When you notice a mistake like that, just let it slide.

@Avex:disqus I think the implication is the early Targaryens were decent enough, and at least respected.

@blooptaabi:disqus Thanks for following up. I could have been more careful in my first post and then I wouldn't have tripped your douchebag detector. I really do have great respect for the people who make this show.

For what its worth, Samuel Adams was a leading proponent of the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution, so I think he would approve.

@Kumagoro:disqus , we're in agreement about the ending and why it is likely to have a painful resolution rather than the happy ending that's implied.

Just zap Richards with a ray that makes him hungry all the time. That would be pretty awful, it seems to drive Galactus crazy!

The Watchers from the What If? stories where the whole universe gets destroyed probably got the Congressional Medal of Watching and a fat pension.

Wasn't there some sort of Social Darwinism to justifiying Galactus as well? That only the "most fit" civilizations can survive their encounter with Galactus?

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Yes, on reflection, I'm fine with that source of the Indogene body. Ideally they would have grown and programmed a human body, but we already know this was the Indogene weapons program's equivalent of Microsoft Bob, so that limitation works.

It's not unprecedented for strategic resources to become public property, even where private property is the norm. Many nations with oil have a national oil company for example (that typically partners with one Exxon or BP, etc. for the actual extraction and refining).

Yes, McClintock was abducted and murdered for his memories, but that's not his body, it's a Votan body. I thought the body was that of a Votan soldier, presumably a volunteer. And, perhaps knowlingly, or perhaps as part of the failure of the technology, that Votan effectively died.

@avclub-5a0df9912d0e408728e09ee62f8fee7c:disqus There's an old SF short story where that sort of health care system is implemented (via implants) in conjunction with slavery. Basically, you work 'til you drop, then you get up and work some more.

Ugh, I just had a flashback to when Smallville gave up the cool spaceship for that stupid cave they had for messages from Krypton's past.

A fixed setting means a lot of "A Stranger Comes to Town" plots. Both DS9 and Bab5 struggled with this limitation early on. What helped both shows succeed eventually was characters with deep and interesting connections to the broader universe Garak and Odo, G'Kar and Londo, for example. Alien cast members can excel at…

I'm presuming that he was a Votan volunteer for this weapons program. I don't remember if that was implied or not.

@avclub-9157f95e30001c641c8c4d1adf84f6d1:disqus The two sponsors of the celebration in ep 1 were McCawley (space coal) and Datak (gambling, and various racketeering?). Kenya's house seems to be independent of Datak, and does good business, yet she does not seem to be wealthy.

It's not clear how their taxes work, and they do seem to argue a lot about financing infrastructure.

I didn't find the ending very satisfactory. Basically pseudo-McClintock has to maintain his cover perfectly, or McClintock's widow will figure out that he's not her husband but an accomplice to her husband's murder (as the Defiance folks did). If that happens after months of living together as man and wife, could the…

I had hopes from the first episodes that Datak would be more than a stereotypical thuggish mob boss, but they are really falling back into those tropes with his character. At this point, I wouldn't mind if he fell into a hole and Stahma took over his organization. Tony Curran is doing fine work, but the character is…

Maybe the translator is so thorough it traces back to the language's country of origin. Aliens don't use half measures on things like this.