My Battlestar Galactica Viper Mk. II is coming along nicely. Painting's done, now to finish decals, details, and weathering.

I considered Season 2, but those 2 or 3 filler episodes in the second half knocked it from the top spot. Otherwise, it was still a tight, hair-raising narrative. Couldn't say the same for Seasons 3 and 4, but I still love them.

Right on. I think it's mostly to milk a franchise for all its worth, because it's a huge loss anyway if a show doesn't get past the first or second season. Just look at Japan's Mobile Suit Gundam franchise: amazing sci-fi and war stories, each series (not counting OAVs) numbering 50 episodes, each with a…

BSG's first season was the strongest because of its low episode count, I can't see why that can't be done here.

I see what you did there. Protected speech, as it goddamn should be.

I hope this is a troll. The legality of this is quite simple: you can't ever contract for the performance of illegal activity. That doesn't make it okay. You don't have to go to law school to know that, but unfortunately they have to teach that.

I have a very taut suspension of disbelief, but there is no way I can watch this movie without thinking why two Earth-sized masses haven't shaken down and ripped each each other apart. I might wait to rent the DVD, though.

Huh, you're right. That's it, the Viper needs moar Italian styling to sort it out. Shouldn't be too hard, given who's keeping the lights on at Chrysler now.

New Viper doesn't look right to me for some reason. I could be wrong, but it looks like the bastard offspring of a Vette and a Monte Carlo. Gross.

3 + 4 = 5

I just re-read the ROTF review. I almost wish TF3 was a terribad movie so CJA can top it. Still, this review is great, even if I don't want to read the spoilers just yet. My favorite parts:

There's nothing wrong with keeping an open mind on this issue, but I think it's virtually undeniable that some sort of climate change is happening. All that pollution has to go somewhere, and it's not inert either. Even if climate change isn't artificial (unlikely), it is happening, and the deniers won't even admit…

Ugh, that community is as bad as, if not worse than CoD, because it's the same type of people: neckbeards and basement dwellers who do nothing but play (there you have it, the level 14s and above). Guys like me (and presumably you) with actual lives outside the game just couldn't compete. It also helped wreck one of…

Thank you so much. I really need to brush up on my astronomy and space physics.

The real problem is that despite the potential for rapid changes in climate, criminally sociopathic politicians will keep on ignoring them right up until they drown coastal cities and flatten the heartlands. Even then, they're just going to laugh it off and call it God's vengeance for not agreeing with them.

I regret seeing ROTF in the theater, it being a dazzling, rush-job mess, but I enjoyed it a little after giving it another chance during my free trial of HBO/Skinemax. It's not as bad when it's

I'm of two minds with this issue. First, you have the argument posed here, but second, you can also argue that video games and automation are positive outlets for violence. When people are busy killing virtual avatars (or more efficiently killing real enemies with less collateral damage), they're less likely to…

Jalopnik strikes again; they reposted their road sign hacking articles over the weekend, so there's no way this is coincidence. I love that site.

Thank you, your response was very enlightening. I didn't know the radiation risk was that low on Mars, but I'd imagine that crossing space getting there would still be higher. Nothing faster engines and some metal shielding can't fix perhaps.

That's what I was thinking after asking the question. Start with domed cities for initial explorers, then large-scale underground construction if/when settlement reaches critical mass.