Do yourself a favor and stop watching right now, because after season four it's all downhill and fast.

I've always considered it something similar to willing suspension of disbelief. We're more likely to accept the impossible than the improbable because if we weren't able to accept the impossible, we wouldn't be getting on board with the story in the first place. However the little contrivances still bug us. No one…

Exactly. Otherwise how will their future captains be able to stare up longingly at them? From a shuttle? You can't get a motorcycle in a shuttle! That's totally unscientific!

Are you sure we aren't reading the script from that sci-fi pilot the It's Always Sunny guys wrote?

Would that make Elysium his 12 Monkeys?

Oh, it's totally frivolous and unnecessary. But it is fun and, besides, no one said you had to know them all. I imagine the only people who really go around calling a conglomeration of owls a "parliament" are people who are already pretty invested in learning all the other, more important things about owls. It might…

Yeah, but by then, Dennis Tito will have already shoved a married couple in a port-a-potty and shot it at Mars, so NASA's gonna look pretty stupid.

Man, if that was like a minute shorter, it would be the best thing ever.

This wasn't totally surprising, considering what we already know from the wealth of research into music's effects on how plants grow currently being conducted in elementary school science fairs across the nation.

I'll never not love watching Stephen Colbert nerd out about Tolkien.

Is it wrong that I'm kind of excited about this? Star Wars holds such a massive place in pop culture that I've always been fascinated by those early moments in its history when things could have been wildly and ridiculously different.

Count me in as someone who assumed that "Under my protection" meant the Earth, seeing as it felt a lot like him asking the Atraxi if Earth "was protected?" I got the impression that the Great Intelligence people assuming it was just the girl was them grossly underestimating how big a threat they were dealing with.

No one's going to put Watto in Star Wars, but the idea that someone at Disney is going to want to throw an Admiral Ackbar mask on some dude just to ride the wave of an overdone internet meme is depressingly plausible.

This is exactly what I was going to say. I don't know how you don't make Jerry Aquaman. That's a no-brainer.

I think perhaps one thing that TNG has in its favor in the voting is that it's got the weight of the franchise behind it. For a great many people, TNG is the high water mark of Star Trek as a whole*, and thus they're voting for more than just TNG but Star Trek as an idea. At least that's my explanation, because…

Is it just me or does this guy look like a character in a movie about a group of elderly people who keep themselves alive by eating the flesh of teenage girls? He's got a hungry look in his eye.

The problem is that MST3K and Fringe are practically the definition of apples and oranges, except in this case, while Fringe is one of the better examples of an apple, MST3K is pretty much the only orange in existence. I love Fringe's pathos and depth, sure, but there's pretty much nothing like MST3K. It's such a…

Or even as lawyers!

I think the fact that it happened at the same time as Harry Potter meant that a lot of the ripoff films wanted to split the difference between them. Also it meant that the main lesson that piggybacking studios learned wasn't "make a sword and sworcery film" but "adapt a fantasy book." So you got your Chronicles of…

Yeah, reading that whole tribe section, I just kept thinking, "So like a Neal Stephenson book?"