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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 5713266" data-attributes="member: 1154">I can't really come up with 10 "must consumes." I have fairly eclectic tastes. That said, I certainly have opinions on your picks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Back in high school, I picked up a Lovecraft anthology. Even better, that night, there was a storm and the power went out, so I read the Lovecraft anthology by candle light.And it was boring. I'm reminded of Bart Simpson's insight on Poe's "The Raven"; specifically, that what scared people back then really doesn't hold up to a modern audience.Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Lovecraft was a poor writer. I love the mythos (though I rather dislike a lot of what people do with it these days). I'm just saying... His books weren't remotely scary. Not even really creepy.I don't really see the Stormtroopers parentage, and I could quibble about the xenomorphs, but more or less spot on.I will say that Starship Troopers is my favorite sci-fi movie, and I just read the book for the first time a few months ago. I like both the book and the movie, for different reasons. They're really not remotely related; actually, they have almost conflicting themes. I think the biggest problem with the movie is that they called it "Starship Troopers."Blah. The Lord of the Rings is terrible. Lovecraft may have been written for a different time and a different audience, but the LotR has no redeeming qualities. Most boring dreck I've ever had the displeasure of trying to read. The movies were superior to the book only insofar as they were actually tolerable, once through. Just once.The Hobbit was decent, though.----------------------Oh, here's one to add to the list:Babylon 5: Just finished watching this for the first time recently. Everything about the show is really great, but one thing that really stood out to me is the use of time travel and the obvious forethought and attention to detail in the series. Between intentional time travel, unintentional temporal displacement, and portentous dreams, we get a number of glimpses into the future, often from different view points.One example that stands out to me is Londo's dream early in the series that he's standing on Centauri Prime, and he sees Shadow vessels flying overhead. For the first few seasons, Londo always wears the same purple coat. Later on, he becomes a big wig and switches to a fancier black coat. When we finally get to the time he had dreamed of, the court seneschal asks him to come outside and see. He says he can't find his coat. The seneschal had just sent it out to be cleaned, so he digs in his closet and pulls out his old purple coat.That way, when he sees the ships, he's wearing the same purple coat he had been wearing in earlier seasons, and that he was wearing in his dream.It's a silly little thing, but it exemplifies the attention to detail. B5 is one of very, very few series where I've been happy with their usage of time travel; I'm very picky about it, and inconsistencies drive me batty.</blockquote>

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