@Trystero: I'm really liking the idea of Stark's "Spruce Goose," but I feel like in order to have that the whole movie would have to give in to utter lunacy. You couldn't try to have a serious movie and pretend that this thing has an actual strategic function.

@cletar: Which brings up the nagging problem I have with shared universes. The separate elements that make up the Avengers, or any shared universe for that matter, have their own varying degrees of absurdity and when you shove them together you force them all to the level of the most absurd.

@R Cruz: I agree with you premise of different strokes, but reject your conclusion that the movie is being made for Marvel fans. The movie is being made to make money, and given that its going to have to make back at least $115 million, its being made to make a lot of money. That said it can't appeal exclusively to…

@Dunny0: Then replace nukes with nerve gas or weaponized smallpox.

@datafox: I hate that old argument: you like science fiction so you can't draw a line anywhere when it comes to its tropes.

@I-Gemini-I: The whole point of the movie was that the humans wanted the rare mineral on the planet so I think it would be quite useful. They can mine in peace and leave the burnt out husk once they've got it all.

If humans return to Pandora the result would be what should have happened at the end of the first movie: the natives are determined to make a valiant last stand, but the humans retreat into orbit and commence nuclear bombardment of the planet to be followed by strip mining it to the core.

I'm sorry, but that thing is just absurd. As a scifi fan I'm accustomed to suspending my disbelief, but for that jalopy?! Come on! I don't know why so many keep recycling this same concept. The only time it ever made sense was in a retro setting like Sky Captain because it fit the outlandish technological dreams…

@Tudza White: Suppressor is the preferred term nowadays, but when Hiram Maxim first invented it he dubbed it a "silencer." So its not as egregious a mistake as say calling a magazine a "clip."

@Cash907Censored: I've been a long time Stargate fan as well, but I'm enjoying SGU. I'm just glad they've finally ditched the idiocy of SG1's initial premise: the whole galaxy is inhabited by humans because super advanced aliens just couldn't live without us mining their space rocks with pre-industrial methods. …

@gods-n-clods: The newest episode of Stargate Universe is on Hulu so its a fair bet that Caprica will be posted as well. The commercials are annoying, especially because they are so loud compared to what you're watching, but you'd have to deal with commercials if you were watching it on TV anyway. That said, if I'm…

@Brianfowler713: Superman and Brainiac are inseparable. You can't tell the origin of one without the other and you can't just introduce Brainiac and not explain where he came from because these are big ticket movies whose audience will have little knowledge of the back story. Showing Krypton, Brainiac and Clark…

Alas! I don't have cable, or even a TV nowadays, but I'll be waiting impatiently for it to show up on Hulu. I really hope we get another season, and another after that while I'm at it. With Caprica gone what will Sci Fi, excuse me, SyFy *blood curdles* have left? SGU, Warehouse 13, and Eureka...did I miss anything?

@LegatoBlue: I was thinking about this when the news broke about a fully rebooted Superman film, but I quickly put it out of my mind. They'll never give a big Hollywood budget to a three issue elseworlds run and thinking about how awesome it could be if they did would just be too painful. I wish the DCAU was still…

I said it when the last Superman news came out, but it needs to be repeated:

@AmishJohn: Meh.: Who says you have to land it? Build it in space and use smaller conventional craft to ferry people between it and the surface.

@D Israel: What exactly have they been doing? Because it looked like a whole lot of lame low-Earth orbit bull shit to me.

@GeorgeDW: I'm not sold on that idea that nuclear technology is inherently bad. Nuclear power is the only currently viable large scale clean energy source (cheap too) and nuclear weapons not only brought an end to the most destructive conflict in human history, but also, through the threat of mutually assured…

@GeorgeDW: We should have been on Mars with Orion by now, but everybody had to jump on the "nukes are bad" bandwagon.

Whenever I see this perspective of a planet I always hear this in my head.