He’s considered a catch in hell.

The only lesson they want to teach us plebeians in this regard is the same it’s been for thousands of years - quod licet iovi, non licet bovi (colloquically: “Gods may do what cattle may not”).

That’s barely a blip on the Kylo Ren scale, but it did make me laugh.

But calicos are adorable. Who wouldn’t start a war humanitarian invention over this little fellow?

Pacta sunt servanda - agreements must be kept.

What I find most infuriating is the luddite, fundamentalist critique of technology as inherently bad, culminating in a finale that can only be described as disturbing: Remember how everyone, and I do mean everyone just magically agrees to destroy the fleet, and with it almost all the technology, agrees with not…

(the interior sets of the ships were monotonous and unimaginative, while the exterior shots were made up of the fugliest CGI since Alex Mack)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark has the same problem, yet is still an awesome film.

Of course the top brass in the military and government of the twelve colonies must have been an incredible band of morons and idiots to make the decision of connecting their entire fleet via “the internet” (the “defense mainframe” as it was called in the show), given that their only antagonist and entire raîson d’être…

Because that’s exactly how it was written.

Which is why Babylon 5, a show that predates BSG for a decade, was such a visionary show for its time and has held up reasonably well (cheap special effects aside). The detailed series bible JMS wrote well before the pilot was filmed ensured that the dense mythology remained coherent right until the end. The man even…

Hollywood seems to love ginger cats.

Wes Anderson raises his hand politely.

If he starts moving around on a hover suspensor the young interns have cause to worry.

Nowadays the conventional wisdom is that you need to leave some money on the table if you want the couple of stars plus deep bench necessary to win a championship. Lebron is getting max money for four years, so he’s not doing that. Understandable, but how will he get the assets needed to make a serious run at another…

Farscape in HD?

Our system of international relations is more robust and can take more damage than its rudimentary predecessor of 1914. We have established and settled international law, international courts, the UN, the WTO, the OECD, a number of other global organizations and an intricate global economy that enforces a minimum…

He’s the inverse of Chuck Norris.

Cheating and treason are a matter of political survival for the Republican Party. That’s what distinguishes it from actual conservative parties in liberal democracies, parties whose policies are less extremist, appeal to a broader electorate and allow them to gain majorities fair and square.

That’s true. It didn’t make much of a buzz in theatres and among critics, even though it’s one of the best movies of its genre. I wonder why it wasn’t a bigger thing at the time?