio 4. No music, no advertisements, just pure high-bandwidth data.

Is everybody plugged into a mainframe via a matrix of wireless terminals, living out virtual lives with augmented HUD info and telekinetic I/O ? By the way, what channel is Dr Who on where you are ...?

Probably was Mr Kermode -- was it Radio 4? I will probably still see it, anyway. (I won't be knocking anyone out of the way to get to the cinema, though.)

Yep, I'm off to play it now, I reckon. Oh, and I came across a strapline yesterday that said something about JC Denton turned off the Aquinas Router and it took some time to turn it back on -- meaning that JCD didn't blow it up at the end of Deus Ex. More as it happens...

It's the pester power of the tweenies that have succumbed the the marketing juggernaught that is The Swartz. I notice that KotOR2 is significant by its absence.

I have added my review comment to the Way Off-Topic thread: (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>).

Did you kill her then?

Not just Bao-Dur, but a submissive Bao-Dur and his Exile Mistress .... Seriously, though, great work Starfire.

That picture sounds in keeping with Bao's current image ( :D ) Does that make it double dutch? ( :D :D )

I knew you'd call me on that. I never buy the damned Mirror: I had to because someone I know is in it. So where did he disapear to, and more importantly, why? Is it a double-bluff from Man U?

I heard about one of those pondscum guys that works Hollywood; pitches ideas for independents to the big studios. Sorry, can't think of hi name: it was a few years ago. (There was a news story about the process, featuring this guy. One of the stories they quoted was someone got paid $10000 for the idea for a movie where someone lives in the Statue of Liberty. Last time I heard Sandra Bullock was signed for the lead. I am not kidding.) If you mail it to yourself, send it with a signature-on-receipt.

Ah, sweet irony.

I think it would be better to teach people to drive way before they get to drink.

Fantastic idea. But it will only happen if the new series is shown, and is popular, in the US. Are there even plans to show it there? I suppose I might watch the Star Wars series if I happen to own a TV in the future, but I won't go out of my way. I'm sure I know someone who'll buy the DVD box-set, probably the same person who had five seasons of Stargate and needed a cat-sitter two summers ago. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Harvey mentioned he was watching it on some obscure cable channel, I believe.