If Destiny has a gun that makes enemies pop explode like a pus filled zit - I hope I get it.

Now I want to use the District 9 guns in Destiny. All of them. There'd even need to be feral hogs as ambient wildlife, so I can "shoot the pig".

It just occurred to me.

Didn't some guy make a film after not doing the Halo movie?

And wasn't that film about a strange alien thing floating over a city doing nothing?

Doesn't Destiny feature a strange alien thing floating over a city doing nothing?

And is it not true that the super rich lived on what was basically a giant Halo ring in the future on that guy's next film?

Everything's a remix man. I just hope Destiny doesn't turn out to have the same twist as Oblivion!

Further more an excellent movie - earnestly gritty with a solid set of characters and plot.

If Destiny has a gun that makes enemies pop explode like a pus filled zit - I hope I get it.

I loved it.
Having a largely "unlikeable" protagonist is great and too rare in my book.

Having just recently finished Breaking Bad, I am 100% with you on this.

Mrs. SMP is making her way through that right now. Also, Christoph Waltz when he's in a Tarantino movie.

Inglourious Basterds especially.

RIGHT? I'm not surprised you get that.

Interested to hear about the reaction to Breaking Bad. As I told stabbim not long ago, Ozymandias from the last season may be my favorite single TV episode.

I loved it.
Having a largely "unlikeable" protagonist is great and too rare in my book.

Having just recently finished Breaking Bad, I am 100% with you on this.

Mrs. SMP is making her way through that right now. Also, Christoph Waltz when he's in a Tarantino movie.

Inglourious Basterds especially.

RIGHT? I'm not surprised you get that.

I loved it.
Having a largely "unlikeable" protagonist is great and too rare in my book.

Having just recently finished Breaking Bad, I am 100% with you on this.

Mrs. SMP is making her way through that right now. Also, Christoph Waltz when he's in a Tarantino movie.

Inglourious Basterds especially.

I loved it.
Having a largely "unlikeable" protagonist is great and too rare in my book.

Having just recently finished Breaking Bad, I am 100% with you on this.

Mrs. SMP is making her way through that right now. Also, Christoph Waltz when he's in a Tarantino movie.

It's silly they didn't total it out and get a new one.

We'll chat sometime and write up THAT estimate. ;)

I loved it.
Having a largely "unlikeable" protagonist is great and too rare in my book.

Having just recently finished Breaking Bad, I am 100% with you on this.

I rented it but apparently you have to watch more than half of the movie before anything interesting happens so I didn't watch the whole thing. I was too bored.

That's funny because even though I really enjoyed it, I found it less interesting in the final third when it transformed into a pretty standard action flick.

I agree with the above, with the caveat that District 9 is one of only two films that used mechs well. It's nice to be able to watch an action scene with a mech without having to turn your brain all the way off.

District 9 is one of my favorites, the whole thing. The action had been built up and then it delivered. It had weight and emotion, which is what I crave.

I went in with low expectations, I left with a smile for about 15 minutes, especially due to the very ending. My girlfriend couldn't get me to shut up about it. I guess I still can't!

But me mentioning it is a joke that you'll get if you watch the movie

I guess I should also include the Power Loader in Aliens.

I rented it but apparently you have to watch more than half of the movie before anything interesting happens so I didn't watch the whole thing. I was too bored.

That's funny because even though I really enjoyed it, I found it less interesting in the final third when it transformed into a pretty standard action flick.

I agree with the above, with the caveat that District 9 is one of only two films that used mechs well. It's nice to be able to watch an action scene with a mech without having to turn your brain all the way off.

Whomever that may be though, could be the sphere in a sense, or at least live in it in some disembodied form (like AI).

I think this is probably close. I'm kind of hoping that it's either an autonomous terraforming drone, or some kind of indigenous-species-uplift module. Something that its creators wound up and set loose in the universe to go puttering around and uplifting worthy species to a level at which they can fight back against the Darkness.

~m

All the loot we'll be collecting turns out to be money and parts the Traveler needs to rebuild his carburetor.

It's silly they didn't total it out and get a new one.

So here's a more serious question: Do you think the Traveler is a "it" or a "they"? Is the big sphere itself the Traveler, or is that the name of those that live inside the sphere?

It strikes me as an it, as we don't know a lot about it yet. Considering how large it is, and how it's capable of interstellar flight, it could transport someone/something.

Whomever that may be though, could be the sphere in a sense, or at least live in it in some disembodied form (like AI).