I did not see The Phantom Menace in a movie theater. I saw it at about the same time that I saw The Fellowship of the Ring in a theater.

The space battle was amazing - beautifully animated and choreographed, it’s right up there with the “Glimmer’s become a goddamn laser canon” fight scenes of season 4. I was sometimes frustrated that the show held back on genuinely epic fights in the first couple of seasons, but that restraint made the later “leveled…

but without an epilogue if they ever do a movie they don’t have to undo anything...

Yes. Name of the Rose a criminal omission. Ron was great in that strange role, a mentally-challenged monk, part other-wordly, part comic, part pitiable.

Night’s Dawn Trilogy is where I’d go first - it merges SF and horror in a unique way. The books lean more into the SF side but you could easily amp up the horror side for a series. Two genres for the price of one.

My only criticism of the dance sequence is that the actual event (not the practice) is just so god-damned visually captivating that I found it very difficult to pay attention to actually making Cloud perform his little boy band routine.

Yeah. I understand why they did what they did. Hell they had to tell the story in 2 hours, and Crichton was limited by the science of his time (and knowledge).

“... Listen Fates, who sit nearest of gods to the throne of Zeus, and weave with shuttles of adamant, inescapable devices for councels of every kind beyond counting, ...”

Or when you have these uber mechs that take like 25 minutes to kill and some dude on a motorcycle bumps it with his back tire and disables it completely.

Cough cough, and arrow... im gonna miss arrow, even with all its shortcomings

I have been doing this in the Philly area as part of The Front Steps Project, except I am raising money for local food banks. $3,300 in five days! 

“Keep politics out of science fiction”, cry the people who no nothing about the history of science fiction.

The fuck? Did they cram every “rich people are the goddamned worst” trope into one building!?

More an adaptable problem solver.
Admittedly most of those problems ended up being solved by bouts of extreme violence, but still....

Not many things had the “hide behind the sofa” effect on me as a kid - hell, Alien was my favourite film when I was about six years old - but even now the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water gives me the frickin’ heebie-jeebies, man!

Damn. Until you said it, neither had I.

“True beauty is an expression of the heart, a thing without shame to which notions of gender do not apply.”

Wise, astute, enlightened, prudent, rational, sensible

I called Andrew more than a few names once I got to that part.