I hated THE FOOD OF THE GODS when it first came out because I loved the original novel by H.G. Wells, which it bore little or no resemblance to.

Granted, it’s better than the previous film adaption, VILLAGE OF THE GIANT, featuring a young Ron Howard!

I think that’s perceived as an SF film, not a horror film, although the lines are often blurry there.

Wait until you find what the baby’s real mother was! :)

(Hint: It has four legs and a tail.)

Fun list (although calling THE FOOD OF THE GODS “great” is stretching it).

Some other contenders:

Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing in DRACULA.

Charlton Heston in THE AWAKENING (based on a novel by Bram Stoker)

The entire last act of Bette Davis’s career. :)

Worked for LOGAN, I guess.

The Klingons have a slippery definition of honor, especially in the TOS era, where they were often portrayed as very shady characters: poisoning grain, massacring entire crowds of civilians to make a point, sabotaging the Enterprise’s engines,etc. The guys in “Friday’s Child” or “A Private Little War” or “Elaan of…

Hell, Kirk let an innocent woman get run over by a bus for the sake of the greater good. And that’s in possibly the most celebrated STAR TREK episode of all.

I swear, if “City on the Edge of Forever” debuted today, half the internet would be complaining that it’s too dark and downbeat:

“Where’s the hope and optimism?…

We absolutely have to earn our morality every generation, on STAR TREK and in real life, or it’s just starry-eyed escapism. Heroes and ideals need to be tested; that’s what drama is all about.

As Sisko put it: “It’s easy to be a saint in Paradise.”

But where’s the story there? Ultimately, STAR TREK does not take place…

Heck, the whole point of “The Enemy Within” was that Kirk’s dark side was an intrinsic part of him and part of what made him a good captain, along with his more human instincts. His primitive impulses were not something that he could just evolve beyond.

In TOS, society had progressed, but human nature remained the…

I thought it was refreshing—and a nice reminder that Starfleet officers don’t just drink tea and listen to classical music.

And Trek’s colloquial dialogue is always kinda anachronistic if you think about too hard. Remember McCoy going “In a pig’s eye!” or Kirk joking about dipping little girl’s ponytails in ink wells?…

I thought it was fucking cool that you can finally say “fucking cool” on STAR TREK.

Take that, Standards and Practices! :)

And “The Omega Glory” . . . .

Rogue captains and admirals are practically a Star Trek cliche. It may be that Lorca will go down the path . . . or not.

But just declaring that everybody in STAR TREK has to be paragons of virtue by definition isn’t idealism; it’s escapism. As TOS reminded us every other week, humanity…

I think the jury is still out on whether Lorca is a good guy or a bad guy or something in-between. We’re only five chapters into a multi-part saga so Lorca may well come to regret leaving Mudd behind.

We’re not dealing with the old episodic format, where all questions are answered, and all dilemmas resolved, by the…

Coming late to the party, this reminded me of a lot of BUFFY season premieres, which often had Buffy in a funk because of the heart-breaking events of the previous season’s finale. (“When She Was Bad,” etc.)

Hopefully, Kara will be back to her old self now that the show has given her a chance to process Mon-El’s…

I love the THOR movies wholeheartedly and without apology. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve enjoyed the other Marvel movies to varying degrees, but I’ve probably rewatched the THOR flicks the most; they’re bright, colorful, goofy, unabashedly comic-bookish, and just plain FUN.

As the title implies, I picked up on a loose end from the first episode that the TV show never followed up on: whatever happened to the guy who shot Liz in the first place?

Oh, I did have some ideas for more books, but, to be honest, STAR TREK novels paid more than ROSWELL novels, so . . . .

Thanks!

Funny trivia: In France, that book was published as “The Assassins Never Forget.”

Come again? :)

(Keep trying to post the cover, but can’t figure out how to do it.)

And this where I brag about having written the first ROSWELL tie-in novel, based on the TV show, that is, not the original YA novels. I always liked that show, and enjoyed writing the characters.