It looks dreadful.

The idea of making Natalie Portman’s character more “sympathetic” makes me violently ill. #Annihilation Ellison is clearly illiterate, otherwise he would have realized what the kind of film he was producing.

Deadpool was fun, but Neuromancer needs a cinematic poet, which is probably not Miller’s handle.

I thought the writing in the opener was awful - arch and verbose and all the time straining for significance. The visual style was overwrought, doing its subject no favours - and I say that as a great admirer of Hannibal, where the imagery is a seductive complement to a highly intelligent script. I’ll probably be…

Yes, a lot of things in the reboot only make sense if it is set in our future. For example, cultural transmission (i.e. Along the Watchtower) doesn’t happen in reverse. And don’t get me started on the presence of cats, dogs, elephants. For all that New BSG is probably the best SF series ever made.

My only worry is that the only good thing about Terminator Genisys was ...

The upshot of the Mary argument is debatable. It’s designed to show that there are more than just physical facts. Mary, it is supposed, knows ALL the physical facts about people, but not the phenomenal facts (facts about the way their colour perceptions feel, in this case). So phenomenal facts can’t be physical in…

A somewhat US-centric list. I thought Channel 4’s Ultraviolet was a brilliant take on the vampire myth, grounded in scifi and with a cool espionage vibe.

I intensely dislike likeable characters.

I feel differently to some of the other contributors to this thread. I found the first season halting, but the second season introduced a range of interesting, compromised characters (e.g. alien crossdresser Viceroy Mercado). Season 3 was dark, chaotic and went apeshit when it needed to. There’s was some sparkling…

The #‎DrWho‬ series opener was an ok series of bombastic setpieces. Syfy’s ‪#‎Defiance‬ is way funnier and better paced.

Never get tired of this film. But that alternate universe in which Sean Connery plays Thulsa Doom is a terrifying place.

High Rise is a good place to start. Also his stories of metaphysical disaster - particularly the Crystal World. He is also one of the finest short story writers in the English language.

I thought Defiance Season 2 was surprisingly great - witty, fun, brimming with well realised characters. Ran a close second to Orphan Black for best serialised SF of the year. Hopefully, it will play to these strengths in the future.

I find the Wire consistently hilarious. Its characters (Bunk, McNulty, Omar...) are often very sympathetically portrayed. It's a great work of humanism. For nihilism look to Breaking Bad.

AOS is much improved and I enjoy it but Skye remains the most vacuous character on TV.

R Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse (The Prince of Nothing and Aspect Emperor triliogies) are ultra-dark fantasy. They depict a universe where divinity is a cancer and where magic is an eternal stain on the soul. They make Game of Thrones seem like an agreeable ramble among rambunctious medieval folk. But they're bang…

Skye must still die. But when?

I've really enjoyed the book.s Hope they get some real talent behind this.

Where to begin: Legend of the Seeker, the Originals, Warhammer 40K ...