One of my holiday wishes is that a secret conspiracy comes together to create a concentrated effort to get the general public excited about Mars in a sustainable long term fashion.

Women’s bodies vs bodies of the infants is what the argument is.

If it gets us to the stars, I think it can have a flawed purpose.

Stay and talk with people of like-mind,

No. You have to keep blogging. It’s up to us, the people, now to see this through. Keep writing about progress in popular fiction. It’ll make people go watch/read/play it. It will support it and cause more to be made, and more people will be comfortable with those who are different than them. Star Trek was never in…

I’ll offer this ray of hope. Probably won’t get out of the greys, but it’s worth saying.

I know people hate on NDT, and they hate on Kaku, because they feel they’re not doing actual science.

I think that’s a fair point. However, I also feel like even if it wasn’t the worst film ever, it was a story nobody was all that interested in seeing told. That said, it would be pretty interesting to see how Hardscrabble would react to the news her life’s work was now obsolete.

Pixar: “We want to focus mostly on new stories moving forward.”

If Peter Docter is going to resist his destiny and not go to medical school then some university needs to give him an honorary PhD or EdD immediately.

Well... they’ve got Moana coming out and very recently we’ve had Zootopia and a lot of the Pixar films are original stories. They did Finest Hours live-action this year (didn’t see it but I believe it was original). And last year, there was Tomorrowland (not perfect but underrated and I pretty much love it flaws and…

Yes, I just posted that to someone else. I don’t limit screen time because I know my kids get bored. They move on to other activities, drawing, legos, outside etc. That may not work for all kids, but I think it works for mine because we’ve always been that way.

Eh I think limits are important in parenting in general. When I was a kid, I was pretty limited in what I could watch (no MTV, for example) and also how much (we all watched TV as a family on Thursday night, there were other times TV wasn’t allowed on), and it meant my bro and I found other things to do.

And it depends a lot on the kid. One of mine gets bored after a certain amount of screen time and the other could literally sit on the couch 24 hours a day if something’s on.

The flip of that is what in essence my wife experienced... she had next to no interactions with junk food in her house growing up. What little she did was at sleep overs. When she left home for college, she discovered she could buy an package of oreos at will and nobody could stop her from eating an entire row in…

I’m a big horror fan and it’s one genre that is extremely guilty of over explanation. Some of the best horror movies (the most recent being It Follows) don’t try and explain the monster/killer/creature. It’s there and the characters are trying to deal with it, simple.

It’s also wonderfully lean on visuals and action setpieces. If it were made today we’d be getting clubbed over the head with sweeping CG visuals of each park, and the gunfighter wouldn’t just walk implacably forward in pursuit, he’d be doing somersaults while firing guns with both hands in slow-motion bullet time as a…

Wow, that Saturn picture is incredible.

While this may not boost confidence in the bumpy production of this movie, Giacchino is a tremendous addition. His scores are some of my favorites in recent years.