Fair enough, and I'm not saying SF/F fandom is free of "oh, I used to like X. before they sold out " hipster douchebaggery. Wish that was the case, but it's just isn't so. Inverted genre snobbery is just as tiresome as the upright kind. :)

I present this hypothesis; by and large, if a work of genre fiction garners enough attention to become seriously mainstream, it will be despised and dismissed by those fans of that genre.

On the flipside, though, there's no explanation. It's just a thing that happens.

Honestly, I think my expectations of Iron Man 3's story making any sense whatsoever got murdered and wrapped in plastic about ten minutes into #2. Looks like the assumption is the audience doesn't really care as long as Downey gets to deliver some snarky one-liners while looking extremely bored as much CGI shit goes…

I'll go for "another" - i.e. when it eventually washes up on free to air TV in three years or so, I've got nothing better to do than be distracted while folding laundry.

I can't feel too bad for someone who read the script and signed up for The Bourne Legacy regardless.

I'm genuinely curious: is this idea used as a good plot solution or is only a gimmick to get the fans something to speak?

Fairy tale ebola makes her clothes fall off

If Martin was just "in it for the money" he would have just divided the manuscript of A Feast of Crows in half - and not bothered doing the rather elaborate and time-consuming rewriting job on both that and what became A Dance With Dragons - and moved on to any number of faster, more lucrative jobs. But I guess some…

Wasn't this series drawn out for the purposes of making money?

Is it the curse of typecast or his personal life that have hampered him getting bigger roles since Star Trek

Of course there is, but sanity requires time and effort. Much simpler to just let a glorified bot go on the rampage.

In fact, he mentioned that only a fool or a madman would attempt to write another episode of Doctor Who after having pleased people so much the first time around —

Yeah, Ostrander talks about that. The Doctor's body count is actually impressively low considering how many people he saves.

To be pedantic about it, the last time someone wiped out a whole Dalek Empire Tennant's Doctor kicked him out of the universe to become Rose's boyfriend — which is my idea of a fate worse than death. :)

(And the Doctor is content to escape from the Parliament — I couldn't help feeling that Tennant's Doctor would have blown them all up somehow.)

now we're getting the idea that the Daleks wouldn't have been nearly so bad if they hadn't been driven by fear and hatred of the Doctor. It's true that the Daleks aren't terribly formidable in their first story, trapped in a tiny city they can't leave, and then suddenly the next time we see them they've invaded Earth.

Moreover, WHY would you lock a jail from the inside to begin with?

I want to link back to the rant that John Ostrander wrote after "A Good Man Goes to War" aired, in which he basically said that the Doctor shouldn't ever apologize for fighting evil, and we shouldn't ever stop celebrating heroism.

John Connor is a poster boy for home schooling though — if you aspire to your children growing up to become domestic terrorists.