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I don’t think this feels quite like Steve Rogers, but I get why they want to make a contrast between him and Sam for storytelling purposes.

I think it’s worth remembering quite a few moments in Steve’s career where he broke the law for higher reasons and did *not* expect to pay the consequences. For example, in the…

Your film prof was right. The movie definitely is not saying that the Native Americans were savages who needed saving. Getting angry at the film over its message requires an aggressive capacity for missing the point.

Captain Jack’s immortality (or near-immortality, considering that we’re meant to understand that he does eventually die as the Face of Boh) is a result of Rose Tyler looking into the Heart of the TARDIS and “editing” Time so that Jack can’t die any more.

FIOS, yeah. I agree it’s only Doctor Who.

I thought this was flashes of great speechifying and characterization drowned in a bath of narrative incoherence.

A version of Outpost that actually works! 21 years later than promised, but ok, better late than never.

I really think we need a fifty-year moratorium on the line of dialogue, “It has begun”.

I’m kind of confused about the status of the no-kill rule.

Considering that Beyond Earth was sub-mediocre—easily one of the most disappointing game buys I’ve had in recent years—getting to “awesome” would be a hell of a feat. I’m remembering that this site was a big booster of Beyond Earth when it first came out, so some real caveat emptor is required here.

Bummer. I liked my theory.

Ok, so here I’m thinking something interesting.

It pretty much as to be Kim Stanley Robinson. Everyone else just about treats Mars as an empty signifier. Whatever they want, it’s there: awesomely naked Red Women and beautifully savage Green warriors are not in that sense very far from self-doubting humans becoming Martians after an apocalypse. I think only Robinson…

There is a strange confusion here between “people looking at satellites”/”people flying in the air” and “people”. (The NASA page shares this a bit.)

Fundamentally, there is no confusion about whether Mount Meru is erupting because there’s half a million people living in a substantial city about 9 miles from Mount…

I’ve always liked Reed Richards as a character even as writers have done their best to make him unlikeable. And I’ve always liked the FF, most intensely in Byrne’s run on the book.

I wish they’d just let the Daleks revert to the Terry Nation estate and let them do whatever the fuck they want with them. Let them pitch a sitcom based on the Daleks to HBO, whatever. Then the Doctor can have an honest to god win over them and banish them from time and space for good.

It’s not optimistic at all, but neither does Butler want to tell it as a story of simple nihilistic despair. It’s a story of inevitable loss in the face of a greater power that believes what it does is good. What was so revolutionary about this series was that Butler shook off SF’s habit of telling contact stories…

I’m sorry, but the story that no one did anything has been soundly refuted. This is another misreporting of the case that shows largely that once it achieved mythic status it became impossible to dislodge from people’s imagination.

100% my own thought. Bob and Helen have to guide a new generation and it doesn’t go well. At first. Let’s skip the atomic bombs and prison part. Rivalry w/own children a requisite part, though.

I wasn’t wild about Civil War either but you’re getting Cap’s side wrong.