Homophobia tends to link homosexuality and pedophilia. Note that there are no non-pedophilic homosexual men in the entire Dune saga, and the only homosexual women are the LUG Fish Speakers.

I came here expecting to see a thread full of Space: 1999 jokes, and was disappointed to see people taking the article seriously. Does the phrase “tongue-in-cheek” mean anything to you people?

Sure, consider the margins of error. Could they have sent Giuseppe or Chigs home instead? Sure. But the notion that somehow Jürgen got screwed is beyond ridiculous. They’re all great bakers, and they all did really well. The difference is a matter of millimeters, but Jürgen was not exactly dominating.

They explicitly commented on the disappointing appearance of Jürgen’s entremets, which indicated that he was not showing off enough different skills, which was part of the rubric. Was Giuseppe’s disappointing flavor more important than Jürgen’s disappointing appearance? I don’t know, and I don’t really care. Even if…

I disagree. At the time (before we knew who was eliminated), I definitely got the impression that Jürgen was doing slightly worse in the showstopper. They were disappointed with the look of his entremets, specifically that he could have done some detail to improve them. It’s true that Giuseppe was also in the bottom…

Simon & Garfunkel >>> Cat Stevens

Hyperion is great, but the series is a perfect illustration of the principle of diminishing returns. At some point it’s basically just Terminator 2.

(I’m not even arguing they should have hewn closer to the books, just something to make us care about the fate of Foundation more.)

I was also disappointed that Jürgen’s boats weren’t edible.

Is Crystelle possibly the best decorator who’s ever been on this show?

Are we forgetting that Jürgen got a pass last week? He underperformed Lizzie in every challenge but somehow he gets into the semifinal round?

The individual molecules of a gas are identical. They behave stochastically and independently, but with the same distribution. Individual people have widely varied distributions of behavior, which also change over time.

Almost nothing in the show, good or bad, is from the books. The core plot of the first episode is taken from “The Psychohistorians”, but after that, they’ve left the books mostly behind.

The obvious critique of psychohistory is that the action of groups are made up of the actions of individuals,

This is a frustrating show because you can see a great show buried under layers of typical TV tropes.

The notion that science and math can be used to precisely predict the nature and especially the timing of future crises decades into the future is, of course, ludicrous

I’m pretty sure book 3 is just one long equation.

Haven’t seen Gladiator, but what makes both Alien and Blade Runner compelling is precisely that their protagonists are not super-heroes, and have to make do with their ordinary human abilities. Indeed, Decker fails to defeat Batty, his time just runs out.

I don’t think it’s a bad story, but it does start off slow with a bunch of boilerplate noir before it really gets going.

It’s the opposite of a superhero movie. I am shocked that after 40 years, Scott still does not understand his own movie.