Recent content by Max Knight

I also did not find Pressfield's book to be as great as I had heard. It's fairly well put together, and seems very accurate. However, I was never pulled into the story the way I am with a really good narrative. To expound on Chuck's analogy, I'd say The Gates of Fire was more like going out to a...

What I find really funny is that the "blue light of science" is not limited to just testing with luminol! It's in about 90% of all lab scenes. And I don't mean the use of UV light. The overhead lights are blue! It's become a running joke for me and my friends who watch CSI.

What I want to know is if The Blue Light of Science is actually used in all labs for CSIs around the nation. It seems that every time you need to find something, run a test, etc. you need to use that blue light. Can I get one for home when I'm looking for my keys?

I'm staying out until HDMI 1.3 is settled. When I get into a new format, I want to take full advantage of the sound and video. This means a new player, a new receiver, and a new projector. Likewise I'm put off by the format war. I expect a universal player will come out and that will be the...

I believe the mission was to break into Home Plus. The gay drifter bit simply seems to indicate that Alby has some repressed homosexual impulses. And from his reaction to the explicit offer of sex I'm guessing that he was probably abused early on for displaying these tendencies.

I like the use of contemporary tech. I always hated the Star Trek "wave this light wand at a person and heal them" medical procedures. People are still people in the future, and they'll use IVs and surgury and needles and all the rest. I would call all the spaceships plenty of future tech. I...

I thinkt that the scene of Lem and Vic watching Kav and Sadie was actually very important. The look that Lem gives Vic when Vic says that they know Kav's weakness was key. Lem is obviously uncomfortable with how Vic can watch an intimate, yet disturbing moment between two people and immediately...

I thought over all it was a good episode, and that it did move the arc forward. But I was disappointed in how the initial "take down" went. Those were the most inept marines EVER. I just couldn't buy it. It would have been much better to have one of the marines go in as the maintenance man...

I think she said "Is it true?"

I thought the rise of VHS specifically had to do with going to theaters and NOT "sticking to it".

I loved Tristram Shandy. The whole bit about the winding of the clock cracks me up every time I think of it.

This particular slave also seems to be Attia's post-coital water fetcher. From earlier episodes she seems to just sit a few feet to the side as Attia has her trysts. So Attia is apparently just fine with her observing the sexual stylings of the elite.

I felt that Pullo feels outside of Lucius's family life. Pullo is using his slave girl as a proxy for a wife/family, and it's becoming painful for him to see what a "real" family is like. Previously Lucius was his family, but seeing Lucius elevated separates them.

Actually, I think it was more that Richie didn't want someone shooting Joey in the back of the head while he was sitting in front of him! Bullets have a way of traveling after all. Joey would certainly know something was amiss if one of the goons sidled up beside him while they were sitting.

I loved this movie. It was amazing, and came across as very real to me. I think Robert Anthony hit it right on with his take on Cronenburg's comments on the stairway scene. Compare the two sex scenes in the movie and you'll see Tom and Joey. Edie was a willing participant in the second scene...