I think you're missing the point. Quentin Tarantino doesn't make movies about history, or even reality. Quentin Tarantino makes movies about movies. Every movie he has ever made has been an interpretation of '60s and '70s exploitation movies. It's only in the last couple of films — Inglourious Basterds and now Django…

How large was your sample? The people I knew who loved Dark Shadows hated the movie with a frothing rage normally reserved for child molesters and telemarketers. Of course, my sample was quite small.

I also imagine everyone interpreted "second breakfast" way too literally.

I imagine hobbits having sex for days on end, writhing in an orgy of sensuality that rises to a blistering climax that burns for hours that would make a tantric master gasp with wonder and envy. But then that's just me.

Cute cat videos: Our First Line of Defense (tm).

Oh, sure. I get that Kirk's promotion makes sense in the logic of the movie. My point is that it makes the willing suspension of disbelief — which is already stretched pretty thin in this sort of movie — that much more difficult.

That's always the way. Things are canon until they're not. It's perfectly understandable. As a series gets older and there are more and more creators involved in the storytelling in various different media, it becomes inevitable that contradictions will arise, because the need to maintain a strict continuity isn't a…

You know, I've never been a big fan of ancillary materials to a franchise — books, comics and such to a TV/film series and such — probably because they're not canon. I'm a big continuity nerd. Of course, in most of these long-running series, even canon isn't canon after a while, so there's that.

I get your point. I'm sure there's a lot of truth in it. It's a bit depressing that the target audience may be entitled narcissists, but I suppose that's just the way things go.

In theory, it's possible to respect the source material while still making an exciting movie. I know it's rarely if ever done, but still.

Yes. You are literally the only one.

I've always thought of Star Trek as silly fun, even the reboot. The original timeline, though, offered at least a modicum of believability, if very slight. Kirk was captain of Enterprise because he had earned the position. He'd been an XO. He'd been a junior officer. Sure, he rose up the ranks quickly, but he still…

Yes, the crawl was used in Flash Gordon serials. Not the point the writer is making. The question is was Lucas inspired by the ad when he created the phrase "A long time ago in a glaxy far, far away...," which appears before the title and the crawl. They both have a fairy-tale quality to them that wasn't from old…

In order for there to be drama, the antagonist must always be more powerful than the protagonist (you can decide which is the hero and which is the villain). That being said, the antagonist cannot so overwhelmingly overpower the protagonist that the protagonist has no capability of overcoming the antagonist. Imagine…

Yeah. Don't get that, either.

I've never understood the draw of vampires as romantic figures. They are undead blood-sucking creatures of the night. They are parasites. They are literally glorified serial killers — and in the case of The Vampire Diaries, serial rapists.

I wish, just one time, when things like this happen, we got some brutal honesty.

Pointless speculation. We simply don't have enough data to do more than guess.

The difference, I think, is that Dark Horse is in business to produce comics, while Marvel is in business to maintain public awareness of their properties while they monetize them in movies, on TV and in other ways. Dark Horse is interested in telling stories, and Marvel produces PR brochures.

I liked Red Lights. Flawed, certainly, but I've certainly seen much, much worse.