Sometimes I swear I can smell the toxicity through my computer screen when I read different comment sections.

Except I’m not saying the movie is bad. I’m not saying anything about the actors ability in the movie, the plot, anything.

It seems inevitable. I don’t know anyone who *loves* both films. Or maybe those people are staying out of the fray and are, therefore, smarter than the rest of us.

> they have a brick on their hands

I’m leaning more towards the fear side of things. I enjoyed TFA and TLJ, but I just don’t trust JJ. I fear that he’s much better at beginnings than endings, and that he is just going to erase everything that he didn’t like from TLJ.  Any other director and I probably would feel differently.

The amount of damage control going into this is not a good look, nor does it bolster your sales. The amount of straight-up apology tour we’re getting before it even comes out tells me that Disney knows they have a brick on their hands.

That is 100% false. I suggest you look up why they actually changed the engine requirements.

... and now I’m sad all over again...

Didn’t realize they were fully banned. I do remember attending some ALMS races in the mid-2000s and Mazda had a 3 rotor Renesis-based engine in the back of an open top Lola LMP2. It ran for only a season or two before they decided to go for a more conventional DI 4 cylinder turbo engine, and changed bodystyles to a…

13B Doritio Power MX-5 in Super GT... it was a thing once.

So I'm not an expert on rotaries, but I'm seeing the potential for Direct Injection. The only spot it says no injectors is downstream of the Exhaust Ports or valves. And if there's an engine that could use some DI, it's the wankel. You could in theory split the oil and gasoline injection into 2 different stages on the…

I don’t know if they were banned again, but after Group C collapsed they came back but with air restrictors that choked them and no variable length intakes.

Ah, a Jeff. Time to dig this up:

You get the feeling, despite Manhattan’s insistence that there is a great personal tragedy for him in his immediate future, that Veidt is going to be a real x-factor. And I think Looking Glass is going to shoot Veidt at the end of the episode

It’s Lady Trieu who’s connected to elephants.

Bah Gawd! That’s Ozymandias’ music!

> “An elephant told me.”

In Lady Trieu’s speech before the clock starting mentioned she’d made rockets a decade ago. “SAVE ME D” is “SAVE ME DAUGHTER” a message from Veidt to her, and the “comet” that crashed into the farm in Episode 4 is actually happening tonight when the 7K capture Jon and it’s a rocket containing Adrian Veidt bringing him…

It didn’t seem to me like Manhattan created them to be Veidt’s jailers. His omniscience is limited to his own experiences so he’d have been unaware of what they’d gotten up to after he left, only that he sent Veidt there.