Well yeah, a simple story told well is a beautiful thing. A complicated elliptical meditation on the unreliability of reason and memory given the flaws of the human mind told well is also a beautiful thing.

Oh son, I pity you…

Isn't it salt water? I wouldn't want to bathe in salt water.

We often don't remember where we put our keys. Do you always remember where your keys are?

That goes without saying.

Yeah. Superhuman hero stories are at least as old as human civilization itself.

I mean ridiculous in what way? Morally? Biologically?

It's garbage or it's almost nonexistent.

For a second I thought the translator had boldly given the character a valley girl accent.

His telekinetic powers have already been repeated several times. This show is, in just three episodes, elliptical and repetitious. And just because someone on a show says something, doesn't make it true.

It gives us an idea of what we might see again in the story. Saying power is "limitless" is kind of meaningless from a plot point of view. A being with limitless power might be able to turn every human on the planet into giraffe-newt hybrids, but it's not something I expect the show to actually do.

Did you ever read "Pierre" from the Nutshell Library? It's a Sendak story that is SO close to being the "World's Angriest Boy" - Pierre "doesn't care" about anything to the endless torment of his parents and visually looks a lot like the boy in the story.

The X-men world is always slightly off technologically speaking. More advanced than the era they are in. So late 70s early 80s sounds about right to me.

"Snicker-snak" is from Jabberwocky I think - which supports the idea that David's brain created it or his parents did for some sick reason.

So I think Ronaldo is an excellent avatar for the worst parts of fandom. But that, by its very nature, makes him an obnoxious and tedious character to spend time with. Though this episode was partially saved for me to see Steven's monumental patience taxed to breaking point.

I know! Calling a human being an "it." You're such a card!

Yeah - it's so close to sounding like a real children's book, but is wrong in exactly the right way. It upped the feeling of "this isn't right, what's going on?" that the scenes have.

It's always like that. You forget one "h" and everything gets all confusing and Star Trek-y

Can we still have Chekov's drug-filled golf balls?

That's why Russia can afford us.