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Post by azazel on Jul 19, 2004 0:43:46 GMT
I am staging a coup on Hobbit's thread and claiming it for the people Smallville ;D
Spoilers for actual episodes will be posted and discussed in a separate thread, so as not to upset the pure of heart and mind ;D But any articles doing the rounds of the mainstream can and will be posted here.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 20, 2005 11:35:25 GMT
Do we think a part in a genre show would be out?
Would a small but regular role be super?
Or would he need to be the star/co-star to rock your world?
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 20, 2005 15:33:33 GMT
I don't think genre should be completely out of bounds,and a regular role, but medium sized would be good enough for me ;D
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Post by Pixie on Jul 20, 2005 15:36:17 GMT
The size of his parts is totally irrelevant! ;D You walked into that one... ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 20, 2005 19:44:35 GMT
Like Prattle #62 says, it's big enough... Oh look, I'm quoting myself... am I too subtle, huh? Okay, rock is obscure.. I was thinking kryptonite ;D The Smallville rumours are all over the place now so let's just be up front about this possibility... Plus points - at least we get it in the UK (although I haven't watched more than a couple of eps). And if it's on the skids as some folks think, one season is okay by me, so James can move onto something else fairly quickly. Re it being filmed in Canada, he is often there, by his own admission, so obviously doesn't find it a problem popping back and forth.
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Post by Pixie on Jul 20, 2005 21:49:16 GMT
Too subtle by far! ;D Never seen Smallville. Is it any good?
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 20, 2005 22:33:24 GMT
Heh just read on Smallville spoilers that there going to be a New Baddie next season "to give Lex a run for his money" mmm... James and Lex ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 21, 2005 0:29:54 GMT
Pix, I think it started off with high hopes and fanfares, but seems to have gone off the boil somewhat this last season. But I can't really say as I have only dipped in to a handful of eps. Young Lex seemed interesting; young Clark, not so much. And the girls came across as limp dishrags, but like I say, I've barely seen it.
But if James was in it I'd happily watch ;D
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 21, 2005 0:40:31 GMT
I think I've seen half an episode The latest rumours have James possibly playing the baddie Zod. If you saw Superman 2 (I think it was 2),this character was played by Terence Stamp....General Zod and 2 cronies were banished from Krypton and imprisoned in a flat glass spinning thing Superman accidentally releases them when he diverts a warhead rocket into space.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 21, 2005 0:44:18 GMT
I am so not into comic book super heroes... give me the baddies anytime ;D My slashy mind was thinking earlier, Zod and Lex = Zex ;D This appealed to me greatly, for some reason ;D
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 21, 2005 0:50:24 GMT
Ah, now I lurve my comic book heroes, spent many happy hours as a tomboy reading and swapping comics *sigh* I thought you'd be keen on Zex ;D
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 21, 2005 10:36:19 GMT
Mmm... yes Zex with James ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 21, 2005 11:25:40 GMT
Seems like Zod is not on the menu *sulks* So no Zex *sulks some more*
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Post by Pixie on Jul 21, 2005 12:07:07 GMT
LMFAO! You're bad, bad people, I've just collapsed in hysterics in the office and my poor little underling has given me an "OMG she'd deranged, where are the pills" look! Heh, brightens up the day. Ah, no Zex? Shame...
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 21, 2005 12:09:05 GMT
Could just be a double bluff...the spoiler site have taken the no Zod notice down. Aren't WB due to present their Fall line up today ? Tsk...its only 5 am in Hollyweird
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 21, 2005 22:54:17 GMT
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 21, 2005 23:01:01 GMT
Oh Gawd...please don't make him dye his hair green the poor love ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 21, 2005 23:21:46 GMT
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 21, 2005 23:41:22 GMT
Somebody stop me, I'm having way too much fun with this idea! If this does turn out to be JM's role for real, I'll hve to copy all the bleeding posts over to a shiny new thread I am tickled mightily by the fact that my consultant is called KoKo ;D First appearing in Action Comics #242 (July 1958), Brainiac was a bald, green-skinned humanoid, who arrived on Earth and shrunk various cities, including Metropolis, storing them in bottles with the intent of using them to restore the (unnamed) world he ruled. He was accompanied by a "space monkey" named Koko.
While fighting Brainiac, Superman discovered the villain had previously shrunk the Kryptonian city of Kandor. He was able to restore the Earth cities to full size, but the Kandorians sacrificed their restoration to help him. Superman stored the city in his Fortress of Solitude, vowing to return the natives to full size.
Brainiac's legacy was revealed in Action Comics #276, in a Legion of Super-Heroes back up story. This introduced the green-skinned, blond-haired teenager Querl Dox, or Brainiac 5, who believed himself to be Brainiac's 30th century descendant. Unlike his apparent ancestor, Brainiac 5 used his "twelfth level intellect" for good, and joined the Legion alongside Supergirl, with whom he fell in love. His home planet was given variously as Yod or Colu.
In Superman #167 (Feb 1964) it was discovered that Brainiac was a machine, created by the "Computer Tyrants of Colu" as a spy. To increase the illusion that he was alive, he was given a "son", a young Coluan boy who was given the name Brainiac 2, but escaped. This was Brainiac 5's ancestor. It was later revealed that his name was Vril Dox, and that he went on to lead the revolt against the Computer Tyrants.
It was in this story that Brainiac first appeared with a distinctive gridwork of red diodes across his head, later explained as the "electric terminals of his sensory nerves". This would remain his appearance until Action Comics #544 (June 1983), in which he was forced to create a new body, a metallic skeleton with a green, honeycomb-patterned "braincase". He retained his appearance until the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
[edit] Post-Crisis In the Post-Crisis DC Universe, Brainiac's history was dramatically altered. Vril Dox was now a radical Coluan scientist who, having attempted to overthrow the Computer Tyrants, was sentenced to death. In his last moments, his consciousness was attracted to Earthly sideshow mentalist Milton Fine, who worked under the alias "Brainiac". Needing cranial fluid to maintain his possession of Fine, Dox went on a murder spree. He discovered Fine had genuine psychic powers, which he frequently used on Superman. This version of Brainiac made his first appearance in Adventures of Superman #438 (March 1988).
Brainiac was later captured by Lex Luthor, but used his powers to wrest control of Lexcorp away from him. Under his mental domination, Lexcorp scientists restored his Coluan form. The diodes in his head now increased and stabilised his mental powers, as well as allowing him direct access to computer banks. He continued to plague Superman, using a combination of mental powers and computer control. On one occasion he even returned to his pre-Crisis incarnation's city-shrinking tactics.
In the crossover story Invasion! it was revealed that, prior to his dispersion, the Computer Tyrants had allowed Vril Dox to clone a lab assistant. This was Vril Dox II, who would go on to form L.E.G.I.O.N., and (although he never uses the name) is the post-Crisis version of Brainiac 2.
To confuse things further, following the loss of Milton Fine's body, Vril Dox would place his consciousness in a robot body he called Brainiac 2.5. He became briefly obsessed with gaining Superman's form.
At the turn of the millennium, Brainiac revealed he had placed a sleeper virus in Lexcorp's Y2K bug safeguards. This was intended to dramatically boost his abilities. Instead it allowed Brainiac 13 to arrive from the 64th century. B-13 began transforming Metropolis into the 64th century version of the city, which, apparently, he controlled. When it became apparent he was to be defeated by the combined efforts of Luthor, Superman and his own past self (now possessing Luthor's infant daughter), he gave control of the city to Luthor in exchange for Lena/Brainiac 2.5, who he forced to help him escape.
He returned to Earth during the Our Worlds At War crossover, in which Earth and its allies fought a multifront war against Brainiac 13 and Imperiex. Brainiac 13 claimed to be allying himself to Earth, but this proved to be part of a complex plan to regain control. His chief aide was "Leniac", a green-skinned teenager with "control discs" on her forehead, suggesting the diodes of earlier Brainiacs (and identical to the forehead discs of the "upgraded" Brainiac 5.1, in the Legion, and the Animated Series version of the original Brainiac).
At the end of the war Brainiac 13 and Imperiex were both sent back in time, becoming part of the Big Bang, and Brainiac 2.5 was expunged from Lena, who reverted to infancy, although the discs remained.
In Superman #200 (Feb 2004), Superman travelled into the future and battled Brainiac 12, learning that everything Brainiac 13 had done in the past had been designed to ensure things reached the point where Brainiac 13 would be created. B-12's defeat before his upgrade apparently reversed the advances B-13 had made to Metropolis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainiac_%28comics%29
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 21, 2005 23:50:20 GMT
Blimey....colour me confused...I hope they just make him humanoid ...with tights ;D
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