Maybe you were thinking of Bremen, Allanon's mentor, who was described as super old?

Well, to be fair, it is the future, so "epic headache" could have survived through the ages.

Yes, I tend to think that the reason why the planning in Transformers doesn't work at all is a bit different. In Transformers it doesn't work because… it's a Michael Bay movie. So we know that whatevery they're saying is pointless. Whatever their plan and/or their technical jargon may be doesn't matter because it…

I think he's a genuinely good guy but we're used to good guys in his situation being highly charasmatic, highly lucky, and/or super competent. And he's none of those. And we have such strong expectations that he should be that he stops looking like a good guy because he isn't.

In-universe, they said that they chose the name because it means "work horse" in Spanish… which it doesn't. "Rocin" is a cheap work horse; Rocinante is the funny way in which Don Quixote transformed the slur-y type name of his horrible horse into something that sounded of Arthurian greatness.

If you -knew- then, yes, it was osmosis, but there were definitely clues there. I remember long online arguments around '93 or '94 of people asking "Could it be?" "Nah, there's no way, but wouldn't it be awesome if it actually were?!" "It has to be!"
Sort of like in the first episodes of Adventure Time.

Right until the very end, I kept expecting some twist or some angle that justified that awful betrayal by Pablo's amulet. But no, the amulet that his powerful uncle gave him for protection sold him out shamelessly.

That would probably be "as two unwilling sidekicks…" at this point
>_<

I was also a bit surprised that the reviewer focused on the Martians' confidence in their tactical abilities. Sure, they absolutely had that. They certainly felt that in a solar system gone lazy and flubby, they were the only real warriors. But I thought the main thing was that they were on the single most powerful…

I think nobody mentions it because it's such poor, poor writing.

But Joe loved Julliana so much! And she changed him! She saved his soul! Because he met her that once, for like 2 days, and she barely talked, and she didn't really share any of her life with him, and neither did he, and she was not very remarkable as a spy either, and her whole mission was actually a fraud, and he…

Oh actually they said that the man in the high castle was not the one who produced the films; he was just the recipient that the resistance delivered the films to…
(which was fortunate, because that was starting to frustrate me until they said that)

And why do the nazis hunt the resistance at all if they're just going to deliver the the films right back to them?

So the "Somewhere in Time" technique doesn't work only for time travel; also for interdimensional travel

If they had left out the films, and Joe, Juliana, and Frank, this would have been an absolutely superb series.

I kind of think that the US would worry a bit if someone casually took a B-2 fuselage panel over to China for inspection.

There's always hope… I voted for Robespierre.

There's another way to get emails out of a computer. You can plant a hacking device… on the monitor.

Yes, but why "feels"? I don't get it.
Sure, it was unexpected that Cat would discover her identity just then. Sure, it was an important moment for the story. But I actually found myself tearing up as Kira pulled off her glasses and that doesn't make any sense to me. What possible reason could there be to tear up on…

It's not just that it's white. It's not just that it doesn't look or behave at all like her hair. It's that it doesn't even look like real hair.