@Lahga: I agree. Watchmen was a great movie, it simply faltered as A) an adaptation of Watchmen and B) being the supersmash that Warner had hoped for. More B) than A), but I digress.

@EndangeredRed: I am crossing my fingers that it can all be explained by the name of the book's author... "Seamus Wiles". An anagram for Samuel Weiss, who has stated before that he's older than he looks.

@∞Gïmmï∞Mørgäikkøŋëŋ∞: I find it interesting because the seahorse is also one of the glyphs used on the show, like the butterfly with skeletal hands for wings, or the frog with the Greek letter phi on its back.

@∞Gïmmï∞Mørgäikkøŋëŋ∞: Robert Bishop (or Bishoff) was known as "the Seahorse" by his colleagues in Germany, for his swimming aptitude. Walter tells Peter this in "The Bishop Revival" when they find Robert's molecular "signature" in the compound killing people, a seahorse made out of atoms if I recall correctly.

@archercc: Well, that's a good point, but that's an attempt to fix damage already done by foreign species.

@Corvus-Corax: Six thousand, depending on which selectively literal "calculation" the Fundamentalist in question subscribes to.

@djscruffy: Add a dash of near-future sci-fi/soon-to-come developments— sort of like Fringe's "on the precipice" mad science— and you could have a satisfying balance between drama and sci-fi that thrilled its core of sci-fi fans but didn't alienate the average HBO viewer.

@djscruffy: Could make for a good TV series premise— After we make contact/discover signals, things don't fall apart, but they don't stay entirely sane, either. In the US, a new division of the FBI is set up to deal with astrophilia/astrophobia phenomena, and we follow a Fringe/X-Files-style team of agents…

@tlong1122: I think libertarians will find a way to get angry about it somehow.

@djscruffy: The second and fourth predictions are what bother me the most, mostly because they revolve around a special, wallowing kind of ignorance.

@TheZug: Some people just want to luxuriate and wallow in futility and dismality. It's not logical, but then again, a lot of human behavior isn't to begin with.

@iconeater: Good god, is that his actual hair?

@JJV5819: The practice isn't what's newsworthy; the pairing (and the rationale) are.

@Avastmateys: Yes. Confusion and enragement are go!

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EDIT: Oh my gosh I'm so sorry I had no idea my comments were actually getting through :(

EDIT: Sorry for the quadruple posting!

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Afterwards, there will be a crosspromotion where everybody on Gossip Girl gets VD.

Oh, god, the Kool-Aid pitcher has actual limbs now?