Fascinating story; many thanks for this.

Sigh... Shots like that lead one to have such high hopes.

Good heavens, what is this shot from?

"Space Battleship Yamato," generally known as "Star Blazers" to the English-speaking audience. It's an absolutely terrific old-school space opera that was very important for a whole generation of anime watchers, and the English version was exceptionally well done. Check it out.

Thanks! I've seen bits and pieces of it and it's just great. What I particularly like is that they faithfully replicate the overall aesthetic of the show — not just the look, but the whole "rhythm." You can tell the producers really understood the notion of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Hey, if you want to complain about your parents, save it for your school counselor.

Holy moly, this looks great. Could easily do more to revitalize interest in "Thunderbirds" than the creepy new CGI show, particularly with Leacock on board. The game somewhat resembles an old board game based on the show I used to play as a kid. The fact that it's a cooperative game is brilliant — and really…

Oh, that's easy.

"Lost in Space is the apotheosis of camp..."

I'd suggest that the link between The Dress and Ferguson is that both pivot around conflicting perceptions of the same thing. One person sees the dress as gold and white, then hears that a friend sees it as blue and black — and suddenly two people learn that they are seeing the same thing very differently. …

Agreed. The Stars My Destination gets more press, but The Demolished Man is just as good, if not better. (I've always preferred it to Stars myself.) No question it'd make a dynamite movie — if (once again) handled right.

What about the possibility that people are seeing different versions of the same photograph? Are we all arguing about the same photo?

The core of his self-critique is very precise and astute, too — that the story was the wrong one for the premise, and that it wasn't developed enough on its own terms.

Ah, an accusation of "fallaciousness" without evidential support (b/c you know there is none; my analogy is completely pertinent), and the old "emotional attachment" accusation — an ad hominem attack the proponents of the current framework are especially fond of trotting out when they start losing arguments.

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I see Paul Allen watched many episodes of Thunderbirds back in the day.

And the exact context and extent of your experience is...?

Well, I guess you know all of them then.

First you say the classification is meant "for us to manipulate data in a more manageable way." Then you say the classification "is not for the benefit of the astronomers." A contradiction, since the "us" doing the data manipulation is first and foremost the astronomers.

Extraordinary! I'd buy a print of that.

Basically the Tree of Thorns from the Hyperion books.