There was actually a hilarious fanfic P&P and The Terminator mashup many, many moons ago on Usenet. But it was done by someone who loved both works equally.

The making of it, however, reeks of committee and studio head cluelessness. It kept on lurching forward because they don't understand either audiences or sunk cost fallacy, in Hollywood.

It could have made one of those College Humour sketches, maybe.

There's nothing dry about P&P, if done right.

What they SHOULD have done was bring the war's front home from the Continent to England, to really shake things up, kind of how Novik's Temeraire merged the Napoleonic Wars with the Battle of Britain, by the medium of dragon cavalry.

The frustrating thing is that there ARE good Regency genre mashups out there waiting for adaptation — the long-teased Temeraire series by Naomi Novik, which is Pride & Prejudice Plus Dragons, and Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamourist Histories, which is Pride & Prejudice Plus Magic, but very different to the recent…

"espy" would have worked better, but people might have thought it was about psychics…

The guy who wrote Spartacus was a cut above most current pencil-pushers.

Big screen adaptation of "Lives of the Cowboys"!

That shot alone makes me not want to see it: their hats are so obviously brand-new, off-the-shelf modern cowboy hats, the costumer didn't even TRY to make them look lived-in or authentic.

Implying that women have a right to control their own sexuality.

For me, it's the wide-eyed old fashioned little girl dolls, the ones that look as though they're Stepford Preschoolers In Training. Those have always creeped me out. And certain horribly cheery stuffed animals. When I first heard the words "uncanny valley" I was like, "Yep, that's the right name for them!"

Left Behind (the series) was an offshoot of the Cold War, so I'll go with you there.

Christopher Lee said that every actor has to take a bad movie once in a while, but no actor should ever give a bad performance with that as the excuse. And he was the living embodiment of that, along with many other men and women of Hollywood's "Golden" and Silver Ages. The sleepwalk-through-it-for-a-paycheck crew…

Besides, a deliberate riff on his Three Days of the Condor — something talked up in a lot of reviews and discussions of TWS, and thus a gateway into Seventies film for a younger generation. "There was a time when de Niro movies didn't suck, honest!" doesn't seem like much of a hook to get kids going back to the…

Aren't they all holed up in or heading to Oregon now?

As an all-white stage set full of angsty upper middle class artists?

You don't think that someone naming themselves "True Light" is a reliable authority?!

Aliens. Lizard.

Uhhh…the one and only episode I watched (the pilot), I was only able to distract myself from thinking about how much I wanted a virtual restraining order against Duchovny's character, was by looking (in vain) for any sign that this alternate Southern California was not exclusively populated by rich white narcissists.