I'm referencing my personal (and admittedly flip) opinion of Miéville based on consistent themes carried within the subtext of multiple reviews and excerpts. And subtext is one of my specialties. You've feigned insight into his real intentions and thinking, and I am prepared to admit that you may be-right, for all I…

Thank you, kind sir. You are obviously a man of fine upbringing and exquisite taste.

Which part are you implying that I didn't notice? Although Miéville certainly has more than one motive for his actions, a very large one is increasing the luminosity of his own rising star by peeing on the embers of his predecessors. Much like Moorcock, Mieville is too absorbed (or, as you would say, confident) in…

Oh, it isn't the rips part that I mind, it's the self-aggrandizing: Miéville's rips on Tolkien are more self-promotion than scholarship.

My heart weeps for Wakanda.

I'm well-versed in futuristic dystopian fiction, and I must tell you that the genre isn't dominated by socialism. I have heard more than one conservative pundit make the same claim, but the myth is easily disproven.

Yeah.

This is bunk science, at best. The next logical step would be disassembling Beethoven's Symphony and exposing control groups to certain parts. Why in fuck's name are they moving on to Brazilian Samba and Funk?

Two comments:

Oprah and Tom Cruise, jumping on the couch!

I've resisted reading Mieville for both his self-aggrandizing rips on Tolkien and his egotistical "Pax China" plan to publish in every genre. Based on the thoughtful review, I will definitely read the book, but at this moment I can't help wondering if I will be subjecting myself to an overwrought rehash of the plot…

If someone were to put a gun to my head and ask me to choose between watching this movie, or listening to the audiobook version of Bill O'Reilly's Culture Warrior, I would ask him to fire.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Only one couple from last year's top ten list of epic sci fi love stories makes the cut? Oh, how soon love fades. *sigh*

Oh I wouldn't mind so much if he had gracefully refused to comment about Zod. Unfortunately, that isn't what Mr. Snyder did. Rather, he went out of his way to discredit rumors of Zod and Luther. So we can now officially expect Luther in the sequel, if the studio keeps this half-wit around.

Snyder avidly denied Zod would be the villain, stating that internet pundits were full of shit... and now... SUCKER PUNCH!

I disagree. This is a way for humanity to find 'dumb' life. Intelligent life will be harder to find, for obvious reasons.

ack!

The Fire Shocker™

So hydrogen is like a universal thermometer and dark matter is... well, it aint the armpit. We can safely rule out the armpit.