Well, if they’d asked her any real questions, she probably would have had them be interrupted.

These days I’m immediately suspicious of any *mystery* style shows. I kind of applaud the Leftovers for blatantly saying the mystery will never be solved, while still hating the fact that they don’t care enough about their setting to actually bother.

That show gets some gold stars for having a religious king come out as being pro-evolution. But I just couldn’t really care about the main character... he just always felt kind of lifeless, and I just couldn’t get invested in the show.

Why did we spend a whole season poking around in the hatch anyways?

I actually just finished SG1 and Atlantis a few months ago, and my girlfriend and I tried to venture into SGU for the first time, and it was quite the shocking difference.

I can’t imagine that Unbreakable had any stigma attached to it because of Shyamalan... he was still a rising star then. I remember seeing it with almost zero idea about what it was, and quite enjoyed it... but that also be why it didn’t do well. I don’t remember much marketing for it at all, and if it didn’t get the…

As much as I like Oswalt’s ideas, Kick Ass 2 tells me to be careful what you wish for. Sometimes an escalation doesn’t lead to being better.

That’s true, but it would be more interesting to see those beings be a little less human? A little more Roadside Picnic, and a little less Apollo.

Theres got to be a lot of unexplored space even within the Federation too.... it sounds like they just pop down colonies when they find a good planet and move their border to include that area.... it would be interesting to see how the Federation exists in 3D space.

Yeah, it would be nice to have something like the Voth, but perhaps even more removed, and more present than just in an episode or two.

Its probably easier to let people imagine a utopia rather than write a good one.

But they’re basically just like Q, or the other God Like Beings. They may have *a* planet, but they don’t have much interest beyond what shows up on their doorstep. Or when they take a liking to someone.

The Traveller could pretty easily have been a Time Lord.

Ah, the story of that one emotional Vulcan that always gets identified as a Romulan.

Exactly.... exploration is cool, but the future is just as alien to us as the actual aliens. Star Trek has typically just let us presume that future people are just better versions of today’s people, but I’d love to see a bit more elaborations on that.

Yeah, I think the Vorlons and Mimbari being so much better than Earth tech was probably the smartest thing that Babylon 5 ever did. It put such a different spin on things for humans to have an insurmountable technical disadvantage.

Definitely, a Federation ship needs an IT person now.

Ian Banks’s Culture books did a lot with that... everyone could change genders, modify themselves, even change species. The Star Trek people get surgically altered to be Romulans all the time... I wonder if people ever did it for image issues.

Doctor Who also leans heavily on the inexplicable and super alien species or entities, while Star Trek has planet after planet of people that are basically the same as humans.

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