The film was very well balanced between all of them. Every avenger had their moments to really shine, even Hawkeye and Black Widow. Favourite moments were Thor holding his hand out for Mjolnir and then smashing Hulk in the head with it, Hawkeye jumping off the building and firing, Iron Man bouncing his repulsor beam thingies off of Cap's shield, Captain America beating up a bunch of Chitauri and then the cut to the cop issuing the orders he had just been given, Banner transforming into the Hulk for the second time, Thor and Loki talking on the cliff, Cap saying "hulk... smash", and I could go on but really need to see the movie again and soon..

In terms of how they dealt with Thor, I felt it was similar to the Hulk. He's very powerful and, crucially, just doesn't stay down. They both ended up being 'ejected' from the helicarrier in similar ways too. I never felt Thor was losing to Iron Man or Hulk, as he would keep getting back up from whatever he'd been hit with. As a huge Thor fan, this made me very happy.

In the other thread, otero commented that he thought Robert Downey Jnr was the star of the show. I disagree and thought if anyone dominated the film it was the Hulk. Everyone talking about the movie afterwards was talking about the Hulk.

If I had any complaint about the film it was the relatively weak opening action scene. There was a moment where I got a little worried. That said, this film masterfully upped the stakes and the action in a way that Thor, Iron Man and Captain America failed, with the peak occuring in the climax rather than earlier (Frost giant battle, Afghanistan and probably train scene, respectively).

Loved him in Inglorious Basterds as well. He was great in 300 too and had a critically acclaimed role in Hunger.  Hell, I've loved him in everything I've seen (even Eden Lake).

I'd love to do a commentary (LP or film) but hate my voice too. I wonder if getting a voice modulator thingy and doing it all in a Darth Vader voice would work?

It's so hard to know whether you're going to like a game or not, and here in the UK we're paying about 40-50 quid (which is, what, around $70-80?). Really expensive! Occasionally, you get suckered into the hype only to end up a game like Medal of Honour, a clunky and really poorly scripted CoD wannabe. Nowadays, I usually wait until metacritic has an ample amount of reviews and then skip right to the end and read the 5-6 reviews with the lowest scores. Gaming journalism is shock full of folks telling you about all the bad stuff in a game and then giving it a high score (possibly influenced by the delicate, one-sided relationship between publisher and website/magazine).

One thing I would really like to change in the industry is have a revolution in the fighting game genre, which I used to love but find so utterly boring now as they've not done anything new with it in at least a decade. Wish it could get the 'boxing sim' treatment as seen in the Fight Night games. There's a new UFC game that might go someways in this direction... anyone been able to try it out?

That looks pretty intimidating to me too, but then I've not touched a barbell since I was in my teens (so they're doubly scary). I'm mostly doing bodyweight exercises these days, working on push ups and towards the First Pull Up.

For recovery post workout, I find a stretching session, cold shower, and then a protein shake about 30-60 minutes afterwards does wonders for me. I still have some soreness, but it's not crippling. A few weeks ago I was squatting a lot at my niece's birthday party, picking things up and taking photos, and without any kind of warm-up before or stretch afterwards my buttocks ached for a good 3 days afterwards. It's surprising just how often your glutes and core get used when doing pretty much anything.

Hmmm, I watched the premiere for Falling Skies a while back and didn't think much of it. I remember it being implausible (as opposed to unbelieveable) with a very poorly established world (herds of survivors walking along roads in broad daylight?) which made it hard to really take it seriously. Maybe it improves as the series goes on as I felt like it was more of an execution problem.

Great one guys. I like this as an 'extended Intermission' and prefer these sorts of general, connected topics  over just talking about recent theatrical releases.

I remember months ago thinking that perhaps you'd burn out on doing all the double bill commentaries for so long, as that's pretty intensive to go through every Sunday (and then you added the intermission as well!). Sure, LOTR was an especially long haul but what you'd done previously up to then was pretty exhausting (give or take about 5 hours) and shouldn't be discounted.

It's no surprise to me that you'd want to scale back - though I'm a bit curious as to what the ultimate goal of all this is and what is hoped to be accomplished by moving up the tail. Does DiF want to become a business?

I've been doing P90X a couple of times recently too - the chest and back one. It's good to have someone to follow in your workout and the trainer, Tony, is fun to watch as well. What I find most difficult is that the exercises get progressively harder during the workout and it can be really hard to do many divebombers or diamond push-ups following regular, military, wide, and decline versions. But equally, it's something to strive for.

But impossible to log in fitocracy. I'm stunned that it includes obscure exercises you'd need to google but neglects things like bodyweight rows, assisted pull-ups/chin-ups, pull-up/chin-up negatives, i.e., common progression exercises to the most basic of all exercises. I figure if you're going to have a database it might as well be a bit more complete.