"This storyline has spurned Team Gale and Team Peeta T-shirts…"

Except that no one's managed to crack the reusable spaceplane concept yet. (At least not without the help of external boosters and tanks, which consume vast amounts of extremely expensive non-reusable rocket fuel.)

Or are you asleep…

Sci-fi author and doctor Alan Nourse, who wrote the novel "Blade Runner" (only the title was taken for the Ridley Scott film, the book is about a future where medicine is strictly controlled by the government) wrote a short story called "The Coffin Cure" where scientists actually cure the common cold.

Put me down as hopeful, and willing to support this show if they're giving it a good try. I miss space-based sf on TV. I like a lot of other parts of the genre, but it's the space stories that have always driven my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

Calling it "handwaving involving wormholes" is a little dismissive—the reasons for the wormhole(s) could be a major plot point, something like what happens in Roger MacBride Allen's The Ring of Charon and The Shattered Sphere.

I think it's fantastic that you can write literary criticism, play professional tennis, and look smokin' hot as well.

Upon reading the headline, my first thought is that this would make a great Muppet Show sketch. And then partway through, the cauliflower would start talking.

Yup. The only film I actually saw before it was on MST3K.

I've gotta mention that despite being a great MST3K target, Beginning of the End is actually one of the better examples of this genre. There's some smart, funny dialogue. And one of the lead characters is a female reporter who's clever and tough and doesn't spend the movie getting in the way, asking stupid questions,…

Though I read that the suit lights weren't nearly bright enough for the effect needed for the film. However they did make nice visible markers for adding the glows in post-production.

I like it, but not 45 bucks' worth.

Have to agree with the other posters. If you did all this, you'd be more of an expert than most self-proclaimed experts.

I'm not sure humanity is capable of constructing a room that could contain both those egos. That's a real black hole hazard, there.

Actually that's a great analogy. Because in the end it's all entertainment. Don't think a particular spin-off, prequel, sequel, sidequel or what-have-you sounds interesting? Then stick to the original. Your world won't end.

This is the way of psychology. It goes in cycles. Drug treatments become extremely popular, until someone says, "Why are we prescribing all these drugs? Therapy and cognitive solutions work just as well and don't pollute the body with chemicals!"

"Keep Woz around?" Are you suggesting they off him, like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas?

Can't source it, but I recall reading that TRON underperformed when initially released, but after the videogame was a massive hit it was rereleased, and did quite well on its second go.

I don't know what the deal is with the guy with the holographic head, but I want to. I suspect it's one of those bits of scifi technology that would be totally impractical in real life, but works well on film because it looks so freakin' cool.

I really dig the "WHOA" reboot.