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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Trey wrote:

Looks like I'm actually going to have to watch Airbender finally, and ya know what?  I hope I LOVE it.    Because then we're gonna have one hell of a commentary.

I'm assuming someone's gonna force him to watch the original show?

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Quick question: does Bender have the same 'other' meaning in America as it does in England, because I couldn't watch the movie without smirking at every mention of an AirBender and WoodBender etc etc (and yes I am THAT juvenial,  or I would be if I could spell it)

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

No, it doesn't.

And please take that fag out of your mouth.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Dorkman wrote:
MadBadCoyote wrote:

skip the movie, watch the show, and imagine every possible way to screw it up

If you started now you'd have just enough time to watch the entire series before the recording tomorrow.

Although the movie only comprises the first season's story (what story there is in the movie), so you could easily watch the first season and the film today if you were so inclined.

During the commentary for Last Airbender will you guys also take some time to discuss the tv show?  At least those who have seen it.

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Yup. Tomorrow at noon.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Feels nice that I will actually have the day off that I can get out to visit for the recording. big_smile

Been far to long.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

If you've not seen the show, it's really quite good. I remember the first time I tried watching it was back when it was still on TV. Someone had posted a lot of the series to youtube, so I gave the first episode a shot. Stopped about ten minutes into it and said "nope, not my bag".

Then I got netflix and netflix kept telling me how much I'd like the show, so I said, "Fine, Netflix, I'll watch the god damn show just so you'll stop dumping it at the top of my "suggestions" page.

I think it's one of the better animated kid's shows ever done. It took me a few episodes to see the potential. There's a weak episode here and there, but the series overall is solid.

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^is it better than Dungeons and Dragons, Ulysses and The Mysterious Cities of Gold ?

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Yup. I've seen a few episodes and I thought it was really enjoyable. It was shortly after the movie was released and I heard about how bad it was - wanted to see whether the source material was really as good as folks were saying.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

I think the best thing about the show is the fact that you don't see the main villain until the third season, and they devote a LOT of the show to fleshing out the antagonists. Zuko and Iro are both really detailed characters and their relationship is really complex. There's an episode about halfway through the second season that has several little vignettes dealing with a few different characters individually, and the segment that focuses on Iro is one of the best things they ever did on the show. I honestly got a bit choked up at the end of that segment. The third season also has some of the darkest themes I've ever seen in a kid's show. There are some real moral dilemmas going on toward the end. Let's just say that they pretty fully explore the implications of being able to manipulate the elements.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

I was going to watch The Last Airbender in preparation for today's recording, having never seen it. I couldn't bring myself to sit through it twice (even with the sound down/off) so instead, I'm watching Paul for the first time. smile

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Fido wrote:

Quick question: does Bender have the same 'other' meaning in America as it does in England

I always knew you'd be a bender  tongue

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Faldor wrote:
Fido wrote:

Quick question: does Bender have the same 'other' meaning in America as it does in England

I always knew you'd be a bender  tongue

http://i44.tinypic.com/2pqoms3.gif  I have it on good authority that it doesn't count if you don't inhale. http://i39.tinypic.com/fxypno.gif

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

You know if you don't want someone to assume you're a bender that this:

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http://i39.tinypic.com/fxypno.gif

is not the clearest response  lol

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Weirdly enough I watched the movie first, absolutely awful experience. But then after hearing such constant bitching about how M. Night Shamwow fucked it up I got curious about the source materiel. I burned through entire series on Netflix in about a week, loved it and somehow completely forgot about the movie for like the next two weeks. I don't know what specifically triggered it but then I had like a flash memory flood of the movie and I wound up retroactively hating all over again with the added stigma of knowing the series. It sucked.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Regarding this weekend's Close Encounters commentary, did we ever decide which version we're doing?

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I vote for Director's cut.

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Yes, we're doing the director's cut.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Teague wrote:

Yes, we're doing the director's cut.

is that the 1980 special edition or 1998 collector's edition ?

[edit] collector's edition it is  big_smile

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See the first post.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Cool - I think tomorrow will be the first time I will get to join you guys live. Have the 30th Blu-ray already and all ready to go.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

I'm curious, what the first two kinds of close encounters? I always wondered whether that confused people. They did, after all, drop the III from The 'Madness of King George' to avoid baffling folk.

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First kind is "oh I see a UFO"

Second kind is physical evidence: burns, fallen trees, ect

Third kind is contact

EDIT: Also, a few other kinds have since been added

Fourth kind is Abduction

and I think there are, but i can't remember what what they are,  5 & 6.

EDIT 2: from Wikipedia:
Fifth Kind: communication (usually through telepathy)
Sixth Kind: injury or death
Seventh Kind: Mating

However, 4-7 are not a part of the original scale.

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Re: Release, Record: 11/9

Fifth, IIRC, is direct communication (probably telepathic) with an extraterrestrial being.

Sixth is death caused by a UFO or an alien (EDIT: Upon further research, I found that this is generally considered to be irrelevant, because Close Encounters of the Second Kind include any sort of physical evidence, corpses included.)

And seventh is, get this, mating with an alien and producing a hybrid child. (Which I guess would make Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind the porn parody of this movie)

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whoops, I just edited...  but thanks DocSub.

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