Thank you. I thought I was going insane. I’ve tried to listen to his stuff more than once and it’s actual rambling. It was like listening to a drunk uncle. Its popularity is baffling to me.

Sorry but a bunch of refugees fighting over the last available resources is hardly what “colonialism” is.

It’s almost like................they want you to. ;)

“I’m not saying anyone that is white and roots for a Boston team and hunts is racist or a Trump voter or anything like that.”

LoL That’s exactly what you’re doing, sweetie. Just own it.

“may have represented a risk”

You have no idea what the attendants are actually responsible for in an emergency, do you?

I am 100% with you. Preach!

I commented recently to a friend that Westworld is what happens when a Black Mirror episode is unnecessarily stretched out over several seasons. The Nolans have always struck me as being those kids who really want the teacher to know that they DID the reading assignment.

Also, she takes forever to get to the point/goal.

Yeah, I am just not really sure what the point of the show is anymore. I mean, of course there was going to be a second season, given the success of the first, but it should have ended where the book ended. Not knowing what happened to Offred is really the perfect ending to the story.

Nothing’s being said or shown that…

They would do well to think about how being in a de facto segregated environment is negatively affecting their children’s education and preparedness for society at large. School is about more than book learning.

Ok, but yall gave the world “aboot” and “sowry” so we’re more than even.

The only thing I can think of is that for some reason it was all part of some larger conspiracy to let the park go to shit for 2 weeks or something like that. But even then, what?

Yep. The show still feels like it never graduated past the level of interesting thought experiment. This is ok when you’re doing a show like the Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, where the stories are anthologized and resolved within an hour, but this is a serialized drama. As such, the implications of the technology and…

This is one of my biggest problems with Westworld. In typical Nolan bros. fashion so many of the technical aspects of how this world works are hand-waved to the point where it is hard to actually establish meaningful stakes or internal consistency.

I am usually ok with handwaving, but if you’re trying to aim for a…

This is an important point and I’ve heard this view from other people in the military. My father is retired special forces, and he routinely tells me that the military, in actual combat zones, seems to have a way higher standard for engagement (i.e. use of force) than domestic police departments (at least based on his…

Messianism is coming. You’ll want spoiler tags.

Sorry if that was a spoiler.......................
 

Yeah. I adore The Expanse but the writers have always claimed that their first priority is ‘space opera’. I think the level of realism in the way they depict space travel and colonization is a bit overstated given that they (by their own admission) have bent the rules a few times and gotten things wrong for…

Still sucks way less ass than Kinja.

I am sure calling this guy a terrorist will definitely bring comfort to the families of the dead. That’ll fix it.

The accepted legal and academic definition for terrorism is that it must include a political motive. Then why else would there even be a separate term for this at all? Terrorism is not just something that…

Members of the Jewish community, the LGBTQ community, and other people of color have all criticized Mallory at this point. Your comment seemed to minimize their concern and dismiss it as just another instance of structural racism. Yes, as a Jew, I will push back when people suggest that I have no right to comment on…

You’re ignoring Jews, gays, and trans folk who are also POC.

Mallory is not a victim. She is being asked to do the *bare minimum* as the proclaimed leader of an intersectional progressive movement. There would be no heat on her if she did not make the choice to stan Farrakhan.