The news media are more to blame for the rise in measles than anybody else. They fabricated the story, perpetuated it and continue to profit off each report and debate.

I thought it was a snake skin marital aid. It's been a while since I read the books...

How dare you science that science isn't a verb. I will science anybody who sciences that. Wanna science down? Science me behind the gymnasium after class and we'll science out whether science is a verb or not!

Yes, but in fairness "White people go to non-white culture land and save the day, probably by either assimilating into the non-white culture and then out-non-white-culturing the non-white people, or by assimilating the good non-white people into their white culture after demonstrating advantages their white culture…

Cool. Now we should turn an iconic superhero into a shallow, materialistic , self esteem damaging, physically disproportionate lump of moulded plastic that we can use to warp young girls expectations for another fifty years.

"The average cop only uses ten percent of his brain. Imagine how many crimes we'd solve if we could unlock the remaining ninety percent."

You're forgetting that Ollie died, and by DC rules, surviving his death means he's now more powerful than Clarke Kent at a holiday resort for yellow suns.

Portable CD players with ten second anti-shock, because who needs to listen to an entire song when only the first few seconds can be stuttered over and over for five minutes until the batteries run out?

Which in itself was stolen from E.Honda's Hundred Hand Slap.

Did anybody else hear the first line of the voice over and think to themselves 'War. War never changes.' ?

Because saviours wear togas, not tights.

In all honesty, I think it's because it's literature, and sci-fi fans have got five decades of experience of disappointing adaptations to draw on, whereas comic fans only have about two.

The only way to stop this is to describe every movie in Goonies terms, regardless of how fitting the description truly is.

Couldn't they do something closer to the original work? A ten part series with one cool scene and 9 3/4 hours of maudlin self pitying monologues as a man with a German sounding name tours picturesque regions of Europe, occasionally stopping to write a letter?

Coming soon: Re-animator; the series.

Sure they do. They just so happen to also want every religion to be a Christian religion, and even then they can't seem to agree which one.

In the pilot, Laurel is introduced as Dinah Laurel Lance. Nobody remembers this because the show doesn't either.

I'm halfway through 'Fall of...', and whilst I'm not going to spoil anything for you, what I will say is this; stick with it. There were vast swathes where I wondered why Simmons insisted on going into so much detail (in much the same way as the Consul's story at the end of Hyperion, which seemed utterly irrelevant…

Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating and Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, which contains a sections on GMO scares and alternative therapies.

Twin Peaks yes, X-Files no. Why? Because Twin Peaks ended before they could finish telling the story, whereas the X-Files got to deliver its finale.