Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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New numbers for no threshold, based on the new numbers:
New Zealand National Party - 55 seats
New Zealand Labour Party - 41 seats
The Greens - 8 seats
New Zealand First Party - 5 seats
Māori Party - 5 seats
Act New Zealand - 4 seats
Jim Anderton's Progressive - 1 seat
United Future New Zealand - 1 seat
The Kiwi Party - 1 seat
The Bill and Ben Party - 1 seatAnd there would have been no change.
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Out geeked!
But not BSG (or more general sci-fi) geekiness.
DVD geekiness.
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Our forces were in Bosnia for 12 years on a formal basis
A lot of the time they were wearing Blue Hats, though weren't they? Maybe it doesn't count...
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Craig - R4 (& R2) has gotten every season on BSG before R1. It just means we miss out on the special features.
Part 1 of season 4 of BSG will be released in New Zealand on 17 December - SRP $39.95.
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The reason was simple: I wanted to peek behind the curtain, and see what goes on in the heart of the machine.
So it wasn't the money?
Also - I need you over here. Bar chart, damnit!
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And I only half answered it too.
It wasn't actually a question :-)
I was making the point where the extended edition explained it, and the theatrical cut did not. They just kinda turned up and kicked ass deus ex styles.
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I prefer the extended LOTR movies. They are closer to the books and actually make more sense.
Having not read the book ... so where the hell did those skeleton guys comes from in LOTR 3?
Oh, right, someone went and got them to come...
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has anyone ever seen a deleted scene or "extended cut" that actually enhanced the reputation of a film?
... Ridley Scott['s] first thoughts were the right ones
There was some sort of critical consesus of the view that the additions to Scott's Kingdom of Heaven in its four-disc version added about two stars to the film on a five-star scale.
And from something closer to home (for Craig), I think there's some agreement about the extended version of Pegasus on BSG. Some of the scenes deleted from other episodes so they'd fit a 44-minute time-slot have also been quite worthwhile.
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Change over time on a bar chart?
It's not really change over time (hence my oblique reference to "time") I had understood it to be change between one match and the next.
Grouped, coloured bars might be a way to go - a red a blue and a green bar with a big gap between them and the next set of red, blue and green bars...
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The only DVD commentaries I've found to be worth a damn are the ones that talk about the actual film-making process.
There's a reasonable not-really-a-commentary that's just historic audio from the real players on Thirteen Days that I managed to get through, and the commentary from soldiers who were actually there on the Black Hawk Down three-disc is good:
we get annoyed when people call the mission a failure ... the mission was to capture Mohammed Farrah Aid-id. We did.
But most times, just give me a good making-of or retrospective (and I mean good - The Hundred Days on Master and Commander, or an episode of History through the Lens) over a commentary.