I love how people resort to purely unscientific, anecdotal evidence and claim what they experienced was "unexplainable". What they mean is that it was unexplainable to them. I'm sure science has plenty of plausible explanations at the ready. This tendency to accord supernatural causes to unusual effects always reminds…

Some of those match-ups are ridiculous, as many have pointed out. But some of them are also, well, too obvious. Like why would Ms. Marvel and Rogue square off? Just because they are both female bricks? Or Storm vs. Thor just because they can both wield lightning? I mean, unless these character have personal vendettas…

Other than Trek and Chuck (and maybe Jericho), how do we know that fan activism was the key factor in convincing advertisers to pay for another season? Networks don't decide to renew a show unless they can get enough advertising revenue to pay for it. That means fan activity has to somehow translate into up-front…

Seems about as unsung and forgotten as Space Above & Beyond to me. *shrug*

If, as the top image suggests, he's going to go around making retarded hand gestures just to indicate to us that he's using his AWESUM MIND POWRZ D00D, then this will be one comedy I won't mind missing. Besides, it's "found footage," which is enough to keep me away. No thanks.

The last version of D&D that I found likable was 3.5. I have no doubt that Pathfinder is the best version of "D&D" available today.

So I take it Dark Angel isn't on this list because it is unsung for a good reason? Does it even deserve honorable mention? (I've never seen it, but it had James Cameron in its DNA, right?)

1. AVX VS? Really? That doesn't even make sense.

I would expect this only because over the course of 30 years, agility and fine motor skills deteriorate. I would expect this to be especially true in an era not known for advanced nutrition or medical science.

I think saying "had once" and "having" carry different meanings, even though they share the same root verb. "Had once" does not imply popularity. Increased open-mindedness towards the idea? Sure. Increased curiosity? Sure. Increased willingness to try it at least once? I guess. Really popular? A totally misleading…

The only way private industry would fund educational institutions is in the form of commercial investment. In other words, they will want a "piece" of anything of value produced by these new universities. Consequently, the charters of those universities would be structured around profit-inducing research goals.…

He said that, in the original book, there was no answer.

Take away the fur on some of these and I think Lovecraft would be proud.

Trying it once does not really constitute "having it", which to me implies doing it on an ongoing basis.

So if it is estimated that it would have taken thirty years, and most of an adult monk's lifetime to create the codex, one would expect to see the writing technique change ever-so-slowly over that period. Is that the case? Is there a clear evolution, degradation or refinement, of technique over time evident in the…

I think most of us get it that "flop" can mean different things to different critics/reviewers/commentators. A movie can be a creative flop, a domestic box office flop, or just a flop compared to popular expectations. I mean, every time Spielberg makes a film, the expectations are so high that anything less than a pop…

I didn't read it (TL;DR), but I'm guessing nobody predicted the word "embiggen" entering the vocabulary of journalism.

Right, except you can only blow up a miniature once. Another take requires another miniature. That can be expensive, especially if it is a hero shot. And it can be expensive, if not outright impractical, if you are blowing up a thousand ships in one long shot. Or you need a hundred variations of six different alien…

You see the appeal but you may not grasp the extent to which studios prefer the CG workflow, and for all the reasons you state. The studios do not care, and have never cared, about the artistic merits of practical effects; they only care how much things cost and how much control they can exert over the creative…

Well, clearly, if it looks entirely human it would be categorized as a doll. If it looks inhuman to the average consumer—that dodgy "Reasonable Man" test—then it would be categorized as a toy. Since these things don't have internal organs or DNA to test, there is no way to demonstrate that Kitty Pryde, to use one…