@erzwatts @collex:

Wow, i wish they'd worked all this out for Firefly. I know that universe didn't have FTL drives, but their concept of "dozens of planets and hundreds of moons" in one system, all of which were habitable with minimal/cost-effective terra-forming, never made any sense to me. Maybe if they'd jump-started a few gas…

@earthclanbootstrap: uplift FTW!

I was a little bummed that the continents don't change. I was kind of hoping i could make different Pangea like things.

@MichaelWalsh: Completely understood. I sort of wish i could stop watching, but it's like a really awful car wreck, i can't seem to be able to look away.

@Death_By_SnuSnu: A little late on this as i'm just now catching up with the last few days, but did you make a One Hundred Years of Solitude reference... in a post refuting Twilight? If so, you rock. Marquez is awesome. If not... er... nothing to see here.

@MichaelWalsh: You're not wrong, it is one of the most awful things on tv. And yet... i just keep watching it. I feel it exists in some pure form, like there is something magical about something this bad. I almost think it can't happen by accident, that the writers and producers are purposefully doing everything in…

@Wookielifeday: sigh indeed. Although i just re-watched Johnny Mnemonic this weekend and, if that's the best that can be done with Gibson, maybe it's for the best that we'll never see it on screen.

@Svirfneblin: Yeah, i don't know why i never put the two theories together, built AND grown, as opposed to one or the other. Both together really forms an interesting concept... not unlike the space whale/city concept from new series 5. And you're totally right, there is a lot to back it up.

@Svirfneblin: oooh, interesting theory, i like it! Also, way to rock the dark-gnome name.

@storymark: ahh, but you started this with a snarky comment towards someone who obviously was as let down by the end as many, many people were. So i could just as easily say that, just because you and a few million other people liked it, doesn't mean that millions of others didn't. It's sort of a tautological…

@storymark: No, i think it is PRIMARILY about road trips. What i don't think it covers is a story that promises answers, a tying together super story with a through line and coherence, and then delivers nothing but crap philosophy and more riddles.

@storymark: Yup. Its a great line if you're talking about a road trip. If you're talking about literature then its just a crutch for writers who can't make up a decent ending.

@GeneralBattuta: you do not keed, you hit it on the head. well said!

@Sad Doctor: Besides the already mentioned Cast a Deadly Spell, try the Felix Castor books by Mike Carey. Good stuff, and all out in the open.

@Sentath: the sequel is rubbish, avoid at all costs. CaDS is awesome though!

@cheezytwang: you are NOT wrong!

@brett108: or maybe he just wants to be in a supernatural show that doesn't suck? Maybe i'm being too harsh, as i only watched one ep of Demons before never wanting to see it again, but that show was awful.

See, the thing about Ron D. Moore is that HE'S ALWAYS MAGICAL. He wraps pseudo mystic sophomore philosophy in sci-fi trappings, and then gets totally confused when people don't like it, or are disappointed by it. DS9, ends with mystic, prophecy laden, dead/not-dead sort-of angelic beings. From what i hear he added…

@thekeith82: I was just going to post about this, but you beat me to it. CaDS was a great movie, or at least i thought so when i was a teenager. I just torrented it (couldn't find it anywhere else... no DVD release apparently) and will be re-watching it tonight for the first time in 15 years or so. I hope its as…