True, but Titan’s atmosphere contains a lot of other stuff like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. It probably smells like a refinery.

Loved the first book and it had great potential - but the long awaited sequel was terrible, and it was rapidly downhill from there. But with two great leads, if they do a very loose adaption, drop all the characters other than Roland and the Man in Black, and basically write a completely different story, the basic…

IT’s one of my favourite novels, and I think it would be extremely difficult to do a film adaptation that was both good and reasonably faithful. The one with Tim Curry was terrible. IT’s effectiveness relies on a huge amount of character work and back story, and it would be very easy to make a bad version consisting…

Same. Bounced off it several times and it gathered dust on my bookshelf until, years later, I picked it up and was hooked. Tremendous book.

I was completely underwhelmed by Minority Report until I realised the ending was a dream, which does make the film much better. Not great, but much better.

A movie about a regenerating dude with claws and berserker rages really requires a 15 or 18 rating.

This is priceless, in a slightly tragic way.

Yes that’s a very good point, and the Problem of Time needs Quantum Gravity to solve - time vanishes in GR, but is required for evolution in QM, so there’s a tension. But a lot of fiction assumes a block spacetime.

This. There’s so much foreshadowing in the books for a Golden Bough-style rebirth, but at this point I’ve no idea if Jon’s resurrection will have the same mechanism in the show.

Yeah, Howard’s making movies, and Angie’s an actress... it seems like the perfect way to have that character present. I’m a bit sad Angie’s missing.

Bourne Free!

That really did surprise me. Not least because Ben Urich plays a role in other Daredevil tales - like Born Again, which I thought might happen down the road - and he’d be a good unifying character. I could have seen him dying in a later season, when his death would have more impact, but killing him that early seemed…

The Netflix shows - Daredevil and Jessica Jones - are much, much better than Agents of Shield. They’re in a completely different league.

Sulu’s daughter: I’d find it a nice touch if her mother was Mandala Flynn. It wouldn’t mean anything to most of the audience, but Flynn was Sulu’s girlfriend in Vonda McIntyre’s The Entropy Effect, the first Star Trek tie-in I read - and she was mentioned in the novelisations of ST2 and ST3 by the same author.

“Tim, I’ve picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. I need you to stay out there to replace it.”

So it seems. Interesting they’re using clips from the movie itself. The Omen came out (and was presumably set) in 1976, but the timeline must have moved up 15 years, so Gregory Peck was still rocking ‘70s fashions in the nineties.

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 agree. I like Clark Gregg a lot, and I liked Coulson - but bringing him back was most definitely a mistake.

FILM: Star Wars: Rogue One, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Independence Day: Resurgence.

That’s not really the point, though. It’s a good bet that in reality there exists some mechanism that prevents time travel, i.e. an extension to GR incorporating quantum effects, but Twelve Monkeys is explicitly set in a fictional universe where time travel works the way general relativity tells us it would, if it…