The main gag for his character was that he, a very skinny white guy, ended up sleeping with a very large black woman.

Yeah?

She said "She gave me carrots" to her fiance, so I just assumed she had more than one.

My thought is maybe the naked running through the woods was a practice run for their disappearance - they're running from the river to wherever they're meeting up with the GR, and doing it naked so that there's no chance someone will figure out they took an extra set of clothes to change into when they vanished.

I don't think it was telegraphed. I genuinely never expected to see the three girls who disappeared again. I was effectively misled by the references to explosives and whatnot, and expected the caravan to simply be about blowing up the bridge into Jarden.

I never liked that Ultimate X-Men was just doing a streamlined rehash of old stories, though. That's not what the other Ultimate titles were doing at the start.

Because they're Punches from the Punch Dimension, duh!

I like White, but Colter is too good to give up.

Not that one, although it's equally famous, because it's "Better Call Saul".

Childan's scene with the two Zippos did mention that FDR had been assassinated, one presumes by Giuseppe Zangara - but it's clear that the war still happened. I seem to recall that the police officer that helps Joe out in the first episode mentions having fought against the Axis in the war, and they did drop an atomic…

I seem to recall he's less sympathetic in the novel, particularly in that scene when he's offended he's not treated as having high status as a Japanese person.

Very, very briefly, in I think only one episode.

Fazes!

I remember him as the skinny white guy who loses his virginity to the very big black woman in Road Trip.

Yeah, there's an albino Asian guy that runs a newsagent in my area.

Alternate history is definitely science fiction, or as I prefer to call it, speculative fiction, since it's specifically "What if X?" applied to history.

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I was thinking about how many of the plot elements of ALIAS can't be used:

I thought it was great, because if you think about it they both have had each other's backs in their craziness without really persuading each other to go along with it. I mean, Nora didn't hesitate before helping Kevin cover his tracks with the river thing.

I thought it was clearly meant to be just as crazy a theory as the guy who's sacrificing goats or the woman wearing her wedding dress. It's just that it starts out with this "scientific" idea of lens theory before veering off into demontown.