Again, thank you. 

Easily one of my favorite ‘haunted house’ movies of all time, mostly because of Scott’s quiet, determined intelligence in dealing with the increasing supernatural phenomena. I rewatch it every few years and enjoy it every time.

Both excellent and spot on analyses. Of course, the fact that the crews in both Prometheus and Covenant were stupider than a truckload of rocks, and that there were massive plot and logic holes throughout, also crippled the films.

I subscribed to Apple TV+ when it was released and have made very little use of it. Was about to cancel my subscription when I ended up getting a new iPhone and found I got a year of it free. I think. I suspect Apple may still be charging me for my original subscription.

Viewing all the shots of horribly complex equipment:

“What’s that watermelon doing there?”

The problem was that Apollo was a bad idea, and it set US space transportation back at least 15 years. When Apollo died, public enthusiasm for spending on space dropped tremendously, and the Shuttle was a half-assed, under-budgeted attempt to do what we should have done in the 60s with Dynasoar, all while preserving…

This sounds...heavenly. And I’ve got everything right now (including BthB). 

Actually, American Gothic (1995) was pretty much #4, with Gary Cole as a small-town sheriff who appeared to be the Devil incarnate, or at least one of his his right-hand minions. Great series with some really uncomfortable moral issues explored. 

Actually, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had the doctrinal view since just after its establishment in 1830 that God has created inhabited “worlds without number” and that “the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God” (Doctrine & Covenants 76:24). Furthermore, and contrary to…

I saw the original “Star Wars” on opening day back in 1977 as a college student. Loved it, loved TESB even more, enjoyed ROTJ (though the Ewoks were stupid beyond words). Excited for the prequels, but let down, and found them even less tolerable on rewatching. Excited for the sequels, but found them highly unoriginal,…

Especially if you play XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, where he voices a significant character (as do several other ST:TNG alum). I have a deep affection for the game for that alone. 

My 20-year-old grandson Ashton made this meme to express his approach to The Mandalorian:

Uh...pretty much everything you said. Two thumbs way up. This one episode does something the prequels destroyed and the sequels have failed to repair: it makes Star Wars cool again. Frankly, this is very much what the sequels should have been instead of a bad rehash of ANH.

Holy crap, yes. I suspect my jaw was dropped open through most of that scene. Absolutely the opposite of what I expected to happen. 

I last bought a new car (2005 Ford Expedition) in, well, 2005. Paid it off in 6 years. Kept driving it until something broke deep inside the engine this past summer (it was just at 200k miles). Sigh. Went out and paid cash ($4500) for a used 2009 Ford Escape. I will drive it until it dies and then buy another used car…

Oh, they started breaking the rules of space right off the bat. For starters, you can’t fall off the space station and back to earth, as they’ve shown in the trailers. That’s not how orbital mechanics works.

Gravity and Life are also really, really bad with orbital mechanics, as is Interstellar in a few place.

Part of the reason we as consumers so quickly cycle through our devices...

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana (1905)

Obligatory clip.

No. No. No. You cannot fall off the space station ladder and down to earth. You are orbiting with the station itself, which means you’re travelling horizontally (at right angles to the earth’s surface below you) at 5 miles per second. Gravity is pulling you down, but you’re traveling so fast sideways that you keep…