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prof800: WARNING!
D.C guys please steer clear oooo...
lwkmd!!!
wicked!

btw, you're wrong because our new 'Captain America' is gonna be a BLACK dude;
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...not that ridiculous fat puppy you posted just to mock Marvel and fans.

Different Ship same difference. At the end of the day, Captain Ridiculous is still getting remodelled.

colossus2: I guess I have to settle down and show keen interest in it. The 1st episode and 2nd was boring (no action) that's why I lost interest. Will start all over again

Smart decision. Never judge a show by it's premiere.

The Original 24 TV series will most likely not be returning for the 10th season according to FOX. So don't get your hopes up.

There's a possibility of a reboot starring a younger version of Jack Bauer or a spin-off series featuring one of the Original 24's Alums as the principal character.

Give it a rest, mate. 24 is officially dead... on Fox network at least. Just confirmed it yesterday.

colossus2: Homeland was boring to me. Can't even move to episode 2 of season 1...maybe cos I'm not showing keen interest in it. It's just dull sha (the beginning)

Homeland boring?? Seriously??

Homeland is one of the best TV shows out there. Multiple Award winner since debuting 3 years ago. Only 3 other shows had been able to compete with it and they were Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Strike Back. You need to understand the plot to truly appreciate the story.

A US marine was MIA for 5 solid years and when the wife was beginning to move on with her life, he was accidental found and promptly rescued by a US marine battalion.

He was giving a hero's homecoming by the United States Government upon setting foot on home soil. What the United States govt didn't knew was that him getting rescued wasn't really accidental at all, it was an elaborate plan set up by the terrorists that captured him. He had been turned and now allowed to go back home as a sleeper agent with a deadly mission in mind.

But standing in his way: a beautiful, brilliant and young CIA analyst with bipolar disorder who knew from the moment she laid eyes on him that Brody wasn't the Hero everyone seemed to think he was. Then the unexpected happened: she fall in love with Brody.

I love that show to pieces, one of the best shows on TV at the moment. It's so real and full of drama and intrigue and best of all, it's a political thriller.

temi4fash: av seen a lil of blacklist and homeland.. I didn't seem to enjoy it.. But d odas m sure giving it a try.. Thanks... Any website I can downllload apart from o2tvseries

I usually does most of my downloads with the Gotofiles torrent app. Not really conversant with other free downloading outlets...

In Islam, the real devout are the extremists we commonly call terrorists.

temi4fash: pls is strike back a very gud series... Apart from it wat oda one can u recommend dat is intelligent and breathe taking like 24

If you want heart pumping, gut wrenching, and never ceasing action, then Strike Back is the number one TV show you'd like to check out.

Check out the list below for your viewing pleasure:
-Strike Back (Multiple award winning)
-Alias (Multiple award winning)
-Hunted (Multiple Nominations)
-The Unit (Multiple Nominations)
-The Blacklist (Brand New TV show)
-Homeland (Super Multiple award winning)

kingRenny: Ray, i get it very much and i'm aware of most of the things you posted here,maybe not so in detail,but i know how it works,Nigeria have been third in the last 4 Africa cup of Nations,they actually have a better record than Algeria,as per games played,you need to check Nigeria's results.They have actually done better in non African friendly matches.There is no way Algerian have played better oppositions than Nigeria in the last 4 years to warrant them being 22 points ahead of the African champions going to the world cup! 22 points? Thats ridiculous,you are speaking strictly on the criteria,which i very much don't trust FIFA on.And if FIFA have judged these strictly on meaningless friendly matches then that is equally doubly ridiculous! I am African,i follow these matches and i just can't see how Algeria who have not won nothing since god knows when can be 22 places ahead of Nigeria!

Again, I'll let the stats speak for me.

Algeria's 6 international matches prior to the World Cup
*Algeria 1 - 0 Mali
*Burkina Faso 3 - 2 Algeria
*Algeria 1 - 0 Burkina Faso
*Algeria 2 - 0 Slovenia
*Algeria 3 - 1 Armenia
*Algeria 2 - 1 Romania
(5 wins, 0 draw, 1 loss)

Nigeria's 6 International matches prior to the World Cup
*Nigeria 0 - 0 Ghana
*Zimbabwe 0 - 1 Nigeria
*Mexico 0 - 0 Nigeria
*Nigeria 2 - 2 Scotland
*Greece 0 - 0 Nigeria
*United States 2 - 1 Nigeria
(1 win, 4 draws, 1 loss)

Algeria's pole position in Africa is well merited. In fact, I think the credibility of this thread is ridiculous. This is probably my last response to your thoughtless notions.

kingRenny: You are not getting it mate..Nigeria was the African Champions before the World cup! Explain that..and explain why Algeria who didnt make last 4 at the African Cup of Nations are still higher than the African champions! Yet they were 22 places higher than Nigeria who were the champions before the world cup..absolutely ridiculous,infact your stats here makes it more laughable! Those guys are unbelievable! 22 places above the African Champions?Who didn't lose a match in the tournament?

You don't get it, do you? Before we can go further with this, let's break down the formula. Teams get points for each international match based on four factors, and the final ranking consists of all a team's points over a four-year window.

This is the formula:

*M (points for match result): Teams get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss.

*I (importance of match): This multiplier is fixed based on perceived importance of each competition, as follows:
*Friendly game: 1.0
*World Cup qualifier : 2.5
*Confederation's Cup or confederation-level competition (like the Euros): 3.0
*World Cup game: 4.0

*T (strength of opponent): T=200 - (ranking of
opponent). So if you play, Ist-ranked Germany, T=198. And if you play 80th-ranked Haiti, T=120.

*C (strength of confederation): This multiplier is fixed by the perceived strength of each continent. The mean between the two numbers is used when teams from different continents play each other:
*Europe/South America: 1.0
*North/Central America: 0.88
*Asia/Africa: 0.86
*Oceania: 0.85
Multiply those four numbers together, and you get your FIFA ranking points for each game. Add up all of a team's points over a four-year window (with more recent games weighted more heavily), and you get its total FIFA ranking points.

The ranking takes the last four years of games into
account, as follows:
*Four years ago: 20% weight
*Three years ago: 30% weight
*Two years ago: 50% weight
*Current year: 100% weight

¿Comprénde?

Several factors to consider, mate.

African Rankings prior to the world cup:
-Algeria: 22
-CIV: 23
-Ghana: 37
-Nigeria: 44
-Cameroon: 56

African Rankings after the World Cup:
-Algeria: 2nd round elimination: 24 (dropped 2 places)
-CIV: First round Elimination: 25 (dropped 2 places)
-Nigeria: 2nd Round Elimination: 34 (Gained 10 spots)
-Ghana: Ist Round Elimination: 38 (Dropped one spot)
-Cameroon: Ist Round Elimination: 53 (Gained 3 spots)


By the above stats, your country did quite well. I honestly can't see the silliness in that.

This Nigerians are funny. Y'all should be thankful that Nigeria was one of the biggest gainers (Moved 10 places), instead, some of you are here bad mouthing both Fifa and your national team alike.

How I wish it were Bafana Bafana that gained all those precious points. It might have been enough to restore our relevance in African football once again.

anitank: If there won't be a season 10, then season 9 was a complete waste of time and resources. Can't believe this is the 24 I used to watch.

My exact sentiments, Sis.

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The next Captain America. Marvel, you have my support on this future projects. The Sky is the limit now.

Think it's only Thor that will be remodelled as a female? Wrong. Iron man will be undergoing a sex change as well.

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Iron Maiden will be the new name.

Double post.

No Marvel comics creation is as prominent in popular culture as the man of steel: Superman, the genius vigilante: Batman, the lightening: Flash Gordon, hawk eyed Green Arrow, the talented Green Lantern and the irrepressible Wonder Woman.

Do you know that Batman is so popular and iconic that a town in Turkey was named after him. #Respect

Next on the agenda: Blue Hulk.
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Marvel Comics: what a Joke.

Guykhena: Looking hot..
More than you can say for the below DC Whor.e(wonder woman)

Lolz. Nah, that's just a Marvel Comics fan playing dress-up at Comic-con.

https://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/315/b/3/wonder_woman_by_jeffach-d6ttfgs.jpg
The real Wonder Woman.

Somebody call 911 cuz this Lady is SO BLAZING HOT she might ignite the atmosphere.

olire: ouch. How do you then watch it. Besides, channel 101 shows on my dstv.

I'm a South African and resides in the City of Durban, so I have access to Explorer. 101 should be m-net in Nigeria if I'm not mistaken, well here it's channel 106.

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This is what Thor would look like in future Marvel movies.

Kinda hot...

olire: thank you very much. What number is the station??

Channel 101. Only exclusive to South Africans though.

JuanDeDios: You make a lot of very good points.

The Jack Bauer we know would not have let the Russians take Chloe but he would, indeed, have made a plan before "going in".

But I disagree with you that a happy ending for Jack would have worked. A happy ending for Jack is what I want too but I don't see how it would have worked at this stage of the story - I always believed season 10 would end in the Russians picking up Jack. What if Jack had made a plan before going in for Chloe? He would then have escaped and gone underground - again. Remember, like I said, that he couldn't simply return to a 9-5 job in LA or become a taxi driver in London. It would have been bad scriptwriting to have him simply disappear underground again since that is the position he was at the end of the previous episode.

The day Bauer killed the Russian diplomats he had this sword of Damocles hanging over his head - he buy market. Killing a Russian minister and then pointing your gun at the Russian president is a serious thing to do. No scriptwriter would resolve that by co-opting Kate, shooting a few more Russian agents, grabbing Chloe and running off a helicopter with her. The Russians have to have him - there is no way around that. In the next episode (if there's any) they will bring him back and bring him out - maybe a Mexican drug lord and a Russian renegade soldier will go into business dealing in Russian nuclear stuff or maybe Kim Jung-un will go completely out of his little mind and direct his nuclear weapons at the Kremlin and Jack's services will somehow be needed to resolve the matter.

Not necessarily a happy ending for Jack, anything else would have sufficed rather than the bleakness of the unknown that pervaded the final scenes. It created further question marks instead of answering the previous ones.

I disagree that It would have been bad script writing to have him disappear again, in fact, it would have been genius and unexpected. Remember, in the game of survival, there are no rules. You do what you must to survive, that's the deal, and I know that Jack's experience in the hands of the Chinese had taught him that there is nothing to gain from martyrdom, only scars, trauma... and certain death. Which is all the more surprising and disappointing when he swapped himself for Chloe at the end. That was bad script writing right there.

Jack had killed his own fair share of Russians, and killing a few more wouldn't be any worse. Sword of Damocles, you say? Well, that's to be expected. When Jack gutted that Russian assassin that killed his girlfriend and very nearly killed the Russian president that was the mastermind of the whole thing, he had already made his choice that he's never gonna be a free man ever again.

For the fact he hid successfully for 4 years without coming under both the radars of United states govt and the Russian govt proved that Jack was very adept at the camouflage game. Disappearing again wouldn't have been a problem at all.

Handing himself to the Russians was a bad idea to begin with because common logic denotes that the Russians weren't gonna keep him alive. They were aware of Jack's high pain threshold, hence torturing him for information would be a waste of time. The only thing they want of Jack is retribution for all the Russians and the Russian minister he killed prior to Season 9. There wouldn't be enough time to save Jack either through diplomatic channels or stealth, I'm afraid, anything else would be bad script writing on the part of the showrunners.

That's why I think Season 10 would be a bad idea, they should have concluded season 9 properly like they were supposed to.

olire: Please do they show the series on DSTV??

South Africa's Dstv's Explorer is currently airing the Season 3 of the Show. Season 4 is expected to premiere immediately after the Season 3 concludes, then from next year hopefully, they can start airing GOT live.

olire: Gys, any idea when season 5 will be out?

Every TV show out there is seasonal. That means if the old season ends in summer of a certain year, a brand new season is expected to premiere at the beginning or middle of next summer which falls incidentally into the following year's calender.

For example, if Game Of Throne should end in March 2014, it's expected to make a comeback in March 2015 give or take, that's just the way it is. The full-season-long intervals are purely dedicated to shooting, filming, casting new roles, editing, scripting and producing our favorite TV Shows.

They canned the show for consistent low ratings. Couldn't compete with the American Idols and The Voice.

Kezifils: This is 24 guys, not a fairytale movie. You dont expect a happy ending. Besides he was already prepared to hand himself over to the Russians frm the start.

Seriously, A CIA agent/Assasin/No emotional connection agent crying at the death of Audrey, am I the only one that tinks its a little weird?

After a roller coaster ride of 13 solid years of highs and lows, asking and hoping for an happy ending for the iconic and long suffering protagonist Jack Bauer is not much to ask for, is it? Else, the last 13 years would become obsolete. Take a quick trip to the internet, a lot of fans are raging and venting for the disappointing finale, and if you weren't, then you were and never was fully invested.

Prepared to hand himself to the Russians right from the start?? I don't know where you got that idea from, but from what I garnered from the course of Season 9, Jack detest the Russians and would never turn himself willingly over to their government unless President Heller deemed it to be so. He's royal to the old man and to his daughter and only came out of hiding to help him in a foreign nation.

Jack is an agent that knows how to compartmentalize his emotion and while this most often than not makes him come off him as ruthless and emotionless person, he's very much the humanitarian. Besides, he still harbours strong feeling for Audrey, the kind of love they shared was the kind that burns for long. And remember how he went off the rails in Season 8 when the Russians killed his girlfriend? No siree, Jack can feel just fine, thank you very much.

Guykhena: Ya right,we know DC works with Transgender superheroes, check out their star hero(supes) who wears red panties ,batman black panties,Green lantern leggings,so its not new to them

Who would have guessed that the mighty Thor is nothing but a Tran (A female with a dîck) all these years?

Startling.

Thanks for finally coming out of the closet Thor, that's truly inspiring. Hulk and the rest of Marvel's Freak show can now draw inspiration from that bold move and reveal their true colors (pun intended) to the world.

Loved the Idea. They should also make Hulk bluish while they are at it.

DC Universe all the way.

VillageBoi: Anyone catch the very brand new 'The Strain'? It's just one episode in that was 90mins... seems it's gonna be pretty darn good.

Also new is 'Extant'

Typically I don't watch new shows until they're more than 5 episodes. I've got my eyes on Strain and Extant and will be keeping tabs on them. No spoilers please.