phodreaw
phodreaw
phodreaw

Donna and Cameron are easily the two most likable characters on the show in part, I think, because we've seen their humble beginnings and how, with chutzpah and intelligence, they managed to stake their own claim in the new technological frontier, a world with biases that make them the perpetual underdogs.

I hope so, because Pace is far too good an actor to just be a well-manicured-beard-stroking evil, megalomaniacal genius.

It may just be the absence of the beard and the harsh overhead lighting in close-ups, but Scoot McNairy's face looked especially gaunt and he seemed to have lost weight generally, making his Gordon appear especially frail and his condition even more pitiable, in turn making Joe's treatment of him that much more petty

Bare-chested Montalban reciting Moby Dick gets my vote as well.

If I had uncovered two DDs and managed to benefit only $3K from them despite having an almost $10K lead on one of those DDs, then I would have deserved to lose.

Todd won $1,000 - note that if Todd had bet his entire $2,000 here, he might have had that runaway.

Saddened that the comment-username synergy hasn't garnered more upvotes, especially in this particular thread.

I wasn't fully aware of this either until some perceptive soul made a remark similar to my OP in one of the DS9 threads back when Zack Handlen ran the series.

Shortly after the massacre at Wolf 359 in 2367, Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko joined the development team at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. (DS9: "The Search, Part I")

Also the Sisko way of dealing with his wife's death: Design and build a goddamned warship to get back at the fuckers that killed your wife.

These new Trek and SW films are the worst kind of fan fiction which, as you note, are all nostalgia and affectation and not only bring nothing new to the table but fail to understand what made both franchises so groundbreaking in the first place.

Thank you.

Compared to the Divergent series, the Hunger Games books were goddamned masterpieces.

Haven't seen the movies but powered through the audiobooks and whatever world Roth was trying to build seemed to consist mainly of abandoned Chicago, underground lairs, and train jumping.

Ellen had some nice rebounds so it was a surprise that she didn't ring in after Pranjal's "beezelbub" miss.

Beezelbub made him do it.

Even accounting for his well-known racism and hard-on for imperialism and especially his own England, he makes some completely bonkers assumptions (Lee single-handedly abolishing slavery?) to put England and his "English-speaking Association" in the best possible light.

Mentioned a few days ago about my inability to get on WoT when it first goes up and it seems the combination of using Chrome and opening the previous day's WoT and going to the "Previous" and "Next" links at the bottom of the article and before the comments, hack courtesy of a clever and considerate commenter, seems

I can tolerate a good many personal tics in the name of good playing, but his cutesy $3210 DD wager which was just shy of giving him the runaway and would have cost him the game if he had missed FJ was beyond stupid and for that reason alone he will have a long hill to climb before I start rooting for him.