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Hopefully Max Von Sydow will get to play something better than a CGI frog. And hopefully we will be able to see something other than Lens Flares.

The flicker to black on and off was annoying as hell. Hope that's just the "shock and awe" for the trailer and not part of the actual movie.

d6 system by West End Games. Most famously their StarWars game. Most quick, down&dirty game engine I've ever seen. Yes, you can ponder and evolve complex tactical situations, but if you want quick and easy to learn, you need look no further.

That would be correct. Or a massive understatement.

Zack Snyder directing? They might as well have announced a script by Kurtzman and Orci.

All of the races had a pretty decent history fleshed out in the RPG books by West End Games. There was at least a page, if not two, on each race. These books formed the canon/bible basis for all the novels up until the prequels.

No, in the first NuWho ep with the cybermen, The Doctor said that it Used to be easy (as Mickey suggested), but without the Time Lords to keep control and order, the system broke down. The only thing the original series had was travelling through a CVE was bordering on impossible. The CVEs were...

Sorry, MarkB, but your analogy doesn't hold The New Doctor Who came with a built-in reason for being able to contradict the previous stories. In fact, Doctor Who (original) came with a built-in mechanic: parallel universes. In one universe, Mars spawned the Ice Warriors. In another the Osirans...

Well, this just became moot.

Yes, but they established a consistent universe. One that worked, and even made sense of some of the more nonsensical parts of the OT.

I would keep the WEG RPG books as cannon. They were based on materials originally written by Lucas, scrapped scenes, early drafts, and concept sketches by ILM. In point of fact, WEG's books were the bible and cannon for all novels up until the Prequels. Early Marvel Comics were fun as a kid...

Yeah. EU was pretty much a mixed bag. There was some really good material, but there was also tons and tons of utter crap. Ditching the crap is no loss. Losing the good parts, however, is sad.

This could be brilliant. Sadly, I expect it will be crap. Maybe a better use of time to watch the old cartoon again.

In the years following the publishing of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the publisher was bombarded with letters from people wanting to know where they could get tickets, or just go to watch the fun. Not just 4 or 5, but hundreds. The Human Race is sick. Sick, sick, sick. Hence another topic I...

There was a fun one called Nightfall. Can't remember the author off the top of my head, but Amazon will be happy to supply the info.

I think a raincoat would be a better choice of metaphore. Impossible? no Unlikely? yes

So, after 2 weeks (on and off) of trying to get this machine up and working, or working around the idiocy of the interface design, I've a few thoughts. 1: about 1/2 to 3/4 of the information on how to solve the bad design and annoying elements is written for the wrong version, or incomplete, or...

Just about anything by Weiss & Hickman will be good. Dark Elf Trilogy and IcewindDale Trilogies by R.A. Salvatore Also "Echos of the Forth Magic". not everyone enjoys Song of Fire and Ice, aka Smut and A-holes soap opera with dragons, aka Game of Thrones. Been a long time since I looked at...

Myth Adventures does to Fantasy tropes what Phule's Company did to military sci-fi. You can also read the first 2 books of his Dragon series, but don't read book 3. In fact, don't read anything where Asprin was collaborating with someone else. Dragon Flight (and the rest of the Pern novels) by...

Sword of Shanara by Terry Brooks Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin (similar to Xanth) Triplet by Timothy Zahn