Anyone out there watching Flash Forward, and if so, can you tell me if I should risk watching it? I'm pretty desperate for a good sci-fi show these days. Heroes is less painfully awful now that Jeph Loeb is out of the picture (I don't know if you know this, but I've a bit of a distaste for that fellow), but it's still not great, Fringe was just ( Read more... )

So I'm playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 because I am of course a giant comic nerd. I stopped playing it for a while but I decided to pick it up again, and I finally unlocked the Hulk, which was pretty much the whole reason I wanted the game in the first place ( Read more... )

LET US SPEAK OF COMIC BOOKS! WOO ( Read more... )

If anyone's interested in a cool little time travel movie that's very Shaun of the Deadish (as in: it's a comedy but it also takes itself seriously), then I say go check out Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel. I'm not sure how easy it is to get ahold of, especially outside of the UK, but if you get the chance to watch it, I give it a ( Read more... )

How is it that I never knew about Google's series of lectures/Q&A sessions with various authors or other public figures? I'm right in the middle of James Randi @GoogleTalks and have already gone through the Christopher Hitchens one. I'll be moving on to Barack Obama next, then Neil Gaiman, then Paul Krugman, then maybe Salman Rushdie followed by ( Read more... )

liz_marcs just brought up fanfic authors who will reply with a "I'm not trying to be a professional writer, I'm just a fanfic writer" when you point out a legitimate problem with their grammar or other work. This reminded me of another pet peeve excuse of mine ( Read more... )

Star Trek needs to be out on video (okay, DVD and Blu-Ray) already! This is ridiculous! It's been what, six or seven years* since the movie came out? How dare they make us wait this long ( Read more... )