This weekend, readers in the United States will be celebrating Independence Day. Part of this freedom ensures that Blastr readers can comment (both love and hate!) on the Hottest Stories and Best Comments. This week's enthusiasm (and vitriol) focuses on Thrones casting rumors, superhero flags, Harrison Ford's four-letter language, rocking SF music and (fittingly) Captain America. Happy 4th!

Numbers and enthusiasm reign in this week's Hottest Stories and Best Comments: 20 Torchwood pics! 19 classic movie monsters! 15 cameos! 11 lies! 8 Indy nuggets! 7 scientists! 5 Captain America pics! Click through for these and more info on heroes like Batman, Wonder Woman and Terry Pratchett.

Some weeks bring cool SF news. Others bring weird SF news. This week's Hottest Stories and Best Comments is a perfect venn diagram of the two, including people frozen in carbonite, DC reboots everything, Nimoy reads porn, a Czech Lord of the Rings, what really happened to George Lucas, and more!

It was a week of science and pirates, and of birth and death (of SF TV). And of Nazis on the moon. This week's Hottest Stories and Best Comments includes Who pics, the Roswell mystery solved (not), Trek TV, superheroes and Chuck on Friday nights!