That K-9 messenger bag is some DIY realness, y'all. And I want it.

It's the modus operandi of more-or-less every Spielberg project. So, in Jurassic Park, Alan Grant has to get over his not-wanting-to-have-kids "selfishness" by learning to take care of children from a broken family as though they were his own. Meanwhile, we know Ian Malcolm is a slime ball—if lovably so—precisely…

Agreed on all counts. I stuck with this show during its entire first season hoping it would get better. Instead, it leaned on monsters of the week, an utter lack of atmosphere (with a couple notable exceptions), and flat characters. The show also reveals a complete and utter lack of any nuance in dealing with the…

Definitely not Top 10 material, but X-Men's Lockheed—sidekick to Kitty, who was herself a sidekick to Wolverine—has always been a favorite of mine. He also had an interesting reversal from mascot character to mole when it was revealed during Astonishing X-men that he'd basically been spying on the X-Folks for…

Exactly. This research is probably more marketable because it sets out to confirm or deny popular, non-specialist debates. Basically this is the paleontological equivalent of "The Authorship Question" for Lit scholars; it has a lot of draw with the popular press and imaginary, but really it's mostly about preserving…

I'm learning so much today!

That's very helpful, and importantly it means that strong bite force doesn't really tell us much about whether we should see Tyrannosaurs as "ZOMG PREDATOR TO THE MAX!" or scavengers— even though this seems to be the implict aim of such studies—since Hyenas are clearly the latter.

That all makes perfect sense, and I appreciate the clarifications.

Weren't there plenty of larger, likely stronger carnosaurs out there? I realize we all wanna believe one of the narratives in which T-Rex was a complete badass or castrated scavenger, but it's not like it was the only member of its evolutionary family, and it fits to reason it wasn't the apex of its family's telltale…

"Look—he's so happy! ... He's really going for it!"

Not especially, no: [www.tbook.constantvzw.org] .

Knowing Itoi, Suzuki, and friends, I really wouldn't put it past them to take that as a starting model and then emulate it. Good catch.

I dunno, Burke; Grillo-Marxuach's involvement makes me cautiously optimistic.

Well, it's clear the film should at least be able to please the leather & latex crowd.

Apart from the joke (which doesn't even make sense—is Alice referencing a 21st-century product plug in a dystopian future? why? to whom? does she actually remember it?), the connection between the various branded products and the plot (if there is one) isn't there at all in the trailer; instead, it really does just…

I felt the same way when I heard about the premise, but I watched the clips and they're surprisingly nausea-free.

This doesn't pass the smell test.

Well at least the name didn't misleadingly suggest it wouldn't be an ugly little thing. It looks like a death's head with legs and fur.

Much love for including the Rubin diagrams from "Thinking Sex."

Which gave me chills in the best possible way...