So pretty much everyone, huh?

I'll gladly sign on to the incompetence of the Jedi Council, though. I'm not sure that a single thing that they do in the films actually ends up being a good thing. And I would think they'd be on the separatists' side; I mean as far as I can tell all they want is to not be part of the…

I think Imma steal that idea.

Ug.

I see what you did there.

Interesting. When I write, it's generally the other way around; think of a idea, concept, technology, or other thing which we don't have in our world and figure out what would happen if it did exist. What would society look like? How would warfare change? What every-day things would be completely different?

I've loved old books for nearly my entire life. Some of my favorites to find (and buy if I have the cash) are old technical manuals—like a 19th century chemistry book I found once—and old atlases/encyclopedias. Also anything with a chromo-lithograph.

These are really fun. I'd never heard of them before a curator at my university's library pulled some out to show off how cool their "special collections" section of books were.

Hey, I'm not disputing that :p

I understand how difficult this would be to pull off, but I'd love to see a game which showed the scale of space and things in space. To give some perspective, the now-defunct Iowa-class battleships' guns has a range of nearly 24 miles, meaning the round would spend over a minute in flight before hitting its target at…

Loved that show

He's also an established author who began publishing in the 80s. And of course you are going to find exceptions to this, but the market expectations at present are, in general, very different than they were even a few decades ago.

Hmm, I hadn't considered that one. Good point.

Not really. Honestly, I think the Bioshock games are the closest we have at the moment.

I wonder how long we'll have to wait until a good Steampunk film goes mainstream, 'cause I would watch that SO hard.

Dark and gritty has a time and place. Like I said, it's perfectly fine to use if it adds to the story, but tends to fall apart (as any thematic aesthetic would) when it's there just to be there.

I disagree. Enterprise failed because of poor. . . everything. Well, almost everything. And just because the third season of that show was kind of dark doesn't mean that any future iteration of Trek which had a dark timbre would be bad.

That *would* be fun.

I like how you've articulated this. I guess what I was getting at is that it seemed like these films had the commentary as a subtext, rather than having that commentary drive the plot. Not that *all* of the old Trek shows did, but the majority of my favorites were that way.

I'll have to rewatch it with that in mind.

Granted, this is not the first time this happened in the media. It's another fad, and one which I hope leaves before too long.