Never. So I guess this will finally put the debate to an end; final verdict is in ... Picard > Kirk. ... I know ... Wishful thinking ...

Why cant things just be ENTERTAINMENT anymore? Why does there have to be "hidden subtexts" in every single piece of entertainment around, be it music-tv-movies-art-whatever. Nothing can apparently be made just for the pure entertainment anymore. Unless stated, by the writers, before release and review that it is the case all these hidden message stuff is mostly just bollocks and self-deluding interpretations.

Anti-Tech "themes"? You can pretty much find substance for whatever damn "themes" you please in that movie concidering its lenght if you just look hard enough.

But technology wise as a product it was "check out the cool stuff we can do now! - a three hour tribute to technology". With enough cash and the computing power it buys this is now what we can do. If you want to talk about the story or moral of the movie it was as far as I'm concerned not about anti-tech at all. It wasn't the technology that made the humans "evil". If anything it was a story about power and greed and the bad stuff following in its wake. The possible outcome of coveting and trying to grab other peoples stuff -- be they here on earth or giant blue aliens on a planet far far away.

But what is really asked of us here is that we should belive that the writers that couldn't even come up with a better name then "Unobtainium" for their rare and super expensive ore have the depth for putting hidden anti-tech and pro treehugging messages in their movie? Well atleast they didn't call it greedium, but I guess that would have been to obivous.

If one want to go into things that didn't make sense in the movie tho I think the list can be made long. Such as; Why did the robot/exo-skeleton have a knife? It had the servo and shock absorption to jump from a "helicopter" (that looked more like a flying barn) and could break stuff left and right like it was twigs but had to pull out a knife? How and why did the stone/mountains fly/hover like that? Why was every single piece of vegetation glowing in the dark? What would be the biological benefit of that? Are the plants afraid of the dark? I guess the last two was cause they could and it looked cool. So upon nothing that I think you shouldn't read to much into anything but just enjoy it for the fun movie experience that it was.

Yes, but something new. Something not 10 years ago ... Something that stays there and remains good and doesn't eventually morph into the atrocity that is SG:U.

Trying To Ignore Science
Problem here is that science usually just isn't that exciting to watch unless it is in the experiment stage, which is why say Mythbusters is all about blowing s*it up instead of Adam with his calculator infront of a whiteboard. Which probably wouldn't make for very exciting watching, "Jamie wants big whiteboard" is not as much fun as "Jamie wants big booooom!".

Being Generic Action Movies In Space
Soaps in space is not scifi, it's just soaps in space. Same with the action part. I'm thinking it's the same with computer games, just cause you have a backpack and a character screen (where you may or may not assign "points") it's not a roleplaying game. I'm not sure who they are trying to trick here but "space" is just a location.

Getting Canceled Early and Bothering With the Major Networks
"We blew all our money on FX and overpriced actors, nothing left for advertising", high production costs vs low profit due to a small audience. Which is why SciFi became ScyFy, dumbing down for your new target audience. It has gone from being something cool to just teen-soaps in space, or perhaps I just became old.

But it's all about the money. SciFi is "nerd tv" so there is a small target audience. Which means the "show" will have to be dumbed down and adapted to the masses so you can sell soap and pill ads. A good script (if such a thing exists) will then have all kinda character edits and crap and all of a sudden you have "teen lesbians in space with guns and aliens", and you just lured in all the teenage boys == $$$$$.

Take SG:U, why does it matter that they now have a lesbian character? I didn't have to know who Carter or Teal'C wanted to have sex with. This have just become a potential crap selling point, possibly for hot shower scenes to lure in a (teen) male audience.

I'm still waiting for SHO to make a good scifi show. They tend to have a fairly good track record with other shows.

Spending $50M On Effects and $50k On Writing
Hello Mr.Lucas! Who needs a good story anyway when you can just have a big f:ing explosion that looks awesome! It does indeed seem that scifi movies have really just become FX orgies, "look what we can do with enough $, time and computing power!". Not sure I would enjoy it to much thou if the numbers where reversed, but atleast it could be interesting to see.

Poorly Interpreting Good Books
Problem here is that if you read the book and then watch someone elses interpretation of it it usually sucks cause it's not like you imagined it to be. But I guess if you can't imagine it yourself you can always just try to adapt something by someone else, it's just it never really gets that good. I wonder if I'll ever see a movie based on a book that was better then the book.

There are once based on books that was good but I don't know if they where really better, or even the same. I liked Verhoevens Starship Troopers movie, I also liked Heinlein book. Where they the same? No.

I'm not holding my breath here thou for the reverse, a crap scifi book becoming a fantastic movie, either.

Inventing New Swear Words
Language develops so I don't see why not but it's more of a curiosity or away to get around that you can't say F*CK on primetime TV. It really doesn't have anything to do with SciFi.

Starring Will Smith
Yes Please! His name is not a selling point when I see it on a movie poster. I even prefer watching Ben Affleck to him. All movies with Mr.Smith just becomes "Fresh Prince ....", so say "I am Legend" becomes "Fresh Prince and the Apocalypse" and "Hancock" becomes "Fresh Prince gets Superpowers!".

I do wonder sometimes what will happen in the future with movies, how freaky is their scifi going to be? Is it gonna be all parallell dimensions and what not cause "space" is just going to be mundane.

I don't really get some of these tests, what exactlly is high iq about ripping apart and rephrasing poorly worded math basic problems? They are trying to trick you and that is what you are figuring out and once you know that then it's quite easy.

"1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?"

So the bat doesn't cost $1, that was the "trick" part. It cost $1+x and the ball cost x and the total is $1.10; 1+x+x=1.10; 2x=0.10 x=0.05; The ball is 5 cents.

"2) If it takes five machines 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?"

Read it, seprate it and figure out that it takes 1 machine 5 minutes to make 1 widget. 5 machines running at the same time for 5 minutes make 5 widgets. So 100 machines will require 5 minutes to make 100 widgets.

"3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of it?"

Just count backwards, it shrinks to half the previous day so you just move backwards so on day 48 it was full, 47 half, 46 a quarter ...

Have the school system become so crap that people can't even figure this out? Is "high iq" just about solving other peoples crappy word problems?

I recall some basic math courses and the teacher was trying to be funny as some kinda thought experiment and wrote them down on the board. It took a few moments to figure out but once you figure out what they are looking for it's simple. But without context I guess it would have taken a while longer.

complete the sequence ... ottffss
complete the sequence ... zzoottfe

Feel the brain swell!

I for one welcome our new carnivorous galaxy overlords ... or whatever that other puny galaxy is made out of.

But perhaps it's just some twisted form of galactic Darwinism, the weak die (or get consumed or whatever) while the big and buff galaxies prospers.

Alternativly perhaps space isn't even really endless at all but instead quite finite and Andromeda just needed some galactic lebensraum?

They do this "experiment" several times a year and they all come to the same conclusion; OHH WE FOUND THE SECRET DATA!

So is it really even news anymore? Shouldn't the new really be "We learned nothing since last time!".

I know it might sound totally crazy but can't we just you know ... build more of these tubes and then connect them to the other series of tubes so the interweb tube system doesn't fill up so fast.