Is everyone aware that Darth Millennial ran a sixty-person dance crew in Jacksonville Florida?

I liked this episode.  I also really liked your take on it.  Thanks for being a light of reasonableness.

Wow, a lot of people saw a very different episode than I did.

James, just dropping in to say that this piece is my favourite out of everything I’ve read from you.  Cogent, brilliant, and expertly reasoned.  I loved it.

As a Canadian looking south, I’m hoping your system is robust enough to recover, but it’s not looking great.  Good luck in November.  

What I came here to say. He could do that menacing contemptuous genius thing so, so well.

Definitely the best episode in quite some time — that despite doing the thing of spending a couple of missable minutes at the end telling us what the theme of the week was. “Captain, it’s not lost on me that the lesson we’re all supposed to learn is that I was wrong to focus on efficiency over human connection; it…

Right on!  I was about to give up on the site a couple of years ago when some kind soul pointed out the window-shrinking trick.  It’s much better this way!

Anyone complaining about gender swapping here should have to answer a ten-question Silver Surfer knowledge quiz that will ask at least three questions about Shalla Bal. If you can’t do it, then you’ve no business complaining about them ruining the legacy of the Surfer.

If it hasn’t been used already, that feels like a meme in the making come this November.

Totally with you on that one! Some sports movies don’t work for me, and I resisted Ted Lasso for a long while, but when I finally gave in, I loved it. Field of Dreams was awesome as well!

I think you might have just written a couple of really good scenes in the movie we seem to be developing.

Those are absolutely shitty conditions, and I hope you get better.

I didn’t say they were smart billionaires.  Probably assume they can solve things with money even after the collapse of civilization.

American billionaires are busy buying up huge tracts of land all over the world for nebulous reasons.

What? This is ridiculous. Strip it down to its bare argument and it’s like, “You like someone telling you a story? Then you should also like watching a couple of guys arm-wrestle. Because both things have drama, conflict, and climax.”

Super agreed!  This is the opposite of “sooner than I think.”  Like -- exact opposite, unless “never” was also an option.

Thank you for clearing this up.  I heard the rumour and my Spidey-sense went off, so it’s good to know that wasn’t a false positive.

Much as I was fascinated with it, I struggle to explain why. On the one hand, I think it was how unfamiliar it felt. Seeing the Cultural Revolution from Ye Wenjie’s perspective — and that of other characters — and imagining this work in dialogue with those political changes, was fascinating to me. I’m very much raised…

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