I haven't watched The Simpsons in many years, but they seem to have the usual sort of sitcom trope of a family that is able to survive most of the time just fine, but struggles perhaps when the story demands it.  But it has been a running theme on Bob's - I just rewatched every episode and in probably at least half of…

Uh, yes, really. 

It's lovely that you came in here to post that enlightening, substantive comment.  Asshole.

Nice - I hadn't gone back and rewatched to see any foreshadowing, but it sounds like perhaps they had planned a bit of this.

Nice - I hadn't gone back and rewatched to see any foreshadowing, but it sounds like perhaps they had planned a bit of this.

Ah, because any individual great episodes prior to the final season
suddenly in retrospect sucked?  So would hating, say, Godfather III
invalidate any re-watching of Godfather I or II?

Ah, because any individual great episodes prior to the final season
suddenly in retrospect sucked?  So would hating, say, Godfather III
invalidate any re-watching of Godfather I or II?

Having read an earlier draft of the Prometheus script (prior to Lindelof's involvement), I can say I don't think it's fair that he gets the blame that he's gotten - most of the plot holes and issues were already there.  

Having read an earlier draft of the Prometheus script (prior to Lindelof's involvement), I can say I don't think it's fair that he gets the blame that he's gotten - most of the plot holes and issues were already there.  

Yeah, I agree with @Cody II, saying a fictional TV show was more tense/stressful than 9-fucking-eleven is kind of silly Internet hyperbole. 

Yeah, I agree with @Cody II, saying a fictional TV show was more tense/stressful than 9-fucking-eleven is kind of silly Internet hyperbole. 

Considering how dumb the prior several Trek movies were - besides, I suppose, The Undiscovered Country - I don't think we can blame Orci/Kurtzmann for that.

Considering how dumb the prior several Trek movies were - besides, I suppose, The Undiscovered Country - I don't think we can blame Orci/Kurtzmann for that.

No, man, he's an ape.  Wait - you're trying to mess me up!

No, man, he's an ape.  Wait - you're trying to mess me up!

Alvis is in the hizzy!

Alvis is in the hizzy!

Why are you putting up ninja stars?

Why are you putting up ninja stars?

Oh, also, I get the atmospheric degradation thing, but wasn't Walter's explanation that the reason they had to go back in time was because they'd degraded their world so much as to make it uninhabitable?  Seems like they're not only altering the timeline that the original Observer science team spent four seasons…