@it must be bunnies: I took that to mean both Dylan and Charlie will end up in the clutches of the evil(?) D Gibbons.
I'm a bit confused, though, why the dude would still call himself that 6 months in the future. He got the name from the real D. Gibbons' stolen credit card, so once it was clear that the FBI was on to him, why wouldn't he switch to a different name?
And that poor sheriff - as soon as she revealed that she saw nothing in her "flash", my husband and I were betting on whether she would die in this episode, or if they would keep her around for a couple of episodes before bumping her off. I won!
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I don't recall the sexual mores of the The World Inside being "free love" as much as "men chose who to have sex with and women aren't allowed to say no." In particular I remember the women being expected to stay in their apartments while the men roamed around at night visiting their chosen sex partner. Between that and conformity enforced by putting dissenters down the recycling chute, I found the future society it depicted really horrifying.
That's not to say it couldn't make a good TV series in the right hands.
@jccalhoun: Telepathy and other psychic powers are among my least favorite SF tropes as well - they are basically just magic overlaid with a thin gloss of sciency terminology. But that's not a new development at all. Look back to the Golden Age of the 40s and 50s and supermen with mental powers were all the rage, driven in large part by influential editor John W Campbell's love of pseudoscience and psi. Just look at "Stranger in a Strange Land", "The Demolished Man", "Slan", Asimov's Mule in "Foundation" and his telepathic robots Giscard & Daneel, and so on.
Sawyer's problem with current SF seems not so much that it uses scientifically implausible tropes - since those have been part of SF from the beginning - but that writers aren't giving those tropes plausibly sciency-enough explanations.
Funny, I assumed they changed the time line to 6 months because it would be easier to wrap up the story lines in a single season. That, and because it's cheaper to film shows that don't require lots of "future tech" special effects.
@Ronald Riley: Does your stove turn itself off when the rice is done? One of the nice things about a rice cooker is that it's truly set and forget. And since mine has steamer trays I can use it to cook more than just rice. Also, as a bonus, it doesn't heat up my kitchen the way my stove does, which is a serious plus this time of year.
It's interesting that the reissued version of the "I, Robot" stories has a bad-ass looking Will Smith on the cover. Movie fans who are expecting a novel with non-stop action probably end up disappointed that most of the stories are about cleverly determining why (or which) robots have developed malfunctions.
@mgy: solid "presents" in disposable diapers are supposed to be scraped into the toilet too. There's just no pleasant way to change poopy diapers.
@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I got two identical emails, one from "Syfy.com Members" and one from "SCIFI.COM Members". Both have the same Eureka promo that doesn't include Stark - but the subject line of the Syfy.com one says CORRECTION. So maybe they initially sent out the wrong image to some subscribers.
(I'm hoping that the double email is just one time residue from the switchover to the SyFy brand.)
(I'm hoping that the double email is just one time residue from the switchover to the SyFy brand.)
So it's the Hollywoodized version of Bisson's England Underway? Only, I imagine, less touching and more filled with an annoyingly precocious child actor.
Maybe I'm just being too resistant to change, but I would love to be able to choose to read the comments in chronological order from the top down. The comments on the Captain Stargood post, for example, don't really make much sense reading the newest threads first.
@Roklimber: Yup, me too, but I'm using Firefox 3 on the Mac - maybe it's just a Mac thing?
@Pegritz: I have to disagree on two counts. First off in most of the Singularly fiction I've read most people do adopt the new technology because it's seen as a universally good thing. That's despite the fact that much of the extrapolated technology - such as uploading human consciousnesses - is often closer to fantasy than science.
Secondly, the willingness and ability to adopt new technology isn't really correlated with age that well. I just finished video chatting with my mom, who is several years older than yours. She's having no problem living in the 21st century. On the other hand, I was chatting with a 20-something a few days ago who doesn't seem to have really mastered email. Age isn't the issue.
@redskull: Ayds were better than just chocolates - they contained benzocaine as an anesthetic/appetite suppressant. It's not fun to eat with a numb tongue.
Didn't NBC already decide to have Jay Leno on 5 nights a week in prime time? That 10-11 time slot used to be where they put their best dramas - Hill Street Blues, LA Law, ER, West Wing. Putting Jay in that time slot makes it seem to me that they are only interested in relatively cheap non-offensive low-risk (or at least known-quantity) programming. They certainly aren't targeting the 20-something demographic. Unfortunately that doesn't give me hope that they will buy any truly original shows, science fiction or otherwise. I'm expecting a full lineup of Howie Mandel-hosted reality programs and game shows to fill in the rest of their lineup.
@PeggyK: I meant "been around since at least the 1940s"
Corn dogs have been around . All four of my great-grandmas were alive and at least occasionally attending county fairs and vacation tourist traps for 20 or so years after that. I'm in my 40s, so unless you are past the half-century mark (or not American or your parents were immigrants) at least one of your great grandmothers probably would not only recognize a corn dog, but actually tasted one herself.
@92BuickLeSabre: That's my thought too. I had a subscription to Omni throughout my formative teenage years. I think io9 does recapture some of the same feel.
@Voyou_Charmant: All Pam needed to say was that that particular Macy's doesn't carry the items Amanda was looking for and that the Highland Mall store does. There's no reason why Pam needed explain that in terms of the other store catering to poor fat black women. Even couched "nicely" in terms of demographics she basically told Amanda that she didn't belong in that store, and that's bad for business.
@TITECH: @TITECH: MS Clip art cannot legally be used commercially. On the other hand, most of the WPClip Art is in the public domain, so it can be used commercially.
For small business owners at least, it's better to download clip art that can be used legally. For educational use MS Clip art is probably better.
@Gann: I thought it was the measure of a movie that people were curious about, but not willing to shell out $10 to see in a theater.
