It's one thing to say our society has a hard time having honest conversations about race, sexuality, violence, etc, and people are nervous about someone getting upset about something they say. It's another to just use "politically correct" as code for "I can't say all the racist/sexist/homophobic things I want".…

maybe the organizers hadn't seen the film in a while as well. it wasn't a very well attended screening, as I recall. so perhaps others who remembered the film already saw the disconnect…..

that's an awful scene; so coercive.

i have seen a theme that runs through Altman's films; as much as I have enjoyed them…..

And you can hate misogyny and the military industrial complex and also understand how misogyny is a tool of that complex. The idea that women are weak and lesser than men has also been used as an insult to men who aren't acting "manly" (i.e. aggressive) enough, which is a perfect way to convince men that signing up to…

hmm….as an aside, I am not sure of the note on this page that JL's "working class hero" radar went up and caused him to make these remarks about GM. From what I've read, JL's upbringing was more middle class than the other Beatles' as well as GM's. I mean, did his Aunt Mimi have to work after her husband died? By…

I also really appreciated the work he and his son did on the Love soundtrack. I didn't think it would hold much of interest when I was first given it, but I was wrong.

agreed; he was a handsome fella…..

I also thought it was George Martin who came up with and "performed" the piano crash that ended A Day in the Life/St Pepper album. And that has always struck me as a fantastic way to end that album.

As impressive as the corralling of talent and chemistry was with the 4 Beatles, I really believe that their trajectory would have been less powerful without the guidance and support they received - particularly in the beginning - from both Brian Epstein and George Martin. Sir George was really their 5th member, and…

A class act is a good way to describe him. As magical as the Beatles grouping proved to be, the 4 lads sure weren't easy to put up with many times. And he did it all with such grace.

i presumed that communication grids were starting to falter under the weight of too many panicked users, as well as the fact that once things do start to go wrong, there weren't going to be enough power company/IT/etc employees well enough to fix things (a long time ago I had some involvement in pandemic flu prep).

i would have had the exact same reaction. "i know why i'm here driving on this sidewalk. what are you dummies doing here?"

and what was the point of CSM being in SC anyway? couldn't he have found as much solitude in rural VA or MD, and still been in proximity to DC?

I admit to not remembering a lot of x-files details around William (it has been a long time since I have revisited those episodes), but I am pretty sure the adoption process happened when he was pretty young.

^^^ for sure. I was suggesting a hybrid disease that doesn't necessarily exist - something that had the high fatality rate of ebola in many areas of the world combined with being spread as easily as the common cold.

i actually am not sure smallpox in the form we know it is quite that deadly. if it didn't kill off all humans when it was in full force being combated with less medical technology than we have now, it might not be quick or powerful enough. it also doesn't spread quite as easily as it would need to. ebola spreading…

i believe that was all a fantasy sequence. a "what if"….

maybe they should have contacted you to consult/write this season…..

this episode really tried to cram too much into 40 minutes. as a fan of the mythology episodes, I would have been fine if most of this six-episode season was spent on that.