I agree, this trilogy has it all, from politics to hard science. Unfortunately, I fear that if it actually made it to series, undoubtedly it would become the show we complain about the most. If I were controlling the purse strings, I would just take a facet of Red Mars, perhaps the 100's arrival, and the beginning of…

Perhaps I'm out of touch as I don't believe I've ever heard of this guy. Regardless of his Tolkien opinions, I really hope the guys a decent writer. I looked him up and it appears as if this series of his is 25+ volumes! He must be doing something right or else he's got a lot of people fooled.

I think it could go either way. Shaw could be hurt bad enough to keep her on the sidelines for a year, which coincidentally would fit in nicely with having her baby in real life. The other side of the coin is that they didn't flinch with Carter so it's hard to imagine Shaw getting a reprieve.

I'm not sure if they were my favorites, but I do recall spending an unhealthy amount of time with colorforms. Especially the Trek kits, and also pretty much every cartoon character that was popular at the time....

I'm at 62% of The Three Body Problem. I'm enjoying it so far, although I must admit that the prospect of reading a scifi novel, written and published in China, was my main motivation for selecting the book. Actually, if I hadn't know before hand that it had been translated into English, I probably wouldn't have…

I guess when you have a first season like Sleepy Hollow did, we viewers should have been prepared for a bit of a drop off. I just didn't think it would be quite this bad, especially considering they had plenty of time to prepare for the increased episode order.

Thanks for the reply. I'm one of those people that would have a hard time parting out a nice piece of work. It must be difficult. I never thought of charity auctions but I can definitely see the demand and knowing your work would still be out there would be a plus beyond the money earned for the charity. Thanks...

Nicely done!

Clever is a very good adjective for Predestination. Even though it doesn't take a real long time to figure out what's happening in this one, the plot is deftly put together. For a movie done on the cheap, it's well worth the time to see.

No, not at all. I just still miss opening the cover of a new book for the first time, feeling the weight of the book while I read, and yes, turning the pages. I also am still having a problem when I look at my book cases and see that they abruptly stopped acquiring content back in 2008! I read as much, if not more now…

Pretty accurate rule. Anymore tho, for me at least, I give them 10%. E-books account for all my reading these days and page counts are a thing of the past. I still miss flipping pages, wonder how many years it will take to forget?

I can't recall the last time a genre show and I were in complete agreement about a major story arc. I mean, I couldn't have asked for a better sequence of events. Normally, the character who goes off the rails and endangers the entire group, lives on to do additional damage. How bout that Clarke? What a woman!

At the rate I lose pens, unless the $500 includes a safety chain, these pens would be a very bad investment for me. Nice though.

I was curious about that possibility myself. I see that Tricia Helfer plans to live tweet tonight's episode from the Bahamas. Her comments up to now lead me to believe this has further possibilities depending how the mini-series is received.

I really like the concept of this show, but in reality, it's really just for kids, isn't it? That's OK, I just wish they'd market it as such. If not maybe the best thing to do is check back a few episodes down the road and see if they're working with grown-up scripts yet.

Ok, I'm only slightly embarrassed to admit this. After TVD completed its 4th season a couple friends and I discovered that none of us had ever watched an episode. That's all it took, (we're fairly easy to amuse). If memory serves, we finished in a little over 3 days with only a couple breaks. As I recall we stopped at…

Personally, I liked the temporal episodes. I understand why so many fans don't, but for the most part, I think the creators did a good job with them. Perhaps if they had never breached that particular plot device, it might have been better. But once the cat was out of the bag, it's pretty amazing that they used it as…

This is one of those situations where everyone saw the writing on the wall probably 10 years ago. They've brain-stormed, had meetings and focus groups, and at the end of it all, they still don't know what to do. The amount of money in play is astronomical. So, they just kept on doing what they've been doing for the…

Everybody likes different things. It wouldn't be worth your time to read, The World of Ice and Fire, since it too, is full of names, dates and a whole load of detail. But if you did, this book is the historical background for Westeros. Believe me, the weird shit didn't just start 100 years ago, it's been a steady…

No offense, but that doesn't make any sense. I can understand waiting to watch the TV series so you could watch them uninterrupted. But the books are an entirely different animal. First, they are quite good. GRRM is excellent at his craft and my only complaint has been the length of time between the volumes. While…