Not really, but that is a good reason to dislike patent laws dealing with GMO's.

If stars are any indications, apparently there might even be hundreds.

That... is an ending...

This is pretty darn close. Now all we need is for the cat-sess to punch out a pug dressed in a fedora.

I much prefer the movie for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it is far less bloated and I think it makes its points just a little bit better than the book.

Precisely this :-)

I kind of wish that there was more diversity in general lifestyles/communities- I wish it didn't have to be a hippy commune in order to play by a different set of rules.

Hmm. I saw it last night, and I cannot see any of these flaws you seem to hint at. I think the movie is perfect. Perfect.

I'm... kind of saddened by the number of disparaging comments. The interesting and exploratory should be something accepted by this community, not something rejected for being done by "dirty civilization rejecting hippies".

People definitely still buy pelts.

Exploring different life styles is good science. If someone wants to live nomadicly in order to live sustainably, how in any way does that hurt you or your computer? No one is saying you need to give up civilization, just that maybe civilization can learn to be better an more sustainable, and one way to do that is to…

They were eating it and it was dead. Try looking at modern farming practices for actual abuse.

Why can't they just genetically engineer them to not bite humans?

Maybe if they made it a lesbian couple?

I totally loved my sky dancer. I was only allowed to play with it outside, and so we never really had any incidents (if someone got hit, they toy was confiscated for the day, so I was super careful not to play when there was someone around to be hit)

It they had the original writers/cast, it would at least be watchable.

Or, make the movie book 4, in two or three parts, animated, with the original voice actors., and follow the comic about Zuko's mom and the founding of Republic city.

Yay, me to!

This is of course, horribly simplified.

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