Speaking as someone who was beaten and sodomized at knifepoint by my Arab roommate at boarding school, I've never understood the appeal.

Didn't you ever see Silverado? Chaplin's doing the equivalent of shooting the hat off John Cleese's head: "Today my jurisdiction ends here."

Yeah, sure, all that stuff with Root was intriguing... but let's not forget about Fusco & Bear!

You need to read Payne Harrison's 1988 novel, "Storming Intrepid".

Or you could visit The HAL project...

When I saw Jamie Chung's name in the credits, I went, "Ooooh, hey, it's Samurai Girl!"

You mean, like this?

And then there was everybody's favorite guest star:

"You don't need a flight deck. You just need a hatch, or maybe just a clamp that attaches the fighter to the hull if you don't mind leaving it outside."

Awesome episode (Good thing Reese speaks Dutch!), but one thing bothered me:

A quick Google Images search for "photobomb stingray" turns up this...

Beat me to it! Dammit!

Well, Peter Hyams did also direct A Sound of Thunder.

Thank you! You're the first person I've seen that was bothered by that!

I was sure I'd seen "Bullet Time" in use long before The Matrix.

Yep, I had the same thing with BattleZone ][.

I just don't understand why Apple used a shatter-able material for the iPhone.

Oh, I'm stealin' that!

Really? I didn't know they built and test-flew the Shuttles in Houston. Huh.

Don't forget the Rockwell (now Boeing) plant in Downey.