People today really need to get over judging the people of the past too harshly for advocating eugenics. Yes, they were wrong and their points of view don't mesh with our own today, but the people who advocated such things were only working with what they knew. Genetic engineering and gene therapy hadn't popped up as…

I wouldn't speak so broadly about "all" those works being based on mistaken assumptions. The Culture Series and KSR's 2312 are based around the idea of humans actively directing their own evolution. I guess if you want to split hairs you'd call this "gene modification" and not true evolution, but the upshot is the…

I'll disagree, but to fully explain myself would require an hour, a chalk board and an eigth of Panama Red. Yeah, it's one of those kind of things. ;-)

Man... remember flight sims? What happened man? It's all FPS's now...

Explain how! ;-) That I like it or that, as an arc story it owes a debt to B5? Yeah, I know that a lot of what's in BSG is what Ron Moore wanted to do in Voyager, but still.

Halfway in and loving it.

If you made a sincere attempt at season 2, then it was never going to work for you. As for not believing that anyone cares about it, well... some folks care about Twilight and I don't get them.

DO not skip the final season. There is one huge character arc that wraps up in it. If you skip it, you miss out on one of the greastest aspects of the show.

Okay, here goes. I guess this is best illustrated.

Full of win. And while I'm not the biggest Collin Baker fan, Merida-6 makes this for me. That coat is just too damn snazzy.

Kim Stanley Ronbinson's Mars Trilogy. In fact, most KSR books are hardish sf of one stripe or another. Check him out. Prophet of our time and no one is paying attention.

They have costumed Meridas at Disneyland. Good enough.

King Mob and Ragged Robin? Nice!

I think the reason they blamed it on manhattan was for the ease of storytelling (screenplays need more efficiency than just about any other medium). To introduce the "building the alien" component would have been seen as too off the beaten path of the story to fit into already packed 3ish hours. You are free to like…

The issue that a lot of people (myself, South Park, most of the people on the internet who carp about this stuff) have is not the family themselves (well, sorta, I'll come to that), but rather the American capacity to watch it.

Why are people nosy? Shit, I don't know, maybe they're curious because you have a unique look? People pressing you after you say, "Black," is surely annoying and rude, but you can't fault people for their curiousity.

Kids today! In my day we kept our porn stashes in shoeboxes...

Wait... You're worried that baldur's gate Enhance Dition "might not feel modern enough?" Isn't the whole point that it's old school and therefor not modern? That's sure a heck the reason I'm getting it.

Sorry, Meredith, but Shingen's right on this one. It's altered a bit, but not "entirely changed." Entirely changed would be "Watchmen save the day!" or "Dr. Manhattan is Night Owl's father." Seriously, you're overstating it.

Part of the move to touch screens actually has a lot to do with wear and tear. Buttons, dials, switches etc. are moving parts, and as anyone involved in design or manufacture will tell you, moving parts eventually break.