By the way.. Its Danica.... not Danice.. And I do admit it does rather disappoint me to see the amount and level of ... lust....as you put it... that is being seen in here.. (not to mention on Arguas' birthday no less.... but that's another issue, addressed in a bit)
Anyway.. Allow me to just say: As the co-owners, we don't really sanction actions such as this, and I at least, feel that it violates certain ideas that were established in the creation of the Coffeehouse. I understand that you may (possibly all of you) disagree with me.... and I am aware you're having fun.... Which is certainly the purpose of this place!
But one thing I'd like to comment on here is a common misconception it seems Even though Arguas and I are quite openly and happily, a couple, this doesn't mean that we necessarily feel the desire to flaunt any such sexual activity of our own, nor really desire it. I hope you can at least understand my perspective, and without putting words into his mouth, Arguas' as well.
I hope this doesn't upset or anger anyone, as I don't mean to, just kind of a general statement regarding his and my overall feelings, I suppose... I tried to explain it in the best way I could, I apologize in advance if I didn't succeed.
Calm down Omna. We'll tone it down. This isn't Literotica. And you know we meant no harm in it.
Sakura, I just won a 6-way free-for-all with that multiplayer deck: I was gonna set up a massive Obliterate/Bitter Ordeal, but someone had Teachings'd in a Reiterate, and I didn't want to lose, so I played Kokusho instead, and won that way (with the Legend rule of all things).
I got the point Omna. You could have just said so though, no need to be so nice
*Chuckles* Well, you know, if I'm not nice, I tend to get in trouble, or people think I'm being a self-centered *****, which I'm really, really reeeealllyyyy trying not to seem like.. I've gotten in too many hot spots with this temper of mine, so I'm really not attempting to be hotheaded nearly as much anymore... I consider that somewhat of a blessing to finally be able to control it.. So yeah, I was just trying to come off in a calm, collected, logical manner without hurting anyone
Calm down Omna. We'll tone it down. This isn't Literotica. And you know we meant no harm in it.
Sakura, I just won a 6-way free-for-all with that multiplayer deck: I was gonna set up a massive Obliterate/Bitter Ordeal, but someone had Teachings'd in a Reiterate, and I didn't want to lose, so I played Kokusho instead, and won that way (with the Legend rule of all things).
What would there play Reiterate on hun? No point copying Obliterate or Seething Song. And they need to float mana to copy the Bitter Ordeal after, and the copy won't get Gravestorm anyways so they would get only one card from your library.
Just wanted to vetch about something and explain something to everyone. the keyboard I have at work sucks, and the Shift key doesn'y work right. 90% of the time when I hit it it does not click down properly. If anyone notices that sometimes I miss capitals in my posts, that is why. I usually wind up retyping all my missed capital letters but sometimes either miss some or give up on it.
I have a similar issue when typing from my wii. hitting the shift key is just too much work, so if I'm on the wii, I type without caps, something that I used to really deplore.
@Faerie Lord: That's quite a want list. Is that all for the same deck?
The Wizard of House
This is the story of a young girl named Mamelon. She lived with her Auntie Omna and uncle Arguas with her dog FL on a humble farmstead in rural picturesque Kansas.
There was a huge storm one day. A hurricane blazing through our friendly farm, ripping it sunder.
Mamelon was sleeping during this storm, and woke to find her house flying through the sky on a rainbow path. The little house came down with crunch in a tiny village of tiny houses.
She stepped out of her tiny home. She was afraid, and far from home.
"Fishie, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore...", she said. "We are going to miss the prerelease tomorrow for sure."
Just then three small people came up to Mamelon and started singing for no reason.
"We are the card flopper bunch, I'd trade my collection to buy you lunch, and treat you like the queen of our world, for some of us have never seen a girl."
They then bowed and introduced themselves as Hunter, Duke and Sepiriel.
There was a scent of in the air and the sound of small bells as a beautiful woman appeared before her.
"I am SnoopDog, the Good witch. Pay no need to these N00bkins. You killed my Evil Sister Ether with your House. Our tradition is if you kill someone you have to wear their shoes. Since most people here in Houseland have bad foot fungus, this is usually a pretty good anti-murder deterent."
And suddenly the Witch's shoes were on Mamelon's feet.
"Now you must go see the Alacar of the House so he can send you home. We are overpopulated as is, and your feet smell."
"But..", interjected Mamelon as FL sniffed her shoes and keeled over dead.
"No buts, now get on that Aysen Highway over there. The Alacar may be a genius, but he has bad taste in cards. Every bad card reference in the House leads to him." She sighed "He even made his castle out of Aliban's Towers and instituted a national Homelands day."
So Mamelon began on her way, until she came to a cornfield. Hanging from a stick was a Strawman with crows flying around cawing and pecking.
"Well that is cruel", thought Mamelon. She walked up to the Strawman and started shooing th crows away.
"Thank you", came a voice.
Mamelon was startled. Then she realized it was the Strawman.
"I came here to improve my Debate skills with these crows, but they just kept cawing at me to explain myself and I froze up." Said the Strawman.
Mamelon took heart of his situation and said, "Well I am going to see the Alacar, I am sure if he can send me home he can give you better Debate skills. My name is Mamelon."
The Strawman was in glee. "Wow, thank you. You are so sweet. My name is PurpleD. I was not always a Strawman you know."
And off they went, breaking into song for no reason.
"To the Alacar we shall run, Because we hear he is such fun, I imagine we wouldn't be so slow, If we didn't dance as we go."
Soon they came to a wooded area, and they heard a muffled voice. They saw a woman made of tin.
Mamelon walked up to the Tinwoman, she seemed to be trying to say something and motioning. The Strawman pointed out a tube of KY on a nearby log, and Mamelon realized the Tinwoman just needed to be lubed up.
"Hello sweetums. My name is Sakura. I was standing here providing my services for the humble woodsman in this forest when one of them reminded me I was not a real woman and I just dried right up." She sighed. "You see, I was made without a ******."
Mamelon felt sad for this poor creature and offered to take her to the Alacar. Surely the Alacar could make her a ******.
And off they went, singing again for no reason.
"To the Alacar we shall run, Because we hear he is such fun, Singing this song twice is spam, blah blah blah..mmm...ham."
Until they came to a lion. He was sitting amongst a pile of cards and crying.
The Lion stopped for a second and looked up. "I am Fooly, I suck at Magic"
Mamelon thought for a second, then realized there was no way the Alacar could help him with anything Magic related. So the Trio pointed and giggled for a few minutes and carried on.
At this point, the evil Witch Photon realized her Sister Ether had been killed by some brat and sent her flying mutant waffle irons to attack.
An entire battle scene was written, but as usual anything with Photon doesn't do well with test audiences so it was left out.
So our Trio makes it to the Aliban City, and they meet the Alacar.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!!" Boomed the Alacar.
The Trio was befuddled, seeing as there was no curtain, just a poorly dressed man sitting in the middle of a pile of bad cards. He was sorting a stack of Betrayer's cards.
"We come to ask for your help." said Mamelon.
The Strawman stepped forward. "I do not need the Alacar's help anymore. After spending some time with Mamelon, I learned the true nature of Debate. It comes from having Passion for what you are speaking on and having the strength to ignore the trolls and flames."
The Tinwoman stepped forward. "I do not need a ******. After spending time with Mamelon I realized a real woman does not need one to be strong and beautiful. Some woodsmen will not like what they find, but others will. I need to please myself first before I please any woodsmen."
Everyone kind of stared at her for that last bit,
"What..."
The Alacar walked up to Mamelon then. "So you need me to send you home, my dear?"
Mamelon thought for a moment. "No, Alacar. The House is full of friends and is my new home. But can you take these darn shoes, they really reek and they killed my dog."
And the shoes were removed. Mamelon made a home for herself in Houseland and was happy...until Disney butchered her story 50 years later with a sequel.
"There is no place like home."
You know, seems like we used to have at least some intellectual discussion going on around here. What happened to that in the last few pages. Boggles the mind, it does.
*AHEM*
So, I'm most of the way through the third book of the Runelords now. I'd forgotten how good it was - I remember not liking the third one as much as the others, but I'm enjoying it now quite a lot. I can't wait to get to the fourth and fifth, though, since those will be new material for me.
The last new summer show I wanted to see, Baccano, just came out, so I'll be watching that now. It's set during the prohibition in America, and has some storyline about alchemists or something. We'll see how it goes.
Anyway, I went to see Transformers earlier, and while it was a good movie, I couldn't get past the feeling that everything was overdone. I just feel that, if they held back in some aspects of the movie, it would be more enjoyable.
This is not the first time we see Prime's mouth. In the comics when he is damaged you see it sometimes (G1) and Optimus Primal showed us his mouth often.
You know, seems like we used to have at least some intellectual discussion going on around here. What happened to that in the last few pages. Boggles the mind, it does.
That's just the way the 'house works, I guess. We have some stints of smart-sounding conversation, and once that dies down just a little we get pages of "HAI GUYZ I ATE CHEESE 2DAY!!!!!!eight"
Anyway, I went to see Transformers earlier, and while it was a good movie, I couldn't get past the feeling that everything was overdone. I just feel that, if they held back in some aspects of the movie, it would be more enjoyable.
Also, Optimus should never, ever have lips.
Movies like this are always going to be overdone, largely because they're making them not only to appeal to the older fans but to grab the attention of all the 5-15-year-olds who've never heard of the original. I expected a Transformers movie to be kind of overblown, but I think it's part of the fun =)
Speaking of movies, we picked up Pan's Labyrinth the other day and...whoa. It lived up to all the hype. I love it.
Movies like this are always going to be overdone, largely because they're making them not only to appeal to the older fans but to grab the attention of all the 5-15-year-olds who've never heard of the original. I expected a Transformers movie to be kind of overblown, but I think it's part of the fun =)
That's true, to an extent, but it can get a bit much. For instance, i enjoyed the battles between the transformers, but with all of the 3D rendering gone wild, you could hardly tell what was happening.
Which made me a sad panda.
Also, Megatron didn't get enough screen time, in my opinion.
That's true, to an extent, but it can get a bit much. For instance, i enjoyed the battles between the transformers, but with all of the 3D rendering gone wild, you could hardly tell what was happening.
Just a note to Sepiriel: Slow down, buddy. We appreciate all the conversation but you're posting a mile a minute!
Omna, it's all good. Crisis averted.
Alright, off to train Alacar, Gypsy, and Elsa (my 10 Turtwig, 3 Starly and 7 Shinx.)
I think the correct rate term is posting 10,000 words per minute since he isnt going anywhere just to set some Coffeehouse physics fundamentals straight.
Well i am finally back from work yay! Today seemed alot longer then i thought it was.;) Well just wanted to drop by and say hello. See ya all later.
*hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
Love,
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Well when the only responses you get are two people saying "i do not know how to respond to that" and a threat of suspension for image leaching it kind of crushes your hope.
I am going to wander away from the House for at least a few hours. I don't normally get this hurt and you guyse do not need to see me vent like this. I do love you all...you guys are the closest friends i have at the moment and are like family to me, I just feel a bit lost for perspective at the moment. Its like making a room full of people cookies and nobody eating any.
I think Stuff and Ethersphere were actually referring to the sex talk in the last few pages, not your Wizard of Oz post necessarily... (correct me if I'm wrong guys) -- I for one thought it was cute, and didn't even occur to me about image leeching....... Sorry to hear that! But seriously... Auntie Omna instead o' Auntie Em.. that was awesome
EDIT: AAAAAAAAAAND I'm proud to present to you the 700th post, Sakura I hope that will cheer you up a bit..... enjoy the cookie!
* Omna15 puts a on top of a slice of Arguas' birthday cake!
EDIT: oooh, this was my 1,900th post!!!! 100 away from 2,000! Woooowzies! *sneaks off a with another slice of Arguas' cake for myself*
Edit @ Sakura:
Well, I really didn't know what to make of it. I couldn't quite tell if it was attempting to be serious or joking most of the time... In all honesty it just struck me as kind of... well... random. Hence, the psyduck.
Edit2: On a closer reading, it is actually alright humor-wise. I think the images just distracted me for a minute, since I was trying to read and look at the images at the same time, and the paragraph breakup due to the images was not so good for facilitating comprehension. If it had been in regular paragraphs I think I might have read it more soundly the first time.
Baccano was pretty swell. I like the setting (a fictionalized version of New York during the Prohibition), and the way they told the story was really different, which made it entertaining. They basically started at the end of the story, with two newspaper reporters sitting around and talking about how they should spin the story of these strange events that have happened. They start talking about the individuals involved, and as they do, you get scenes and clips from each character's part of the story. By the end of the first episode, you have a general idea of what's going on, but there is still a lot for them to go back and make sense of. The preview of the next episode shows that they will be going further back in the timeline to explain more things. It's sort of a neat thing, to see a story told backwards and in pieces like that.
The common thread between the characters is that there seems to have been some kind of accident, and now all these diverse people have the ability to instantly regenerate any wound. A guy gets his fingers cut off in the first ep, and after they hit the ground, they float back to his hand along with his blood, like somebody put time on rewind. Same happens with another guy getting his head blown off. Ouch - but still cool. These people basically can't die.
So yeah, that's another show that I'll be following. Dang. Why can't I stop myself... I have a love/hate relationship with new shows.
Sakura, I just won a 6-way free-for-all with that multiplayer deck: I was gonna set up a massive Obliterate/Bitter Ordeal, but someone had Teachings'd in a Reiterate, and I didn't want to lose, so I played Kokusho instead, and won that way (with the Legend rule of all things).
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*Chuckles* Well, you know, if I'm not nice, I tend to get in trouble, or people think I'm being a self-centered *****, which I'm really, really reeeealllyyyy trying not to seem like.. I've gotten in too many hot spots with this temper of mine, so I'm really not attempting to be hotheaded nearly as much anymore... I consider that somewhat of a blessing to finally be able to control it.. So yeah, I was just trying to come off in a calm, collected, logical manner without hurting anyone
......um, eek? Yeah, I guess people are still used to seeing the old hot-headed side of me..... Oh well! I tried
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Omna, it's all good. Crisis averted.
Alright, off to train Alacar, Gypsy, and Elsa (my 10 Turtwig, 3 Starly and 7 Shinx.)
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What would there play Reiterate on hun? No point copying Obliterate or Seething Song. And they need to float mana to copy the Bitter Ordeal after, and the copy won't get Gravestorm anyways so they would get only one card from your library.
And I didn't know it got gravestorm, but I still won, since I had a Kokusho in hand.
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I have a similar issue when typing from my wii. hitting the shift key is just too much work, so if I'm on the wii, I type without caps, something that I used to really deplore.
@Faerie Lord: That's quite a want list. Is that all for the same deck?
This is the story of a young girl named Mamelon. She lived with her Auntie Omna and uncle Arguas with her dog FL on a humble farmstead in rural picturesque Kansas.
There was a huge storm one day. A hurricane blazing through our friendly farm, ripping it sunder.
Mamelon was sleeping during this storm, and woke to find her house flying through the sky on a rainbow path. The little house came down with crunch in a tiny village of tiny houses.
She stepped out of her tiny home. She was afraid, and far from home.
"Fishie, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore...", she said. "We are going to miss the prerelease tomorrow for sure."
Just then three small people came up to Mamelon and started singing for no reason.
"We are the card flopper bunch, I'd trade my collection to buy you lunch, and treat you like the queen of our world, for some of us have never seen a girl."
They then bowed and introduced themselves as Hunter, Duke and Sepiriel.
There was a scent of in the air and the sound of small bells as a beautiful woman appeared before her.
"I am SnoopDog, the Good witch. Pay no need to these N00bkins. You killed my Evil Sister Ether with your House. Our tradition is if you kill someone you have to wear their shoes. Since most people here in Houseland have bad foot fungus, this is usually a pretty good anti-murder deterent."
And suddenly the Witch's shoes were on Mamelon's feet.
"Now you must go see the Alacar of the House so he can send you home. We are overpopulated as is, and your feet smell."
"But..", interjected Mamelon as FL sniffed her shoes and keeled over dead.
"No buts, now get on that Aysen Highway over there. The Alacar may be a genius, but he has bad taste in cards. Every bad card reference in the House leads to him." She sighed "He even made his castle out of Aliban's Towers and instituted a national Homelands day."
So Mamelon began on her way, until she came to a cornfield. Hanging from a stick was a Strawman with crows flying around cawing and pecking.
"Well that is cruel", thought Mamelon. She walked up to the Strawman and started shooing th crows away.
"Thank you", came a voice.
Mamelon was startled. Then she realized it was the Strawman.
"I came here to improve my Debate skills with these crows, but they just kept cawing at me to explain myself and I froze up." Said the Strawman.
Mamelon took heart of his situation and said, "Well I am going to see the Alacar, I am sure if he can send me home he can give you better Debate skills. My name is Mamelon."
The Strawman was in glee. "Wow, thank you. You are so sweet. My name is PurpleD. I was not always a Strawman you know."
And off they went, breaking into song for no reason.
"To the Alacar we shall run, Because we hear he is such fun, I imagine we wouldn't be so slow, If we didn't dance as we go."
Soon they came to a wooded area, and they heard a muffled voice. They saw a woman made of tin.
Mamelon walked up to the Tinwoman, she seemed to be trying to say something and motioning. The Strawman pointed out a tube of KY on a nearby log, and Mamelon realized the Tinwoman just needed to be lubed up.
"Hello sweetums. My name is Sakura. I was standing here providing my services for the humble woodsman in this forest when one of them reminded me I was not a real woman and I just dried right up." She sighed. "You see, I was made without a ******."
Mamelon felt sad for this poor creature and offered to take her to the Alacar. Surely the Alacar could make her a ******.
And off they went, singing again for no reason.
"To the Alacar we shall run, Because we hear he is such fun, Singing this song twice is spam, blah blah blah..mmm...ham."
Until they came to a lion. He was sitting amongst a pile of cards and crying.
The Lion stopped for a second and looked up. "I am Fooly, I suck at Magic"
Mamelon thought for a second, then realized there was no way the Alacar could help him with anything Magic related. So the Trio pointed and giggled for a few minutes and carried on.
At this point, the evil Witch Photon realized her Sister Ether had been killed by some brat and sent her flying mutant waffle irons to attack.
An entire battle scene was written, but as usual anything with Photon doesn't do well with test audiences so it was left out.
So our Trio makes it to the Aliban City, and they meet the Alacar.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!!" Boomed the Alacar.
The Trio was befuddled, seeing as there was no curtain, just a poorly dressed man sitting in the middle of a pile of bad cards. He was sorting a stack of Betrayer's cards.
"We come to ask for your help." said Mamelon.
The Strawman stepped forward. "I do not need the Alacar's help anymore. After spending some time with Mamelon, I learned the true nature of Debate. It comes from having Passion for what you are speaking on and having the strength to ignore the trolls and flames."
The Tinwoman stepped forward. "I do not need a ******. After spending time with Mamelon I realized a real woman does not need one to be strong and beautiful. Some woodsmen will not like what they find, but others will. I need to please myself first before I please any woodsmen."
Everyone kind of stared at her for that last bit,
"What..."
The Alacar walked up to Mamelon then. "So you need me to send you home, my dear?"
Mamelon thought for a moment. "No, Alacar. The House is full of friends and is my new home. But can you take these darn shoes, they really reek and they killed my dog."
And the shoes were removed. Mamelon made a home for herself in Houseland and was happy...until Disney butchered her story 50 years later with a sequel.
"There is no place like home."
I don't...I don't even know how to react to that.
You know, seems like we used to have at least some intellectual discussion going on around here. What happened to that in the last few pages. Boggles the mind, it does.
*AHEM*
So, I'm most of the way through the third book of the Runelords now. I'd forgotten how good it was - I remember not liking the third one as much as the others, but I'm enjoying it now quite a lot. I can't wait to get to the fourth and fifth, though, since those will be new material for me.
The last new summer show I wanted to see, Baccano, just came out, so I'll be watching that now. It's set during the prohibition in America, and has some storyline about alchemists or something. We'll see how it goes.
My reaction is much the same.
Anyway, I went to see Transformers earlier, and while it was a good movie, I couldn't get past the feeling that everything was overdone. I just feel that, if they held back in some aspects of the movie, it would be more enjoyable.
Also, Optimus should never, ever have lips.
That's just the way the 'house works, I guess. We have some stints of smart-sounding conversation, and once that dies down just a little we get pages of "HAI GUYZ I ATE CHEESE 2DAY!!!!!!eight"
But it's all good.
Movies like this are always going to be overdone, largely because they're making them not only to appeal to the older fans but to grab the attention of all the 5-15-year-olds who've never heard of the original. I expected a Transformers movie to be kind of overblown, but I think it's part of the fun =)
Speaking of movies, we picked up Pan's Labyrinth the other day and...whoa. It lived up to all the hype. I love it.
That's true, to an extent, but it can get a bit much. For instance, i enjoyed the battles between the transformers, but with all of the 3D rendering gone wild, you could hardly tell what was happening.
Which made me a sad panda.
Also, Megatron didn't get enough screen time, in my opinion.
http://www.lilformers.com/comic0052.php
Just click.
I think the correct rate term is posting 10,000 words per minute since he isnt going anywhere just to set some Coffeehouse physics fundamentals straight.
Well i am finally back from work yay! Today seemed alot longer then i thought it was.;) Well just wanted to drop by and say hello. See ya all later.
*hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
Love,
Cecilia
I thank Mr. stuff for my banner and avatar.
I thank Sakura for the animation of my avatar.
"Miracles are only worth happening if you make them happen."
--Cecilia
Yoda of Legacy since 2006.
Member of the 2005 and 2007 MTGS Magic Team.
Also known as kevinliu2333.
Current favorite Magic card is Time Elemental
*Alacar hugs
I plan on making a Wizard of Oz avatar now, thanks to her. "Pay no attention to the geek behind the cards!"
As for the Transformers movie, I loved it, but I can agree that it's not perfect, and that it could've been better.
As for Optimus and lips, it doesn't make much difference. It's the voice that made him awesome.
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I honestly thought that would go over alot better. I just wanted to put a smile on everyones faces.
I guess people just don't share or understand my sense of humor here. I feel a little less at home suddenly.
I am going to wander away from the House for at least a few hours. I don't normally get this hurt and you guyse do not need to see me vent like this. I do love you all...you guys are the closest friends i have at the moment and are like family to me, I just feel a bit lost for perspective at the moment. Its like making a room full of people cookies and nobody eating any.
EDIT: AAAAAAAAAAND I'm proud to present to you the 700th post, Sakura I hope that will cheer you up a bit..... enjoy the cookie!
* Omna15 puts a on top of a slice of Arguas' birthday cake!
EDIT: oooh, this was my 1,900th post!!!! 100 away from 2,000! Woooowzies! *sneaks off a with another slice of Arguas' cake for myself*
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Agreed there.
Edit @ Sakura:
Well, I really didn't know what to make of it. I couldn't quite tell if it was attempting to be serious or joking most of the time... In all honesty it just struck me as kind of... well... random. Hence, the psyduck.
Edit2: On a closer reading, it is actually alright humor-wise. I think the images just distracted me for a minute, since I was trying to read and look at the images at the same time, and the paragraph breakup due to the images was not so good for facilitating comprehension. If it had been in regular paragraphs I think I might have read it more soundly the first time.
Baccano was pretty swell. I like the setting (a fictionalized version of New York during the Prohibition), and the way they told the story was really different, which made it entertaining. They basically started at the end of the story, with two newspaper reporters sitting around and talking about how they should spin the story of these strange events that have happened. They start talking about the individuals involved, and as they do, you get scenes and clips from each character's part of the story. By the end of the first episode, you have a general idea of what's going on, but there is still a lot for them to go back and make sense of. The preview of the next episode shows that they will be going further back in the timeline to explain more things. It's sort of a neat thing, to see a story told backwards and in pieces like that.
The common thread between the characters is that there seems to have been some kind of accident, and now all these diverse people have the ability to instantly regenerate any wound. A guy gets his fingers cut off in the first ep, and after they hit the ground, they float back to his hand along with his blood, like somebody put time on rewind. Same happens with another guy getting his head blown off. Ouch - but still cool. These people basically can't die.
So yeah, that's another show that I'll be following. Dang. Why can't I stop myself... I have a love/hate relationship with new shows.