Actually, it kind of is like that. Except that it's also the one fort along the wall that _everyone_ happens to be stationed at, since the rest of them are abandoned. That speaks a lot more to their situation than simply being the sole Night Watch outpost ever would.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and weak.

It's never about how much stuff is in an ecosystem, but whether it has the right proportions. There's a company (possibly more than one) that sells sealed glass spheres that have a mix of living organisms imprisoned inside. Nothing gets in except light and heat, nothing gets out either. If they get the mix right,…

"Lechuguilla Cave has been completely isolated from the outside world for over four million years, making it one of the world's most pristine ecosystems."

Don't care. Just want him to make as many episodes as he possibly can before it gets cancelled.

As cool as his three series were, the fact that he's never had one last even a full two seasons with him at the helm doesn't really do much to reinforce that Hollywood mentality.

If that didn't make it, then I guess the Dragonlance bit of pissing the gods off enough that they chuck a volcano down upon like a thermonuclear bomb you didn't stand a chance of showing up.

Ah, but Luke did actually start to turn to the Dark Side in RotJ. The only reason he stopped was that when he severed Vader's mechanical hand, it reminded him a bit too much of his own situation.

The bludbad chick who was living alone in the woods and strangling guys with her (this is where the Rapunzel story kicks in) really long hair. At the start of the episode, they flashed the "let down your golden hair" bit from the Rapunzel story, which is why I _knew_ it was a Rapunzel story, but otherwise you've got…

The far side actually receives slightly more sunlight than the visible side, since it never experiences a lunar eclipse.

Does he stay completely on topic, or does he skew off into an anti-religion rant like he sometimes does? Because I'm cool with him on NOVA Science Now, but when he starts talking about how we should use the public school system to educate against religion, right there a major chunk of the US voting pool will stop…

And yet the vast majority of service-men and women are earning below the poverty line while risking their lives.

The two things I would suggest to any Star Wars fan out of all the Dark Horse EU are the Infinities stories (like Marvel's "What If?" series, but specific to the Star Wars movies, like "What if Luke turned to the Dark Side and Leia had to take his place?") and the Tag & Bink stories (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern in the…

That depends on which version of the story you read. Ever hear of Infinities?

Not after some drunk astronaut drives it straight into the Pacific...

Sure he would. He'd bleed out of his pointy ears, but he'd be able to watch it.

But they really kinda are already. Yeah, they take one teensy element from a regular fairy tale (sometimes less teensy than others), and that's about it. Rapunzel was _so_ far off base that some people didn't even realize it was a Rapunzel story. I only picked up on it because that was the week when I first started…

Pfft. Clearly it was that T-Rexes were big on their barbeque culture. It's just that they had those tiny little arms, so they weren't very good at building firepits, and things tended to get out of hand pretty quickly.

Luddite: I do not think this means what you think this means.

Morn!