Okay....this is the plot to a famous Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.....and infamously, everyone was really annoyed when *Star Trek: Enterprise* later ripped off that same idea.

the Arsenic-based life thing was a giant publicity stunt. Or rather, overhype. This scientist lady was acting and speaking in the same tone as if she had discovered alien life...or even, the product of a "second genesis" here on Earth, without a common ancestor; yes I'm excited about the possibility of that.

That came out wrong I didn't mean it as comic relief (the description doesn't sound like it) so much as...

I find it somehow ridiculous that there is already a news blog devoted to a series that hasn't even aired its pilot yet, indeed only just filmed its pilot, based purely on the hope that Ron Moore's team will make a good series this time around. We don't even know that much about the plot.

"Liam used to be Lisa, and is pretty defensive about it, saying lots of stuff about how he's not Lisa any more, inside or outside. "

While hoping for something like Dresden Files, I remain skeptical that it will be indulgent light fluff.

I see your Casull Auto, and I raise you the Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto-Jackal:

I see your Casull Auto, and I raise you the Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto-Jackal:

I see your Casull Auto, and I raise you the Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto-Jackal:

Daenerys Targaryen!

Ancalagon the Black

This is the plot to a Seinfeld episode.

Birds don't have X and Y Chromosomes, with Y for female.

Also remember that he was a stuffy Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon, born in the 1890's and a World War I veteran. He doesn't seem to be of the particularly "edgy writer" type; the man was a cloistered academic of languages, in a stuffy and prestigious college.

While the filmakers and cast are prone to joking about that, in general they were faithful to the books (if only because they knew Tolkien had said it was just tobacco). They seemed to think it was ridiculously funny if it was marijuana. They even did alternate takes of the scene where Merry and Pippin are smoking…

Tolkien *never* described it as having psychofarmacological effects on people! (beyond what Tobacco does)

It seems like they just picked a random writer for this show. Seriously, I've seen volumes of fanfiction written better than this, I mean not even professional fanfic.

Enough of this; Tolkien specifically explained that Pipe-weed is nicotine-tobacco and flatly denied that it was marijuana or any kind;

What gives me the right to be mad at Jane? WE *LIVE* HERE!

Yeah, after 1997 it was anti-climactic.