Although I'm not surprised at all that this sucks just based on the description of the story and how it probably plays out - for the record, I highly recommend Frey's BS autobiography. The writing style alone is extremely captivating and intense. Once you get past the Oprah thing and the fact that he's a lying liar…

@Charlie Jane Anders: Yeah, 1 2 and 3 are dead, thus the story starts with number 4, right? That's the way I read the description the first time. And therefore, there's no danger that anyone of significance to the narrative is going to die, because Nobody's Allowed To Die until the main character is killed. Not…

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@SolCross: Only Decepticons that turned into cars, if I recall. Nothin' wrong with that :D Of course, they're no long special snowflakes in the Bayverse, where Transformers just turn into whatever vehicle the manufacturers want produce placement time for.

Right, so the antagonists have to kill the kids in order, but we skip directly to number 4 at the very beginning. That would be cool if the main character was number 5 or 6. But because the main character IS number 4, we know that nobody of narrative value will be in mortal danger throughout the course of the story.…

@RizzRustbolt: But where does it end exactly? We take for granted that time travel - if it exists - is novel. Like a once-in-a-lifetime-event. In reality though, if you have the means to travel back in time, then there's nothing stopping you from having the means to travel back in time a lot, and to the same exact…

@Starwatcher: It's a cool idea, but it assumes there's some kind of absolute location things can be locked into, which is only true in an alternate universe where Relativity doesn't exist.

@jinchoung: Yeah exactly. I actually don't like the term Grandfather paradox because it brings to mind a way too complicated scenario. I use breaking a vase instead. If I own an antique fragile vase, and then go back in time to when the vase was still new, how exactly can the universe prevent me from destroying…

See, this is what I'm talking about! The camera person actually stays on the subject the whole time the camera is running. Epiphany! For that alone, this is the freakin Citizen Kane of UFO footage.

@AmishJohn: Meh.: uh...look at it this way. This is like those Simpsons episodes where Lisa stands on a soap box and gives a 'you should be ashamed of yourselves' speech. The angry mob IS ashamed for a moment, and then shrugs and goes right back to being an angry mob.

@brentbent)dense as a neutron star and bright as a super nova(: And the latest craptastic food on the 7-11 menu? Oil Links.

@Goatse Fan Fiction: Yeah, and to think there was a portion of congress that was actually angry the Administration made BP set up an escrow fund. What's that? The president doesn't trust them to pay anything? How rude of him!

@krypterband: Hulk made a profit, but it would have been more successful had they stuck with someone's vision. Either they should've put their foot down immediately and kicked Norton off the role the second he showed signs of wanting to do things his own way (which probably happened when pre-production was underway…

@ian.nai: In that sense, I completely agree. Even though this is most definitely worse than anything a nuke could do in the same location, its being treated with way less outrage by the public than it ought to get.

@Skunky: That's still a bad idea too, since they're funding the clean up.

@Benjamin Skinner: Or maybe we should've cut the company that did it the first time less slack.

@ian.nai: Just pointing out to the class that nuclear power plants aren't capable of creating nuclear weapons, nor are they capable of exploding like a nuclear weapon.

@DrZaius: Yeah! He'll drink that milkshake!

@Gaudy Mouse Muad'Dib: This in turn leads to the philosophical question - if it cannot be recognized as intelligence as we know it, can it even be intelligence?

@Goatse Fan Fiction: I think next comes the army of Frankenstein reimaginings, actually. Then werewolves, then giant monsters, then slashers again, and finally back to zombies.