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The hottest stories and best comments of the week
Here's a list of our hottest stories and best comments this week, just in case you missed anything. Consider it a DVR for SCI FI Wire.
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Our story: 10 theories on what caused the flash forward in FlashForward
Your best comment: The advertisers did it. 137 seconds is the minimum amount of time for a commercial break with station identification.—ghost
Our story: J.J.'s Star Trek is officially the biggest ever
Your best comment: No...freaking...way! Over it's 147 day run, J.J. Abram's Star Trek movie became the 47th highest grossing movie of all time! 47th!!!
Can you believe how awesome that is!!!
Both J.J. Abrams and Star Trek have a history of throwing the number 47 in as much as possible! Go look at the history of 47 with both of them. This is unbelieveable!
I love it!!! :-)
As William Shatner once said, "Irony can be so ironic sometimes."—David N.
Our story: Watch David Duchovny call Twilight "bullsh*t"
Your best comment: I guess Mulder had to go and put the truth Out There.—harrumph
Our story: A new Trek? Roddenberry's failed TV pilots (video)
Your best comment: Pretty much everything Gene Roddenberry did besides Star Trek turned out to be complete fail. That's one big reason why I tend to credit his awesome team of staff writers, especially D.C. Fontana, for the quality of the Original Series more than I do him.—antodav
Our story: 6 Fringe questions Leonard Nimoy can answer (and 3 he can't)
Your best comment:I'll take Fringe over Supernatural anytime.
Fringe has a compelling storyline with intriguing characters.
.....Meanwhile, on Supernatural, it`s same-o-same-o ; Dean blusters, Sam whines, they 'break up' over Trust Issues, and Bobby espouses Down-Home-Father-Figure-Corn-Pone-Common-Sense. Then they defeat ' EEEVIL! ' yet again and drive off in the bad-ass Impala ( the only element of the show that I have not grown tired of ).
I`m not saying that Supernatural is not fun, it`s just nothing that they haven`t done to death already. Sure, they are now caught up in some Grand Endgame to stop 'The Apocalypse' and the EEEVIL in question is 'Lucifer'....But it really is the same thing they have done sooo many times. Even snarky 'Archangels' and a rogue Angel like Castiel ( a guy with ONE facial expression; worried ) cannot inject drama into the Battle-Against-The-EEVIL-Of -The- Week plots. In fact, the entire Ultimate Battle plot is just a little too overblown in scope to be viable in a series. They should have made a movie with that.
I`ll stick with Fringe. —PALADIN
Our story: Amazon coughs up $150K after Kindle eats teen's 1984 homework
Your best comment: There are plenty of frivolous lawsuits, but this isn't one. If I purchased a book from Barnes and Nobles, left annotations in the margins for a research paper, and then B&N broke *into* my house, stole the book back, and left me a "reimbursement" for the book, I'd sue them. The fact that this is happening digitally is no less inappropriate, unless you're willing to condone any sort of electronic invasion of privacy, which includes identity theft.—illogicaljoker
Our story: Which is cooler: the new Doctor Who logo or the old ones?
Your best comment: Personally the 70's/80's logo with the art deco diamond bg will always be the DW logo. The post 80's neon light logo had me lost. This new one has something of a neo-goth which leads me to ask in what direction will the new Doctor go with his youthful appearance. Are they going to "Twilight" the Doctor as they did with vampires by making them young, sexy and troubled? I always thought of the Doctor as a brilliant madcap stodge mannered by years. I just hope they don't "Twilight" the Doctor not after Tennant's brilliant performance without a hint of brooding teenager sexpot marm to it.—Tony
Our story: 14 great Cthulhu toys that make devouring souls fun
Your best comment: Lovecraft is rolling in his grave.. and wishing he had those slippers.—Obi Window Washer
Our story: Heroes' girl-on-girl kiss! (pic)
Your best comment: Sure it's wrong and lame.
But if it's wrong and lame, then I don't want to live in a world that's right and awesome.
.... 'course, I stopped watching the show a two years ago.—B
Our story: 10 scariest Stephen King novels
Your best comment: Stephen King suffers from "bad ending" disease. Some of his books start well, but when god kills the villain with a nuke, you just aren't trying very hard. If God is going to kill the villain, why didn't he do so in the first chapter and save everyone the grief?—azathoth
Our story: 21 (mostly) sexy female stormtroopers (NSFW)
Your best comment: like geeks don't masterbate enough as it is.—hermy
By McTex at 4:16 PM ON 10/09/09
I've noticed that the person who selects these likes the more cynical mocking comments to the constructive ones.
I guess that fits with the sci-fi nerd motif best immortalized by the Comic Book guy.
By Mandy at 7:07 PM ON 10/09/09
Best article ever. :-P
By Obi Window Washer at 11:18 PM ON 10/09/09
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By the truth at 10:24 AM ON 10/10/09
Im here for the Fringe/Supernatural comment.
Not the best comment for sure, as Fringe is just as crappy as Supernatural. Even more, because SPN at least had one good season, while Fringe was never good.
But one thing is true, THAT AWFUL, STUPID, ANNOYING AS HELL CASTIEL SUCKS SO VERY MUCH. Not only he has one expression, and that's because he's played by a CW actor, chosen by the ostroff/kripke death combo. But he's also the most useless character of all time.
The only reason for Castiel in Supernatural is because Kripke is a stupid man that reads twop and wants to make the three deangirls left happy.
He keeps making episodes to tell everyone how the wincest writers/readers are sick instead of getting on with the plot. lame.
And then he goes and promotes slash fiction between a man and an angel, that's even more wrong. idiot.
By Obi Window Washer at 11:50 AM ON 10/10/09
Fringe and Supernatural are two of the best shows on TV. Stick to 90210 you Douche!
By skyhawk at 6:54 PM ON 10/10/09
Pretty much gave up on Smallville, but Fringe is the show.
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