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Magic pregnancies with magic children who rapidly age into antagonists to be defeated is like Saturday afternoon syndication adventure show 101. They just didn’t want to bother editing around her body for 6-11 episodes. True professionals like—I don’t know- -Mutant X or Poltergeist The Series probably did a much better job with it. I think Prison Break did that with a pregnant actor where the main character received her severed head in a box through the mail, but then later the character came back after the actor had given birth.
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Just wait til you find out about Captain Marvel's most well-known Avengers storyline.
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The storyline with four different credited writers that all refuse to claim responsibility for it. One, I believe, left Marvel entirely after the use came out. I think it was Avengers #200.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Just wait til you find out about Captain Marvel's most well-known Avengers storyline. lol Mister No posted:The storyline with four different credited writers that all refuse to claim responsibility for it. One, I believe, left Marvel entirely after the use came out. I like how Chris Claremont resolved it in Avengers Annual #10
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Jedit posted:Alexandra Vandernoot I already responded to this post, but I reread it and noticed the WASPiest name I have ever heard.
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Beachcomber posted:I already responded to this post, but I reread it and noticed the WASPiest name I have ever heard. Nope, that's definitely Patroon.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Nope, that's definitely Patroon. I've never heard that term before but it seems to fit. Amazing how different things are one state over.
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Beachcomber posted:I've never heard that term before but it seems to fit. Amazing how different things are one state over. New Yorkers get REALLY offended if you suggest that New York is part of New England.
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It's not? Serious question, by the way. I thought it was.
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Leavemywife posted:It's not? Nope! Old New York was once New Netherlands, and while the British did take it over it is still quite distinct. New York did want to claim what's now Vermont, but the Green Mountain Boys didn't let them.
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Yeah even Upstate near the border where you think the differences would be less pronounced, New York is still very distinct from New England in style.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Nope! Old New York was once New Netherlands Why they changed it, I can't say.
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Byzantine posted:Why they changed it, I can't say. Like I said, the British took over. 
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Apparently the Brits taking over and hating on the Dutch is how America ended up with phrases like "Going Dutch" and "Double Dutch," although their current meanings are pretty  .
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Byzantine posted:Why they changed it, I can't say. excellent username and post combo.
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mind the walrus posted:Apparently the Brits taking over and hating on the Dutch is how America ended up with phrases like "Going Dutch" and "Double Dutch," although their current meanings are pretty Also Dutch oven. 
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I think part of the reason I'm enjoying the old sitcoms is that most modern sitcoms are about weird people doing mundane poo poo, like Big Bang Theory was a bunch of social outcasts learning to navigate relationships and the real world, so most of the jokes are "Lol these people are weird doing this normal thing" while the older sitcoms take the opposite tactic, by having mundane people doing something particularly spectacular/noteworthy, like Victor Meldrew's forced retirement and Tom and Barbara subsistence farming in their london terrace. As a result the jokes are about the situations that naturally crop up in this Interesting Situation and so they feel more human, like the Meldrews trying to figure out what they want out of life now that retirement has hit, or the mistakes that the Goods make with their farm that they need to learn how to fix.
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Was Highlander: The Raven any good? I remember seeing commercials all the time for it when I was a kid but I never got around to actually watching it.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:New Yorkers get REALLY offended if you suggest that New York is part of New England. I'm looking up from down in Pennsylvania where we don't have lots of huge estates of any kind.
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mind the walrus posted:I agree that writing her out if her character was stationary is some bullshit, but I can understand why a rip-snorting genre adventure show didn't want to involve a pregnancy. I think part of it is that the _deep lore_ of Highlander is that they're sterile and can't have children so of she was pregnant in the show, it would not have been her love interests kid
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:That’s really hanging a lantern on it as far as having a German Scot be friends with a Scottish Spaniard. What were they thinking? Have Lambert be like an ancient Visigoth or something. Lambert is  but that only makes it worse. I think they even realized too late he barely spoke English too.  Scaramouche posted:I think part of it is that the _deep lore_ of Highlander is that they're sterile and can't have children so of she was pregnant in the show, it would not have been her love interests kid The concept of adoption baffles the mind of most Immortals. Even though the main guy had an adoptive daughter in the original movie (who was still living as his secretary in her old age, that's not weird at all).
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Beachcomber posted:I already responded to this post, but I reread it and noticed the WASPiest name I have ever heard. She's Belgian. And Scaramouche has the right of it, except immortals being unable to have children is not "deep lore" - it's explicit and pretty front and centre. In fact, in the original script the Prize they are competing for was simply the ability to grow old and have children like everyone else. All the psychic powers bullcrap in the coda of the movie was tacked on at the insistence of the US studio because they thought audiences would think "that's it?" and get pissed. The Germans they were co-producing with loved it, though.
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Jedit posted:She's Belgian. It's Connor's reward at the end of the first movie (along with being plugged to the sum total of mankind's knowledge as a nice bonus) but Ramirez states that if the Kurgan got the prize he'd conquer the world so presumably the Prize adapts to what you actually desire.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Like I said, the British took over. whoooosh
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YaketySass posted:Lambert is There’s a ‘Scots barely speak English too’ joke in here somewhere.
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Highlander The Series was good for answering all those questions you'd have about the immortals. The first episode is really rough and practically softcore porn though. After the series, there is only one piece of Highlander media worth watching.
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Beachcomber posted:I'm looking up from down in Pennsylvania where we don't have lots of huge estates of any kind. Guten Tag, meine liebe neu Deutschlander! purple death ray posted:whoooosh Pow! Bang! Zoom!
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Pow! Bang! Zoom! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo0X77OBJUg
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mind the walrus posted:It's a kid's song from the late 80s/early 90s. Yes, I know, I was sabotaging the joke.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Highlander The Series was good for answering all those questions you'd have about the immortals. The first episode is really rough and practically softcore porn though. Did they ever establish who exactly set up the Prize and how the immortals knew the rules and what was at stake?
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mind the walrus posted:It's a kid's song from the late 80s/early 90s. it’s from 1953.
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plainswalker75 posted:Did they ever establish who exactly set up the Prize and how the immortals knew the rules and what was at stake? Some Immortals are legit seers in the series, though it's probably just extrapolation from the observable fact that killing another Immortal gives you their power. Or maybe it's all just a prank and they're wasting their immortality over nothing.
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mind the walrus posted:That clip was Best quote from "The Young Ones": "Felicity Kendall is beautiful and I love her!!!" (Followed by "Oooh, look! A little girl!")
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personified. We should all be so lucky to have friends half that supportive.
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I think my favourite line that I've seen in The Young ones is when Vivian eats the TV, where the license fee man responds with "AH! The old trick! EATING the television set!" I just love that in this bizarre cartoon version of England, that's a common way of avoiding it.
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I apologize but I straight-up do not loving get The Young Ones.
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mind the walrus posted:I apologize but I straight-up do not loving get The Young Ones. I didn't get Bottom either at first until I realised what they are really doing - it's literally a cartoon, but in live action. They are recreating situations normally only performed between a duck and a rabbit, most of Bottom's stunts can trace their roots to Tom and Jerry and the like. Secondly they are a direct reaction of the saccharine nature of most british TV of the time, they are a similar reaction to The Good Life as The Addams Family was to Leave it to Beaver and that sort of thing. Taking an equal but opposite stance. The aggressively violent camaraderie of the characters directly contrasts with the soft snobbery of the older shows, in the same way that the Addams family take the idea of a perfect family and make them actually inwardly perfect even if they are outwardly weird, and better people in the long run due to being way more accepting of the unusual.
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