100 Years in the making, maligned and mis-marketed, it was the best adaptation of a classic story that has shaped movies and books for decades. John Carter (of Mars!)

To be fair, he actually reacted with less drama than the entire Internet did.

"HAVE YOU ACCEPTED GIANT OCEAN ROBOT JESUS INTO YOUR HEART?"

Sean Connery as Gandalf

"So the phallus from the palace is the shaft made with craft, and the boner that's a loner is the dong that is wrong!"

I've been having a lot of trouble with these lately. Shows like the ones you mention (Dexter I never liked and Hannibal I haven't seen yet) and others had just make such a... let's say, gallant thing to kill. Even the ones about people that, one would think, shouldn't kill.

And the damndest thing of all? If someone handed me a ticket for a flight tomorrow, I would STILL hop right on, even knowing what happened today, what the risks are, and the craft's limitations.

I now know the exact difference between Holy Cow and Holy Crap.

H.P Lovecraft ventured forth into that terrible den of iniquity, known as StarBucks. The sight that beheld him was as hideous as it was indescribable. Scions of well-mannered homes sat indolently in front of bizarre machines. Their fevered hands tapping away at the hideous keypads, typing out the feverish dreams of …

Honorary mention to these adorable mecha tanks

I.Asimov didn't invent the word robotics, thats from the play RUR from 1928 and its derived from an Hungarian or Slavic word. Issac did something more groundbreaking, he invented the 4 Laws of Robotics (if you're gonna mention R. Daneel, get all the laws, 0 thru 3) that have driven the storylines and the advancement…

I think the thing that gets overlooked when we talk about fuel efficiency is that there are more purposes than just moving your car from one place to another. Turning on the A/C when it's 70 degrees outside may be a luxury, but turning it on when it's 110 degrees out is really more of a health thing. It's hazardous to…

I assume you refer to the citizens of the United States. This is a Canadian movie directed by a Canadian director. Also, there are plenty of bloody and violent movies from all over the world, from Japan to Spain, where I am from.

Rescue fees come up as a subject on hiking forums all the time, and the general argument (from SAR teams) is that SAR teams would rather you call for help if you need it than try to tough it out because you're broke. If you have oodles of money, you can always make a donation later.

You logic suggests that we should get rid of the education system and go back to teaching through apprenticeships. These are professors — their job description includes "teaching." Teaching is, by definition, not intended to produce more teachers. It is designed to produce educated people who are (ideally) prepared to…

One could argue that the point of academia is not to "train" students to become faculty in academia, but to simply distribute knowledge to those willing to learn (and able to pay). The student can then choose to do what he or she would like with that knowledge.

You know, it sounds like not so subtle racism. No kidding.

Pretty much all of these rules can be summed up in the First Commandment of Writing: Thou shalt not waste the reader's time.

They used up most of the Myth arcs during season 4 because of the looming cancellation, and when another network picked the show up, they basically had nothing left and had to do mostly filler episodes and the overly long telepath colony arc. But they also had the Fall of Centauri Prime arc, Neil Gaiman's Day of the…