The science behind lasers never killed the lightsaber, no matter how ridiculous the expanded universe crap was with the crystals and resonances got.

Also, young Angelina Jolie. Mmm... Acid Burn...

No, she called you a fat MARMOSET. Totally different.

Another '80s kid here. A lot of it, for me, was the proliferation of toys and shows that existed for no reason other than to market toys. In the 1980s, kids became obsessed with owning stuff, especially cool space stuff (Star Wars contributed lots to that, as did the fact that our president's name was "Ray Gun"). …

Max's motivation clearly revolves around the infinite and timeless value of the Meerkat story. This wasn't an allegory about health care. It was a pitch to bring back Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet.

We just saw this last night, and found some additional flaws:

I've always heard that it was due to a combination of words in English. So that "a naranja" or "a naranj" turned into "an orange" with common usage. In the same way that Istan Boil ("to the city") became Istanbul in Turkish. I'm no linguist, though, but that's what I've been told by other linguists.

Yeah, pretty much any zombie movie has roots in anti-communist fears.

I liked the moment (however brief) where Sookie remembered the creepy, scary Warlow coming at her through magic woobliness in the bathroom. Then she forgot it, just like the writers seem to have, because it's more interesting to have him be a sexy person.

I loved the magic in the PS2 game Okami, where you were painting on the canvas of reality. (Plus it's just such a PRETTY game!).

Of course, neither New Hope nor Phantom Menace has the impossibly skilled world building of the greatest Star Wars movie of all time... Caravan of Courage: The Ewok Adventure. I mean... "Starcruiser CRASH." You get it all right there. What else do you need?

The childhood cartoon-lover in me wants to see a live action Spidey/Ice-Man/Firestar team-up movie.

And let's not forget those of us who were SO into it that we bought both comic collections to find out what happened between episodes, even when said comics directly contradicted what was stated in the show (like the Haitian's backstory). If they could make these new comics contradict those in completely unnecessary…

The only thing that'll make me pick Defiance back up (after the first 3-4 episodes bored me to tears) would be a spin-off nature show where they explore the lives of the bear-spiders from the first episode. Because, well, BEAR-SPIDERS.

Just once I want Sam to turn into something awesome to fight off people who are being jerks. In one of the books he turned into a frakking LION, and that freaked everyone out with his primal predator roar (or something). I realize the writers maybe forgot about shifting or didn't want to waste SFX budget in that…

The Dungeons & Dragons movie was a pretty awful adaptation of every book TSR/WoTC has published in the history of the game. Though that's probably stretching this topic a bit too far.

I'll only support this if it can somehow transform all those graph paper pencil drawings of D&D dungeons from when I was 14 into something cool looking that I can show other players. Otherwise, my imagination is sufficient for translating pencilled drawings into more useful concepts.

Max & Miriya from Robotech. Maybe they were just the first on-screen couple that my young mind could process, or maybe I was just too confused by the Rick/Lisa/Minmei dynamic, but Max & Miriya just worked for me, and I loved (love) both characters for it.

We started watching Girls during a free preview weekend, and specifically didn't order the channel because we were so annoyed by many of the characters, ESPECIALLY Hannah.

So the purpose of this "prequel" was just to hype up the reveal(s) at Trenzilore? Great. OOOoooh.... MYSTERY!!! Maybe if we talk about how big and mysterious it is, it'll make up for any bad writing we use to reveal it. I'm getting tired of Moffat telling us what to be excited and intrigued by. Sure, he's done…