Giant tick.

In a sense, the "museum ship" idea was used in the finale of "Enterprise," where Riker "tours" the old Enterprise of Archer and company in the form of a holodeck simulation. Thematically it's the same idea — placing the adventures of the crew in a wider historical context.

Maybe they're trying to conceal the fact that Capaldi has already left the show and they're still scrambling around for a replacement.
(kidding)

Laying this at the door of *liberalism*, of all things, is almost as harebrained as the position you're criticizing.
Hey, there's a candidate — harebrained.

Well — it looks like a slick product. Don't think I'd say much more than that.

There was the sound of gunfire, followed by a strong "thud" music cue from John Williams. It's certainly the safest assumption.

Looks like it was shot in Central Park on a single afternoon in early November.

Hey, the religious schools have just found an efficient new way to cut payroll when they're in bad financial straits. Simply change the religious charter and half your faculty fires itself.

Of course, I feel no closer to the (apparently) more "thoughtful," moderate theologians quoted above than the extremists, since…

Quite apart from his famous design of the creature from "Alien," I will always be grateful for the alien derelict from earlier in the film, which really looks like it had been built by beings inhabiting a completely different perceptual universe from ours. Creepy, uncanny, and wonderful.

Quite apart from his famous design of the creature from "Alien," I will always be grateful for the alien derelict from earlier in the film, which really looks like it had been built by beings inhabiting a completely different perceptual universe from ours. Creepy, uncanny, and wonderful.

Headline is deceptive, since quite a few (most?) of these do not seem to be "crumbling," but rather quite vibrant, and decorating perfectly viable and functioning buildings and spaces.

Often when I read broad-brushstroke headlines like this, I suspect I'm seeing a certain Utopian attitude on the part of the writer. …

Well, you certainly just made Newitz's point for her.

"...we need to go back in time to 1993, when President Obama's science adviser John Holdren..."

Fairly certain something is wrong there.

It's a terrific credit sequence, no question.

Christ, what's with the bitching and moaning commenter?

It's off to watch a movie in which scary humans appear to leap right off the screen at it.

Was just going to say the same thing. Perfect blend of visually striking and believable.

Yes — I'd been wondering if image size might be an issue. Thanks for that.

For #4, when the mysterious lady is revealed standing among the other Time Lords, the theme we hear (mysterious ethereal female vocal melody) is one we've heard throughout the series, and has been referred to by Russell T. Davies as "Flavia's Theme." So I wonder if this is Flavia, former High Chancellor / President of…

EXACTLY. The "Deckard is a replicant" notion completely cancels out the central theme of the film; it's a total non sequitur.