My theory has always been that at one point in development, they had a perfectly acceptable Sonic model designed, built, rigged and ready to go — one that looked like the one on the right above — and then someone (studio exec, producer, etc.) came in and said “not realistic enough”, forcing the changes to what we saw…

Most of the criticism I read early on fell into two camps: “I won’t watch this because I don’t like Family Guy,” and “I was expecting something else-” (Family Guy in space, a Galaxy Quest series, a full-on Trek parody) “-and it wasn’t that, so it’s bad.”

I like it!

It looks to me like it’s in a frame, so it might well be an antique (pre-1959) flag.

Many years ago I read something that purported to be Gibson’s script. I don’t remember much about it beyond the Cold War overtones, and the fact that the Alien DNA is converted into a virus of some kind, and when people catch it, instead of chest-bursters, they peel off their human flesh to reveal a Xenomorph beneath.

Glad they’re using a truck. Using a helicopter didn’t work out too well.

Janelle Monae said on Twitter that she wants to play the Joker. I want to see THAT film.

Wonder how far along they got. Perhaps the licensing issues can be ironed out in time to continue — it seems like a license-holder blocking a series like this is just leaving money on the table. It’s not like a comic would prevent consumption of some other Tracy property, and if the comic takes off it could easily…

Nope. I already own too many copies. I’m not buying another until I can get them in 4k.

Nope. I already own too many copies. I’m not buying another until I can get them in 4k.

I fell off watching about the time Hive showed up, for reasons I can’t even remember now. I’ve been bingeing off and on over the last couple of weeks to catch up — and I’m so glad I did. It’s just gotten better and better.

Are those supposed to be radiation symbols the women are holding? They seem to have toothed edges like gears, so maybe not. But if they are, I notice that the lead dancers’ costumes have stylized electricity on them. Perhaps this is something celebrating how nuclear power will create a bright future, with robots?

“I’m lovin’ IT!”

Perhaps this validates the EM Drive!

Well, I think in this case the studio thought more people would be up for the sequel if they knew Firth was returning, and they weren’t wrong.

You know, it’s very much unlike me to say something like this, but...

I’ll posit a possibly unpopular opinion: The reason Threshold is so infamous is actually because the first two-thirds is pretty promising. If the ep were just awful from beginning to end, no one would ever talk about it. The problem is actually that it builds some tension, and as soon as it starts to come time for a…

I actually feel somewhat vindicated. I recently started a Voyager rewatch, not having seen it since it first aired, and I was surprised how much I liked it. (Even much-maligned episodes like Threshold at least had some stuff to recommend them.)

Both critics and moviegoers keep forgetting that it’s not a critic’s job to tell you whether or not you should like a movie, just whether they did or not. And, to explain why they did or didn’t like a film clearly enough so that a moviegoer can make an informed decision.

And let us not forget The Mighty Boosh’s “Journey to the Centre of the Punk”, where Vince eats a bit of a treasured old record of Howard’s (don’t ask) and Howard has to be injected into Vince before the funk takes over his brain cell. (That’s right. “Brain cell” is singular.) Of course everything is done in that…

...the church was “prepared to house people once shelters reach capacity.”