Fantastic! …I wonder what else is in that little notebook.

Hmm. That was…well, maybe if I understood the language. Or why that guy's wearing such a flamboyant jacket.

I believe the AD discussion is being held over at the Community board.

I'm with Yuri on this.

SPOILING IN LIGHT
When Boxleitner leans into the frame, I just lose it. Every time, without fail.

Ulysse 31.

Yes, we're occasionally cruel like that. Opa!

The whole body-swap thing was a really surprising idea- especially that they would not only go to that, but use it for something beyond a simple gimmick episode and tie it in to a serious turn in character development.

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Yes, but Singer's questions were probably something like "Hey James, did not knowing anything about time travel, string theory, and multiverses hurt the box office take of Avatar any?"
Betcha Kaku couldn't answer that as well as Cameron can.

Oooh, synchronicity. I just caught up with the back-half of the show this week (everything after MuppetsAngels take Manhattan).
Maybe disappointing slog is a touch strong, but it did leave me somewhat worried. The Pond's departure had been handled…badly, let's say, and I was hoping the rest of the season would wash…

We tend to call it football, actually. :-)

And hotdamn, Bayern vs. Borussia was one the best finals I've seen in a long time.

Loki1001, meet The Prisoner. The Prisoner, meet Loki1001 (and be gentle).

ESB was the first movie I saw in a cinema. Nearly pissed myself from terror in the Dark Side Cave scene, too. The whole experience seriously f*cked up my approach to Star Wars. Getting introduced to it via the dark, scary, downbeat Empire makes it much more difficult to accept the kid-ODing-on-sugar happy…

Oh damn. And I was watching Discovery again day before yesterday…

I'll pretty much agree with what most folks have said (more eloquently, of course).
The characters were still recognizable as themselves, and at the same time had been stripped down (only metaphorically, *sigh*) to their basic writers bible descriptions. Thinking about it -and it's an indication that the writing team…

I may have overreacted a little. Apologies.

It's just that to me the term parable means something more specific than just "a story similar to another story". Actually, overstating the Obama connection kind of gets in the way of something much more interesting. And that is that throughout the Western world -at least,…

By your description, they took "Wrath of Khan", stripped away all the compelling story about friendship and youth, turned everything else up to 15, and hey presto! New Trek! (which sounds very much like a true sequel to the previous movie, come to think of it)

"…this does, after all, seem like a parable of the Obama era, at least to these American eyes".

Todd, not everything is about you. Get over it.

Seriously, though. While there may be similarities, I'd put that down to the folks writing Borgen being well tuned into the cyclical nature of politics and current public…

@Long Distance Baller, you seem to be expecting the show to fit particular templates. Male vs. Female behaviour, Idealism vs. Scheming etc. Based on the 2+ seasons I've seen, do not expect things to come so very neatly packaged. In fact that's one of the reasons I enjoy it so much.

The "gearing up to fight the Centauri" bit makes the whole "Munich 2259" thing much more of a gut punch, as Rowan writes down below. But it's also a reminder of how ClarkGov has cut B5 out of the loop, and another not-too-subtle (but SUBTLETY IS FOR THE WEAK!) hint that there might be some sort of common agenda…