Joss Whedon. I dug "Firefly" but mostly for the steampunk aesthetic and feel no need to ever watch an episode of it again. I couldn't stand River Tam. Terrible characterization, terrible acting, terrible everything.

Well in fairness, William Gibson is a slog to get through even for people who do like novels. I find his stuff unbearable, which puts me at odds with my perception of myself as someone who would really dig the William Gibson universe.

I still haven't seen it, although I really dig the promo ad they shot with that Sting song "The Russians" as the couple tossed and turned in bed, eventually forming a hammer & sickle with their bodies. Hamfisted perhaps, but it was a lovely 15 seconds of filmmaking.

My grandfather was in the war and when he came home wrote a little book — which he did not publish or show to anyone, we found it after he died. Anyway, its a thin volume that marks his travels through Europe from France into Germany. One of my older cousins read it and mapped it against significant dates to try and…

The "Snow Crash" thing has been bandied about for almost two years now, right? I keep looking for updates and never find them. I hope its true though, I think some elements of "Attack the Block" were a pretty clear fanboy reference to Hiro (which makes me wish John Boyega was 20 years older so he could actually play…

Attack the Block might be the perfect movie. I don't think there's one wrong step in the whole thing.

This show is absolutely hilarious, there are very few wrong notes in it. I have only seen one episode however, because as I was laughing my ass off two weeks ago, suddenly they mentioned Scrum, and I spiraled down into a mini-PTSD crisis episode. I can't bring myself to watch it anymore, because home is my "safe…

I'm not a fan of Cynthia Addai-Robinson in that role at all. She speaks every line through a clenched jaw, while CCH Pounder would be able to say the same line with *actual* gravitas and a menace that someone as apple-cheeked as CAD can't quite pull off without chewing scenery.

I think a "smolder-off" would be more appropriate.

JJ Feild is really giving Hiddleston a run for his money in the vaguely-menacing bedroom-eyed English guy that I'd hop into bed with at no further prompt than a rakish smile.

I was just thinking that he's the poor man's Tom Hiddleston.

Maybe it was too ham-fisted to warrant a mention, but it sounded to my ears like "Rule Britannia" and "Read 'Em John" are the same tune. That entire sequence was magical.

Cool, I hope they make us all look like cartoon characters and make lots of money off of the intense pain that we all went through. Hopefully they cast people who couldn't even find Boston on a map, that way its guaranteed that their fake accents will be as grating as possible.

I have friends who live on the block in Watertown where the chase, bombs, and shootout happened, who spent the night lying on their kitchen floors. All of them are seriously anti-establishment types, think like old-school New England hippies, and they all said they have never been so grateful to see someone with a…

At least finish the thought:

Or both of them, but I'm not sure even the strength of the rebuilt Jedi Republic (or whatever) could withstand that much perfect bone structure in one galaxy.

JOHN BOYEGA FUCK YEAH!!!

It's not a zero-sum game.

She is, but her legend is a little on the exaggerated side. Remember also that her army was obliterated, and the rest of her people wiped out in retaliation. She was the wife of a Roman puppet king, not some superhero warrior woman. She took over for him when her husband was killed and her daughters raped, but was…

Welp, Rollo is based on the man who founded the colony of Normandy so I'm thinking they'll let him live.