Reading EW (Post Birthquake) for the first time...

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:58 pm

it is incredibly brutal how they turned Gilad into a superpowered Punisher and the writing is bad (and the editing is worse...so many spelling errors) but the substory of Fenris and their attempts to bring down the world economy by destabalizing the world banks is...disturbing poignant.

Completely off topic but I have been wanting to discuss this also, I re-read what I have of Unity a month back or so (missing some of the later chapters) but I find the way Erica Pierce created her society and the structure of her group before they journeyed to the lost land sounds quite alot like Scientology (from the little I have heard of it). I wonder if Shooter was trying to make an analogy there.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:01 pm

Ol' L. Ron has been pushing "Dianetics" since the 70's... it's a distinct possibility!

*tries to remember to ask Shooter that if he ever meets him*

Wait, I am Jim Shooter!!!

-slym (

)

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:30 pm

I doubt if that was Jim's intention, but I suppose only he can answer that for sure.

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:17 pm

Whether or not it was based on Scientology epscifically, it seems like it was rather cult-like.

From what I understand, there are a lot of similarities amongst cults.

Geomancer · Post by **Geomancer** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:47 pm

you're glib. you are all glib!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:54 pm

Geomancer wrote:you're glib. you are all glib!

Heh - I love how TC didn't really know what "glib" meant in that Matt Lauer interview. He mis-used it, IMO.

-slym

Geomancer · Post by **Geomancer** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:12 pm

Maybe its a Scientology curse word?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:27 pm

I actually enjoyed EW pretty much all the way through to the end. I though Migdalia was great, and loved the relationship he had with the detective. I thought the way the character was "reconceived" following the Chaos Effect worked, within the logic of the character.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:29 pm

Geomancer wrote:Maybe its a Scientology curse word?

Let's ask Tom.....

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:44 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
Geomancer wrote:Maybe its a Scientology curse word?
Let's ask Tom.....

Lets just shoot him instead.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:48 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
Geomancer wrote:Maybe its a Scientology curse word?
Let's ask Tom.....
Lets just shoot him instead.

Hahahaha

dave · Post by **dave** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:42 am

shoot him? and rob ourselves of the greatest actor of our time?

see tom cruise as tom cruise as a samurai

or tom cruis as tom cruise as a fighter pilot

or tom cruise as tom cruise as a spy!

lookit the dramatic range!

coming soon:

tom cruise as tom cruise during WWII!

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:54 am

dave wrote:shoot him? and rob ourselves of the greatest actor of our time?

see tom cruise as tom cruise as a samurai

or tom cruis as tom cruise as a fighter pilot

or tom cruise as tom cruise as a spy!

lookit the dramatic range!

coming soon:

tom cruise as tom cruise during WWII!

See Tom Cruise into the sunset, never to be heard from again...well, we can all dream, right?

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:27 am

dave wrote:shoot him? and rob ourselves of the greatest actor of our time?

see tom cruise as tom cruise as a samurai

or tom cruis as tom cruise as a fighter pilot

or tom cruise as tom cruise as a spy!

lookit the dramatic range!

coming soon:

tom cruise as tom cruise during WWII!

With acting experience as a samurai and a spy, he would be the perfect Ninjak!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:40 am

iggy101us wrote:
dave wrote:shoot him? and rob ourselves of the greatest actor of our time?

see tom cruise as tom cruise as a samurai

or tom cruis as tom cruise as a fighter pilot

or tom cruise as tom cruise as a spy!

lookit the dramatic range!

coming soon:

tom cruise as tom cruise during WWII!
With acting experience as a samurai and a spy, he would be the perfect Ninjak!

Shhh....don't say that out loud....

dave · Post by **dave** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:44 am

he'd need a rewrite-he can't do accents.

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:46 pm

dave wrote:he'd need a rewrite-he can't do accents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxi8wvUBNhU

whatever do you mean?

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:56 pm

Zaphod wrote:
dave wrote:he'd need a rewrite-he can't do accents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxi8wvUBNhU

whatever do you mean?

Ugh....

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:05 pm

I noticed that in the commercials for his upcoming "Valkyrie," TC doesn't even bother with a German accent...

-slym

dave · Post by **dave** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:27 pm

germany? WWII? what's the connection? am i missing something?

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:57 am

dave wrote:he'd need a rewrite-he can't do accents.

Or emotions.

*SQUEE* · Post by ***SQUEE*** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:25 am

I will say this about Tom, he kicked *SQUEE* in Tropic Thunder.

myron · Post by **myron** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:33 am

xodacia81 wrote:I actually enjoyed EW pretty much all the way through to the end. I though Migdalia was great, and loved the relationship he had with the detective. I thought the way the character was "reconceived" following the Chaos Effect worked, within the logic of the character.

same here...although I do agree the editing was terrible...

ncameron · Post by **ncameron** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:45 am

iggy101us wrote:
dave wrote:shoot him? and rob ourselves of the greatest actor of our time?

see tom cruise as tom cruise as a samurai

or tom cruis as tom cruise as a fighter pilot

or tom cruise as tom cruise as a spy!

lookit the dramatic range!

coming soon:

tom cruise as tom cruise during WWII!
With acting experience as a samurai and a spy, he would be the perfect Ninjak!

I've heard he wants to be Tao from Sleeper, which if you've read Sleeper it makes perfect sense.

-Neil

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:11 pm

ncameron wrote:
iggy101us wrote:
dave wrote:shoot him? and rob ourselves of the greatest actor of our time?

see tom cruise as tom cruise as a samurai

or tom cruis as tom cruise as a fighter pilot

or tom cruise as tom cruise as a spy!

lookit the dramatic range!

coming soon:

tom cruise as tom cruise during WWII!
With acting experience as a samurai and a spy, he would be the perfect Ninjak!
I've heard he wants to be Tao from Sleeper, which if you've read Sleeper it makes perfect sense.

-Neil

OK, I can agree with that. TC would be almost perfect as Tao! Not tall, slight, kinda effeminate... and delusions of grandeur!!!

-slym