Can Girls be something I'm not interested in one way or the other? I feel kinda obligated to have an opinion and I really don't.

It's worse than that: Obama's US defense department usually used ISIL, state department — Kerry in particular — tended to use Daesh.

Hannity would probably blanche

The Nomad is the Mako done right. And it's not just about the vehicle: they put a lot of effort into designing the map to work with vehicles. If you want to get up on top of that mountain, you've got to find a track that goes there, not charge blindly up an 80 degree slope and then do a cartwheel off the top.

So far I've only done Liam's loyalty quest. It was okay, but I felt like they had a concept they wanted to go with, and they sacrificed the plot and the gameplay in service of it. Moving around and fighting in the flipped ship was annoying rather than fun, and they really had to railroad the plot to make it happen.

A few years ago, this would have been an Inventory, with clever contributions and discussion of cinematographic history from a knowledgeable AV Club staff.

Spoiler tagging for TV watchers who don't want the answer to your question: No, Ganymede will be wrapped up by the season finale, if not sooner. This story moves fast!

Is this different than the book? I haven't read them in years, but I seem to remember that Bobbie tried real hard to stick to the party line during the meeting, and only completely spilled the beans to Avasarala later in private.

I think part of it is they're trying to minimize the amount of swearing on the show. In the books, it feels more natural: Avasarala swears like a sailor all the time, and uses the contrast between her grandmotherly appearance and foul language as a power move.

Spoilers for the murder plot:
Dear Bioware. There is a thing called attempted murder. That is all.

There's also some really good makeup work. She doesn't have those odd facial angles in her IMDB head shot.

Beats me, I bailed out halfway through it because I didn't give a damn about any of 'em.

So I'm on my spring break now (I'm a professor) and have been super interested in ME:Andromeda and super worried about the early reviews. Should I sign up for Origin Access just to get an early look, then cancel it after buying (or not buying)?

Nah, probably they just mention Shepard in passing, and need to get the pronoun right. Which speaks of clunky writing: Bioware's usually pretty good at subtle gender-neutral dialogue.

I'm not begging for praise, I'm just trying to let Barsanti off the hook a bit.

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I'll state for the record that Google is my superpower. A quick Google search just turns up piles of inspirational quote pages. This is a Google Books search restricted to dates before 1995.

Challenge accepted!

Just a point of information: this quote appears in a couple of books dated 1936 and 1962. The poet in question was born in 1980.

One of the challenges with this show is that it doesn't have good and bad factions.