Ricky Gervais isn't anti-Jesus, as far as I know. He's said as much…

Is anybody really anti-Jesus? But, yeah, "pro-Jesus" was a poor choice of words, AVClub.

I'm still waiting for The Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior movie.

You're moving the goalposts. I never denied that STII was violent, I simply don't think it's particularly violent when compared to other movies of the time. As for "extremely violent," well, I don't think it's extremely violent either. There's no violence in STII that wouldn't be out of place on a weekly '80s TV show.…

I never said it wasn't a violent film, I said it wasn't particularly violent. The space station's crew was slaughtered offscreen, after all. One violent onscreen death does not a violent film make. Especially when you compare it to other films that came out around the same time. And it's still well within "the spirit…

Wrath of Khan wasn't "big" (it had the lowest budget of all the TOS films), nor was it particularly "violent," nor "action-packed." In fact, there were only two big battles, and most of the rest of the film was dedicated mostly to character development. And you're wrong, STII was "in the spirit of the series." You…

You make some good points. But I'm not ignoring the TNG movies, I just don't think they're very good. And I don't think the Abrams movies are bad per se, I just don't think they're good Trek movies. Like I said, if you changed the names and ship designs, they'd be decent (if superficial) space action flicks. But they…

I agree with you on the Next Generation movies. They are completely forgettable. I was referring to the TOS films. As for the Abrams Trek movies, they are the least Trek of all the movies, and here I am including the Next Gen movies. I've said this before, but you could change the names of the characters and redesign…

The great thing about Star Trek 2009 is that it moves at such a fast clip that you don't have time to think about what's going on. You just have to sit there and absorb it. But as soon as you walk out of the theater and start to actually think about what you just watched… boy, that's when the disappointment really…

Plinkett's not a real person, you get that right?

But do they have any staying power? In twenty years, is it possible that anybody will remember Star Trek 2009 at all? I doubt it. In fact, the people I know who saw it forgot it as soon as they walked out of the theater. So did I. I had to go back and rewatch it before I went to see Star Trek into Darkness because,…

I agree that killing Price was a disappointment. But this episode doesn't deserve a C+. Agents of SHIELD has gotten really good over the last couple seasons. I didn't think most of the first season was very good, the second season was a vast improvement and only got better as it progressed, and this season has been…

Sorry, but it's not a solid argument. Han Solo isn't a cold-blooded killer, even in the original version, because he was perfectly justified in shooting Greedo.

That's cool. Like Paul Tillich said, "The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is 'ambiguity': the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces—both individual and social." And besides, a little ambiguity…

What you say makes a lot of sense. I also got a Battlestar Galactica vibe from The Expanse. I'm not sure, though, that hard sci-fi is as popular as space opera (in fact, I'm fairly confident it isn't), and I'm not sure there's an big audience for a show that doesn't have people shooting lasers at each other or getting…

Well, I think the shows are too different—one seems more space-opera, the other more hard sci-fi—so it may not be realistic to hope for similar results, watch-ability-wise. But, yeah, I agree that the show has to be watchable, definitely. I can't really comment, in this particular case, though, since I've never read…

Yeah, it looked spectacular. I just hope that the ratings are sufficient, 'cause this looks really expensive. It would be a shame to have The Expanse be cancelled because it's uneconomic to produce. I've noticed that a lot of sci-fi fans have made a sport of putting Syfy down (not without good reason, though). But…

People's over-the-top reactions is what made stop watching Talking Dead. I can't stand people who lose their shit when they come face-to-face with a famous person. I just don't get it. I met Leonard Nimoy when I was a kid, and he was really nice and it's a great memory, but I remember thinking, Oh, he's just an…

I'm assuming a director with Ron Howard's clout would have had some say in the script. He could have reined Lucas in, at least somewhat, I'm assuming. Of course, I question the necessity of telling the story of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side at all. It would have been preferable, I think, to focus on, let's say, the…

Ouch! Too soon, dude, too soon. She seemed like a fine woman. Can't we just let her rest in peace?