Hiro Protagonist

US youngsters are too fat to fight, warn generals http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8655651.stm This is quite interesting

The Tournament Great action movie with 30 assassins try to kill each other in a game. Kelly Hu is hot.

The Final. A good teen horror movie.

^ It seemed to me the writers wrote a really good premise and wrote themselves in a corner. Then said to themselves, okay what do we do now? I know, !

That's incredibly high. Even when you convert it to AUD it's still more expensive than here. NZ$1.80 / 1.30 = AUD$1.38. Petrol at the moment here fluctuates between AUD$1.20-$1.30 (NZ$1.56-$1.69). Even a couple of weeks ago I filled up at around AU$1.17. I remember back in 2007 I was shocked at NZ petrol prices. Now even more so than ever. I don't know how you guys manage.

I'm going to Queenstown with my gf around late august/early september. Last time I went was back in 2007 and remember the NZD being $1.20 and thought it was CHEAP at the time. The only thing I found expensive was the petrol but when you convert it to AUD, it's about the same. It's the shock of seeing 1.50/L and the dollars spinning fast on the bowser that makes you nervous. This time hopefully it will be even cheaper with the current rate.

Trillion isn't that much. The U.S. has had that for a long time. I want to see Quadrillion but even then nothing will happen.

more than likely due to Australian labour rates.

Some observations: Very little character development. People are getting shot and I'm thinking "should I care about this person, who was that". You cant see what the hell is going on in the fire fights most of the time. What I don't like is they've almost used the non-epic nature of Pacific battles to make each company somewhat smaller. Most of episode 2 focused on the one machine gun nest, hence that's all you really see. Unfortunately, there's no sharp-shooting and not many US casualties as a result. If you really have to compare it to BoB, then that's why BoB was so effective in that it focused on different characters, and even the ones that lasted just one episode were memorable (e.g. Blithe). Also, am I the only one that thinks it all seems a bit "clean". The grittyness of BoB just doesn't seem to be there. All the dirt and scunge seems like they've just walked out of makeup. Even the trenches are all all clean, they look like they've been dug with a back hoe. The CG backgrounds are really obvious as well. Just doesn't have that realistic look and feel to it that BoB did. It really takes a lot away from what otherwise is quite a decent show. It's like they didn't put on the War Lens on their cameras when fliming this. Also in episode 1&2, The Battle of Henderson field was huge. That scene shown in the episode didn't show the 700 Marines that held that line or the 6000 artillery shells fired at the Japanese. It showed half a platoon and a couple guys fighting hand to hand. I thought the fighting in Guadalcanal was meant to be very rough going for the US, and apart from a shortage of food and ammunition, we haven't seen much of it. Henderson Field was an epic battle all along the line, not a couple of Banzai charges on two machine gun pits. They were overrun in a couple of sectors, there was vicious hand to hand fights to the death everywhere. It mostly seems to have been (so far in both episodes) a bunch of Japanese soldiers charging at fixed Machine Gun emplacements and getting mown down by the dozen. I don't think they captured the desperation of the Americans that well however, as they lost a number of men in that assault, and the battles seem like petty skirmishes and I doubt this was actually the case. The only episode where I could relate and find out who the characters were was Episode 3 in Melbourne. That's been the best episode for me and there was no action or fighting. And again in the latest Episode, the start of the episode showed the old B&W footage of the desperation of soldiers with the mud, torrential rain, neck deep of water, etc and then we cut to the 'clean green jungle', one guy coming across a small patrol of Japanese and it only rained a few minutes halfway in the episode. A little bit more character development with Leckie and his superior which seemed a poor man's copy of Winters and Sobel from BoB. And Leckie at a hospital which seemed out of place with the rest of the episode. I know this isn't BoB II and it may be a little unfair compairing the two, but when you have the same producers doing something similar (10 episode format, veterans at the start, etc) than it's hard not to compare them. Thats where the 'Epicness' of the campaign doesn't come across to the viewer. Its almost like they are taking the cheap route this time to keep costs down. At this rate, by the time we get to Iwo Jima or Saipan its going to consist of 5 or 6 Marines, 2 of who we know, running past 6 dead Japs and shooting down 2 more, 2 planes roaring overhead and 3 CGI ships on the water....roll credits....

I like Garth Ennis' explanation in the comic Hellblazer. God was both Good and Bad and he took the bad part of himself out of him and into another body being Satan... or something like that.

The Cat from Outer Space. Haven't seen this in 30 years. Funny stuff.

Correct and perhaps most Westerners (other than local western countries like Australia/NZ) have never heard of Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia. If Jemaah Islamiyah had the same tabloid reporting like Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Iran than you would also have Indonesia in the spotlight as well. Slightly off topic, I thought the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in my link had a funny acronym.

FlashForward Stars jump ship! Various TV-related websites are reporting that a number of Flashforward stars are already signing up to TV Pilots that are currently being developed and which could posisbly launch in the autumn as part of the new TV season. With Flashforward ratings rapidly collapsing, stars are now jumping ship before it sinks, minimising the little hope that remians for a possible second series of the series that was meant to be the next big thing after Lost. Christine Woods who plays lesbian-yet-to-become-pregnant FBI agent Janice, has already signed up to star in the NBC sitcom pilot, 'Perfect Couples.' a comedy about three different married couples. The actress has howver onfirmed that if Flashforward is renewed she will quit the lead role in the new sitcom. Meanwhile, actor Zachary Knighton who plays the yet-to-fall-in-love ER doc Byce, might never get to meet the love of his life Keiko, after having signed up to the new planned sitcom pilot Happy Endings. The one thing that might change this is that the new sitcom would air on ABC if it gets past the pilot stage and being on the same network as FF, ABC might have a say in this. Finally, kid actor Ryan Wynott who plays creepy hosiptalised Dyaln Simcoe, has been cast to star in the NBC pilot The Cape, a new drama about a wrongly accused police officer who sets out to become a hero, and which NBC is hoping to be the next big project to take up home in its mediocre schedules. So, with the cast jumping ship - showing little faith in the project, and ratings nosediving fast, the future for FlashForward looks pretty bleak. What a shame, the concept was great, pity about the execution! Source: TV Squad, E Online, Vaya Tele

I had some Space Food today. yum.

I have confidence and reliability in Logic and Reason and the Laws of the Universe. I don't need to believe in something like religion that has obviously been man made such as the Church of Scientology created by L Ron Hubbard and Christianity and Islam which have also been created by man.

Band of Brothers. Never seen it before as I always put it aside for other things to watch. Good story and the concentration camp scenes was unbelievable. So many memorable moments and good to see a different view on things that happened and already been shown in movies like A Bridge too far and Battle of the Bulge which I've seen many times. Off to watch The Pacific now.

All your links do is confirm the pictures are true and used in context. The story from News.com.au is about the Danish cartoons and Lawyer to sue Danish newspapers for libel. The pictures are from demonstrations "taken in February, in London, during a demonstration against the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad."

NEARLY 95,000 descendants of Mohammed are going to sue ten newspapers for publishing "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet. http://www.news.com.au/world/descendants-o...i-1225843489852 Gotta love the pic in the link. Notice the spelling mistake? Unless it's established in the courts that the religious figure: 1) Actually existed, AND 2) Is in some way directly related to or contacted by God Then it should be dismissed. I mean otherwise it's like suing for someone bagging out Batman! Many historians suggest that maybe there was no Muhammad as we know him today - but rather a figure erected at the behest of his "Companions" who needed a Christ-like figure for their own emerging religion. This would go a long way into explaining that absence of historical record and imagery of the Prophet. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/3...pg2.html?cat=49 Also, "Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany

I have to ask, did you even watch last season and the first episode of this season? Otherwise you would know there are two time lines. The original time line when everyone crashed on the island in 2004 and the alternate time line when the island blew up in 1977 and is at the bottom of the ocean and the plane never crashed in 2004.

The only problem with that is Jacob did see Sawyer in 1976 and did give him the pen to write his revenge letter before the island blew up in 1977.

Finished watching Season 1 & 2 plus the unaired pilot of Dollhouse. Good TV show. I liked it.

Yes. No. Good Sawyer never crashed on the island. The island is on the bottom of the sea in Good Sawyers timeline.

I thought it was Widmore's guys that killed them.

Next week is a Richard episode so hopefully it should be good.