Loved the Scorpion’s pasties! They’re scorpion-shaped, for extra ... scorpion!

So, reprising the “Dallas” reset?

Don’t think that’s it, but would love it if it was!

One more comment: I can agree with most of the choices on the list, or at least agree to disagree, but not about “Ex Machina.” It’s a terrible, terrible movie. In fact, I’m honestly stunned at how highly the movie has been praised by io9. The look of the movie is really great, but as a piece of SF it is not just par,…

As much as I loved “Guardians of the Galaxy” (I saw it 5 times in the movie theater and have watched it on blu-ray a bunch more times), it’s really not a brilliant movie. “Star Wars: A New Hope” deserves a place on the list more, for all the reasons you stated. GOTG is wildly entertaining, but that’s a different list.

Regarding “Inception,” I agree that it’s a brilliant movie and well worth seeing. But it’s a bit light on “science fiction” (as are a number of the movies on this list). Really, it’s just the concept of directed dreaming in levels, illustrated in a number of different ways. Cool, but not that sciency. I actually think…

You are correct about what science is, but incorrect about how the vast majority of people understand science. Most people have no scientific training; they barely remember anything they learned in their high school science classes. For them, science is a system of beliefs based on what people and institutions whose…