I was astonished to see that my exact hometown was on the list. Unfortunately, the film being shown is Avatar.

I've worked in a kitchen. While I do wash my hands often, others do not. Some people just do not want to wash their hands, but will change gloves every time they would have washed hands.

Exactly. It's happened before and will continue to happen. Disney did, after all, cancel The Clone Wars and shut down the Lucasarts video game division with all its current projects.

Obviously most people that use that phrase are just not looking at things rationally and resorting to hyperbole, but I wanted to point out that there is a very real danger to "childhood" when it comes to things like this.

I don't like the Transformers films, but I also have never seen any of the Transformers cartoons or comics. I have no connection with the series. You don't seem to know who you're talking to.

Works such as these can very easily "destroy your childhood" if they become popular enough and begin to replace the original interpretations.

William Fichtner is not Asian, correct?

I would like to counter collex's suggestion of the Uglies series. I've read Scott Westerfield's work and he's is one of the worst writers I have ever encountered.

You act like opinions are not valid. That is dismissive.

You started it by immediately dismissing my perspective as "opinion" and, as such, irrelevant. You had no interest in a discussion simply because you felt the need to defend a silly book series.

Oh my God. If Wikipedia anything to go by then the Uglies series is even worse than the Risen Empire.

Any piece of art can be objectively considered bad, otherwise there wouldn't be critics. Westerfield was a crappy writer. He may have improved, but from what I read I don't think he could become much better in the few years between series.

Anyone of any age can objectively determine that a piece of media has faults.

I read one of Scott Westerfield's books in high school and found it to be one of the worst pieces of literature I have ever experienced. I can't imagine any of his other books are any better.

I can understand the complaints towards Lawrence's depiction of Katniss as I held them myself, but it should also be considered that Lawrence would literally become the embodiment of the character for millions of young girls. They would look up to her and see her as a certain standard of beauty.

I loved that one of the Spider-Man characters was an actor from a mundane world.

That was a very cool episode for me as a kid. Childrens' programming just didn't approach sci-fi topics like multiverse travel and time travel before comic adaptations came on.

Or you could just not support piracy.

You could say the same thing about The Lord of the Rings. Would it even exist without Germanic/Celtic mythology or any of the other fantasy novels that preceded it?

Firefly was derivative, boring and racist.