And it's hard to deny that the right wing (which sadly seems to be in full control of the Republican positions on everything) actively wants to discourage intellectualism and education, even though most of them are highly educated.

They... they look like rotting entrails.

I thought she was awesome. And I'm a straight dude, so you can't blame my ovaries for that opinion. (I do wish they'd given her a much, much bigger gun for the LA battle, though.)

As corpore-metal says, superheroine movies always bomb.

Is she really that big, though?

I would. And I feel no shame over that. Dead-eyed skittering horrors armed with flesh-piercing barbs that inject deadly venom are absolutely worthy of fear and loathing.

No, no, that definitely still falls under the "OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE!" category.

I haven't been watching it (no cable), but if that's Summer Glau, I'd say not good. She has a knack for appearing in things shortly before they get canceled/non-renewed.

I've just put it down to expectations. After Alien and Blade Runner, people expected it to be a virtuoso masterpiece. Instead, it was a largely mediocre story with a few very neat ideas & performances and awesome visuals. But when you're expecting an A+, a B or B- is disappointing—and in this case, crushingly so…

I agree with the first part, but the idea of earth material ending up on Mars seems less likely, if only because the sun's gravity well goes the wrong way for that. It would be much harder for earth debris to climb all the way "up" to Mars than it would be for Mars debris to fall "down" to earth.

As a friend of mine recently observed, "there's a reason why they call it the LOWEST common denominator."

"but how long do we need to beat this dead horse? "

I'm sorry, you're right, we should instead blow it on board game adaptations and remakes. Lots and lots of remakes. 'Cuz who doesn't love a mediocre, half-baked remake of something that was probably just fine the first time around?

The guns gave me pause for a moment too, and my wife asked the very same question, but The only thing I could come up with is the factory/machining of shell casings. It would be, at best, wildly impractical to hand-make every bullet/cartridge. Much easier to just cast a bunch of lead balls and use muzzle-loaders.

This is awesome and all (seriously, it's beautiful work), but it's actually a bit conservative for He-Man—I mean, the action figures, not the cartoon. The action figure had biceps that were, amazingly, even more bulging than this. His shoulders, upper arms, and forearms were basically a series of three spheres in…

OK, but... why? Aside from "hey that's cool"—and don't get me wrong, I'm all for more coolness in the world—what's the advantage? Would the thinner air make launches require less fuel (I can't imagine gravity is markedly different only 20Km up)? If that's the case, I could see some value in that it would be much…

I just figured it's a case of marketing people trying to be clever. They took "Star Trek" and "Trek Into Darkness" and then decided to share the word "Trek" because that would be cool and different and innovative and yes I'm mocking Marketing executives at the moment.

OK, this commenting system sucks balls. See my reply to Meredith, which was supposed to be a reply to you, but the "reply to" thingy defaulted her her comment instead.

Obviously, my math sucks in that example, but you get the idea. They change their minds by 45, but they're still on-track to get whacked at 50-ish because they already did the deed themselves when they were 20-something.

Because they're young, and with the (limited) perspective of a young person, they don't want to get old & decrepit anyway, so they'd rather live like a king for 30 years and then die before they end up in a nursing home.