Those early seasons of Smallville were excellent, Rosenbaum will always be my favorite Lex Luthor. He was so great because you actually sympathize with him often. Welling was a great young Clark Kent would have loved to see him and Rosenbaum as the inevitable big screen throw down. They had great chemistry and when…

See that this the people behind the Karl Urban Dredd gives me high hopes that it will be good and not another Stallone snarling “I am da Law!” Looks like Karl has some work to do.

I have long been a believer that if they do a good job telling the story you fall deep enough in that even knowing something is coming does not lessen the impact. Because you are so invested and wrapped up in it that you “forget” it is coming. This is why I am so critical of bad dialogue or performances. (hence my…

How is Luke’s saber around after falling down a shaft into a gas giant?

I finally clicked that Meco link after how many articles. I obviously had succeeded in blocking out this childhood memory, but now must figure out how to bleach this memory from my brain! Thanks Katharine!

Nick Cave’s script sounds like it borrows heavily from Ben Bova’s Orion series. Not a perfect lift but heavily on the ideas.

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The whole reason I feel Chatham is miscast has to do with 1)demeanor: In the books Amos often comes off as jovial and very blue collar(albeit what would be masters material skills and knowledge in this world is blue collar). The dangerous part is some he lets peak out as needed. Chatham seems either constipated or…

If a I remember correctly when telomeres get too long it tends toward cancer, so there is a conceivable down side as you would need to carefully balance the lengthening process.

Trilby not a Fedora

Training in full 1 G gravity so they would not be affected by earth gravity. martians are suppose to be taller hence casting a 6'+ actress as Bobbie Draper. Yet they would need to train for 1G stress if theyw ant to be on the same strength level as Earth troops.

To be fair when under thrust or spin you will have gravity of varying degrees. A great example is the coriolis effect when Miller pours a drink in season one and the effect of less gravity from spin as he id closer to the core and under less centrifical force. Every moment logically would not be zero G, so they show…

Thank you Ryan , I’m hoping this will go a long way to explaining I have been trying to explain to a friend on how I view what is and is not Quackery. NDT is so much more eloquent than I could every hope to be on science.

lol the radio comparison is good. “What do mean he has the tapedeck playing?”

But the stew and passenger were not overwrites, but you bring up a good point. How does the director locate kids to use for messages let alone use the stew and passenger when he went off mission. Hell how did they overwrite the senator post crash as he would have never had a precise location for death at that point.

Great reference!

Great summary and you nail a lot of the weak points I saw (Also work in Network Operations so that part was like reading my mind ;-) I look forward to the next season.

I would like to point out one thing though. The scene with the Engineer and giant laser with the game of musical brain wipes. I think this is where…

Their Amos is kind of badly cast, even when he is suppose to be threatening he isn’t and doesn’t carry that carefully restrained danger the book convey so well. Holden isn’t bad but seems kind of young. Otherwise pretty good.

I have my PC tower plugged into my Plasma tv, plays perfectly well. no issue and just as good as if not often batter than cable. I actually like the player.

Sadly I even tweeted the suggestion of Ryan Hurst to casting director when they were in casting. Obviously wasn’t enough <shrug>