If they're being realistic (no guarantee in a superhero show involving magic tech), then they're still years away from FDA approval.

She was given a literal version of the philosopher favorite Trolley Problem to solve in a few seconds, and made an extremely defensible choice that's still naturally going to be hard to live with.

"But this movie asks, 'What if there were?'"

The space trilogy is great, though the last book is a fair departure from the other two. Those are basically religious speculative fiction using planets to explore untaken paths in a Christian context. The first asks "what would a world that hadn't experienced the Fall be like?" (And what happens when fallen…

Especially since the parents don't have to move back to the USSR to escape it. If they're going to move, just changing districts is a much less drastic option.

Though it depends. We had cable in 1976, but then we moved (to a suburb of a major city) and it didn't get to us again till 1986.

You never know. It's often the stuff no one cares about that gets a huge fee that no one's ever going to pay assigned and then forgotten.

The FBI has a budget like everyone else, and of course it's a lot more compared to her Soviet salary than it would be for an American. (Especially since it's in hard, off-the-books currency rather than rubles.)

Thanks for the confirmation- I always look forward to your contributions here. (Having lived through the period, I'm continually impressed with the attention to detail.)

And the received versions are often to the underlying mishmash what Thomas's syntheses are to the chaos of the actual Golden Age. (E.g., "everyone knows" that Artemis is a virgin huntress, but in Ephesus she was depicted as a fertility goddess in an… extremely unsubtle manner.)

Dude's courtship would make for a solid romance novel, complete with a guardian forbidding the relationship and love transcending a multi-year separation and her engagement to another man.

Or sometimes (at least in my case) modern Bullfinch/Hamilton reductions of much more complicated and conflicting myths.

He did write a letter expressing regret at lacking Jewish ancestry, in response to a German publisher's (Nuremberg Law mandated) inquiry.

He did like Isaac Asimov, and Dorothy Sayers (pre-Busman's Honeymoon).

Though he still has things like (as George Orwell points out) David Copperfield keenly feeling the injustice of putting a sensitive child meant for better things to child labor, but not really extending that concern to his working class like-aged peers (whom he leaves behind without regret).

Also Luthien.

I think Disney would get more heat, because it's Disney and because its films are assumed to be intended for a family audience. (I'm a huge fan of TCM, but its demographic probably doesn't involve a lot of kids whose parents aren't major film buffs.)

They don't claim their god is the same as Aslan till they abandon their traditional faith to take up with the ape Antichrist. (Which is clearly Satanism instigated by a Narnian talking animal, not a home-grown Calormene idea.)

Looks like the renaming to Honey Smacks was 1983, so the prop department has it right.

Sometimes. Sometimes it was middle income countries. It was never used very much either way.