Good point. She's lost both her ideological and personal connexion to the Martian rulers at one blow.

What we knew about Draper before this episode:
- she's been taught to demonise Earth and idolise Mars
- she's fanatically loyal to her troops
- she's straightforward and doesn't appreciate things like diplomacy, covert ops, etc
- she's obsessed with being a soldier, her life's ambition
- she's hotheaded and impetuous

Sorry, the super-fit, athletic, six foot tall Samoan trained amateur middleweight boxer in her early twenties 'simply doesn't convey the physicality'? It's comical to think a six-foot tall athletic female boxer might be able to punch some old guy in the face?

Fantastic scene from Langella. Couldn't help but wonder whether Gabriel lost a son, or a father.

Parallels Stan helping out Oleg. The way that agents from one side often felt more attachment to, and protectiveness over, agents from the other side than their bosses did.

Yeah, but when the CW is all just Berlanti superhero shows and iZombie, being the highest-rated non-superhero show isn't going to be enough…

I assumed she did it too, until that bit. While I could see her feeling sad about it, it seems strange she'd be SO upset the moment she got the call, if she'd already made the decision herself some time before. Particularly since she's a headheaded military sort.

You could almost see him thinking when Don E was raving at him… "wait, if I'm so evil and villainous, how come you aren't scared of me? Hang on, maybe you are? What if I try being a bit scary…"

The Economist is also skewed considerably to the right, although less than it used to be. And it's broadly liberal rather than conservative, in general.

Winning a Pulitzer would be a disaster for these people.
For one thing, it requires time and effort.
But for another, it would mean that every time they complained about the liberal news conspiracy, people could just say "hey, that conspiracy even gave Breitbart a Pulitzer, so how biased can they be?" - the more…

I think someone needs to do the dry reporting without the analysis too. In part precisely because it's harder to write off a just-the-facts journalist as biased. Not impossible, but harder. And also because if everyone combines their facts with their analysis, and everyone else combines those facts with their…

Probably because of quantum.
We can do this now (or are starting to) with tap-proof communication cables. The particles in them are given some Quantum (that's how it works, right?), so that if anyone 'reads' the state of the particles, it changes the state of the particles. The idea is is that you know if your phone is…

I like not thinking that.
…but now I probably will.

Sorry, that was probably rather too long a comment for a tangential discussion. It's obviously an issue that will always evoke strong feelings on both sides, and not one that will be resolved here today.

For me, it fell between a proper finale and a proper epilogue.

My point was that while on the one hand there's a finite theoretical advantage for all white people, there's a practical and effectively infinite disadvantage for some people. A rich, well-connected upper-middle-class black man will, of course, have some disadvantage relative to a white man in the same circumstances;…

"Being white in the US" outweighs ANY inconvenience that anyone MIGHT suffer? I'm sorry, but that seems implausibly extreme. For one thing, there are many greatly disadvantaged white people (in the UK at least there are white communities where people face life outcomes statistically just as bad as those black people…

Indeed - and not just homelessness. If your entire life is in a place - your children, friends, job, your entire social network - it can be extremely difficult to leave even under the best circumstances. The same is true of a lot of drug and alcohol addicts, and indeed a lot of criminals. We take people and "punish"…

The first megastar black actor was Ira Aldridge, "the African Roscius", who achieved great fame in England and Europe from the 1830s to the 1860s. But back then even the greatest actors were paid less than they would be later. He palled around with various monarchs and aristocrats, though, and his children were…

Adam Sandler karmically bought his continued otherwise baffling success through his appearance in Punch Drunk Love…