I realize that it comes in waves: first you have negative stereotypes, then positive "mary sue" stereotypes to try to compensate, then you try to get a realistic balance.

Laying it on a little heavy....there's a thing called subtlety...

I don't mind having website previews.....I just wish it wasn't this one.

Good riddance: *one* new scifi show on major networks in Fall 2011, and it was a painfully, painfully obvious rip-off of Avatar and Jurassic Park?

Grid X7-Y4 is wrong.

Ack, I meant the previous trailer.

The official name of the war is actually, "The War of the Five Kings". With a "the"

...well that isn't what happened at all.

Yes, that also sent my spider-sense tingling; broke a neck pinch? But how?

"When the Tripods Came" was genuinely scary stuff, and great writing. Though I sympathize with your position that the real punch of the original trilogy was see humanity hundreds of years after the aliens reduced us to an agrarian pacified level of civilization.

As others have pointed out, if this is a list of prequels that are supposed to be "better" than TPM, why did you list "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" — universally considered a flop and poorly written — and not include...."X-Men: First Class", which was if anything, both more of a direct "prequel" and a better movie than…

The Phantom Menace has problems, but its better than many of the bad prequels listed here (Wolverine, AvP, etc. ) and some of these prequels are listed as "better than TPM" only for io9 to criticize them (Enterprise).

Caprica was a *horrible* prequel and series. Even io9 has stated that forcing Caprica to be a BSG prequel, instead of its own original series based on Remi Aubochon’s pitch, was one of the worst mistakes the network ever made.

Killed him off in an utterly implausible method (even the actor pointed out that there was no need for him to heroically sacrifice himself....for god's sake, "Archer and Trip get kidnapped" had become such an overused plot device on the show that it was a hackneyed cliched by that point)........

to this day, I'm openly stunned and have no idea why Berman and Braga were brought back in to write "these are the Voyages" finale — I mean, was this a personal favor from the Paramount old boys network or what? THey'd been *booted out*, how much clearer does that need to be?

The Thing prequel was horrible for all of the reasons you actually pointed out - the difference is that I really think it couldn't be a good movie in spite of these.

This was unfairly harsh to Enterprise, Charlie, and inaccurately sums up what happened: Berman and Braga ran it into the ground for the first three seasons (indeed, season 3 was a pathetic attempt to make it "edgier" while at the same time grudgingly acknowleging - finally - that they had serious writing problems —-…

A *Hungarian* news site? Lofaszt!

..."Tomorrow, When the War Began" was obviously Australia's answer to *Red Dawn*

...actually, I respect and aspire to be like "The Greatest Generation", and we're going to have to rebuild like they rebuilt from the mess of the Great Depression.