I realize it’s a typo but I now really want to read:

I’m just here to throw my support behind the Hobbit movies. Did it need to be three forms? No. Probably two, though, to give proper spectacle to the events of the book, which pretty much sped through everything. Did it need to add characters? No, not really.

It’s not even about sentient vs. nonsentient. Species names should never be capitalized, which is why “human” isn’t. In taxonomic nomenclature, a genus name is capitalized but a species name is not — Homo sapiens, Panthera leo, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, etc. And linguistically speaking, proper nouns are meant to refer…

it seems to be qui-gon’s saber

Can I weigh in with what I hope will be a fairly nuanced response on the issue of mispronounced names and microaggressions?

Thanks, I should have investigated it but I’ve been away from these realms for quite some time. I am returning to RPGs after a long hiatus.

I’m hoping that this does open the door for more Ravenloft material. As you say, no need to revisit Strahd and Barovia, but there is so much more to unearth in that setting.

Oh, God! I tried, I really tried to do an Andromeda re-watch sometime last fall, I think. I got about 15 minutes into the first ep before realizing how incredibly bad it was. I had no memory of so much hamming-up, scenery chewing the acting was around the horrible CGI. Yeesh.

Well one of the main characters is an Orion and we all know what they’re known for... okay the other thing they’re known for. 

I agree with GarrisonDean, the score is great, though I’d have used the AMAZING Inama Nushif as my example...but it’s maybe best to wait for that to happen in the film because that whole scene gives me chills.
I thought the acting for Paul in the first Dune was pretty rough, but the actor took it up a notch for the…

Children of Dune is how I learned of (and became a fan of) James McAvoy.

Second this.  Children of Dune was definitely much better, and they learned to cut back on the costumes a little.

It’s on my list.

THIS. One of the things I’ve always loved about Alien is the sheer terror of not knowing. It’s the mysteries of the ship, the egg, etc. that put me on edge.

Very, very well written. I can see myself coming back to reread this from time to time.

This is a very good argument, though I would add that the main problem with Prometheus and Covenant is that Scott really doesn’t know what “cosmic horror” is. The connections to Lovecraft in the original Alien were mainly because of Dan O’Bannon (a Lovecraft and SF fan from childhood) and Giger (whose book of…

That is remarkably well put... now, I have my issues with Prometheus simply not being a good film (not bad, just shiny and self-satisfied mediocrity convinced of its own brilliance) but your point about how it makes everything anthropocentric is really well done and gets right to the crux of the matter - once that…

I feel that, for a lot of people, the reason alien works so well is that it doesn’t need explanations.

“The metatext that the people who built that warship were destroyed by their own creation adds a sense of gothic gravitas to that story. However, it isn’t necessary for it to work. At its heart the fact that the Xenomorph might just be the forgotten weapon of a doomed civilisation, which it destroyed, doesn’t detract…

As much as I like Aliens, it’s nice to imagine a world where Scott made Alien and that was left to stand on its own. No sequels, prequels or crossovers. Just a horror movie set in space as a single perfect organism.