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    Why Terminator Isn't The New Lost - Explained

    Earlier this week, Charlie Jane reviewed the latest episode of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and wondered aloud why the show wasn't as popular as ABC's Lost. She came up with some possible reasons of her own, but missed out the essential one: It doesn't seem to want to be. More »

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    Stop Writing Young Adult Science Fiction

    Whenever I hear that a favorite author of mine is working on a young adult novel, my heart sinks. "Oh, that won't be for me," I say to myself, "I am not a young adult." Sure, I know adults can read YA fiction: I read the His Dark Materials trilogy and the Harry Potter books along with the rest of the universe. But I object to the idea that young people need their own special, segregated genre of books, as if their minds are so dramatically different from adult minds that they require their own category of fantasy. Once a person has reached adolescence, relegating their reading material to its own gated subgenre seems at best condescending and at worst censorious. More »
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    Comment by Unpublished Guy: How about Nick and the Glimmung by Philip Dick? I am not sure what the motivation he had to write... more » | Other threads

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    The Dark Knight Twice As Long As It Should Be

    After all the hype and buzz, The Dark Knight turns out to be a taut, morally ambiguous crime drama that shies away for superhero schtick in favor of something more understated and suspenseful. As long as you leave the movie somewhere around the halfway point. If you stay for the whole thing, then be prepared to put up with a movie that gets so carried away with its own cleverness and supposed daring that it manages to make even Heath Ledger's compelling performance as the Joker seem boring. Plenty of spoilers under the jump, so be warned. More »
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    Comment by PriceIke: I agree with this review! The two-boats conundrum at the end was predictable and basically a less involved retread... more » | Other threads

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