Do black holes also eat dark matter?

Honestly, the thing I liked most about the alt-future Enterprise-D was that the third engine helped to bulk up the back of the ship a little, fixing my biggest complaint with the original design (too saucer-heavy). It was a bit of a kludge, sure, and it’s never going to top my list, but it was a decent improvement…

It’s a good design, but I got sick of it during the seemingly seven-hour flyby from TMP. :-)

I have to admit... I kind of loathe the Enterprise-D. It’s just too top heavy, with the saucer positively dwarfing the rest of the ship. And the curved nacelle struts date the design in a way that’s, IMO, considerably less endearing than the original ship’s 1960s retro-futuristic look. I’m not a huge fan of the…

The added subplot in the Burton version about Wonka’s dad changed the entire thrust of the story, IMO. It arguably made fewer little changes, but the big-picture changes (and it’s certainly not like the 1970s version was free of those, what with the Slugworth conspiracy thing) were even more significant.

Given how many liberties (both thematic and textual) the Gene Wilder movie made to the original book, I’m certainly game for a more true-to-the-source style of remake. Of course, that was what I was hoping for out of the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp remake, which was not only at least as different from the book as the 1971…

Googzon. Or possibly Amagle.

This is absolutely true, but it’s also worth pointing out that the Disney/Fox deals specifically excludes the Fox Network anyway. Disney’s not actually merging with 21st Century Fox, they’re just acquiring a large number of their assets. The company itself will remain and retain control over the network (which Disney…

I recently watched a documentary on Netflix about the world record for Nibbler (Man vs. Snake) that Mitchell featured in, and it definitely showed him a much more positive light. He seems legitimately supportive of others who try for the records, even if he’s not afraid to play up some pro-wrestling-style rivalries…

He’s definitely seen that way, and he knows it. But it is largely an act. He plays the part of the heel, but, even in King of Kong, there are clues that there’s a lot more to him than that. There was a recent documentary about the quest to set the all-time high-score record for Nibbler that shows him a much more…

The Panda Expresses I’ve been to lately have all moved away from styrofoam containers to two-piece plastic ones.

Star Trek’s 50th was much like Doctor Who’s 40th. And both at least had the promise of a new series coming. Doctor Who’s 30th was pretty moribund, with the proposed direct-to-video special The Dark Dimension (which, in hindsight, was never going to happen and would have been impressively terrible if it had) having…

A lot of extensions didn’t have “a year to be ready.” Yes, Mozilla announced that the old extension framework was going away almost two years ago, but the WebExtensions framework that replaced it was still being reworked and refined right up to the even of Firefox Quantum’s release. Heck, there are a lot of promised…

The day after, technically. Kennedy was shot on 22 November; “An Unearthly Child” premiered on 23 November. But this was well before the days of 24-hour cable news, and the story was still dominating everything that day.

I figure the explosiveness of the regeneration is less a result of the Doctor’s mental state and more a factor of how long he’s been fighting to hold it off. The tenth Doctor delayed his regeneration so he could go visit all of his old friends, and the twelfth had been fighting of his own for some time. By the end,…

I don’t think it does, but I also don’t think it needs to. Both Clark and Lois are reporters with a history of covering important figures of business and politics. Bruce Wayne is one of those people. There’s nothing inherently weird about them knowing each other socially and getting along with one another.

Not just character development. One of the overarching themes of The Last Jedi is hopelessness and the ultimately futility of war. Luke talks about it at length, and it’s a crucial plot beat when the heroes finally send out their distress signal and nobody bothers to answer. But if you remove the Finn/Rose middle act,…

Oh, I’m not disagreeing with you that the continuity between the originals and the prequels is frequently lacking. I’m just not sold that it’s all that important. If the prequels were well-written, exciting spectacles, I suspect the majority of their audiences would have been happy to overlook the myriad continuity…

I remember the sequence you’re talking about, but I certainly didn’t interpret it as evidence of a secret plan. If anything, I’d say it strongly suggested exactly the opposite: Leia didn’t have a plan at that point, but believed strongly in the importance of holding on to faith that a plan would eventually present…

That’s a problem with prequels in general, but I’m not convinced it’s an insurmountable one. For one thing, I don’t really think lack of continuity is one of the SW prequels’ fatal flaws. Yes, Obi-Wan not recognizing the droids is a flaw, but, honestly, who cares? Revenge of the Sith doesn’t magically become a better…