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In my opinion, that's the perfect reason to ban fan fiction. I don't have any particular objection to the story as such (although it's not something I'd personally read) but it's just bad writing generally and has lowered the standards of what people should expect when reading a book.

Yeah but you'd have to wonder how likely it is that it would work. The first human trial, 8 years, with no supervision or ability to intervene if something doesn't quite go right? If it had been a planned test it would have started with a short term test under controlled conditions and careful...

Can anyone tell me if the continuing Bond books are in the style of Ian Flemming's Bond? Or do they follow the movie Bond? Because they are very different characters most of the time.

An oxymoron if I ever heard one. I'm reminded of a Monty Python sketch (which unfortunately I can't find now) with an army general on the phone explaining that he doesn't know, couldn't possibly be expected to know, and really doesn't know. Then he hangs up and the phone rings again and he...

That's a guaranteed losing battle. Give up now!

I never saw Pirate Planet until a few years ago. For some reason the Key to Time season wasn't high on the list of repeats here in Australia. And because there was no novelisation I had no knowledge of the story. When I saw it it didn't rate very highly for me. But I got the novelisation when it...

I know what that's like. Anytime I want to sit down on my computer one of my kids desparately needs to play a game or watch youtube or something. And apparently I'm the worst dad in the world if I say no :emoji_alien:

I just bought the novelisation of The Pirate Planet which I've just received in the mail and started reading. That brings my novelisation collection of the Classic series ever closer to completion. I think there's just a couple of Dalek stories left now (Resurrection & Revelation?). And I've got...

While I agree that the easy access to guns is a large part of the problem, I've come to the opinion that the biggest problem in the US is the culture. There are other countries where gun ownership is as high as the US but don't have the same level of mass killings. The problem is that culturally...

Wow, looking at the lives of the various John Connor actors, maybe Skynet had a good reason to want to terminate him.

So after the second episode I'm starting to realise that this is just a standard British police procedural set in space. It's not particularly different to Inspector Morse or Prime Suspect. In fact it wouldn't be much of a stretch to take the script of one of those shows and transfer it to this...

Its hard for me to comment on this as I tend to block out the music most of the time. I know its there but it doesn't impact me. People keep talking about the recurrence of "Clara's theme" and stuff like that and I'm like "Clara had a theme?". As a general rule I'd take a minimalist approach to...

Well I just got back from seeing this and I have to say it's another success for Marvel. Totally enthralling, beautiful world, well developed multi-dimensional villain. My only criticism would be

Talking about distances, here's an image showing how far our radio signals (broadcast over the last 100 years) have travelled in our galaxy. It's a much larger area than I had thought but still only represents a tiny fraction of our galaxy.

My general response to people asking if we'll ever find intelligent life in space is "we haven't even found it here on earth yet".

That's a fundamental problem with almost all interstellar space based shows. To allow for reasonable travel time between star systems you need to have unbelievably fast travel speeds. The reason I said Blake's 7 was "vaguely" reasonable is that at least it doesn't suggest travel times of only a...

Looking at IMDB she's Judy and the girl looking over her shoulder is Penny. Which is odd because if that's the case Penny looks to be older than Judy and I thought it was the other way around? Edit: Further research shows that Mina Sundwall (Penny) was born in 2001 and Taylor Russell (Judy)...

I don't object to some minor tweaking of costumes. What works in a comic book generally isn't exactly transferable to the screen, especially some of the women's costumes, where they're effectively wearing a g-string and nipple caps. But any translation to the screen has to have some link to the...

Hang on while I grab my earplugs. Given the volume with which he usually delivers his lines, I've always wondered what he'd do if the script required him to shout.

That's very true. I wonder if this suggests that, despite his comments, it's not completely about the money? There's possibly some other motivation that's driving him - a desire for danger? wanting to hit back at the system?