Donomark

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  1. I disagree that the Lazarus Experiement is as insanely boring as you guys said it was. It's one of my favorites from series 3. I can't exactly say why other than I like the interplay of the Doctor and Martha in it. I think that has a nice outing, and the clip Mike put it at the beginning with the Doctor excited over the impossible happening, stuff like that hooks me. It's not the BEST of the series, admittedly, but I think there's fun to be had. I will agree that it didn't need the extended third act.

    42 I did get a Satan Pit vibe from very heavily. No strong love for that. Lazarus Experiment has a socft spot in my heart.

  2. Just came from the theater. Casino Royale's hard to beat, but this is definitely Craig's second best over Quantum. The film nearly goes to Die Another Day lengths to get the anniversary reference jokes across, but it stays true to the focus of the movie for the most part. Will loyally e-mail in later, but I enjoyed it..!

  3. EXCELLENT episode!

    FWIW the Australian episode was two seasons later in Season Six, and there is a Treehouse of Horror collection out there. It's only a handful of them, with TOH III, V, VI and the one with the Harry Potter spoof.

  4. Ironically enough, a friend recommended/dared me to watch this show and said that this was the first anime that she ever saw and she loves it. I might still agree that unless you know the tropes of harem anime, you might not get the gags, but I think Ouran still has some intriguing stuff to invest a newbie to the anime world enough to watch.

    I read about that the whole Host Club thing was a take on a much seedier real life thing, but not sure what exactly it is. Also, what in the series indicated that Haruhi may be into girls?

  5. 02. His face has been cut off. Before he dies, The Joker could lace the skin with some sort of toxin, so whoever touches it is driven mad, and pulls crimes off not just in his name, but as him. Thing is, that would only work for a little while, because eventually the GCPD or Batman would dispose of the face. So, the cults / Jokerz could make Joker death masks which they force onto unsuspecting citizens. Doing this would also bring his origin full circle, in that he started as a legacy character (The Red Hood) and he became one as The Joker.

    Morrison did "Something" like that during Batman & Robin. Where Joker laced Joker venom under his nails, and whomever he scratched, would be poisoned. It was in issue 13 of that series.

    I want to see Snyder's story pan out, and then, take Joker off the table for about 2-3 years, and have him return when he's had time to be missed. I think part of the problem right now is, there's so many Batman books these days, it's hard to actually have a good villain off the grid for a while for readers to miss them. And with a character like the Joker, who every writer can adapt to their own styles, it's hard to keep him away for long.

    This has been done a number of times in the recent past, tho. He dissappeared after he was shot in the face at the start of Morrision's Batman run. He dissapeared after Damien ran him over at the end of Batman R.I.P. He was missing during most of the Batman Reborn arc until the end of Morrison's Batman and Robin run. And he was gone for a year after 'Tec #1.

    I agree with you in that he should be used sparingly, but he's been taken off of the table frequently in the past 6 or so years.

  6. I always thought that it would make an interesting story if one of the other DC heroes like Wonder Woman killed the Joker. It'd be biting too much off of the Maxwell Lord thing, but would make for good tension.

    Superman and Batman are really the only heroes in comics with a no-kill policy these days anyway. Spidey tries to maintain, but every other hero by this point has said "Fuck it."

  7. I think it tells a strong story if Batman sticks to his moral code of not killing the Joker, but I agree that at this point the police should have a "shoot on sight" policy.

    For all us Golden Age fanboy's (all three of us) I liked the reference to Batman #1 (1939) with the mentioning of the Claridge family.