I'm sure someone has said this, but most visions and prophesies can be interpreted many ways. "Snow" on the Iron Throne... I've read A Dance with Dragons, but despite things that happen in the book, I wonder if it isn't meant to be taken "literally" but figuratively.

Not having read the books (so, please, no spoilers), I don't think Sam will ever be a wizard. A useful scholar? Yes. Someone who will probably decipher some ancient text that will yield critical information in stopping the White Walkers? Sure. But at least from what I've seen so far, magic isn't just something…

Not particularly. I once ran from an angry swan.

This isn't about how factual evolution vs religion is, it's about the parents rights to know what their child is being taught and, if they disagree with it, be allowed to pull them out. A parent should have the right to raise their child the way they want.

I agree that I think Sony (or perhaps even just the filmmakers) wanted to 'beef up' his origin story and taken at face value, I think it was a successful enterprise. That story, for lack of a better term, works. I'm just old-fashioned. I like my nerds to be plain. I'm not projecting at all. Stop looking at me like…

That's fine to feel that way.

Yeah I don't know how people don't see that playing out in all the trailers.

difficult decisions? like waht? whether or not you want to sign in on his console to access your games and saves without a disc?

Poor giant bunny.

"I'm going to make this challenge to everyone in the world: come at me bro!" /proceeds to not implement any security measures or even lock the door, and girlfriend still lives at home and media is camped 10 feet from front door.

Exactly. It's all about how you define defective. They were intended to be a tool, and people like their tools to do what they're supposed to. Like you said, lots of plot potential here.

It's interesting that Dorian is not only willing to illegally hack the sexbot company's computer network without a warrant per John;s request, but that he's able to. They made a robot cop that doesn't strictly need to obey the law? Or who can disobey the law under orders from a living police officer? Hmm...

Forgot Martin Freeman: Bilbo Baggins, John Watson and Arthur Dent for God's sake!

C.S. Friedman's magic systems are awesome. The Magister Trilogy also has a neat magic system that integrates well with the plot.

Not the best explanation for the Erna fae magic, but I agree. The idea of a new type of atmosphere that responds to human thought was one of the coolest interpretations of magic I've read. Especially when they realize they can create God.

In The Coldfire Trilogy, a group of colonists land on planet covered in living energy that conjures horrors from their nightmares. To survive they had to sacrifice all knowledge and technology they brought with them, and gained skills and knowledge of how to work the Fae to survive. The bigger the sacrifice, the…