That's only because you forgot to pay the gravity bill.

Maybe they've still got space muskets. That'd be the only explanation.

I couldn't get past the one episode I saw. She was asked to help constitute a jury that would guarantee a death penalty for the person being judged. When the guy was indeed sentenced to death, she was congratulated by friends over drinks. I was actually quite shocked by that at the time. Plus I just couldn't stand the…

Actually on the train this morning I heard a bunch of middle-schoolers who seemed very intent on going to see the movie. They obviously didn't know what it was about, only knew that it was somehow famous.

Me too. I like that the series emphasize that it isn't some kind of big nice adventure for the kids.

I hope they don't go with the classic scenario of "hero gets captured, will be publicly executed to teach the people a lesson, his faithful gang tries to rescue him, when all seems lost the people rise up to save them". I'd be okay with that but it'd be nice to have something else.

The secret is stupid jokes actually. Students love them if they make them feel like you're all part of the same club. And if the jokes tank, there's usually a lickspittle in the group who'll laugh at anything anyway.

Thanks, I know what I want to write, I'm just too tired to put it efficiently into words. Besides, my field is a bit obscure. But if you have insight into a religious ancient Roman brotherhood who runs naked around a hill while flogging women with freshly cut goat skin, be my guest. (That last sentence was a desperate…

Or the hapless academic who has a presentation tomorrow and keeps reading the comment sections of a pop culture site instead of just writing the damn things. Anyway, I'd better get back to my own writer's block.

Also I rewatched the prequels some time ago and they really could have used a better choregrapher for said duels. They really look, well, slow and clumsy.

I can't stop watching this show. The dialogue is often terrible, the plots are ludicrous, the villains are cartoonish, it has absolutely no relation to Dumas' novels, and yet I enjoy the hell out of it all. It is an utter mystery to me. "The musketeers are hot" doesn't seem reason enough.

Very true. And that's exported sappy bullshit. The worst ones stay in France.

Benoît… Balls

I choose to think that this unfortunate typo was a wonderful exercise in surrealism.

I know someone who once had to transport a drawing by Picasso on the tub. The paper it was wrapped with was somewhat transparent, so people were making comments such as "that's not too bad, a bit amateurish though, are you the painter ?"

Well it was either that or something about the even blander protagonist.

I enjoyed some of them, but I almost gave up with the Christmas episode, which was dismal. Also the fairytale one was a bit too formulaic for my taste ; I remember a Supernatural episode which had the exact same plot and was actually much better.

Well they wouldn't, obviously. They'd just find another stupid "cause" to kill for.

If I remember well, it only plays during the simulations. So I took it to be a touch of humour ; we're in the Machine's head.

…Aaaand now it's stuck in my head. Thanks a lot,