that the exchange is based on personal assessment and not a "menu" does not change the concept. you may can try to eliminate currency, but that just means people will turn to some other (maybe better, maybe worse, maybe consistent, maybe inconsistent) way of valuing things and exchanging that value.

i agree, and to me, that's what puts lie to the idea to the idea that replicators could eliminate the need for money. clearly many people in that society valued certain foods over others, and had to exchange for them somehow. even if they eliminated currency, they couldn't eliminate the idea that some people would…

sure, okay there! way to make your point. economies are 100% about the exchange of value. whatever you value is whatever you value.

but they are - people evaluate gifts and the prestige associated with them like that. they do it all the time.

exchange is exchange.

that's still makes it somewhat commercial and market-driven though, not "utopia."

i agree in that sense - it just didn't make sense in the context of their money-free, replicated food society to create a limited quantity food product.

the concept didn't even make sense in the fictional star trek universe, let alone for us. there are a ton of examples you can point to. picard himself owned a number of unique objects, like antiques, original copies of books. how did he acquire them? he grew up on a vinyard that his brother took over. in a world of…

they're not stopping either - warner bros also picked up an option to adapt a new YA series that's kind of like if the kids in the hunger games had supernatural powers and if the game was the entire post-apolocalyptic wasteland. i assume its intended for CW

amazing that netflix can generate 30 different queues of weird and super-specific suggestion genres and yet we still can't have more than 1 playlist of our OWN creation.

that makes no sense. the Eisner era started 20 years prior to that tween stuff, and that's a pretty narrow reading. he's responsible for the era of the little mermaid, beauty & the beast, all the great animated shows like ducktales, talespin, rescue rangers, plus the theme parks, not to mention a thousand other…

" Everyone who wanted to be a part of the cultural dialogue of the moment had to have an opinion on Hannah’s weekend with the dreamy doctor or Adam’s ejaculate in the season’s penultimate episode. " bullshit.  it's a hell of an assumption that just because the media decided to talk about something that the rest of us…

and Archer!

i can't tell if you're trolling me or if you truly like that song.  but either way, the lyrics are fucking dumb.

i can't tell if you're trolling me or if you truly like that song.  but either way, the lyrics are fucking dumb.

my most hated song (for lyrics) = mighty mighty bosstones- the impression that i get.

my most hated song (for lyrics) = mighty mighty bosstones- the impression that i get.

@avclub-4ea1a79057f88cc5c1e0431929aa1d98:disqus yeah, i hear you on that part.  it didn't affect my re-reading of the rest of it in the same way, but i definitely think that part of the resolution didn't work.

@avclub-4ea1a79057f88cc5c1e0431929aa1d98:disqus yeah, i hear you on that part.  it didn't affect my re-reading of the rest of it in the same way, but i definitely think that part of the resolution didn't work.

i agree with some of your frustrations about the 2nd season, but can we stop harping on things that are a direct result of budgetary constraint?   every week, you complain about stuff like this, even as you admit it's an unfair complaint. Personally, i don't even notice any of that. but even if i did, i STILL…