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I think this is a good summary of the way I feel. I don't think it's bad, but it's falling short of how good the fans made it out to be.

Same here, except I want to make the round trip.

Good luck!

Dunno, I've heard a number of variations on this story only involving SCA members. My favorite is something like the one above except the guy was a SCA viking who was jogging in New York wearing na regular jogging suit. He mail under his jogging suit for extra weight. The story went more or...

The other guy quoted me. I meant he is skeptical of any claim that might interfere with his quest for power. I think Zarek is one of those people who always looks at everything others do in terms of politics and acts accordingly. I think his first thought is that this is some sort of maneuver...

Yeah, but when that aired you were probably still in middle school, right? I loved the original Battlestar Galactica when I was 9, but looking at it through adult eyes I see a lot of flaws I never noticed back then. I think that's just the effect of growing up. Not that I'm saying Babylon 5...

A horrible thought... I just had a horrible thought. I'm about to start a new D&D campaign. The last time this happened, WotC decided to release a new edition of D&D. I've inadvertently doomed us all! 4E is coming! They'll announce it at GenCon this year! Eric Noah will start a 4e rumors...

A SSTO Spaceplane would be the sort of thing I imagine as a "Space Truck". All it needs to be able to do is get cargo to low orbit reliably and reasonably cheaply. Current means of doing that are pretty expensive -- especially the shuttle -- and rely on non-reusable components like rocket...

Yes. I like my SF to actually have science in it. I can enjoy things like Star Wars, but in general I do have a different set of expectations from SF than I do from Fantasy.

I don't think I'm tainted by fan attitude unless there is residual from Buffy and Angel -- two shows I never really cared for with really... enthusiastic... fan bases. I watched the first couple episodes of Firefly when it first aired and developed no real love or hate for it. I liked it...

Something that hasn't been addressed is why this is a bad thing. If people like these sorts of books, why shouldn't people write them? Why is there a need to change things?

Reading that wikipedia article doesn't really give the impression that Project Constellation is that. Yes, it's intended to go beyond LEO, but it also talks about having a crew module that will be good "for up to 10 flights" and sending the whole package into orbit with a solid rocket booster...

Same here. I've watched the first two episodes and I watched a couple of episodes when it aired originally. It isn't bad, but I don't think it's as wonderful as some people have been saying either. Basically, it hasn't lived up to the hype so far. It's been fairly entertaining so far, so...

San Antonio is one of the 10 largest cities in the US and we have deer crossing signs in many parts of the city because of all the deer running around. You can have a regular suburban home around here and have deer in your backyard. They love flowerbeds for some reason. As for snakes, it...

Let's hope private industry saves us from NASA. I skimmed over a bit of that Project Constellation stuff and it's seems like a huge, expensive Rube Goldberg device. What we need is a simple, reliable, reusable space truck that doesn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars to launch and...

I'm not sure I care for where they're taking things. While Stargate has always had religion as a part of things because the Goa'uld claimed to be gods, it was always something of a background element that came up from time to time rather than being the focus of the show. Now, it seems they're...

Without getting into forbidden territory for these forums, I suspect we can discuss Roslin's visions/hallucinations until we're blue in the face because our opinion ultimately depends on our feelings about religion in real life because the show seems so "real" and because the colonials are...

Oh, I doubt it was anything more than them trying to kill another government official as well. I don't think there was any "Laura Roslin Must Die" order. I think it's pretty clear that the Cylons want something besides the utter destruction of humanity at this point. My suspicion is that...

I once found some of the books from a series in general fiction with the rest in SF/Fantasy so it evidently can vary on a book by book basis even within the same series by the same author. This was at B&N, BTW.

They were obviously trying to kill her then, but it is possible that they changed their plans since then. There is also the theory floating around that there is more than one faction of cylons at work. One could also say it fits a little too perfectly. It does not seem terribly far fetched...