I like the Morrowind take on the Empire, where they’re basically the British during the days of the Raj.

That ties into the gimmick - they all were commissioned to create an original song, but all of them had to be called “Let It Die”. Also a nice nod to Suda51's own comments about game dev and punk aesthetic, and into Grasshopper’s company motto: “Punk’s Not Dead”.

There was originally a trans character in The Matrix too, but they couldn’t get it past the studio. (Switch was going to be one gender inside the Matrix, and another out - tying into Morpheus’ line about how the you in the Matrix was based on your self-image. I really wish it had made it into the film as it’s an…

May gets sent to pick Aida up and take her to the final showdown with Eli - that’s the other place it could have happened.

Marvel has form for ignoring crossovers that fail and running with those that work. The original Civil War was immediately retconned as a Skrull psy-ops precursor to Secret Invasion. Which really didn’t explain it, but everyone went with it as a way to ignore it. Meanwhile Secret Invasion was great and also acted as…

So did this one not get folded into the rest?

Undead G-Man got a cameo in one of the Secret Wars books last year (Attilan Rising), though sadly Knuckles didn’t appear.

And don’t forget Knuckles O’Shaughnessy!

Ah, I forgot about King Kai’s planet having higher gravity. Good catch.

Do any non-Saiyans train in the gravity machine? I thought the only reason it worked for them was because of how their bodies respond to stress and injury.

There’s also the child version of Ford running around, though given the two year gap the actor might change too much with age to make that workable.

They did leave themselves a back door for Ford coming back - the mysterious Host he was creating in his lab when Bernard visited it. If that Host was built in his image, he could have sent it to the stage to die (or appear to) in his place. Or he could have planned some odd mental upload thing - perhaps there’s more…

The two techs that Maeve has wrapped around her finger confirmed for her that all hosts have an explosive charge embedded in their spines that will explode if they are brought out of the park. Extreme DRM.

James White’s Sector General books would make an excellent TV series, but they’re a bit too obscure to pull the ratings.

It seems at this point that there are different loop lengths for different hosts. Dolores is clearly on a 24 hour loop normally - wake up, go to town, paint, get murdered, repeat. Whereas the Hector storyline we see the MiB interfere in would normally play out over multiple days - Hector isn’t expecting the gang to…

One other thing confirmed in this episode that skated right past a lot of people: despite a lot of assumptions, it’s not confirmed that not every host in the park is locked into a 24-hour loop like Dolores. Hector and his gang’s story seems designed to play out over several days - without the Man In Black’s…

The most commonly used fan term I’ve seen is “expy” - short for “exported character”. It comes from the tabletop RPG world, where it’s very common for players to create characters who are pretty obviously Legolas/Doctor Who/The Dread Pirate Roberts etc but exported into Fantasy World X.

Some more good debunking of this here. And a picture for good measure.

What is it with these knee-jerk “this isn’t immediately explicable so I hate it” reviews lately?

What is it with these knee-jerk “this isn’t immediately explicable so I hate it” reviews lately?