I was a little disappointed by the casting of Gold Leader. The original had a pretty distinctive way of speaking (thought not quite as much as Red Leader). There was also an interesting dynamic you could build on with his lowest-ranked wingman (the "stay on target" guy) seeming to be more experienced and unflappable,…

And, naturally, I wrote that before listening to this week's episode, which sounds a lot clearer.

Yeah, the Churn isn't quite meeting the gold standard of Ron Moore's BSG podcasts (which I normally listened to immediately after watching the episode, because just hook it to my veins). The peppy PR tone doesn't bother me as much as the phone-line recording. It doesn't sound like they're even recording off of…

“Oh, I see. Then everything is wrapped up in a neat little pack-ag-ge.”

I'm more concerned with how these Martian marines didn't smell something fishy earlier. There was the person waving for help inside the dome, the fact that the UN started "charging" immediately after shooting at something out of sight, and that once they were in view, they were still shooting at some funky…

For one thing, no one remembers the name of Neeson’s middle-aged, overprotective ex-CIA operative; it’s Bryan Mills, but within that part of the cultural imagination stirred by the original Luc Besson-produced hit, it’s “Liam Neeson.”

It's a design they've used in Rebels before, something more-or-less based off the ships from the Star Tours theme park rides. http://starwars.wikia.com/w…

And I suppose he's not smart enough to steal, like, five things. They already didn't change multiple planets in the database in case Thrawn had memorized it or made a network-isolated backup.

I was listening to the episode of The Churn for this week, and the writers answered a question I'd had about some symbolism from the first season. It's not really a spoiler, more just a bit of context to what I'd already noticed, and an implication that there wasn't much more to it than that, so I'm not going to…

I loved that they incorporated the just-long-enough-to-be-infuriating 2.5 second round-trip signal delay between Earth and the Moon. I've seen it in books from time to time, but the only time I remember it in a Sci-Fi TV show was that episode of SG-1 where O'Neill and Teal'c were accelerating away from Earth at top…

Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest has a very grim description…

Oh, wait, like one each? Right, Mack said something about having Daisy meet each inhuman agent individually and that it'd be more efficient than you'd think. I get it now.

I'm wondering how much of the next episodes will take place in the Framework, versus the real world. They seem to have got virtually everyone in the main and recurring casts loaded up into VR, but we've still got Ava and the remote-controlled Robo-Russian, along with LMD Fitz and about twenty LMD Daisies rampaging…

It could also be that without that failure on her part, she was cocky. An uncomplicated opinion on whether killing bad people (or rather, people who you're told are bad) makes the world a better place was probably one of the things Hydra kept an eye out for.

I think Alex has it right in the review: Who would you be without your defining moments? To boil it down a bit, imagine all the stupid places you'd put your hands if you'd tried putting them on a stove and then hadn't been burned. A life without regrets must, by definition, be a life without consequences, without…

I was genuinely hoping that right before they plugged in, Daisy would be genre-savvy enough to ask Simmons if she thought anyone really missed Ward.

I've been assuming she's been busy running the old cave-base.

You misunderstand. I did watch it. I had strong opinions contrary to the critical concensus, and decided I had better ways to spend my time. Don't ask me to give it another chance, because I won't change my mind.

I've only seen this movie once, during an ill-considered film studies minor in college,* and that was actually called out by the Professor as being baptism imagery, symbolizing that she was conceiving. And now that I've shared that with you, I finally have something to remember the movie by aside from the fact that it…

Yeah, the way Ezra didn't even merit a hug, and didn't seem to care to, seems to blow a hole in my theory that they started hooking up back when they were sneaking off alone together to "paint the stolen TIE fighter."