Timewaster's Guide Archive

Good call Ookla - I got a bit ahead of myself.  We'll let Brandon reveal all the "cool" details on Centrifugal when he gets on here.

I just try to blot out the 2 major "no-way-in-any-hell-ever-imagined" moments, and I find that for the most part I enjoyed the movie.  I was a little disappointed in in the musical score.  Kinda meh. 

Even with the no-way-in-hell moments, it was still way better than Temple of Doom.  It felt like there were too many characters taking up limited screen time.

I'd agree with 4/6 clocks.

sooooo, i fear the latest Kara arc is gonna end up like all the others.  No one believes her, she goes emo, she gets proven right, she goes emo anyway.  Rinse and repeat. 

Other than that, and killing off marine-captain-lady-who-i-dont-buy-for-a-moment, nothing really happened. 

<Gives Ookla a 'high-five'>

You read my mind.

once again, no Sci-Fi channel, saw the episode late.

I was actually kinda left feeling flat after this episode.  It felt like some of the middles episodes in S3.  The segment with Kara was dumb.  They put a half-dozen of the galactica's most important people on a ship with a person (Kara) who they aren't even really sure is a cylon or not.  Cally dieing was bound to happen.  In all, the whole episode felt disjointed/jarring - but not in a good way like the last episode of S3.

So yeah, pretty weak in my opinion.

Though, the civil war is cool so far.  Though that also felt...jumpy.

I totally misread 42's post.  I thought you said there seemed to be more female Cylons than male.  Teaches me not to wear my glasses.

That info about the prequel series sounds interesting.  I also read that it's gonna be more of a "soap-opera" drama.  no epic space battles...sigh.

Now, if you read into that info, the adamas apparently had a hand in the creation of the cylons.  interesting prospect.  My theory:  Starbuck is Zoe.  Loeban (spelling?) was the boyfriend.  Giddyup.  Explains the odd relationship those 2 have, makes flashbacks/pre-memories work.  Explains why starbuck is back from the grave - they didn't have genetic material to make a real cylon of her till they took the...whatever from her on caprica.  Yes, i realize there hole galore in my theory. 

the wilder side:  Joesph Adama is the last Cylon.  And all the adama's are hybrids.  Weeeeee!

Actually, Zarek is who I think it is as well.  I've ruled out Starbuck, because it's too obvious...and because even the cylons think she is bad mojo (from the Razor miniseries).  The Adamas and the president are out, cause they would have activated them long ago I think.  Baltar wants to be one so bad, that it cant be him.  So I'm left with Zarek, or someone that has already died, or someone new.   They left quite a bit open that intrigues me.  Lee's new position, Tygh hearing the music still, etc.  But what I really want to know is who is "flipping the switch" on these cylons?  The original 7 dont know who the "Five" are (except Xena, but she's..uhh..afk...for lack of a better term).  Is the last cylon flipping the switches?  Or is this mysterious "Cylon God" the one doing it?  I think we are gonna find out that Starbuck is a deity.  Craziness.  That was a great first episode.  Baltar's story was great.

This is pretty much what I expected being familiar with this guy's art before hand.  I like the hazy quality of it.  To be honest, I actually like the blueish tint that the back has over the picture more. 

As far as the 4.99 on the cover, bluntly, it doesn't matter.  Most of the people who go into a store to buy a book go in being price sensitive.  Especially with this supposed downturn in the economy.  Understand, in this case the 4.99 supersedes the cover art.  The whole purpose of selling this paperback with little to no profit (some even sold for a loss) is to entice the buyer into immediately purchasing the expensive, high-profit hardback of Mistborn 3 .  Or, the purpose is to use this book as the gateway drug into Brandon's other books and to Tor's other authors.  The price is temporary, and will probably be removed from the paperback after MB3 has been out for a bit, at which point the awesome cover art will work on its own.

Im actually very excited to see MB2's paperback cover.  It could be even more awesome than this one.

As far as the knives go - meh.  The 30 of us on the forums who know the difference can shrug and say 'oh well.'  The other 30,000+ who read it will have no clue. 

I'm really happy with this cover.  It's light-years beyond the previous version. 

Imagine the displays at the front of Borders where you have this new cover with an eye-catching price, Elantris, MB2's paperback...thats good stuff...and maybe an ad on it that says, "and, oh yeah, this guy is finishing the WoT series."  The sum will be much larger than the parts.