You do realize that casually mentioning that Stannis goes to the Wall in your article is itself a major spoiler?

No mention of a god or deity is made in this video, which nonetheless is nothing BUT "awe":

Aeryn Sun from Farscape was an odd case, in that this is more a case of Bizarre Alien Biology - she knew this is how her pregnancy would work. And the explanation sort of made sense: as she put it, how many crew members would a PeaceKeeper ship lose if female officers had to spend months off-duty during the middle…

Not quite the same thing, but the Diclonius mutants from the anime series Elfen Lied were actually an interesting take on this. They're similar to cuckoo birds.

Daenerys had a normal pregnancy. Only at the end a witch cursed her pregnancy and her baby came out stillborn and badly deformed. But that wasn't a "magic" pregnancy.

The basic problem with Prometheus is that the original draft script was stated to be an Alien prequel. The studio didn't like this for some reason - fear that it would drive away new fans? - and then the second script was decidedly *not* a direct Alien prequel....yet then they proceeded to heavily market it as an…

The *pervasive* loophole used in the expanded universe and indeed, Tartakovsky's previous "Clone Wars" microseries, is that there are only two "full" Sith at a given time, but they can train any number of acolytes. Which, ultimately, sort of defeats the point. You can have a bunch of force adepts but only two full…

Chief Bei Fong has a pretty good view from behind her desk!

1 - The metacommentary show-within-a-show "mover" was great enough for a whole episode. But I also like the worldbuilding - it might be sort of cheesy to us, but these people have never seen a movie before - it's like the dawn of movies in the 1930s Flash Gordan serials. It's stunning to them (it's easy for us to…

Ron Moore screwed up what was going to be his masterpiece, BSG, and after 5 years of failing to find new work, settled on making an adaptation of someone else's work: that way he doesn't have to come up with new ideas on his own (only to later have no idea how to end it after painting himself into a corner). …

I know what Birth of a Nation is. I'm telling you that the comparison is a non sequitor. Non sequitor! Sterilize!

Wait, so those 8 episodes were ALL of Season 5? Have we confirmed this?

If so, good, actually. The quality of Season 5 was the best since Season 2 (and Season 3 before the weird finale). Season 4 just languished on forever, padded out into two micro-seasons of relatively low quality.

What does that comparison even mean?

More worldbuilding and understanding other races without being right all the time. A problem Enterprise ran into, perhaps unintentionally, was that the humans were *amazing*. They were always right. It's as if the peaceful humans can to "civilize" all of these other races - it reeked of colonial interventionist…

Ron Moore grew so fearful of that formula that he ran headlong into BSG's formula: "It's about the characters!"
which turned into:

The writers of Battlestar Galactica said, around Season 2ish, that they never introduced an LGBT character up until that point because they feared making "the token LGBT episode". And I sympathize with their explanation, that there was so much pressure on them that "BSG can do anything, it just won a Peabody, surely…

That's blatantly a stunt man fighting that Gorn. The Shat-man couldn't possibly fit into that tight of a uniform.

Did you miss the popular and wildly successful 2009 reboot film?

My vote is to set it on a different ship in the rebooted Abrams-continuity. Which personally I would call the USS Yorktown, in reference to how the original name for the ship in Roddenberry's earliest drafts was actually Yorktown.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Yorkt…
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek…

I was being *sarcastic*. Yeah, annoying how there's always the "token minority friend of the main white character".