The soundtrack is seriously fantastic. It’s sort of become a habit for me to listen to Brothers In Arms and Let Them Up to help pump myself up before I start my commute home from work everyday. Only due to tremendous amounts of self control have I been able to resist the urge to then immediately peel out of the…

To horribly mangle Voltaire: The problem with common sense is that it is apparently not common enough...

Ah, I see your attention to pendantic detail is stronger than mine. How mediocre of me...

:gets hit with banana:

Allow me to be even more pedantic. Every shot in the trailers already had those wires digitally removed, so adding in the Mario Kart graphics on top of that does indeed increase the total amount of CGI in this version. Apologies for the super pedantry.

There’s the rub though. Aren’t human emotions and reactions simply biologically/psychologically programmed responses to physical and chemical inputs resulting from outside stimuli? Are our emotions therefor not “true” either?

Guh, Not Safe For Life.

Regarding the empathy thing, was she really showing empathy, or was it just another instance of her reading him and telling him what he needed to hear so he’d get her out of the box? Given the ending I’m tempted to read it as more manipulation. I doubt she ever really cared about Caleb to begin with, so again I don’t…

I don’t think the movie ever really wants us to think she is human, just that she could pass for/is a sentient being with her own thoughts and agency. Not once in the movie does she ever indicate she is anything other than a machine/AI. I don’t think that any of her attempts to appear more human are done for her own…

Unless whoever cut the trailer used an unfinished shot that hadn’t painted out the camera operator, it’s is probably there for a reason. There’s way too much of that camera in the shot, and if there’s one thing the Wachowski’s are not it’s being sloppy about their cinematography and visuals.

Good catch on the camera. Maybe one of the 8 people is an actor, which would explain the cliche pose.

I’d just like to point out that Caleb’s not a genius programmer. Sure he’s made to think that’s why he was selected when he asks the first time, but Nathan disabuses him of that notion towards the end.

The 986 basically has a pop-up Gurney Flap, while the 987 and 981 have a Spoiler.

Nope, the normal spoiler still pops up automatically at speed, while the Cayman R spoiler is actually a fixed piece that replaces the whole automatic spoiler mechanism to save on weight.

The previous owner of my 987.1 installed a fixed spoiler in addition to the normal one, so now I have two...

This is actually the one fight I had a bit of problem with, thematically. He goes there with the intent to kill Fisk, ends up killing Nobu instead (although indirectly, since it was Nobu's deflection of Matt's attack that broke the bulb), and yet he seems to have no guilt over this in the following episodes.

And Babe, you can't forget Babe!

Being a youngish sort who just went back to watch the first Mad Max to see what led to these utterly gorgeous trailers, I have a hard time seeing how it made enough money to be turned into a franchise in the first place.

Well, not this last week, which was actually pretty damned surprising. But good on them for making things interesting so quickly this year!

Full disclosure: I daily an ‘07 Cayman S so I may be biased, but I also loved their testing practices. While Ferrari and McLaren have conditions or send engineers with their cars Porsche just finds an available press unit with fresh tires to lend out and says have at it. Win or lose, that attitude is awesome.