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"A sense of terrifying admiration overcame him.
He wondered what it was like in the Patrician's mind. All cold and shiny, he thought, all blued steel and icicles and little wheels clicking along like a huge clock. The kind of mind that would carefully consider its own downfall and turn it to advantage." "Every evil tyrant has a plan to rule the world. The good people don't seem to have the knack."-Terry Pratchett
Edit: I didn't get the soap line >.> I mean, I get what it is a reference too, but I don't see what line he was replying to that had to do with prison rape.
Ah good. Course I wasn't expecting zombie rapists, just the regular kind that populate maximum security prisons. All the same, my fears have been put to rest.
Yeah not sure I want to fight a guy with the ability to manipulate your basal ganglia remotely. Seizing til you die is embarrassing. There's a distinct lack of bowel control involved.
Ok seriously, time's awastin'. Do we have any way of checking for motion detectors or pressure plates on the stairs? Who is going to be the brave soul that goes up first?
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Ok seriously, time's awastin'. Do we have any way of checking for motion detectors or pressure plates on the stairs? Who is going to be the brave soul that goes up first?
Perception checks are fine. Sending someone up is also fine.
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Graff would like to live, and Kel is apparently channeling Lt. Gorman.
I'll be honest, only seen the newest Alien movie (fiancee wanted to see it), but I'm assuming that's a bad thing.
Now I will note, that I disagree (bias, I know), but Kelaeon isn't and has repeatedly said his goal is not "I rush ahead blind and in a hurry", but has instead said "Don't waste time with things not part of the mission" and when they did he scouted ahead with the group to clear a path.
He never insisted on the elevator either. He was just saying IF we take the elevator it's going to be trapped and so if we go that way then climbing is probably better than stepping into a death box. It isn't that hard to snap an elevator cable and doom us all.
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Where are you trying to perceive? The staircase leading to the Hallway?
Meh, I'm sure the fiancee has them somewhere. She says one of the movies "doesn't exist", I forget which Alien movie.
*checks* the third one.
The third one isn't actually that bad, it's pretty much Alien but in a prison instead of a space hulk. However, not even Ron Perlman could save the dreck that is Alien Resurrection. (Movie 4)
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Last one? There are at least three possible candidates for "last one." The most recent Alien movie was Alien Resurrection; but since then there have been two Alien vs Predator films as well as the "unofficial and indirect prequel" that came out over the summer, Prometheus. Or, by my personal reckoning, the "last one" was came out in 1986.
Both the first and second movies are classics of the genre, and different enough that the second doesn't feel unnecessary. The primary marks against the third movie are that it merely rehashed territory already covered by the first movie - though without recapturing the atmosphere that made the original work - and that it completely undid the ending of the second movie almost before the end of the opening credits. (Maybe it was before the end of the opening credits - I haven't ever felt a keen desire to re-watch Alien3, the way I still occasionally do the first and second films.) Alien Resurrection, the AvPs, and Prometheus are all just deeply, deeply flawed.
As for the reference? Lt. Gorman was the inexperienced leader of a detachment of Colonial Marines sent to investigate when an isolated terraforming colony suddenly dropped off the communications grid. His lack of tactical savvy - and his unwillingness to listen to others with a better understanding of the situation - were major contributing factors to that mission's disastrous result.
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Movie 4 was... Well, Joss Whedon said it best: "It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script...but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."
AvP movies are... Yeah they are fan fiction in my opinion.
Prometheus was great. It needed to be a bit longer and a bit more fleshed out to be considered amazing. Having said that, it is by far the best movie in the franchise outside of the first two movies.
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Kel does not see any traps or anything else untrod.
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Last one? There are at least three possible candidates for "last one." The most recent Alien movie was Alien Resurrection; but since then there have been two Alien vs Predator films as well as the "unofficial and indirect prequel" that came out over the summer, Prometheus. Or, by my personal reckoning, the "last one" was came out in 1986.
Both the first and second movies are classics of the genre, and different enough that the second doesn't feel unnecessary. The primary marks against the third movie are that it merely rehashed territory already covered by the first movie - though without recapturing the atmosphere that made the original work - and that it completely undid the ending of the second movie almost before the end of the opening credits. (Maybe it was before the end of the opening credits - I haven't ever felt a keen desire to re-watch Alien3, the way I still occasionally do the first and second films.) Alien Resurrection, the AvPs, and Prometheus are all just deeply, deeply flawed.
As for the reference? Lt. Gorman was the inexperienced leader of a detachment of Colonial Marines sent to investigate when an isolated terraforming colony suddenly dropped off the communications grid. His lack of tactical savvy - and his unwillingness to listen to others with a better understanding of the situation - were major contributing factors to that mission's disastrous result.
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