Luckily, we've all agreed that teachers get a ten-minute head start at the job fair.

To be fair, SG-1 made this comparison explicitly and often, except with all of humanity (and specifically white Americans) as the children. So, at least they were consistent about it.

I think they definitely do — the first season of the show was actually really great at portraying the cadence and types of conversations that I had with my physics-major friends. It was terrible in other ways — IME, science nerds are the ones staying up late with messy rooms; they're not generally driven by an…

I also really like her recent detective novels and I hope they get picked up for the HBO-esque miniseries treatment too.

While I hear the books are wildly terrible, so far what I've seen of the movie seems intriguingly consensual! Maybe that is one of the many adaptation changes they will make that will cause true fans to disavow the movie for its inaccuracy.

Yeah, I think there were 4 stars inside (I always wondered how that balanced out with gravity — I mean, I guess the argument is that the sphere was that huge, and it certainly could have been very thick, but still).

I was just about to post this! I think that was one of my first introductions to the idea of the Dyson sphere.

You don't even have to accept the perpetual motion engine — I spent the whole movie going "this is great, but they expect me to believe in perpetual motion?" and then at the end there was a huge payoff for my skepticism. Basically all you need to believe for Snowpiercer is that people are assholes.

I've only read the books and not seen the movies, but I think THG manages to be successful by having the downtrodden oppressed people also be white, rural coalminer-hunters (ETA: I meant that they are coalminers who also hunt in the woods, not people who hunt coalminers), and the oppressor class be effeminate,…

While I don't know the circumstances under which you used it, ElDan, I suspect that the reason Dikachu's comment isn't flagged is because he didn't actually call anyone a cunt, but used the word to make a cynical joke referring to this: http://www.theonion.com/art…

I especially loved that when Xiomara was all "Oh, I must look a mess," his response wasn't to assure her that she didn't, or that it was OK. Instead he helped her in the best way he could….by giving her his concealer. It's such a perfect Rogelio character moment, so sweet in his own special way.

Isn't that the whole point of running everything from an emacs shell?

It feels weird to upvote this comment, but I just wanted to say that I laughed, and also appreciated the sentiment behind your chain of thought (as well as your restraint).

I was also expecting subtle, unexpected racism, not necessarily from a "racism is pervasive" angle but just from a story structure angle — usually the way these stories are structured is that the first act is someone deciding to prove something, the second act is them trying and giving up, and the third act is how the…

I thought the immediate cutaway actually emphasized that Peter was just spouting the usual pablum. It seemed like it was just a device to say "OK, folks, white governor is doing the usual white governor thing, show's over on this plotline."

Being sexist isn't always 100% conscious, like, people don't just wake up in the morning and go "Today I'm going to be sexist!" Everyone has subconscious biases that are sometimes expressed in sexist ways and they deserve to be called out on it when that happens.

Yeah, I kind of thought the whole point of Alicia talking about meritocracy was to be ironic. Certainly I don't think the show agrees with her.

The rules were supposed to be comedically over the top but not ridiculously so, in keeping with TGW's humor, and I think they achieved that very well. And I loved how much fun Chris Matthews was having with it.

Although I'm a pretty politically burdened person, I really agree with this. This was one of the best episodes of the season for me, hands down. The whole point of this was that they treated Ferguson the same way they treat any major political event they rip from the headlines: Eli schemes about how to turn it to…

I loved Matthews' rules. Perfect understated TGW humor.