And believe it or not, I only noticed your screen name after I posted this.

My favorite character is "Trebuchet", who has a whole range of payloads ranging from upright pianos to live cows to 1,000+ pound covert listening devices.

My favorite character is "Trebuchet", who has a whole range of payloads ranging from upright pianos to live cows to 1,000+ pound covert listening devices.

GOOD for you!

I imagine your self-congratulatory shiver after posting this is only harshed by how long it's taking Ma to get on down there with your lunch.

And I'll put the flowers in the vase you bought today.

Also Other Space more recently. I think CNH is just funnin'.

Huzzah!

It may or may not be worth noting that the idea of the network owning the IP of the ridiculously mundane phrase "hey now!" is almost certainly a dig at NBC trying to claim the rights to "Top Ten" and "Stupid Pet Tricks" when Letterman went to CBS.

Is there an actual name for this?

Yup. They just cycled over to the first ep.

It's intriguing/frustrating that Jones' real-life parents are credited on IMDB in the first episode, but nowhere to be seen. Did I just miss them?

Quezovercoatl from Pratchett's "Eric". I dare them to pull that with Snoke in Episode VIII.

Oh, that's interesting — "Undercovers", a Bad Robot production. And the lead from that show is signed for Episode VIII.

Yeah… more than anything, I was grasping for a container for two things that bugged me:

Ren is an upstart …who can put energy bolts on hold with his mind. To me, that seemed to establish he was going to be nigh-on unstoppable.

That's not how the Force works!

Time of death called when Scotty and Chekov started behaving like Spock and Bones at the beginning of Generations. That made Star Trek V look like Citizen Kane.

"Annnd, I'm dropping my weapon."

OK, I'm down with that. But would it have been so hard to say something like "the shields only work if you're going slower than 1 megaquatloo per parsec?" I mean, that's clearly wicked fast, right?