Before the dark times?

Thanks for this—I've been trying to remember the name of this flick for the better part of a year. Saw the teaser on io9 long ago, but never heard from it again... I'm sorry to hear that the end result is as forgettable as my experience with it to-date has been. :-(

They did. But like almost every show ever made (with only a few notable exceptions) it took about a full season to find its legs. The second season was awesome, particularly in the back half—so like so many shows it found its footing and became awesome just in time to be canceled. Everyone who watched season 2 was…

I love how "truthers" (a name that frankly *offends* me) always talk about charges at the base of the building, when *every bit of footage of the collapse* CLEARLY shows the towers collapsing from the top down, not from the bottom up.

Ron remarks to Harry says on day one something like "not a single Dark Wizard that didn't come from Slytherin". That said, the point is that Slytherin is all about ambition and drive—which can do great things, but can also be do terrible things. You can't cure cancer without ambition and drive, but you also can't…

Really? 'Cuz I always think that clip is AWESOME. And I'm basically a pacifist.

Maybe the universe where both shows lasted for several seasons? Even Enterprise made it 4 seasons, IIRC, and Voyager longer than that. That doesn't happen if the show's tanking from day one.

Unlikely, since the show's creators were recently enthusing about the new directions they were taking it (i.e. into space) and sounded quite excited about it all. This smacks of Farscape all over again. Sci Fi seems to have trouble understanding the value of shows that maybe don't have stellar profit margins, but…

I was all set to jump in but then you hit it at the end: color is the biggest difference to me. Second comes texture; the texture detail is vastly finer in HD than 480p. As a single concrete example, I never even realized that the colonial uniforms in BSG had any real texture until I saw an episode on HD DVD (yeah,…

I've always ascribed to the Duke Ellington theory of art: "if it sounds good, it is good." To me that applies to everything, so I don't really distinguish between popcorn media and "high art" as long as the popcorn is well done. If it's poorly-written trash, that's a different thing entirely, but if it's…

Better, more mature... probably. But the original gets immense points for really starting it all and being the first of its kind—the one to define the huge, crazy, wildly-different-looking, lived-in, believable, epic galaxy and mythology. I'm probably with Joss on this one: EMpire might be the better film, just as…

@nophilip:

"If that was true, why are 75% of table-top roleplayers men? "

Regarding Thor, just think "Star Trek" (in the utopian vision of advanced civilization sense, not the Prime Directive non-interference sense). Is it that hard to think that an advanced civilization that basically wants for nothing might be culturally inclined toward helping and protecting those weaker than them—sort…

"Of course, Whedonites give him a pass for it and Dollhouse because everything that's wrong with something Whedon worked on isn't Whedon's fault. Obviously. "

@ rainglobule:

"I think this definitively proves that that alien invaders aren't after our water or anything else that they can easily find in much greater abundance elsewhere in the universe. Earth is unique but it isn't special. "

Absolutely my reaction, too (except I already liked him somewhat after Casino Royale). Craig just gained HUGE Geek Cred by actually being aware of a relatively minor concept from Hitchhiker (thus strongly indicating that he has, in fact, read the books and enjoyed them.)

Right. 'Cuz no one ever falls victim to computer viruses or hacking these days, so having the hardware inside our heads & wired directly to our nervous systems would be a GREAT idea. I'm sure that a DDOS directed at the autonomic nervous system would have no lasting repercussions.

It's my understanding that full plate armor was almost never used in real warfare; Knights for centuries relied on scale or chainmail armor and variants of it, which was a bit lighter (a knee-length coat of mail was only around 10 kilos, though they would also wear fairly heavy padding underneath). By the time full…