Another reason the Buffy reboot is a terrible idea: the current Buffyverse is still alive and well in the Season 8 and Season 9 comics, whose story arcs (and many of whose issues) are written by Joss Whedon, with other Buffy writers like Jane Espenson penning issues as well. Season 8 is a great continuation of the…

Great to know that Roy Dotrice is joining the cast: my love for his audiobook performances for aSoIaF is unending!

The potential difficulty with this project is that the visual vocabulary of "Bladerunner" has been so influential that if Scott works with the same vocabulary, it will look uninteresting and unoriginal. Yet, if the new film is distant enough in its visual vocabulary, calling it a sequel or prequel won't ring true. …

I don't buy your inference. I never got the sense that Spock had to return to Vulcan because that's the only place where Vulcans can mate, but because he's *married* and would be violating a deeply rooted cultural norm by simply...getting it on with nursey.

Don't see why his romance with Uhura would be a problem for simple procreation. Two words: artificial insemination. It could, however, pose problems of different sorts: it will be interesting to see how the destruction of Vulcan will affect culture and politics among the survivors. Yes, Vulcans are supposed to all…

GGG is my favorite podcast: makes me wish I could be in the same room joining in on the conversation. That might be in part because of David's background in philosophy: the way you reason about literature, movies, comics is right up my alley. Keep up the great work!

Don't listen to all these people saying the Alan Smithee cut isn't commercially available. It's available right here:

Can't agree with you there: there's a good reason Lynch insisted that version be credited to 'Alan Smithee' as the director...

Hmmm: I thought I read him saying somewhere that he's already written a couple of chapters of the new book. Maybe he has but has shelved more intense work until next year?

Don't they still stream B5 on Hulu?

I feel you. When I lived in L.A., I chose to quit Netflix and subscribe to a similar service provided by an excellent local video rental place. But now that I live in Auburn, Alabama, I have Netflix. Sure, there's the local Hastings bookstore that I occasionally rent DVDs from, but I live out in the country where…

Ummm: what is the theory of which you speak?

I guess I'm one of the few people who thinks Sansa is a really interesting character. I'm really wondering where she'll end up: she's mostly kept her head down for the whole series - which is a completely rational thing to do, given her circumstances (post- the execution of Ned).

I just finished AFFC and I don't think it was bad so much as I simply didn't feel like investing myself in all the new characters he introduced - especially when he left out three of the most important and interesting characters entirely.

Nope. Benjen's going to come back at some point: I'm sure of it. And my bet is that there's something going on north of The Wall we haven't yet seen, and he's a part of it...

I suspect if you read the 2nd - 4th books, this suspicion would only become stronger. I hope this isn't what's going to happen though: it would make the whole series conform to classic fantasy tropes that Martin has taken so much care to flout...

I'm hoping there will be a major game-changer in ADWD. Of course, there have been lots of game-changers throughout, but it all seems (to me, at least) to be heading inevitably towards Dany conquering Westeros and facing the threat of the White Walkers and Wildlings (not necessarily in that order). But given Martin's…

The only reason people criticize Torchwood for being sex-obsessed is that most of the sex isn't straight sex. Replace all the gay sex with straight sex, and you'd basically have an average adult drama on your hands. Unfortunately, gay sex still comes off to most people as more 'risque' than straight sex - a…