I'm a hard scifi fan, but I'm not dismissive of fantasy. In fact I'm a lot more likely to be dismissive of a lazy scifi novel with stuff that's supposedly scientific but might as well be magic than I am of an internally consistent, Magic A is Magic A fantasy work.

At least the girls and gay guys still have Depp. For those of us who love the ladies, Penelope Cruz is no substitute.

I guess it has to be fur, rather than regular human facial hair. Fur is smooth and shiny so it's almost like they're hairless. I'm not a furry, but some furry art can be hot. Most of these pics aren't, except for some reason the fish girl...

Um, what? I'm not attacking anybody. I'm suggesting Jeyl is picking the wrong target for his or her attacks, accusing the films of being too male-centric when they aren't any more male-centric than their source material.

Yeah, polygraphs are not remotely reliable.

"This is all very confusing to me but isn't gravity believed to be faster than the speed of light?"

"Not on us - on stuff that's far away but just inside the Hubble Volume."

Hopefully this is the same universe where Firefly and The Sarah Connor Chronicles were renewed, Virtuality got picked up, and Battlestar Galactica's ending made sense.

"The movement defies all predictions about the distribution of mass throughout the universe after the Big Bang. One possible cause: massive structures outside the Hubble Volume exerting gravitational influence."

I'm still pretending the show ended with the first episode of season 4.5, when they landed on the ruined husk of Earth and it looked like the whole show was taking place 2000 years in our future. If the Five were originally alive a few decades to a century after our time, that explains why they would have known the…

Yeah, awesome job, this was awesome. Awesome. Is that enough awesome? I don't think so, have some more awesome.

Where I thought they were going, at the midpoint of season 4, would have been awesome and made a lot of sense. As the Five said: the ruined planet was Earth, and the reason they knew the song was because they'd all lived on Earth, our Earth, not too far in our future, when that song would still be in the cultural…

Agreed, he's not my dream pick for Spike but he'd be way better for that role than for Kaneda.

No, I know you said that's what happening in this film, I'm just wondering why studios would think post-converting CG would ever be a good choice.

I think your fight should be more with the relative lack of female protagonists in superhero comics than with the lack of protagonists in film adaptations of them. Maybe you could make a legitimate argument that we shouldn't be making so many of them into movies when so few of them have strong female characters, but…

Is it possible that the Dyson spheres are extremely efficient, with only a relatively small amount of radiation deep in the infrared seeping out? Could we have failed to detect this so far just because we aren't looking for it? Not that I think this is the actual explanation for dark matter, just that it WOULD make…

I know this was a joke, but for the purposes of astronomy, anything heavier than helium is considered a metal.

Well, this whole discussion would be more appropriate for a work that's not based on source material in which the protagonist is male.

What would even be the point of post-converting CG footage? Would it even take that much more time to re-render it with a second viewpoint instead?

Honestly more Culture books either take place outside the Culture or have outsiders as protagonists than don't. IMO Consider Phlebas works just great as an introduction, but Look to Windward is also a good starting point.