Is there a robotic Gorn behind that rocky outcropping?

Had he touched down prior to terminating his performance? Or were there awkward minutes where he floated over his dejected audience, accompanied only by the grinding of an offstage winch?

Regarding that head-rotation: in the book, Chris only thinks she sees Rags rotate her head so it's facing backwards. She'd just been thrown to the ground and whacked her head, and only saw the action out of the corner of her eye, so she's never entirely certain it happened. Like all the other demonic manifestations in…

Straight from the 8-pack you find in the grocery store. They're sold "fully cooked", of course, and so in theory are trichinosis-free, but the texture is different. Pure umami goodness.

Raw hot dogs.

The less time I spend in Westworld, the more I like Westworld. The backstage drama is a lot more interesting, though it makes the hokier elements of "park" storylines stand out even more. That sequence following the train-ride, for instance, played like a lesser episode of Fantasy Island, and the scenes between…

Hm. Was it Bernard who said they use hosts to survey the land? So why not use them for menial tech labor, as well?

Thomas' storyline trivializes this story in the same way that Karras' struggle elevatated that of the novel and the film. His affair is so mundane, so tacky, and he recovers from his encounters so readily, that I'm having an increasingly hard time believing these characters exist in the same universe that housed…

Well, except for the bits about eating Martin Sheen.

That just reminded me: In grade school, one of my favorite SRA cards…and I loved SRA cards…was a bit by Bill Cosby: something about how as a kid he like to freak out his family by using food dye to make green pancakes.

That's the mental image it calls to mind. But I suspect involves food, heightening my sense of revulsion.

She of the insufferable smirk? Good (spoiler!) riddance.

I'm not suggesting these actors were exploited. Just that I'd like to think a critical discussion of exploitative nudity can be had without being met with charges of puritanism, prudishness, etc. Exploitation obviously happens; Newton talks about her own previous experiences here:

But shouldn't the tech have deliberately kept her naked during the tour, so as to not draw the attention of the other techs they passed? Wouldn't her clothing be a red flag to everyone that "hey, this guy's lost touch with what these things really are," just as Ford had pointed out? And as soon as Sylvester sees her…

Sure, the nudity makes sense; but I do wonder a bit at the politics of acting that are involved. Lena Heady, for instance, opted to use a body double for her GoT walk-of-shame, which reportedly cost the studio $50,000 a day in effects work. Fine. But if you're NOT Lena Heady, and the script calls for nudity, then,…

"Live Without Limits…in Hooterville."

Yeah, I was curious to read the reviews, which are by turns comic and frighteningly sincere. (I'm surprised some dour group hasn't petitioned to have it removed.)

And yes, Toys-R-Us still sells Ouija boards:

I actually agree, but it was in keeping with their tendency to veer towards a fertile theme, then drop it or defuse it by getting far too literal (e.g. the spirit-dust.)

The woman telling the media to get their cameras and lights on them, the overlooked and terrorized residents of the South Side, was surprisingly effective. I wonder if we're heading into some mashup of class-based, demon-angel warfare: the noble poor against the demon-summoning, Bilderberg-type elites. (And where does…