The marketing on this was heavy. If it's not a commercial success, the executive behind the marketing and the new Alien movie could both be gone.

I don't remember that, but you're probably right. I still haven't seen Elysium. I like your name.

It is, but you're going to have to take the roots to get the actual lengths. If they aren't perfect squares, as they usually aren't, you get mixed radicals that convert to messy decimals.

Where's Ward?

Wow, you've Googled this hard. On behalf of someone, a putative version of the character, who chose his place to survive rationally. How does that match with the show?

Tucson, Arizona is actually in a desert, but would have reserves of water to support quite a few people as long as they could live. Los Angeles is not in a desert, you're just repeating crap that you've heard.

The Californians: Northly

We've only ever had the evil company's word for a lot of things. It could be that, retconning the cloning from the fourth one, the Ripley and alien that landed on the prison planet (in the third one) were both clones. They only lived for a few days there. Then we only have the company's word that they were the ones…

I can forget Alien Cubed (saving Charles Dance's performance for private reflection). But I liked hybrid Ripley. It was really sad when she killed her son/brother/cousin/whatever to save a world she hardly knew.

Where I come from, they would announce the Cotton-Eye Joe before it started with the fiddle runs. That was so everybody could get to the dance floor before it started. Then everyone could dance - including the people who hadn't been asked.

I didn't like Sons of Anarchy and watched about half of two episodes. But it was set in a recognizable, if improbable, California. Why do fantasy shows have to be in an ersatz Britain? Dude, I'm no expert, but those names are ones that many could make sport with.

Really? Nobody knows what "insider trading" actually means?

I saw a lot of these useless re-education programs in the military. If you let in psychos, you're not going to make them learn anything. If you have sick organizations, nobody can afford to learn anything. These are just brass trying to cover their asses, the content and quality don't matter.

Braaaaawk! Polly shouldn't beee!

My parents' divorce was back in dicket-seventy-dick. We didn't have fancy-pantsy gaming consoles. We had liquor and pills. We made our own fun, by gum!

No, that would make there be no crime. Things on TV aren't "inside."

Of these, I'll take the reboot of my parents' divorce.

The Falklands, for real? Let's take a moment to consider how pathetic that is, even if it were true. I'd like to see this turn into broader discussion about Vietnam War-age right-wing hawks with no military service. They are many.

Aw, come on. You're trying to mess with too much scifi history that people here know.

No, you're the plant.