I’m okay with it, only because, top to bottom, Felicity was right. Everyone else has made a mistake, but at least Felicity tried to stop it. Hopefully the show recognizes that Ollie has made a huge mistake- that this was dumb.

The Clone Wars where when a group of Sith started cloning Jedi. Jedi were forced to confront mirror versions of themselves, designed from their very inception to be unstoppable killing machines, fueled by the Dark Side itself.

The important point: there’s an Academy that trains pilots. They’re not clones.

Right, but my point is: clone troopers is stupid. It’s boring. Limiting our view to the films, using the Clone Troopers in the NT pretty much defused any tension in the battles: you have legions of disposable robots fighting legions of disposable people. It was a poor narrative choice for a film- and I don’t care that…

The prequels can jump up my butt. They were just regular dudes who got conscripted or enlisted. Remember: Luke wanted to follow Biggs to the academy where he was going to become a fighter pilot- and then Biggs surprised him by joining the Rebellion. We hear Storm Troopers chatting like regular people having regular…

I absolutely adored everything Felicity did this episode. Too much of this season has involved characters drifting towards the inevitable with only token resistance. They’ve been so reactive. It’s nice to see someone saying, “No, fuck this, I’m not gonna let it be this way.”

That’s it. The media industry is a conservative swarm of hide-bound, trend-followers that dread any idea that can’t immediately compare to some other popular idea.

TARS was also pretty great- another tribute to 2001- the robot had more personality than the humans.

A weak attempt to tie an emotional thread into the core of the film? I remember Anne Hathaway’s monologue in the middle of the film, which was completely out of nowhere, which established the concept. It was stupid, nonsense, and didn’t fit anything we’d seen about the character, which admittedly, wasn’t much.

SGU’s problem wasn’t that it was dark- it’s that it was boring, the characters did dumb things, and half the time the core conflict of the episode was resolved by the ship making decisions for the humans. The nadir was the, “The ship’s going to fly into a star- what do we do? OH… it’s just refueling,” episode.

I feel like that’s a poor description. The plot was resolved with the power of hyperdimensional-future-humans.

Imagine a universe with two spatial dimensions- a sheet of paper. Like ours, it starts in a singularity. This singularity “Big Bangs”. Now, we need a third dimension- time. As time passes, we can view our 2D universe as going “up” in 3D- each “instant” of the 2D universe is a sheet of paper laid over the last instant.…

Both the “backwards” universe and our universe would have been created in the Big Bang. Theirs is just running in the “opposite” direction in time.

Britta’s the worst.

Honestly, I feel like they should just chuck the entire premise and make it a post-apocalyptic film where Chris Pratt plays a Mad Max/Han Solo type, and has a pack of (mutant) raptors as his sidekicks. He travels across the wasteland, righting wrongs and scraping by.

Sooooo… Supes and Bats really, really want to intimidate the superstitious criminal mind… with their junk. “I can’t possibly fight against Batman… look at the size of his junk!”

I keep pretty much any spider I find around the house. At worst, I relocate them to the garage or patio for my wife’s benefit.

Here’s one: when Foggy learns about Matt’s secret life, he breaks down and cries in front of Matt. He’s upset about the lies and scared. And when Matt realizes how he’s hurt Foggy, he starts crying too.

Or, more generally, "Don't make strangers pay attention to you, and respect their boundaries and common social conventions.."

Orrr… our assumptions are broken. I'm dubious about the need for megaengineering on galactic or even planetary scales. I would suspect that accessing more energy comes with diminishing returns.