I guess I don't get it at all, then. I've never found Grant Morrison particularly unique as a writer — good, but half the time I get him mixed up with Alan Moore. Roger Corman's films aren't that particularly unique or different from any other low-budget producer. John Carpenter has a given style, and it's modestly…

A good list, but certainly not exhaustive. Others have mentioned Lovecraft. How about Michael Moorcock? Neil Gaiman? Charles de Lint? Roger Zelazny? Alan Moore? I would also mention John Crowley — he's not as well known, and his most recent works have been more mainstream literary, but I understand he's quite…

Thank Mithras it wasn't real. Of course, I'm still the one guy holding on to hope that they'll go back to the original time line.

Yeah, Anders was the source for material for Mage: The Ascension when it came out.

I don't know about that. It had a stylized, aged look even when it first aired. (No, girls didn't often wear pleated skirts and bobby socks in the early '90s.) I still find it remarkably effective. When I think about something being creepy, the image I have is a close up of Jacques Renault's lips saying, "Bite the…

I think the things that hurt genre entertainment most are

Then they're missing out, because Evil Dead has lots of insightful commentary. That, or Bruce Campbell's chin, whichever comes first.

But it's about films filled with torture and gore, uninteresting and formulaic — the Friday the 13ths, the Nightmares on Elm Street, all of those schlocky, horrible '80s teen horror flicks that they don't even really make anymore. It can't be a commentary on the later torture porn genre because it doesn't ever deal…

I think that's a non sequitur. Really liking something does not preclude criticizing other people who really like the same thing. I think they're criticizing the audience that watches stupid, repetitive sex-and-gore flicks for the sex and gore.

I'm sure I'm the only one, but when I heard Bradley Whitford's character's name, I thought of this old commercial.

Cabin in the Woods is a brilliant movie about horror movie tropes. It isn't a very good horror movie in and of itself.

What? Joss didn't have anything to do with T:SCC.

This article suffers from the "this won't work because this is the way we do things now and that will never ever change no matter what" common fallacy.

This show is a bit of a conundrum. We only watch it because the wife likes it — if it went away tomorrow, I wouldn't miss it. That isn't because it isn't a well-made show. It seems generally well written and the acting is generally OK. The actress who plays Carter was terrible in the early episodes, but she seems to…

I really can't stand any of the cops on the show. Pretty much the only interesting character at all is Monroe.

Honestly, does anyone care about Nick as a character? A blander, more dull lead character I have never seen. Half the time, I can't even remember his name. And yet, inexplicably, I sort of like the show. Go figure.

There are a lot of null things in Las Vegas, but I don't think gravity is one of them.

I'm curious how practical such a project would have been from an engineering standpoint. The nacelles and the disk would all have to be cantilevered out at odd angles, and in such a way that maintained the dimensions of the main body. In the end, I imagine what they would have had to do was to build a framework around…

You see, for me, it's the exact opposite. I could not write other author's characters if you threatened to beat me with a stick. I simply have no feel for them. Settings I can manage — I did a lot of writing using Traveller's Imperium background and the original World of Darkness, but that was mostly material for…

I don't quite grasp the allure of fan fiction for writers. Sure, back when I was in elementary school and first playing around with writing, I would write continuations of books I had enjoyed, but that soon evolved into developing my own characters, settings and stories.