The thing that bothered me was the "knock him out by cracking a vase/pod/pitcher over his face" move, which you mysteriously never see men do. Even when guys fight with a found object, it's never a vessel.

Oh, was it being released during the run of the season? I only heard about it a few weeks ago, just after the midseason finale, and I thought they'd just fucked up the whole "minisode" idea by releasing them all immediately at the beginning of the gap.

Could also have been the base's original computer system, or the newest one that wasn't build with a connections to an external network in mind. That might've been the easiest way to retrofit a non-networked back-up system into the base; start with one that was already designed to work with the base in the '80s, and…

Wasn't that a clip from when May had the ghost infection thing in her brain? It'd explain how they had such a precise copy of May's memory ready to go if they had detailed records from her time in Radcliff's lab then (she couldn't have been missing for that long when the switch happened, so the Maybot was built and…

I was really excited that Genisys looked like it was going to pay off the convoluted time-travel on top of time-travel universe-breaking TSCC was setting up. Then I saw the reviews.

Probably before. I imagine an outrageously large robocide rider on your life insurance would be prohibitively expensive unless he got it pre-Ultron.

It was assigned reading at my school when we did the greek myths, so we all had one. Though I didn't realize there was one for Norse mythology, as well.

That'd be one committed actor. On the other hand, can Moffat turn down the opportunity to make "the part to die for" joke?

Remember back ten, fifteen years ago when every movie villain was all "Bring it on!" and "If you're not with us, you're against us" because GWB was just making political potshots too easy? Real glad to be going back to that world.

I wonder what would happen if someone tried to out-psycho him with some Homer Simpson shit.

You just made me imagine who would refer to him as just "Claus," and the only person I can think of is Jack Donaghy.

I thought they looked different, but I'm just this side of face-blind anyway, and I'm easily thrown off by hairstyle or makeup changes, so I just chalked it up to a very different look to show how hard she'd been living in the intervening period.

I remember hearing thirdhand from someone taking a forensics or criminal profiling class where the teacher explained how to get away with murder— kill only one person, someone you don't know, and never tell anyone you did it.

I ought to get that. I still have my copy from elementary school at my parent's house, but it was absolutely shredded by being bumped and jostled in a child's backpack for months on end.

I'm also hoping to hear a take on "Class." It wasn't covered here, so I had no one to talk about it with.

I want to come back to this. Aside from the frustrating habit of quoting half-a-theme as a tease, I thought the score was really good. Giacchino does emotional counterpoint really well (think the opening to Star Trek '09), so it really worked when they went for the tragedy in the score rather than action or fear in…

Come to think of it, RL having just *seen* Anakin in his youth gets rid of the apparent contradiction of him being a veteran when only clones, Jedi, pseudo-Imperial officers, ersatz French aliens, and Forest Whitaker fought for the Republic, but no "regular people" (I think that argument may be wearing a bit thin at…

Judging by the way it's cut (or rather, not included) on the soundtrack album, I suspect that the front and back halves of the end credits music were from one (or two) of the earlier movies, with Giacchino's movie-specific suite spliced in. It's not unprecedented, Episodes II and III both reused the opening theme from…

Ah, I was conflating it with the old EU's expansion of the anecdote, which had Red Leader flying in a planetary militia in his youth, where he crossed paths with Anakin. I'm not sure why *checks citations* Able Peña decided he would've been a young man in the war rather than a child.

IIRC, he volunteered on the grounds that he was the mostly likely person to be able to fix the busted hibernation chamber on his own before he ran out of food or air or whatever they were about to run out of.