not quite. about half the cast is right. unfortunately not including the lead actress and andrea martin. it's not bad, just a really pale 30 rock clone, especially compared to how kick ass kimmy schmidt was this season.

seems to be more shows created by females, too. not just "peak" tv, but big mainstream juggernauts like shondaland stuff.

more ethnically diverse, too. i vote good thing.

this is a fantasy.

yep. in america, the "establishment" is always the other side, and they're always why things suck. it's us trying to stick our political peg into our economics/class hole. it's "those damn liberals/conservatives!", when really we're all getting slowly bled dry by the money at the top.

i'm wondering about this as a series. the book had one idea that it barely made concrete, but it wasn't an idea that would work as a series that goes on and on and on. it would turn into the brothers grimm or supernatural or one of those stupid shows. the novel is one of those books where the author is basically…

hang on - misread that. sorry! still didn't know about the wheel of time…

see, i had to look that up. i honestly never read any "young adult" fiction, and i think it was because kids were not encouraged to read where i'm from. maybe more like discouraged. the only writing for kids i ever read was comic books that my brother had, and "choose your own adventure" transformers books. my family…

to me, it looks like a color thing. those authors all read very gray to me (except dick, who is more of a phosphene pink (naturally)), and the harry potter world looks colorful. i haven't read them, so this is horseshit. i got into terry pratchett instead. very colorful. gets me every time.

also, i had the star wars thing while it was happening (sort of - born in 77), and it wasn't really satisfying. it was mostly just the toys aisle at wal-mart, and then a series of insulting cash grab mcdonald's tie-in movies. i think millennials probably have it way better.

i know. only so much you can do in life.

never watched/read those. i figured if it was good, it'd still be there 20 years later. it has been interesting to watch the cultural thing happen, though. once it became a phenomenon, i definitely wanted to wait it out and watch it from the outside. people are more interesting than books or movies.

lived in kansas for a while, and there was a runza chain in town. never got up the nerve to try it.

exactly! the thing about every president since kennedy being tools of the shadow gov't was that at least you didn't get the idea they wanted any of their assets burned. i hope there's some sort of ad-hoc failsafe in place, for real.

i think both of those guys would too distracted with vr porn to care. i know if i'd been killed for getting into politcs and then came back 50 years later, i'd keep my head down and try to enjoy myself.

kennedy really is the point when shit started changing, though. and the cuban missile crisis in particular. one man having nuclear discretion destabilizes a system built on checks and balances. it's too much power, and there's no real way to be honest about it because it's horrifying. to me, it's the real scary thing…

yep. however, as he keeps everybody busy with this shit, the legislative branch is really fucking us. he's not going anywhere until at least 2018. he's useful to politics til the next midterms.

we're scared because of things the president has said concerning this and the power he actually has in the process (i.e., these attorneys he's appointing, who seem to be the only jobs getting filled). he's always been a press manipulator, and the press's place in america is an issue.

agreed. but libel laws allow the argument also. that's why a cop didn't show up at gawker offices and shut them down the day the video came out. violating somebody's privacy is not automatically illegal. hulk hogan himself had to show up and argue that it was illegal.

how? are you living on a desert island?