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Low Fantasy starring a woman who acts as a sort of spymaster for the king. The king has a whole system of them, who are always cloaked and masked in public. These 'spies' all have split personalities (only two) which have different skills and temperaments, usually without overlap. The spies use a silver mirror in order to switch personalities.
The plot involves the conflict between the main kingdom and these tundra dwellers who vaguely inuit-like. The king holds a race periodically, the winner of which can request a boon. This year is the first that the tundra land people are sending a runner, who is a shooin' to win. The tundra people are the only ones who refuse to be subjugated.
Anyway, our spy is in the middle of a mission to the tundra lands. After she lets her other personality out to party (and so the 'main' personality loses consciousness), she wakes up broken at the bottom of a tundra. She gets saved, eventually, by some tundra dwellers, the plot plays with the whole Going Native thing while our protagonist struggles vainly against the charms of oh-so-noble and righteous nature loving xenophobes she stays.
Its eventually revealed that the protagonist is a long lost daughter of these tundra people. What happens is the kingdom tortures child prodigies A.) so they'll never become brilliant and influential enough to be threat, and B.) so that their personalities will fracture and allowed to be molded into spies. The protagonist has a third personality, with the memories of her people AND the memories of her torture, repressed. Hooray.
Our protagonist makes it back home, does some espionage, figures the above out, and sides with her people. The runner for her people wins the race with the protagonist's help, and the runner does some voodoo on the king that doesn't do much except make him into a genuinely better person, and the runner declares her people will bow to the rule of the king, 'cause you can't fight progress even if you should (or something. Progress is definitely a bad thing in this book, but they accept it anyway. Probably because that's a stupid message.).
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An educational action cartoon I saw about 2 years ago. It involved 4-5 teenagers who were heroes and morphed into dinosaurs. One teen was a punk rocker boy who turned into a pterodactyl and there was a black girl who turned into either a triceratops or parasaurolophus. In the episode I saw, I remember there was a creepy old lady who lived alone in a haunted house or something. A lawn party was also involved. It was not Dinosaur King or Dinosaucers. More like Animorphs but with dinosaurs and it was a cartoon.
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A film that prominently used the Roger Rabbit Effect - it was aimed at kids and I remember it sort of having the look of Disney's early uses of that trope, as in Mary Poppins or Pete's Dragon and the like, though I'm not sure if it actually was Disney or not. I mainly remember the main characters (a live action man and one or more kids) being rescued by ostrich-like birds that call themselves "Wokka Birds" (which were animated), and then the birds go into a song and dance number once asked what a "wokka bird" is.
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I remember a book, probably young adult fiction, that was about a girl (probably about 18?) who's mom was a thief (and so was she). In the book I remember she falls in love with a cop. Her mom may or may not have gotten sick at the end or something? I don't quite remember. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me, I have a feeling it's a fairly recent novel?
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This was a movie, I think. I watched it on video in class at some point during elementary school, so early '90s and definitely not any later than 1995. (This was in the US.) It featured a boy without a mother, who lived in a village near a big lake. It turns out that, when his mother was pregnant with him, there was a famine in the village. She caught three (I think?) fish from the lake, but instead of sharing them among the whole village, she was so hungry from her pregnancy that she ate two herself. As punishment, she was turned into this giant sea serpent thing that lived in the lake and - if I'm recalling correctly - sort of resembled a Chinese dragon. The boy finds out and interacts with her. I can't remember much of the plot after this, but I know she dies, possibly because the lake dries up. I remember a shot of him sitting with her on the dried lake bed, and a shot of her dessicated form. I don't remember how it ends, though I think she may have come back to life as a woman.
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This is a particular Transformer I can't identify, but I would imagine you can still get it. It's a black and purple Decepticon, except it doesn't transform into a vehicle or anything else particularly identifiable, but a slightly different kind of humanoid robot. It's got no visible head when transformed, just a sort of jutting lump where a face should be, a bit like a xenomorph, and it has two huge purple arms with long forearms. The legs are the weird part, being very stubby with what I can only describe as cowboy boots for feet. Looks a little like Lugnut, but is much older going by the amount of grime it's collected. Any ideas?
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This was a show that ran sometime after 2000. It starred Ioan Gruffudd as a lawyer set 20 minutes into the future. It was a legal speculative fiction show with one episode dealing with nanobots which caused one person to experience the sensations as another and they were utilized by a stalker to experience sex that the victim was having with her spouse/boyfriend.
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TV show possibly shown on Nickelodeon around 2003-ish.
Only saw the first episode, about a boy who is accepted into a space station/school from a rural background. I remember him going through a training programme when some bullies open an air lock. A girl is sucked out and he flies through an asteroid field to rescue her wearing some special space suit that was behind a glass screen before. Remember him having some generic non-human/nerd friends too, even though it was the first day.
Animation style along the lines of Danny Phantom.
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Does anyone remember an anime with the main character being a boy with blonde(I think) hair whose father was a writer, he gets sucked into a fantasy world in which he finds a cave with a treasure hunting witch in it trying to open the treasure inside the cave. He opens the chest and inside is a large sphere like weapon that can talk.
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What's the name of the live Action (I think) TV show aired late 70s to early 80s, maybe on the Superstation (TBS). It was Japanese (or Taiwanese?) and dubbed into English. There was a villain figure who had a lair up in a spaceship in the sky (?). Ray guns turned people into blobs.
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Does anybody know the name of the theme song to the 2008ish cartoon show Yu Gi Oh 5 Ds? Cause I'm thinking that it is "I Can Hear You Breathing", but can you help me just to be sure.
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Another anime series I saw in the middle of the day in Japan in the early-to-mid-80s. Thinking back, it's sort of like Maison Ikkoku, focusing on a sweet, tall sexy black-haired lady and a guy on the mold of Godai and Lum's Ataru. There were occasional nude-shots of ladies (including the lead female character). The episode I got to watch was the one where there was a challenge between the boys and the girls. Not sure if it was between dorms or between boys-only and girls-only schools. Each would send a representative to sneak into the other dorm/school and steal some agreed artifact. The lead guy was the boys' rep and a big lady was the girls'. While the big lady just plowed herself through the defending boys, the male lead got himself seduced by the skimpily-clad girls (who kept slipping their tops off to him). He let himself play a game where he was chasing the girls blindfolded, but ending up getting hit by the girls on the head. By the end the girls won, the lead lady was feeling sorry for the unconscious lead character, apparently imploring the students to end the rivalry. Oh yeah, there was also some big dog that kept frothing in the mouth that somehow fit in the series. I also recall the closing credits, where there were different shots of the leading lady in various poses while the leading guy sat sulking on the side. The 2nd to the last shot of the lady was of her nude backside. Then the frothing dog came out, scaring the lead guy from his place, and the ending credits ended with the smiling fully-clothed lady carrying the scared guy.
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Reposted from another Forum.....hoped folks nerdlier than I could assist.
From the NYC area back in the late 80s, VERY early 90s, possibly only 1990.
I guess it technically wasn't really a show, but more like bumpers introducing movies and such on WWOR channel 9 before it was a network affiliate. Although it could've been some other channel, either WPIX 11 or Fox 5, but I doubt it was on channel 5.
In any case, the guy was a mad scientist, and he would do stupid things before introducing the movie outright or coming back from commercial. He had a mute executioner/hangman named Chompsley or something.
I had a tape of the original Godzilla (the American version intersplicing Raymond Burr) and I remember it so vividly but I can't seem to find any info on it now.
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I'm trying to find this great show that aired on G4 a few years back. All I can remember is that it was kinda like a Soap Opera/Comedy, and that it mixed live action with footage from different video games, mostly MMO's.
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I remember some old PC game from like the early-to-mid 90's.
The main character was this female pilot (who becomes a cyborg partway through the game after an accident or a sabotaged mission or something) flying around a city for all or most of the missions, blowing up enemy vehicles and like mines/bombs/whatever. It was 2D, the perspective was directly overhead and I think everything was pretty much grey and brown. You got different vehicles for different missions, like helicopters, bombers, fighters etc. Mission briefings and debriefings were done with character potraits and green text on a black screen.
I was fairly young at the time so some of the details are probably off.
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Im trying to find a comic version of Faust. Not sure if it was in Heavy Metal, but it was definitely in an anthology. It showed the story of Faust through the eyes of his servant who he promises to free to become a student at university while he is under sway of Mephistopheles whom he summons through the dark arts. But of course it isn't the already tainted soul of Faust, Meph is after, but that of his virgin and saintly male servant, who of course, loves his master. Meph offers to release Faust, for that of the servants soul. Great artwork, have no clue who wrote it or inked
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A book that was part of my required reading in English class either in middle school or early high school (New Brunswick, Canada.) It followed the story of a group of street children in russia. The parts that stick out the most is when one child visited Lenins coffin, and how they all wanted to go to the country because they had the idea the could just get food from fields with ease.
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