Contact is a tremendous book, after which the film was a terrible disappointment, a mawkish, addled and overly sentimental travesty of not only the source material but also of everything Sagan stood for.

Give it a few more years, I reckon. Gradually let the prequels be forgotten, like The Star Wars Holiday Special and The Ewoks Movie. Maybe clean up the original trilogy for a new release, while quietly putting the “Legends” name on the prequels. Some clever marketing and trailers, including Alec Guiness lines about…

I had one hell of a case of shingles in ‘86, over the back of my head and down my neck - horrible pain, and I was very, very ill. The rash eventually went away but the pain never did, fully - and it became increasingly painful for the next TWENTY EIGHT YEARS. It just kept getting worse and worse. Chronic pain is just…

That's the one. I still have a copy somewhere. You had to collect the bits to phone home, which mainly involved falling down pits and levitating out while avoiding the FBI agent, then the mother ship came and collected you. It wasn't exactly hard, but the gameplay was less like fun and more like extremely irritating.…

I was amused to see someone complaining, in today's "Morning Spoilers" comment thread, about a few details from A Storm of Swords which will occur on the series in a few weeks.

This was a bit underwhelming.

Person of Interest is barely SF. The SF element is certainly the most interesting element, but it's hardly touched on.

Agree completely.

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