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Ben Russell-Gough
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Well… That depends on your point of view. In many way, reportage websites are becoming more influential as opinion-formers than the mainstream media but that's a debate for another day.

*Cue Inception theme music*

Of all the thousands of things to talk about with regard to this photo-op, this is the best the media can manage? Seriously, guys, I'm not impressed.

In other words, they're going to keep only the good bits.

The 900s were the models rigged to be nearly indistinguishable from humans - simulated digestive system and scarily realistic simulated emotion and reaction to physical sensation. Most of them were designed to emulate actual real people they replaced but, in the end, the intelligence algorithm was just too good and

If anyone on the team would inherently understand why someone would lie and betray everyone they know and have a good and honourable reason to do so, it would be Daisy. She knows what it is to need to hide, after all.

It looks to me like the LMDs are basically 800- or 900-series Terminators. I'm wondering if, like the 900s, their programming and intelligence algorithm is so advanced that it is inevitable that they'll eventually reach true self-awareness and independent thought, leading to a huge conflict between their programming

So is the penultimate level but only in a really weird way.

The 'game' isn't really a game at all in a true sense. It's more of an essay written by Wreden (and presented through some semi-started looking mini-games) about the nature of our perception of artistic works, including video games, and the risks inherent in believing that we have some kind of handle on people based

I would have liked it if one of the anonymous Rebel soldiers (who only had a single line of dialogue prior to the epilogue) was the only survivor and we later see him on Yavin-V, telling some newbies (including a CGI Luke) about the heroes of Rogue One and the debt they owed to them.

Yeah, it's plausible that they originally planned that Jyn, Cassian and Kaytoo were going to have a 'Butch and Sundance' ending trying to fight their way out of the base in the face of pretty much the entire Imperial garrison. That would have been a slightly more tactically plausible ending than Tarkin blowing up the

Leia was only slightly more than a background character in The Force Awakens; about as significant as the Rebel generals in A New Hope. So long as they weren't planning on doing something really significant with her in Episode IX (like duelling Snoke or something), then it should be more-or-less okay.

I'd be interested to see/hear how they handle the voice. Digitally sample every bit of recorded Carrie-speak they can get and then use a computer to synthesise her voice?

Looks like it, doesn't it?

Here is what will be interesting - If saving Julie at least partly resets the Raimy/Daniel relationship, will Raimy be able to accept him anymore, having seen his bad side as she has? More importantly, how will Frank being alive (at least up to the point of the car crash) potentially alter things?

Being in the UK, I'm probably going to miss the livestream but I will certainly be looking out for summaries and recordings tomorrow!

Whoever Catalan is, he has people on the inside in the FBI and in the White House - How else would he know to strike at Atwood? I guess that's my big fear for the show: that The Conspiracy will turn out as omniscient, intangible and omnipotent as the one in The X-Files and have a similarly obscure or poorly-defined

It was a database of terrorist and criminal names and code-names, not a general Internet search.

Thanks for the spoiler from all of us who missed that one. :-(

I think that the only thing I would have done differently is that I would have had Kirkman actually poll the governors in the meeting room. If it is truly the will of the majority of the states that the borders be closed for the duration of the national emergency, then so be it. IF. They are the closest thing to an