I don't know if I would rate any of these higher than some of the other ones that have been mentioned (BTAS, GoT, Dexter, Cowboy Bebop, MST3K, Harvey Birdman…), but they definitely deserve mention:

This one is a personal favourite of mine. Poirot started in 1989 (the year I was born) and ended last month. They stopped using this credits sequence after a bit but to me it was the childhood sound of "don't disturb Mum, she's watching the telly". And I ended up loving it too.

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Game of Thrones' opening sequence always gives you some clues about where the action for the relevant episode will take place, and helps to ground you on the geography of Westeros and the Eastern Continent.

Does Gravity not have enough shooting and testosterone to be considered sci-fi here? Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for Guardians of the Galaxy but that'll feature about as much science as a teaparty biology class.

It's sci-fi and it's an original story. It's not a reboot nor a sequel. The bar is pretty low nowadays so we'll take what we can get.

As an educator, pouring money into schools doesn't solve anything. Sure, watching my district sudden obtain macbook carts is great and finally having reliable wifi feels like I'm not living in the stone age at work, but the kids still suffer.

Build big enough, and the radiation isn't an issue, honest; O'Neill and company thought of the radiation problem long ago, and designed to handle it.

There some really really great things about the United States, and then there are some really really terrible things about it as a country as well. I always thought that the tremendous amount of criticism it receives was more to balance out extremists on the other end of the spectrum that cannot recognize the…

A lot of people are commenting as if Miyazaki was the driving force behind this effort. I rather doubt it, actually: Miyazaki was very much a junior partner to Isao Takahata at this stage in his career. He was a pretty important player in Takahata's films, working as chief animator, but he wasn't the primary creative…

A main point hete we shouldn't forget is the time: it was in 1971, long before Nausicaa and Ghibli's rise to fame. To Lindgren it probably seemed that a couple of strange Asian men wanted to make a cartoon of her books, it didn't have much impact, just a business proposal the author decided wasn't necessary. Still,…

I suspect the reason why Lindgren rejected Studio Ghibli's draft was because they're so cute. Pippi wasn't mean to be cute, she was a reaction to all the cutesy girls in children's books back then (and still today).

Actually, I can totally understand why Lindgren said no. Pippi is HUGE here in Scandinavia, there is not one year goes by without Pippi on our screens. But that is a Pippi that is very close to Lindgren's original vision of her. And while I think it could have been interesting to see what the Japanese could have done…

True, you said a few days, but you're also talking about a planet. Days is still screamingly fast. From ground zero to the other side of the world is about 20,000 km, so to get there in 20 days, the interface has to chew through matter at over 25mph. Think about the boundary of the phenomenon, once it gets going it's…

I'm pretty sure reality takes issue with the proposed rate these grey goo scenarios take place at. If you imagine, big picture, the energy involved in rearranging so much matter in such a confined volume then these assemblers will run out of energy or overheat or both.

I bought it from steam last week, I'm liking it so far; the gameplay boils down clicking about a Facebook-esque interface, but the goals are to accomplish short term goals such as "start a relationship with bob" or "master teleportation cleanup duty" (you also have to manage your various duties on the starship).

"Wasn't metaphorical in any way"? Did you miss how she was not reconciled to the loss of her child? How she was buried in work and seemingly didn't want to live, until later she decided to? I thought the entire film was a story about her life and getting past a difficult situation. It might not be earth shattering or…

Really? You're carping about scientific problems with Gravity and then you turn around and cite Moon as "a film that was great on all levels"? I enjoyed both films greatly (I own Moon on DVD), but would you like a catalog of all the scientific problems in Moon?

Only thing is in rape culture these things aren't understood by people to be reprehensible. They are portrayed as funny and 'boys will be boy' kind of mentality and that leads to blaming victims who complain about the effects. If I hit you with a bowling ball and when you complained people hounded you out of town and…

Before answering what I perceive as the intent of the question, I take issue with several aspects of the question itself.

You have no idea of what a science advisor does or does not attempt to convince the writers/producers/director for a production, and we do not have copyeditor-like say over the science in a film.

As…