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    GuardianOfChaos: Cmon. Everybody with me now. OOSSSSSSSBBBOOOORRRRRNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *shakes fist* Honestly the vast majority of my interest in Dark Reign r... more »
    Bill-Lee: Fantasy is popular today because its always been popular. The first kind of story our stone age ancestors ever told as they huddled around the fire wa... more »
    Jes St.Lawrence: Patton Oswalt's fantasy in "Man on the Street" is a pretty good example of what Joss seems to be talking about. It's not just your usual sleazy fanta... more »
    Dr Emilio Lizardo: Maybe it has something to do with the whole "We are living in the future" idea. What William Gibson writes is more about next week than next century ... more »
    dirtybacon: When I think of fantasy, I think of the plot and characters that usually end up in the fantasy novels, and their usually strong sense or morality. Mos... more »
    BadUncle: The threat of global warming seems to be something out of Tolkein rather than Asimov, although without the convenient anthropomorphic villain to slay ... more »
    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Fantasy--in particular steampunk--as a kind of method for recreating cultural mythologies is interesting. I mean, it's been right there since Lord of... more »
    Mathmos: Not that I don't enjoy fantasy, but I'd tend to argue that the touchstones and metaphors helped get us into this plight - what we need is precise anal... more »
    TemporalSword: What drives me crazy is that neither are actually stories unto themselves. They are settings, used to tell the same types of stories as anyone else (d... more »
    Alessar: Sounds like this should have been on one of the premium cable channels with even more sex. Like, True Blood levels of it. more »
    Eugenia: Personally, I would not have been interested at all seeing "clients fantasies". I am not interested in whatever each perv wants. I am a geek, so I wan... more »
    fuzzymuffins: "This was why I stopped reading comic books in the late 90s." after reading this article, i think i'm glad i haven't ready a spidey book since. more »
    firstanointed: "Given that the show's sexual aspects already squicked tons of viewers in their watered-down form, I'm not sure how viewers would have responded to a ... more »
    jayntampa: The problem is -- who really wants to watch the protagonists basically get raped every week? Who really thought that enough people would want to watch... more »
    Allen_Richards: So, is it safe to assume that Tommy Lee Jones is the current character design for Norman? After a 10 year absence, I started reading about the time N... more »
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