I'm not on board with that opinion of BSG, which I think was excellent from start to finish. And all stories are made up as the author goes along. That's literally the definition of a fictional story.

The real hand waving I had to do was from Alex both flying the ship and firing the weapons. Those are both full time jobs. In fact, the weapons would possibly require multiple gunners. The show made it seem like Alex could fly and take out that stealth ship all by himself.

I have to wonder if Amos has had something similar to the brain frying done to him, and he's aware of the problem. Perhaps it's not as complete of an empathy destruction as the Doc thinks.

This show kicked it up a notch starting around episode eight last year, and I think that was from the slow burn really paying off. I was watching it sort of dutifully because of the dearth of hard sci-fi on TV, and so I was unprepared for the thrill it gave me when Miller and the Rocinante crew converveged in the…

If they don't, then dropping it again makes sense. But I did think dropping a strong sci-fi show after one year was a mistake. It's exactly the kind of show that can build a big following between it's first and second seasons, which is no longer the rarity it once was.

Sometimes I watch this show twice.

Yeah, that was one of those moments (or two of those moments) when the show really feels as if it were being made in 1987.

I had to go google Lynn Whitfield after bringing this up. First, damn, she is 62 now. Second, damn, she is one hot 62 year old woman. Still looking very fine.

It made me giggle.

Sure, I noticed that. But they dealt with it, which I wasn't sure they would after they romanticized Bonnie and Clyde. And Lucy passed real judgement when she got back and learned he did it anyway. And it's a strong point to equate Nazis with their feckless enablers.

I remember it being great and Lynn Whitfield being especially great. But it was 25 years ago, so who knows? But now I want to check it out again.

During last week's preview, I said to myself, "they are going to use Lindbergh? Man, Lindbergh was a Nazi asshole. If they portray him as the all American guy and ignore that part, ima be pissed." So good on ya, Timeless. Good on ya.

The Doctor works for an anonymous Mr Big, who turns out to be Ms Big and is played by Oprah. In the season finale, The Doctor tracks down Oprah, whom Maddie was in cahoots with all the time. And she introduces them in the last shot:

ABP sounds like Robocop's political world done straight rather than as satire, and as if policing like that is a feature rather than a bug. In other words, perfect TV drama for the country of Trump.

Call me when they stop fucking around and go straight to 24: Xenophobia

I broke my SNL boycott to watch this … because Melissa McCarthy. It was hilarious … because Melissa McCarthy. It was also solid writing, and the combo of the two was reminiscent of what made Tina Fey's Sarah Palin the most important and effective piece of satire of the past 30 years.

Tucker Carlson usually urinates in the chocolate fountain.

We elected Trump, so is it ever really going to be too soon again?

Sounds like it would have been a smart idea to make the kid a serial killer and go in a very different direction.

I think CGI use is mostly a crutch, often fucking up beyond all belief what might otherwise have been good movies had they been forced to think rather than digitize their way through their stories. But, man, you should really find a better whipping boy than Pirates of the Caribbean, which utilized CGI properly for a…