After all the touting of the "Windup Girl" book by you guys, I am not sure I would trust your judgement in books. Not only was it the most depressing sci-fi book I've ever read, but it was also one of the most unscientific science fiction stories I know of.

Any books about Spike from the Angel series? Something that mixes magic with technology, analyzing things systematically instead of waving hands in the air and explaining things like magic? I don't feel like reading about a depressing ponce with delusions of matridom and grandeur. An ex-god or two with their own…

1. Well yes, you are right - on the whole the scientists have been shown to be fairly decent people during the course of the series. People that need to be looked after by the normals, but not sociopaths. Not in this episode however. Apparently if you get SUPERsmart you become a sociopathic bastard, or the next…

1. Nope. I don't see it. They said nothing about the speed of change. All that we saw was that A - the characters got very smart, and B - they became dicks. I think the rest is you reading extra stuff into it that just isn't supported by what we saw on the screen. I am drawing a straight line between the two…

Well, that's the thing - you never know if there won't be a spin-off in 2013.

1. Intellect would not reduce your empathy. Being able to understand calculus does not make you a dick to your friends. The only explanation is that it actually changed his brain through Eureka sciency-magic. And the implication is that being smarter makes you a dick - because the two characters on the show that…

1. Hmm... I didn't get that Jack was power hungry. He just didn't care about Andy being his friend. He wasn't trying to gain more power over anybody, although he was showing off a little. It didn't seem like a power trip for him. He wasn't forcing anybody do anything, after all, or trying to outsmart them.

But the D&D idea is quite right. Intelligence & wisdom are two completely different attributes, only loosely connected. Intelligence also rarely brings muscle strength, helps you lose weight, or gives you long blonde hair. That's not surprising and is in fact irrelevant. There are plenty of very smart wise people…

Also, no Parrish was not being a dick. He was being a normal & slightly territorial scientist. In his place I might have done the same thing if I had to deal with people that didn't like me & put me down all the time. If they thought to include him from the beginning, he would have acted like part of the team, and…

Yea, no, I call bullshit on this entire episode. They start things, make idiotic implications, ask really dumb questions, and never really go anywhere to even try to answer those dumb questions. Here's an incomplete list of the asinine issues with this episode:

Yay! We basically get a spin-off show. That's awesome! The old formula was a bit played out by now - this new one has a ton of potential. I hope they can make it an actual spin-off for season 6. Something like "Fringe: Fight the Future".

Yes, it would be awesome. It would also explain how such an old dude got a daughter that's so young. Theron is only 36, and the guy looked like he was well over 100. I guess she could have been the result of artificial insemination or could have been using life extension treatments and was actually much older than…

Of course there have been worse, but I still blame Riddley Scott. He was ultimately in charge. If he said "rewrite" a rewrite would have happened. Individually the pieces of the movie and the dialog were just fine. The problem was with the underlying idea and direction of the plot.

Nope. I call bullshit. The movie had waaaay too many unanswered questions and plot holes. Here, the Red Letter Media guys even listed them all in this long compilation (attached).

Hey, don't knock Star Trek V! It was awesome! There was a big question there - "What does god need with a starship?" And it was answered. With a few phaser cannon blasts from a Klingon bird of pray. Pretty decisively answered, I think.

Well, if Vampire Diaries or Twilight start getting good, I can always go back and watch them then. For now I am not willing to commit so much of my time on watching crap like that, in the hopes that some neat ideas might be mentioned in passing.

They have half a dozen ways of getting Holly back - they just need to get around to them. The writers need to find a suitably in-depth and insane way of doing that.

Meh. This episode was OK. Not great but also not awful. The problem is that it was all over the map, never staying still and focusing long enough on anything. I could have watched more about Jo dealing pranks & Zane, or about Fargo & Holly, or about Jack & Carter, or about Fargo being the boss. Instead we got a…

I don't know - I liked even the first version, before the edits. It wasn't nearly as good, but it was acceptable. And I did catch the dwarf killing in the book. The blood didn't bother me one bit there. There are much gorier movies out there - this barely counts as anything. There was absolutely no reason to hide…

OK, and was Urkel worth watching? Not to me. I sincerely doubt that all this trash will result in something good. And even if it does, then I will watch the good part and ignore its trashy predecessor.