Obviously the suit is misnamed. Instead of predators they’re going to shoot global warming with it and the planet won’t heat up. /s

When I was a kid we played Hi-Ball: four people on a single trampoline, throwing a pillow-like ball at each others’ goals over a net about eight feet high. It was a crazy workout, and a ton of fun, and who knows how many people landed wrong and broke a wrist? None of us did, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

A bit of a nit, but the show should be set more than 20 years into the future —don’t people in the Federation live longer, healthier lives than we do today, to an average age of something like 100-120? No offense to Patrick Stewart, but if he’s aged 20 years since TNG, then Picard, looking like Stewart, should have…

The solution for Ladyhawke was quite clever (spoiler, obviously): since he was a wolf at night, and she was a hawk during the day, the only time they could be together as humans (which would allow them to break the curse) was during a solar eclipse.

No clue how to tell if I’m grey, or how not to be if I am... But *every* time I want to comment, I have to go to kinja.com, log in there, and reload the page I want to comment on. Login on the actual page (this page, for example) fails every time. :-/

It’s not my god-damned planet, monkey-boy!

This was my immediate thought as well — the virgin brains are because the real brains are somewhere else. It’s not very cinematic, but they could even be in a box being shipped to <anywhere else> to be put into reconstructed/new bodies at a later date.

I hope I don’t treat black dog owners any differently than white dog owners, but I almost always start by seeing if the dog has any interest in me. If it does, then I either hold out my hand and let the dog approach or not, maybe while saying something to the owner. I’m definitely paying more attention to the dog than…

No speculation on whether Bernard is the successful implantation of Arnold’s mind that William never managed with Delos? Or just a slightly-modified simulation?

If only the main characters had been actual superheroes... You’ve got Black Bolt, who purposefully uses his powers exactly once in the entire season, and that’s after everything is already done. Medusa, who spends 90% of her screen time shaved. Karnak spends better than half the season fully or mostly powerless due to…

Seconded on the books. The way Gould has explored Cent’s ability is really engaging.

It’s too bad they don’t seem to be sticking closer to the book (I know, cliche). But in the books featuring Cent (the lead character here) Gould explores the practical ramifications of being able to teleport in interesting ways. I’d much rather watch that.

Fun fact: way back when, the Orange Julius recipe included a raw egg. Then it became an option you could request. Then it dropped off the menu entirely. I don’t know if people were tougher back then, or corporations just cared less, but whatever with salmonella, delicious Orange Julius! 

Nuclear power is, per kilowatt generated, safer than all other forms of energy generation, including wind and solar. The comparison to coal is absurd — every year coal fired power plants cause premature deaths for hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and any alternative would be preferable.

How in the world are they going to make this work with Ant Man and The Wasp? Either:

Because no one seems to think people like this exist: I can afford better/different food, but sometimes I just like Salisbury Steak. I ate this exact product about four months ago, and I think it had 1 or 2 bone fragments in it. No big deal, spit them out and kept eating. When McRibs come out, I like those too.

In Downtiming the Night Side by Jack Chalker, time travel is possible, but each time you do it, you jump into the persona of a person who didn’t exist before, but who has a full life history, and you take it with you when you leave. So over the course of 5...10...50 jumps, the people traveling through time become less…

I think you mean “no later than 64,000 years ago.” “No earlier than” means anytime from now back to then, which would mean the art could have been created by modern humans.

5 minutes = 300 seconds = 9,000 frames, not 1,000,000. Oddly, I paused about five times and got two frames from Hanna.

The normalized-speech aspect lends credence to an idea I had: are they really back on Earth, or is what they’re/we’re seeing just a construct, like the challenges Gen whipped up in the previous episode? If Eleanor and Chidi are in a construct, then it makes perfect sense that he still sounds the way he did in the good…