Yeah the whole book was basically a thought experiment. Not for everyone since it was kind of lacking in sympathetic characters, and some of the concepts made me uncomfortable as I kind of like having self-awareness, but it certainly made me think.

"How does an intelligent life not have consciousness?" Well by reacting to external stimuli in a complex but efficient manner without having any sense of self or identity. The Blindsight novel explains it better than I can, and it even made the an argument that having self-awareness and a sense of identity…

It's possible to be "intelligent" without being "self-aware" in the sense we are, or using radio waves to communicate for that matter. "Blindsight" by Peter Watts has aliens who are more advanced/intelligent than us in many ways, but not self-aware or conscious in any fashion. Kind of scary idea actually. . .

At least Tara won't be helpless against supernaturals now. Being a vampire seems to make most characters more confident anyway. I hope she gets a chance to kick ass, I like her best in ass-kicking mode.

Vampires are dead anyway, so even if they were genetic siblings, it's not like they can have deformed vampire babies. It was a cheap shock, but that's True Blood for you. I loved the episode overall though, a good start. Knowing Eric, he probably just enjoyed making Bill uncomfortable. :-)

Well obviously inhaling any kind of smoke is going to be rough on your lungs. I bet a vaporizer is safer, or eating it.

I'd rather not. . .

lol true, and it's the simplest cure. Oh man snake oil salesman piss me off though, making money off of desperate, stupid sick people. . .

The creator, Jim Humble set up a church to protect him from the liability of selling and promoting snake oil. . .

Not just autism, the makers say it can cure just about anything, AIDS, cancer, hepatitis , malaria and numerous other illnesses. [www.care2.com] did a similar article exposing it, sadly several commenters there were angrily defending the stuff and accusing the rest of us of "not understanding chemistry", despite all…

Just release cats to eat the mice. . . then wild dogs to eat the cats. . . then bears to eat the dogs. Seriously mice are darn hard to control, and hard to prevent from hitching a ride with you. A shame. Maybe genetically engineer the birds to eat the mice? That's can't backfire right?

I saw a couple guys with glowing hands in there I think, there should be some fae.

Yeah, afterlife trolls and hackers probably won't be much fun either.

Hmm, I didn't know cops had "radioactivity detectors", lol.

Well most people would be in a padded cell if they went through what she did, and she was kind of badass at the beginning of last season. I think she has been victim too much though, would be nice to see her kick ass for a whole season.

Hmm, apparently, maybe Sookie uses fairy magic or someone uses vampire blood to heal her.

I think she'd look good with any hair color. Hottest major character on the show in my opinion. Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell) is beautiful too.

Yeah Peter Dinklage is a great Tyrion and actor. Tyrion is probably my favorite character in the books too. A lot better looking than how I pictured Tyrion in the book though, lol.

No Kick Ass or Watchmen? Darn. Personally I like Hellboy 2 more than Hellboy, but they were both pretty good. I think X-Men First Class was better than all of the first 3 X-Men movies too.

I had to google to remember who Thanos was too, not a real comic book nerd, and he kind of looks like Darkseid.