Cloud Atlas was published 5 years after the first Matrix movie came out.

I wonder if you're reading too much into not seeing burnt, crispy, blown-to-pieces bodies, this is a children's show after all, and blood and guts are usually avoided.

For a long time I brushed it as 'teen drama but with some vampires' and didn't bother with it, but a few months ago I finally watched it and I was surprised at how dark it sometimes goes. There's plenty of teen angst but there's also lots of betrayal and surprises that makes it fun to watch. And the show's not afraid…

That's what my religion teacher told me when I was ten years old, that was the day I became an atheist.

Have you read the book? Because that was pretty awesome.

It's based on a book by David Mitchell, so I don't see how it can be a Matrix prequel.

I find it weird how box office figures count movies as flops if they don't make all the money back in the U.S., even though most make more money overseas. There are so many more people in the rest of the world than in just the one country, I don't understand why it's not counted as the main part of the intake.

me too.

Shatner kept pausing in awkward places and it always sounded as though if we could see him he would be makes sarcastic air-quotes with his fingers.

Melbourne has a bubble of pollution around it that keeps it warm, it's the reason it's the only area in the state where fruitbats live. I'm an hour out of Melbourne and it's been getting pretty cold here.

Really? I'm finding it MUCH harder, even after the initial flailing around confused because everything is different.

Let's hope so, but Abed ended up in therapy.

I would rather wait a few extra seconds for a page to load than spend half an hour clicking on every comment to see if someone else has already made the comment I'm about to write.

Oh no, I hadn't even thought about how painful this is going to be on my phone. How tiny do the avatars come out on a small screen?

This is what the collective io9 commenters look like right now.

It's a lot like Inception, but more confusing.

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What order are the comments on the scrollbar in? When I first started reading there were 13 replies to the article, then I refreshed it says there are 34 replies and they seem to be in a different order and I didn't memorise the usernames of the ones I've already read and how many replies each one had.

Is that a joke that I don't get? They mean the same thing.

Well of course there's no magic fishes!