“SJW” (still not clear what that term even means... maybe someone can explain it to me?)

I don’t give a shit what Jamie is doing; he doesn’t know any better. I’m much more concerned - and frankly, incensed- that Claire is fully collaborating in all this having full historical knowledge of the situation. She’s a (naturalized) American who travelled back in time to consciously steal the natives’ land and…

Still hating the way Roger and Brianna - a history professor and a history student - seem chronically unbothered by anything happening around them. Could they at least once act like people who just travelled back in fucking time?! Mutter a comment under your breath, I don’t care, just give me something.

If they wanna do a story about Jamie inflicting the same shit that was done to his people, then the show should actually commit to it. Instead we get this nameless savages narrative that absolves him and Claire of any wrongdoing.

They could have actually, and I’m taking a stab in the dark here, written a native character and actually developed them. I get it’s hard.... trying to find thematic common ground between Jamie, a man who’s land was colonized and culture erased by Britain, and a native american who’s literally going through the same…

Also, if any part of it is concern that time might not run parallel or that some stones might come out at different places, THAT WOULD BE A MORE INTERESTING STORY. Roger showing up having missed a handful of years or Bree showing up five years later than expected and Roger being the one to wait for her. There is a…

That’s one of my main bugs about the whole series (at least the show) - these characters plop into a different time and assimilate way better than one would think! Where is all the wonder and fascination, the obvious and obligatory questions that even a normal person would have, not to mention HISTORIANS as Brianna is…

Rollo is such a good boy. I hope they’re checking him for ticks regularly because gurl, that is a lot of running in the woods for a dog.

Unlike a book, the show also has an opportunity to highlight more points of view. There is an opportunity to have a few scenes interspersed even with no or little dialogue that make the Native Americans and the Slaves seem like people and not plot devices.

Good writing is able to make judgement calls on the central characters and I think that’s where the writing on the show (and to an extent the later books) let’s them down. For example, I don’t watch Mad Men and think Matthew Weiner’s point was that these people were good people even if in any given moment the…

Having a black friend isn’t indicative of anything. In the calling of every racist. Claire could be friends with Abernathy and still think MLK was a trouble maker, like most white people of that era. In the same way most white people of this era think Colin Kaepernick is a trouble maker.

I don’t expect her to espouse 2017 values, but the writers of the show do have hindsight and created a situation that is fully a white savior narrative. The best solution? Not have a slave auction. Not have a white power couple purchase a slave. Not use an Asian man as a plot device to gain entry into a party and…

Here's another tip: put the bottom of the bottle in your shoe. Preferably a shoe with a bouncy sole, so the bottle doesn't break. Smash it against a wall with great force, repeatedly. The cork will come off and after a while you can pull it off. I used this trick at a beach in Barcelona once, it was a true life saver.

There seems little point revisiting BSG since its greater mysteries and prophecies are increasingly affixed to a single character who in the end vanishes into thin air without explanation. You can't watch it without increasingly pinning your hopes for a resolution on Starbuck, and once you know where that goes, there…

I like Wallace Shawn too, and I kind of find it admirable just how annoying he is in DS9.  I swear he went into the role trying to set a record for sounding as annoying as humanly possible, and just kept raising the stakes.  After awhile I stopped trying to not find him grating and just kind of enjoyed how irritating…

Zack — to answer your question about gravity, anyone from a low-gravity world would not be able to float in their own gravity anymore than we can in ours. It doesn't make any sense.

This is actually a very important point.  There is this false assumption in our culture (maybe not here on these boards but definitely in American culture at large) that a rational, evidence based worldview has to be sterile, unimaginative, and lacking in awe and wonder.  In fact, just the opposite is true. Sure, the…

This episode is a great example of one that didn't even register when I was a teenager, but now seems amazing

@barleycorn: "Note the difference in style between Nick Meyer and Jonathan Frakes: "

"None"