It's amusing to wait for the two lines in the second episode of a TV series that explain why the set has changed. However, I really hope Rennie returns to reprise his portrayal of Loeben. Without Loeben, Alphas has become much more conventional.

I'm just chalking it up to Manifest Destiny. Or something.

Because The Man-Beast is himself a product of reverse genetic engineering.

It sounds more like an anti-corporatation and -pharmaceutical company kind of thing. Drug companies are to current cinema as communists were to 80s cinema.

Bill Pullman is really impressing me so far. It seems like it would be very easy to do a bad job portraying Danes. I find Pullman's performance in these first two episodes to be very compelling. I couldn't say why someone would have picked him out to play this role, but whoever it was made a good choice.

TBH, I think the implausibility of the past portrayals of UNIT is that they make it out like the U.N. has some kind of real independent authority. You could never get away with that in the U.S. So, I didn't expect UNIT to even be mentioned in this season. In past seasons, Torchwood mentioned UNIT to establish some…

I don't completely disagree with you about Pullman's character. But I do think Americans love a redemption story, and when one of the characters said something about how Oswald Danes was "the face of Miracle Day" or whatever, I think that sums up what RTD is doing with this character.

I didn't realize there was another way to pronounce it.

Although I've enjoyed every season of Torchwood for different reasons, Miracle Day is definitely more American. I can see why some old fans might not like the change, while Miracle Day attracts new viewers to the series.

The magnetic field strength required to produce this effect is 1.3T. I wonder if this effect has any impact on functional MRI scans used in research. Brain fMRI studies rely on the analysis of blood flow according to the hypothesis that the activity different regions of the brain directly results in greater blood…

"Hey. What are you doing? Don't drink that. Is there something wrong with you? Don't drink that. I mean it. That stuff will kill you. Stop. Don't keep doing that. Stop it. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop it."

Well, there's no such thing as too many plot synopses of Planet of the Apes. As they say.

Well, crap. I got it now. I don't really pay attention to names. Still, I thought I was being careful.

I think we basically agree.

It's mostly the transition from a long running major network series to a new cable network series that justifies choosing Noah Wyle. It's an alternative to the practice of bringing in a character actor from the movies. That has been happening quite a lot in both sci-fi and non-sci-fi TV series lately and can result…

Very interesting. The amount of liberal political sentiment in the movie series definitely went up after the first one, I thought. The first film was more mixed in its message. The ape society was a caricature of human society, with the three classes of politicians/theologians, militants, and scientists. There was…

I never read the book. I actually didn't know there was a book until recently. It's interesting that the author would make both apes and humans inhabit a non-Earth world — it makes me wonder whether he was trying to make some kind of statement. Like, some kind of fear about the consequences of colonialism and…

Nice article.

The first movie in the original film series didn't go into the specifics. The third film of the series, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, reveals the sequence of events leading to the revolution of the apes (so to speak).

I think Hal is all weird because they took him from his group and removed the harness without killing his skitter caretaker. It looks like the new batch of kids will be more normal and will probably provide some useful information.