Agreed. I’d go so far as saying that if AotC’s B-plot (Obi-Wan doing his whole “Philip Marlowe, Space Wizard” bit) had been the movie’s A-plot instead of the romance, it would probably be the third-best movie in the franchise after Empire and Episode IV.

Yep. As a fellow Charlottean, we're terrible—but South Carolinians are a helluva lot worse.

You're right, plus, y'know, everyone forgets that there's also a nuclear bomb and Green Arrow and the entire Eastern Seaboard power grid involved.

While I think police militarization is an enormous problem, the police response in this case made a great deal of sense as soon as I saw the location was Littleton, Colorado. That particular community and their near neighbors have had an uniquely tragic experience with armed shooters taking over a building. While…

I was scrolling through just to see if anyone posted this: "It's Effing Walk O'Clock" is still the best rebuttal ever to "Why didn't they just flyyyyyy?"

I noticed that too, and it was instantly my favorite as soon as I saw it!

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I was about to say 2001, but I guess there weren't any tapirs in prehistoric Africa, and Kubrick and Clarke's reconstruction of early primates is probably pretty far off the mark in general. Also, nothing knocks Heywood Floyd's pen out of his pocket, but I've always been willing to give Kubrick artistic license on…

"Crap! This doesn't look like Star Trek! I know—I'll stick one of those upside-down Nike Swoosh things on the chest! Ta-da!"

Every reasonable person agrees that nobody, male or female, may kill another person.

I clicked on the article link at least hoping it would be a sequel to this:

All of the above, and would add: there are also community-offered missions that can be taken on ("The Foundry"), some of which capture "Trekiness" in a way that only something written by a lifelong obsessive can. That is, some of them are really, really wonderful if you love Star Trek.

Like someone already said, matches could also be really long—BB was a game that rewarded skill, and if you knew your character's blocks and specials, battles could be epic in length.

And yet still better than any of the Man Of Steel trailers I've seen so far....

Ditto.

Germania: also, Nazis. And even if architects could've solved the sinking buildings problem, I'm pretty sure four-and-a-half years of Allied bombings (beginning in 1940) and the Soviet capture of Berlin (1945) would've set the construction schedule (which began in 1937) back just a teeny-tiny-little bit.

Well, yeah: Gandalf's an Illusionist and they only have a limited number of really good offensive spells, and if he uses them up he's tapped until he can relearn all of them (and then only if he has his spellbook handy, which means risking its destruction, which would totally hose him unless he gets his hands on some…

Bulrathi! Bulrathi! Bulrathi! I'm sold! Bulrathi!

::sustained applause::

Exactly. I mean, Clue has always had a premise and a vague backstory: the unfortunately-named Mr. Boddy is found dead at his country estate and nobody knows which of his six guests used which lethal item in which room to commit the crime. You can turn that into a story, and Clue, for all its faults, played the…

I think tip #1 on how not to be seen is that you don't hang out with a photographer from Vice magazine.