But… but like the very next line after the blackout is Adama(?) in the present saying that this drone rocket explosion just took out 13 pilots on the deck.

All of the stuff based on naval aviator culture was extra interesting to me because I knew a guy who used to be a fighter pilot on a carrier, and told a few stories like that although generally he didn't like to talk about it. He also mentioned how many ways there were to get killed without being in combat or even in…

He has an eerie resemblance to a doctor I used to work for, who did a lot of work with street people and addicts and criminals, and sort of used to be one himself— after a successful medical career, he had fucked it all up with substance abuse, ended up in jail, and then started another successful medical career. He…

"I assumed from the miniseries on that the Cylon ships were Cylons themselves rather than piloted" — Yeah, the first time the Raiders appear in the miniseries, when they remotely turn off the power on all those doomed Vipers, there's a bit where the CAG is eyeballing a Raider and saying something like "The cockpit is…

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Well, that was just my paraphrase, I don't think Woodring used the word fiction— he was just clarifying that he wrote the Frank stories consciously.

The "relatively grounded premise" part only applies to Lucifer's few post-Hell scenes in The Sandman. The spin-off Lucifer comic got into cosmic shenanigans almost immediately— and by cosmic I mean creating and destroying planets, universes, etc. But maybe they are low-budget universes.

I'm guessing that the remark about Veitch was specifically about his dream-based comics, which postdated Woodring's dream stuff in Jim and, although very different in many ways, feel a little similar to me in… I'm not sure how to explain it, something about being very committed to conveying a complicated emotional…

Historical nitpick that I realize doesn't really matter with this kind of thing: the rebels in Outlander aren't in favor of Scottish independence. They just want the UK to be ruled by a Catholic king who they think will treat Scotland better.

Speaking of which… as someone who is um let me just say not entirely unfamiliar with kink, something that bothers me even more than stupid portrayals of S&M is stupid portrayals of non-consensual violence and malice, where bad acting and writing make me think "oh they're just playing, it's a big kinky game" when I…

I'm really digging the guy who plays Murtagh— he really hasn't had all that much to do so far, but he makes an impression. The character in the book is described pretty differently but so what.

Saying abbreviations out loud that take longer to say than the thing they stand for is theoretically funny, I guess.

My response may be just a little tiny bit influenced by the fact that for a long time I was the Lee side of a friendship that was way too similar to this. I more or less knew better, but that didn't stop us from orbiting around each other in the same weird way until we just pissed each other off too much.

"waited too long to abandon the idea of a romantic relationship with another character with whom he worked well but had zero physical chemistry"

Something that went a long way toward keeping me interested in Zarek in these early days is that they portrayed him not just as a manipulative demagogue, but also someone who's had a totally different experience of life from any of the protagonists, probably much harder than they could imagine, even if he brought it…

I love that too. Every now and then, especially in this episode, there are shots where Jamie is just one of several people going about their business in the background— the camera isn't obliged to stare at him all the time and neither is Claire.

I thought it was "I've never heard a woman tell THAT joke before." As in, some version of that joke (a guy's left hand getting jealous of his right) gets told on a regular basis by the guys, since it is a timeless one, and women tell plenty of jokes but he didn't think they knew that one.

Yeah, I don't think it was clear what her deal was, but her line about having almost reached "my time" made me think that she was one of them and that she was asking Shepherd not to kill her before she could set up her next reincarnation.

Yes, Mrs. Ng was shot and is therefore one of the female victims (of various things) on the show. She was also, as far as I can tell, part of the secret society. That's all I was saying.

I can see Genevieve's point that it might've been better to let viewers get to know the real Amy first, but I agree that the writing is interesting despite the haziness of the character. Possession stories are usually all about the person either struggling to retain their identity, or being instantly replaced by…