To be fair, Doctor Who was doing JJ Abrams-level crap before JJ Abrams was even born. The show has never been super tight on continuity past the first few seasons. 

High five for the Dark Empire love! I thought it was a really good story. My only major complaint was it being set so close chronologically to the Heir to the Empire storyline without there being any significant acknowledgement of those events.

For me, the gold standard remains the Pocket Star Trek books of the ‘80s, which never made any claims to being official canon, but could have taken place at various times within the “real” universe. They weren’t all great works of literature, but there were some very good and even exceptional books in the mix, like…

Long, talky scenes with endless exposition? Senate politics? Yet everyone points to those books as what they’d want to see in a “good” sequel trilogy.

Someone should tell Christian Weidemann about the views of the head of the Vatican Observatory, Fr. José Funes:

The problem with that being the point is that Rian Johnson then decided to make him the “Big Bad” in TLJ. A villain who is “kind of a loser” is not really on-brand for space operas in general, let alone Star Wars.

The Meteor and Coronavirus should run a fusion ticket.

The show is being filmed in Georgia around the Atlanta area, so they may have decided to relocate the story to fit the terrain.

As much as I love Weaving’s performance as Smith, his story was fully wrapped up by the end of the first three films. If they have to keep making Matrix movies, it’s really OK to move on. (Also, based on recent events in another franchise, it’s entirely possible there will be a new villain introduced in Matrix 4 who…

The Bringloids are another entry in Trek’s long, not-at-all-proud tradition of entire planets being composed of one ethnic stereotype

What’s egregious these days (I’m looking right at you Battlestar Galactica (and sometimes Game of Thrones)) was that even when limited to 10 episodes they still can’t seem to buck that percentage.

(1) The Preamble to the Constitution does not mention a “right to life,” which is what fair_n_hite_451 was explicitly referring to.

That’s not an argument — that’s literally what the law is:

if my right to life is threatened and the government tells me that there is nothing legally that can be done to prevent that threat or at the very least *prevent* the executive and legislative branches from taking actions and creating laws that facilitate that situation, then that throws into doubt the application of…

@ KatWillow: Re-read my post very carefully.  At no point do I call climate change a natural disaster.  I am referring to the asteroid hypothetical.

That’s the Declaration of Independence you’re thinking of. It has no applicability to determining what rights people have that are enforceable under the Constitution.

“C” already got used for the Carboniferous era, so Cretaceous is “K.”

IIRC, the eruption started tens of thousands of years before the Chicxulub impact, so there’s no argument it was caused by the impact.

This Wired article has more background: https://www.wired.com/story/attack-helicopter-meme-sci-fi-story/

I believe in climate change and I believe the federal government should do more to address it, but this decision was absolutely correct in my view as a lawyer. The courts are not set up to manage or oversee any sort of broad, long-term environmental program to deal with climate change. And frankly, I find the dissent…