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  3. Mike's list of crazy ideas

    in Bigger on the Inside

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    Ricks Crazy Idea: The man serving tea in "Remembrance of the Daleks" was actually Omega.

    My reasons:

       In the show notes, it is established that this moment is what convinced the doctor that the Daleks had to die.

       It would make sense that a group of time travelers would have the original creator go and make sure his work would be put to its intended purpose (the hand of Omega).

      On IMDB the tea server is named John, the Doctor often uses the pseudonym John.

      It is established that the original shopkeeper, Harry, is not there and "John" took his place.

           The Doctor drops the hint that the reason Harry is not there is because Harrys wife is going to have twins.

                 If Omega was trying to manipulate the mind of the Doctor, he would give the Doctor the illusion of control.

                So they met in a place where the doctor believed he knew the outcome.

      At :43 to 45 "John" has an expression that goes from friendly to smug Omega realized that being subtle was more effective than being forceful.

     

  6. What I've Read 2016

    in Banter

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    ... A woman who dresses like a man and leads the army and is tough as a man and I think my eyes rolled out of my head; ...

    TLDR holy fuck this book needs an editor and needs it badly.

     

    So you are saying that the woman with mans strenght was narrated like a rule 63 Captain Rum 

     

  7. What I've Read 2016

    in Banter

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    One was Stubborn: Lafayette Ron Hubbard- On a superficial level it was a twilight zone-esque piece of pulp fiction. But it did make me wonder if I could manipulate matter with my mind. It was in that moment I realized how the author came to be known as the most dangerous man of the twentieth century. The way that he emphasized believing things in or out of existence revealed to me how he was able to live with himself after his treatment to his wives and children.

    Invasion of the Micro-Men, a Shaver Mystery by Richard S. Shaver Reading this I was ready to give it the same scathing review that I gave to One was Stubborn there were some visceral imagery and some deeply uncomfortable subjects. However this also makes the beautiful imagery that much more memorable. Scenes of the spaceship the Black Prince taking off and landing, the protagonist injecting herself with good micromen to battle the invaders.

     

    Both books made the reader think. One was Stubborn gave the impression that you can make yourself believe the world you live in. Micro Men had a lecture on gravity. Even though a physicist would shake their head and shout that gravity does not work that way. It was still provoked the imagination. Originally I thought these two authors were different sides of a coin. But now I see that Shaver and Hubbard were very much opposite.

  8. What I've Read 2016

    in Banter

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    War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the strangest chapter of 1940's Science Fiction, by Richard Toronto

      The thing that I liked about this book is the thing that the reviewers on Amazon hated. It portrayed Palmer and Shaver as people rather than dug into the mythos surrounding the two. When I first heard about the Shaver Mystery I was suspicious. I thought Shaver sounded too much like another SF writer who claimed he knew how the universe worked. But when I read the book I realized that Shaver is closer to that kid who did not see a face shaped rock like a face shaped rock, to him it was the vestige of an ancient temple buried right beneath your feet. You may not have believed him but you still had fun with his story. Also Shaver openly joked about how he was "crazy." I also liked how I saw pictures of Shaver throughout his life and not the popular image of where he is old and paranoid looking, like Doc Brown with a mustache.

        The second part felt a bit off and could have been its own book. That part focused more on the battle between Shaver and Hamling who was trying to ride the coat tails of Hugh Hefner. I still was a bit confused about how Hamling set things up to take advantage of a financially struggling Shaver but I still got a sense of Schadenfreude when I heard about how that porn baron got his come uppance with the FBI. 

    It changed my views of a chapter on SF history that the Mainstream has long ignored. And influenced the next two books that I read which are...

  10. What I've Read 2016

    in Banter

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    Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff From Old Comic Book Ads! by Kirk Demarais: Exactly what it says on the box. Demarais went out and tracked down a metric fuckton of all that shit you used to see advertised in old comic books and determined what actually delivered what was promised, and what was worded in such a way so as not to be technically fraud. As a kid, I was ridiculously gullible and would believe pretty much anything I read, and even I would look at these ads and wonder what I would actually receive if I mailed a dollar to a PO box somewhere in Eau Claire, WI with the understanding that in exchange I would be sent a coin that could hypnotize people and a machine that would turn ordinary slips of paper into twenty dollar bills. Just seeing the old ads again was a huge kick, but actually finding out what the werewolf mask looked like, what Charles Atlas' course entailed, and exactly how the X-ray glasses worked was really fucking cool.

    I felt the same way with the catalogues in te back of Boys Life  magazines. I would fantsize about getting plans to build my own lightsaber and hovercraft and becoming a real life Darth Maul.  Fortunately I never had the money to spend so I never know. But my past job had me working a leaf blower hovercraft so maybe I would know.

  16. Most Badass Moment in the DCAU

    in World's Finest Podcast

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    Batman being chased by the GCPD in "Mask of the Phantasm", climaxing in him somehow fooling everyone into thinking he was a plank of wood despite being under spotlight is one of my favorite Batman moments of all time.

    The first time I saw snippets of "Mask of the Phantasm" my young mind came to the realization that there was a person under Batmans mask. Ever since that time, the movie always has had sentimental value to me.