Don't forget the biggest one of all: the space dogfight! We first saw this in "Space Battleship Yamato" back in 1974.

"scientific progression has stalled completely this past decade"

That has got to be the most likable guy ever.

Ha! I certainly identify with that experience. Well-described!

The ever-sexy Samuel R. Delany's 4-volume "Neveryon" series got increasingly explicit with each successive volume.

Interesting history in relation to this: part of the reason (there were several) that the Nunavut territory came into existence back in the '90s was to establish more firmly Canada's land-based and maritime boundaries in the north.

Particularly when you add the sexism.

The issue, of course, is the "exotic matter" needed to power the drive. That's what pushes this whole discussion back into the realm of pure speculation. However, if they can demonstrate the existence of the effect itself on microscopic levels, as their experiment seems to be designed to do, that would, all by…

Dynamite film. If you're a fan of stop-motion or atmospheric design, this is a must. While in one sense this isn't a "faithful" adaptation of the original book, in another sense it's the adaptation that "appreciates" the book the most, takes it the most seriously.

So much to praise about this. I'm personally boggled because the whole first half of the sequence matches, down to individual shots, how I've always envisioned "Return of the Jedi" *should* have started, i.e. right where "Empire" left off: with the Rebel fleet out in space (maybe a matter of minutes after the…

Thanks for this. It's not just that these people had more population to kill — they also had more efficient *tools* to kill. It always bugs me when people bring up murderous dictators of the 20th century and then leave out the other, and first, big murder machine of the same century: World War One. Why were all…

Well, did it? You tell us & name a source.

Very lucid, classic intro to Zen Buddhism: "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts.

Does have a kind of Sid & Marty Krofft flavor.

Well said. Right there with you on all of this.

Exactly. I think the dramatic tension of the whole series centers on the question of his implied vulnerability. (Of course the show "House" focused on this question as well.) I think Cumberbatch's relative youthfulness helps emphasize this theme — you just assume the chilly detachment has a young person's…

If you've always been in the dark about what feminism is, you *could* take the time to read a Wikipedia entry or a book about it.

That is some serious douchebaggery from Dawkins. Pretty damn disappointing.

I had them too. They were great!

Desperately wanted to see the car get struck by another vehicle just as it leaves the gate at the end.