I haven't read the books but now I'm hoping that they'll just cast The Rock in drag. He's not a bad actor, let's test his range.

"Holden had as memory of the navigator he was hooking up with. She wanted
to tell something for a while, I guess. (Or else he just mixed up the
present with the past.)"

When the other AV Club writer in that lukewarm pre-season review said that the Martian ship sets looked like something out of Tron, I kind of suspected that that was not a good analogy and that the reviewer hadn't seen Tron in a very long time. I think I was right.

Miller is just looking into all the possible leads he has, and one of those is her online activity. The thing about the ship is a different lead— he doesn't have information on who those guys were yet.

Maybe I'm missing something because I thought Holden's broadcast was… not a terrible idea? Actually, the reviewer seems to be saying that his decisions in this episode were reasonable, but that things keep not working out well because of bad luck. Fixing the antenna was necessary, it's not Holden's fault that the…

I think that's the point. Cosmetic surgery in the future is so taken for granted that someone from a nice family normally wouldn't have even the tiniest, barely noticeable blemish. I hear Los Angeles is already like this(*).

One of the photos in the article is of a nicely done prop that's an illustration of some of those hand gestures.

I don't know if this will be in the show, but in the book it turns out that even if you have a talent for magic, in order to develop it you'll also have to learn a shitload of languages, and there's no magical shortcut for that.

Sorry, my mistake. I haven't actually been on a PATH train in a pretty long time…

Eh… I think they could've spent more time establishing the characters, but to me it was clear at least that they didn't all get "rabbled up." Robyn convinced two guys out of the group; one of them (the coat guy) had already been established as kind of an asshole, and the other (the guy who put his kid out of the car)…

Maybe you're just referring to it being filmed in Canada, but BSG definitely wasn't a "full-on Canadian production that SyFy picked up for a song." It was developed by Universal Studios, and the SciFi network was involved from the beginning.

idk

I'm not sure most people in New York would have a clue what the hell was going on. A big special effect fired off from the top of Tony Stark's building, and then a shitload of flying monsters appeared, and a bunch of superheroes showed up at the same time, one of whom was a giant monster who was last seen tearing up…

Intellectual properties. I'm not sure why this bit of lawyer-speak has become common among fans lately.

If they're not at the station any more so they can't tell whether anyone else has gotten a call yet, they might have a way out: "I'm probably not the first one" or "I think he meant the next phone that rings in that room." When it comes to things they'd rather not do even if they know they have to, people are pretty…

I think it's pretty common to film on PATH instead of MTA, probably because they don't run 24 hours so you can film when it's closed to the public anyway.

There's a subplot that takes place in the neutral zone in the mountain states, and there are black characters there, since that's the only relatively safe place for them to be. They're not major characters, so far.

The book also mentions Seyss-Inquart as a contender, whose previous responsibilities included not only cracking down on Poland and the Netherlands as he did in our world, but also killing basically everyone in Africa. The idea that someone like Goering would be seen as the relatively sane choice that people are hoping…

Not exactly "all the plot choices", but whenever the characters were consulting the I Ching (which is pretty often - in the book it's become a common practice on the West Coast even for non-Japanese), Dick cast the sticks and whatever answer he got, that's the answer the character got. Including, allegedly, the answer…

I couldn't really evaluate the episode as a story becuse I love Mark Sheppard… and the stuff with Phoebe was at least interesting as far as watching the actors play off of each other and seeing a previously unknown side of Mulder. I think if I'd seen it when it was first on, I would've been too young to appreciate the…