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Awesome
The other day I was interviewed on the art and craft website Epheriell Designs, it was pretty cool and some reallt interesting questions were asked (I don’t think my answers were as interesting as the questions!) and one of the questions was what my favourite word is, the answer is awesome.
No, that’s the word, my favourite word is the word awesome…
…anyway you can read the interview at Epheriell …
Comment by Ching Ya: … as well. Although I only found 2 awesome(s) in your …
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At what I consider to be the absolute lowest point of the Stargate Atlantis filler episodes there was a story which when broken down was pretty much about three people who fell in a hole. In the second week of Stargate Universe we have people wandering around Tatooine… ahem I mean a desert getting thirsty and cranky.
Oh and something happens at the very end to remind you that it might be worth while sticking around even though you’ve already seen Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek Voyager and SG1/SGA.
If you didn’t notice the spoiler warning in the title then you should consider yourself warned now.
It’s not that Air Part 3 (I’m confused at this stage if I refer to this as the second episode or just charge ahead with third?) is a bad episode, it’s just a neutral episode or as I commonly refer to a LOT of non SG1 Stargate episodes, a filler. So what do we get in this episode:
- some backstory on Matthew Scott in the unique and fresh way of dying man in the desert seeing flashbacks
- twister alien or as I like to refer to it the whirlywind alien
- Dr. Rush getting kicked
- Roland Greer kicking Dr. Rush
- Roland Greer generally being a psycho jerk that no one wants to sit next to
- Eli getting sunburned
- Two people I don’t care enough to find out their names getting stranded on another planet… let’s call them redshirt one and two (I don’t even remember if they got rescued now)
- Science guy getting shot by Roland Greer
- Colonel Telford being a jerk
- Chloe Armstrong went to tell her mother that her father died… I went to the bathroom and got something to eat whilst this was happening so I can only assume…
- The scrubbers were repaired and a song talking about breathing was played subtly over the montage of everyone enjoying air again… I liked the scene in Total Recall better, it had mutants.
- In a mind blowing scene that will be discussed for days around the water cooler the hatch finally opens and… oh sorry um a shuttle flew away from the Destiny.
I think that about sums up what I took away from the episode, a lot of the crew are jerks and some people got sunburned in the desert.
Sigh.
One of the coolest things I remember from my childhood when the Star Wars films were being released was that if you collected enough tokens from the official Star Wars icy pole you could send away and the they would post you your very own Admiral Ackbar figurine.
I mean of all the Star Wars figurines Admiral Ackbar was probably the absolute lowest on the priority list for most kids especially considering none of us had actually seen him yet. But I had to have one.
Technically they were free but if I remember correctly you had to get a lot of icy poles to qualify and then you had to keep them long enough to get the required amount and then send them away. So to get the final pay off which was a shiny awesome Admiral “it’s a trap” Ackbar figurine which I loved for lots of years until his leg rotted away*
So when I finally bought a Nintendo Wii I was quite excited to see that they have what they call Club Nintendo where you can submit special codes that came with Nintendo games. I bought a few games at the same time as buying the console and so I gathered up the Club Nintendo cards and realised that they didn’t come with every game or the most confusing didn’t come with the console itself.
So I had something like 800 points and figured I had done pretty well off the bat, but then I checked out the site and discovered I had not enough points for even a stupid plastic Wii controller box. So I wrote off the idea of ever getting anything out of the Club Nintendo.
Several surprising game purchases later and I found myself with enough points to get:
Admiral Ackbar would be very proud however I doubt he would have been very good at Mario Kart.
*I refuse to explain this.
