This isn’t exactly an “oops, I spilled the soup” kind of mistake.

“Controls for the steering wheel stopped working up at one point.”

Only temporarily.

“Buzbee called Layman an Uber”

You don’t need religion to figure out those rules.

She was better on Agents of SHIELD.

I don’t like seeing her with Mercer because she belongs with Lance Hunter.

When the pagans were in power they treated Christians like shit. When the Christians were in power they treated pagans like shit. The problem is: power.

Yes — even dispute resolutions that seem irrational to us, like trial by combat and trial by ordeal, survived only because they were so arranged as to make accurate verdicts likely. See Peter Leeson on this:

Even if the Pope hadn’t been stabbed, it seems unlikely that he would have been able to have that much if an impact. The most likely reaction would be to call him an apostate Pope and overthrow him.

What was the Kilgrave reference?

When they first said “ferret cages” I thought for a second they had said “Faraday cages.”

And despite the fact that alien invasions are now a matter of common knowledge in the Marvelverse (since an aliens-versus-superheroes fight smashed through Manhattan a while back), people in that universe still react to the suggestion of alien abduction as though it’s absurd. Just as they treat Fitz’s evil-robot story…

“My question, and what I take issue with, is how are these massive vessels able to be controlled by just a single person?”

Agreed — Mazouz is great. They got very lucky with Mazouz, since when they cast him they couldn’t have known how tall and Batman-like (in both appearance and acting) he would become.

“Snape is sometimes Snap or Snope”

I like Inversions (basically the Culture meets Westeros) and Look to Windward (Banks’ version of The Emerald City of Oz).

“My parents had no clue what was appropriate viewing for a child of any age”

I haven’t forgotten it. They made Children of Dune too. I liked their version better than Lynch’s, for the most part, but it can still be done better. And Leto and Ghanima were too old.