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Comment on Star Trek Into Darkness Review OR Cumberbatch Is King by Tim Hanley

Tim Hanley — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:06:42 +0000

I like that it was sort of a Wrath of Khan rehash, partly because it let them tweak the story in cool ways and partly because it reintroduces a great, classic villain to a new audience. I bet that a lot of the people who went to Star Trek Into Darkness this weekend have never seen Wrath of Khan… it’s over 30 years old now. So I dig the modern update aspect of it.

Comment on Star Trek Into Darkness Review OR Cumberbatch Is King by Tim Hanley

Tim Hanley — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:03:25 +0000

Yeah, that was really fun! I was a little disappointed that Alice Eve wasn’t Nurse Chapel, but the shout out was still pretty cool.

Comment on Lady Antebellum Is A SUPER Racist Name… I Mean, Come On!! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:34:31 +0000

p.s. here is a lamens dictionary page for you to reference http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antebellum

and a much as I hate wikipedia — i figured it was right up your alley (lamens terms term that is)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_architecture

Comment on Lady Antebellum Is A SUPER Racist Name… I Mean, Come On!! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:31:34 +0000

actually down here in the south if refers to a type of house…. and since most “good ole country boys” come from the south I can see why they named themselves that. geez, just like a racist to call someone else racist. give it an go back to your comic book rants and raves ( it seems that is all the smarts you in that little brain of yours) and leave the naming of things to those best suited for it.

Comment on Star Trek Into Darkness Review OR Cumberbatch Is King by IronBerserk

IronBerserk — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:50:49 +0000

As a decent Star Trek fan, I was entertained by the movie and thought it was light years better than the first J.J. Abrams Star Trek (seriously, that movie sucks. No idea why people like it?). But I still am quite disappointed that Abrams copied many of the plot points from Wrath of Khan. If I wanted to watch Wrath of Khan, I would watch Wrath of Khan. It is a much more brilliant movie full of complex writing. This is just a movie that takes its ideas and gives it full of action instead of complexion.

I did like the many fan service moments:

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

The scene that rips of Wrath of Khan with Kirk dying instead of Spock, I was expecting the scene to instead take that moment and make Kirk put on a radiation suite that would protect him from the radiation. Thus giving us fans a little subtle laugh at the Spock plot hole death in Wrath of Khan (why is there no radiation suite on a freaking Starship?). Then we could have had a final confrontation with Kirk and Spock vs Khan.

Cumberbatch was awesome as Khan and much more memorable than the last villain. The rest of the cast was great all around. It has it share of plot holes like why would Khan hide his crew in missiles? As someone who is supposed to be smart, didn’t he think that plan could horribly backfire? But then again, the plot holes weren’t bad enough to stop me from enjoying the movie.

Comment on Star Trek Into Darkness Review OR Cumberbatch Is King by Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:57:20 +0000

You forgot the shout out to Nurse Chapel! Now if we could have just gotten her and Yeoman Rand to appear, the movie would have been perfect!

Comment on Wonder Woman #20 Review OR Wonder Woman Wins With Her Brain (For A Change) by Tim Hanley

Tim Hanley — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:08:28 +0000

Good catch on the time discrepancy. After this issue, I just assumed that Cassandra was the sister they were talking about in #15, but the time doesn’t match up. Either Lennox has done bad stuff to a lot of his sisters, or it was an editorial snafu. I’m leaning towards the latter, but you never know.

Comment on Wonder Woman TV Show “Amazon” Still Alive At The CW by Tim Hanley

Tim Hanley — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:03:45 +0000

I prefer the clay, partly because it’s a more unique origin story and partly because I don’t like Wonder Woman being too powerful. She should be powerful, of course, but demigod is a bit much for me. I like it when she’s more identifiable/relatable. My favourite is the original WW stuff where she doesn’t actually have superpowers, she just grew up in this advanced utopia and is really well trained so she can do lots of cool stuff.

Comment on Wonder Woman TV Show “Amazon” Still Alive At The CW by Tim Hanley

Tim Hanley — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:53 +0000

Yeah, that NBC pilot was ROUGH. I can see why they’re being extra cautious in light of that.

Comment on Wonder Woman #20 Review OR Wonder Woman Wins With Her Brain (For A Change) by Carol

Carol — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:46:18 +0000

Leto (pronounced LEE-toe) is the Greek Goddess of motherhood and the oracles of the day. She is the daughter of the Titans Phoebe and Koios, sister of Asteria, Goddess of the oracles of the night. Leto’s role as Goddess of oracles, symbolized by her modest dress and veil, was overshadowed when she became a mother, and most mentions of her in myth are in relation to her children.

Where her sister Asteria had fled from Zeus’s lustful attentions, Leto went to him willingly, and may even have been married to him before Hera. When she was pregnant with Zeus’s children, the twins Artemis and Apollo, Hera chased her relentlessly and threatened anyone who thought to help Leto. Finally, her sister Asteria, who had turned into an island rather than submit to Zeus, offered her a place to give birth.

There are several versions of the myths surrounding the births of the twins. In one, Artemis was born first and then assisted her mother with the birth of Apollo. Some sources add to this that Artemis was born nine days before Apollo. In another version, Leto was attended by the Titan Goddesses Dione, Rhea, Theia, Themis, and Amphitrite.