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Post by Ouch on Feb 1, 2007 13:35:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I preferred 'Max' myself...damn that was such an awesome show...dead serious (and this shows how lame I am) I used to have Dark Angel T.V. parties. I evev have a half-arsed video in the style he used to do his wierd freedom video things...lol
(I was joking about the X-Men thing too lol)
I didn't even know there was a wheeler in Highlander, I only remember the line: "There can be only one!"
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Post by jenny on Feb 1, 2007 17:40:50 GMT -5
"Joe" was the Highlander's side kick. He owned a bar in Paris. (Tough life.) Most of the time he used prostheses but once or twice he showed up in a chair, a DAK in real life.
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Post by devogirl on Feb 1, 2007 18:32:48 GMT -5
I LOVED Dark Angel, but lest we forget, Logan was not a particularly convincing wheeler either. There was a lot of nonsense about his physical "therapy" and then in the second season they dropped the wheelchair plot point in the stupidest way. The reason we love that show is not because it was any more realistic than other shows, but because Michael Weatherly is HOT. And because he was the love interest, not the one-dimensional sidekick. I haven't had time to watch it much lately, but Friday Night Lights is an awesome show, and is much more realistic about SCI than anything I have seen on TV before. You can watch it online at NBC--no commercials, and you can skip the other subplots if you want. As for teens on TV not being sexy, well there sure are a lot of them, someone must find them attractive BTW if you're looking for books about SCI, I would skip fiction altogether, and look up the autobiographies of real wheeler guys--there are quite a few now.
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Post by Cake on Feb 1, 2007 19:50:13 GMT -5
Agree on the Logan thing. And all the "therapy" stuff was simply ridiculous. Oh, I almost forgot: Who hasn't already, should watch Marlon Brando in "The Men". Sure, oooold movie, but: Very yummy...
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Post by BA on Feb 1, 2007 20:13:04 GMT -5
Devogirl would you mind posting that NBC link? I don't get to watch much TV at all, so it would be cool to see it at my leisure.
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Post by devogirl on Feb 1, 2007 21:58:48 GMT -5
Here it is: www.nbc.com/Friday_Night_Lights/index.shtmlLike I said, I haven't really been keeping up--I thought you could see all the episodes online, but I can only find the 4 most recent ones. And there are some commercials. Oh well, hopefully it won't get canceled. It's got a cinema verite kind of feel that's really different from most TV dramas. I think it's very well done, but it's not to everyone's taste.
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Post by brendanuk on Feb 2, 2007 5:36:55 GMT -5
Who's in a wheelchair in Friday Night Lights ?
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Post by obscure on Feb 2, 2007 11:06:56 GMT -5
The old quarterback of the team, whatever his name is.
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Post by BA on Feb 2, 2007 18:37:39 GMT -5
So, what's the name of the wheeling character on Friday Night Lights devogirl?
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Post by jenny on Feb 2, 2007 18:39:15 GMT -5
Jason
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Post by cunning69guy on Feb 6, 2007 21:28:32 GMT -5
Cake, you are sooo right about "The Men". A very old film, but so much more realistic in content than more modern commercialized crap like "The Waterdance". Imagine, those para vets actually had to do extensive therapy over a long time to get better, not the seemingly quick transition that the supposed quads of "The Waterdance" made with little attention paid to therapy culminating in their amazing para-like abilities to nearly a man.
I laughed at the reality of the Doctor's nickname, "Old Bowel and Bladder", since it was so exactly what the medical/nursing aspect of MY rehab was. And, the family talk on sex, though 50 years old now, was so close to what they told families when I was in rehab, with the exception of the child-bearing misinformation.
For those who haven't seen it, it's an early Marlon Brando movie about a WWII vet who is paralyzed in action, like an early morphing of "Born on the Fourth of July" and "The Waterdance".
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Post by Cake on Feb 6, 2007 23:00:26 GMT -5
It's Brando's very first film, it even came before "Streetcar". He did a very good job, in my opinion. He went into this. I once read that he spent about a month in the rehab center to get the best possible impression about the life of those vets. Many of the other characters in the film were real-life paras and quads btw.; that is because the movie was actually shot in the rehab center. So again to all the devs and everyone else: Who likes watching something which indeed is far more realistic then "Waterdance": Watch this! And, as the icing on the cake (no, not as in icing on "me") you get to see a very young, very pure (no big mannerism yet), and very, very, very sexy Brando as a para.
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Post by Ouch on Feb 7, 2007 9:20:44 GMT -5
Hey, House was in a chair last night, speaking of this all...of course being the person he is, it was for ill gain and malicious intent...he was pretty good maneuvering it 'round. Leads me to believe either Hugh had previous experience, or he had a lot of practice.
The 'theory' about parking spaces he brought up was an interesting one though. One that I would actually possibly defend, and in ways have...when people complain (lazy s.o.bs want the spots more than me) that I can't get those spots, I say how the old folks need 'em more.
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Post by E on Feb 7, 2007 17:32:08 GMT -5
Another issue here in Vegas is that every damn Joe Schmoe has a freaking placard...it's beyond ridiculous! I've literally WATCHED people park, put up their placard and JOG into the store! It's like you can get a placard with a full tank of gas here! Please someone help me regain my sanity on this issue! You should try checking out South Florida, retiree capital of the nation. I don't disagree that the elderly deserve spots, but there are just so many here that it gets overclogged. My solution is this: put handicapped parking spots without ramp/lift access real close to the building for the elderly and other "slow walkers". Go ahead and put my ramp spot farther away. I don't need to be close like they do. I'll concede the luxury of proximity to insure I get my ramp spot -- that it's not taken by people who don't need the ramp, but really do need to be up close.
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Post by devogirl on Feb 7, 2007 19:36:36 GMT -5
Oh come now, why are we all ganging up on Waterdance? It's not that bad, particularly in the "AB actor pretends to be SCI" genre. And the director was a quad himself, so it's not completely inaccurate. In fact, it's more accurate than Dark Angel, which we all love so much.
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