@Dunny0: Yes, THANK YOU! Shadowrun in many set the standard for a lot of the "Magic comes back" themes.

@bohica: Sigh. He wanted both. His motivations changed as often as the smurfs' heights. And yes, I am mildly ashamed that I can remember that but still bone my applied mechanics test.

@JRD_2: NO, there's a ton of wiggle room there. There's certainly precedent for a prophet to be lifted bodily into heaven, at least in the judeo-christian mythos, which could be a perfectly reasonable alternate explanation of what we saw.

This was one of the best they've done. The climax really was spectacularly deftly handled and the desperate dialing for protection was exciting and scary and awesome. ANd yeah, Greer was a total badass.

@Beld: They have a still and have placed an understandably high priority on feeding it. Sure, it's not as hot as gas or kerosene or napalm, but it's still, y'know, fire.

@squidink: Well, you're kinda presuming you understand the correct interpretation of time's role in the universe. There's more than a few loopholes in physics (the Many Worlds Interpretation in particular) where such shenanigans are not forbidden.

@astrogea: Why no one think she could be an alien as well? Well, that's what I was alluding to by referencing "star trek communicators". Or if you want to get REALLY out there, "earthlings with access to hidden, advanced technology". Or, y'know, a hearing aid or shadow.

@Snafu77: Sigh. No, I spose it's hyperbole. But boy am I cheesed off. There's just so much cool potential there. Sigh.

Saw this pop up on abovetopsecret (I loves me some conspiracy theories. They're great sci-fi and sometimes they're true.) a couple of days ago. It's been fun watching it percolate through the web since.

I really enjoyed the earthquake-in-the-store scene. It was great to see Jim doing the primal Daddy Protector thing, combined with the superpower team-up for superjenga.

SON. OF. A. WHORE.

Special props for putting up the audiobook version of "Wee Free Men". The Briggs readings are really the only way to experience Discworld.

@crunks: No, that one's just too damn painful and sad. It was so effective it must be blocked from memory.

Eh, this ep left me cold. The aisle of terror ending was pretty darned predictable, IMHO. I think it would've worked a LOT better as two separate eps — there was just too much crammed in there with both momma-spy and the englund stunt-casting.

I simply do not understand all the Enterprise-hatin' that goes on in geekdom. Yes, the theme was atrocious, but it had some damn fine stories and characters. The dark universe stuff, all the vulcan politics/nascent civil war, and the Andorians! Enterprise was freakin' awesome and anyone who thinks otherwise has an…

@captainhampton: "C'mon, maaan! Everyone ELSE has a left-handedly chiral tertiary folding structure. You don't want to be not cool, do you?"

@WookieLifeDay: Well, yeah, it's not like a biological virus. It's a protein that's the wrong shape, that when it contacts other proteins can inspire them to, likewise, fold wrong.

@99TelepodProblems: *snerk* I will never forget the night that I, an innocent then-17-year-old, picked up a couple of random videos to watch on a summer night.

Huh. I hadn't realized the amyloid plaques worked like that. I thought they were a by-product of a faulty process, not a dominating geometry. Sounds a lot like the way CJD/mad cow disease works. It's like a cross between ice-9, the andromeda strain, and a computer virus. It's a self-replicating informational system…

Colossus, huh? Huh. For old sci-fi movies not in the campy/B class, it's one of the best. Great story, great acting, and the central conceit is gripping, to say the least.