[ Posted by walking_deadman on Jan 12th, 2007 12:08 AM ]...

Wow, I'd go if I'm not opening at work that day (night).
Are you going to NYCC? I'm not going to be able to go.....but we are going to Pittsburgh this year!!!!!!!

[ Posted by aki_san on Jan 12th, 2007 2:35 PM ]...

We're all def going to New York... Stephen King & George RR Martin (another author Jack & like), can't miss it. I don't think everyone is going to Pittsburgh this year, which sucks. Rob and I are still talking about going, but Jack & Andrew probably aren't. it all comes down to $$$ unfortunatley.

[ Posted by walking_deadman on Jan 8th, 2007 11:51 PM ]...

Yeah,
the Tampa game (playoffs) last year was very similar and I thought we were in some trouble.
Congrats. by the way- see it pays to have a good holder :)

[ Posted by walking_deadman on Dec 28th, 2006 9:12 PM ]...

Sure, what do you have in mind?

[ Posted by walking_deadman on Dec 17th, 2006 9:22 PM ]...

Thanks,
Glad you like the name and ironically although I am an avid fan of The Walking Dead and a huge fan of many Zombie films (Sean of the Dead and most of the Romero films) the handle actually comes from a title of a comic that I plan on doing one day. It's a book about death, rebirth, the cure for disease, and repo. work. The story (Walking Deadman) is in my head and will someday be done. Heroes is just tremendous and Supernatural really reminds me a bit of The Hardy Boys meets the X-Files and is a really underated show.

[ Posted by Saturn_Girl on Dec 17th, 2006 11:26 PM ]...

Funny that you compare Supernatural to X-Files. I got the first season DVD and it included a Museum of Radio and TV panel exta with the writers, directors, producers and stars of the show, and apparently several of them worked on X-Files.

Maybe we'll luck out and get a Jose Cheung episode? :)

[ Posted by aki_san on Dec 19th, 2006 2:29 PM ]...

Ah, fellow X-Files fans. "Jose Cheung" is one of my favorite episodes. Also, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"... I was so sad to hear that Peter Boyle died!

[ Posted by Saturn_Girl on Dec 19th, 2006 5:18 PM ]...

aki_san - You are reading my mind! The first thing I thought when Peter Boyle died was "Aw, he was so great in that Clyde Bruckman episode." His death scene in that show was oddly touching. The Supernatural writers would do well to incorporate the X-Files habit of interspersing suspense with eclectic humor in their stories.

[ Posted by aki_san on Dec 19th, 2006 7:00 PM ]...

Peter Boyle was great, the scene in Young Frankenstein of him as the monster singing "Puttin' on the Ritz" is classic. I only watched the first couple episodes of Supernatural, couldn't really get into it. I think you're right, more of a mix in tone would make it better. My fav episodes of the X-Files were usually never the mythology episodes. I used to watch the "sillier" ones, like Quagmire, over and over.

[ Posted by walking_deadman on Dec 20th, 2006 9:22 AM ]...

I really liked the X-Files eps. that were self contained, that may hint of cover up and conspiracy (like Mulder finds proof and it then disappears or gets destroyed)than the whole this guy from this mysterious group is hunting you down and teaming with the aliens to stop you from revealing the "truth" (which we really never learn- since it's as confusing as many of Wolverine's origins). Yeah, I really like the Peter Boyle ep. as well, it's such a big loss with his passing as he made everything stand out

[ Posted by aki_san on Dec 20th, 2006 3:24 PM ]...

My favorite X-Files ep of all time is "One Breath" (the one where Scully re-appers after being "abducted"), that's one of the only mythology episodes I love. That was early on in the series, eventually it got so convoluted I couldn't follow it anymore. To this day I don't understand what really happened to Mulder's sister, or where the hell Scully's baby came from. (I stopped watching in the later seasons 'cause it just wasn't good anymore.)

[ Posted by Saturn_Girl on Dec 20th, 2006 4:53 PM ]...

My favorite X-Files episode was "Small Potatoes," the one with the shape changer, Eddie Blunt, who impersonated Mulder. The scene at the end between Eddie and Mulder about the Superstar cap was hysterical, as were the scenes of Eddie-as-Mulder trying to seduce Scully.

As for the scary eps, the ones with Tooms and the Flukeman were terrific, as well as the one with the hikers who were consumed by the giant hallucinogenic fungus. I really loved X-Files, but it just wasn't the same after David Duchovny left, so I quit watching. I never even saw the series finale.

[ Posted by aki_san on Dec 21st, 2006 6:16 PM ]...

I was terrified of Flukeman for ages after that episode. I also loved the freak show episode, I can't tell you how many times I watched that one. "Home" was a really good one too, I think it was, or almost was, banned from being aired again! Oh, and I loved "Post Modern Prometheus" - the Frankenstein episode that was fimled in B&W. Classic.

[ Posted by walking_deadman on Dec 21st, 2006 6:56 PM ]...

Loved the Flukeman ep., also really enjoyed the one in the arctic (?) where people got infected with a parasite and the only only way to cure the person was to infect them with another parasite.

"Home" was just too disturbing for me, most stuff doesn't bother me but that ep. did. Felt really bad for poor Andy Taylor and his family.

[ Posted by aki_san on Dec 22nd, 2006 1:32 PM ]...

yeah, that episode is called "Ice", I forgot all about that one, I love it. That was the episode that really hooked me on that show. Great acting.

[ Posted by Saturn_Girl on Dec 23rd, 2006 11:30 AM ]...

"Home" was really ooky and spooky - I think I remember that FOX didn't want to repeat that episode. I always loved the "freak of the week" episodes the most, which I guess is why I like Buffy and Supernatural, too. Actually, anything that can deftly mix horror, comedy and romance is guaranteed to hook me. (Which also explains my obsession for Shaun of the Dead!)

[ Posted by walking_deadman on Dec 19th, 2006 2:52 PM ]...

I know, the Skins finally stepped up and played the way I expected them to.....real funny thing was that I was expecting the Saints to blow us out.