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There needs to be an Exile Island for bad mods who forget to add people to the staff list. Just noticed it myself :P

Hitting the first note in a star power activation and activating the star power slightly late, and then "squeezing" in one more note before the SP runs out by hitting it early.

I would suggest reading Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. Bellamy was a socialist in the Gilded Age of America and the book is basically a depiction of an America that has completely adopted socialism by the year 2000. He addressed those issues, basically by leaning on the inherent "goodness" of human nature. The book is a serious chore to read, Bellamy's tone is horribly condescending, and there are massive holes in his argument, but it's still interesting to look at a pretty well-planned society functioning on socialism. I personally hated the book and let it show in the essay I had to write on it lol.

Now that I can FC the intro I'm seriously working on an FC of CoD. I can hit every section semi-consistently except the outro solo, which I just suck unbelievably at.

I'm wondering why Ben decided to kill Locke after stopping him from killing himself :-s Anyway. Episode was pretty awesome. Cool that they crashed on the Hydra island. But the station seemed uninhabited? Jin was driving a shiny new DHARMA van. Meh. Next week will tell. I didn't think Abbadon would die . . .

I love how this turned into a psychoanalysis of Reb. You have such an aura of mystique around you AJ!

It's not much of a spoiler anyway. Tonight's episode was supposed to air last week but they switched up the episode order in post-production.

Whether they had simply made Daphne being shown taken alive or not, it's still a plot contrivance to make Matt do what he needs to do in order to serve the plot. Why wasn't Ando seemingly killed, or Matt himself, or Mohinder? Because none of them had a significant other that needed a reason to join PWToS. Baaaaaaaaaad writing. Just let Matt do his own damn thing. It could be more interesting than what he's doing now. And Daphne could have easily gotten herself captured in one of her impulsive thefts or something and then it would be completely natural. Then Matt would need to launch his own mission without knowing where Peter or anyone else is and having none of their help. That could have been great.

Fail. No one is actually reading these lists.

Episode was pretty meh. Here I was thinking that we would see some character development or at least significant backstory for Noah, and then we get a flashback to a few weeks ago. Wtf. Plus Matt going ape [cabbage] on everyone for no damn reason was just stupid. So what do we know now? HRG is a double agent. He's always a double agent. Woop-de-do. Oh, and Daphne is alive. [bleep] the writers. That just makes her "death" more of a deus ex machina. Once again, the best part of the episode was the Hunter. The little stand-offs between him and Noah are pretty well done. Agreed. I think most of the viewers expect something spectacular to happen every episode, it won't. I think the last episode was well executed, perhaps a bit uneventful in comparison to some but still, not a bad episode. I definitely don't think a show needs exciting moments to be good, but that's why I watch Heroes. It's all about tension and release. I don't expect an awesome release/climax/exciting moment every episode, but when they're building up and it's lame like this, there's just not much to enjoy. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you though. I definitely love the psychological element to the show, the relationships, and motivations, but the show is really an action show. If you're not into the big plot twists, what drives you to keep watching? At the moment? Hope that it will get better. Because the ideas are still good; they just utterly fail in execution most of the time. But I don't look for action in a show as much as I look for an engaging story and cast. The characters are the center of any work of fiction. And a large part of the reason I'm pissed off with this show now is that the characters are being handled poorly. I seriously wonder why the actors even consent to do some of this crap.

My first thought when seeing this: "Reb made a topic wtf." Spread the love, people.

^Lol why? So today . . . I FC'ed the Cliffs of Dover intro!! But the first note of the verse intro is part of Intro Solo B, and I paused the game in excitement causing me to miss a bunch of crap when I resumed. Hence the 98%. So that pissed me off, and I went and did this: Epic failure at Intro Solo A, but at least I did B properly that time. Pretty sure I have a "technical FC" of the song now.

Haha. Not a good idea mate. Ap us is a [bleep]. I have Zepf now because Bradley's daughter has leukemia and he's at the hospital all afternoon. Zepf's tests are extremely easy.

Lulz. Kept me from studying properly for my AP US History test.

Just wondering, have you read the book(s)? Yup. I can see them in my bookcase from where I'm sitting :P

The Golden Compass. Was pretty meh. The thing that pissed me off the most was the cutoff of the ending. It came out of nowhere and was just generally lame.

You contradicted yourself there. Evolution is not a fact and it is not proven. It is a theory that has heaps of evidence supporting it and little to none against it, but it has not been proven.

I hate the highway. Largest concentration of fools I've ever come across outside the internet. Driving stops being fun once you've had all the transmission fluid leak from your car, slide on a patch of ice and bust out the front headlight within a week of getting it back from the shop, and hit a deer at 35mph within a month of that.

Meh, I have ROMS like Pokemon Crystal since my game pak died, Fire Emblem 6 since it was never released outside of Japan, and LoZ Link's Awakening 'cuz I'm too damn lazy to try and track a copy down. Then again, I also have Starfox 2, which is probably the mother of all illegal ROMs and at the same time one of the most "justified" lol. I don't see the problem to be honest, I only use them for games for old systems I don't own or games that I can't possibly get a physical copy of.

You're from St.X aren't you? I can tell because you aren't a loser. Bahaha. We all think alike. Somewhat.

Now that everyone is back on the island those stories will likely be told through flashbacks as per usual. Personally I'm thinking Ben went to Sayid, Sayid went ape-[cabbage] on him and then got arrested. He's probably being deported (is he a US citizen? Not sure about that) and has a connecting flight through Guam. Great episode. I think that when the last flash happened and took Locke away, the island became stuck in the DHARMA time period. Although there appeared to be another one when the plane crashed, that's a bit weird.

The last dream I remember was a weird pseudo-erotic one. I don't think there was any detail at all of the act itself, it was more about the sort of awkward nervous embarrassed excited looks/feelings in normal interactions in between sessions. Very odd. Of course I wrote that one down.

I never commented on the Nathan part of the episode because quite honestly I didn't care. I mean, the writers pretty much admitted straight up that Tracy escaping was a plot device by having the characters say it. Nathan has always been one of my least favorite characters and he's only gotten worse. Again, the wedding in India was utterly pointless and stupid, I think everyone agrees on that. Claire/Noah tension may be old and tired, but it seems to be one of the only things the writers actually know how to do, and considering it finally came to some sort of climax I can somewhat forgive that they recycled it so much. If only this had happened in like season 2 instead of now. Sylar was easily the best part of the episode. I don't know how many times I've expressed this opinion, but why on earth does an episode have to contain some mind-blowing revelation/shock/cliffhanger/fight scene/etc to be considered good? Heroes lately has been lacking in everything, and this episode made some improvements over the first two. I suppose Daphne getting shot and killed was good because it was shocking? That's exactly why it was bad. I'd rather the writers stick to something that they've shown some skill for, however recycled it is becoming, than try to shoehorn some totally awesome moment in where it doesn't belong. No offense to you, just a general beef with the average TV viewer. I enjoyed the episode because it was executed well enough to feel like it filled out the whole hour, not like the last two that pretty much zipped by and left me with no lasting impression. From anything. Just a sense of "Well . . . that's an hour wasted."

You've previously posted a link to A Modest Proposal. That and Gulliver's Travels are two of the most vicious satirical attacks ever written. Yet you claim to be an admirer of Mr. Swift. I guess it's okay if it's not directed at you.

Peter's Wonderful Team of Sociopaths.