Probably didn't hurt that she got some decent material to work with. Really, I don't think teen-clones of Marlon Brando & Meryl Streep could turn "bratty TV teen" shit pie into chocolate mousse.

I enjoyed Surface Detail (which my partner brought for me last Christmas) a lot more than I expected too. Iain Banks (with or without the initial) isn't my favourite writer; he's so damn busy being clever he's too much so to hold my interest, if that makes any sense at all. :)

IIRC, 'Mother' has been renewed for another season beyond this one, and the core cast have another year on their contracts beyond that. So, I don't think we're going to be seeing much of Agent Hill on the small screen for a while.

"Man of Steel" doesn't matter. This art house Warner Brothers comic book movie is not what everyone wants

Well, there's always going to be that tension — after all, Gary Ross walked away from Catching Fire because ostensibly he wasn't confident he could hit the 'hard' scheduled release date with a film he'd want to put his name on. I can understand why studios want sequels to hits sooner rather than later, but I wish…

The show seemed to allow for the viewer to judge for themselves weather or not the actions were proper or over reacting.

What I meant was that as interesting as Banks' world is, he doesn't really tell us how The Culture became The Culture; except to basically say that AI and subsequent technologies made it possible. He doesn't tell us how to get from here (capitalism) to there (anarchic post-scarcity utopia). He hand-waves it. That's…

The thing is, I really love Banks' writing; but it's definitely closer to escapism than practical futurism (and I think Banks' would probably agree).

And that, I think is part of what is different about today... Star Trek talked about some important themes, and yes, it was optimistic, but I think that was in part because they pressed the reset button every single week for the most part.

No modern show would dare look America straight in the eye and say "You're all messed up. You're all scared and paranoid and it's messed up and it's no excuse for giving up the freedoms you've given up or for living a life of hate and fear. You are messed up."

So. Why was he a monster in the initial time line to begin with? Willis did not take a shot at Blunt in that time line.

Thank God for that... Then again, I couldn't think of a better writer for those precious Captain's (Mono)Log of Sanctimonious Crap moments. :)

Oh, the Dutch original. That was a good bad film, if that makes any sense at all. But it takes some kind of demented genius to re-make your own minor cult hit 18 years later and suck it quite that hard. :)

On par with shows like American Horror Story.

You haven't missed anything, except the spectacle of seeing actors who should have known better (Watts, Edward Herrmann, Michael Ironside & Ron Perlman) degrading themselves in this cinematic donkey show.

It should be like The West Wing meets Game of Thrones in Space.

Sorkin seems like the right man for the job.

J.M.Straczynski pitched a really awesome idea for a trek series. When Paramount stole the idea, they called it Deep Space 9.

That's what I love about Pete and Myka - because I just don't believe the show's pushing them towards the tiresome "oh, I've always love-hated you! I can't resist the horny-making sexual tension that's always been between us! Let's FRAK, and love-hate ourselves for doing it!" trope. It's like on television, if…

I hope so. :) Charlie Jane also made the perfectly fair point that back in season two the romantic interests for Pete and Claudia just didn't work, and nobody was particularly sad to see Boring Vet Lady and Hardware Store Guy leave town for good. :)