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I will probably see District 9 soon(er) than later. The director was educated in Canada ( ! ), and that gives him points in my book. I have no problem with gore (after all, Dawn of the Dead, the original, is one of my five favourite movies ever). Have you ever seen Peter Jackson's Braindead, aka Dead Alive ? That one has so much absurd gore that it is just funny after a while.

Even though I'm a Tarantino fan, I don't really care to see Inglorious Basterds. I really didn't get into Kill Bill, either "volume," and QT is starting to annoy me by comparing himself favourably to Orson Wells & Stanley Kubrick, two directors who more or less changed the history of film. Like I said, I like Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction (a lot), but I think that his stuff since then has been mostly uninspiring to me.

With my eyes going wonky on me as I get older, almost all the boobies that I see are blurred.

Nobody cares about the naked-ity (or vapidity) of Vanessa Hudgens, I guess. She has a new movie out today, called Bandslam, directed by Todd Graff, who also did the very good CAMP.

Yes, that episode was on the last SyFy marathon. "Ya-Ya" also sounds very close to "Yahweh," which makes sense, I guess. Deb, please lead me to the JoA fanfics. Just curious, does Ryan Hunter figure in any of them (since I recall reading that you did not care for that proposed storyline) ?

I need to snag the JoA box sets eventually. I have a couple of "for your emmy consideration" dvd's that I bought off eBay ages ago. I watch them when I need a lift.

Did they have episodes that addressed the break-up(s) of these two couples ?

Yes, they did.  Kevin cheated on Rebecca with some woman who's book he was supposed to review for the paper.  Luke & Glynnis started fighting and soon it became obvious that he was just leading her on and really had a thing for Grace.  See The Gift from Season 1.  Great Adam & Joan content in that one too.  God tells her to give Adam a gift and she thinks it means she's supposed to have sex with him.  Hilarity ensues.

I saw the episode with the Kevin cheating on Rebecca storyline. It was one of the eight episodes that I TiVo'ed this past Monday (August 10th). Sadly, I have the TiVo programmed to only keep 5 episodes of anything, for some reason, so I missed the other three episodes that aired on SyFy :clueless:

I really thought that Kevin & Rebecca had great chemistry, and Sydney Tamiia Poitier was/is delightful (she is also half-Canadian).

I like him better with Lilly.  She was feisty and won't take any crap off him.  He needed that badly.

I also like(d) Lilly, but I liked the Rebecca character more. She might have become feisty over time, and I think that the inter-racial aspect of the romance was a bit daring, even though it shouldn't have been.

Did anyone else on the show find out that Joan talked to God regularly ?

Nope.  It never got that far.  She tried to tell Adam in the last ep of season 1, called Silence.  But he didn't believe her.  Then she went away to "Crazy Camp" for the summer and by the time she came home, Adam had read a bunch of books and was ready to believe her, but it was too late.  Her shrink at the camp convinced her it was all a hallucination because of her Lyme's Disease.

Ryan Hunter DID know that Joan spoke to God; is that correct ?

Was the plan for season 3 to have Joan and family dealing with the Devil-ish dude ?

Yes.  He was going to be her adversary.  We don't really know any details though.  Barbara Hall hasn't really talked about it very extensively.

As I watch the show, it really amazes me that it was axed. Pretty much everything about the show was terrific. I can't really think of any aspect that put me off. Deb, if you can leave me some links to the fanfics, I'd appreciate it. I have read some in the past, just My So-Called Life ones, and its neat to have the show(s) live on. Thanks for the Barbara Hall link, I'll watch the whole thing later on.

I thought the two girls in the movie were cute. I think that Diner is the seminal movie of my life. Also, to a lesser extent (since I never smoked up), Dazed and Confused.

Oh yeah, I forgot about The Game. The ending was so sudden it reminded me of the last episode of The Sopranos, in which Tony may or may not have been wacked.

I say NOT wacked because there will be a Sopranos movie sooner than later.

I don't wanna put a spoiler space here, so feel free to PM me, but what was with the ending of Infestation ?

I thought that all of the bugs had blowed up.

I quite enjoyed Infestation. Chris M. is a terrific leading man, and the similar premised Eight Legged Freaks was not nearly as much fun. Also, it was a kick to find out that the actor that played "Sara" was born in Toronto (like I was) and is the daughter of Bob Nevin, who played for the Leafs years ago.