True, and why I very much liked the movie. But there is a great deal of room for disagreement about the kinds of "possible" that are acceptable. Every portrayal of a future world is an impossibility but some are more plausible than other. Plausibility is subjective in that it often depends upon personal knowledge. My…

It's really hard to know what to make of John. Alien abduction is nonsense. What they are supposedly doing in nonsense. Well, aliens doing nonsense is perfectly appropriate for a farce, which is one thing this show is. (Do not argue unless you can explain how a scene of a short guy not reaching a top shelf is…

There is something about "contact," though.

Thinking in another language will not enable you to see the future. Referencing Whorf-Sapir doesn't help.

Contrast the depiction of the Man in Black with the depiction of Logan. The *show* despises Logan, even if he is the only human who believes the robots are simply machines, end of story. I daresay the writers believe any member of the audience who doesn't hate and despite Logan more than any one else (well, again,…

William's willingness to ditch his fiancee for a sex doll isn't very appetizing. The way no one uses her name is very artificial and stilted, very bad dialogue and false characterization. Serves the purpose of misrepresenting what William is doing though. I'm not altogether sure why William thinks Dolores loves him…

Example of an execration: "A MAN MURDERING A PRISONER FOR MOUTHING OFF IS NOT A HERO! And it's not entertainment either!"

Saw him most recently in an episode of Major Crimes, where he played a flamboyant gay murderer (in a Murder on the Oriental Express style plot about a little colony of retirees from an old TV crime show.) Showed him with an entirely different personality from Barney Miller and the execrable Firefly. Although the…

Frank's idea of labor organizing is improving the infrastructure for private business. (Hence the bribes.) Simon wants to tell us the way things are is invincible and unchanging, but labor "leaders" like Frank are the culmination of a long process of union busting. Taft-Hartley and the McCarthyite purges are only…

History began in 1968? Google Harry Bridges, and compare the Frank character. A Frank, who is basically a version of Jimmy Hoffa played tragic, is not the old labor guy who's been beat down by the system. Frank is a business guy who climbed to the top of the union as part of a labor breaking movement, with the…

Couldn't finish the first season, partly because Rust was such a ridiculous character. And the flashback/interrogation set up was even more ridiculous. People are not functional while hallucinating.

Breaking Bad is fundamentally an old style tragedy, where a man's flaws lead him to downfall. Walt's fear of death led him to crime in a vain attempt to matter in a way that suited his vanity. But along the way, the show was also a fun and games of bad ass hero (the Team Walt approach to watching.) That sort of thing…

Personally I'm not quite as convinced that supercool shots that stick in the memory are quite so essential to movie greatness. By that standard, Independence Day blowing up the White House is one of the greatest movies ever made, no?

A) Flashpoint Cisco was a depressive dick, clearly indicated as such.
B) The woman with billionaire Cisco was not there for Cisco. True, they didn't show a price tag dangling from a breast, but it was as obvious as they could make it for an 8 o'clock show the kiddies might watch.
C) True, but irrelevant.

Seems like Cisco's on/off powers are only off when it comes to Flashpoint. Nothing would reconcile Cisco and Barry as much as Cisco discovering he was a depressed billionaire dick who had to pay for sex in Flashpoint. I think.

Well, the prospect of getting "answers" about the alien invasion and it's defeated is…not very enticing.

The point of the novel was obscure, so it seems pretty inevitable the movie would be too. My best guess is the novel was anti-Susan in the end. But even if it wasn't it wasn't real keen on surfaces, which sure doesn't sound like something a fashionista would get.

Don't know what Scotsman director has to do with it, Hell or High Water was written by Taylor Sheridan. There's much about that movie that is truly excellent. But the movie has country music videos in it…and the very best parts are bits by character actors in digressions. Don't really get why main characters do what…

The movie is about the arrival of daughter Hannah.

Personally don't believe strong versions of Whorf-Sapir. As I understand it, French doesn't have a term for "consciousness" in the sense of self-awareness, of sapience (or sentience.) And German doesn't have a verb for vaginal intercourse. And English doesn't have a noun for the meaty flavor the Japanese call "umami."…