It really wasn't all that bad, it was just a product of it's time.

But this is the precedent of how time travel works that has already been set on the show. Walter found the pieces of the Machine, which were hidden underground in the distant past by Walter. There is no origin point for the Machine. At least they're (semi) consistent!

Well he can't be the First Observer, since one of them has already been born. The little kid who Walter and his mysterious cohort hid in the pocket universe and is now missing.

That's where it comes from. Someone who is infested with lice is "lousy", Admittedly, it is rarely used in this way today. It can also mean fuzzy and specked due to fraying fibers, but only when describing silk.

Yup.

Pretty sure it had eaten Lori. He was just getting his revenge.

Agreed. I had such high hopes for that series coming out of the first game.

I much preferred the first Mass Effect. The second bored me to tears. Never bothered with the third.

Well that in of itself doesn't make any sense. The ship of LV-426 was fossilized. It had been there for centuries at the very least.

Exactly this.

Yep. I had completely forgotten about that until right this moment. Stonekeep wasn't great itself in retrospect, as you say, but I was probably twelve or so at the time of release and was totally sucked into the world because I read the book first.

The Dragon Warrior games did not show enemies until very recently. I think you may possibly be thinking of the Ultima series?

Piracy isn't stealing. It's piracy. Two completely separate legal definitions for two completely separate crimes.

NOW I'm interested!

Mandarin is Tony's Big Bad in as much as he even has one. The terrorist organization in Iron Man was known as the Ten Rings, suggesting a future connection with Mandarin as well. I believe it's been confirmed that he will be showing up in Iron Man 3, but he was not the terrorist leader in the first film.

It was Whiplash.

FF13's second half is actually (IMO) overwhelmingly non-linear. Much like FF6.

That's what I'm saying! It's like that movie made everyone forget about all the horrible fucking sci fi schlock we have to put up with. It was ambitious but flawed. I'd rather watch a hundred ambitious but flawed sci-fi movies than see another Transformers or Battleship travesty.

I loved it too. I'm thrilled for a sequel. I don't see how people don't love it based on the incredible acting alone, honestly.