Kyle and Kyle Reese

I am not a big fan of the announcement that the next Terminator movie will be a reboot of the series. I am one of the few that loved Terminator Salvation and wanted to see that story continued.

I wanted scenes of John Connor interacting with Kyle Reese and having to hide the fact that the boy is his father.

I  also wanted to see Kyle Reese and Star get together romantically and have this subplot have it much harder for Kyle to go back in the past and impregnate Sarah Connor with John (I am going to deal with that subplot in my own TERMINATOR FIC). I know that he'll go back but I'm a sucker for seeing a character in pain and confusion.

But the reboot is going to start from square one it seems. I know many Terminator fans would love the reboot to undo everything post Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but messing with the first two is very dangerous grounds.

One of the people that is up to play Kyle Reese is Boyd Holbrook. I find this hilarious as he played Kyle in the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's The Host. So he'll have two Kyles on his resume.

I know everyone knows Kyle Reese. He's the father of John Connor and a fighter of the Resistance. He has his faults, but he's an all around good character.

Kyle from The Host...I have not seen the movie so I don't know what changes were made or how well Holbrook acted. What I do know is that Meyer did not know how to use the character and had the text vilify him.

Kyle is one of the free humans that is hiding away with Uncle Jeb. He is also one of the only ones that doesn't like Wanderer (one of the two main protagonists of the book/movie) since she is one of the aliens that took over the planet. He is suspicious and at one point tries to kill her.

In other words: he's one of the few characters with half a brain in the book.

But because he's not in Wanderer's fanclub he must be a giant douche for thinking like a normal human being.

I haven't seen the movie version of The Host so I can't comment on Holbrook's acting chops or if he can do good action scenes.

If he is picked for the role: please have him do justice to the role of Kyle Reese.

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The NEW Wizard Quests on Subeta

On Subeta the thing I love doing the most are the quests. And not just any quests: the Wizard Quests.

I have always enjoyed doing them since the Wizard Tokens always sell at a decent price and I don't tend to spend that much on them. So that's how I get a majority of my sP (aka Subeta Points which is the currency on the site).

Recently there has been a Vending Limit put in place (the vending machines use Wizard Tokens). This doesn't affect me since I don't vend. If I do vend it's maybe once a month at most. So I can't comment on if I like the change or not.

Before today this was the payout fro the Wizard Quests:

But today it's been changed to this:

While this doesn't affect me (as it's now worth around the same price a 15 Point Wizard Token was worth before), it might anger some people that vend.

Keith has said on his Twitter that the Token payout has been changed since there is now a Vending Limit and if the payout had remained the same that the tokens would become worthless.

Hopefully his plan works out in the end. And, if it doesn't, that the payout should be changed back to the previous payout.


Update: It appears that the tokens have been increased, there is now sP payout, and the number of quests you can do per day have been shortened.

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Subeta and Other Site Updates

I play a site called Subeta and I have been doing so for around seven years now. It has enough to attract me and pull me back when I haven't gone on the site for awhile. Since I have been with the site for so long I am used to encountering problems on the site.

There was a big thing a few years back in which items were lost and the site was down for a little bit. In times like those there are fellow Subetans to help figure things out. To figure out what the problem is and if it is just you. And with Facebook and Twitter there are ways for the staff to announce updates while the site is down.

So when I couldn't log on yesterday it was annoying, but nothing new. However, I did encounter a problem that annoys me on other sites.

That is the lack of updates.

Whenever I find a problem I like to see if it is just me or if I'm the odd one out. If I'm the odd one out I try to figure things out on my own. It's very useful if the staff has alerted users to this problem saying not to panic and that they're taking care of it.

It's highly annoying when I have to spend forever just to find someone saying that they're encountering the same problem. And then staff doesn't respond and so all I see is that people are having a problem with no fix in sight.

If you're wondering, when I was able to get on Subeta today I found a board about my problem. It was no use to me yesterday since I couldn't find it (you can view the boards when you aren't signed in to the site).

This isn't a problem just Subeta has, but a lot of sites I've been on in the past: I need to know something and then current information on a problem is damn near impossible to find.

I really wish sites would update their members on current problems better.

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Helix "Pilot" and "Vector" Reviews

I have been waiting a long time for this series. What attracted me to this series was the fact that it seemed to deal with the dangers of crossing the line. In science you can do so much but that doesn't mean you should. Plus the location would be remote which meant one of my favorite horror aspects (being too far away from help like in the movie The Thing) and SyFy wouldn't have to spend too much money on sets.

When the two part premiere aired I was glad that SyFy repeated it. This is since I am taking care of revrezner who is currently bedridden (but is doing so much better than before) and I had to take care of him during the premiere.

The series revolves around this team that gets called to investigate an outbreak. But the people in charge might not have the best of intentions.

Let's get the good things of the series out of the way first:

The fact that the location is far removed from anything helps allows SyFy to be cheap without any real impact on the show itself. Yes there were a couple of bad CG moments, but the majority of the episodes were full of creepy good special effects.

A simple moment when they unzip a body bag is gross. Just...ew! And the fact that how Peter swallows in the beginning is simple but oh so effective.

The remote location also makes all the tense moments even more tense. There's even a part of the Pilot where the helicopter goes away, but there is reassurance that it can come back at any time. However, a man is trying to escape on a faulty snowmobile and is murdered. So help might not even be possible if those in charge decide so.

While the fact that those in charge are corrupt without a doubt and those running the faculty work for some nameless organization/people, the reasons for doing the experiments aren't known. So there is still a mystery.

Doctor Boyle is one of my favorite characters so far. I can't really explain why at the moment except she makes me smile whenever she's around. And that mean she's going to die soon.

The thing that bugs me about this series so far is that the main dude has an ex that's on the team but he seems to want to start things up with another lady on the team and yet still likes his ex and the crazy guy in the beginning is his brother and banged the ex previously.

Luckily the show is managing to keep that part in the open and yet it isn't annoying me to the point of me wanting to turn the show off.

Alan and Peter are both sons to an abusive alcoholic father and that could be annoying. However, whenever Alan brings up his dad it's used to further the plot in a good fashion. So it hasn't gotten on my nerves yet.

I will be keeping up with this series and I hope I don't regret this decision. This will be the second show on SyFy that I keep up with.

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Elementary "All in the Family" Review

I stick with this show because of the relationship between Watson and Holmes. How they learn and grow from each other. And, especially, what weird thing of the week Sherlock will end up doing. The latter one this week seems to me, at least, to be Sherlock testing out bombs in the apartment.

Marcus Bell and Sherlock Holmes' relationship is the real emotional core to this episode. A few episodes back Holmes' actions got Bell shot. Though, in all fairness, it wasn't to the extent that Bell and others seem to think.

Bell ends up working with the man that is the 'big bad' of the episode. This gives many instances of Watson trying to control Sherlock and Sherlock not following the script. In a few instances Sherlock tells Bell to stop being a pussy and man up since there's a point of mourning and that Bell has more than passed that point.

This is one of the few times I've watched it with my fiance (revrezner) and so I was distracted by him a little bit near the beginning. However, I was able to focus on enough of the scene to understand the scene.

I really enjoy this show but there's not a lot to talk about for the majority of the episodes. This is because not a lot happens between the characters and I'm not a big mystery person. But I wouldn't suggest passing this episode since it does deal with the plot point of Marcus and Sherlock learning to deal with each other after Marcus got shot.

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American Horror Story "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" Review

I have been meaning to review this season for so long, but things keep happening to stop me. It's almost like there's a curse on this season for me. At least in the sense that things keep popping up so I can't review episodes from this season.

But now I can review this episode and I am happy.

In this episode we get to see Stevie Nicks. What's so great about that? It's the fact that Misty has been shown to be obsessed with the singer, believes she's a witch, and so we've been hearing about Nicks all season long.

So I was very happy about her appearance this season.

We also get to have it revealed how Marie has been able to achieve immortality and that she's 300 years old. She made a deal with Philip Broyles...er...Papa Legba to do a favor for him each year so she will not die. In this episode she has to offer/kill a baby/an innocent soul, so many have concluded that it's the same thing every year.

Marie states in the episode that the offers become worse every year so she might not always have had to kill babies.

Whatever the case is, I think it's clear that Marie is no saint. However, that's true of every character on the show. Most people in the show will reach a point in which they will cross a line they never thought they would in the past.

Marie, at any time, could have said no to the deal and suffered the consequences. But she didn't and that makes her a bad character.

A big thing this season is who the next Supreme is. Who will take over once Fiona is out of the picture, in other words. The only real hint I remember hearing about it is that it's someone no one suspects. This week I'm going with Myrtle and I have seen a few others point out why that could work.

The thing against Myrtle being the Supreme before was that she's in the same generation as Fiona and the next Supreme would have to be from the next generation. However, Myrtle has risen up from the dead and there have been lines about how young she looks now.

So I take that to mean Myrtle could very well be the next Supreme.

Madison has been a bitch throughout this season. But it's always bordered on funny and why am I laughing. But this episode she's taken a real dark turn. She is obsessed with being the Supreme now and attempts to kill Misty.

I think Madison knows that she won't be able to kill Misty (what with the witch having brought herself back to life once), so she puts her into a situation that will be hard to get out of.

Nan, who has been innocent so far, murders a woman in cold blood in this episode. In all honesty the 'bitch had it coming' since the woman killed her son during the previous episode, killed the son's father before the season began, and made the son's life a living Hell. What set Nan into killing was the fact that the mother cremated her son so the witches wouldn't be able to resurrect him.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Nan was in love with the son.

This was a great start to the second half of this season. Hopefully it has as good of a finale as Asylum!