By the way, http://www.armagideon-time.com is constantly unearthing cool old comics shit like this. Including this very story, years ago.
Oh for fuck's sake, can literally NO ONE referencing this story credit the people who actually wrote and drew it? Script by Frank Doyle, pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by John D'Agostino. That wasn't so hard, was it?
I guess the CLS is very much a "frontier" sect, so it makes sense.
What is with Mormons and SF? They're in Starship Troopers too, and in a similar role of "missionairies/colonists who push past the frontier". And of course there are a lot of Mormon SF writers, most notably Orson Scott Card. Is that a thing with them. the idea of space colonization? Like Scientologists?
Very good to hear. After an otherwise really good episode I was really disappointed that the ending here seemed to be pointing towards space zombies. Still holding out hope that there's aliens behind all this and they're more sophisticated than the traditional "infect you and steal your brain" types.
I get the impression the Outer Planets aren't exactly major players—they're little mining colonies millions of miles from anywhere, which is why they're bound together as an organization in order to be politically effective. There's the implication that Phoebe base invented/stumbled onto some scientific secret that…
But X-Files is from a period when shows were about more than the "arc". They produced several single episodes that are among the greatest ever to air on TV, and a lot of others that range from good to great. Compared to that, Fringe having a better ongoing storyline (up until the point where it all collapses into…
Yup. Fringe's arc is great til season 4, then it just becomes garbage. The writers—typically for a JJ Abrams production—were way too enamoured of the radical status quo shift, to the point where everything became incoherent. "Suddenly, it's six years later and the characters are veteranarians in New Jersey? WHAAAAAA?"
As long as we're talking Bowie on Conan: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I have one related to that. When I was about 8 my pal's parents rented a movie called One Crazy Summer (I believe). Typical stupid mid-80s shenanigans, but PG-rated (again, I believe). About all I remember is that Bobcat Goldthwaite's in it.
Raising Gazorpazorp is 50% genius—the storyline with Morty becoming a parent. The dumb, obvious gender-based gags of the "planet of women" plot are crap, though, and frankly beneath this show. This and Futurama demonstrate that SF cartoons should really, REALLY not attempt "WOMEN BE SHOPPIN'" jokes.
If there's one thing I'm positive we'll see in the next season premiere it's Jerry being a happily brainwashed citizen of the Federation, so that's sort of heading in that direction already.
Now, Squanchy…if we'd seen him get peppered with bullets I'd have no problem believing they were going to kill him off. They even had a meta conversation about how tiresome the character was already getting.
Agreed. No way is Birdperson dead. If he'd gotten stuck as a one-note joke they might be considering it, but in his, like, ten minutes of screentime on the entire series so far he's become a beautifully fleshed-out character AND he serves a narrative purpose of being the voice of wisdom.
The show backs away from heavy continuity, but not that much. I mean, c'mon. This episode literally saw the return of the bug-cops from the pilot. Whatever happens to get the Federation off their backs, they're not just going to vanish forever.
Yep, if it was just Rick, obviously he'd be a terrorist, but Birdperson is cool. The Federation probably is generally well meaning but is packed with corruption and systemic injustice causing it to do lots of evil shitty things, but by the same token the staunchest opponents are a bunch of horrible insane violent…
Jerry is apparently enjoying life under the Federation, so they must be at least a *little* bit awful.
See, I think the fact that Mr. Poopy Butt-hole explicitly suggested a prison break premiere for next year makes it super likely that we'll get something completely different.