What is the "Canadian fortress mentality", and are there certain elements of your works that you attribute to it? I.e. "constant threat of destruction" translated into stories about societies on the bring of apocalypse?

Today, right now, there's chatter on TV over genetically modified food - nothing as drastic as vat-chicken nubs (which I thought sounded cool, actually) but things like boosting corn's resistance to diseases. Whatever the case, with things available on store shelves today, do you avoid eating foods marked as…

Did the (future) agents of Gilead itself actually conduct the "President's Day Massacre", in order to create Gilead? (and then just blamed it on foreign terrorists)?

My sister attended Wellesley College, worked as an intern for Hillary for a time, and tried to explain the "waves" of feminism to me, but I was confused. I'm young enough that I don't remember things before 1990, or Reagan ever being president. You, however, lived through the different waves of feminism. In short,…

I went to university in the Boston area: is "The Wall" where all of the Salvagings happen actually Harvard Yard? What was the motivation behind this? A giant "screw you" by Gilead to major landmarks of liberal society that they hated?

What is the toughest Scrabble word you ever successfully used in the game?

The framing device for The Handmaid's Tale, at the epilogue, treats it as a preserved record which is being presented in the far future, ~2195, at a symposium on "the Gilead period". The Republic of Gilead apparently collapsed at some point, but we don't get details. Do you know how it collapsed? Internal…

Time 1:51 - The dad from Twin Peaks is in this movie? He was one of the gang members in the original RoboCop? (the one Lewis blows away at the end)

....that's a really interesting possibility: what if they're like eusocial Earth insects? Or, what if flat-out, they do have male-female pairings but they're a female-dominant society of Amazons, and the warriors are all actually female? (and Simmons would know because she's involved with the bio-research…

Damn it Murphy, I don't know how they handled things in that hellhole precinct you came from, but that hand cannon of yours is against regulations! In this department, we do things by the book.

Renting an R-Rated or even PG-13 rated film only to discover that Blockbuster had *edited their own products* due to the owners' fanatical religious beliefs.

Yeah...they deserved to go out of business with that attitude.

I thought Simmons' impression was funny mostly because it was just a British person attempting an American accent - that's what she considered funny. She didn't even do it in a very gruff voice.

What was great in this episode is that it *was not* focused on Skye for a change; this had been a complaint.

Another…

One would assume that, if Coulson is an LMD, he has "scars" from Loki's stab wound.....because in order to complete the ruse, the SHIELD doctors/technicians created the LMD with scar tissue. I mean what's the other option? The LMD wakes up with an unharmed body, and they just tell him "well....that stab wound which…

People's accents change over time, and English wasn't Magneto's first language. Particularly, the next film will take place about ten years after his first film - it isn't unusual for the way people speak to change gradually over the course of their lives.

Frankly I see this as a good thing - part of the whole theme…

I think the Elves have orders to take the Dwarves alive. I mean, they didn't kill them before, when they were in their dungeons - they think the Dwarves know something about how to get into the Mountain and kill Smaug (they do have that secret key). Orcs they kill on sight, Dwarves, I think they're just trying to…

Motion-capture is more than just voice work.

"The FX guys do the real work" - yet there is a "Makeup" category, is there not? And John Hurt won for Elephant Man under a ton of prosthetics - where do we draw the line?

Question: if the Bard scene is him leading their barrels into Lake-town, the course from the Elven-halls in Mirkwood to Lake-town doesn't go past the ruins of Dale -which is to the north, and not in the water. Smaug's initial attack on Dale and Erebor was actually over 200 years ago: as he was on his way to Dale…

On the Ring as a translation device: actually, the books sort of do imply that it grants the wearer the ability to understand the speech of anything - helps when you're trying to be lord of the world. When Sam puts the Ring on at Cirith Ungol, he can instantly understand the Orcs from the tower (Gorbag and Shagrat)…

Housing costs have become pretty bad in New York and in the past 5 years, two major branches of my family have both moved to North Carolina.

I take hope in the fact that they made her a Muslim-American because one of the editors at Marvel is himself a Muslim-American and was basing it on real-life anecdotes about his life. Let's hope they play this realistic instead of "look at us, we have Muslim characters".