Heh. I vote for 'Revelations' as a better endpoint...provided a final set of twists: Upon examination, 'Earth' is Caprica...and I suspect you can guess the rest...

I was thinking more Infinity Gauntlet myself...

...honestly, you just knew this was going to happen sooner or later.

Eh, I'd be down with it, but the terms of the reboot don't support the change. A shame really, there's plenty of room for a decent space opera that cuts down on the elements that are only 'science' by courtesy.

In the West, we just put GPS functions in everyone's cell phones. Yep, no discrimination, we track everyone here.

You planted the image in my head, and the web does the rest. Remember, you brought this on yourself.

My bad. Need to keep better track of my keys.

That doesn't come close to doing justice to what the plan was. The Nazis actually saw themselves as defenders of civilization—ludicrous to us in retrospect, but then, they actually did sponsor the arts (in approved forms), encourage formal athletic competition, etc.

When I hear 'Black Friday', either I get visions of stock markets cratering, or I have that Steely Dan song stuck in my head. Frequently both.

Not applicable. At one point, Brando actually was a star.

On the plus side, it would be harder to steal.

The only thing depressing about Trinity's death was that IT TOOK SO GORRAM LONG!

Bloody frakkin' hell, not again.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that insularity and cliques are going in geek culture!

If he means "doomed to be slaughtered by 30-foot-tall robots", I'm totally down with it.

Me, I got a Zardoz vibe from it. As if that flick wasn't whack enough.

Too late. In any event, Alaska is a lot more 'blue' in some regards than folks think, which may come as a shock to lots of folks on either end of the divide.

They are, roughly, that's where a number of college towns are. It's an odd mix.

I didn't know algorithms had such thin skin.

It is not being rewritten by algos and shoppers. It's being rewritten by lazy idiots who rely blindly on algos and don't check the results.