We could also go full retard and make it an exploitation film. People just start falling apart because of bullshit science. Add some Wu Tang and funky color correction, cast Bruce, call it a day and rake in the $2 million from DVD rentals.

Just sayin,' it's an option.

If not, I think keeping it on the plane will be the least difficult on the audience...but taking it to the CDC or mission control would be the least difficult on the writers. Easier to convey information to the audience if there's someone there just saying it. We could also have a CDC guy on the plane, who was travelling...with...the...nevermind, not gonna work. If he was there, then there would surely be more to-do about protecting the organ and the passengers.

Unless this is an under-the-radar operation. Maybe in the initial stages of her dissection, they realized she was immune to XYZ, and the doctor who noticed it clandestinely pocketed a chunk of her liver because he knew how much he could make selling it to some black market pharma dude Stateside. It's possible over the course of his traveling with said organ, Bradley Cooper has become sick, and therefore spreads a lot of this virus she was riddled with but unaffected by. (When he, ha, sublimates.) That gives us a bunch of sick people who don't know the antidote is present on the plane.

Love it.

Maul: That's what a good writer has to do with the terrible premise of a movie they're working with. (And it is a terrible premise; I chose it on purpose. It's the summary of a 70's movie they once did on Mystery Science Theater 3000 that was also called "Death Flight." We're remaking it. )

I'm a little surprised by a couple of the points you make in your post. One, that any particular type of movie is more likely to shape up to be a perfect one than any other, when we've established that a perfect movie doesn't have to be Citizen Kane, it just has to land all of its internal arcs gracefully and in a way that makes perfect sense but isn't obvious. 300 isn't on another plane (heyo!) of stupidity, and yet perfect we deem it.

Two, magic beans, yo, magic beans.

EDIT: So, now we need to figure out what variety of sick these people are gonna get, and why, what exactly they're experiencing. We can choose to not tell the audience that detail, but we should know it. We also need to figure out literally how we're gonna tell the rest of this story, because I think Zarban was right, a lot of the coolest stuff will be happening on the ground. Unless we want to make an exploitation movie about people turning into zombie lepers on a plane. (If so, we should tell the marketing people now.)

The point everyone is trying to make is that the word "Christian" is not a set of terms to be adhered to, it's a word, and a word used as a category. People vary on their interpretation of the terms. So when you say 'it's not Christian to do this,' it doesn't automatically make it so, any more than saying 'it's not being a football player to do this' applies to insert-punchline-player-here.

Arguably, the only truly "Christian" way to be would be to follow the word of the Bible literally, and any conceivable way that your beliefs or day to day activity vary from that makes you so much less "Christian." Ever mix linens?

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That was awesome. Thanks Jeff.

Apollo 13 and Monsters, Inc. had three people.

I agree the show has a different chemistry to it than usual, but I think that's mostly that the panel is only two people, who you rarely hear on the show, who have never been on the show together before. They're a little less comfortable leaping into the hardcore analysis and structure stuff than the seventy-episode veterans.

Anyway. I like this episode.

Yeah. And here's the thing: after finishing the trilogy by simply playing out the end of The Empire Strikes Back's Chest, telling me what the fuck we're doing about Han in his carbonite locker and how the relationship between the characters resolves after all the conflict and revelation in the last movie...that's when you give us Pirates 4, about whatever the hell they want. Introduce a new element to the world, I love the world.

In that context, the Jedi Council is a really cool plot idea. As long as it doesn't make Jack seem like just-another-wackjob-pirate. The execution they had was off because Jack isn't special at all in that group, they're all fucking nuts, broad characters. They should hate him but have respect, because even though they're simple Barbossa-like pirates with minor idiosyncrasies who are excellent, "normal" pirates, Jack keeps being right and talking himself into the best possible spot.

EDIT: More on that, imagine if Obi Wan was the only cool and crafty Jedi in the order, and they were more like the old guys in 300 or something, very plain and boring and contemplative. Monks. They haven't used lightsabers in a million years, they just hang out. Then Obi Wan is still Obi Wan, and we like him for the same reasons we did before only now with more corroboration, because everyone else like him isn't as interesting.

Just re-watched them recently, loved Dead Man's Chest, and hated At World's End. I have a big 'ol theory about exactly what they did wrong, but I'll save it for the eventual commentary.

The cornerstone of my point is that I'm not a fan of games at any price. I'm not quantifying value for everyone, I'm quantifying the desire I have to spend a certain amount of money on it. That's all.

*blink*

Jesus Christ, Jeffery.

I watched that for you, man.

EDIT: Upon reading a particularly insightful IMDb theory, I think I like that movie a lot for what it is. Happy to never see it again.

LATER EDIT: Onto "Being There," Trey recommended it on Strangelove. Loving it so far.

...Taxi Driver was underwhelming.

Really underwhelming.