Also the author of the novel upon which the series is based is a co-writer of the show, so presumably he'll keep things on track.

On average. Then there's the character whose husband and two children were among the Suddenly Departed — presumably she's a character in the series as well as the novel. That scenario provides for a very broken person and potentially interesting story ideas.

Um, that's $189 on the X-Files set, not $89. You almost got me there.

"And I shouldn't judge something before I've tried it."

The best alternate history novel I've ever read by far was Kingsley Amis' The Alteration, set in the mid-1970s in a world where the Protestant Reformation never happened. Martin Luther never nailed his theses to the church door and instead became pope. Science was heresy and the Catholic Church took over the world,…

I love that Peter Blegvad song "Gold" that goes:

Maybe they can also give us some aesthetic choices, like the ability to choose a theme that doesn't have stark white backgrounds on everything, or the ability to tone down the kindergarten candy-colors, or to make the white text over the brightly-colored backgrounds of the balloons in iMessage be black instead, so…

Sodium vapor lighting is horrid, and I for one will not miss it one bit.

Now accelerating to 0.99999999999999c. Goodbye, everyone.

Shatner writes Star Trek. God facepalms.

I can't wait to see "How To Train Your Dragon 2" but I have to wonder ... if the trailer "contains a major spoiler that Dreamworks wanted to keep under wraps" then why did Dreamworks even release said trailer? Studios are getting so bad about telling the entire story of the movie in the trailer these days that I don't…

I believe a movie should stand on its own. If you need to have dug through "viral marketing" on the internet in order to fully understand a movie, then the filmmakers have failed in their job as storytellers. Viral marketing should be considered gravy, extra fun for those willing to go through the trouble.

You're wrong, of course. Also, I wish you had known it was Firefly so that you would not have even posted here.

My love of cooking and curiosity over this book/app is outweighed by the fact that my money would be going to one of the world's worst patent trolls.

大象爆炸式的拉肚子!

THERE IS NO SANCTUARY

If I may paraphrase Dr. Zira from Planet of the Apes ... they're just so damned ugly.

This is most certainly a first-world problem. If you're the type of person who needs instant Raiders of the Lost Ark gratification you should probably have it in your collection (currently $11.45 DVD/$17.47 Blu-ray on Amazon).

"The straight that separates Europe and Asia"

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain series really puts the kibosh on the whole vampires-are-sexy thing. Those vampires are monsters.