It's actually kind of fun.

Yup. Wednesdays. The comments are usually a collection of a) mocking/criticizing the column b)updates on the lives and love lives or lack thereof of SL commenters, c) updates on the continuing adventures of Nudeor Viking III, Edwardian gentleman, titan of industry, and attender of satyric symposia.

You should hang out on the savage love comments It's definitely where you can go to unpack all of this stuff. Or read about other people's (mis)adventures.

You could check out and see if there are any ace groups in your area.

There's always speed dating, and I don't mean that in a facetious way. Go for shits and giggles, just as a thing to do (and not as something that will get you a relationship or sex or whatever). It's good because you'll get a crash course in the whole dating thing, and even the most excruciating interactions will be…

I did really like Superior Foes. I couldn't get into Ant-Man, even though I heard it was good, because I'd really, really liked FF and seeing all that character development get tossed out the window sucked.

I'd give you an upvote, if Disqus would let me for the incredibly well chosen Futurama reference.

What did it do differently?

It is SUCH an obnoxious tendency, and for more than just SF.. It's like:
1. Literary author decides to elevate genre storytelling
2. Literary author manages to hit every age-worn cliche of the genre
3. Literary author is applauded for ground breaking reinvention

That's….not how it's been described by anyone. Including the production person in their rendition of the "better version".

Hm. I do like that idea, except: he was hired to do a job that involved living the rest of his life alone on a ship? I can think of ways to make it plausible, but they'd all make the backstory the more fascinating part.

Sliders was the first show where I understood the meaning of the words "fate worse than cancellation"

I felt the same way about Futurama. But I think I get more joy out of even mediocre x-files than I did even the futurama revival.

Yay. Hopefully, they'll lean more on the MOTW episodes, those were always my favorite anyway.

I could go for a story about madness and redemption.

Was the premise just that his pod was broken, or something? Or was it once awake, you can't go back under?

Same here. Since I don't know the movie enough to care about keeping it intact, you could also go for a more ambiguous story- prolonged solitary confinement does have serious consequences. If you had a character who kind of lost touch with reality after a prolonged time in isolation, who then "woke up" another…

I think that is incredibly unlikely.

He'll move on to something else, sell himself as persecuted to his regular audience, who will lap it right up and send him more money.

I read "apt pupil" when I was about 15 or 16 (which, incidentally, was right around the time of the Columbine shooting). It was perhaps the only story of King's - or anyone's - I'd read that truly, truly, viscerally horrified me.