You had me at "untitled Rockne S. O'Bannon project", but started loosing me when you said "SyFy project"

Well, the proposed 100 episode live-action TV series *is* set in the Rebellion era, in the 18 year gap between the trilogies; and the idea actually felt like a story worth telling: basically a cross between "Tales of the Bounty Hunters" and "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina", it would focus on the rise of the…

Yes, a big point of that hour-long video review of The Phantom Menace made a big point of that: back in say, 1997....if you said "Star Wars prequel" everyone honestly thought it could do no wrong.

It wasn't so much what the effects were, but the pacing and script. I mean just the whole buildup of the Battle of Endor, step by step realizing "Wait, why would they even know to be jamming us unless....they knew we were coming!", "Why aren't the Star Destroyers attacking?" etc.

If he feels that badly, maybe he should pause and ask if the Prequel Trilogy were actually good movies; so many have pointed it out before: the dialogue was wooden, the characters were bland and you never really related to any of them. It was playing off of our nostalgia instead of trying to tell a story......most…

I think the Master is funnier, so I went with him.

Emil in Robocop got was was coming to him: he took part in the brutal murder of a police officer, blowing him to pieces, laughing while he did it.

Because of the gas.

(sigh) I'm directly quoting "Watchmen"

darn them

I realize you won't give away specifics, but do they ever answer exactly what happened and who the hazmat guys are? Are there any list hints later revealed? Or is played as a complete mystery?

(sigh) I'm directly quoting Alan Moore's graphic novel.

Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order".

Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world. Rubble, once achieved, makes further ruins' means irrelevant.

I am a heterosexual male in my mid-20's. Jezebel is great.

Question 1 - Why do the Mechanicals have family units? I would assume that, as with going to school, this is to socialize them and teach them the finer nuances of human life experience that just cannot be programmed and copied. There are many theories that "Artificial Intelligence" has to be raised, not programmed;…

What I respected about Asimov's work is that he *didn't* say that the Zeroth Law means robots will go Frankenstein's monster and turn on their creators. The robots are self-aware:

I respect Asimov's point, that he didn't "invent" the Three Laws so much as they felt like the obvious and logical outgrowth which is *bound* to occur given the parameters we set for robots.

The thing that terrifies me are the ones where women conclude that they don't need men and they're violent and greedy; not that I think that kind of stuff is bad politicized writing or something, but if you get through "The Female Man" or "The Handmaiden's Tale", thinking on all of the real-life abuse/discrimination…

He should look a LOT more messed up than that.