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Didn't make much sense to me. I don't know what happens to me, but a lot of times in sci-fi/fantasy, we get to the climax, and I have no idea what's going on. I mean I know who the good guy and the bad guy are but I don't understand what they're doing and why. I'm gonig to make a great old man. -- Huh? Wha'? -- Quiet, grandpa!

So, if I remember the history of this character right, Thor origingally wasn't really THOR Thor, but a doctor who finds the hammer and becomes endowed with the power of the deity. As the character evolves, he starts talking fruity, making Norse references, and running afoul of Loki, while other characters from Norse pantheon start making appearances. The editors realized that they had gradually changed the character from a mortal who got lucky to the god himself, so they came up with this explanation that he was always Thor, but was walking the earth in some magic amnesiac exile, and when it was time for him to re-awaken, a spell he placed on the hammer would summon him to find it and reclaim his destiny. Something like that, right? Do I have it right at all? And is that sort of what's going on in the movie? That Blake isn't doesn't kow he's really the guy until a switch goes on and reminds him?

Number 8 is Wesley Wrenn --- swingman for Wally's 'Clones last year.

BINGHAMTON -- Binghamton Mets pitcher Jeurys Familia didn't get the victory, but he showed he's more than capable of handling Double-A hitters. Familia allowed just two runs, one earned, in seven innings, and the B-Mets scored five runs in the seventh and eighth innings to defeat the New Britain Rock Cats, 5-2, in the second game of a three-game Eastern League baseball series at NYSEG Stadium. Mike Fisher and Eric Campbell hit eighth-inning homers for the B-Mets. Fisher's broke a 2-2 game in the eighth. Familia, the 13th-ranked prospect in the New York Mets minor league system according to Baseball America, struck out six batters and didn't walk anyone. He was a little wild at times, once throwing a wild pitch that went behind a batter all the way to the backstop. "I didn't feel pressure, I felt all right," Familia said in Spanish with reliever Manny Alvarez interpreting. "I got excited when I got on the mound. I tried to control my emotions and throw strikes." Familia, a 6-foot-3, 186-pound native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was promoted on Saturday. He was 1-1 with a 1.49 earned run average in six starts for Single-A St. Lucie. He allowed just 21 hits and he struck out 36 batters in 36.1 innings. Familia's fastball touched 96 miles per hour on Tuesday night, according to the right-center-field radar gun display. Familia, a 21-year-old fourth-year pro, complemented that fastball with a curveball and a change-up. He allowed just five hits. His change-up clocked between 80 and 86 miles per hour, froze several batters and also elicited off-balance swings. "Everything was there for him tonight," B-Mets manager Wally Backman said. "His velocity was good. He threw some real good change-ups. He threw a few too many breaking balls at times, but I like the mound presence that he showed as a young kid. "I think this kid is a big leaguer. He's young. He's still got to learn, but if he stays healthy and does some of the things he showed here tonight, he's going to be a pretty good pitcher one day." A throwing error in the first inning by second baseman Josh Satin led to the first run Familia allowed. New Britain scored another in the top of the fourth on an RBI single by Evan Bigley for a 2-0 lead. The B-Mets bats came alive in the seventh inning. The first two batters reached base and a sacrifice fly by Kai Gronauer and a pinch-hit RBI single by Carlos Guzman tied the game, 2-2. Designated hitter Fisher, 0-for-3 going into his last at-bat, hit a line-drive homer that cleared the wall down the left-field line for a 3-2 B-Mets lead. "I was just trying to find something positive to end the day on," Fisher said. "I just kept looking inside, hoping he'd throw it there and he did." Campbell added a two-run homer, his first of the season, three batters later. Inside pitches: Left-handed pitcher Brandon Sage joined Binghamton from Single-A St. Lucie. Sage pitched the last two innings to earn the win. ... Right-handed pitcher Dylan Owen, who pitched and won on Sunday in New Hampshire, was moved to Class A Brooklyn's roster to make room for Sage. Owen's move was purely paperwork as he is still with the club in Binghamton.

Jordany's solid if unspec in Bingo, working at .284 / .325 / .450 // .774 with 7 swipes and two CS's. He's got two trips and two homers to help him get that sweet little ISOP. On May 9, he came up just a single short of the cycle. He had been ripped by Wally Backman the previous week for lack of hustle so take this as campaign fodder, Backman fans.

Just in case it isn't clear, Sean is sitting 2011 out. Mets prospect Sean Ratliff broke six bones and suffered a partially detached retina when a foul ball struck him in the right eye while he stood in the on-deck circle during a game this spring. I'l be using this thread to update you on his sprints and weightlifting and doing sosh research.

Damien is still a jerk and now is a jerk coming off missing a JuCo season because of a stress fracture in his elbow. But I want to revisit this thread to repost this kid. [youtube:3s7r0vgw]Uy09qsqlEbU[/youtube:3s7r0vgw]

I, as well.

I must of missed something about Stardust. We made it a half hour into it and bailed. It felt corn-fried and Disneyfied, as obvious as the day is long and not enchanting at all. Susanna Clarke is a fantasy writer we've enjoyed a lot, and she'll likely be adapted onto the screen in a big way. She's enough of a Gaiman fan that she's set some of her stories in his fantasay world, so I'm resisting the temptation to judge based on the adaptation.

Conan is sort of set in a Scandanavian-like place just outside the fringes of Rome-like receding empire, but I guess doesn't quite qualify. Necessary conditions for a Viking movie Horned helmets Round shields Long boats with square sails and optional dragon's heads on them. Nice list. Somehow Hollywood has been sane enough to never make a feature-length live action Hagar the Horrible film. One less job for John Goodman.

I like Hans --- how the name adds to the fairytaleness of it all.

Hans?

Flurb.

He can dekk my den anytime.

It took a while to realize it, but it would seemingly have a prescient point to make in post 9/11 America, in that everything is under surveillance, and nobody knows what's going on.

How can he still be this hot?

Sean Connery plays Duke Anderson, a master thief just out of jail and unrepentently right back in action, finding himself in a new world of electronic surveillance and the accompanying buzzes and beeps of new electronic technologies, which director Sidney Lumet and composer Qunicy Jones underscore for reasons that I suspect, but aren't exactly clear to me. This was tentatively recommended by Vic Sage in the Lumet thread, but I'm still chewing on it.

I predict he'll get called up before his bat is ready, in order to take advantage of his ballhawking abilitites.

We could sure use that defense. Excellent parenting here. A model.

Simultaneous resurrections from Brad Holt and Jeurys Familia seem almost too good to believe. Makes me want to see what Jonathan Holdzkom is up to. Easter fever has avoided Eddie Kunz, however, as he's given up three runs in 4.1 innings for San Antonio.

Feel free to research him and post on him. The only real thing a thread-starter has is the responsilbility to research him and know him better than the rest of us.

The most gratifying part of the whole subforum is sticking through the bad with him and so being the first in line to share the good.

I know I put up a thread about this film a while back. I loved it. Like The Station Agent, it's about accidental family happening to broken people. Like The Station Agent, he coaxes a star turn from a career character actor. I almost wouldn't want to tell anybody the plot points because it's just a delight to see it unfold in ways that would seem contrived if you saw it coming but is absolutely honest when it happens.

I thought it looked far less stupid than the last trailer, and I'm thinking maybe they got feedback on the tone of that one and it informed how they should go forward.

Add "Attending a private screening of Thor" to euphemisms for sex.