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Random check-in photo for those who don't see me 'round Facebook. Me, my wife Emily, my 5-year-old daughter, Anne, and my 18 month old son, James

Saw it last night (yes, finally!) Here's the quick and dirty: I really enjoyed it. Loved Asa as Ender. Loved. Loved the Battle Room. Loved the score. Loved the depiction of the final 'simulation'. Only real frustration was the lack of sense of passage of time. It really was breakneck speed through t...

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The break until the 50th gives me a great opportunity to catch up on Classic Docs. While there's some great and imortant episodes, there's also a lot of... drawn out tediousness in the early days. I'm making a list of 'must see' episodes for those interested in checking out important or fun developm...

SEASON 7 FINALE SPOILERS * * * * It looks like they're going to grapple full-on with 11's grappling with what appears to be the inevitability of becoming the Valeyard. It Looks like Hurt's Ex-Doctor (Doctor X? :) ) shows that its a stark reality, because something like it has happened before. Also, ...

Wow. That was certainly a game-changer of a Season Finale. Amazing stuff, and explains why the creators haven't given in and shown the fans something perceived to be missing they'd all wanted to see... The only good thing about the wait until the 50th Anniversary in November is that it gives me more...

After well over a decade of anticipation, I have to say... I'm very, very pleased with the teaser trailer. OSC has been telling us time and again that the movie isn't OSC's Ender's Game, it's Gavin Hood's making the best film possible based on and using the concepts, themes, and characters explored ...

There's now an official Twitter account: @EndersGameMovie

And word on the street is that we'll be seeing some more official promotional material coming from official channels very, very soon. Keep eyes open.

Anne and Star Wars update - Last week, we watched Return of the Jedi. Her one-word review: "Hilarious". The scariest part for her? The fact that Yoda died of Old Age. Another observation: "Oh! So Anakin was just hiding in the Darth Vader costume this whole time!" And then we watc...

Here's Ender and Petra:

A link to a larger version: here.

And here's a post deconstructing it at EA.

I've been introducing my just-turned-3-year-old girl (February 18th was her third birthday!) to Star Wars, bit by bit. I weaned her in with YouTubed episodes of the old 80's DROIDS cartoon - which made her a fan of R2-D2 and C-3PO. From then on, she was excited to watch A NEW HOPE, because Artoo and...

Very cool! Fun scoop! Congrats!

The Snowmen was SO much fun. Since the beginning of Season 7, we've been having little Doctor Who Parties. I've gotten my wife's siblings hooked, and 'cause they live just 20 minutes away, we get a house full of Who fans - including my almost-3-year-old daughter, who LOVES Doctor Who. And the Daleks...

Word from that street is that we should be seeing that fun something between now and 10:00 EST. So stay tuned.

Watch this space. Word on the street is there will be something fun and interesting to see tomorrow morning.

I just watched Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead again, from Season 4. To be more accurate, I just flipped through to watch the moments with River and the Doctor. The ending of Forest of the Dead had a heavy impact the first time I saw it, and now, after actually seeing the relationship betw...

Loved DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP. Loved Rory's dad. Hey, where are all our Whovians? Here! Here! I didn't watch it till last night. The dinosaurs were a bit silly, but totally Doctor Who, so I loved them. It seems like there's some seeds being planted here for the future - one being the Doctor as an ...

Loved DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP. Loved Rory's dad.

Hey, where are all our Whovians?

WOW. AWESOME. Spoilery Speculation below: Amazing job keeping Jenna's appearance in this ep a super-secret! That was awesome! Notice how she looks into the Camera and says, 'Remember'? Perhaps the Dalek nano-bots did infilitrate the Doctor after all, and Oswin reprogrammed their memory to have her i...

Countdown to the season launch this Saturday, with The Pond Life!

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Not gonna lie - I think the Formic Wars novels have far more movie potential, so far, than any of the others for an immediate movie sequel.

I can't believe people haven't posted these yet - Series 7 is right around the corner!

And the trailer:

Here's the comments, from Darian and Steve: ==================================== Darian: I have created a 3D model based on the storyboards of what I think the “Movie” Battle School looks like. I have a more in depth discussion about how I interpreted the design from the pictures at my blog http://a...

Not finished, just giving a status update. Jukes just discovered Concepcion's message, and El Calvador just discovered the wasted Italian ship. The MOPs are doing... MOP stuff. I'm highly intrigued by the Mining Ship/Corporate drama. Apart from the two scenes with Mazer, the Military training stuff ...

"Podvast" lol I don't know what you're talking about. That type certainly was never in the sub-topic line to this thread ;) And yes, I love the concept - which OSC has expressed before - that even the novel versions are just one expression of the ultimate story - which is why OSC generall...

Yep. The only problem with the initial link was a repeat of intro bumper accidentally overlayed at the end.

Check it out! Philotic Ansible Podcast: #002b - Aaron Johnston, Part 2 In Part 2, Aaron gets into detail about working inside OSC’s Universe, gives us some insight into the expanding of Ender’s world as seen in The First Formic War series of novels, and hints at what is to come in the future of the ...

My copy arrived from Amazon today!

Alright, with the book about to come out, I've turned this into the official thread for NON-SPOILER discussions. Feel free to discuss your joy at receiving your copy, or other thoughts and whatever about the book here, but leave the spoilers for EARTH UNAWARE [ The SPOILER Thread]. Thanks!

No, I haven't read the book yet, but I'm prepping a place to go for when I do (it's scheduled to arrive at my house on Wednesday). If you already have read it, feel free to let it all out here! Again, just in case you missed it in the thread title, this is a thread for SPOILERS . If you are reading ...

For fun, here's a short little experiment film starring Aaron Johnston (and also featuring Aaron's wife Lauren, and OSC's daughter Emily), written by OSC, "Remind Me Again".

Hello hello!

Now, it's just a timing issue, which is why we'll do some pull-ups transition to get used to planning for the time to pull pants down and STILL make it in the potty before the full on move to panties. She's now a pro at always panty-wearing-and-appropriately-removing-them for #1 and #2 while in the...

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