Lost Girl is good. With the pilot you can see what they are trying to do, but they don't quite manage it. The second episode is a bit weak. After that it finds its voice, so stick with it until then. Part of the fun is seeing their mythology and the various ways in which fae feed off humans.

A goal of brane research is to make testable predictions. If the current state isn't there yet, that's seen as a problem. It is widely suspected that people doing String theory et al, are doing maths not science. They are encouraged to continue anyway, partly because maths is worthwhile in itself, but also in the hope…

Difficulty being subjective is why, as mathematicians, they aren't so interested in modelling it.

For me it partly depends on the power. TK is actually my favourite, but really it's not that good for evil. If you make enough people hate you while acquiring the money, one of those chicks will turn out to be an assassin who kills you while you sleep (or are otherwise vulnerable). There aren't many powers that will…

I saw this trailer in a (UK) cinema. What bothers me most is that it seems to show the entire plot. The original, development, and where it ends up. Do I still need to see the film or has it all be said?

It's annoys me slightly whenever you describe the battle as being "for public entertainment". The goal was to humiliate the districts, not entertain them.

In the first Terminator film, the future may or may not be set. The photo suggests it is, but Kyle talks about alternate futures which suggests to me that it isn't. He fathers a child on Sarah, but that doesn't necessarily mean the child she had is the child she would have had if Kyle hadn't time-travelled. In fact,…

They aren't travelling interstellar distances to mine stuff. They are travelling for other reasons (eg, to observe us). However, while they are here they might as well get comfortable, and that may involve building new structures out of local resources. (For example, they may travel in suspended animation, and need…

I don't think anyone has mentioned Contact yet. Here's my reasoning. First, it's a Jodie Foster movie and chicks who don't like SF often like Jodie Foster. Second, it goes a long ways with a naturalistic feel, no space ships or ray guns or whatever. Mostly it's about the woman's relationship with her father, and her…

Maybe they didn't want to mining the Earth because they didn't want to disturb life here. If they physically land, they risk contaminating us (and vice versa) with bacteria or something. Even more so if we're at or close to sapience. They may have something like the Star Trek Prime Directive that forbids leaving their…

Resident Evil. Some people think Milla Jovovich is sexy, she does the high-kick thing, and the 4th instalment, Afterlife, was 3D. There may be other examples, but that's the one that springs to mind.

For a modern twist on robots I'd consider Dollhouse. Admittedly it approaches it from the other side; it starts with humans. The themes are similar, though. The link was made explicit by naming the evil corporation "Rossum", after the R.U.R. story. Some of the moral issues raised in Battlestar Galactica and…

Until Moffat got involved, Doctor Who mostly used time travel as a way to stitch together different stories set in different times. It rarely got involved with the potential of time travel itself; the Tardis got used at the start and end of each story, and that was all.

I'd settle for a Scalbie, because of their optimism and because they are easy to feed.

OK, I misunderstood your first post.

"The names were redacted by Wikileaks (eventually)" - and eventually published unredacted.

I've been aware of the genetically engineered weapons theory, and always thought it continued into the later films, especially Aliens. Indeed, wasn't Burke trying to get a sample back to WY's own bioweapons division? The use of a Queen doesn't necessarily invalidate that, especially if any Alien can become a queen.…

If it's about LV 426, then that surely makes it an Alien prequel too. The colony of the second film was on the same planet that they found in the first film.

It looked to me as though they were also concerned about damaging the machine. Waiting for it to run out of fuel would have been a safe and easy option, but would have lost too much working time. The water, plank and tarp approach was effective, and gave me the impression they knew what they were doing pretty well.

If I were writing a screenplay, I'd consider treating them as cold-blooded, like reptiles. Reptiles can bank their fires low and then survive a long time without food. On the order of a year, for crocodiles, for example. It makes them good ambush predators: they can lie in wait, unmoving, for weeks. I hate crocodiles.