It was such a great show! Great cast! (I will watch Enrico Colantoni in anything, so any time Elias was on the show was a treat) It played within the confines of a network procedural show and still told a Big Ideas™ sci-fi story.

I know this is basically reprinting a press release, but Chicago Fire instead of the topical-to-io9 Person of Interest as the thing to recognize Shahi from?

Slay: if they don’t find a way to get Pam Grier in for even a small cameo, it will prove that there is nothing good left in the world.

I’m not particularly expecting a “dramatic final chapter”, but more of a caesura. The show has pretty doggedly switch genres with every episode, which to me reads as a show that intends to stick it out for the long haul: each week something different. An anthology series that is allowed to reuse sets, basically.

Can we just take a moment to be sad that Jess Harnell’s excellent mashup band, Rock Sugar, could never work out the rights issues to keep making albums? And recognize that his voice talent is just beyond everything?

Am I nuts, or is there no “Contacts” widget? I _just_ upgraded from iOS11 (shut up), and I used to have a “starred contacts” section on that screen. Now I can’t seem to add one. That was my main wait to actually contact people.

If that is why Campion didn’t get radiation sickness, it’d be nice if the show told the audience that. And I don’t even want to get into the Super Shredder thing.

The flying snake monster made me wish I was watching From Beyond, which did weird alien snake monsters better (even though I HATE From Beyond as a movie)

I sorta gave the article a skim, and plan to watch the episode later today. I honestly don’t need anything wrapped up- I just need to know the show has a sense of direction. That it’s more than just random “wouldn’t it be cool if…” moments, that plot threads like “Campion doesn’t get radiation sickness” actually mean…

I haven’t watched the last episode, but I find myself hoping that it gives me something to latch onto in terms of “is there any point to all this”. It’s just been asking questions this whole time, and answering questions that I never had, and I just don’t know if it has a direction. And really, that’s all I want: I’ll…

April 1st, already? Boy, this year is just flying by. The pandemic is really distorting my sense of time.

Gods, 2020 just keeps getting worse. (I joke, but Gary is best in small doses, and I’m not excited about him being a bigger part of the show unless his character undergoes some serious growth real fast)

The description in the article makes it sound more interesting than the actual movie. I watched it, and immediately forgot about it until this article. I watched it because someone told me, “Oh, it’s way better than the trailer looks,” and while that may be true, it’s not so good that it leaves any impact on you.

I mean, at the second episode, it was very clear that this was an anthology series with through-lines, and I don’t know that it’s fair to expect things to wrap up in a cohesive fashion. That’s not what the show’s trying to do.

Okay, the Call looks legitimately hilarious. If the movie doesn’t devolve into 80% filler, and just keeps to the stupid premise, it could be a real winner.

I mean, if somebody made a movie that you can watch both backwards and forwards, I’d be impressed regardless of the content.

This description makes me think about fugues. A structure for a musical composition, which plays with time and space: your theme appears forwards, backwards, inverted, and undergoes mutations, all according to the rules of a complex, technical method. A great fugue is a triumph, but a poor fugue is just mechanical and…

Not to mention that, like most polytheistic traditions, they were highly syncretic, picking up new gods from trading partners. Not quite to the same extremes as the Romans, who collected gods faster than they collected new territories during the imperial period, but fast.

I was more talking about the musical numbers, and specifically, the musical style. I mean, I didn’t say that, so no points off for not getting that or anything, but like the whole top-40 electropop villain song was very much not my jam.

I mean, “kid builds rocket and has weird adventures” was 100% one of my favorite types of stories growing up. I still have fond memories of “The Explorers” (which I have not rewatched so that they stay fond). And I read a bunch of the Mushroom Planet books, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the…