Correction: the researchers from Australia who were tracking him re-used the nickname "Migaloo" for some reason...I don't know, maybe they placed more value on Aboriginal language preservation than FRAKKING DRAMATIC THEME NAMING!

Apparently it was named by Aborigines when it was first sighted off the coast of Australia in 1991, and "migaloo" apparently means "Whitey" in their language - officially translation is "white fella". Honky may have been too direct. But he was named by Aborigines, who probably hadn't even heard of Moby Dick.

Fun fact: Moby Dick actually wasn't described as an albino - he has a large white blotch of skin discoloration across a large part of his head, but it doesn't cover his entire body.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event – in the living act, the undoubted deed – there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside…

I hate that song - I didn't before BSG turned it into a MacGuffin plot device which never ultimately paid off.

Guys, we had one good movie literally twenty years ago about "dinosaurs and the dangers of unethical science"....yet they keep bleeding the franchise white. Are dinosaurs really what people want in this day and age? What about scifi stories which comment on dystopian rich/poor gaps, like The Hunger Games? …

Nothing matches Apollo/Dualla for the sheer scale of its failure. Even *the writers* belatedly admitted that it never worked.

There are other ships which haven't worked out on other shows; Buffy/Ryan was very flawed, but you can sort of "see what they were trying to do"....or how on paper, this started out.

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My hope with the pop-down visor is that it's a plot point: OCP wanted to put a "human face" on RoboCop - in the original they honestly wanted a human who wouldn't make stupid mistakes in combat and shoot innocent civilians (it's bad business). In the original, the emphasis is sort of that they basically want to…

My slight hope is that the reason they have Alex Murphy killed by a car bomb, and have him recognizably "alive" but paralyzed and paraplegic afterwards...is that they want to make a comparison to US army veterans from Iraq who themselves were blown to pieces by IED's - the "signature weapon" of the conflict. So this…

"Who I wonder would be so cruel? To force a mirror on a man with no face... "

Maybe this will be like the Gundam universe, with megacorps like Anaheim Eletronics spearheading space development.

It's a bad ship because Jaime is too good for Cersei...really. As the books go on, you realize that whatever his flaws, *Jaime honestly loved Cersei and no other*, while Cersei...basically had sex with her twin brother because she's a narcissist who wants to have sex with herself. Cersei sees Jaime and their…

The Iroquois of the northeast, i.e. NYC region, were pretty "civilized" as well; established settlements, established governments and treaties. Many didn't have large-scale agriculture simply because they didn't *need* to: the coasts were practically overflowing with fish/shellfish, the woods were rich with game,…

I like the sort of implication that Jack/Kyra's death actually affected Riddick enough that he you know, *feels bad* about it and sort of melancholy for a long time afterwards. He becomes the Lord Marshal, but his only friends are dead, and he just sort of goes soft out of grief.

Well, what does "rainy day lesbianism" mean?

Futurama has been pronounced dead so many times before that I honestly don't think is the last we'll be seeing of them. So I'm not upset.

Yeah the two Comedy Central seasons were a little uneven, but they still had some high points.

This was disappointing. I can't believe they're focusing on his family.

Yes, I've heard similar things; the director said the proliferation of drones in real life is played around with - they've already got drones but people don't trust them; the whole idea of RoboCop in the movie is a PR stunt to basically dupe people into thinking a drone is controlled by a human.