as an American living in Sweden, I use Google translate on a fairly regular basis. Sure it's not perfect, but anyone of above average intelligence should be able to understand what the translation is upposed to be (sort of like those reading tests where the letters in the words are scrambled but you can read them…

what if you met your wife on the internet ina Star Trek newsgroup?

the biggest problem i had with Firefly was that the characters acted and spoke like characters in a fantasy novel, not a real world horror story. That is, they had the same kind of moral absolutes that work in Xanth but that no real person acts like.

"they should have sent a poet"

no Joss Whedon was the writer and has gone on record saying the line was delivered wrong.

and the sad thing is, had she said it the way the writer intended, it would have been perfect. Instead of going up, as if what she was saying was something over-the-top insane, she was *supposed* to say it in a flat matter-of-fact manner like it was no big deal. Imagine it that way and it makes perfect sense.

they have already used Simarillion material in the first trilogy. IANAL (just a filmmaker) but I do believe using Simarillion & Lost tales material within the context of the Hobbit would be legally acceptable

and you seem to be arguing that "you" are somehow separate from your experiences and memories. You insists that "you" die, even though everything in your brain is relocated to a new body. Why do you claim this if you aren't in fact arguing for a "soul" or some other abstraction that separates "you" from your mind?

so, according to this, Skynet *will* be able to build T-800 and T-1000 Terminators by 2040 but according to Mr. Dvorsky's other post today, they won't be able to send them back in time. I guess that's a plus

keep in mind that authors rarely, if ever, supply their own headlines. That's the job of editors

agreed. Most of the list deals with concepts that would require a fundemental break with what we know about physics, but a generational ship seems more a matter of impracticality than impossibility. There is nothing in the laws of physics that prevent it, it's just the *likelihood* of it succeeding over a long period…

I haven't been all that excited about the new Total recall, but seeing how they did the cars does give me a little glimmer of hope that some real filmmaking skill and thought went into this rather than just a CGI noise-fest

Ben Hur was a remake. Star Wars was a Kurisawa film *IN SPACE!* The Magnificent Seven was a Kurisawa film in the old west. Silence of the Lambs was a not-a-sequel to a less successful film of a book in the same series.

I think this is a point most people are missing. The film is called "The Hobbit" because that is what PJ & New Line have the rights to, but it sounds like the films will be incorporating not just Hobbit & LotR material, but Simarillion and Lost tales stuff as well, because this is the only way PJ can make those films.…

same here. not necessary New Year's, but some where between Xmas and the end of January, we do 12 hours straight of LotR.

every year my wife & I watch the complete LotR trilogy in a marathon 12 hour sitting (this year was the first year on Blu-Ray on a 60 inch LED TV - can you say awesome?). We are already making plans for future viewings to be approaching 20 hours and requiring 2 days. The big question for us isn't "will we bother with…

no, DoFP was a Clairmont era storyline, shortly after the arrival of Kitty Pryde (issues #141-142). Bishop arrived after the big revamp when X-Men got split in 2 in the early 90s

forced: yes. It feels like both Brother Data and regent Janeway just sort of ... showed up... because the plot demanded that they do. It's like there was another half hour of story in the middle there that was missing.

I agree. The "feel" of the show just isn't there this season. It's suddenly become all ominous and evil and a bit choppy. I love WH13 because despite the weekly death each artifact causes, the tone of the show has always been fairly light. That tone hasn't been there this season.

maybe your reading skills are lacking if a GIF distracts... oh look a shiny penny!