Defying Gravity was crap. It was Grey's Anatomy in space meeting aliens. Had it simply been what the mission was (a long trip around the solar system) it might have been interesting, but instead they had to go with aliens. Lame.

Drug runners? What is this, the 1970's? Pot/Meth is grown/cooked in houses/trailers. In other words, someones house. I read about meth and grow houses getting busted all the time. The only reason this is news is because it's a copy-write bust. These are rare, at least in the States.

I think you mean digital creationism. Flynn's explanation for them was that once the conditions became right they just [magically] appeared. And Flynn, who is supposed to be this genius, goes on to say that they're just algorithms that are really complicated. Yep, that makes sense.

It falls into the realm of speculative fiction, which contains sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, horror, alternative history and a few others. The problem is that most people who go to see movies have never learned how to tell the difference between sub-genres of speculative fiction, so they tend to lump everything into fantasy, sci-fi and horror.

But to get back on topic, I've seen Tron Legacy twice. The first time I saw it I thought it was pretty good, but something was bothering me about it. The second time I saw it the things that bothered me came to the foreground and I could finally be objective about what I didn't like about it.
It seemed to me like this should have been split into two movies, but instead they cut all the character development out of it and condensed it into a single movie. I honestly didn't care about any of the characters. Flynn was the opposite of himself in the first movie; instead of being a freedom fighter he turned into Gandhi. And the entire ISO plot seemed like it was tossed in there just to make Clu more of a bad guy. Genocide? Really? Didn't Flynn have a back-up or something?
And Tron... come on! The title character was turned into a motorcycle helmet wearing ninja! Every time he was on screen one of the characters had to say "There's Tron" just so the audience would get it. I guess they spent so much money making Jeff Bridges young again that they had no money left to give Bruce Boxleitner a digital make-over.

I chalk this up as yet another movie that was tossed on to the big screen before the story was finished cooking. A story written by committee that simply falls apart when you take a serious look at it. Yes, the CGI was awesome, but CGI doesn't make a story good! CGI is merely packaging; without a solid story inside the package it just ends up being an empty box.

Eli was the good to Rush's evil scientist part. It's just so happens that, by total accident, Rodney McKay was a fully formed character. Truly 3 dimensional! So the writers took that character, split him into good and evil versions and created Rush and Eli. It's quote obvious once you know to look for it. Eli is the playful, joking genius. Rush is the angry, arrogant genius.

The stones were a stupid concept in SG-1 season 9, and they were stupid concept in SGU. Personally I would have had the crew of Destiny completely cut off from Earth; no communication and no hopes of ever getting home. That way they could actually get on with telling stories about human exploration and survival, instead of keeping some ridiculous hope of returning the crew home. But that's just me.

OK, you mean intelligent life, right? Because they ran into several planets with breathable atmospheres (a sure sign of life) and plenty of plants on their journey.
As for aliens, I was pissed that when they finally did run into aliens, they turned out to be CGI humanoids. In fact, the show runner Brad Wright said prior to SGU's premiere that the aliens in the show would be like nothing we've ever seen before... Lets see: 1 head? Check. 2 arms and legs? Check. Head has 1 mounth, 2 eyes and some nostrils? Check, check and check. LAME.

How is it that this ship, which clearly predates the construction of Atlantis, can possibly still be operational after millions of years? It's fantasy, not science fiction. Atlantis was a joke in itself, because it was only about 5-6 million years old. Destiny is approximately 20 million years old! My suspension of disbelief almost disintegrated when I started watching this series.

Right! You just want to see ship-to-ship combat against aliens we know nothing about. See, this is why science fiction series can't survive.

Well, the writers deserve some of the blame, but mostly it falls on the shoulders of Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, the show runners. These are the same guys that continued to take these series out of the Milky Way and put them farther and farther away from what made them cool! I mean, the whole concept of StarGate is that it's happening, now, in the real world. By moving the series farther and farther away from Earth, it diminished any worries that Earth was in any sort of danger, which is what viewers on Earth care about! I don't give a shit about a couple hundred people stuck a few million light years away. And I care less about a couple dozen people stuck a few billion light years away even less. HINT: The further removed Earth became from the series, the less I cared about the series. Make sense?

Science Fiction is a cerebral medium. It always has been. Television series got away with making sci-fi series because they made them as visceral as possible. SG-1 is a perfect example; it balanced the aliens and technobabble with military action and explosions. Star Trek hit this wall when Enterprise came out and suddenly there was a need to have a phaser fight in every episode.

The fact is, most people don't like science fiction. They simply don't have the want or will to try and contemplate the issues that science fiction raises, so they turn on a reality show, or a celebrity gossip show, or any show that doesn't make them think. Hell, I had a friend who once told me, "I don't like Sci-Fi. I have to think all day at work, why would I want to come home and watch that?".
This is why there's wrestling on SyFy. This is why SyFy has opened the gates to all the paranormal, horror, and otherwise non-scifi content. They're trying to broaden their audience because they feel science fiction can't carry the entire channel. The sad thing is they're probably right.

The problem with The Science Channel is that they only show "intro to science" material. Every other show is a disaster special: Super Volcanos Erupt! Asteroid Collides with Earth! Global Pandemics! Tsunami hits Chicago! It's just as bad as any other cable network, they just hide it a little better by saying, "It's science". Yeah, it's science. But just barely.

But it doesn't make sense. To the companies I mean.

Underage children? As opposed to those children over the age of 18?

Out of date? The Wii was considered "low-tech" compared to all other consoles on the market when it came out in 2009. The real innovation was the controller. But seriously, why would Nintento want to come out with a Wii successor so soon? Since when is 3 years between consoles considered a generation?

1985: NES
1991: SNES
1996: N64
2002: GameCube
2009: Wii

So with an average span of 6 years between generations, why are they changing it up to 3 years?

This has never been a problem for me. I only wear a speedo and flip-flops when I travel by air.

How long until Apple has a deal with all the major text book publishers to sell their e-books on iTunes?