Tag: torture
24 (again)

Boy, I bet Jack Bauer hates the end of daylight saving. “What? It’s 2 a.m. again?? But wasn’t it 2 a.m. an hour ago when I defused a dirty bomb, tortured a terrorist, defied the Secretary of State, infiltrated a moving jet and sucker-punched a cougar? Chloe, get onto the President and see what he [...]
Posted: June 9th, 2009 under television.
Tags: chinese diplomats, dirty bombs, jack bauer, nonsense, poison gas, terrorists, torture
Comments: none
Dead Poets Society

Robin Williams’ ability to improvise has derailed the original vision of many a film. But has any film suffered from his tragicomically inventive touch as much as Dead Poets Society?
Cinema buffs, of course, know this film (original working title: The Perpicacious Mr Perry) was supposed to be a psychological slasher flick about arts-hating father Mr [...]
Posted: November 22nd, 2006 under movies.
Tags: cinema buffs, dick van patten, robert sean leonard, sheesh, torture
Comments: 1
Lost Cast: Ben

AKA
Henry Gale
Michael Emerson
Featured Episodes
3.20 The Man Behind The Curtain
4.09 The Shape Of Things To Come
5.12 Dead Is Dead
6.07 Dr Linus
Strengths
Leader of the Others
Fashion-savvy
Can turn a donkey-wheel like nobody’s business
Weaknesses
Tends to get captured while flying balloons
Tends to use aliases from The Wizard of Oz
Tends to be tortured by Sayid
Tends to be beaten to a blood pulp [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2006 under lost.
Tags: balloons, donkey wheels, mercenaries, torture, wizard of oz
Comments: 4
Lost Cast: Sayid

AKA
Naveen Andrews
Featured Episodes
1.09 Solitary
1.21 The Greater Good
2.14 One Of Them
3.11 Enter 77
4.03 The Economist
5.10 He’s Our You
6.06 Sundown
Strengths
Translation of French mathematics
Torturing people for fun
Can build electronic gadgets out of leftover plane parts
Weaknesses
Feeling guilty about torturing people for fun
Highlights
Torturing Sawyer
Killing one of T’Others with a sick breakdancing move
Other Facts
Was mysteriously keen on Shannon (until she was [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2006 under lost.
Tags: sick breakdancing moves, torture
Comments: 8
Lost Cast: Sawyer

AKA
James Ford
Josh Holloway
Featured Episodes
1.08 Confidence Man
1.16 Outlaws
2.13 The Long Con
3.04 Every Man For Himself
5.08 LaFleur
Strengths
Hoards everything
Man enough to make a move on Kate while on the island
Is often armed
But is rarely dangerous
Weaknesses
Murders people he doesn’t intend to murder
Needs reading glasses
Highlight
Getting tortured by Sayid and The Doc
Murdering Locke’s father
Other Facts
Troublemaker
Vengeful, but inaccurate
Is desperate to get back [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2006 under lost.
Tags: reading glasses, torture
Comments: 11
Astonishing African Animals: Elephants

Elephants… of all the animals that evolved from the common starfish, the elephant is by far the largest. This assumes, of course, that one excludes giant starfish conquerors from outer space, which has been standard size-comparison procedure in the scientific community since the 1960s.
There are two kinds of elephants – the African and the Indian. [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2006 under african animals.
Tags: appendages, barbra streisand, conquerors, franklin w dixon, natural selection, savannahs, starfish, top hats, torture
Comments: 1
5.08 Spike-iac Makes His Move

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2005 under smallville.
Tags: factoids, flirting, forensic studies, kudos, pro hockey, pub crawls, smallville season five, torture, utterances, whimsy
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4.15 Made In China

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2005 under smallville.
Tags: contractual obligations, ebay, fencing, how to use chopsticks, mischief, octagons, smallville season four, torture
Comments: 2
2.03 Ssssshhhh! It’s a Secret!

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]
Posted: April 20th, 2003 under smallville.
Tags: car crashes, glimpses, lesbianism, remy zero, smallville season two, torture, weather satellites, weenies, wheat fields
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Mr Mosquito
You know, it occurred to me the other night that if I was able to change my superpower I would change to the ability to control mosquitoes. Not only would this power mean that I would never again be bothered by the high whining noise of a mosquito in the dark, late at night, it [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2000 under thoughts.
Tags: insanity, minions, mosquitoes, torture
Comments: none