S is for sushi, that's good enough for me...

Biology's not destiny. My childhood is as borked as any sci-fi geek's (and we sometimes seem to be composed entirely of folks with traumatic pasts). I'm a relatively happy adult. You know that "it gets better" video thing for gay folks? True for folks with bad pasts who are determined not to hang onto them their whole…

eeeeehhhh.... you saw what happened with Johnny Mnemonic, right?

That's such a bleak book! Do you think they could do it justice? (Armor, natch)

Meh. No Bujold. She's still too obscure. But some of those are stupendous stories; if even a few of them get made, what a wonderful thing it would be!

Love the Baba Yaga stories... used to be my favorite character name. I always hated the tendency for female gamers to make hot elven game characters, so I'd make elderly, ugly, goblin-like hags and name them Baba Yaga.

You rock.

Aieeeee! Oh wow. Now all we need is someone to manage a halfway not-suck Sandman script.

I like both and will watch both, but Dr. Who is making me giggle like a schoolgirl.

Ahhhhhh, ok. :)

I think they're not included on the grounds of being slightly evil, but yes, an adorable couple. Except she betrays him in the end.

A marmite sort of character? Ok, I'm not completely up on my slang here. Is this a denigration because Marmite isn't as potent as Vegemite? Or ... why is this bad? I sort of like Marmite, actually, but the context seems to indicate this isn't a compliment. .

Wow. I guess all those guys who squirt happy juice into their pants when they're in the presence of a strong woman are sick, sick men who need therapy. Or maybe that's just what Psychology Today *wants* you to think!

Actually, I agree with everything you say here - the writing was often abysmal. But still, Michael Rosenbaum's acting was superb, and the overall concept of Lex as not truly evil (to begin with) is one the movies have never managed to capture.

You don't like the way Lex was acted? You could see the potential for good in him and watch it being warped out of true. I've never seen any movie where they showed that, showed that he doesn't start out evil - showed how he has a choice and screws it up.

And he looks truly awesome as an evil character.

It's interesting to see how some actors transform with age. It seems to take real intelligence to be a good comedy actor; you can't be dumb and do good comedy. The ones who are great occasionally take that incredible comedic timing and turn it to dramatic purposes, and it's bloody impressive.

They were my first thought too.