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Isn't Chakotay from this planet?

"Worse, it feels like treating an issue that’s relevant in modern
times—guilt over the way white settlers and the American government
murdered and stole land from an indigenous people—as though it will
still have the same level of relevancy 300 years into the future."

Yeah, the airlines aren't exactly conducting weigh-ins … yet.

It's hard to tell if this show is in danger of cancellation or not. From what I can tell, it draws fewer than 2 million viewers, but that's relatively good for the CW, and last night's ep built upon its lead-in (90210) and outdrew CW posterchild Gossip Girl. So it seems like it could stick around a while

Another question. The Sixers have this fancy hologram communications thing. I assume it is protected from EM surges, since otherwise it would have burned out last episode when the EM pulse hit. Do the Sixers have anti-EM tech, or did they snatch some replacement chips during their raid on Terra Nova, too? Or is this

Also, I love the giant intuitive leap she makes to assume that the envelope would have his DNA because he must have licked it himself. This assumes the lack of existence of either a moistener or an assistant to do it for him, and of course the latter turned out to be the case. And when the DNA samples matched it was

One thing I'm trying to figure out here … was the idea of this episode that the scientist was obviously an imposter, or was the audience actually supposed to think it was a mystery? Because if it was a mystery, well clearly it didn't generate any suspense about what was going on. And if it was supposed to be obvious,

The opening sweeping shot of dinosaur valley was the most fake looking special effect the show has ever done. It looked like a late-1990s video game. The swordfish was pretty bad, too.

"The TV's not even plugged in."

Seeing the plight of the passengers in this episode, that they essentially had to give up their possessions and time for essentially nothing (depending on how much stock you put in that refugee), all because they had the misfortune of getting on a plane with an old guy they didn't know, did make me consider some of

They noted it was October already. Just a few episodes it was June. Are they doing an adventure of the month kind of thing with their timeline?

He's the one who brought it up

They showed the first half of the AD Warcraft episode at Comic-Con so when South Park showed theirs later in the year I remember thinking that AD did it first, but when I tried looking it up on Wikipedia it took me a moment to remember I had seen it at Comic-Con and it hadn't aired yet

It was kind of weird seeing that "bro" sequence after South Park did something similar just a few weeks ago.

Future Joe had an IG-88 body

I'm confused about why the rings would take the 18-month trip back to Oa rather than finding a replacement in the sector they're assigned to. It would seem to make more sense, especially in the frontier, to search out a replacement. Going back to Oa means 3 years before a replacement can handle the sector again.

An interesting side-note to how the show pushed the movie into relative obscurity: Alyson Hannigan appeared on the Oct. 2, 2002, episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and one of the topics of conversation was Buffy and the phenomenon around it as the show was in it's final season. Conan's first guest that night,

While the finale is celebrated for its message of empowerment, there is a flip side argument that was brought up at the time about the idea that Buffy thrust a huge responsibility upon a lot of girls who were never asking for it or knew what was happening to them. I think one commenter even likened it to rape, though

When Ruxin says that Taco can't have Pantero of the Thundercats on his team, does he mean Panthro?

I wonder if the paint silhouette scene was supposed to actually depict the BJ on the wall but they couldn't clear it through standards & practices