@Mark 2000: I'll admit that it's not the monolith that makes the apes violent. The apes are violent before the monolith arrives. But otherwise, again, you're assuming a lot about the film and deciding that it's the only interpretation anybody could make. Like, the part at the end where Bowman ages to senility in…

@Ryanrule: A helpful hint... Before you pop off calling other people stupid, you should really learn the difference between too and to.

@Mark 2000: That's YOUR explanation of 2001, and it's not too far from mine... But people argued about the ending for years, and there is still room for disagreement. What is the monolith? Is it an alien? Is it God? Is it sentient? Why did it incite the apes to violence? Why was it on the moon? Why is Bowman aged and…

@See you suckers later: 2001 (the film, I've never read the book) is actually quite linear for most of its running time. All of the stuff with Hal is pretty straightforward. And The Prisoner was the Lost of its day, a show that told a serial narrative with lots of weird, baffling stuff that seemed to be leading…

It's funny, he's been saying pretty much the same thing, over and over, for a year now, and the fans just can't let it go. They want there to be one absolute, final answer, and there ISN'T one. Moore wanted to do something trippy and ambiguous, and it's up to you to decide what happened. Deal with it.

For me, the biggest problem was Fry putting Leela's humiliating video online. It seemed out of character for him. Fry is not Homer Simpson. Homer does crappy, totally selfish stuff, and then feels guilty about it. But Fry has demonstrated, over and over again, that he'll go through hell for Leela. He's lazy and…

Oh, and don't forget James T. Kirk! (Remember his stint in the Klingon prison in Star Trek 6?)

@The Curse of Millhaven: Well, Sawyer did do time in prison... If this is supposed to be a list of cool, rebellious convicts, Sawyer would have to score pretty high. Kate always seemed more like a nice girl who kept getting roped into these really bizarre, violent situations.

No Sawyer?

@♠ Final ♠: Actually, Worf was kind of a deadbeat dad. He kept foisting Alexander onto his own parents, and seemed absolutely uninterested in raising the kid.

Given that Nimoy has retired from acting, does this count as his final public performance?

Well... The book is called Star Wars: Luke Skywalker's Amazing Story. Did you really think they'd make it through the entire book without mentioning who his father was? The whole "No, Luke, *I* am your father" deal is kind of central to Luke's story.

@icy_one: I could be wrong, but it was my impression that the lighthouse was like the waterfall cave, and only appeared to certain people at certain times.

I think the key thing is having the big plot points planned out (as Whedon did) as opposed to just totally making it all up week to week, as I gather they did on Battlestar Galatica. As much as I admired Galactica, it was very lurchy and uneven. I've heard it said that Galactica was a direct result of Moore's…

@chalkshark: It's one thing to recast in a movie series. You typically have years between the movies, so it doesn't seem quite so weird when Katie somehow turns into Maggie. Also, movie characters are generally less developed than TV characters, we don't feel like we know them as well as people we see on TV every…

I can't imagine what end times fans could find to enjoy about A Boy and His Dog. Are they deluding themselves into thinking that the film's post-nuke wasteland is what it'll be like after they all get whisked off to heaven, and the rest of us are left here to kill and rape each other? There's nothing in the film to…

@phillyguy83: The Nimoy Spock was a glorified cameo, and I don't think he had anything to do that was more interesting that the stuff he'd done over the last 40 or so years.

"And Spock has never been so... fascinating"

@Starlionblue: I overstated my dislike of the film. It was not Phantom Menace bad, it just left me with a similar feeling, like, "This looks and sounds a lot like that thing I love, but it's all wrong."

@Cash907Censored: I feel your pain, Cash. I've loved pretty much every Trek thing ever, until this movie. And it's like I'm not allowed to be a Trekkie and not like this movie, people get really snarky about that. The Onion makes fun of me for not liking it, NIMOY goes on SNL and calls me a dick for not liking it...…