Written like the original Mass Effect wasn’t full of plot holes, written by horny dude-bros, shrink wrapped female characters made purely for the cishet male gaze, questionable camera angles, nonsensical story in places, god awful script and an ending that is still widely vilified to this day.

It’s still one of my favourite sci-fi game series, but only for the Garrus romance, which bioware made accidentally good, by turning your best friend into a romance option - which they only did under protest. If it wasn’t for Garrus I would have deleted the game years ago and never gone back.

I have zero expectations for this ‘adaptation.’ They’re never going to please everyone, anyway, no matter what they do with it. Amazon would do better putting the money into adapting the rest of the Expanse novels, tbf. And leaving mass effect well alone. It’s a very personal experience and they will only be adapting one very narrow experience into a story for the tv screen. One that will either be laughably horrendous or accused of being too ‘woke’ - whatever people think that word means. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

I’ll be sitting here with my popcorn.

I’m surprised they went there at all with Duffy, there was zero chemistry between the characters. Whereas the chemistry was off the charts between him and Karla.

i really don’t care for roscoe, but they have to stop pairing him with whoever ‘in-over-her-head-female-law-enforcer’ is next, because that’s what is getting tired, imo.

No one else is going to it it, but it needs to be like Starfield’s Rev-8. Anyone here whose tried that thing, especially clearing out an entire bunker of enemies in low gravity? It’s like The Mako and Halo’s Warthog had a baby. So much fun.

Babylon 5, season 3, episode 10, ‘Severed Dreams’, or episode 20, ‘And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place’ deserves to be on this list. If at least one episode of Babylon 5 isn’t here, you don’t know tv Sci-fi as well as you think you do.

I loved him. Yes, I have read the books and yes, they were good changes. No, I don’t want Messiah. Not unless he makes similar changes, because that book is misery-p^rn from start to finish. Plus, too many characters die between scenes and we’re just told, not shown. The thing I love about Villeneuve’s movies is he’s not afraid to go to the places Frank Herbert skipped over. If he was, Christ, these movies should have been dull.

I think it will. It’s a beautiful movie. Some incredible moments. A lot of it was practical effects, which will stand the test of time, unlike a lot of dodgy cgi.

Having read the books, I don’t really care for them and I think Villeneuve did an amazing job. I don’t think we need Messiah, though. That book was written with a specific purpose in mind (ruining the hopes of the people who misinterpreted ‘Dune’) and will only make for a very dull and highly depressing movie.

He was one of my favourite characters in season two. Every time the camera panned across the players during Red Light, Green Light, his ridiculous poses, omg, so funny, I loved him from the start. I’ll miss him but his death scene was brilliant simply because it was unexpected. His absence will haunt season 3, but something tells me that was entirely the point.

Subtle indoctrination by dark forces asside, people bowing to nefarious characters who gaslight and lie their way into politics to do nothing but harm. Has no basis in reality at all, does it? 👀🙄🤷🏻‍♀🤦🏻‍♀

One single bee doesn’t sound deliberate. In such a large area, how could you guarantee it would land on anyone? Let alone someone who had a dislike for bees.

If it was deliberate, if I was running the games and I wanted to guarantee a reaction I would have released an entire swarm.

A single bee sounds more like coincidence - unless you’re suggesting the bee was a tiny man operated drone? That would be stretching it a little. I struggle with the ‘convincing man-made sky’ let alone ‘human operated bee-drone’ lol

They’re never going to be able to please everyone, especially if they decide Shepard is the protagonist. To be honest, they’d be better off staying clear of the original cast and going with some complete unknowns. They could play it even safer and cover the discovery of the relays and first . Trying to follow the storyline of the games will be asking to fail, since there are multiple routes and the storyline in the game is a bit of mess anyway. It didn’t help that they changed direction and ditched planned storylines as the games progressed.

We’ve only seen a small part of a huge universe that has so much more potential than simply sticking to Shepard.

Fallout only succeeds as a tv show because they’re branching out and telling their own story in that universe, plus it has the added advantage of including some very dark humour - which goes a long way in making that series entertaining. They don’t have that in Mass Effect, so they’re going to have to find another angle. Or it’ll end up like the Halo tv series, seriously disappointing to the majority of fans and getting just one season, possibly two, before being cancelled.

I’d waited over twenty years since seeing the anime adaptation for this movie and I was not disappointed. They kept all the parts I liked, dropped the parts I wasn’t keen on and reincorporated elements of the original manga that were not in the anime adaptation. This movie was a triumph! It’s sad that only the fans saw it as such, but you’d have to be very familiar with the source material to appreciate how well they did.

That said, I don’t think I need a sequel. One thing I enjoy about a lot of Japanese sci-fi is that they often don’t have that neat, happy but obviously room for a sequel, Hollywood ending. They’re brave enough to end on a discordant note that stays with you for the rest of your life. Consider the end of Akira, and the original Ghost in the Shell. These sci-fi stories are hugely influential, the fact that they end in an uncomfortable way is part of the reason they are so influential and enduring.

I’m a huge Starfield fan, but even I want to ‘press X to doubt’ on this one.

There’s a ten-year plan for Starfield. We’ve barely scratched the surface. Just look at Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout, even ESO (which is a different studio, but still proves my point) over a decade on, do any of these games even remotely resemble what was originally released? They’re designed to have a starting point, and then evolve over time.

Proven by - does anyone really play vanilla Skyrim these days? Or do you play the version with house building, fishing, survival mode, creation club add-ons, and other player-made mods?

I rest my case.

We are at least a decade, if not more, away from ever seeing a Starfield sequel. By then the game we are playing now will be far from what was originally released. I’m just being a realistic here.

I agree, 100%.

I didn’t expect to like this series, but here I am, obsessed. It’s the best TV I’ve seen in ages. This episode was extremely clever, I love the ones that smack you in the face with a revelation that will permanently alter any re-watch. I’ll forever see Patti’s performance from the start in a whole new light. Forever see those visual clues littered throughout and now understand their meaning. And that’s incredible. Very clever, rarely is Marvel that clever.

If this had been shown on UK terrestrial, or any other streaming service other than Apple really (I’m in the UK and I don’t know anyone who subscribes to it. Bearing in mind a lot of Brits shy away from Apple and their products - it’s like a console war, you either have an iPhone and love it or an Android and hate everything Apple does, ngl, that’s how it is), this show might have stood a chance. It clearly would have benefited from tapping into nostalgia and a lot of people who Time Bandits are boomers and gen X-ers, most I doubt subscribe to Apple. Burying it on a streaming service a lot of these Brits have never even heard of did it zero favours. I’m sure I would have loved this show, but I’m not g up to yet another streaming service just to watch it. Shame really. I still adore the original movie.