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My current alert tone to tell me I have a new text message is a lightsaber turning on. T'is awesome. Also, my current ringtone is the Star Wars theme. Before that it was the cantina tune (which is probably cooler than having the generic SW theme) and I also have the Imperial March (for when my mom calls) and the Indiana Jones theme (which I used to use as my ringtone). When a certain friend calls I have it play the Portal Radio tune of "Still Alive." -CF (Gone until Sunday night.)
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I don't normally watch TV. Or rather, I don't watch it live. I got into the Stargate franchise when it aired on Fox a season late. But coming to college then meant I had to watch it online at my leisure. (Luckily Hulu had the 5th season right when I needed it.) When I heard about Warehouse 13, I was saddened because I don't have cable at home, so couldn't watch it. Once again, Hulu started airing it right after each episode was aired! (Boy was that a surprise.) (Also, I might be able to watch the season finale live tomorrow night!) And of course, there is Firefly, a TV series I watched on DVD 8 years late. (Though really, I would have been too young when it aired.) Now, I have on my computer digital copies of Doctor Who Eccleston and Tennant seasons (9th and 10th Doctors, I guess that's easier to say) as well as Dollhouse. I'm also getting into Leverage, which I have. It's weird I say all this because, until 6 months ago, I barely watched anything, and now here I am "watching TV" even if it is late. But here's the kicker: Now I'm considering watching TV for shows that have just come out! I guess it'd be like with Warehouse 13, only now I might be able to watch live. (Or I'll just hope I can do it online a day later.) What am I looking forward to? I guess I better say, otherwise there would be no point to this entry's title. Well, coming out this Thursday is Flash Forward, a week later Stargate: Universe, and in November V. In Flash Forward, the entire world passes out and sees a vision of 6 months into their future for 2 minutes 17 seconds (way to be specific and obscure). It's written by the guy who wrote The Dark Knight, so if that doesn't get your attention I don't know what will. Stargate: Universe looks like an awesome addition to the Stargate series. It also puts a new twist on things, being lost in space in a SHIP, and I think that the SG guys can do a good job on this. (Airing on Friday nights, I'm glad it is confirmed that Hulu will be showing this.) Now, V...this one looks cool as well. Based off a miniseries apparently from way back when, aliens come to earth ("V" for "Visitors") to learn and help. They look like humans, only there is a bigger secret to just simply being nice. (I definitely recommend looking up this trailer.) (Also, roommate has Heroes season 1 on DVD and I want to find Lost so I can watch from the beginning. And I'm hoping my friend can find me Star Trek: Voyager.) I guess I better get caught up on Dollhouse, and maybe I can watch it live too...or on Hulu a day later right after I watch Stargate: Universe. tl;dr: The bold parts are exciting! Go read those... -CF
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How can we eat? Why do we eat? Where shall we have lunch? -CF
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Does any one (Stargate fan or not) know almost exactly when Paul McGillion (Carson Becket) is on screen in Star Trek? I sorta forgot to look for him when I saw it a second time around... Oh wait, I see. He's the one giving assignments to Bones and the like, when they're all standing at attention and about to board the crafts and go save Vulcan... Too bad I'm not ushering next week, then I might be able to catch a glance in my walk-throughs. -CF
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I saw Terminator Salvation today. Very awesome. Very good movie. Might be the best action movie of the summer, IMO. Plenty of stuff going on, but, unlike Transformers, there was plot and coolness all rolled into one (without whiney LeBouf) and not explosions every second (which I'm not saying is a bad thing...). (Though Star Trek might be the best action movie of the summer. Hmm...) Bale was great. Worthington was too. Actually, all the actors did a very good job. The movie was just so full of WIN. And it wasn't as violent/bloody as I thought it would be, which is a plus. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «I really wish we didn't know from the trailers/commercials that Marcus's character was a robot/human hybrid. It really would have helped with the surprise/plot twist details. Oh well, anybody who hasn't seen the trailers will enjoy that aspect. (I guess it's like, by the time I watched Star Wars: A New Hope, I already knew that Vader was Luke's father, even though that isn't revealed in the first film.) I had thought they'd throw Kyle into a time transporter when they were still in the base, since he needs to go back in time. (But since I haven't seen the first, though the second and third, my guess it he'll need to be calmed down and matured before they do that?) I guess in he 5th movie Connor will have to be killed off, as the 3rd movie says. I hope we see the first few terminators being sent back in time, however they do that... I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking for a good action/sci-fi movie right now. (Aside from Star Trek.) Even if you haven't seen too many/any of the other Terminator movies (though it would help). -CF Notable trailers: Sherlock Holmes !!! , Public Enemies, and I might look into The Surrogates graphic novel.
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Saw Star Trek today! I enjoyed it. Lots of action, plot, and cool characters (and cool character introductions/tidbits). It was pretty good. However, a loyal fan would realize the problems behind it. (Like my dad, who I saw it with. Or even me, who never saw a whole lot to the original series (and had my dad right next to me).) I'm trying to figure out where Stargate's Paul McGillion (Carson) was. (He would have been a great Scotty had he gotten the role.) Luckily I'll see it again (again for free). I'm tempted to get the soundtrack, but I also realized maybe I only need to download the credits music? It's plenty long and contains the same general theme used throughout the whole movie. (There were a few points where I felt there could have been other music instead of that same tune.) The actors were good. Bones was cool. I like how it started out in medias res; I like starting out like that myself, personally: with action to suck you in! Alright, discussion (spoiler) time: » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « So, um, Vulcan being destroyed totally rewrites the entire history of the Stat Trek universe (except for Enterprise). I was hoping that near the end they'd end up heading into the future, stop all these events from happening, and then everything would be back to "normal." Paradox, yes. But this is Star Trek we're talking about. The movie was already a paradox by Nero going back in time... I LOL'ed when Sulu said "Fencing." My dad pointed out that there didn't need to be all that piping and whatnot in the engine room. From my memory both Enterprise-D and Voyager did just fine with a big power core in the middle in a circle with control panels on the outside wall. Plenty of walking space and whatnot (like laser fire). Photon torpedoes are not that small. Spock's mom should not have died (due to the way beaming works, not the fact that she appears in the series). I like how they put in the part about him cheating on the space test. That's something only alluded to in the series. Crazy Spock/Uhura thing just proves that they always want to put some sort of relationship in every movie. This is another of many movies that didn't really need it. Apparently Chekov doesn't appear until the third season? (But maybe I'm picking it apart a little too much, as I didn't know that until my dad said something.) Spock's red matter ship was so cool! Definitely something to MOC if I had the proper parts (Droid Starfighter saucer and another Nuju lid?). Cool hearing Scotty say the "I'm giving her all I've got" line! Letagi reminded me that "When they eject the core near the end to get away from the singularity, they eject like twenty miniature cores, not one big one." The warp core is a giant thing, and what they really should have technically ejected are some sort of crystal, I believe. I'll leave it at that. I don't know how much more I can say... I felt like I could throw in a Firefly quote at one point: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems." LOL. (And from SW: "Always a bigger fish.") I realize I wasn't as bothered with seeing Kirk not as William Shatner as truer fans have been. Probably because I haven't seen a lot of the original series. But I realized it would be really weird in my mind if they made a TNG reboot movie, as how can anyone replicate Patrick Steward? In the end it was a really cool movie. I was impressed and liked all the fancy, updated pieces/ships since we have that kind of technology to use on films nowadays, unlike how back then some dangerous device would be a tin-foiled box. Impressive. -CF
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It's times like this that I wish I watched TV shows like Lost and Heroes. Well, we're talking about Lost right now, but Heroes looks cool too so I thought I'd throw that in there. I just don't watch TV (save Stargate) and I feel I miss out on things my friends like when things like this come up. Anyway, apparently tonight's episode of Lost has Hoth in the title (same as this entry). Cool. Unfortunately I can't watch it since I would have no idea what was going on. But now it's in its fifth season, right, so how in the world can I play catch up? (That's 125 episodes, about. More than one episode a day if I could watch online over the summer.) I simply don't have time to watch whatever is already out there of either of those shows. Lost actually grabbed my interest when it first started, but I didn't watch TV back then (homework, content that seems to be popular in the media these days, no idea what my parents would say...) and now that I'm in college, well, it's one of those shows I can't just hop into in the middle of without knowing the background. (I'd catch snippets if my dad glanced at it, but he never became a die-hard fan either. But it was on in the middle of the week and I had homework and didn't watch TV, remember?) (Heroes seems like a more dramatic take at X-Men. I think I'd like the first season but it's probably gone in a different direction than I'd expect now.) *sigh* -CF
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...oh what fun! Seriously, go look up Moosebutter's Star Was song. It's a tribute to John Williams. They sing to a nice selection of his more famous themes. (Indiana Jones, Jaws, ET, Jurrasic Park, etc, but not actually Star Wars...) "Fly the Falcon through an asteroid!" -CF
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Haha! I have jumped on this "bandwagon" some have formed. First attempt. (Turns out that, although you can put a ton of data points in there, it can only take so much.) So I tried again: (I hope I haven't forgotten any big series--that I know stuff about.) (Ah, shoot. I forgot to put in Riddick's "I think it's a half-gram heavy on the back end." Ah well. Next time.) -CF (Hey guys. We're going to have to hold off on the QotD for a few days, kk?)
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*Because I've put other Star Trek stuff in the Star Wars category before. The latest trailer came out Monday and I'm impressed. I've only seen a bit of the original Star Trek series, but putting aside that they recast the characters, it looks good. As some Flickr members have said, this can either go well or just pitfall. There probably isn't middle ground. I'm wondering if I'll see it. Y'see, the Wolverine movie comes out the week before, but I won't see that opening weekend due to finals. So my first weekend home that seems like an obvious choice. However, both my parents were Trekkies and are still fans (though I wonder if they even knew of this movie? Nah, they do.) though I don't know if they'll see this. Granted, they saw the latest movie, Nemesis. But they'll be the ones paying for the ticket if I get to tag along with them. That, or I see Wolverine and not this. Though they might wait a few weeks.... I've actually never seen a Star Trek movie all the way through. I should sometime, I hear there are some good ones. I think I'd prefer the ones with Picard; as I said I didn't view much of Star Trek. If you haven't seen the trailer, I suggest you do so. You know where. I like what looks like Spock beaming down. That looks cool and different than usual, with the particles swirling around him. -CF Quote of the Day: If you’re interested in time travel, meet me last Thursday.
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(Because I wanted another Star Wars category entry. I should probably make that plain Sci-Fi or geek stuff.) (Find out what the 501st is and what I'm talking about here.) Saw the 501st Legion again today with a friend. We had been tipped off by a protocol droid that they would be at the local Toys R Us to help promote Toys For Tots. It was, once again, really cool to hang out with them. (One guy from the con last week recognized us, but another did not--even after multiple tries to jog his memory.) I was also wearing my Lego SW shirt. Pictures: Who was there: Two Storm Troopers, Two TIE pilots, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Boba Fett, a Jedi, a Royal Guard, orange-clad Clone Trooper (but not Commander Cody), and guy from the video games with a cool metallic-blue T-visor. (The Marines were there since they run the toy drive. They weren't cosplaying too.) I got to hold the FX lightsaber and fight Palpetine. It was fun. I'm glad I went. No, onto a history paper.... (BTW, my local TRU has the new Pirate sets in! I didn't buy any though....) -CF Quote of the Day: "Hey, What's this button do?" "It makes it explode." "Can I push it?" "Yes." "Really?" "NO!"
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If you haven't heard, the Pope, the leader of Vatican City and the Roman Catholic Church, is in America right now. Some of my classmates and teachers got to go down to the Nationals' Stadium today for Mass, and some saw him at the white house yesterday. My dad got a peak along Pennsylvania Avenue. Since I can't talk any more without risking activating BZP religious censoring, I leave you with this. (And yes, that's John Paul II there, not Benedict XVI.) -CF Quote of the Day: A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
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I got my first issue of Star Wars Insider a few days ago! Well, actually, my second issue, because I picked up one (it was free) right before Episode II came out. (Click for bigger scan) It's great. All about the Bounty Hunters. Tons of info on Jango, Boba (he started it all after all) and a look into the other ones that get little or no screen time, but plenty of action in the books. (Plus the TV series next year will have them) It's a perfect issue to start with. And it's issue #99, so the next issue will be issue #100! -CF PS, for you non-Jedi (and everybody) out there: When post my 1000th post topic (a MOC), should the description say so? Quote of the Day: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. -Barbossa
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1st 2nd In 1995 my dad bought the Star Wars Original Trilogy on VHS. You can piece the rest together. -CF Quote of the Day: Takanuva: *waves hand* You don't need to see my identity tablet. -SPIRIT
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My dad said I wasn't getting a car for graduation. Darn, I had just figured out what I wanted to get me from point A to point B: Now I have to figure out how to get to BrickFair from college. Train? -CF Quote of the Day: If life is a play, we're all characters... and you're ruining this scene. -Toaraga
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(Note: Arpy got the note) Anyway, today, May 25, is the Universal Day of the Jedi. Why? Because we can. (We? All Star Wars fans in the Universe) Actually, it's because today, May 25, 1977, is the release date for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Better yet, this is the 30th anniversary of Star Wars! So, please remember to bid "My the Force be with you" to everyone you meet! WookieePedia article Wikipedia article -CF May the Force be with you.
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So I was thinking about how R2-D2 keeps spinning his dome around. All I can say is let's hope he remembers "Lefty loosy, Righty tighty" -CF
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.... The new look for the CFB for the month of May will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Wars! Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope came out on Thursday, May something (19th or around that) 1977. Please discuss the celebration here and the new look (whether you like/dislike it, want Piraka Fusion back, or I should keep a SW theme) So, with that, I introduce a new category for my blog to you: The Star Wars category, something I should have had a long time ago in this blog far far away. Oh, yeah, Happy Anniversary SW! (Big hand for George Lucas, genius) (and John Williams' music is always cool) "These aren't the droids you're looking for." "Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age..." "That's no moon" "Use the Force, Luke." "Remember, the Force will be with you. Always." -CF
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In honor of Star Wars' 30th Anniversary, my High School's Star Wars Club (which I helped start) watched Episode IV today. And we're planning on having a party in a couple of weeks. Anyway, the point is, today we watched (some of) Ep. 4 and were having fun the whole hour. Something would come up and we would have a remark. Fun stuff! -CF
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Something special will happen tomorrow, May 1. Place any and all theories here. -CF
