I’ve got no sympathy for this dude. He is letting many wonderful cars rot because he’s greedily keeping them without having the resources to fix them up. I see this shit all the time around Portland: people without garages letting their amazing cars soak up the rain, let grass and moss grow on them and rust into piles…

So, what I’m hearing is that if I want to get in on being a mechanic for a living, I should just go to Chicago and do some time as a scab.

Reminds me of literally every single BMW owner on CL. Those people are so far out of touch, they might as well be on the moon.

Fuck that, the blue shell is shenanigans.

Notable absence:

So many interesting ideas from this show without the execution to make the gravitas stick. The Leftovers, interestingly, did the same kind of thing, but much, much better. It never dangled the mysteries of the show in front of you, or used them like a halfwit vaguebook post to entice you to ask more.

You nailed it; every second closer to some absolute minimum is going to cost exponentially more. Which is why, of course, traveling the speed of light requires the power of like 10 dying suns or something.

Thank you _so much_ for not using that idiotic fucking `/s` tag.

I’ll address your baitey question in earnest because I think, even if you’re just trying to get a rise out of people, it’s a question worth considering. Why care?

Guy test drives a $400,000 hand-crafted car in dumpy looking $20 Kirkland dad jeans. What a class act.

That would have resolved it as objectively true. You're right that it would have been interesting and striking visually, but this is a case where we are expected to take it on faith that this happened to her, and that she really didn't just chicken out and go into hiding for decades. Maybe she needed this story so…

But the question and situation aren't mutually exclusive. No sane research scientist would make that leap.

What I actually got from that scene was that there is no machine and nobody goes anywhere. It's just some fucked up people possibly doing a correlation study. All the previous people "disappeared" aren't actually disappeared at all.

Not really. The allusion is still there, just more subtle and smart.

You're right, but the intent was the same.

I think you meant Wu Tang Clang

I think the real hallmark of the show is that it causes you to ask questions. That's probably on a piece of paper on a wall somewhere near the writer's room. This episode, in particular, left me with a lot of questions as to what I would want.

Man, I fell off that show hard this season. I couldn't even finish it. So fucking tired of the contrived drama.

At first I thought this, but I don't think child porn follows the same market supply/demand curve as material goods, or even immaterial goods that are white market available, but have no constraints or limits on production (music, movies, etc.).

This is hilariously off base. ZH is easily one of AV Club's best reviewers, and _certainly_ their best sci-fi reviewer. If you need any assurance, read through his takes on Star Trek TOS or any other show he's written on. His insights are great, and he reviews with a great eye for story.