Who built Ridjeck Thome? The Creator. Foul sued him in court for emotional distress caused by being imprisoned in the Land and the Creator had to build him a new house as part of the settlement. :biggrin: That does raise another question though - I never understood what the point of the "guard...

I dont see the curruption of once 'normal folk' rather a forced geneticly engenered use of base flesh by use of the IES to duplicate clone and grow deformed lifeforms that are fouls army The Chrons are a lot less detailed about the Land, or issues such as the origin of Foul's army, than LoTR. The S...

Hmmm....

That's an interesting look at it and one that evidently sailed way over my head when I watched the movie.

Cheval wrote:Riches marathon Saturday from the pilot episode to this week's show.
Now I can see more than one episode.

TiVO is your friend.

I upgraded to the Cox Combo (phone, Internet and Cox's version of TiVO in one package) a while back and now I can't imagine how I lived before it.

I just watched it a few days ago. Mixed thoughts about it... Kingsley is great, of course, but I feel like I missed the point of the movie. Seems like it was more about Don being a complete asshole than anything else. As such, the beginning (before Don shows up) and the end (after Don gets killed at...

Finished The Girl In The Glass and I'm currently reading The Orphan's Tales: In The Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente.

Yep.

Been watching it since it started. Very entertaining show. FX has had a great track record with these shows (Nip/Tuck, Dirt, Thief, etc.), so I haven't been disappointed.

I don't see the problem; watch stuff like that on TV all the time. As long as it's past the watershed, its fine to show that stuff. Anyhow, watched it and Natural Born Killers is good, but it would be better without a lot of the unusual stylistic stuff, I think. What I should have said: If they wer...

I have a mixed opinion about DeNiro in The Untouchables. I felt he really hammed it up as Capone (it looked like he was doing a parody), but I thought Connery and Costner were both very good. I haven't seen this movie in years, so my memory could be distorted. And hey, dlb and iQ, those are fine qu...

Natural Born Killers is on the TV. I've only seen part of it before. I might just drag myself away from the computer to watch... Don't know how British TV handles this stuff, but I can't imagine watching NBK on TV over here (US), assuming they would even broadcast it in the first place. ;) I'd just...

What's odd about Cook for me is that I think his early work is actually stronger than his latter work. The Instrumentalities of the Night series is decent and entertaining, but it also is extemely flawed in places and could use tighter editing and re-writing. Same goes for the Black Compnay books. ...

Yah, Val does a great job, but I really think Kurt Russell is underrated in this film. He does a great job, but is often overlooked because his character is more introverted, and Doc's is more extrovert. Russell does a great job! And Encryptic, if you liked the Fist full of Dollars/Few Dollars More...

Funny you should mention Westerns... I can't ever remember watching a Western before (and I've seen God knows how many movies in my life), but I just watched Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy over the course of last week. Fantastic movies all around. I also watched Tombstone on Saturday and I have to a...

Just started The Thousandfold Thought (finished re-reading the first two books).

My unread pile is also manageable. I am currently reading "DragonWing", book 1 from Weis and Hickman's Deathgate Cycle. It hasn't gripped me but I'm sure I'll read the other five books at some point. I also have VanderMeer's "Veniss Underground", Ted Chiang's "Stories of Yo...

Hey Encryptic... :wave: 8O New episode tonight.....I forgot! Yay! I was annoyed last week when they postponed. Stupid Oscars.... :roll: :P Hola. :) Last week's episode not airing confused me. Gave me the impression "Philippi" was the last episode and I'm thinking "Wait, they left a b...

Hooked on this show (as my avatar might indicate).

I'm still bummed that Season 2 will be the last, but at least they stuck it out for two seasons.

Good to be back.

I finished TDTCB this morning and I've got about 100 pages into my re-read of The Warrior-Prophet so far. Definitely a series that improves upon successive readings, like Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, among others.

Am I the only one who felt "The Darkness That Comes Before" was hard to get into? :( I gave it a try last week but Bakker's style just didn't grab me at all. Some interesting ideas, but perhaps not as accessible as some authors. Still, I'm willing to give it another chance at some point. ...

Finished The Summoner. As noted before, very bland cliched plot.

Just got a hold of Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought so I'm working on a re-read of the first two books to refresh my memory.