These are not hard drives they’re destroying- it’s backup tapes, which are not attached to any machines at the moment.

My solution is that I’m a reverse solipsist: I don’t exist. I mean, there’s a pile of stuff that conventionally is identified as “me”, but it’s not me. It’s like Theseus’s ship paradox: the reality is that there isn’t any ship there, and the idea that the ship exists as an object distinct from the water it floats in…

Yay for James Stokoe doing more Godzilla. I’m not even a Godzilla fan, but Stokoe is fucking amazing. I wish there were more Orc Stain.

I have several big complaints about Unforgiven, and feel like the film is incredibly overrated. The only gem in it is Gene Hackman’s character. The biggest problem with the film is that the inciting event is that a prostitute is assaulted and scarred by a rich guy’s son. The plot proceeds with bounty hunters chasing…

They didn’t even really establish that he was an alien until the end of the First Doctor’s run, and even then, he spent most of his history as a gentleman adventurer. There was nothing particularly alien about any of the doctors- they were always just eccentric gentlemen adventurers. Generally, Who is at its worst…

This trailer ends up feeling very old school, somehow. Pertwee action and Baker wit.

We3, for when you want cybernetic animals to make you cry.

One of us must be human!

Look, all I have to say, is that if Luke Cage isn’t wearing a massive ‘fro and shouting “Sweet Christmas” when Iron Fist sends a bad guy through a wall with a one-inch punch, I’m not sure what the point of putting these characters on TV is.

Birth Movies Death is reporting that Marvel and Netflix are allegedly struggling to come down to how they’ll adapt the adventures of Danny Rand to the small screen.

I kinda want to see a variation on the Terminator that looks like eXistenZ.

And that’s why I hate DS9. Starfleet doesn’t work that way, and those aren’t the stories I turn to Star Trek to see. And B5 did it better.

Fiction is not a simulation. Picard has a number of defining character moments that transcend his brief- if painful- interactions with the Borg. I feel that Picard’s PTSD moments didn’t work in the script, but Patrick Stewart made them work, because he’s a fucking badass.

Wiping out the Borg- an implacable enemy- makes perfect strategic sense. It is also an evil act. It would be genocide, on a scale we can’t even imagine. And even more than that- by giving Hugh is own free will and allowing him to exercise it, they actually spawned a new cybernetic race that was not the Borg, and…

The three greatest Star Trek movies, in no particular order:

First Contact is, of all of the original continuity Star Trek films, the only one that rises to the level of sci-fi spectacle that audiences want from sci-fi franchises. For TNG, it’s honestly the only one that actually holds up as a film.

But we already had a story about Picard coping with PTSD, he’s encountered the Borg several time since, and in fact interacted closely with a Borg drone, to the point where the drone was released back to the collective as an individual- Picard chose a single individual’s right to exist over the ability to send a…

Look, I’m from about a half hour into my future, and I think I know a little bit more than you.

And ABC Family is also where the back half of Freaks and Geeks got aired after NBC pulled the plug.

Those zooms are like the director was trying to rip off Sam Raimi, but didn’t understand how Raimi uses the camera.