Oh this is a marvelous idea! It was such an engaging show and it was one of the only options for when I wanted to rent a movie to watch with my baby sister (12 years my junior) because they appealed to 17 year old me and 5 year old her. I would watch every episode twice before the next one aired.

Wait, is he actually a redhead?

I'm so sad that io9 seems to really hate Into Darkness. I absolutely adored it. I loved it every bit as much as the '09 outing. It just crackled and had the 'soul' of Star Trek (for me). I was born in 1976, so grew up watching TOS reruns, but TNG will always be 'my' Trek. It wasn't until I was older and I learned the…

Those ear bugs gave me nightmares for months afterwards. I still can't watch that scene.

I saw Into Darkness yesterday, so sad going in because of Charlie Jane Anders's review. Ms. Anders, I have come to greatly respect your opinions because they are always thoughtful and nuanced. You don't seem to write something just for a laugh or a start, you write with purpose and you are always able to defend your…

Sure, there are a few that didn't suck (though BSG's first ep in my mind was the movie/pilot and that was iffy with promise). However, when I think of the sci-fi that I absolutely adore, particularly the hardcore "I am Sci-Fi, bitches" stuff, as opposed to some of the more fantastical realism of LOST or Revolution,…

I hear you on that! It's maddening when you can see "if they just moved this storyline over here and swapped the casting here, tweak B ..." and they just keep missing. I will be fascinated to see where fan created content takes things like that in the future. I imagine we're not that far off from being able to tell…

Well, according to Star Trek all humanoid species can reproduce so they should be all good.

I dunno, there's crappy and then there's crappy. Terra Nova was craaaaappy. The actors and characters were just dull and shallow. This group feels diverse and interesting. So I don't mind the anvils and tropes right now. It feels like a group weaving known patterns while they get a handle on how to work the loom.

You know, I think you're right. I had forgotten about that. I was thinking of all the shows that went on to be hits.

Yeah, the whole first season is why I have trouble getting folks to watch it. It's hard to get people to commit to watching that first season just because I promise them that 2-4 are teh awesome.

Why do so many people forget that every single awesome science fiction show that I can think of in the last 30 years has had an absolutely craptastic first few episodes - first season. All of my favorites had just painful first few episodes. Farscape? Check. Bab5? Check. T mothereffen NG? Check. But they found their…

Californian here, and we were taught a ... nuanced history. I was first introduced to the internment camps in middle school as well. I think part of why is that so many of the Japanese Americans that were affected by the internment lived in California and many classmates were descendants of the interned. My dad's…

I'm very sorry that your father died, and that it was in the midst of such awful circumstances. Losing your dad is bad enough, but having it be a long process and watching him be taken from you piece by piece makes it all even worse. I ... I just wanted to find a way of saying that I'm sorry for your loss in a way…

What a handsome young man! I'm so sorry you went through this, it makes me want to rage on your behalf. I'm glad you guys ended up okay in the end. Enjoy that beautiful boy!

Yay! I'm glad I'm not alone! Hopefully more folks are happily watching it without wandering to the internet to voice their opinions and it will last long enough to live up to it's fascinating premise. A bazillion alien refuges on terraformed Earth? That's just a crazy playland for storytelling.

Please, please, please, please, please. Oh dear lord, please!

I'm really enjoying it simply because I find enough of the characters compelling and the world interesting. It's a sci-fi show in its first season, of course it's crap. If all of us geeks weren't so damned picky and watched sci-fi shows that were so-so, they would make more of them. I just think of Troi crying 'Great…

Thank you for taking the time to give me a fuller explanation of your experience with a sorority. I'm sure it's very frustrating to have what you've experienced to be so at odds with the story the media wishes to tell. I'm not trying to be flippant or dismissive of sororities and I greatly appreciate your willingness…

This is part of why it bothered me for so long. The reason people wanted to read her diary is because of her part in a larger horror. It felt ... perhaps a bit exploitative and ghoulish?