I just started watching this show. Binge-watched Season 1 and found it much better than either Dennis or the commenters opine. Am digging into Season 2 and yes the Fake Don Draper thing is bad, but Real Don Draper was ridiculous too. But I am still puzzled by all the antipathy for this show. I know it’s supposed to…

He spends every weekend at Mar-a-Lago. Security can’t be as tight there.

Wolff overextended himself by claiming certainty about Trump getting some on the side, but it’s not out of the range of possibility. I think most people realize that.

This.

Brooks is habitually a moron but gun-control advocates do need to reach out to gun-rights moderates and bring them on board. That’s the only way we can ever get the numbers we need to change the laws.

Not only that, but if Kelly continues to cross Jarvanka, he’s gonna get tossed out on his ear. Family always wins within TrumpCo.

It’s not 100% true to the source material in that there are plotlines that never existed in the book: at least one character has a deep relationship with Kovacs that wasn’t part of the book, and part of his backstory has changed too.

The thing about Elizabeth is that she was never glamorous, charismatic or controversial. The fact that a show can hang on her at all is impressive. I’m enjoying it but I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps it’s the mix of likeability and unlikeability in all the main characters, and well, just some nice History Porn.  

I see. Funny how memory can play tricks on one.

Well, as to what Ridley Scott thinks about it, I’m not entirely clear (http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/blade-runner/news/a838836/blade-runner-harrison-ford-deckard-replicant-debate-resolved/) and (YMMV) I don’t give his opinion primacy anyway. Once you make & offer a piece of art to the culture it’s not entirely…

I sort of love that people are still arguing about whether Deckard is or is not a replicant. This must be the longest running thread in SF fandom, (unless alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer is still debating “Tara’s lesbian spell on Willow”)

Dreams are not the same as memories. Dreams are not fully dependent on memories. Nothing anywhere in the movie suggests Tyrell Corp knows how to implant dreams.

I hadn’t heard of the Crocodile’s Dilemma before but I think that’s got to be it. “Crocodile tears” are a reference to hypocrisy. Mia wasn’t a hypocrite, just forced into doing worse and worse things by her need to protect herself.

I question some of the assumptions people are making: 1. Am pretty sure Walton is actually dead in the game (or he would have shown up for the happy reunion), and 2, I think the deletion of his rogue universe left Daly brain dead — or maybe trapped in a nightmare of Nothingness—but probably not actually dead (the…

For pete’s sake. There’ll always be new music. Even new “rock”. But the underlying cultural perspective that originally informed indie and alternative music is gone. The underground has evaporated or is so fragmented as to be composed entirely of isolated psychotics. We’re living in the 50's again, and success is…

Darlene’s friend wasn’t a complete stranger, she was apparently someone she knew from Parsons School of Design. Which made her being a hooker now pretty damn illustrative of what 5/9 has done to people (of that continuum at least).

This may already be in the comments, but “shutdown -r” is the Windows command for rebooting a box.

I was less impressed with this episode than I wanted to be. Having seen the spoiler for this episode in the first sentence of Alex’ review I was never in doubt as to the fate of Trenton and Mobley. What I was hoping for though was a little more character from them before they exited. But I didn’t get that, just some…

I’m kind of hoping for a version of Roko’s Basilisk, where whatever crazy multiverse-hopping situation Whiterose is cooking up has a set of requirements that must exist in the “past” before the Time/Space Axis can be realized.

Worked for me. I hate to see the world of this show diverge too much from ours.