I don't think that's what's being said - I think Star Wars is a franchise that plays directly to JJ Abrams' strengths, whereas Star Trek is emphatically not, to the point where JJ Abrams unabashedly talks about how he doesn't like Star Trek all the time and just wants it to be Star Wars.

3.5) Karl Urban and Thandi Newton show up with a Necromonger army to save him from the alien menace and put him back on the throne.

The best part of The Chronicles of Riddick was wishing they'd just used that production design to make a sweet, sweet Dune movie.

I figure there are a lot of things Bruce Wayne is good at purely because they fall in the middle of a venn diagram of two other things Bruce Wayne happens to know about.

Oh, I get it, you're trolling.

Barring the possibility that the Mindy Project becomes a gritty, realistic drama a la the wire, I'd say this isn't a show where it wouldn't be jarring for Mindy Kaling to ignore that.

Because it limits the work this show could be doing to challenge paradigms and represent minorities on screen to just Mindy Kaling. Everyone else is white.

The question here isn't about whether or not Mindy Kaling is allowed to have a type, it's about whether Mindy Kaling - as a woman of color in an extremely powerful position right now as an entertainer and as a woman of color for whom questions about her attractiveness due to her age/weight/color are a consistent…

So your argument is "Dr. Lahiri is a racist"?

The choices here aren't "Date only white guys" or "Date only Indian guys." I think the problematic "White people are the highest model of desirability for all the world" thing is pretty well established and we could maybe have Mindy, I dunno, date a Nicaraguan dude.

And the need for mankind to evolve to be more peaceful rather than "concur and fight."

I think there's a couple of transcription errors throughout.

I'm interested in After Earth. Shyamalan does a lot wrong in his movies, but families and relationships tends to not be one of them.

Useless because an exploratory mission needs to understand things more than it needs to understand what things look like. Visual data isn't *useless,* sure, but if I had to choose just one kind of data analysis to send on a probe I would have picked something else.

Caesar rode a horse in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, too. He steals it from a police officer and charges the police barricade.

I'm sort of hoping that's exactly what this is.

Thing is, it's kind of how everyone dresses. The in-universe explanation, as I understand it, is that the Jedi dress like basic farming peasants.

Visual data seems mostly useless.

Jonathan Frakes: Chair Whisperer.

I guess I think of it more like saying a trailer that shows Vader cutting off Luke's hand spoils The Empire Strikes Back.