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Great Scott! An anniversary to remember.

5 July, 2010 (12:15) | The Watcher | By: James Tyler

There was a comment somewhere about old movies and how Godfather didn’t count as old as it was made in 1974. I didn’t realise it was that old, and when I opened my Google Reader today, I realised time had passed by more quickly than I thought. While I was busy dealing with some stuff [...]

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Cancelled shows, some twat called Wayne and an evil midget.

10 June, 2010 (13:28) | The Watcher | By: James Tyler

You know what I hate? Midgets. But almost as much as those creepy little stalking bastards, I hate TV executives that cancel something because all they want is the next best thing and if the ratings aren’t spanktastic to start with they lose interest. Nothing gets a chance any more and it’s irritating to watch [...]

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Stop. Remaking. Everything.

8 April, 2010 (09:47) | The Watcher | By: James Tyler

I don’t mind the odd remake. While some are awful and rape your eyes, you get others like the BSG remake which was great and brought something different to the table and movies like Clash of the Titans look better when you have better technology to work with. But some are just bad. Even the [...]

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The Science of Fiction; Reality versus Fantasy

26 March, 2010 (11:13) | Captains Blog | By: James Tyler

<center. I’ve noticed a lot of debate on reality versus fantasy recently and with SyFy promoting Caprica as more accessible by hiding the fact it’s a science fiction show, it prompted me to ask a question when Majik made a comment to the Galaxy Quest post. With the theme of the Geeky List thing here, [...]

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Galaxy Quest (1999)

24 March, 2010 (18:32) | The Watcher | By: James Tyler

I haven’t done a retro-review type thing in a while and so I’m going to focus on a film that’s probably one of the best Star Trek movies made, this one features Tim Allen in the captains chair as he finds himself in the middle of an intergalactic incident. Yes, Tim Allen. No, not really [...]

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