Living in central third-world Norway, I don't get to attend many cons, but I did go to Wizard World Chicago a few years back with my ex, and there were some good ones - There was a very well-done Beetlejuice interacting beautifully with Darth Vader and his stormtrooper retinue, but my favorite of the event just might be Morbidly Obese African-American Batman.

Only when he's also a vampire lord, I think.

Nuts and noogies! Who did it? I mean, if it was for a worthy cause, I shall handle the loss gracefully.

Gods damn it, I wish I could have been there. Had I been on the same *continent* even, I would have made an effort. Oh, well. Awesome photos and sketches; can hardly wait for my copy of the book...

Is it just me, or was the whole selfless sacrifice thing kinda weak and terribly cliché? It felt like something that should be about three quarters into a movie from 10 years ago, right before the good guys make their stand and turn things around or something like that... Kinda like the writers just decided to Insert Noble Sacrifice Here.

Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong, but the guy was toast regardless, right? Didn't he have like profuse internal bleeding and no major medical options at the time?

*shudders*

I have been assured repeatedly that SG-1 is excellent, and that Atlantis is watchable.

Personally, I've seen the original movie and found it fantastic in its time, and I have seen a couple of episodes of SG-1 but never really watched it - it's got MacGyver, though, so it's awesome by default.

Atlantis... I have seen a few minutes. I don't know what the hell was going on, but there appeared to be some freaky deaky aliens with names taken from Norse mythology, and that alone made me change the channel and very nearly throw up a little due to sheer cultural outrage :-P

This one looks like it might work out, though, although (among some niggling details) their security measures when testing out a Stargate with an unknown destination are... well, laughable. Seriously, they're gonna let Not-Baltar, a US senator (with tag-along daughter/aide) and the Video Game Kid just hang out in the room with minimal protection while they dial the thing? I mean, it is configured to only dial out, but once it's open it works both ways, and they have no idea what's on the other side, right? :-P

I think the show seems interesting enough so far, but I have one of those questions that pop up right about now as I am watching episode 3...

Without spoiling anything too much, there is a reference to an event that happened in 1991, and the DHS is mentioned. If anyone more in the know, and/or more American, than myself, could inform me if I'm missing something, please do so, but I am assuming the "DHS" in question is the Department of Homeland Security... Did that exist as an entity in 1991? Wikipedia seems to confirm my suspicions that the DHS was not established until 2002.

In their obsession with the future, have the writers of FlashForward forgotten to fact check the past? :-P

Seconded. Same thing here in Norway; it ain't perfect, but at least you can afford to eat and be sick at the same time (and by "being sick" at the same time, I don't mean "literally vomiting while consuming food", cuz that'd just be... well, difficult, and probably some weird fetish that already exists somewhere on the Internet).

You poor bastard. If it helps, you've made me feel marginally better about my own life through the magical power of comparison.

I genuinely hope you feel better and have a carefree life indefinitely. I'd be happy to donate a little extra to help with the medical bills if I wasn't shit poor at the moment (although, I could probably find a few extra bucks to sling your way - hell, I live in Norway, where a can of soda costs like $5; I'll see what I can do, but I won't be one of those crazy awesome FBs that really turns stuff around, just a wee bastard who chips in a bit for the greater good).