You don't like neo-noir electro-industrial cyberpunk?!

There are many nice things in the Lynch Dune, even if I don't think it reflects the books well. My fundamental complaint is that even four hours simply isn't enough time to tell the story, and thus so much had to be cut out that it harmed it - i.e. Chani being a practical non-entity. People say "wow, Patrick Stewart…

Why is there some sort of universal dogmatic opinion that the costumes in the miniseries were bad? I think they were better - particularly the Bene Gesserit costumes. A few background ones were hit or miss but I didn't mind.

A lot of people complain that the Sardaukar ones in particular looked foppish....I think…

It's a decent song and with good visuals, but not much better or worse than DS9. I still vote for TNG.

This isn't Dune. Dune is the miniseries.

The *imagery* was good, but the song was bad. What was worse is that they acknowledged that the song wasn't popular eventually, so in Season 3...they added a tamborene. All this did was alienate the few people who liked the original version, while addressing none of the complaints about the song itself - using a…

Okay a bit more of a "sequence", but even so, the stillshots in the Trek Next Gen opening sequence shaped my 4 year old mind's concept of what "planets" are "supposed" to look like. Original Series opening didn't have as many planets in it. I like DS9 more than TNG as a series, and its opening sequence…

Thrawn was the best because he was just a *really competent admiral*, using "conventional" weapons. Yes he did have a few tricks up his sleeve with stealing an old Dreadnought fleet, using old cloning vats on Weyland, also some prototype cloaking devices — which are double-blind and rarely used, but which he…

I'm disgusted that ALL of the videos promote it as a "Ron Moore show" with seemingly no mention of either the *actual creator* or the *actual showrunner*. It was I myself who updated ye olde Wikipedia's article on the show to point to an interview with the ACTUAL creator, who spelled out how little Moore worked on…

His stepson who's head of security is from Barrow, I think, which is in the United States - he can't be "Canadian".

Oh, I remember Lion-O being a kid (and aging in his stasis tube), and I didn't really think it odd that they put clothes on later after stasis (hey, they're humanoid cats, they have fur - cartoons always seem ambiguous about that).

Third Earth being actual Earth was fun - I loved that they sort of play it ambiguous…

Cartoon Network is cancelling everything that isn't an in-house production....then wonders why its current lineup is losing money! You cancelled all of your hit shows in rapid succession you idiots! Symbionic Titan, Young Justice, Green Lantern, Thundercats?! Beware the Batman wasn't great but it wasn't offensive,…

The problem is that Jaime was never very repulsive to begin with - but we're lead to think he is. That is, while he is sleeping with the Queen, the King has fathered a dozen bastard children with no thought to the consequences for the realm - yes the Queen is his sister but A - he's honestly in love, B - the past…

Oh I don't criticize "scrappy resistance" as "being done" anymore than "alien invasion" has been "done". They know it's "done" but tried to put a fun twist on it. There is a fourth season but they brought in David "Bionic Woman remake will be a hit" Eick as the new showrunner. Ack. (Do you realize that while RDM…

...Season 2 is actually worth watching. Season 3 got weird, but sort of "interesting weird" - you can tell they reinvented the show and are playing it fast and loose, but *in isolation* it sort of works.

Tacitus says a lot of things about those noble savages living across the Rhine and in Britain.

But Fredric L. Cheyette, who profiles the viscountess in Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours, similarly places her in a hauberk and helmet.

Fun fact: the costume designer for Game of Thrones said that they actually intentionally designed Brienne's armor to be mismatched and not perfectly fitting. The idea is that no one makes a full suit of armor for a woman's frame, so she mixed and matched pieces from different sets of armor made for men - i.e. she'd…

No. My point is that even compared to other TV shows, BSG didn't have an outline or goal. And even among shows that didn't, Ron Moore was frighteningly willing to abandon previous ideas or slap in new ones with little thought to how it would affect anything else. This was unusual even by TV standards.

The point you should leave a show is when you can tell that the writers, in interviews and Q&As, are making excuses....rationalizations. Now this is distinct from "explanations". Honesty is a big factor. A show can survive a string of bad episodes if the writers are up front about "haha, that idea just didn't…