ON BOARD

Platonic? BLASPHEMY!

I just finished Jo Walton's Among Others— I loved the bookish adolescence and the ambiguity of everyday magic, though it made me realize that I have read less classic (pre-1989) SF than I thought I had! I also read Shanna Mahin's Oh! You Pretty Things this week, which was very funny and also surprisingly smart and…

By usual TV-logic, a supporting character who survives the episode will live. At least until the next moment with a significant emotional impact.

That part where he is sitting on the floor in the middle of the exercise looking sadly into space was too relatable.

A+ would ship again

IMPORTANT QUESTION: we have now seen Meat Cute selling to a non-zombie clientele, but do we have evidence that they butcher anything besides people there? Is this going in a Sweeney Todd direction? Because I am seriously squicked out by cannibalism and don't know if I can handle that.

Ugh, this is spot on, but even I can't float that ship… there is a difference between "douchey bad boy" and "straight up murderer."

I'm pretty sure it slipped past you because it was ret-conned in during the webisodes. We're told BSG is just super post-gender-trouble, but I find it awfully convenient that the future is so liberated that gay people are completely invisible.

Oh the Zeta Project. I used to ship that handsome robot and his teenage-girl sidekick. Really though, if they weren't eventually going to make out I'm not sure where that show was going.

Rafael delivering some serious Romantic Lead Face.

I was surprised no one else said anything about the slit-mouthed woman! Are all three ghosts associated with contemporary legends? Because I don't recognize the cancerous husband, but it seems like a strange lack of symmetry.

Wait, what evidence do we have that Mindy is not that manipulative? Admittedly I don't think she could keep up a long con, but I fully buy that she could have faked a diary and then completely forgotten about it.

Team Make-outs.

Agreed. Shipping it. (I would reconsider my OTP if the show could manage to make Katrina something other than a walking MacGuffin.)

(Re: Jane/Raphael) Don't care, shipping it.

The reasons for Jane's anger are set up sort of abstractly—she is mad that Michael lied, because everyone is lying to her right now— but the photos of the affair are also damning information about a woman she was going to give her biological child to. I'd say it's pretty objectively terrible for Michael to not tell…

I feel like a traitor, based on my love for the pilot episodes, but… I was a little disappointed? The artwork seems cheaper, and there is too much real-world grounding and not enough weirdness.

I'll ship it.

Hawley = Douchebag Indiana Jones.