Wrong. A story with unicorns in it wouldn't be science fiction, it would be fantasy. Unless of course the unicorns were horses that were genetically engineered to look like unicorns.

I disagree. Nazis weren't evil because they were too rational. Their so called rationale for their atrocities is just as superstitious and self serving as most other religious institutions'. Hate and greed were their motivating force, under a B.S. guise of rationality.

Is there any other kind of Hipster?

I know nobody want to hear this one, it's like religion to sci fi fans, but changing history via time travel is a myth. It's impossible. Even if time travel existed, changing the past could not. If you as a time traveller plan to do something in the past, it has already happened. Period. There is no change. And…

HEY- I "DISMISSED" SOMEONE'S COMMENT BY ACCIDENT! SORRY! I WOULD BRING IT BACK IF I COULD!

I agree this is a preconception, but I also hope it's true.

One might ask that last question because one thinks we MUST keep evolving to become more "advanced", to move forward. But there is no reason we need to keep evolving if we are in tune with our environment, artificial or natural.

Great point!

You mean like Darwin in X-Men? We could say he was mis-using the term "evolve" to describe some other process where his brain is able to identify what traits he needs in a given situation, and activate the dormant genes left over from distant ancestors. Yeah, that's the ticket!

No. There is no push, and there's no target goal of complexity. We have just believed that for so long, it's like a superstition we can't shake.

Agreed. Devolution SORT of makes sense, assuming there are some sort of remnant of past genes stuck somewhere, dormant, in our DNA. But we could just as likely turn into any viable lifeform as we could something that we were not directly descended from. We are related to spiders, but we did not evolve from them.

That's good.

That evolution has a pre-planned goal to evolve us and other life into "higher", "more evolved" forms.

If they're Modassian Cybermen, is their weakness gold?

I don't care about box office, or that the general public loves a good action movie, with superheroes or without. They also loved The Avengers and Iron Man, two movies that embraced the source material with love and respect. Dark Knight Rises rode on Heath Ledger's coattails. It was a downer, and not that good.…

Ha! Funny.

I agree. Smallville got better the closer it got to it's comic book origins. Nobody wants "realistic" super heroes or villains. We want escapism! Modern superhero comics have plenty of adult appeal.

Oh my god, I did not know "…that dude in Mystery Men who asks Geoffrey Rush whether they ought to bring their brewskis…" was Michael Bay!

Galactica wasn't even a show like Galactica. By which I mean it was a hoax- it was not what we thought it was. If we knew there was no solution planned to the mysteries, we would not have cared half as much. It, like Heroes and Lost, was good at fooling us with a trail of amazing breadcrumbs. But they lead nowhere.

Ah- we're both winners :-)