To paraphrase Dennis O'Neil, Metropolis is New York City on a mid-summer's day when you are eating a hot dog in central park, Gotham City is New York City at midnight, when you are wandering around in Queens, with no real idea of where you are, and you are pretty sure that there are footsteps behind you.

Our world is powered by nuclear and coal steam engines.

Fringe was the last show to play with a flexible, non-status-quo reality (and it was glorious) I just don't think the Sleepy Hollow writers are that brave, which is sad because the alternate reality possibilities of them mucking about unsupervised in the past are huge. I kind of hate that they had an easy 'reset…

I'd do it a little differently. They had the unused Chekov's Gun of a colonial who looked just like Abbie, turned to stone in the Medusa's lair. What if the spell to fix the timeline didn't work on stowaways, leaving Abbie trapped with the only way to get back being stoning herself and waiting for Crane and Jenny to…

oh man I was so on the same page as you after Franklin got beheaded (after a fair amount of giggling). I so wanted an AU where the future stayed altered due to Abbie's interference. Where Abbie would mention Franklin and people would be all frank-who?

I like it, but TV is created for a low common denominator of viewer intellect, and that plot might push the ceiling a bit too high. Eureka pulled it off as well as any show ever did, and its ratings still dropped. I don't think that a show like this can afford to have complicated overarching plots, especially on…

Do you write fan fiction? Make it so. It would be interesting to see how that would play out.

I love that idea but I'm pretty sure you put more thought into the logic of that comment than the creative staff did into the logic of the past two seasons.

I think she was trying to keep the US from claiming the moon.

Ignorance != comfort zone. I would rather not include races, which I'm ignorant about, than take a shot at it and offend someone, even after lots of research. The "inclusiveness" of being black in America at this point in time is very much an idea that if you're not in the club and try to be, we'll take you down.

Microsoft needs to only work on Tocks (98, XP, 7). Nobody wants their piece of crap Ticks. (8, Vista, ME)

It's a normal missile. Not a nuke.

I don't think it was a nuke, though.

Glad all those subsidies paid off.

Here's something that always bugged me about BTTF2-3:

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I, too, would have loved to see more of Smaug. But really, what else could they have done with him? He had a confrontation with Bilbo, which was shown. Then he destroyed Dale and got shot with an arrow. It wouldn't take a dragon long to dole out such destruction. I guess they could have made it longer, but it makes…

It's an interesting standoff: the U.S. has always been reluctant to acknowledge that the Red Army dealt with the overwhelming bulk of the Wehrmacht, and the Russians have always been reluctant to acknowledge that they almost certainly couldn't have done so without U.S. wheat, spam, jeeps, and radios.

But you can't really separate the two. If not for the onset of the rasputitsa and winter in 1941, there almost certainly wouldn't have been any opportunity for the Soviets to outspend the Germans.

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