Wow, that's so gross, but not surprising. Children are capable of baffling cruelty when they haven't developed their sense of empathy yet. It doesn't mean they're all sociopaths, but it certainly means their parents need to bring their attention to sympathetic pain.

That's so hilarious in an "Is this really happening" kind of way. I can imagine the awkwardness, but that clearly comes with the territory. I think the speaker should have had someone help him with his presentation, so he wasn't being so overtly defensive about his statements (which just called attention to the worst…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus The Ferengi of DS9 are a good example of how to organically transform viewer perception of established sci-fi species. Nog, Quark and Rom implemented so much retroactive continuity that improved how viewers perceived their culture. I'm surprised Enterprise failed to…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Well, that's an idealized assumption about behavior in a cataclysm, lol. I don't know that morality would play such a significant role when seating space is limited on the arks. At best I could see them collecting maybe 2000 representatives from each of the other species…

…Oh, I didn't realize that all the Irathi we've seen in town are Spirit Riders. I thought there were non-aligned Irathi wandering about on their own. Ehh, they could still have a colony of Irathients nearby I suppose.

I don't know that there was a formal encampment option by Irisa's place (I think she just informally invited them over herself). I know the Riders were packing up their roller and mentioned that they couldn't actually leave the town. I'm not sure where they were intending to go during that scene, but definitely they…

I liked that they attempted meaningful storytelling (though they didn't hit their mark), but, unfortunately, their presentation of it was pretty scattered. I wouldn't want them to be less daring, yet I'd rather they get their act together first lol. Like, right now, I don't think the writing team has shown an ability…

The Legacy Virus was a mess. It was a deus ex machina meant to remove useless characters via dramatic deaths, but its trajectory kept changing at the whims of each creative team. The fact that they even pursued the HIV allegory was short-sighted in that they clearly didn't have a plan for this narrative, nor did they…

Well, the thing with ICBMs is their ballistic trajectory (they're not actually flying). You just aim them at an angle and let them rocket off until their fuel runs out. Unlike airplanes, which use wings to maintain altitude, ICBMs don't care to maintain altitude: they fall in a parabolic arc and just crash into their…

Haha, yes, I totally disdain the Falling Skies human cast! I don't hate them anymore though. In previous seasons I've been forcing myself to tolerate them just so I can enjoy the sci-fi of the show, but I watched all three episodes in a row this past Sunday and the humans turned out to be … surmountable.

@Douay-Rheims-Challoner:disqus I felt that the fanbase needed an explanation for why Enterprise Vulcans (who were a century prior to Spock) had clear differences in societal norms in comparison to the familiar versions. Instead of going, "Well, I guess these are the bipolar Vulcans" the fanbase acted like it's…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus As I understand from SyFy's official timeline, the Arks and terraformation technology were all created by the Indogene. I'm actually not seeing how any of the other races had anything to do with interstellar travel. Maybe the Castithans paid for the development and labor…

Yes, the Biomen design looks cartoonishly exaggerated. I can see what they were going for, but those neck and shoulder muscles look soooo fake (because they don't move/flex). Still, the Biomen represents the pinnacle of human bioengineering, so it would be nice to see some of that level of tech trickle down to the…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Yes, I can see how the show wanted to look so full of everything (terraformed terrain, high tech falling from the sky, many aliens, new monsters, etc), but they've clearly backed-off from that robustness after the premiere. Narratively, it's smart to focus the stories,…

Yep, that was a ridiculous failure in logic: let's quarantine only the immune carriers of the disease, but let's allow the very people who succumb to it to wander about in the triage tent. On top of that, they thought that bunching up people, who could then transmit the plague amongst themselves, would be an even…

Yes, that confrontation with the rock-throwing Castithans was because the Spirit Riders couldn't leave town. They came in to gather supplies for Sukar and whatnot, and then the E-rep quarantined the place. That apparently became the excuse for people to say, "See? They're not voluntarily staying in their homes! We…

Hah, yes, I fail at biochem apparently. Though I already knew that chlorine is hazardous in a biological sense (hence its use as a disinfectant), I somehow thought that the show was implying a more specific vulnerability for the Irathients. Let's just pretend I mentioned something smart instead.

Yes, I think the fact that I lost track of the timeline is what made me have all these other expectations about what I'd like to see in the show. Now that I see they're really just recently recuperating from massive upheaval, I can see how maybe life hasn't gotten back to normal just yet. However, a decade-and-a-half…

Doc Yewll said they dropped off the viral meds using an old ICBM lol. They literally launched a missile at Defiance. Honestly, if they would just work on their nanites they wouldn't need to indulge such ridiculousness. I'm guessing San Fran was equipped with missile launchers during the war, and now those things are…

Well, okay. I still think biochemical differences between species would make things like allergies and dietary incompatibility pretty evident. I mean, even among humans there is a difference in lactose tolerance, coriander/cilantro reception, and pollen and dander irritation. It would be interesting to casually…