Oh yeah, that was one of the 'few particular exorcist movies'. I actually thought it would have worked just fine without any supernatural stuff at all.

Much that I've enjoyed a few particular exorcist movies, this whole genre feels like apologetic for the physical and mental torture of mentally ill people.

Once again, I'm always thankful for my serialized drama having at least something of a direction in mind in where its going. To me, at least, it seemed like Lost had no idea where it was headed, or they would have had Jacob as a character for the whole time.

It would be interesting to see if they shared some of their same core audience, I think that its not a just comparison, because the world building in the GRRM books and thus the show, is on a fundamentally different level than Lost. Lost has a fantastical island which is incorporated into our own world, and I think…

As much as I love LOTR, I agree. The whole battle of Gondor takes about 3 pages. From the Witch King returning the prisoners to "I am no man". It was a beautiful bit of writing, but Tolkien puts his emphasis everywhere but the action, and he also had the tendency to over indulge on his giant world. I remember that…

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall the premise for Brimstone wasn't that Zeke took pleasure out of murdering his wife's rapist, but that in the scheme of heavenly justice, murder was more serious than rape, and thus not considered justice punishment. Which leads to a lot of uncomfortable questions about…

I'm not sure if its because I was watching it with an old style TV, but a lot of the shots had character's faces completely out of frame (sometimes both), at a weird angle, or filled with awkward, unnecessary cuts back and forth between people talking. It seemed like all it ever did was make it literally hard to…

That's a problem I ran into with pretty much all of Heinlein's books that I have read (which, admittedly, is only about 5). I've found that even some of the really big names in Sci-fi, like Arthur C. Clarke and Asimov, seemed to have real problems with writing their female characters. But that's probably a wider…

Certainly I think we all accept certain things from older authors that we would not accept from ones that are still writing. I'm probably not going to read anything more from Orson Scott Card, as his politics, and more importantly, his writing have devolved into absurd anti-gay religious zealotry. As for older…

This seems no different than when GW Bush was proposing a moon base and a Mars expedition towards the end of his term. For all the poo-pooing we do of NASA, it has probes orbiting Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, The Sun, and multiple space telescopes. Russia admittedly does great work maintaining the ISS, but they…

That's a nice collection of glitzy execution implements. I'd think it would be interesting to do something similar with decorative guillotines, electric chairs, or axes.

Honestly, all the trailers and special effects remind me of the Phantom Menace, and that steaming pile was just re-released to remind us all of how bad it was. CGI hordes fighting it out is perhaps not as big a draw as it once was.

I think my biggest disappointment with this show was that its monsters of the week have all been supernatural things. Ghosts, ghost vampires, magic tribesmen.... when I saw the initial trailer for it, with that creepy last shot of the hand grabbing the railing of the boat, I thought the adversaries would be more…

While I can't speak for Terra Nova, since I thought the promos for had crappy looking dinosaurs, I think TV is getting to the point as a competitive and mature enough medium that we should expect people to be able to put at least a moderately watchable show up when it starts. TNG and SG1 may not have been as great as…

This is true, but I feel bad for people essentially screwing over their children and relatives by hording all their money for a hope that is really likely to be completely impossible, being sold to them by people that *know* it is impossible, and who don't really care.

Yeah, but then you're just making a mental duplicate, there's no continuity of consciousness, which is what you're really after when you cryopreserve. And I'd imagine that gene expression levels, numbers of neurotransmitter receptors, and other submicroscopic factors come into play.

Cryopreservation is stupid... certainly all the older corpses preserved in this method would be very interesting for geneticists in the future, but the freezing process obliterated all the cells. I remember reading about how technicians put a microphone into the canister where baseball legend Ted Williams's head was…

In case your curious, the Arsenic incorporating bacteria thing turned out to be a complete flop when it was subjected to testing by non wishful thinking scientists. The original researchers grew them on media that still had phosphate, but never showed that it was actually in the DNA itself. Its still a very hardy…

Really, any species that requires it to travel to other worlds and consume/incorporate life on that world is just screwed in reality. There is no reason to think that DNA is universal, and even if its general configuration was, that it would use the same base pairs, or the same codons to code for amino acids, or the…

And that's not even considering the fact that now, through Netflix or other services, we have the ability to watch the television produced anywhere else in the world. I've really enjoyed a variety of British Television programs, and I have a Korean spy series and plenty of anime sitting in my queue too. So its not…