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The Blu-Ray release of the trilogy doesn't seem to be out yet, but it's coming. Multiple versions might be coming, for that matter. Will it/they have the theatrical version, or the director's cut? Or a third version? And if two or more versions will be put on Blu-Ray, which will be first and how...

Well, with the help I got in this thread, the final decision's been made, just not carried out yet because of money. (It will happen sometime this spring or summer.) Of course, the color is fairly simple: Caesar said blue, and I shall obey. There's a bit more to the shape. Without knowing...

The near surface gets nearer, but the far surface gets farther, so that cancels out or comes pretty close to it. But also consider what happens with the surfaces around the "sides", where I've drawn the green lines in the attached image. With a bigger sun, those green lines are farther apart and...

There was a John Travolta movie, I think called "Phenomenon", about a guy who suddenly developed unusual mental abilities. I didn't see the movie, but the trailer implied that it happened after he was near the site of an object falling to the ground from space. Personal story from a friend of...

Since the original post was about a work of fiction that is intended to have lots of martial arts involved in it, I have to worry about something. I'm not disputing that this stuff still matters at all, but fiction writers generally have a temptation to overuse it because it puts the weapon...

I've found the quote to which various sources in and out of this thread have been referring. I was hoping to find more information around the short bit that's usually described, to fill in more details. And there was a bit more, not much, but enough... I underlined the words which reveal why I...

It looks like all of the evidence is about Kelts, not Germanic people... which makes it only partially or indirectly applicable to me, but can also be taken as a sign that it is accurate. In "The Gallic Wars", Julius clearly depicts the Germanic people as the more primitive and alien ones, so if...

I've never heard of a Wiley and don't know where it is, but if Julius said it was woad and it wasn't, then what was it?

The words "woad", "paint", "color", and "blue" are also not found in the file I downloaded. The whole thing is about the political and martial interactions of the tribes, so tribe name searches just stop multiple times in pretty much every paragraph. (It's 129 pages now, but I use small margins...

Thanks! It's long and doesn't contain the word "tattoo" or any version of it, so any descriptions of tattoos won't be easy to find if they're in there at all, but I just might read the whole thing sometime anyway, for reasons other than looking for the tattoo descriptions.

I'm not necessarily looking for something "other than what is found on... some bog bodies". I've never seen a "bog body". What's on them? And what exactly did Julius Caesar say about the tattoos he saw if it wasn't a visual description of the tattoos?

Carlos Mencia once had a particularly light-skinned white guy in his audience stand up and show him his tattoo, and responded "Oooh, a tribal armband! What 'tribe' are you from, 'Chad'?". (His actual name hilariously turned out to be even whiter than that, something like Blake.) He was making...

The person who started this thread did so almost a year ago and hasn't posted a single other thing since then...

Another is that the Jaffa staff weapons had another feature that the TV show never used. A strike with the fishtail end was enhanced with some sort of energy burst to make it as if the target had been hit significantly harder than it was. (I don't know whether there was a visual effect for this...

Hmmm... there were "holodeck play-acting" episodes, possession/replacement episodes, a time-travel episode with two Jean-Luc Picards... but all limited to just one two characters per actor per episode... and some actors have played more than one guest character but they weren't regulars and...

But Spiner didn't appear as the androids' builder until one of the last few seasons. And Crosby never played a third character, and her second character, Tasha Yar's half-Romulan (but suspiciously nearly identical) daughter didn't appear in either of the first seasons.

It's just one of the things about the movie that they changed to make the show. They're two separate presentations in two separate "fictional universes". The Goa'uld in the movie (if they even got named in the movie) looked like that. The Goa'uld in the show don't. It's not the only thing they...

So spoil... that's what I was asking for!

The other movie most identified with Frank Miller is "Sin City". Like "300", it's based on a Frank Miller comic book, and Miller was heavily involved in the production of both movies and how they were adapted from his own comic books, so you can be sure that they represent the kind of thing he...

The new "Battlestar Galactica" is produced by the Sci-Fi channel, and it's pretty highly praised.