Good for you! I never started it and saw it as a completely and utter pointless and stupid diversion. As one stranger to another, however, I’m glad and proud you saw it for the waste of time and troubling, damaging platform it is and dropped off that dumpsite! Fist-bump.

Can we just shut fucking Twitter down please? Lump in the president and nobody can convince me that it does more good than harm. It is a platform for bullying, hatred, and for shallow, stupid people to primp and brag. It is a terrible result of our modern age and the ‘look at me’ culture; it is literally the end…

Looks like a very cool movie. I wonder if they’ll ever do one based on the Stephen King story.

Well, he is on an Intel commitee.

The problem with Venus is that we would have to remove energy to make it habitable. Removing is hard, especially when you’re trying to remove things that gravity wants to keep exactly where they are. Venus’s atmosphere is nearly 100x the pressure of ours. Even if we could bring the atmosphere down to a livable…

A lava tube might seem like a convenient solution but it may be only a partial one. Even if the resources and sheltering for living on the moon were readily available I suspect a bigger hassle that would make life hellish is moon dust.

On Deadspin this is known as “STICK TO SPORTS!!!!”

Felt the same way. I was starved for some sci-fi so I gave it 6-7 episodes IIRC so it would have a decent chance of grabbing me, and I just couldn’t get into it. Pretty sure I fast-forwarded most of the last episode I watched just to get through it.

Like you, I really wanted to like this, and I watched the entire first season, but it’s mediocre at best. Way overhyped. Meh.

As huge Sci fi fans for decades, my wife and I were utterly bored to tears by this show and have no idea why io9 is so enamored by it. It’s like being told moldy rust is a delicious delicacy by your most trusted news source.

Trump’s new hairpiece appears to be much more “full-coverage.”

Obama as Cable would be badass

Cameron is one of the most talented action movie directors working today, even at his current snail’s pace. For all the shit being thrown his way about the derivative nature of Avatar, he took an original IP and turned it into the most successful theatrical release of this century (adjusted for inflation, depending on…

The frustrating thing for me is that the animals don’t murder and eat Kipling.

Hiroko was actually the youngest of the first one hundred. So they could get away with the “young and mysterious and sexy Asian” stereotype. The biggest kicks would have been Maya, Nadia and Ann, Ann especially.

Yes/no. The cinematics elements are potentially there, but the books are written w a mass of context for what is happening. Without the political drama, lichen growing on Mars is about as exciting as watching lichen grow anywhere else. A lot (not all) of the ‘action’ happens offscreen and the reader found out about it…

Keep pushing. The scope of these books is vast and century spanning. Really tremendous stuff. The language can be a little “wheat bread-y” for some folks, but it grew on me and now I love the beauty of it.

I’m surprised this was considered for American TV at all. Mars isn’t red just because of iron oxide - its politics are red too. There’s a lot of socialist/anarchist political speculation in the book, and distinct hostility to corporate capitalism. Beyond even that, the central conflict of the story is between those…

Ingruber always feels like he’s doing an impression, though, never like he’s actually playing a character. It’s a good party trick, but it’s not good for leading a movie.

We’ve literally only barely scratched the surface of Mars. The rovers NASA have sent have only covered a tiny, tiny fraction of Mars’ surface. For instance, the Opportunity rover has been on Mars for 11 years and only covered about 26 miles. The total surface area of Mars is 55.91 million square miles.