I groaned out loud during most of this episode. I had a sore throat afterwards.

Yeah, that scene served as an indictment of Frank's philosophy more than anything else. What troubles me is I can't tell if David Simon intended that scene to be critical of Sobotka or not.

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus In fact we even have an explicit example of Vorlon tech being fairly benign. When they hid that guy who was running from Clarke in season 2 in Kosh's transport it sang to him in his sleep, with the implication being that this was a pleasant experience.

Yes the Lexx crew SPOILERS survived the destruction of an entire universe. It would take quite a bit to top that.

With everything going on with the human/vampire conflict, you'd think the inventor of true blood would be being guarded in an army base somewhere in the middle of the desert by 10000 troops or something. But I guess not.

I think all signs point to Ben/Warlow being some kind of fairy/vampire hybrid (I'm assuming Ben is Warlow). Would explain how he got into the fairy nightclub.

Altana in particular sounds very strongly Australian Aboriginal to me.

On the accents in Home on the Remains, I'd say they're some combination of South-African and Australian (or perhaps Australian Aboriginal). Not at all pseudo-American. Anyone else think so? I'm Australian myself for what it's worth.

There's another example of the inherent exploitativeness of Shadow tech, from the Technomage novel trilogy.

Is Superman really (functionally) immortal? I thought he aged relatively normally (notwithstanding weirdnesses of time progression in comic continuities).

I'm with @facebook-1789012451:disqus here. If you're going to slavishly and mindlessly emulate something you should at least get the details right.

Snyder got the action right, which is really all I was looking for in the movie. I think with a different (better) writer a MoS sequel could be substantially improved. It'd probably still have the Snyder specific tone and pacing problems, but could be absent of the plot contrivances and inconsistencies.

@avclub-9fda17cadd97a91b294831b496bcb3d0:disqus In B5 every single aspect of technology seems to be better if it's biological. This presumably includes computers as well. So going to more mundane computers would presumably be a big downgrade. (As I've gotten older I've realised that B5's fetishisation of organic…

Well, the problem with Shadow tech is that it is, entirely in and of itself, evil. Shadow vessels require the enslavement and psychological mutilation of sapient beings just to function. Who knows what a Shadow microwave oven or lawnmower need to work?

For that matter, why do they even need to ship fresh stuff to Babylon 5? Doesn't the station have many square miles of hydroponic gardens? And if it doesn't, why not, it should certainly have the space?

Marcus liker here. His humorous bits usually work. Not that fond of his infatuation with Ivanova. I'm Australian, for all that matters.

I want David Lynch to make a movie comprised entirely of creepy sculptures, bad CGI and bad video effects.

God, did Smith really say that? i'm not all that fond of Superman Returns, but it's miles better than X3! Jesus.

There, there.

One day I was sittin' at home, threatenin' the kids…