Classic example of the TV Trope "It's Popular, Now It Sucks." Come on, people, nostalgia isn't something to be ashamed of. It's a fun book. Maybe it doesn't aspire to be Great Literature, but not everything has to. A little junk food is fun every once in a while.

So far, I'm finding the books to be more entertaining than the show…

SLINGSHOT, not "sneakshot". If you can't make out what they're saying, maybe watch with the subtitles on?

The weird thing is that all the Bond movies Amazon Prime has, Hulu has as well—and until the end of January, Hulu had all the Bond movies from Dr. No through Casino Royale. But apparently the rights holders decided it was time to yank about half of their titles.

You're probably just trolling, but the title alludes to a philosophical question brought up in the manga and anime, concerning the "ghost" (the person's soul) versus the "shell" (the cybernetic body they're installed in).

As far as I was aware, not any. :)

Fancy seeing you, too. Uh, whoever you are, since I don't recognize the handle. :)

She compares reasonably well to the last animated version of the character I saw—from the Paul Dini Justice League Unlimited animated series. Of course, that version ended up in a love triangle with (if memory doesn't fail me) Green Lantern and Hawkgirl that was never resolved before the series ended.

A fair point. It has been a while since I last saw the episodes.

"They're not balls, they're DALEK BUMPS."

I'm really surprised you didn't mention the parallels between this and the last time the Simm Master showed up—the episode where the 10th Doctor regenerated. That was when we also saw The Doctor trying to do everything he possibly could to put off facing what he knew would necessarily be his demise, by basically…

It's also a way to sell the Blu-ray to people who don't have Blu-ray players yet, which is in turn a way of getting them past the chicken-or-the-egg problem of why should they buy a Blu-ray player if they don't have anything they could watch on it. By the time they've bought a few DVD+Blu-ray hybrid releases, they'll…

I rip DVDs all the time. Let's hear it for Handbrake.

DVDs have copy protection and such that requires extra fees, too. Maybe not as much, nor is it exactly all that effective (thanks to DVDJon) but it's there.

I think it's a brilliant idea. It only costs pennies more to throw that extra disc in there, and you get to count both DVD and Blu-ray customers' sales for one single title which lets you rank higher on the sales charts. It appeals to people who want to buy a DVD now yet still "future-proof" their purchases for when…

I remember hearing about a 2-tape set of The Abyss that had the movie with commentary on the second tape.

The nice part of watching DVDs on computer was there were ways around that. Still are, even for Blu-rays.

My first DVD was the box set of AnimEigo's BubbleGum Crisis. It was sold in a computer game style box, with the velcroed-shut front flap that opened to show more stuff. $54.99 at Best Buy. I bought it well before I even got my first DVD player, in fact. I still have the box, in fact; it's sitting on the table next to…

Guilty as charged. I also have an interesting little oddity in my collection: the Best Buy/Fox demonstration DVD, which includes a THX optimizer (I was a geek and actually sent away for the little blue glasses to use with it) and various scenes that demonstrate how awesome DVD looks and sounds. For example, the whole…

I hear that. My thing was always Hong Kong action movies. John Woo, Jackie Chan, Tsui Hark…the nice thing about Hong Kong flicks is that they were required by law to have English subs, and they were all region-free and dirt cheap even for legit releases, so all it took was sending a little money overseas and boom, a…