The main thing to do would be to change the final result of the competition of the immortals: something more specific plot-wise than being able to talk to animals, read people's minds, and create new medicines. If they plan on more than one film, they're going to have to deal with the same problem as the existing…

I think that the hypothesis presents the fluorescence in this case as a kind of arbitrary effect of UV responsiveness that provides no basis for selection, specifically because scorpions would be using this detection to avoid being seen. They would fluoresce only when they would be visible in the moonlight anyway and…

It's an intriguing theory because it provides the occasion for thinking.

You're right, that was a mistype.

"Health Professionals Appear Concerned About Bias in Commercially-Funded Continuing Medical Education."

You have to remember that the main image they were supplanting was the TV series with Adam West. Now that I think of it, both Batman Returns and Batman Forever were deliberately modeled after the TV series and were both directed by Joel Schumacher instead of Tim Burton. That kind of lends added support to Keaton's…

Maybe we should talk about how the graphic novel has spawned a new film sub-genre, as the price we pay for its legitimization.

I think this is the only way he has been able to get lead actor roles. The only other major film in which he was the lead, that I can think of, was that romantic comedy with Kirsten Dunst, Wimbledon. Surprisingly, a movie about tennis wasn't able to catapult him into a major romantic-comedy acting career.

On the other hand, SyFy WASTES money on these stupid fucking Sharktopus and Giant movies which are so, so very bad they're clearly meant for a drunk/stoned audience.

I don't really have any insight into the SG franchise, since I only saw the original movie and SGU. I do think it's probably relevant that SGU and SGA were supposed to tie in to one another, meaning that SGU wasn't supposed to be completely isolated like Voyager. In general, the producers had certain assumptions…

I'm not sure that the allegation is justified, but it was a reason why people didn't like the series. I think the standard way a sci-fi TV series works is that there's a weekly crisis, which requires some techie solution. All of the main characters are pretty much intact and unchanged; only the "redshirts" have…

There must be a lot of lashing out against SyFy on fansites for the network to respond like this.

I read a reference (but didn't read the original source material) to a quote from one of the producers, saying that even without Peter, Walter and Bell would naturally wanted to have crossed over. As it is, it's implied that Bell traveled between the two sides many times - which, in light of his being judgmental…

"Don't trust Sam Weiss."

Interesting. I wonder what the range of outcomes was for that practice.

This is an idea long overdue.

I wrote the same thing (about U.S. TV versus BBC and HBO's The Wire) just last week with respect to SGU. They use a similar model for TV series in Korea. There's probably a historical reason for why U.S. TV is like that. M*A*S*H ran for 11 years, even though the Korean War lasted only 3 years. It probably has a…

Oh, I really liked the season finale of TSCC. It's just that it was a total cliffhanger, and in that sense unsatisfying. It was just getting good when it got shut down, IMO.

For those interested, SGU writer/producer Joseph Mallozzi has promised to discuss some of the ideas that were going to go into the third season of SGU, if it hadn't been canceled, on his personal blog. In previous posts, he described some of the drama surrounding the show's cancellation, and other related matters,…

Left-handedness and evil have been associated concepts for a long time, as have right-handedness and skillfulness. In Latin, "sinister" means left, "dexter" means right (and is the root of "dexterity"). For similar reasons of association, in the U.S., left-handed children were expected to learn to use their right…