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Hot women wielding chainsaws? Now that's a refreshing difference from more teenage vampires. On the T.V I just noticed there was some show including an angsty teeny vampire and on the newspaper I found a review of a vampire book. Think it's gonna take a while for vampires to get back their cred. Whenever we write about vampires from now on we have to specify whether they're the blood sucking evil type or the glittery angsty, vegetarian type! Grrrr

Give me hot women and chainsaws any day.

Disclaimer: I have no clue if the woman in the picture will be on the TLC show, it's just what came up when I googled "chainsaw ice sculptures". She is very attractive though.

Re: Dexter:

I'm halfway through season two, and it's starting to bother me that Dexter is the villain but getting away with so much. Doaked just got screwed into being suspended by Dex; yet Doakes is the closest thing this show has to a hero.

Yeah, Daniel, Dexter's gonna fuck with you like that. Sometimes I think the writers wanted us to think he's kind of a good guy because he is so meticulous about only killing bad guys. But I think last episode of the series? Dex doesn't walk away free. Or at all.

Man, I am excited about tonight's episode! Which I will watch tomorrow. On a pirated internet site. Blurg. Excitement waning... waning... gone.

I'm watching Death Proof, then waiting for the Venture Brothers Metalocalypse one, two punch.

Daniel, you just described the best and worst aspect of Dexter, the phrase "anti-hero" has never been so aptly applied. I spent so much time reflexively hating Doakes yet keeping at the front of my mind that he's exactly the sort of kick butt-take names, "outside the rules but on the side of justice" cop that is routinely the hero in every other crime drama. Erik King owns the role.

“Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction” on HBO because, you know, why not.

I hope Williams uses them on himself, he cannot end his existence soon enough after Old Dogs.

STAR TREK AND PANDA RAPE?

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The Alice in Wonderland thinger actually wasn't too heinous -- her character spent a lot of time yelling random "I don't know what's going on" things and running, but she was a judo instructor in the Real World, so at least the running around thing worked a little. The Hatter was pretty good, too. I'd say he's one of the stronger bits.

And the White Knight was awesome. He was my favorite part of the books, so it was nice to see him portrayed so faithfully.

Tons better than the crap fest that was Tinman. I'll be tuning in tomorrow for part 2.

Oooh, Daniel, I can't wait to hear what you make of the end of season 2.

To your point about Americans and the death penalty, I think that taking the law into one's own hands is still quite verboten. (At least that's the moral of countless Law & Order episodes.) I think we like the insulation of guilt that comes with the state executing criminals instead of us doing it ourselves. I'd like to think that it reminds us of our dark past with mob justice and lynchings, but I think it is more to do with the (over)confidence in the crapshoot/stacked deck that is the American jury system.

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WHY DO YOU MISS DOAKES WHAT HAPPENED TO DOAKES?! GAH!

...deep breath... moving on...

Wandering Parakeet:

I understand that most Americans wouldn't take the law into their own hands, and wouldn't want to even if they could. But the fact that your government still executes people seems like they're implying that there are certain circumstances under which it's okay for a human totake another human's life, when that other human presents no threat to you (ie, outside of self defence). It's barbaric and I don't support it for even a second - and I imagine a lot of American citizens would agree with me - but it's part of your culture.

Not that I'm saying the US government implicitly condones Dexter's actions (he skips over things like a fair trial), but there's a similar underlying principle governing the actions of both parties. That principle is not one that's shared by my government, making Dexter even more unconscionable, and alien to "normal" society.

Absolutely, and I don't mean to imply that everyone in the states is cool with hatcheting bitches up left and right or anything of the sort. There is a world of difference between the government executing people in accordance with the law and what Dexter does (which I acknowledged above, citing fair trials as an example). But the US government thinks that it's okay to take a human life in cold blood if that human is perceived to be "bad". Other governments do not. Putting aside the question of whether an audience member agrees or disagrees with that notion, all I was wondering was whether or not growing up in a culture with the death penalty made one relate to a show like Dexter, and its central theme of whether it's morally just to kill killers as he does, differently to someone who grew up in a culture without it.

Which could all be bullshit and not worth thinking about. It's just a thought that popped into my head as I was watching it the other day.

Also: I'm on the third disc, and season two is getting good.