Maybe I'm naive, but I took it as a passing reference to one of the traits that all the actors who have portrayed Superman share, along with dark hair and sick chins. I don't see sick-chined people getting defensive.

Cheers! For the record though, Revisited and Amusing aren't science fiction, but rather non-fiction/theory, though they're both excellent companion pieces.

It's a completely different art-form than, for example, stand-up comedy, and I can see how it would be an acquired taste. It's almost as much about appreciating how quickly the performer can grasp, incorporate, and execute a concept (or not, which can be a source of comedy in and of itself), as it is about a well…

It's definitely worth a read (along with the above mentioned "Amusing Ourselves to Death," by Neil Postman, if you like that sort of thing), as is "Island," also by Huxley, which is something of a utopian counterpart to "Brave New World"'s dystopia.

Excellent choice.

I'll post this here, because it succinctly describes the feeling I took away after first reading "Brave New World" and "1984" (in rapid succession), and also serves to plug the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman, a book which I greatly enjoyed and highly recommend. http://www.highexistence.com/amusing-o…

Great book, but I might have chosen something like "A Scanner Darkly" for a Dick novel that predicted something like our current reality.

Honourable mention (only because this is a fairly recent book and she was wrote the world that Jimmy and Crake grow up in by extrapolating on already existing technologies):

For more on the implications of this breakthrough, and possible applications of this new technology, we turn to the Legion Of Doom:

To my mind, Thanos was never really an "Avengers" villain as much as he was a "Marvel Universe" villain. He popped up here and there, in "Iron Man" or "Spider-man" for example, or appeared in greater capacity in books like "Captain Marvel" and "Adam Warlock," but his strongest showings were "Thanos vs. The Marvel…

The Avengers have come a long way.

I dug that design, and thought it made good story-sense during the first half of "Civil War" when Spidey was running around as Iron Man's sidekick.

It's my feeling that complaints over "Hollywood's" lack of original ideas have themselves become tired and unoriginal. There are in fact original stories being told in Hollywood, but there is also a strong and logical desire to bank on established commodities. As consumers it's our job to vote with our wallets for…

Good pick! Weird tangent: The fellow who illustrated that poster, William Stout, is a fascinating cat who doesn't get much recognition. He worked in the art department on such films as "Conan the Barbarian," "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" and "Pan's Labyrinth," and is an amazing paleo-artist with special…

I don't know about weirdest, but definitely a contender.

The Network President character first appeared in the (far superior, in my opinion) episode, "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television," and was voiced by Billy West in both appearances. I'm a fan of "30 Rock" and never made that connection, but it's certainly a theory worth considering.

I saw the Vaxtron character as lampooning just about any young male actor on the CW network, or by extension the romantic leads on any modern prime-time soap operas (basically any show in the tradition of "The OC").

That's a solid point.

I believe the "Orange-suited creatures" being referred to are the ones at about the two minute mark, while the creature resembling a Kirin appears at about 1:25. Maybe the ignorant gaijin starts fighting it before realising his mistake. Kirin are often said to herald the arrival of a wise man or saviour... so I'm…