I've always liked "Raisin the Stakes", the musical episode (which is a parody of "Tommy"). But then I love the musical episodes of anything.

Because what Clone High did best was to take standard tv tropes and subvert/lampshade them and this did it wonderfully. The idea that Ponce was JFK's best friend but somehow he was never seen or mentioned before makes fun of the lazy way shows introduce new characters. And the way Ponce died mocks the absurd "message"…

Joe mentioned "Rocky's Boots" during the demo. That was an amazing game that actually taught digital logic to kids (although I preferred the followup, "Robot Odyssey"). It's a pity that there aren't games like that anymore (yes, I know somebody's made a Java clone of Robot Odyssey, I mean *new* games).

It was, but the sad thing was that it had a 16-bit processor under all the bad design, It *should* have run rings around the C64 and Apple ][, but didn't.

Yes, and the whole reason why Apple uses Objective-C (well, until just recently) was that NeXTStep (the ancestor of OS X) needed an object-oriented C in 1986 and C++ just wasn't really available yet.

This was 1983. I wouldn't be surprised if most people in Dallas hadn't even *heard* of sushi at this point, let alone know what good sushi was. I'm from the Midwest from a college town that tended to be ahead of the curve, but I don't recall seeing sushi restaurants until 1987 or thereabouts.

Maybe the *word* restaurant dates to the 18th century, but certainly not the idea. Even the *Romans* had restaurants (you can see the ruins of some in Pompeii; they were called thermopolia). And medieval inns had kitchens and served meals and beer.

Also, restaurants and mess halls existed in the medieval world too. It wasn't as if nobody had a meal outside their homes then. I would imagine an orc army would have to have mess halls at least.

There are far, far, worse fantasy series out there than DL — Terry Brooks' (thankfully) mostly forgotten "Sword of Shannara" series for one. At least DL didn't copy the plot of the "Lord of the Rings" *exactly*.

Chicago is in the Northeast? That has to be the weirdest division of the nation ever — separating California from "the West" (by which they mean the Southwest, I guess), and completely merging the Midwest and East Coast. Only "the South" seems to correspond to any normal definition of a US region.

"Okay, computer types—Cameron’s whiteboard. Is there anything to what was written there, or is it as big a heap of gibberish as it looked to the likes of me?"

I liked it more than most people here, but maybe just because the subject matter is inherently more interesting to me than something pointless like advertising. And I remember the era HCF is set in, although I was just a teenager then.

Not exactly. It's no longer a daily, but is Sunday-only

This was the 1980s. Indians weren't a big thing in tech back then. There were a few Asians, mostly Taiwanese (the PRC was still pretty Commie back then).

Yes. Particularly since it is about IBM PC clones. The mythology behind "Halt and Catch Fire" as a phrase is really more about 1960s/1970s mainframe culture, not PCs. As someone old enough to be using computers in 1983, it kind of annoys me to have it treated as all the same.

Or Brian Wood's DMZ — neat concept (near future second US Civil War) , but it just didn't live up to the idea.

I think the point is how the early 1960s went from being a very alien place (from our perspective) to being, post 1968 or so, a society recognizably identifiable as our own. It isn't a "takedown" so much as an observation.

I think the biggest tragedy of BSG that it was made in the same era that "Lost" was big. So they felt the need to keep bringing in mystic "mysterious" things which was completely unneeded for BSG. There was enough drama inherent in the concept of space refugees in search of a home. Couldn't they have left it as that?

It would be great if they included the "Two Lions" in the background (the double-peaked mountain that towers over Vancouver and which ends up in the background of so many things shot in Vancouver but set elsewhere)

Do they go beat up the peer reviewers that rejected their last submission to "Cell" or "Neuron" or something? I'm intrigued by neuroscientist gangbangers, particularly ones making nearly $170K — they probably have full tenure and probably an endowed chair…