Scientist and creationist, Brian Thomas [...]

'Trash culture' is the only thing that is correct here. I'm actually sick of this craze for demonic crap in YA literature. At this point it's not even worth lauding the fact that a kid is reading when they fill their mind with garbage. There are so many great books out there without this nonsense filling up the…

What depth to world or or character? Avatar had the most cardboard characters and world of any movie in the last decade (if not further back). They aren't copying the world and characters cause there isn't anything to copy.

But grown-ups don't love young-adult fantasy/sci-fi books. Some adults love the best young-adult fantasy books. Most of them are total garbage; more, I think, than Sturgeon's Law ("ninety percent of everything is crap") predicts. I think you're right about what makes the best of these books appealing, but there are…

I think what you're trying to say is that you liked those Star Trek movies, so I'm wrong, and everything I perceive in my "dimension" is wrong. But you know very well those movies are dumb (which is all I said), and Star Trek should not be dumb.

I don't have an opinion on Sandra Bullock, but I do think it's funny that so many people feel the need to voice their dislike over her every time the film "Gravity" gets mentioned on this site. So... you're not going to watch the move because she's in it, and you have this compulsive need to click on every article…

Not my own ideas. Anthropology indicates that males specialized in hunting and females specialized in gathering. Generations of sexist anthropologists assumed that hunting was the only subsistence method worthy of study, but within the past generation or two, those male biases have given way to an understanding that…

Easily.

I'd actually say Naussica's the worst Miyazaki, a very rough picture filled with ideas he did better in other movies. Still, Howl is definitely low tier, which is sad given how amazing the first half-hour to hour is. (Whenever Sophie goes to the capitol is when the movie becomes a confusing mess.) That said, low tier…

There was not a single episode of Voyager that was as bad as this movie. Even the incredibly stupid "Omega Directive" episode was more interesting and enjoyable than ST:ID, if only because you learn something new about Borg society that was kind of unexpected.