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Oh, yeah. The interrupts especially were a cornucopia of unpredictability.

"Essentially aware " is the key. I don't think a reasonable park customer has any more reason to think that the hosts are aware than we have to think Siri or Cortana is. It's not as if we don't currently have extensive experience talking to things that talk back with human voices, but are definitely not human (or

If a movie is 40+ years old, "spoiler alerts" don't apply.

It's fairly incoherent, but the basic idea isn't so much morality as playing either a straight arrow or a jerky antihero who still Gets the Job Done. After all, it's not as if you can throw in with the Reapers, or tell the galaxy to go hang. Shepard will do what Shepard's there to do, and the Paragon/Renegade system

With viewer knowledge, knowing they're AIs with internal experience, mistreating them is abusive.

Except that you know it will never work out that way, just as you know that if the Justice League gets into a free-for-all, Batman will be the last one standing.

Though I'm a bit against doing that sort of thing for a quick joke. (It bugged me when Charles Shulz spoiled "Citizen Kane" in Peanuts too.) Sure, it's been years, but there are always new viewers— my sister-in-law was shocked at the big twist in season one of Game of Thrones, and the book it came from had been out

Next someone will be talking about magic katanas. Or African totems that grant the bearer the powers of the beasts of the jungle.

I bet it would be. But I pretty much steer away from biometrics on the grounds of "if my password is cracked, I can change it, but it's really hard to get a new finger/iris/retina/face". :-)

And then there's "he's so smart he has six Ph.D.s!"

Vixen: "This isn't like any percolator I've ever seen! How do you even make coffee with this thing?"

Well, more "war-making force", peacekeeping being kind of closing the barn door at that point.

He's a historian the way Martin's a scientist. All Ph.D.s in a superhero universe are generalists with an inexhaustible well of memorized facts and the ability to apply them in record time. Honestly, I'm surprised he needed the translator pill.

He crashed from pretty high up. Maybe he recognized the outline of Honshu.

Hawkman's been a solid character in several different incarnations. But none of those were on Legends. I'd say leave him fallow for a while. Maybe try a Katar and Shayera police procedural once memories of Legends' Carter and Kendra have had a chance to fade.

In addition to the Legion, I'd love to see Supergirl team up with the 29th century Kristin Wells Superwoman (who's descended from Jimmy Olsen and looks it; I hope that doesn't mean this version has to shave her head), or Tommy Tomorrow of the Planeteers.

Hey, before Thawne messed up his life, Barry Allen was a technical genius who'd smoothly thwarted his every move and been a founding member of the J[redacted]. It's only since the particle accelerator explosion was moved up that Barry has been… let's say… faster than thought.

Vixen-Kamandi team-up!

Knowing anything about the historical period in question is pretty clearly not going to be rewarded on this show. "Japan based on what the writers half-remember from James Clavell and Toshiro Mifune movies" is pretty much par for the course.

Elliot S. Maggin's "Superman: the Last Son of Krypton" featured an "intentional translator", that translated words in part based on what you were expecting. (E.g., Lex Luthor was annoyed at being called an "Earthling"; after he was told how the system worked, he heard "Terran".)