We’re watchin’ X-Men 2 (Electric Boogaloo) this week! Highlights: we talk free-will vs. suffering, question Xavier’s motives in building cerebro, address some Wolverine morality and Professor X-isn’t-a-dick carry-overs from last week, hate on Stryker, love on Iceman, enjoy our momentary hope for a “fastball special” when Colossus and Wolverine meet in the hall in X2, speculate on Mystique’s mass-simulation limitations, compare Wolverine’s warning to Pyro to waking up after a night of partying with Tara Reid, and take lots of listener calls.
Man, my brothers and I spent so much damned money on all the marvel trading cards, we had boxes and binders full of them. I think that might even have been how I first got sucked into comics. One day I went to kb toys, and got a pack of marvel trading cards, and saw guys like iron man and thor and was sold on collecting comics. This had to have been in the early 90s, but I, of course had watched all the animated series (Spiderman and his Amazing Friends) in the 80s before I ever got deep into the mythology.
i love you guys.
really i do.
I’m already laughing at “Podcast Number 13(one)”…
Also, speaking of differences in British/American curses, when I was in England a friend of mine and I commented to a Brit how cute the saying “bugger off” sounds in contrast to the more common verson of “Frak off”. They asked if we knew what the term ‘bugger’ meant. Once we learned, we realized it wasn’t so cute any more…
Yeay! Wooden Ships!
ok, I was wondering about this watching Heroes, and the same question applies to the Xavier debate.
Mutants don’t get to choose their powers. As I mentioned last month, since Magneto willl do what ever it takes to accieve his goal, if he has Xavier’s power he’d used it. So in this case, is it the power that makes the person evil, or the choices he makes? Because Magneto definately made the choice to use Xavier’s power, like sending someone to use the Cerebro.
The Worf childhood soccer story took place in DS9 episode (5x07), where Worf and Jadzia went on a vacation to Risa, and instead of enjoying Risa, Worf was very cranky. After a while he revealed to Jadzia the story to why he is the least fun loving Klingons in the world.
There was a great scene in the first Age of Apocalypse comic, where Magneto slows down the blood in Bishops body by controlling the naturally occuring the iron in the blood, thereby knocking him out. I thought that would have been something awesome to include in the movies, in addition to the whole pulling metal out of the guards body.
That had me howling with laughter as well. Chuck didn’t use Audra, he used himself…brilliant. The perfect unblended mix.
BTW…I am mentally preparing to debate Sean on Dr. X…or maybe I should just start a thread about it…I officially do not agree that Xavier in any way has done anything wrong.
HUGE PROPS @Sean for talking up Colossus. He’s an amazing character and Sean was right saying he’s one of the kindest characters in the series. He has a tortured artist thing going on that’s really endearing. Not sure if this was mentioned yet, but you actually get a glimpse of him in the first movie, sketching in the garden outside the mansion. I kinda feel like they nerfed him in the movies a bit, especially part 3.
HUGE GEEK points to anyone who can tell me what this is: FASERIP
FASERIP Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, Reason, Intuition, Psyche (Marvel Superheroes role-playing game)
Fighting, which determines hit probability and defense against hand-to-hand attacks.
Agility, which determines hit probability, defense against ranged attacks, feats of agility vs. the environment, and similar acrobatics.
Strength, which determines damage inflicted by hand-to-hand attacks as well as the success of tasks such as grappling or the lifting and breaking of heavy objects.
Endurance, which determines resistance to physical damage (e.g., poison, disease, death) it also determined how long a character can fight and how fast a character could move at top speed by exerting themselves.
Reason, which determines the success of tasks relating to knowledge, puzzle-solving, and advanced technology.
Intuition, which determines the success of tasks relating to awareness, perception, and instinct.
Psyche, which determines the success of tasks relating to willpower, psionics, and magic.
You, sir, are the man! well done.
did you know all that or did you use your google-fu? your answer is so complete it seems a little copy/pastey 
according to the newest Japanese research (tho led by a Chinese dude), if you can control the blood flow, you can also alter people’s minds.
Source:Scientists extract images directly from brain/
Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.
I did know it, but copy/pastey is much more concise, if I were to try and explain it, it would end up rambling.
So I doubt that I will go see The Day the Earth Stood Still, but I really want to see the new Wolverine trailer. Luckily the internets never let me down!
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/xmen-origins-wolverine/bootleg-trailer
Oy, this is a ton of library discussion. Before I was herding alpacas down the road from Nevada’s maximum security prison, I was an academic librarian. Audra is right about the way borrowing terms work as is Armando. It is all subject to local rules. As for the librarians themselves, things are somewhat flexible.
I may or may not leave a call on this. For lawyer things there is Lawyer Bill. The Three were looking for a biologist. Is there any call for a librarian type personage?
Then you sir are silly. Or haven’t been reading them in the last 3 ish years
I have not. I am basing my argument on the movies. So far Sean’s argument has pretty much been contained in the movies as well. They acknowledge X becomes evil, but apparently everyone in the Xmen universe does eventually to keep the plot moving forward.
Oh well then. Still there’s the Jean Grey thing.
hey, there was an episode of Justice League where Superman finally meets his match, and it take a parallel-erff Superman with a white cape (who has a more amoral sense of justice) who lobotomizes the bad guy with his laser-beam eyes. one of the humans comments, “finally!”, while another comments that the real superman would never do this…
This thought occurred to me when the crew was discussing whether or not Xavier was helping Logan to his fullest in the movies. Is not what Xavier doing the same thing as most people do when they are teaching some important concept or skill. When we teach someone, we try not to just tell them something, when want them to experience something and learn somethings on their own since we feel that will make the learning more meaningful. Could this be, basically, what Xavier is doing when he sends Logan to Alkali (sp?) lake? Just a thought.
The ST:TNG episode that is referred to in the podcast is titled The Perfect Mate. In it the character played by Famke Janssen is an empath who reflects the personality/attitudes of the men around her. When she is around Riker she is a little playful; when around Worf aggressive; when around Picard thoughtful (both meanings of the word)j. She is the perfect mate because when she chooses a mate she permanently imprints that person’s emotional make-up on herself becoming the perfect match for that person. In the episode she is to marry some other guy to end some war or some such, but she falls in love with Picard along the way. The episode ends with her marrying the other guy (thus helping the cause of interstellar peace), but imprinting on Picard because she loves him. To me this is the perfect example of how cool Picard is because she chooses to be like him even though she will not be his mate.