"Transcendence" sounds like the Butlerian Jihad that could have been.

What he seems to be "frightened by," given his mothers' coaching him through it, is his ability to hear literally everything.

Pilot 2! I love it!

New timeline! All bets are off!

Biggest argument against Khan: could you honestly imagine them casting a straight up lilly white guy to play him and get away with it today?

I'm thinking the other twist is that everything on present Earth was engineered to kill humans, as a measure to keep us from returning and ruining it again.

...exactly what I said.

I would see The Hobbit: Desolation. That movie sounds crazy.

I just think it's a title that only means anything if you're already into it, like naming a Star Trek movie in Klingon. Any of the titles of the chapters in The Hobbit would have worked well - which is why Tolkien used them as titles instead of things from his map.

No. "Inception" is a good title. "The Desolation of Smaug" is a bunch of words that only make sense if you already know what you're in for.

Let's recommend other verbs, though. Any verbs.

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Something that sounded like a title to an interesting movie rather than a string of alienating words.

That is a terrible, terrible title.

The porn moan warning should probably have been up at the top, right? To spare me my office's reaction?

Because he's incredibly uninteresting.

I'd love to see the Hunger Games handled with this animation style...

YEP.