I, Jedi was a brilliant Take That/Fan Fix against the Jedi Academy trilogy. Stackpole tossed eerything that sucked about Anderson’s books and fixed what he could to make it all awesome. There’s a reason Stackpole & Zahn (and Allston) are considered the only decent EU athors.

so basically: "fuq PC gamers. Buy a console so we don't have to deal with you" Got it. Guess I won't be playing any more Bioware games. shame :(

so true. I actually got hired because of this. I was working as an office temp in the state college system, doing collating and proofreading when one of the proffessors asked me about the excel sheet I was proofing for him. "could you have a slider bar there instead of manually typing in a number?" he asked. I had no…

I have been saying for years I would pay good money to see Judi Dench and Helen Mirren in an action buddy cop film kicking ass and shooting people. It would be like the older Cagney & Lacey do Lethal Weapon

and I think the point was that teachers *never* intervened, and this was just a single example.

As one of those geeky friends of Annalee's in middle school, I can confirm everything here. There really was a Hate Patrol and they really were that bad. I always thought the best revenge we got was that by the end of middle school, the geek/outcast/loser lunch table area was far larger than any other individual…

DS9 Millennium trilogy by the Reeve Stevens. I read each book in a day, fantastic story, great pacing and one thing that really sells a Trek book for me is that they got the characters' "voice" down perfectly. It always throws me when an author writes a character's dialogue in a way that may work for a book but just…

thank you for recognizing the utter crap that is Last Crusade. why this movie is so beloved has never made sense to me. boring, uninspired, insipid shit with sitcom level juvenile humor, formerly intelligent resourceful characters reduced to bafoons making camel jokes and not a single valid cliffhanger moment. crap…

caller ID?

in this case... yeah. or Bluebird or Free Ride or just about anything else.

you're asking for an sci-fi/fantasy critic to not be snarky? you haven't been on the internet very long have you?

The first thing I thought of (aside from the Brachiasaur reveal in Jurassic Park) was John Lithgow's space walk in 2010. As has been pointed out by others, the music really sells these scenes, but what is often missed is the level of acting required, as these thespians are usually playing to a green screen or a tennis…

Hornstull... that's a 10 minute subway ride away. may have to go check that out in person

For some reason I always imagined a planet in a binary system orbiting one star with the other star being farther away. Like if Jupiter in our system were a star so that earth was in between Sol and Jupiter and thus the day/night cycle would be all crazy. The way this is shown, day and night would be the same,…

best part of that movie was the alphabet rant. I think of it any time I ever find something misfiled

agreed. Drive Angry is the movie Ghost Rider should have been

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around my house, when this kind of question comes ("what is the average life span of a garden snail?" or "How did my cat get a tick on his ass?" etc) we say "That sounds like a Wikipedia question" and damn if Wiki doesn't usually have the answer!

same here. I was home sick in bed when I watched it, and Sharktopus made my morning.