They also gave her an hourglass figure and bedroom eyes - that was the sort of thing that was objected to, not her outfit.

A lot of people guess that, but actually - Sulu's clearly holding daisies and it was established in The Corbomite Maneuver that's he's allergic.

Phil Plait says 'meh'.

FWIW, io9 - my go-to site for intelligent genre reviews - is also dispeased at being served reheated fan service instead of a story.

"Sweetpea"  is acceptable.  If it's 1912.

I see the point, though.  The "horseless carriage" analogy is a good one, the idea that a new technology is first defined by the old technology it sorta resembles.  But cars don't actually have anything to do with horses, they're their own thing.   You could just as accurately call a car a "wombatless carriage" nowadays.  And "internet" has a better ring to it than "high-speed automatic telegraph", too.

To those of use who lived through the transition, we think of these devices as "phones that got smart". But the "phone" aspect is a minor function of what "smartphones" do now.  How often do they get used for actual voice communication, vs everything else you can do with one?     Even if "smartphone" remains the common name, the "phone" part is gonna need to be defined for younger folk pretty soon.   

You see, son - "phone" meant a device that ONLY let you talk to other people, and you could only use it when both you and the other person were holding interfaces that were hardwired into the wall of your house.   

Geez, Dad, that sounds awful, but I guess you needed some way to pass the time while you were lighting your woodstove, huh?

They HAD a third act, shot it, then decided it didn't work and shot a different one.

Interesting Deadline article by a reviewer who's actually seen the flick and thought it was quite good... but speculates whether the bad buzz will take its toll...

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/after-f … ng-corpse/

On the other hand, when a bouncy lady who's also an Oscar winner does an ad for beer shampoo, that's a slam-dunk.

Anyway.  Orson Scott Card hates gay people.

But that's exactly the idea - to give adults a reason to get interested in seeing the movie.  Take away the Oscar name-checking and you just have a trailer for a 'splode movie about kids in space.   (What was the last one of those -  Thunderbirds, maybe?   Tanked. )

Well, if nothing else it serves as the counter-argument for "why don't they just do a Firefly kickstarter?"   

I'm not seeing a lot of promotion of this thing - which is critical to a successful KS - and their pitch doesn't  sell the idea the way it needs to be sold.  And sadly, even the guy who wrote The Trouble With Tribbles doesn't have the star power to pull in the kind of numbers they need by himself.   They should have gotten Takei, then they might have had a chance.

Yes, a Firefly KS would get more love than Star Wolf is getting, and would probably get to 650K (and more) without too much trouble.    Except 650K isn't enough to make an episode of Firefly - it'd have to be several million at least.  And even if they made that much (and probably could) that's still just ONE episode. 

TV shows work as a pipeline, one team is writing, another is shooting, another is doing the post in an assembly-line process, until they've ground out the 10 or 13 or 22 episodes in the season.  Funding one episode at a time, then starting all over again from scratch to make a second "episode" just isn't a viable process.   At the very least, you're looking at re-staffing every phase of the production with every episode, since there'll be months of downtime between each.

So even IF everybody wanted to come back and do Firefly and even IF Fox would let them try crowdfunding it, they'd need to pull together maybe 50 million or more to fund a 13-episode production run.  And I don't think even the mighty Firefly could pull in that much via Kickstarter.

At least Star Wolf didn't go for too low a number - 650K is a workable price to make an hour of something, if you're very careful and cut every corner you can find. It doesn't seem likely to happen, they're already pretty much dead in the water.   But that's probably better than asking for too small a number, hitting it, and then having to deliver on it.