It’s curious how a show about time travel doesn’t understand time travel tropes. When used in a plastic universe, as Doctor Who is supposed to be, the answer to the Bookstrap paradox is the original creator. That is to say, Beethoven wrote Beethoven’s Fifth and the time traveler removes him from the timeline. The…

Which is more important? Quality of story or contents of the writer’s underwear? If it’s quality, then it’s about substance. If it’s the underwear contents, then it’s a cause.

It’s interesting that I predicted the problem with TV time travel shows so many years ago and I received nothing but derision (I think it was around the time they were killing Kellogg’s mom).

Of the innumerable flaws in this episode, didn’t a Dalek ask for mercy from River Song in “Big Bang”?

I thoroughly enjoyed the Muppets movie (not the Most Wanted... that was, well, nowhere near as good) which was both post-Henson and post-Disney’s participation.

I’ve been staring at this for a while now... and I’ve went back and forth... but I have to come to “no”. The “theme”, such as it was Hannibal, the early years. That wasn’t much of a theme. What did it do?

No, not at all. Orphan Black is a hodge-podge. It is quintessential TV friends viewing, making the fans want to see what the clones (and Felix and co.) are up to more than about any specific thing. Being a clone is little more than a maguffin.

The first season was light on the AI stuff of the more recent seasons, and played much more closely as a TV spin-off of the Nolanverse batman (without the batman... or with the batman the early years with guns). It was a straight procedural, with a questionable premise which, in time, had ideas attached to it.

Actually, you can tell if a show is going to be shit from the pilot. My accuracy rate is about 85% at guestimating from the Upfronts, which is generally a few months before we ever get to see a pilot.

1) Because of this tendency, I tend to give a show the first three episodes after the pilot to establish itself and to…

You answered your own question; the 1990s. The Muppets haven’t been a sure-fire franchise throughout its’ life. The early stuff was awesome, partly because of the bits ( the aforementioned PIIIIIIGGGGG IIINNNNNNN SPPPPAAAACCCCEEEEE! was a personal favorite), but they had high profile guests who were in on the joke…

In my experience it boils down to the person giving the ‘no’. There is no harm in receiving a rejection from...

Okay, let me get this straight; the people on the outside formed all these cities to find divergents, monitoring them all the time, and didn’t do anything when the authority of this sample city decided to hunt down and kill the purpose of the experiment?

I’m surprised you don’t have a grenade launcher.

Regarding #6 (No FTL) Was there an article not to long ago about a lack of In-solar system stories and why they don’t work? It feels confined and trapped and, well, backwards.

Sarcasm and quipping are no substitute for character and dialogue.

There is something about the Irish countryside. Every Yank I meet wants to move to Ireland. One producer wanted to move to Cork, while his wife fell in love with Mayo... so they agreed on Kerry. I think they bought a house there.

In order to do most of these justice, they would need to be mini-series in format, or a BBC/short form series like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norel.

We’re not getting too much TV; we’re getting too much bad TV. Name another industry with a 70% failure rate of its’ products? You can’t. And of the success stories, we have shows which die a death in the ratings. It’s now accepted that a show will lose 30% of its’ look-in audience within the first three/four episodes,…

Compared to today, the last season(s?) of TNG were stellar examples of SCIENCE FICTION... as opposed to the Mary Sue fan fic which masquerades as science fiction these days. It is a sad truth, but these days you need to look outside of the science fiction genre to find compelling storytelling.

There are absolutely different ways to run games and different games work better with different styles. Beers and Paranoia (glory glory the computer!) is wonderful fun... for a night.