I'm fairly certain that the room with young Amy was Amy's room - about halfway through the episode Amy is drawn to a door with #7 on it, she opens the door and mutters "Praise him" just before Rita gets in front of her and closes the door.

I noticed that as well, and thought it part of the optical illusion - I assume that as they are only 2D images, reduced size is exactly equivalent to increased distance (at least in this case).

Yes, and the trope of the hero wandering in to a eerily deserted town that turns out to be the target for atomic bomb test / artillery feels like it is very common to TV shows and movies, but the only other example I can think of is an episode of "Malcolm in the Middle".

I'll admit that is a very good point that I don't have the answer to.

I always assumed they were military police, not officers, and the characters were the Korean equivalent of the "MP" US MPs have on their helmets - this assumption came from the fact that I always saw them lined up with US MPs at the demilitarized zone.

I don't think that would be a good test because the Japanese designer are creating Western fashion, so again it would seem natural for them to use Western models - and it makes sense as you'll find fewer Japanese women that fit the Western ideal of beauty as applied to models and fashion. That's not to say there are…

I think it is a little too easy to link the obvious Japanese superficial obsession with things Western to some of their ideals of beauty. I see the "big Western eyes" as just being an extreme exaggeration of what all cultures think of as cute (and also more expressive), and the Japanese ideal of pale/white skin being…

The video is gone, but if this is "Jaws Unleashed" then I have played this game, and it actually was awesome. Not only do you get play as a shark, with lots of sharky missions that involve eating people, seals, or those damn smug killer whales. As you complete missions you open new areas, level up, and gain new…

It could just be that they are trying to market it not as a generic fashion magazine - which they have plenty of their own native versions - but by playing up the fact that it is a Western fashion magazine.

I would argue that even in BSG and B5 they only partially embrace the notion of space being space. It's nice to see that the fighters in both of those have attitude jets for maneuvering, but they only seem to acknowledge inertia partially.

Shhhhh! We're not supposed to mention that Gawker would buy this one too.

It has been a while since I've read any Heinlein. I think "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" was the last I read, but that's probably not a good example as I felt that it was Heinlein writing a terrible fanfic parody of his own writing, if not a Heinlein flipping the bird to his fans - at one point the main character,…

+1 - I came hear to write the same thing.

Personally, I never really felt that the women in Heinlein's books were real people. All the scenes showing them as strong seemed counter-balanced with insinuations that they needed a strong man to lean on. Conversely, at the same time he also seemed to be portraying weird patriarchal relationship where the men…

I always thought it was older kids that drove dads crazy.

I am willing to admit that is scary - when the fist were flying it looked like big legs of lamb being wielded by legs of lamb...

Well, damn...you've just linked to tvtropes.org and there goes the rest of my evening.

I had the same thought, and was waiting to find out what it was foreshadowing...alas, I doubt it meant anything.

Gary is my favorite character as well - and I like that even though his character produces a lot of humor in the show, he is not a one-note character just there to provide laughs.

Dammit, I didn't realize that the spacesuits were from Defying Gravity and now I miss it too.