The following describes how to build a big-endian Linux kernel and install it to a Jetson TK1 system. It's a proof of concept showing how it is possible to run a big-endian ARM system.
Connect the USB to serial and USB to microUSB cables from your system to the Jetson board. There should be an SD card inserted into the Jetson.
Edit arch/arm/Kconfig and under ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE set def_bool to "n". In this demo suspend doesn't work with big-endian (that will not doubt require further patches) and so it is disabled.
At least one version of the GCC cross-compiler (4.7.2) does not work properly and the build aborts with a descriptive error. If you get this, upgrade to a later version of the compiler (e.g. 4.9). If you are using Debian, consider upgrading to Jessie (or later version) as it includes a more up to date version of the compiler.
Now establish serial communications with the board.
Press the reset button on the Jetson again.
Then on your system mount the drive which appears and enter the following.
Press reset again and the system should boot to a bash command prompt.
If the Github repo isn't available then the patches necessary for big-endian are as follows.
Create a separate configuration file for tegra big-endian.
running tegra in big-endian. Tested on Jetson TK1.
Config changes to enable big-endian support. Tested on Jetson TK1.


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With names like 'to lie hidden' and 'hard to get', it's not hard to guess where the designation rare earth elements stems from. But how are 'rare earths' used?
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Recently Molycorp, Inc. was selected by Siemens AG to supply rare earth metals for the next ten years, in order to produce rare earth magnets that Siemens intends to use in its wind turbines. Now obviously these so called rare earths are very valuable, but what are they?
Elementally hard to get
The designation 'Rare Earth Elements' (REE) is not quite accurate, since the 'rare earths' are not so rare at all. Most REEs are actually abundant in nature, however, because they often lie hidden, extracting these precious elements can be a bit of a hassle and even hazardous.
Elemental elements
In our modern society the REEs are used in a multitude of fields, but before getting into some of the possible applications of the REE's, let's first have a quick look at the rare earth elements themselves. There are 17 rare earths in total, of which 15 elements belong to the chemical group called lanthanides and that have exotic sounding names like cerium, praseodymium, terbium, and samarium. The fifteen lanthanides are named after the first element in this series, lanthanum (to lie hidden), and scandium and yttrium make the list of seventeen REEs complete.
Mining the rare earths
So the rare earths aren't rare, but this doesn't imply that we have unrestricted access to these elements. Before the REEs – that can be found in the earth's crust – can be used, they first need to be retrieved. China is currently both the dominant consumer and producer of REEs. China produces around 90% of the world's rare earth needs, however, mining for the rare earths is increasing in other countries as well, like in the United States, but also in Mongolia and India. Now why are these little elements so valuable and wanted? Let's have a look at some of the applications and find out.
In the production of several aluminium and iron alloys, the REE cerium is used. This element is quite abundant, which is of course good news for the producers of stainless steel, since it is also used as a precipitation hardening agent.
Technological products
In lots of devices that are used daily in our modern society, from smartphones to medical imaging equipment, one or more of the rare earth metals can be found. Specific REEs are used individually or in combination to make phosphors for example, that are used in flat panel displays and LED lighting.
Several clean energy technologies are expected to experience high growth in the years to come and the rare earths are needed to make this happen. Hybrid automobiles, next generation rechargeable batteries, biofuel catalysts, and wind turbines are just a few products that couldn't exist without one or more of the REEs.
The speed with which 3D-printing techniques are evolving is immense and also in this field do the rare earths appear. Ames Laboratory is for example working on a 3D-printer with which rare earth metals can be printed. In this way the otherwise hard to fabricate neodymium rare earth magnets can be easily printed.

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Pfizer vaccine: what an 'efficacy rate above 90%' really means
Published: November 10, 2020 12.36pm EST • Updated: November 22, 2020 4.18pm EST
Zania Stamataki, University of Birmingham
Zania Stamataki
Senior Lecturer in Viral Immunology, University of Birmingham
Zania Stamataki is a viral immunologist at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a member of the British Society for Immunology and she cultures SARS-CoV-2 in category 3 containment labs to characterise immune responses to the virus and to support the development of disinfectants and antivirals. Her team receives funding from UKRI, the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Foundation.
University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK.
There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech announced interim results from their COVID vaccine trial. The vaccine, called BNT162b2, was reported to have an "efficacy rate above 90%". This was soon translated in the press to be 90% "effective" at preventing COVID-19. Efficacy, effectiveness – what's the difference?
We academics are very precise in our language and it can be a cause of considerable frustration when the media doesn't appreciate the important distinction between certain terms. I was recently asked not to use the term "efficacy" for my radio interview because "listeners won't understand what it means". Sometimes accuracy can get in the way of clarity, so it's important to know when to let these things go. However, now is perhaps the time to draw a clear distinction between efficacy and effectiveness.
What is vaccine efficacy?
In short, efficacy is the performance of a treatment under ideal and controlled circumstances, and effectiveness is performance under real-world conditions. So what does this mean in terms of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial?
Clinical trials are precise and neat, and aim to answer if a vaccine is safe and if it works. To achieve this, the participants who are recruited to have the vaccine (or a placebo) are likely to be generally healthy. In early clinical trials, participants may not be the intended vulnerable group of people we are aiming to protect eventually with this product, for example, children or older people with other conditions.
To work out vaccine efficacy we must compare it to a "control" treatment, which is usually an irrelevant or known vaccine or similar preparation that shouldn't work for the tested virus. The trials are often "double-blinded" so the participants don't know which vaccine they received, and the researchers don't know which vaccine they administered until the end of the study.
Pfizer reported that the vaccine they developed with BioNTech has 90% efficacy. Justin Lane/EPA
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine reports 90% efficacy, which means that – of the 94 confirmed cases of COVID-19 – their vaccine prevented COVID-19 symptoms for 90% of those who received the vaccine compared with placebo. This is very high and will probably change by the end of the study. The press release reported the results for 94 participants – they need 164 to complete the trial, which shouldn't take long. Safe vaccines with efficacy above 50% are expected to be approved for COVID-19.
How do we measure if a vaccine is effective?
So what do we mean by vaccine effectiveness? Monitoring of vaccines does not stop after they are approved for use. When the vaccine is deployed, data will continue to be collected to study how well it works over the years for all vaccinated people.
Important parameters include vaccine performance for different groups (age, ethnic background, other conditions), duration of protection (duration of immunity and effectiveness against evolving virus strains), the balance of benefit against harms. Cost effectiveness is also an ongoing consideration, based on comparisons with other vaccine and treatment options.
We don't know what the overall effectiveness of the vaccine will be in preventing COVID-19 symptoms, severe disease or deaths, and it may be several years before studies report on the effectiveness of BNT162b2 for different groups. However, it is unlikely that it will be 90%.
But then very few vaccines – aside from measles and chickenpox – are 90% effective. The flu vaccine is around 40%-60% effective, but it still saves millions of lives. And that's something to celebrate.
The following sentence was updated to make it clear that the analysis was performed on 94 cases, not the 43,538 trial articipants: The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine reports 90% efficacy, which means that – of the 94 confirmed cases of COVID-19 – their vaccine prevented COVID-19 symptoms for 90% of those who received the vaccine compared with placebo.
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Many of you will already be engaged in daily Bible reading, but have you ever read the whole of it?
Firstly, Holy Trinity Brompton/Alpha have produced a new app called Bible in one year. This can be accessed via your phone or computer. It has three readings, Psalms New Testament Old Testament with a small commentary on each. It can be started at any time and logs your progress, another benefit is all the bible text is available in audio format read by David Suchet.
Secondly, Youversion bible from Lifechurch.tv, provide a number of options. The best way is to look at their website and choose the plan you prefer.
Finally we have produced a paper based booklet for the year, consisting of Psalm, New testament, Old testament reading. Contact the office and they will ensure there is a copy for you or just pick up a copy from the back of church and start reading.
Which ever you do, please let me know you are going to commit to giving this a go! Then we can all mutually support and encourage one another.


Prodoh is a youth outdoor apparel company with a very simple mission: "Getting Kids Outdoors." And today, we want to help get your kids outdoors by giving one very lucky reader a $100 shopping spree to their website.
This awesome company strives to insure that children develop a love for the outdoors, and do so comfortably and safely. Their original sun protective fishing shirt is stylish, safe, and necessary for all active kiddos. The super soft blend of fabric helps to keep your little one cool as a cucumber due to the lightweight moisture wicking. Plus, parents can relax knowing that it has been tested and rated UPF 50+ which is the highest protection available for a sun protective fabric. Oh and not to mention, they are stain resistant, water resistant, wrinkle resistant and quick drying. So now your little fisherman can look absolutely adorable and stay protected and cool while he reels in his catch.
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FYI, Two guys on a boat…yes that's how Prodoh began. Two daddies, who happen to be avid outdoorsmen, searched high and low for a fishing shirt for the youngest member of the Doherty family. Proffitt and Doherty were astounded to discover that this type of shirt did not even exist! Fast-forward a few months to a spring fishing trip. "The Boys", as their wives call them, shook hands and agreed to indeed create functional outdoor apparel that would keep kids safe while "Getting them outdoors." So, after clearance from their wives, Prodoh was founded.
People are often curious about the motivation behind Prodoh. After all, the boys are not your average clothing designers! Well, a child needed a shirt…but not just any shirt…one that was "just like his daddy's." Parents, if that doesn't make you want to move anything less than mountains, then I don't know what would. We saw a chance to share, not just a clothing line, but what that clothing represents.
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Some will need to be killed
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Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid.
Hamish Hamilton, 229 pp., £12.99, March 2017, 978 0 241 29008 8Show More
The real question raised by the refugee crisis of 2015, Mohsin Hamid wrote at the time, is 'not whether the people of the countries of Europe wish to accept more refugees'. The real question is whether 'they wish their countries to become the sorts of societies that are capable of taking the steps that will be required to stop the flow of migration':
Simply hardening borders and watching refugees drown offshore or bleed to death on razor wire will not be enough. Europe will have to drastically reduce its attractiveness to refugees. Those who look like refugees will need to be terrorised. They will need to be systematically beaten, rounded up, expelled. Some will need to be killed. The avenues of advancement of those who are not native-born will need to be curtailed by law and by custom – a system of apartheid will need to be instituted. To be of apparent migrant origin in a European country will need to become a fate worse than living in a town or village overrun by bloodthirsty fanatics, by rapacious warlords and thugs … In such a Europe, the essence of Hitler's thousand-year Reich will not have been defeated; it will merely have suffered an interruption that lasted a few decades.
In articles and interviews, Hamid has repeatedly expressed the view that migration on a 'vast scale' is coming to the developed world no matter what, and that this is not something that it would be reasonable or desirable to resist. Instead, he suggests, developed countries should look to their state of mind. Their thinking is dominated by fear of migrants and the future they represent, and by 'violently nostalgic visions' of taking back control, of making America great again, and so on. This, he thinks, is a failure of the imagination: 'The time has come to reverse our perspective, to recognise that visions of a desirable future have been eluding us because we have failed to consider that migrants are not a nightmare.'
Exit West, Hamid's latest novel, is clearly inspired by the events of 2015. The book replays much of the news imagery of that year and the year before: great cities overrun by militants; migrants in their thousands on tourist beaches, in island camps, appearing suddenly in European cities. It's a strange, dazed book, which flirts with the contemporary vein of apocalypse, and rejects it in favour of what, echoing Hamid's journalism, it calls a 'plausible desirable future' – all in the space of two hundred or so widely spaced pages. Its effects are hard to read: explicitly political arguments are mixed in with a vein of mysticism. Like his last two novels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), it combines a hardnosed, realistic perspective – a good dose of historical materialism – with something offbeat and jarring. In this case, that involves 'relaxing the laws of physics', as Hamid has put it, 'in just one, specific, particular way': in this fictional world, doors open up all over the globe, allowing immediate passage from one place to another.
The story begins: 'In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her.' The young man, Saeed, is a dutiful son who lives with his parents. The young woman, Nadia, is strong and independent, and has cut ties with her family. She is 'always clad from the tips of her toes to the bottom of her jugular notch in a flowing black robe' – not out of devoutness, but, as she explains, 'so men don't fuck with me'. The city is unnamed, though it is clearly in Asia and predominantly Muslim. It is presumably a version of Hamid's native Lahore, though events are going the way of Mosul or Aleppo. At first it is 'teetering at the edge of the abyss': militants encroach and then gradually take over. Roadblocks and car bombings give way to aerial bombardments and rebel occupation. The tone of the writing is curious. There are elements of fable or allegory in the lack of specificity: only Saeed and Nadia are named; the militants are simply 'militants', with little further explanation; the diction is sometimes archaic ('thrice', 'ere'). Yet the detail is often modern and precise: they meet at 'an evening class on corporate identity and product branding'. Their love affair is conducted to a large extent by email and mobile phone; their dates take place in a Chinese restaurant.
The main narrative is interspersed with short vignettes in which migrants suddenly emerge in, say, a Sydney suburb or a Dubai hotel: a dark-skinned man is seen pushing his way through a closet doorway – 'a rectangle of complete darkness' – into a bedroom where a pale-skinned woman lies sleeping, before 'trembling and sliding to the floor like a newborn foal'. Saeed and Nadia hear rumours of such doors, and, as life becomes increasingly intolerable in their city, they make the decision to leave. After paying money to a menacing, softly spoken 'agent', they find themselves in an abandoned dentist's clinic, where the door to a supply cabinet has turned into a portal to another place:
It was said in those days that the passage was both like dying and like being born, and indeed Nadia experienced a kind of extinguishing as she entered the blackness and a gasping struggle as she fought to exit it, and she felt cold and bruised and damp as she lay on the floor of the room at the other side, trembling and too spent at first to stand, and she thought, while she strained to fill her lungs, that this dampness must be her own sweat.
The door leads to a public toilet on a beach on the island of Mykonos; nearby they find a refugee camp. Mykonos proves to be at best an uncomfortable limbo for the refugees, and at worst a trap: their days are 'full of waiting and false hopes', with the constant threat of violence at the hands of other refugees or of groups of local men. Eventually, though, they find their way to another door, which leads into a luxurious villa in Notting Hill – all 'pale woods and cream rugs and white walls', with towels 'so plush and fine' that Nadia 'felt like a princess using them, or at least like the daughter of a dictator who was willing to kill without mercy in order for his children to pamper themselves with cotton such as this'. The house is empty when they get there – it seems to have a foreign absentee owner – but soon there are other new arrivals: 'A dozen Nigerians, later a few Somalis, after them a family from the borderlands between Myanmar and Thailand.'
In one respect, the metaphor of the doorways is a fairly simple one: it's a figure for a world in which distance has grown smaller and travel easier. It exaggerates the current situation so as to throw light on it, positing the inevitability of mass migration and the curious custom of treating human beings as belonging to a sub-species just because they have, as it were, walked through a door. The metaphor seems to be an extrapolation from those other rectangular portals through which the characters are constantly travelling: their smartphones. 'In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near.' It also allows Hamid to sidestep the old standby of migrant stories, the harrowing journey across the Mediterranean or the Sahara.
In London, the novel takes an apocalyptic turn, mixing satire and survivalist excitements. The house becomes a kind of globalised squat, one of many. There are one or two million new migrants in London, it transpires, many camped out in the 'unoccupied mansions in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea'. Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens fill up with tents. The 'native' population leaves: the local authorities cut off the electricity, and the area between Westminster and Hammersmith becomes known as 'dark London'; it is described by the newspapers as one of the 'black holes in the fabric of the nation'. There are soup kitchens catering to the new arrivals, but also 'nativist' mobs running wild. A cordon around the migrant-dominated areas is patrolled by soldiers and armoured cars, helicopters and drones. There is ominous talk of 'holding camps' in the green belt. Ultimately, though, 'the natives and their forces' step back from the brink:
Perhaps they had decided that they did not have it in them to do what needed to be done, to corral and bloody and where necessary slaughter the migrants, and had determined that some other way would have to be found. Perhaps they had grasped that the doors could not be closed, and new doors would continue to be open, and they had understood that the denial of coexistence would have required one party to cease to exist, and the extinguishing party too would have been transformed in the process, and too many native parents would not after have been able to look their children in the eye, to speak with head held high of what their generation had done.
The final section of the novel, probably its weakest, sketches out the alternatives to genocide. A new city bigger than the original, the London Halo, is built around the capital, constructed by the new arrivals. In return, 'migrants were promised 40 metres and a pipe: a home on 40 square metres of land and a connection to all the utilities of modernity' – the 21st-century version of General Sherman's forty acres and a mule. A 'time tax' is enacted, so that 'a portion of the income and the toil of those who had recently arrived on the island would go to those who had been there for decades.' Saeed and Nadia eventually move to northern California, via another portal, where there are new cities made of shacks with solar panels: a not unattractive new world explicitly compared to a music festival. And then there is Exit West's keynote speech:
It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.
Hamid has a weakness for clever ideas that, on closer examination, seem a little callow: The Reluctant Fundamentalist was based on a not very compelling equation between Islamic fundamentalism and the free market kind. Similarly, the new novel gives the impression that whizzy rhetorical solutions are being offered to intractable real-world problems. Exit West occasionally exhibits a technological optimism reminiscent of a TED talk or, at its worst, an uplifting telecommunications advert. In one particularly saccharine insert, a man falls in love with another halfway round the world, thanks to the opening of a new portal. 'We are all migrants through time,' the reader is solemnly informed. Where the novel is most explicit it is least convincing, its tone of glassy generalisation tipping over into liberal wish fulfilment:
The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.
But as always with a Mohsin Hamid novel, there's a lot going on, even if you don't exactly buy into the central premise. Saeed and Nadia's unorthodox love story is subtly affecting. The personal meanings of migration are evoked more persuasively than the wider political ramifications. The most memorable line comes at the end of a wrenching departure scene: 'When we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.' Hamid's prose is always intriguing. Decorous, formal and restrained, it moves seamlessly between the language of the fable, the human rights report and the prayer. It makes for a powerful fantasy.
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I started off downloading the portable version of the Firefox 4 Beta since it won't screw up any settings. With it only being 10mb the download completed fast and so did the install, no unwanted toolbars or software, just the program I asked for; Firefox 4. I click on the new Firefox icon and within just a blink of the eye it pops up which fixes the long load time Firefox 2 and 3 where suffering from. However this isn't the only speed change, browsing is now faster, and by faster I do mean FASTER. Heck, these speeds are insane; I click on an url and within a second the page is fully loaded and rendered beating even Chrome's insane speeds and Opera's near perfect rendering!
The third thing I noticed is that Mozilla changed the GUI. Normally this would mean bad news, just look at the MsOffice 2007 Ribbon interface, strangely enough Mozilla proved me that they are absolute geniuses. The new GUI speaks for itself and with just 2 clicks you can switch back to the old GUI which is a nice feature; why force people to use something new?
Now that's all for now, the more technical story can be found on the Mozilla site and professional reviews are all around the web waiting for you to be read. All I can say is thumbs up and I hope you guys release it soon along with the Firefox Mobile version you have been working on for so many months.
Re: Tech news: Firefox 4 beta is out!
The only thing keeping me from chrome was that I was an animator and the gif loading is terrible in chrome. It really hurt though how much faster chrome was. However this has made me glad I stayed with firefox, loading is impeccable.


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Hmmm, interesting. I wonder what kind of reception this one will get.
Not to be a fanboi, but unless this camera can see in the dark better than a barn owl, Nikon wins this round with the D600. If I had Canon glass I would go for a used 5dmkii or just save the money for a mkiii over this thing.
11 AF sensors with only 1 cross type? Really?
Too much to list. The fail is strong with this one.
That was my initial impression. The D600 appears to trump it handily. I dunno, maybe it'll turn out to be a surprise but I can see why so many people are disappointed.
Wow.... Just. Wow. I think I'd rather just save 75% and buy a used 5d (original) off of Ebay. The wireless and GPS is nice, but the gimped AF, smaller viewfinder, 1 card slot, slower FPS, etc just kills it.
Also, I might be missing something but how is this substantially different from the 5d mkii? B&H is selling the mkii for $1800, has similar MP, AF, features, etc. Sure it's incrementally better, but it should be, since it's 4 years newer!!
Yeah, if I were a prosumer-level Canon shooter I'd be *pissed* right about now.
Also, I might be missing something but how is this substantially different from the 5d mkii? B&H is selling the mkii for $1800, has similar MP, AF, features, etc.
In just the Canon universe it makes total sense: A replacement for the 5d mkii that's cheaper to produce, can sell for more, and won't steal any sales away from the 5d mkiii. It's incrementally better than the 5d mkii, and Canon's hoping that people that are currently buying that will slide over to the 6d. Profit per unit goes up, and Canon's happy. It's an entry-level FF selling for around $2k.
The only problem is that it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Nikon's D600 cleans this camera's clock, at least on paper. Canon certainly didn't know about that camera when they were designing the spec/MSRP of this.
Well they've known about it for long enough. the D600 was a very poorly kept secret.
I can't believe it only has one cross type sensor. Talk about crippling your AF.
I don't care about WiFi but the built in GPS is something I wish every camera had.
Maybe it's just because I've never used a camera with GPS, but I don't quite know where I'd find that handy. Please elaborate if you have, I'm curious to know.
I do agree that the integrated GPS and wireless are a good feature. Nothing irks me more than having dongles hanging on the camera ready to be sheared off.
In the traveling I've done, I'd love to have the photos geo-tagged to be able to identify where they were taken.
I mean, we hit 7 Galapagos islands a couple years ago, and hiked 40-some-odd miles through the Andes last year. I have all of these great photos that could easily be plotted on Google Earth to see exactly where they were taken, even to trace out the hiking route we took in the mountains or the path we took through the islands.
We went to various parts of Costa Rica, and all over Bermuda... I just think it'd be awesome to be able to point to exactly where any given photo was shot, and what we're looking at.
I now have a Bluetooth GPS attachment, which will be great for the next trip, but it comes at the expense of a dongle hanging off the front of the camera (small though it may be), and a Bluetooth GPS module that has a battery unlike any other that I own. If that functionality were in the camera, it'd be sleeker - but more importantly, I'd only have to carry one set of batteries.
Yep. GPS tagging would be really nice to have sometimes. I've got a bunch of photos from Nepal and I'm not sure of the location for many of them. Some people have suggested making notes about where they were taken, but it's just not something that I'm going to do. I remember where most others were taken now, but in another ten or twenty years that's somewhat less likely. Not a huge deal, but it'd be nice.
Yeah, I mean, you can note down things - but they're only going to be general notes, there's only so specific you can be.
Didn't see this before... Yep, that's extremely similar to what I have.
Just... something hanging off the camera, and a BT GPS device that has a unique battery for me to buy/keep track of/charge/discard when I sell it. It's decidedly decent, and I really like having geotagged photos so I'll live with the shortcomings.


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I don't post here very often, but it always brings a smile to my face for some reason when I pop in and see people are still having deep discussions about Gargoyles.
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posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 10:22:54 pm EDT from 69.14.18.230
For the filthy rich, sometimes "Because I can" is reason enough for doing things that cost outrageous sums of money. Why move a castle from Scotland and put it on top of a NYC skyscraper? Why own an Italian sports car costing half a million dollars? Why colorize classic black and white movies? Why host a reality show where you can fire people on TV every week?
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posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 4:16:52 pm EDT from 173.88.135.205
BRIAN> The thing about "Gargoyles" is that you need to banish the words "good" and "evil" from your vocabulary when we're discussing it and especially a character like Xanatos. Demona too, for that matter.
It's much more complicated than that. Which is one of the reasons I think so many people find the show fascinating. This isn't GI Joe vs Cobra, or the Autobots vs the Decepticons. This show isn't black and white. It's all shades of gray. Just like real life often is, way more often than not.
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posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 3:57:57 pm EDT from 68.199.5.105
Agree guys, but in the end of the second season he said the fight between him and the gargoyles it's over both to the gargoyles and Elisa. But he was lying right? how a character like him could pass from evil to good in a so few time(the time between episodes 2-44 and 2-52 are not so long), that is impossible. He is so hungry of avidity and immortality, he saved the gargoyles principaly for his advantage: he help them and then they do what he ask, and what he ask it is not good. I think this is it what will happen if it will be a 'Clan Building volume 3' or 'C.B.V. 4'; and we have to remember the Illuminati are agree with him about the gargoyles(ecxept Castaway that he doesn't know nothing about that).
And so Xanatos will be not a good ally for Goliath and his friends, while now all humanity knows about them. Maybe, after discovered Xanatos wanted used them again, they will have no choice to find an other refuge where they can sleep at the day.
Well, sorry for my english.
Brian Bartoccini
posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 3:55:00 pm EDT from 95.74.118.90
It is a good thing Xanatos spent the money neccesary to awaken the Clan. If he hadn't he would've never had the oppurtunity to make his fortune in the first place... although I guess he didn't know that at the time.
"But what do you call each other?" "'Friend...'" - Tom and Brooklyn, "Awakening, Part One"
posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 2:58:53 pm EDT from 76.217.239.172
PAUL> I think the series was pretty clear that Xanatos was looking to get himself some gargoyle bodyguards. Almost all his schemes in the first ans second seasons revolved around either bringing the Manhattan Clan under control or creating a satisfactory substitute, i.e. the Steel Clan, the mutates, Thailog.
Make a REAL "Gargoyles" movie, Disney!
posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 12:59:57 pm EDT from 86.41.103.199
Actually, that's a good question: What did Xanatos (hope to) gain by breaking the Magus' spell on the gargoyles?
Did he do it as a favor to Demona, hoping that she would share the secret of her immortality in exchange? While he does want immortality, that sort of plan seems uncharacteristic of Xanatos.
Owen was quick to remind him that buying Castle Wyvern and transporting it to the top of the Eyrie Building in New York was a costly endeavor, so Xanatos had to have a good reason to spend so much money.
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posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 12:13:30 pm EDT from 204.12.189.116
There is something wrong, well I repeat: I did not understand, after reading Gargwikipedia about Xanatos, how Xanatos made sure to be possibly to understande that he saved the M. clan principaly for his advantages.
I know I have to write this question before, and I hope my english it is understandable. Sorry guys.
posted @ Sun, Oct 3, 2010 9:43:16 am EDT from 217.202.198.87
Guys, I did not understand a thing: how Xanatos made sure that he saved the gargoyles principally for his advantage? (I know I had to make this question before).
Hey, I like the grammatical Latin nonsense.
Granted, it bugs me that they used "omnes conspecti, omnes auditi," which literally means "all who have been seen, all who have been heard," but I'd better stop now before I go off on a tirade.
I can pardon the grammatical inconsistencies in the "summon Puck" and "teleport to Avalon" spells, though, since even the ancient Romans had trouble turning "proper" grammatical Latin into poetry, and their poetry didn't even rhyme.
The above... isn't a tirade... is it?
posted @ Sat, Oct 2, 2010 10:36:00 pm EDT from 204.12.189.116
Brian> I took Latin for three years back in high school . . . Gargoyles was actually my initial reason for taking up the language, as I wanted to see if the Latin featured in the show actually made any sense (it was back in the days when I didn't know of Ask Greg nor of Greg Weisman's consistent efforts to research anything necessary for sake of making a fun and smart story).
Now, its been quite a few years since my last lesson, but I still have my books with me, so you guys can decide if my opinion on this holds any water (I recently re-watched My Cousin Vinny today with the family, lol).
***Fair Warning . . . a ridiculous amount of grammatical Latin nonsense to follow. You have been warned d:***
fulminos venite in the grammatical sense breaks down to two words with venite being the easier word to start with. Its ease in translation most likely comes from its part in the famous Julius Caesar phrase veni, vidi, vici ("I came, I saw, I conquered"). There its form is the first-person Perfect (past) Tense. Anyways, in the show its form is the plural Imperative from the verb venire meaning "to come" (my class always identified verbs with the infinitive, as opposed to the first-person singular). This makes sense as its verb-conjugation is meant for commands and lightning is typically considered plural (otherwise we'd add the word 'bolt' to it). Granted, the Archmage aims one bolt at a time, but I'd let it slide (for Spectacular Spider-man fans, I seem to recall multiple bolts whenever Mysterio said it d: ).
Fulminos on the other hand is trickier . . . my own Latin/English dictionaries list 'lightning' in Latin to be fulmin, a noun meaning "lightning that descends and strikes everything; a thunderbolt." As Fulmin is a noun, then its simply a matter of deciding which declension its designated in.
According to my dictionary, fulmen is evidently a neuter word. As it also lacks the typical first declension -a and the second declension -us endings, its not that unreasonable to conclude the word to be third declension (which can be masculine, feminine, or neuter) and thus in proper grammatical context the word would likely be spelt fulmina compared to what we hear the Archmage say (personally I hear fulminos . . . fulminUS would have a distinctly different sound in my ear).
But consider for a moment that getting into the grammar of all this spell-casting is really quite nit-picky. Remember, all things are true, few things are accurate, and in the subject of grammar and spellcasting, I can only wonder what is necessary in a spellcaster's pronunciation of the words that makes the phrase an incantation and not just a phrase coming from a geek versed (not fluent) in language.
So yeah, fulimina venite would likely be the correct grammatical context . . . but just as deslagrate muri tempi et intervalia (the spell to ignite the Phoenix Gate) should really grammatically be deflagrate muros temporis et intervalia (I won't even dare getting into this one in the same post), I don't worry or think about the inconsistencies too much, even when I (now) know the proper grammar behind it.
posted @ Sat, Oct 2, 2010 9:26:34 pm EDT from 68.2.178.162
Brian> Obviously, any of us can have grammatical difficulties when dealing with a foreign language...
posted @ Sat, Oct 2, 2010 5:32:54 pm EDT from 76.217.239.172
And about the Archmage; there is here who knows by chance latin language?
Well, in 'Long way to morning', He said 'Fulminus Venite'.
Grammatical is wrong, and it is not 'fulminus' but 'fulmen'.
'Venite', from 'venio'(to come) is imperative in the plural; while 'fulminus'(and I remeber you it doesn't exist in latin) is singular. He had to say 'fulmines venite'.
To confirm, find out.
posted @ Sat, Oct 2, 2010 3:30:04 pm EDT from 109.52.22.218
In addition to the upcoming reprint of Boom's Darkwing Duck comic issues, Boom will also be producing a reprint of the older DW comics: http://www.boom-kids.com/darkwing-duck-classics-vol-1-tpb.html
posted @ Sat, Oct 2, 2010 3:41:25 am EDT from 96.239.207.177
The last post got me thinking what other items in the vault have a story to tell. It is a little confusing when u talk about Timedancer and Dark Ages comics it is purely hypothetical? Something interesting about Bad Guys series is there have been posts that lead us to believe the Manhattan clan would have a run in with the Bad Guy crew. If timelines are concurrent this would mean that Yama would encounter an expanded clan with Kitana a member. How would that play out would battle members of his own clan? With so many story lines to explore and such an expansive universe I wish someone would make a guide to the different plots and time lines
dres - [escodr3s at yahoo dot com]
posted @ Fri, Oct 1, 2010 10:54:26 pm EDT from 71.172.247.110
BISHANSKY - Which I already mentioned, a few posts down. :)
Greg Weisman recently put paid to one of my speculations. I noticed that the Illuminati treasury in "Bad Guys" included, among other things, a shield (clearly belonging to a medieval knight, judging by its shape) with a picture of a swan on it. That caught my eye because in Roger Lancelyn Green's "King Arthur and his Knights", one of Greg's leading Arthurian sources, Percival and Blanchefleur have a son named Loherangrin, born to them after they become the new rulers of Carbonek at the end of the Grail Quest. Loherangrin (better known as "Lohengrin") appears in medieval legend as the Knight of the Swan, who comes from the Grail Castle to champion a young lady in peril and afterwards marries her, but on the condition that she never asks him where he's from. She finally breaks the ban and asks him, to learn that he was sent from the Grail Castle to aid her, but can only stay in the outside world as long as nobody asks him where he's from; once she did so, he had to return to the Grail Castle and never see her again. (Wagner wrote an opera about it; it's generally considered to be not up to his later ones like the Ring Cycle, though it's the source of the tune "Here Comes the Bride".)
I'd speculated that the shield in the Illuminati treasury could be Loherangrin/Lohengrin's (after all, his parents in Green are upper-echelon Illuminati members in "Gargoyles") - and it's even tempting to see his mission as an example of an early Illuminati operation (in the days before it became increasingly corrupt - but already having to be a secret society). I couldn't ask Greg about this directly, of course, but I decided to ask him if the shield was his idea or Karine's. He replied that it was Karine's, so the shield's device must be just a coincidence (unless Karine was inspired by Lohengrin's ties to Percival and Blanchefleur - and even then, it's not the same thing).
(I'll confess I'm also curious about one of the objects in the treasury bearing a slight resemblance to the TARDIS.)
Todd Jensen - [merlyn1 at mindspring dot com]
posted @ Fri, Oct 1, 2010 7:30:43 pm EDT from 4.244.212.198
I think Greg said something about the two Archmages going to other time periods besides just 995, 1020, and 1995. Originally he wanted to have the future Archmage showing the past Archmage how technology had eclipsed magic, but those scenes had to be cut due to time constraints.
posted @ Fri, Oct 1, 2010 12:24:36 pm EDT from 204.12.189.116
Todd> I think it might've been kinda cool to have our POV, the "camera" go through the Phoenix flame with Goliath and the Archmage+. Since I doubt they would've been in any time period for more than a couple seconds we would join them in the flame and the backgrounds would change from other places/times to Avalon in the present.
TODD> His older self told him. There, solved! ;)
posted @ Fri, Oct 1, 2010 12:02:17 pm EDT from 68.199.5.105
MATT - Yes. (Greg even mentioned something in his ramble on "Avalon Part Three" - I think; I'll have to reread it - that they thought of showing the Archmage and Goliath in different time periods during this scene, but there wasn't room for it, or something like that.)
Though it wouldn't solve the "how does the Archmage know about modern technology?" question, since the big confrontation happens after the Archmage time loop (for both Archmages).
posted @ Fri, Oct 1, 2010 8:08:03 am EDT from 4.244.208.190
I always wonder about the numerous time jumps the Archmage+ and Goliath made together when Goliath was trying to rip the Eye of Odin off his head.I believe Greg has said that they may have gone several places/times, but that Goliath never let go. The episode supports this as the would dissapear in the flame and reappear in a totally different pose.
posted @ Fri, Oct 1, 2010 7:53:40 am EDT from 76.217.239.172
The hypothetical unrecorded side-trip in "Avalon Part Two" *could* explain the enhanced Archmage's remarks about the modern human world being "a place of science rather than sorcery, with weapons as powerful as any magic" - it's difficult to figure out how he could have known that, with all his time in the present-day (so far as we know) on Avalon (though he did see Demona and Macbeth equipped with high-tech weaponry).
Of course, as I've said before, there's also the possibility that the Archmage didn't actually *know* about the advances in human technology over the past thousand years, but said it because he'd already heard himself say it, that it was all part of the time loop.
posted @ Thu, Sep 30, 2010 6:56:21 pm EDT from 4.244.211.208
GREG B> I'm pretty sure Mr. Weisman's already confirmed Super-Archmage will show up in Timedancer at least once. Presumably, he made a little side trip at some point during the Avalon saga.
posted @ Thu, Sep 30, 2010 6:08:13 pm EDT from 86.40.11.101
<<Do you think in the comic books we will see the Archmage again(besides DARK AGES)?>>
Barring a "TimeDancer" appearance, probably not. He is dead.
<<A new fights between Xanatos and the Manhattan clan(we now Xanatos want to use them for his objecitves, after they are now on his castle)?>>
Didn't we see this in the comics?
<<And Demona, will we see new fights between her and Goliath and his clan?>>
I think this is a no-brainer.
<<Will she finally find a clan that could be agree with her to destroy humanity and where she could be their leader?>>
Only Weisman knows, and I don't think he'd spoil it.
posted @ Thu, Sep 30, 2010 2:11:37 pm EDT from 68.199.5.105
Hello guys, how are you?
I have some question and I hope to not be too annoying: I saw, recently, a lot of Gargoyles episodes on youtube. Do you think in the comic books we will see the Archmage again(besides DARK AGES)? A new fights between Xanatos and the Manhattan clan(we now Xanatos want to use them for his objecitves, after they are now on his castle)?
And Demona, will we see new fights between her and Goliath and his clan? Will she finally find a clan that could be agree with her to destroy humanity and where she could be their leader?
Well, I hope my english it is understandable, and I hope to be not too annoying for you.
Todd> I couldn't get onto the site for most of yesterday morning, though all other websites were loading fine. So I'm guessing it is/was an issue with Station 8.
Demonskrye - [<---"When The Wind Blows" at The Ink and Pixel Club]
I had trouble accessing this website last morning, actually. Only later in the day I could come here. Every other website I visit was fine, though.
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." (Psalms 30:5)
posted @ Thu, Sep 30, 2010 11:34:32 am EDT from 24.254.162.166
Has anyone else been having trouble reaching this site for the past day or so? I've been having problems reaching it, as well as several other Internet sites, and I don't know whether the problem is at my end or theirs.
posted @ Thu, Sep 30, 2010 10:04:05 am EDT from 198.209.226.130
ASIFA is hosting a "Disney Television Animation Reunion and Panel" in Burbank tomorrow: http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/upcoming_events.html No Greg but there are a lot of other folks from that era on the panel.
Landon Thomas - [<- Gargoyles News Twitter Feed]
posted @ Thu, Sep 30, 2010 9:08:06 am EDT from 216.250.163.157
I was just reading over Greg's latest responses, including the one where he comments on how the casting on Murder, She Wrote usually made it fairly obvious who the killer was: the biggest name guest start who didn't get killed in the beginning. This can very on similar shows, depending on how formula-reliant they are, but if a pretty big name star shows up on one of the CSIs or Law and Orders, it's usually a safe bet that they're either the killer or at least more important than they initially seem to be. Thinking about this reminded me of one amusing exception to this rule: Kevin Smith's cameo on Law and Order. Kevin Smith does not play the killer, a character who is initially suspected of being the killer, or really anyone with a strong connection to the case. Kevin Smith plays one of the characters who shows up, gives the detectives some bit of information that gets them to the next step in their investigation, and is never seen again. I like to think that Kevin Smith requested that his part be small, as it's much more entertaining to see a name star show up on Law and Order, expect him to play a major role, and then discover that he's just a minor character than to have the star predictably turn out to be the killer.
Gargoyles Movie - [Rebel (trying to help with Google bombing)]
Also Happy Belated Birthday Greg! Yer not forgotten on your special day (I'm just slow, as usual). So you're 47. I'm only 2 1/2 years behind you. Will be 45 in February *cringe*. Make it stop! make it STOP! ^_~
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 8:17:23 pm EDT from 99.246.10.54
...and a happy belated birthday to Mr. Weisman!!! ^_^
Back to lurking I go...
The One Known As Mochi - [shogi dot keima dot 08 at gmail dot com]
Current Mood: (>X_X)> Transferring 394 GB of data is way too time consuming... That was 9 hours not really well spent...
Happy birthday, Greg! A day late.
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 6:10:28 pm EDT from 4.244.210.59
Something interesting just recently happened. It's unrelated to Gargoyles, but the situation it similar to Gargoyles in a way. Just last night, Capcom announced that they were making a Megaman Legends 3 for the upcoming handheld system 3DS.
What's interesting about this is that the last installment of the series was released over 10 years ago, and despite critical acclaim and being a great game, it didn't sell very well, and thus from a marketing standpoint could not be continued. (I don't know the full details, this is just what I've gathered) Fans of the series have been constantly asking for a Megaman Legends 3 for years and years, and finally we are now getting one.
The situation seemed very similar to Gargoyles. A series that fans loved but was stopped early on? Avid fans waiting 10+ years for a next installment, even getting it's own abridged series in the process? I know the markets are completely different, but it's given me hope that Gargoyles could always one day return.
Happy B-Day Mr. Weisman! May you have many many many many many more!
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 4:44:36 pm EDT from 86.40.15.86
Is it true? today is it Mr. Weisman's Birthday?
So, a very great happy birthday Mr. Weisman.
And God bless you.
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 4:09:01 pm EDT from 109.53.158.86
Happy (belated) Birthday, Greg!
Greg's Green Arrow short was released yesterday on the Superman/Batman: Apocalypse DVD/Blu-ray. Toonzone doesn't like the unrelated main feature but calls the short "fleet, smart, highly characterized, and suggestive of a story larger than what is actually put on screen." http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/35218/supermanbatman-apocalypse-just-plain-hell The Green Arrow short will be re-released in a DC shorts collection in November.
Greg and Brandon Vietti will appear at a Young Justice panel with new video at the New York Comic-Con on Saturday, October 9th: http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=861 The press release also says that Young Justice will premiere with a 1-hour special in November and the series will continue after that in 2011.
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 2:13:31 pm EDT from 128.101.32.234
Oh, Happy Birthday Greg! :) Sorry I'm a bit late.
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 1:03:57 pm EDT from 198.82.24.204
Here I am thinking to myself ALL day long: "It's the 28th of September . . . why do I think that's worth knowing?" . . . if only I had access to the computer and internets earlier today, haha. No matter, happy belated birthday, Greg W. :)
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 3:11:03 am EDT from 68.2.178.162
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. (I'm 47, btw.)
posted @ Wed, Sep 29, 2010 3:04:42 am EDT from 68.183.95.134
How old is Greg W today?
In any event, however, bonne anniversaire to you, ya delightful story-telling bastard. May you have many happy returns. :3
"Love...Reign O'er Me!" Roger Daltrey of The Who
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 11:52:28 pm EDT from 134.173.89.4
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 11:43:42 pm EDT from 146.115.115.75
Have many more, Greg!
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even dragonflies and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."--Shirley Jackson
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 11:39:43 pm EDT from 96.52.144.179
Shoot, I had no idea.
Harlan Phoenix
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 10:54:41 pm EDT from 216.96.90.197
****A large cake appears on the table complete with candles. At the same time, Blaise appears, wearing a party hat and blowing a noise-maker.****
I'm just stopping by to wish Greg Weisman and very Happy Birthday!
****Blaise takes a very deep breath and gives a tremendous blow into the noise-maker, which promptly explodes. After the big bang, Blaise is nowhere to be found.****
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 10:47:26 pm EDT from 76.208.155.14
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 9:47:17 pm EDT from 66.43.205.35
EEP. My question that didn't seem approved last night, is sitting approved today. Sorry for the intrusion.
(In answer to why to ask such a question when a goodly chunk of the answers would have to wait till after the show premiers... As a huge YJ fan I was very excited when I heard Greg was going to be working an a cartoon adaptation. But the more I heard about the cartoon the further it seemed from the original comic. I'm trying to get as much as I can about the tone and outlook of the cartoon, so I can adjust to it and not judge it harshly for not being something it isn't aiming to be once I finally see it. Anyting up to, but not over the line for spoilers.)
Laura 'ad astra' Sack - [foolchaser at gmail]
Laura 'ad astra' Sack
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 4:42:19 pm EDT from 12.3.61.131
SUPERMORFF - This is the first I've heard of it, but thanks for sharing it with us. Of course, even then, the Spirit of Destiny decides when it'll speak or act through a stone, so stealing a replica would be ultimately as pointless as stealing the original.
(I reread the Stone of Destiny story from "Clan-Building" yesterday, inspired by the entry for September 27 in the Old Farmer's Almanac for 2010; it listed that day as the date of "Breakthrough in deciphering Rosetta Stone announced, 1822", and the Rosetta Stone was listed as one of the Stone of Destiny's various identities in the big speech at the end.)
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 8:14:41 am EDT from 4.244.212.197
So this is quite an old news story now (it's from April), and maybe it was mentioned in the Comment Room at the time, but I've only just found it so I thought I'd mention it anyway: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8653812.stm
In April, thieves attempted to steal a replice of the Stone of Destiny from Scone Palace. At the time, nobody really had a clue why anyone would want to steal a replica (not to mention replace it with ANOTHER replice), but in the Gargoyles universe this kinda makes sense, as the Spirit of Destiny isn't confined to a single vessel.
Anyone got any thoughts on this?
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 7:21:26 am EDT from 62.25.109.195
At the risk of sounding blunt, a question like that is not going to get an answer like you're looking for until the show has been on the air for a while. So I would just sit on that question for a while if I were you.
mage_cat - [mage_cat14 at yahoo dot com]
posted @ Tue, Sep 28, 2010 3:00:34 am EDT from 72.150.47.178
Hello fine comment room folks.
I seem to have had a question fail to be approved and I was wondering which part fell afoul of the rules so I can recraft it. Usually I keep a copy of the text till I see it is approved, but failed to do so this time. Figures.
The gist of the question was whether there were characters Greg would have loved to use for Young Justice but simply could not. Characters that for some reason just couldn't fit into the universe as it is being structured. I started by saying I'd have to ask the question again after the show was running because I assume that many answers would involve spoilers. And that I vaguely recalled an early answer mentioning he would have loved to use Captain Atom (given his history of the character). That's what gave me the idea to ask. I presumed that a whole bunch of characters couldn't show up because they were so tied to being third or later generations that they would be awkward in such a young DCU, and speculated there may be characters that presented animation difficulties.
Basically I was fishing for those sort of oddball behind the scenes stories like finding out you have to change the script because an actor can't pronounce a word, or having to cut a favorite part because you realize you've written the need for it out of the film, or happy accidents that just seemed right. Trying to get the flavor and tone of the show without the events themselves.
Antiyonder> I don't know if it's an idea issue, but given that there are currently no plans to revive Disney Villains and Greg doesn't seem very hopeful that it's something BOOM! would want to do, I kind of doubt he'll have many answers for you. It doesn't benefit Greg at all to speculate about what he would do with what's now a hypothetical project and then have what he aid compare to a possible finished work. If Greg says "I'd love to include so-and-so" and then he does a comic for BOOM! and so-and-so's not in it, it's going to raise all sorts of awkward questions and unfavorable comparisons to Greg's original concept.
I think it's fine to ask Greg about what he remembers of the original show concept. But I doubt he's going to want to be pinned down on what he would do with a possible comic.
Just wanted to run this question for approval as it may border on asking for spoilers/giving Greg an idea:
"Since you still have an interest in Disney's Villains, I had some more questions pertaining to the planned show:
1. Would all of the Disney Afternoon villains be dropped given the lack of airing of those shows?
1a. If yes, would villains from Darkwing Duck and Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers still be included given their comic revival (depending of course if both comics have a long healthy life)?
2. Would villains from the 2000 Disney Movies (i.e. The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis The Lost Empire, Lilo & Stitch, The Princess & The Frog) be incorporated into the show?
Algernon's comment about Norman Osborn: One of the neat things about Dark Reign is that it gives Osborn the chance to expand his horizons beyond tormenting a twenty nine year old who still lives with his mom.
As Vinnie would say, "And away we go on with the show!"
As Greg Weisman promised, the Ask Greg queue is open for questions. Again, any new comers, please ask questions here before flooding the Ask Greg queue.
Also, read Greg's ramble here: http://s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=869 He's not going to spoil so don't bother asking! Thanks everybody!
Anthony Tini
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 10:18:02 am EDT from 159.240.11.254
(9th)Nine!!!!!!!!!
Ooh, I need your love babe...Eight Days a Week!
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 2:34:48 am EDT from 134.173.91.236
Lucky # 7th
Sir_Griff723@yahoo.com - [Sir_Griff723 at yahoo dot com]
Cheese, it's as good an answer as any.
6th~!!
Current Mood: (>X_X)> It's too hot~!!!
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 1:52:13 am EDT from 72.199.80.47
FIFTH!
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 1:38:51 am EDT from 68.2.178.162
I know, I just wanted to see if anyone would run with it.
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 1:11:31 am EDT from 99.91.31.59
4TH!
Interesting and completely irrelevant fact about The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind:
The five Great Houses are Telvanni, Hlaalu, Indoril, Redoran, and Dres.
Their initials spell out THIRD.
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 12:52:56 am EDT from 204.12.189.116
Yes it is, you're second!
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 12:45:25 am EDT from 68.199.5.105
Its not official unless you say FIRST!
posted @ Mon, Sep 27, 2010 12:15:06 am EDT from 99.91.31.59
GO TEAM VENTURE!!!!