I'm kind of forced to agree with you, but I think that it's a change which society is going to insist on seeing through anyhow.

I don't…I…I can't…This isn't…

Counterpoint: What about all those Angels in the outfield?

She's a better actress than any of her movies would make you think. Partially because she keeps signing on to dour, hollow, soporifics, and partially because she goes to the same well of techniques over and over.

I thought it came a little too early in the movie to justify anything that heavy.

I was incredibly frustrated by the Beach Scene.

Love that theme song!

After staring at the header image for a bit, I tried to imagine a sit-com where the background staircase opened up on the left instead of the right, but my brain was having none of that nonsense.

I was thinking more like waggling my eyebrows and chewing on my cigar, but I guess yours works too.

It takes a year to get to your mom's house?

I like All Good Things a fair bit more, but that's very much my TNG prejudice coming into play. It was a show I watched with my dad, and it's such an elegant finale, I can't help but love it.

It's definitely holding up well, dated effects and all.

That movie is so slow, they should have just called it Star Trek: The Picture

A couple of my uni friends try to make the argument from time to time that First Contact is the superior film, but I think they're doing it to piss me off.

Best Trek movie? I prefer TNG to TOS, generally, and First Contact is a solid movie, but I think this one does a better job of evolving the characters beyond the limits they had in the show. It gives us new insight on these people, puts them in a position to continue developing, which is a problem I think most Trek…

I think, without certainty, that it's an opinion of his that's developed more in the last decade and change, so something like Diamond Age predates the time when he was actively pursuing this particular angle.

Am I allowed to strongly suspect that it's causal, even though the system is complex enough to confound a good analysis given the available data?

Oh yeah. Any sane person paying attention to video game reviews and video game 'journalism' understands how ethically fraught the whole system has been since…always?

It's out there, and in my experience, it is at least as well written as a lot of the fantasy-oriented, identity-driven fiction that has been more prominent at the Hugos.

Oh man, young Brulio lived for the beautiful grit of speculative fiction.