So at the end of this show, the characters all moved to NYC despite being mostly lower-middle class slackers. And the promo material says that Cory is now a middle-school teacher. I'm interested to see what they make of that, since by rights no middle school teacher with three kids can afford to live in NYC.

Other than them all attending the same state college for funsies, I never got the impression these characters were that high up on the fiscal ladder. Shawn was from the lower class, and wasn't the dad the manager at a grocery store while the mom was stay-at-home? That's not exactly high rolling.

I regret deeply that we'll never see what he wanted to make of Anne McCaffrey's Pern. (Though the script that has surfaced is terrible, it's not clear if that copy is before or after the network interfered.)

I wish I had read the entire thread before commenting. I agree with the Gowron=Robert parallel, @bobjkoester:disqus

Gowron and King Robert Baratheon on GoT seem much alike; even before Robert was revealed as a drunk overspender on the throne, he was clearly 'not the best of the best but the best of the worst'.

West Wing became heavily reliant on flashbacks after a while, but otherwise I agree.

I'm kind of surprised they showed a shot of that horse crushing Rollo's manparts. First he's hooked up with Siggi, whom the show has explicitly said is now past childbearing years. Then they crush his junk. Maybe the show will just ignore it, or maybe we'll finally get confirmation that some of those little boys in…

This. "Manpower" is at a premium - we see repeatedly that one defeat for either side decimates the numbers of their forces such that they have to spend a few months recruiting and regrouping, with the Vikings having far fewer options. Given they live in a time when healthcare and nutrition was piss poor, your…

I don't know anything about horses and even I was like 'that looks fucking hard'.

Yeah, what I'm alluding to is that as @davidcgc:disqus says above you is correct in so far as the Kziniti were in a TAS episode and then various legal issues (mostly paying Niven, although I think he's also run hot and cold on the series over time) have prevented them from recurring, which has led to various efforts…

Maybe the men do and the women don't.

I'm not a virgin, but I'd love to hear these Breen and Changelings discuss just about anything.

The colonialism thing is debatable; true, that most countries had won or been granted freedom by then but a lot of them hadn't had it very long and the people writing those shows would have had it within their living memory. If you're my age (nearly 30) - for us, colonialism has always been over. I barely remember the…

Yeah, but the Tzenkethi are the Kzinti with the serial numbers filed off, so there are rights issues there.

It doesn't suck, but with the exception of the last 30 minutes of the finale, and the hilarious Wynn-Dukat December romance, it also gives us nothing that challenges the more iconic episodes of the series.

I don't think they're THAT powerful, so much as they're a relatively unknown major power in the Quadrant with a set of fresh legs.

The further we get from colonialism and the Space Race, the less people seem to want these space shows.

As a queer person, it's not possible for me to divorce the two issues so neatly. I've always read it as the writers needing to find a mouthpiece for 'yeah, you're freaking everyone the fuck out' and not goading towards a better response.

I know we're supposed to be slagging on her with this and jokey but I've always liked her more than most and I think she'd probably not be the worst psychiatrist in history. At the very least, she has a sympathetic ear and seems easy to talk to about things without being terribly judgmental, and those aren't terrible…

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