. . . ew.

I watched this when it came out. Regretted that decision ever since.

You start looking at films differently when it's your job to watch and review them.

I don't think either film was objectively bad, just that J.J. failed to capture what I actually liked in the material it was rebooting and he tends to take everything up to eleven. For example, I think I would have really liked Into Darkness if the villain hadn't been Khan and if Spock didn't spend twenty minutes of…

While I adore him as an author, Asimov's I, Robot was just a collection of almost whimsical shorty stories. Well thought out and interesting, as with most of his works, but extremely light compared to series like Foundation. In the end, all the collection was doing was documenting the evolution of robotics, the…

Oh those signatures . . .

While we're at it, I'd like to give a shout out to All Good Things in TNG. Another example of a series which was beautifully topped of.

We're agreed then :)

I wasn't trying to intimate that you were promoting mandatory action figure times for girls, just voicing a concern I have.

While I agree that breaking down gender norms is, generally speaking, a good thing, I wouldn't go as far as prescribing what kind of toys people should play with. In my mind, being liberated from gender roles means being able to chose what you want to do with your life and not being looked down for it. If a woman…

For me at least, bird watching became a lot more interesting when I started saying "now, which dinosaurs will I see today?"

I saw Treasure Planet for the first time the other month and liked it *far* more than I thought I would, especially with how much material they adapted straight from the book. I'm not sure why it didn't do better; maybe because it wasn't a musical?

Like I said, excessive hate is excessive. You're absolutely right that there are FAR worse movies (Biodome, anyone?). But excessive praise is also excessive.

The problem with PTM was that it was just a bad movie. It had good things in it, and parts of it had some of the charm I associate with the older material, but overall the film suffers from several fundamental flaws. That's why it has a Rotten Tomatoes audience rating lower than films like Thor 2, Ender's Game, and…

Lady Thorin and Sorceress Gandalf are really working for me here. Not quite feeling it for Miss Baggins, though. Can't quite put my finger on why.

. . . I don't recall saying anything about white or non-white people in Europe.

You are right, though: there were people of color in Europe for most of its history. I've never read up on how they were treated during any time period (except for Moorish and medieval Spanish history), so I have no idea of how they…

Was gonna say something similar to this. The only thing I have to add is that I feel that historical revisionism—trying to paint a fictional past a accurate—to me is much more aggravating than showing the absolutely *terrible* things (or at least political incorrect things) which happened historically. I feel that it…

So, I've had a fair bit of religious education and have gone through the bible in two different languages. And I'm really curious where people keep reading that Genesis 1 and 2 are supposed to be literal descriptions for how the world came into being, 'cause I sure can't find it.

Honestly, the shift from the Ptolemaic…

IMO it's the best game in the genre out there at the moment. I'll be a LOT faster than AoE, but there's a lot to like about the game.

I'm split on the fights. On one hand, they were a joy to watch for my inner six-year-old. Duel of the Fates is still one of my favorite sword fighting sequences, and some of the other fights had delightful moments.

Does this count?

Actually, me too. I was imagining Donkey Kong, Bowser, and maybe Ganondorf as titans with the other characters as the Recon troops.

Good video in any case.

I read this in middle school. I think one of the best points the satire brings up is that one's own culture never seems "exotic," even if it's neigh unintelligible to others except in the terms of ritual or spiritualism.

It's interesting to me how quick the "civilized" societies of history were to describe every other…