My favorite take down of the Prime Directive mentality comes from Speaker for the Dead, when the Formics start supplying the Piggies with technology when the humans won't, because the Piggies decide they want to share in space travel and the greater civilization and think it's screwed up that humans could be so awful…

I think Orwell would disagree with the idea that you're not supposed to apply lessons learned from things you read.

That The Smurfs 2 is performing so well either means a lot of voters have poor reading comprehension or that a lot of readers think The Smurfs 2 should do reasonably well at the box office.

This is what I get for trying to be a nice person on the internet.

Hey. now. She made a bra inspired by Jayne's hat. I'd take her out for a drink.

I mean...

I think making things more difficult traditionally acts as a deterrent and reduces instances. This is why we have laws at all. By the way, this goes for both purchasing and selling - it's not just about people having second thoughts about buying guns, but having second thoughts about who they're selling them to and…

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Well no - a person can *try," but I'd rather a psychopath walk into a school or a movie theater with a hammer than a hand grenade any day. No one is claiming that the problem isn't dangerous people - the problem is that there are things we can do to keep certain tools away from dangerous people and we're not doing…

Yeah, but, like, how long have they been working on getting an Ender's Game movie to the screen?

Well it sounds like she floats away pretty early on.

I find it interesting that the presence of a baptism was a blasphemy he considers tantamount to asking a Muslim to "spit on the face of Allah," as opposed to asking a Muslim to, y'know, recite the shehada.

I assume you're referring to an example of this happening?

This is how I felt with Terra Nova - the producers disagree with me about what is interesting about it - and now I'm worried.

I think all the clichés might have been Syfy's way of feeling like the pilot script wasn't too alienating - my hope is that now that we've established relationships through clichés, we can start exploring the weird and the new.

I *like* terraformed Earth.

I also think the reason Nolan's not all that smooth is because…

I wish, on Defiance, the aliens were more...alien.

A little late for Easter, but there you have it.

They didn't wear less into battle.

Haven't read the article, but that quote alone doesn't suggest to me that there is no Kryptonite ever, just that there isn't in this movie...which makes sense to me, given that he's facing off against super-powered villains.

Reading about The Selection and the banning of high-technology after the "Cyber Wars" makes me long for a Dune show done in the Game of Thrones style.