I ran across at least one person who was really offended by the WACs running a prostitution ring. AFAIK it's without historical evidence, and sexualizes one of the few parts of the project where women were allowed to contribute. So, "not fictionalized" is debatable.

Having a breast implant drop off/out of a decaying zombie is an effects shot that's never been done, AFAIK. Given the number of implants out there, that is something that should happen once in a while, I suppose.

Not to accuse you of anything, but "I just want to marry within my culture" is a line of bullshit that American racists have used/do use. So, while you are not responsible for the sins of others, that type of language is a harder sell than I think you realize.

For Americans, "easy to mispronounce" is close enough to "easy to pronounce" to be comfortable (e.g., Juan pronounced "wan").

To some extent daytime soaps served as an incubator for new talent. So, what fills that role now? Disney channel? the CW? Canada?

Wasn't the "First Lantern (Volthoom)" kinda that? I gave up at that point.

In my day, lanterns came in just two colors, and that's the way we liked it.

Apparently they were insufficiently virtuous to be good victims?

I'd go with exploigaytion, if it were up to me, which it is not.

The fact that they misspelled -berg as -burg was probably their first clue that they weren't Jewish.

Marco Polo is "inherently violent"? It's just a nice Italian boy on a trade mission. The only dangerous part is stealing the recipe for pasta*.

You can't be right about the decline of the form if you don't have some way to rule out the number one show on Television that happens to be of that form. Because inconvenient counterexamples are, well, inconvenient.

Better off Ted was a great show from the start that just happened to get canceled.

Hey, I said it was a psychic prediction, not a legal opinion.

My psychic prediction: It's a parody, therefore fair use. Case dismissed.

Do cadets "know" it's a famous no-win scenario? Saavik didn't seem prepared for it. I assumed it was a closely guarded secret kept among the people who'd been through it. (Kirk only messed with it on his third try, IIRC). The Abrams version may have effed all that up, I don't remember, or particularly care.

Yes. A test of character and a test of ethics are not the same thing.

The "it" that "they" blew up in the original Planet of the Apes, was the world, and the "they" was the humans, not the apes.

It's not just that zombies are popular, but the consumers they attract will sit through the ads, then mindlessly shuffle to the mall, driven by a mysterious hunger that pushes them to consume beyond what was thought possible and still not be sated. Also known as a killer demographic.

East of Eden might be a good name for such a project.