I haven’t had a chance to watch The Three-Body Problem just yet, but Contact is literally my all-time favorite non-Lord of the Rings movie. Just an absolute masterpiece from start to finish.

Heh, I do sometimes catch myself going “Commander Shephard!” though I think Hale is such a good voice actress, it’s only very rarely.

I know there are fans pushing for this, but I am not one of them.

I’m in denial.

This is what really frustrates me. It felt like the end of season 4 was launching a new chapter for the show that easily could’ve lasted another three or four seasons. I would’ve preferred that Paramount end it when the show was at the a natural creative endpoint, rather than in the middle of something new. ‘Five…

I always love the irony of the fact that, thanks to Sobek’s care with the creation of GAIA, this all-powerful AI has more humanity than any of the Far Zeniths.

It is still mind-boggling to me how well-written Ted Faro is who does such spectacularly destructive and selfish things as a villain and yet at no point even comes close to seeming like a caricature or moustache-twirling. The scariest thing about him is how he feels very, very plausible and real.

He’s amazing in everything he does.

What? No.... Why? What? This can’t be happening.

One thing I really enjoyed about the discussion of whether or not Sobek would’ve abandoned Earth to start over, is that it draws into focus this ongoing query for the series as a whole: when the world is so messed up, at what point do you give up and quite literally start over? Is it still salvageable and worth trying…

But in Fallout 3 my problem was that fighting was my only option for leveling up. And I couldn’t heal until I had leveled up, and I couldn’t fight without losing more health.

I’d say Milo Ventimiglia and Adrian Pasdar in this photo are pretty well channeling the same feeling most of us have in hearing this news.

*shrug* Just reporting the games as I experienced them. It was years ago so I don’t remember the details. But whatever it was, they weren’t introduced early enough in the game for me to encounter it.

Fallout 3 was the third Bethesda game I tried (after Oblivion and Morrowind) in which I spent way too much effort trying to ease my way into the world and have it go absolutely nowhere.

Yeah, Eleanor’s super horny, and she expresses appreciation for hotness all across the spectrum.

I never got into the games (tried Fallout 3 once years ago and thought the design was completely inaccessible...I mean, it is a Bethesda game) - but between Jonah Nolan (I love me some Person of Interest) and the cast (Walter Goggins! Kyle MacLachlan! Ella Purnell!) I might actually check this one out.

He’ll just try to use food metaphors in his attempts at therapy...

I love that. I love when something great is unplanned, and the writers are just chasing something spontaneous and spinning gold.

Yeah, I try not to think too hard about it and then just kind of quietly celebrate when he’s no longer on-screen.

Given her run of movies in the past few years as a producer and/or actor, I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.