Shane was just being sympathetic, and doing the best he could to help Carol, as he has done all along. (He had spent a lot of time looking for Carol's daughter; it's part of why he didn't take off on his own at the start of season 2.)

Isn't it "people who like vampire stories also like zombie stories even though zombies are not vampires"? Twilight and Hunger Games are both (very loosely) SF for girls.

I prefer a Newtonian description. The wing stays up by pushing the air down. Air has mass, momentum is conserved, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction: so pushing the air down pushes the wing up. You're right to say any forward push comes from the engines, not the wing, but the article is right to say…

Hmmm. I think this article needs a better picture. The one featured doesn't really convey to me the strip effect. It looks like an effect of lighting instead, as if shadows were falling across it.

I've not played the game. I'm not seeing what's unique about the Geth in your description. The Cylons also had factions. So did the AIs in The Matrix and its sequels. In both cases the ones fighting the humans aren't evil. Part of the purpose of the Matrix is to preserve humans and our culture, albeit in a form that…

None of the models have their faces showing. That kinda dehumanises them. And although they are clothed, in many shots they are posed with bottom prominent and their skirts hitched up in a way that draws attention. For me the worst is Little Red Hiding Hood because the entire top-half of her body is gone, leaving just…

I'd like the Dál Riata, also known as 'Trick's Bar in Lost Girl. It seems like a relatively safe place to meet diverse Fae. It's not as seedy as Fangtasia, but with the same reminder that human's aren't at the top of the food chain.

I don't think Human Centipede belongs on this list. The work was conceived as a trilogy so its not a sequel, any more than "Return of the King" was a sequel to "The Two Towers". And I for one am interested in where he takes it. Mainly because the second one was so different to the first. I am hoping he has something…

Your experience is different to mine. I've seen fans of other works go as "batshit". If there's something different here, I think it's partly the structure of io9. It doesn't encourage community, and there is especially nothing to encourage a community around specific works like The Hunger Games. Each HG article…

I think it's not so much the pointing out as the way in which it's done. "Oh, so this is Battle Royale?" is dismissive and denigrating. It's not just saying BR has the same premise, it's saying HG adds nothing. Since it is not plausible that anyone could fail to realise it is a different film, it is also sarcastic in…

A line from one of the later Dune books stayed with me, about how when things go bad administrators try to conceal information, and this makes it harder to fix the problem, especially when the most important bit of information is that things have, in fact, gone wrong. It was a practical maxim about the importance of…

I've not seen the show, but the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio are more or less the same thing (albeit different expressions of it).

I've always favoured the notion the Aliens were weapons, and that does imply a war with at least 2 sides. However, I can't see the humans being one side. If we were, and Earth was involved, we'd surely know about it. And I doubt Scott has much respect for the Predator cross-over.

Since you mention lasers, you might have mentioned that Mars probes are now equipped with lasers for self-defence. It's true! See, eg, Curiosity, launched November last year.

Hearted.

I read somewhere that beans on toast with a glass of orange juice was pretty close to a complete meal.

I don't approve of pi. We use the wrong value. See [tauday.com]

Yes. One woman doesn't have a recorder, and another mentions false memory as a reason for getting one.

That red dress is the one thing in the trailer that makes me want to see it. Watching again more carefully I see it is not Alice wearing it - that makes me want to see it even more.

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