I'm a religious lurker 'round here, and rarely comment. Xeni, you rock. What little I've read of VB's response to this episode comes across as smug and self-important, and the rest of the haters have an overblown sense of entitlement.

Keep on keepin' on, peace out, etc, etc.

(but please, enough with the cute furries)

You young'uns may not remember these controversial Slashdot posts, about a theory that the whole movie is an allegory for Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra:
http://books.slashdot.org/books/01/05/01/1936213.shtml?tid=160
http://slashdot.org/science/01/05/27/1821227.shtml

After I read that stuff I could never see the movie the same way again. It's still, IMHO, the best SF movie ever made.