While tight lipped about it, much, much later Eccleston teased out a bit of why he left, and it was basically "toxic work environment" (combined with that he didn't want to be pidgeonholed in one role).....but from his hints....it seems he faced a lot of discrimination on set for being from Northern England. The…

It removed the extreme Anarchy vs Fascism theme.

It is better to rule on Mira Island, than to serve on Tasmania.

It would be interesting to return to that island in 100 years and learn what crop had sprung from the seed planted today.

Yes, more "sense" — which at the same time doesn't make them just moustache-twirling villains. They wanted terraforming tech, and brought along some extra soldiers to protect their interests....but they're not played as outright villains (even in the movie-version, the extra soldiers aren't evil or anything).

Small correction: Shaw is outright implanted with a chestburster, not a hybrid (which I thought was a better, more twisted idea). She's in the medi-pod just as its going off, so she sort of half-chestbursts, half-gets it removed....basically its surgically removed but its so mature that it does a LOT of damage on…

Overall, Spaihts script was better. A few minor changes such as character moments (pushups, barfing) were good, but who's to say that a later, refined draft of Spaihts' wouldn't do the same thing? The only major change that HELPED was making David less of an outright villain, and more morally ambiguous (the worst…

I've replied on this subject before (and I hope you read/enjoyed/remembered my churlish ranting, Charlie, if I made at least some salient points).... I've narrowed down "what went wrong with BSG" to 5 points:

these aren't embiggenable.

You know instead of calling it just the "Emergency Tumblr" you could be cool and call it the "Battle Bridge" like on Next Generation.

Singer *created* the X-Men movie-verse....his absence is what derailed it in X-Men 3. His presence on it in First Class revitalized it. My hope is that there is no love lost, and Vaughn will indeed switch around to still be in the producer's chair and attached to the film. But more Singer = good news.

Maybe it just has flashbacks to earlier in his life before he got the adamantium.

I'm not too concerned about "ignoring" the 1984 "Conan the Destroyer": I always saw that as just one of several of Conan's subsequent adventures; I mean really, what life-altering events happened in Destroyer, on a scale of 40 years of a man's life? It doesn't mean it "didn't happen", just that they don't want to…

The *direct analogy* I'd use, is if they do it as essentially for Conan what "The Dark Knight Returns" was for Batman....which thankfully, seems to be what they're trying to do.

I can't tell if he was actually going to do this, or as you suggest, that he just got some sick thrill from planning it out in detail, as part of some domination-fantasy that he indulged in.

Yes, I checked, "Rimegate" it is.

Oh, I see

What you labelled "The Known World" should probably be titled "Asshai and the Jade Sea"

What you labelled "Slaver's Bay" is actually centered on Qarth, and doesn't show Slaver's Bay, which is further west.

Yeah, that's Sothoryos, not Central Essos; its got the Basilisk Isles and Zamettar and such.