Braga turned Janeway and Paris into newts!

One reason why Sagan's Cosmos was near and dear to my heart growing up is that it presented such a generous view of humanity — Sagan acknowledged our ignorance and worst aspects and made no excuses for them, but nevertheless viewed people as basically well-intentioned, if frequently misguided by ignorance and…

It's probably unfair, but I groaned when I saw Braga's name pop up in the credits.

The episode really lost me with the Bruno segment. Where was the science here? Bruno wasn't a scientist, and came to his cosmological views through intuition rather than scientific method. And the show actively misrepresents his persecution as "religion vs. science" when in fact it was his theological positions that…

Maybe too well? There was one shot with the "spaceship of the imagination" inserted into footage of what looked like the Martian Viking landing that made me think, oh man, the conspiracy theorists will go apeshit.

The fact that Lee Ranaldo looks a little like Gilligan doesn't help!

I did wonder what a deleted blog post on Facebook looked like.

"[B]eing bored is the worst possible thing that can actually happen to me, and must be avoided at all costs."
—Incurable Ennui

Talk about an annus horribilis!

Mast Five

White people be orphaned like this

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I don't see what you did there.

And here I thought there was no more hilarity to be wrung out of the suffering of 19th century French peasants crushed beneath the heel of class inequality!

Wait, is the newsworthy thing here that a rock star cheated on his wife with another woman, or that a rock star cheated on his wife with only one woman?

I have no math friends, only math enemies.

To alcohol! The cause of — and solution to — all of AV Club's upvotes!

LOL you tie bundles of rods around an axe like a girl

Sounds like a…

Change the file name and upload it to The Pirate Bay!