Which half ? I'm no historian, merely British, but it's news to me that Fawkes was anything but English. According to Wikipedia (unassailable bastion of truth, obvs.) his parents' names were the decidedly un-Italian Edward and Edith and he was born and raised in Yorkshire.

Fawkes was English (born in Yorkshire).

And then stupider still, they disguised themselves with movie merchandise, in the process lining the pockets of the very corporate overlords they're protesting against.

For me that's right up there with that Cheers episode where they meet up at a bar and affectionately mock each other (specifically, the one where Sam and Diane have will-they/won't-they sexual tension).

Hah, bit of a coincidence. The trope whereby they have to build something out of spare parts (some of them usually scavenged by "Face" charming/conning people out of them) happened in lots of episodes but the specific one where they build a tank (or cannon ?) that fires melons (IIRC they're called in because local…

It was definitely on in the UK, yep, watched it a fair bit as a not-quite-as-old person. The original was a fun light, action-adventure show in the same 80s mold as "Knightrider", "The A Team" etc. but with a hero who used his ingenuity and whatever was to hand to get out of scrapes (you know the bits in The A-Team…

VR maybe ?

Yeah, he's either another mistake or, given that he's the only one still openly practicing his religion and adhering to his vow, maybe he's figured out that this is just another turn of the wheel, not the endpoint but another life to live on the way to genuine nirvana.I.e. it's not heaven, hell or "Cincinnati", more…

Indeed. It's all relative to what you're used to of course but i'm in the UK where petrol costs around $6 a gallon anyway (it's about £1.10 / litre at the moment) and even that's substantially lower than it was 18 months ago so $4 / gallon petrol sounds like a very reasonable price to pay, particularly if there're…

Very true, that's usually where I give up reading any of the Biblical books, once the begatting begins. Begatting does at least seem classier though. Like, it's got rose petals and candles and virtually never happens in the toilets of dodgy punk pubs.

Oh agreed, personally I have all sorts of issues with ending mass livestock rearing as a climate change solution, fairly high among them being the point that cows taste awesome (fair play, not as good as pigs but still pretty great). My point was just that there's more to it than avoiding/reducing CO2 emissions if you…

Or fucking think fucking science is all fucking wrong because of the fucking Bible.

I think the point is more that cows (well, livestock in general) are a massive contributor of methane to the atmosphere though (largest after natural gas and petroleum processes in e.g. the US) and methane is a _far_ worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Due to it dissipating more quickly than CO2, averaged over 100 years…

Brian Cox in particular (kind of the UK version of Tyson) actually takes a lot of stick (some good-natured) because he goes on all the time about how amazing and beautiful the natural world is.

Is that because of the lack of realism though or is it something else e.g. lack of depth, which can also be levelled at police procedurals, doctor shows etc. even if, on their face at least, they're more realistic - i've put it that way because i'm sure doctors, cops and lawyers must laugh themselves silly at most…

I talk about both GoT and Walking Dead at work with people who don't have a nerdy bone in their bodies and may otherwise have never read a book or seen a film or TV series with dragons and/or zombies. They're both mainstream shows with mainstream appeal.

I don't know how it is elsewhere but in the UK a lot of Cox' appeal is that he's the "rockstar scientist" because he used to be in a couple of bands, one of which had a hit with a song the Labour party had as their campaign theme in 1997. Added to which, he's got a northern accent, is fairly young and has a habit of…

I'd imagine almost nobody believes that outside of internet discussion straw people. Fantastical film and television has become among the most popular around at the moment.

The sort of jobs being created is a key point. Most working class people, perhaps globally but certainly in the UK, don't see scientific research as a viable career prospect for a variety of reasons, frankly that's partly why they're working class. And green energy sources are, almost by definition, not as labour…

I think he always takes making the show seriously but he also realises it's not always a serious show. It's not 'The Expanse', at its core it's a show for children of all ages (3 to 83 and upwards :-)).