please delete this comment; I loaded the wrong video and now it won't let me swap it out with the one from the actual video game, which I posted above

What I'm curious about is how they show the apes as being in any position to take over.

Yes, they explain it in the later movies. Of course, that they would be FULLY anthropomorphic is a bit of suspension of disbelief, human actors have to play them and all.

Apes are beasts that must be whipped into submission, the savage that has to be beaten and shackled in chains. Its them or us.

Ages are beasts that must be whipped into submission, the savage that has to be beaten and shackled in chains. Its them or us.

They're worried that time travel stories going back to medieval China would glorify the old social structure which Marxist/Socialist theory sought to undo.

well, it does sort of establish his overall pattern, right in the title. If all four had been metermaids, it would make sense to say the headline "Four Metermaids Found Dead".

Maybe he just watches a lot of Law & Order. I blame many of today's social ills on the fact that hack writers can't come up with any better ideas for new shows than "lets make another police procedural spinoff!"

Three witch mothers?

The zombie chop-shop idea isn't original as they claim; Ugly Americans already did it.

what was great was that it started out as them joking, but they sort of half-seriously (in the spirit of good humor) started speculating on what such a show would actually be like, and how it would work, and it didn't sound half bad.

The kids are going to have to learn about TekWar sooner or later.

Jon's last name is Snow because he is a bastard: he will never be a Stark.

Thank you for including cult-hit Elfen Lied; though you used a picture of Nana, not Lucy. Nana is only 6 years old, though due to the rapid-maturation of the soldier-caste Diclonii, she has the body of a 12 year old. Still kind of young. Lucy is 18, and as a "Queen"-caste Diclonius, she ages normally.

Question, Charlie: how do you respond to GRRM's reaction to the BSG ending? (which he wrote about on his livejournal).....I mean, not as a comment here, but this might be a good idea for another news post.

I am insulted that Serenity "beat" Blade Runner.

First off, I've complained about this before: why does io9 pervasively use photos for "Dune" that come from the widely criticized 1984 David Lynch movie? Instead of the more faithful Scifi Channel miniseries?