Problem with Bionic Woman's running. - Page 3 - Triathlon Week

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 26, 5:08 pm, "Ken from Chicago" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:
> <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> news:1190791679.808756.187140@w3g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>
> > >From the previews I've seen, it seems that they attribute her super
> > speed to rapid stride turnover, much like the silliness of the old
> > series. The bionic legs still have to attach to flesh and bone at some
> > point, and there's going to be a limit to what the human parts can
> > take.
>
> > Wouldn't great speed come primarily from the strength to cover great
> > distance per stride - I would think with fewer strides over a given
> > distance rather than cartoonishly fast strides? That and the ability
> > to maintain a stride without fatigue. It seems to me that running at
> > speed, she'd more resemble someone taking a rapid succession of long
> > jumps than a traditional sprinter.
>
> You're overlooking the obvious, her anthrocytes are repairing the flesh at
> and near the seams.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago

rocket scientist! pah.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 27, 3:16 am, Rich Billionaire <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:
> This criticism is a bunch of crap.
> She looked cool running the way that she did, and that's all that
> matters.
> It's just a ****ing TV show.
> It's just entertainment.
> Nitpicking the biophysics of what she did is really far besides the
> point.
> There is no need to pick it all apart like a ****ing nerd with no
> life.
> Save real science for real life.
> Why don't you come up with a sci-fi show and see how great a job YOU
> can do of making it both entertaining and scientifically accurate. I
> bet you'd bore people to death.

The actress is English as Hell also so the voice is phony.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 27, 12:47 pm, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> On Sep 27, 5:16 am, Rich Billionaire <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
> wrote:
>
> > There is no need to pick it all apart like a ****ing nerd with no
> > life.
>
> Interesting.
>
> So what can we to infer about someone who feels the need to pick apart
> the critique?

Call it carrion. Somebody has to pick the bones clean.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 27, 5:48 pm, RichA <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 3:27 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
>
> > >From the previews I've seen, it seems that they attribute her super
>
> > speed to rapid stride turnover, much like the silliness of the old
> > series. The bionic legs still have to attach to flesh and bone at some
> > point, and there's going to be a limit to what the human parts can
> > take.
>
> > Wouldn't great speed come primarily from the strength to cover great
> > distance per stride - I would think with fewer strides over a given
> > distance rather than cartoonishly fast strides?
>
> Like watching the old Benny Hill show when they sped up things.
> Except Benny Hill wasn't a BORE!

The bald guy was better sometimes.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 27, 7:19 pm, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> On Sep 27, 9:50 am, Anim8rFSK <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>
> > Everyone prepare to plonk.
>
> Plonk this you stupid bitch.

Most bitches aren't that stupid. It's the a-hole that's annoyed and
won't acknowledge it who usually is.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 27, 10:02 pm, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> On Sep 27, 11:03 pm, trotsky <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
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>
>
> > Who'd be stupid enough to watch that **** in the first place?
>
> Who'd be stupid enough to watch TV at all?

What are we doing here than?

Shut up unless there's a good rhetoric involved here?

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 28, 12:13 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> On Sep 28, 1:02 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Ken Arromdee) wrote:
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> > In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].highwinds-media.com>,
>
> > Anim8rFSK <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
> > >Yes, which is what the character did in the original book CYBORG, what,
> > >40 years ago? Of course, TV producers don't READ, so that was the end
> > >of that. The running was close to being the worst part of the new BW,
> > >and that's saying some.
>
> > They don't have the rights to anything in the original book.
> > --
> > Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net /http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
>
> > "In a superhero story, Superman jumps off buildings and flies. In a realistic
> > story, Superman doesn't jump off buildings and can't fly. Deconstruction is
> > writing a story where Superman can't fly but he still jumps off of buildings."
>
> Look I'm sick of you "armchair warriors" invading my running
> newsgroup. Now get the **** off, and stay off you mental midgets.
>
> Cheers,
> Elford

Sorry, I'm TV handicapped. My VCR bay has the shell and entrails of
Columbia/Tristar Home Videos' "Godzilla". The "be kind, please rewind
tag mocking me 24/7.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 28, 3:32 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> > On Sep 28, 1:02 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Ken Arromdee) wrote:
>
> > > "In a superhero story, Superman jumps off buildings and flies. In a realistic
> > > story, Superman doesn't jump off buildings and can't fly. Deconstruction is
> > > writing a story where Superman can't fly but he still jumps off of buildings."
>
> > Look I'm sick of you "armchair warriors" invading my running
> > newsgroup. Now get the **** off, and stay off you mental midgets.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Elford
>
> We'll stop posting in your group, when you stop posting in rec.arts.tv.

Better call the Red Cross with blood types.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 28, 2:13 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:

> Look I'm sick of you "armchair warriors" invading my running
> newsgroup. Now get the **** off, and stay off you mental midgets.

Hey Cheery Elford, it's logical someone would include a running group
in an inquiry related to the mechanics about running. They apparently
assume someone in a running group would know something about that.

You're such a bright boy, start a moderated group so you can play
omnipotent moderator of what gets posted - only that which meets the
Elford test of running purity - and avoid being sick anymore.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

On Sep 28, 5:29 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:

>
> Based upon what they displayed on the show, the New Bionic Woman's leg
> is not a robot leg, but more akin to a bunch of nanites (or similar
> small devices) that "merge" with the human flesh. So the leg is not
> "attached" to the human torso (which you are correct, would be a weak
> link), but instead becomes a hybridized aggregate that is part flesh &
> part device.

They showed a shot where she was quite legless, one arm missing.

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

<[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> On Sep 27, 11:03 pm, trotsky <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>>
>> Who'd be stupid enough to watch that **** in the first place?
>
> Who'd be stupid enough to watch TV at all?

People smart enough not to be involved with triathlons? Talk about a
schlep!

09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

In article <1190974832.902438.93870@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.c om>,
Doc <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

> > Look I'm sick of you "armchair warriors" invading my running
> > newsgroup. Now get the **** off, and stay off you mental midgets.
>
> Hey Cheery Elford, it's logical someone would include a running
> group in an inquiry related to the mechanics about running. They
> apparently assume someone in a running group would know something
> about that.

You are responding to a troll who is impersonating the real person who
goes by "Elf Lord".

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09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

In article <1190973412.190330.316070@57g2000hsv.googlegroups. com>,
Steven <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

> > > Who'd be stupid enough to watch that **** in the first place?
> >
> > Who'd be stupid enough to watch TV at all?
>
> What are we doing here than?
>
> Shut up unless there's a good rhetoric involved here?

You are responding to a troll.

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09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

In article <1190971794.203255.245820@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2:27 am, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:
> >
> > From the previews I've seen, it seems that they attribute her super
> > speed to rapid stride turnover, much like the silliness of the old
> > series. The bionic legs still have to attach to flesh and bone at some
> > point, and there's going to be a limit to what the human parts can
> > take.
>
> Based upon what they displayed on the show, the New Bionic Woman's leg
> is not a robot leg, but more akin to a bunch of nanites (or similar
> small devices) that "merge" with the human flesh. So the leg is not
> "attached" to the human torso (which you are correct, would be a weak
> link), but instead becomes a hybridized aggregate that is part flesh &
> part device.

But in the original pilot she has a Terminator endskeleton. And the
dialog says they 'replaced' her legs, arm, eye, and an ear or two. So
none of it makes sense. If they just healed her, which would make more
sense, there's no reason for her to be upset.

This is a hallmark of Laeta Kalogridis 'writing' -- remember the stupid
mutants in Babes of Prey that nobody could figure out wht the set up was
week to week? The BW is gonna have a metal skeleton or just nanites or
fiberglass or whatever any given line requires at any time.
>
> Thus most of the stress would be absorbed by the teeny-tiny nanites,
> not the human torso..
>
>
>
> Anyway, this show sucked for other reasons than the technology -
> mainly the resemblance to Painkiller Jane's dull, plodding plot. (If
> you can call it plot.)

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09-29-2007, 01:07 AM

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(whatever)

Let me apologize for a resident asshat troll that infests the TV
newsgroups, Troy Heagy. I imagine he's the one who added the triathlon
group, or at least he's the one being irritating in crossposts to it.

He uses a lot of ids, and this looks like a fairly new one. For the
complete killfile list, dump all of these:

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videonovels*@yahoo.com
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Sorry for the inconvenience - no doubt this little pointer will make him
spew even more, but at least you have a chance not to see it. *
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