I suppose that just because he was trained, doesn't mean he actually absorbed any of the training very well. ;-)

Or you could spend like 20 grand. It's all about how "good" is "good enough" to be a cinematic-like experience.

Chris Tucker was the original Jar Jar binks. It was just absolutely painful every time he came on screen in that flick. Like, almost literally, physically painful.

Yeah, really. Unless this deeply repressed sicko is turned on by boys beating the snot out of each other, there's nothing I recall that could be called "pornographic" by any actual definition of that word.

I was trying to be somewhat accepting of the underlying idea. On the other hand, I also totally forgot to mention Giles. Or the Master. Or the Mayor. Or really almost anyone from even the original show (Buffy) who wasn't Buffy, Cordelia, maybe Xander, and possibly Willow.

I don't entirely agree with the premise. For example, I (a heterosexual male in his early 30's) used to watch, or just listen to Gilmore Girls every week. I didn't really care about the storylines, but I just loved the dialogue and the humor. I think cleverness can carry a narrative, although I'll grant that it…

It was completed a long time ago, but held in limbo due to the distributor having financial problems. It's only just coming out now (that would be the April date, I guess).

Well, to play devil's advocate, I think the answer would be that old chestnut: "because resources are limited."

So.. Simon, River, Shepherd Book, Inara, Wash, and Mal all spoke with the same style, cadence, syntax, and snark? (I'll buy that Mal, Zoe, and Kaylee were pretty similar). And they all sounded just like Angel, Buffy, Wesley, and Gunn? Echo (all of them), Victor (all of them), Sierra (all of them), Paul, Boyd... and…

Yeah, to people who aren't educated in physics, "energy" is (incorrectly) synonymous with "sources of energy that we use to run society"—coal, natural gas, oil. Fossil fuels, pretty much.

It still blows my mind that there's an event for the trailer for the prequel to a decades-old movie.

How do you reach the ctrl key with ESDF? Seems like a really difficult stretch-and-curl for the pinky to me. Unless your KB is so far off to the side that your hand is already tilted that way...

How about we just turn off its wi-fi? Maybe unplug the router? Turn off its speakers (or shut off the monitor) if we're concerned that it will convince human guards to let it loose again?

Hard to say. I'm tempted to say you could skip most of season 1, but of course that's where all the characters (who grow and develop over the following 3 seasons) are established and everything, so... yeah. I kind of think it's one of those shows where, at the beginning, it doesn't seem worth sitting through... but…

Well, damn. I had thought about pretty much that same idea a while back—what if every chemical reaction in the world still worked, but nothing reacted violently anymore? In other words, you could still get fire, but nothing would explode. We could still have electricity (or steam power) but no gas cars, no…

Doesn't this seem like kind of a no-brainer? People used to having it all like to... have it all. They don't like being limited. Besides that, people who have never known hardship never learn to appreciate what they have—and conversely, people who have clawed their way up from modest beginnings are very likely to…

Exactly! Very little in SW is "realistic", or even consistent when you get down to it. One of my favorite examples is that while approaching the Death Star, the Falcon is able to overtake/catch up to a fleeing TIE fighter... but when escaping the Death Star, a few TIEs are not only able to keep up, but exceed its…

The interesting thing is, I've read a plot summary of the original script (maybe on CHUD?)—and it was VASTLY more interesting, complex, nuanced, and compelling. So, yet again, we can thank uncreative, imagination-deficient "suits" for thinking that their knowledge of business economics makes them better storytellers…

OK, I can't watch the video at work, but in Alcatraz... is that Micheal Clarke Duncan getting the electric chair AGAIN? Like the Green Mile wasn't enough? (that WAS MCD, right? It's been several years.)

Yeah, I came to make exactly the same observation—that can't actually be his face. As you mentioned, there aren't any holes or seams for the eyes, mouth, nostrils, or ears... and on top of that, the "face" looks too small for something that would have been stretched out to lie flat. It's also not distorted as it…