I loved how you could track their evolving ability to do them too.

Walter Jon Williams had a space opera series that I thought did a pretty great job, right down to nailing down the cultural assumptions of the fleets involved and how they intersected with the physics. It also did all right recycling some Star Trek tropes in a fun way.

I nearly downvoted your comment because I wanted to downvote that book so badly.

I love that the two beat set up for that would be a decent joke in its own right in another script:
"Nice suit! Whatta ya do?"
"I'm a suit salesman."

Good God, it is just a fantastic movie.

I also like it for the eerie on multiple levels resemblance to the lectures you inevitably get from academics as result of (mis) understandings on any this or any even remotely similar issue.

I didn't think that could read more like an engineering term to me, and, yet, here we are.

Your mama does say that!

Well, now I want to see it everytime someone asks a feelings related question.

The one in my life just has uncles who are black belts.

I suspect that what Lord Grantham means is that they would have a vigorous reasonable discussion in which he would use all his resources to stake the deck against Thomas making a reasonable decision (ie - one that wouldn't take her away from offers of education, security, and sustained affection) to take his daughter…

Kidman does make me reach haltingly for humanity, convinced in my heart that if it's there, it's only there because she has taken another's… this time.

God Damn, that show is the best.

That's a… that's a long way to go to impress a girl who isn't even there.

It's particularly frustrating to me as they had a few potentially interesting points - at least from a structural perspective - included in the episode (the return of the two reverends, Alicia have an awkward moment with Elfman and a good moment with her daughter, Peter and Eli both taking a gut check, and the…

Yeah, my folks dragged out one of two massive Lego bins for my sons this T-Giving, but (A) the oldest is three so none of 'em are doing more than look at 'em without extreme supervision and (B) I had to panic call my brother and explain that under NO circumstances would that bin be opened without all the original…

In one of the worst fights my parents ever had - still mentioned in trembling tones to this day - the last section of it spilled over into toddler country which meant the swearing was limited and my Father, to his shame, finished it with the following actual curse:
"Well then, I hope you step on a Lego."

I don't know. I find it hard to believe that an Irish revolutionary would extol the execution of Charles I as 'necessary' given Cromwell's role in the whole affair.

I specifically and solely came here to upvote this, not even have to scroll down all this way was enough to dissuade me.

I had to stop playing Skyrim because I enjoyed picking the flowers so much. Hours and hours of flower picking, until, at one point, I destroyed a dragon for no other reason than it was in the way of a flower.