Her hair color is highly questionable. Only three Elves were ever described as having that hair color, and all three died in the First Age without siring any descendents (Maedhros, Amrod, and Amras).

In Continuum, isn't his name Alec (not Alex)?

I think reactions like that are very common in online forums, almost regardless of subject matter. There seems to be the unspoken assumption that if you go out of your way to endorse X in an online blog/post, it must mean you are implicitly condemning not-X. After all, why spend all that time typing out a firm opinion…

Well, I mention Space Opera mostly because it is what this stuff used to be called originally (during the era of the pulps). I consider Star Wars a creative descendant of the Lensman stories, which practically defined Space Opera in its day. So I have never had a problem with labelling Star Wars (and its imitators)…

Well, to be fair, the second FF movie didn't actually show us Galactus (I think the plan to was to save the appearance of and battle with Galactus for the third film, which never happened). All we got to see was his Elemental Collector. But the movie didn't explain this fact, so almost everyone made the mistaken…

If the United States utterly fell apart and we were all reduced to pre-Industrial Age survival skills, I would be dead in a month. And quite frankly, I am not willing to change my lifestyle enough to alter such a fate. Instead, I will continue to cling to my faith in the resilience of our static reality and its…

Nature appears to have created conspiracy theorists purely for our amusement. Don't be angry with them. Enjoy them for the sheer entertainment value they provide!

I think the terms Space Opera or Science Fantasy are most applicable. They are usually invoked any time stories rely on magical effects that can't be explained by any reasonable extrapolation of contemporary science (telekinesis, hyperspace, teleportation, laser swords, etc.) but still use the trappings of science and…

Um, she's more than just Irene Adler... ;-)

So Tomorrow People is basically the new Alphas, Star-Crossed is the new Roswell, and unless the Ark is one massive hamster wheel in space, The 100 expects us to believe we invented the magic of artificial gravity (everything in that show's underlying premise requires it). Of all these new shows, I will probably only…

Based on the title alone, I would have expected this to be a Wayans Brothers parody. I'm amazed that Asylum was able to find so many people with so little creative integrity willing to participate in it. I mean, I work in this business (as an fx artist) so I know first-hand just how creatively bankrupt Hollywood is…

The only thing that sort of bugs me about the MCU is that it has no history of superheroes prior to present day, Captain America notwithstanding. The whole voiceover stating that humanity was in the dark about metahumans until recently is just...lame. It makes the MCU like every other tv/movie superhero world in which…

...H.A.I.T.E. story...

Other than having characters named Renfield, Harker, and Mina, how is this the story of Dracula? Too many characters have American accents for one thing, including Dracula himself? I don't get it.

The "hard science" of psychological manipulation? I don't think that phrase means what you think it means...

I'm always in favor of any excuse to bring Lexie back, even if for only five minutes.

I love that last one, Born to Run. Cartoons in general have the worst run cycle animations imaginable, and anime leads them all for the worst. The Japanese (or, is it all the Korean in-betweeners who are really to blame?) have absolutely no grasp of the biomechanics of running.

I guess this is just the flip side of Lazy Writer's Syndrome in which every overpowered, seemingly impossible-to-defeat villain (or situation) has a rather convenient single point of failure which allows the heroes to prevail in the end (e.g., massive swarms controlled by a single "mind", massive space stations with…

Here's what I've learned from spending a week in Paris, including a trip to four Champagne makers in Epine (one of them was Moet and Chandon):

I guess that's how you could spot a medieval lesbian five hundred years ago; she was the one wearing sensible armor.