GWC Podcast #196

[Sean]

I’d read it! Put me on the list.

[Thunderscreech]

I just finished “The Killing Dance”, not bad at all. Some pretty good fights/escapes, and I had never really considered the logistics of how a bunch of Werewoofs manage their financial affairs. Their entertainment venture sounds like it would be… viable. Don’t want to spoil anything for folks who haven’t read it, of course, but… dang.

[dxf]

BSG: The Plan. Rated 80085.

[NothingButheRain]

Thanks, for the Batman arc. Really enjoyed it.

I grew up reading Batman comics, did not like the campy Batman on TV, but I’m back with the very serious, brooding Christian Bale Batman !

[dxf]

Great note about Batman and Commish Gordon texting. One day, entire generations of movies won’t make sense.

If no one made the joke yet, the device you’re looking for would be “Batberry.”

[Thunderscreech]

My wife reads lots of Romance books, and one of Romance’s little secrets is that they’ll often take a book written 20+ years ago and republish it under a different name. The assumption is, “they’re all the same, who’s going to notice?” presumably.

Well, my wife notices. Not only does she have a steel-trap of a mind, but sometimes it’s the little things, like characters needing to inexplicably find a pay-phone to call their friends. Payphone? What the hell?

[dxf]

I’m a lifelong Batman fan, but I was busy last week, and didn’t get to finish the second half of #196. THEN, after catching LOTR on TNT, I was so stoked for the LOTRcasts, I jumped right into #197. I just finished #196 today.

I too am a little underwhelmed by The Plan.

If I’d had a larger morning coffee, the elephant/Cavil bit would made me [pee] myself laughing on the way to work.

Then Sean’s boob detector made me imagine him, like Dug from Up, suddenly turning to the right and going, “BOOBS!”

…

“Is that an elephant in your pocket, are you just glad to see me?”

“Both.”

[frakkintalos]

Then Sean’s boob detector made me imagine him, like Dug from Up, suddenly turning to the right and going, “BOOBS!”

I shout, “SQUIRREL!!” all the time now.

I think I might change to, “BOOBS!” Obviously more appropriate for me. I’ll let you know how many times I get slapped.

[FireBreathingChicken]

Then Sean’s boob detector made me imagine him, like Dug from Up, suddenly turning to the right and going, “BOOBS!”

Sometimes that works out better than you might think.

[fastcart]

Listened over the holidays…

Buy at the Buymore??

Lol @ “They didn’t have the balls…” How could Chuck and Sean not take that line and run with it.

Omg, and then a bone line! Come on guys, don’t get mature on me now!!

What really gets to me is that when you get into the whole Vampire mythos, half of what we consider to be the whole ‘Vampire’ myth was made up by Stoker. It’s nearly impossible to sort out the original stories or delve into the older mythology or origin of the legends because they are lost beneath Stoker’s mythos.

What I don’t understand, and is popularized to undeniable extent in Twilight and such, is where the Vampire vs Werewolf thing came in. I mean, it was all over Underworld. It’s there now in Twilight. There was the connection from the old Dracula movies “Ah, the children of the night, vat vonderful music they make” etc. but I don’t know where they became the polar evils locked in opposition.

I blame White Wolf Publishing (World of Darkness RPG). d:

Why do we in this country make such a big deal out of female nudity? We are one step above the Taliban in the way we treat nudity. Every other country in the world except muslim countries and the USA is much more accepting of the human body and it’s beauty. That fact that we are even discussing this on a podcast shows we have not yet moved beyond our petty little insecurities. I think the biggest point they were trying to make in the locker room scene was that stuff like that does not even phase people who are more advanced than we are.

True story. On quite a few occasions Ive heard people raise objections to something on that point alone. Sure, its fine if the bad guy gets brutally decapitated but if you show my kid a nipple Im starting a letter writing campaign.

I wonder about that too. I blame Justin Timberlake for being too grabby.

Long time ago, someone made the argument that because America was founded on violence, we care less about it. Well, he/she phrased it better.

What I don’t get is why European rating bureaucrats get bent out of shape over head butts?

[coco]

Just got around to listening to this podcast and the next (I skipped a bunch, but have just found them again), but I have to thank you guys for doing the whole Batman arc. I think I found a new appreciation of the character even though he was probably one of my least favourite superhero character as a kid(even now - probably still a bit too ‘emo’ for my taste, but I do like the complexity of his character compared to other superheroes and that his ‘humanness’ does make for him an intriguing non super superhero).

• I can see the teen/hotness appeal in Taylor Lautner (and to a lesser extent Pattinson and Stewart), but I just can’t stomach the story. It’s not about hating a popular franchise at all (I love many a franchise, some cheesier than this) - I just hate THIS particular one. I won’t get into why, since I don’t want to rain on your parade, but I just wanted to note that there are valid reasonable reasons (and not the superficial ones you’ve talked about) as to why I hate these books and movies. And they are just as valid as the reasons that people who like the series have for supporting it. So…don’t rain on my hate parade either? Anyway, moving along.

• The Flight of the Conchords guy was an elf - the infamous Figwit!

Interestingly enough, his real life father, Peter Mckenzie, played Elendil. So, yeah, I think half of NZ WAS in the Rings Trilogy in one form or another.

• The Plan - as flawed as it was, I do agree that it’s peaked my interest in seeing Caprica, which I wasn’t really looking forward to (and will not have watched) prior.