Hmm, well, either they were plotting to build up more demand for a time travel plot movie they knew/thought might come down the pike or… actually time travelling

Daaaaaamn, son. That is…

Ah, I like God-Emperor of Dune.

I'm more into other scenes (mmm, Star Wars Armada) and was privy to an odd conversation where two local store owners were having a rather grim conversation about whether it was worth it to have magic in their stores. The pros seemed to be that they liked supporting new players and that it brought in a bunch of people…

Well, there's four things going on that episode:
* A Plot-line where the Town is a Victim of Fraud
* A Plot-line where Lisa and Marge have tough times
* A Scopes-Monkey Trial Thing
* Lisa going against the world

I always like Lisa when she's a kid and not a plot dynamic. Sometimes I like her under other circumstances. I was never much of a fan of the show maker's insistence that 'Lisa will be all right, she'll make it out of there.'

Man, you're countering nuance with whitewash. That's not a great way to engage a claim of false dichotomy. And you're doing it in a way that portrays a fair amount of ignorance about how global warming discourse developed and how belief networks (of ANY sort) function.

It's just such an unevenly constructed episode. Like that would work in the Cardiff Giant sense, mentioned above, and delving deeper into mob mentality but that's nowhere on the level where you have the Marge & Lisa plot-line.

Well, it could get a little more mileage out of the developers manufacturing this episode for everyone. That could have been a great turn if it hadn't ratcheted the stakes on everything and then abandoned it.

I don't think this episode does right by anyone.

Oh. Gawd. The fucking hallways of Halo.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 'mining ship' a euphemism for a planet carving, asteroid devouring, mobile space maw?

Long ago, I was watching star trek, playing a star wars game, and reading about warhammer 40K. And in the space of one scene where the star fleet officers are forced to make improvised mits out of their flimsy tunics because their work-stations are not equipped with gloves the utopian order just reversed itself.

HEY! Some of us are bookish AND dumb.

This is good to hear. I was very worried about the MacFarlane element.

a dowry is a lot of… agency to grant someone in that kind of relationship.

yeah, it seemed to me that he was manipulating an au-currant fear among certain sets that 'pornography addiction' (a thing of the horrible other secular culture) is secretly manipulating people to do things that might otherwise have to admit real motives for (things of themselves as just weak wretches).

That seems to be how people felt about that last TNG episode.

I agree that it plays like an oddly soulless version of Halo - that's got much smoother mechanics.

I have to imagine Heritage has a regular acronym for that:
STiMH.