she was basically being psychologically tortured (by the concept of her husband dying) and torture victims aren't reliable witnesses.

Eh, I take everything Elizabeth says with a grain of salt. She's proven herself to be a monster many times. Who knows, this could be a purity test for Phillip. The way she looked at him as he was faltering didn't read "you poor thing, this must be so hard on you" to me. It read "do your job, you coward."

Henry is the only self-actualized human on this show.

Why mess with perfection?

having a movie about an advanced post-scarcity spacefaring civilization resolving problems by having the captain of the ship and another guy whale on each other is a proud Star Trek tradition.

Uh, Wesley, modulate the main deflector shield or something

Yeah this is basically Iron Council

Well, he's Martian, not Middle Eastern, but point remains.

This is kind of a good point. Westeros is multicultural Essos' backwater (analogous to how Europe was, for most of history, in Braudel's formulation, an "Asian peninsula.")

"Rush is a band, not an entire genre of stuff"

Weird callout of Hyperion, in that the 7 pilgrims are pretty diverse by fantasy standards.

Moblin Strike

It's easy to forget because Keri Russell is so freaking good at selling the lie, but Elizabeth is a monster. I'm not sure that ceremony meant a thing to her other than reprogramming Philip.

Oh that's so good baby, now describe a doublet for me

Looking forward to the end game: who are the remaining goats? I feel like any of the remaining contestants would win a final 3 with Troy and Michaela. Other than that, the edit has not given me any reason to think Aubry has a chance.

There is something about Andrea's volucrine features that I find interesting. One minute I think "wow, this is one of the prettiest people I've ever seen" and the next minute I think "whoa, this lady looks like Kyle Korver."

Meh, Survivor history is rife with the broken dreams of players who thought they could wait a week to vote out a potential winner. A decent plan that at least accomplishes a goal this week is better than a cunning plan next week.

The fundamentals of the economy are not good if you bought the rights to sports content at the top of the bubble at the same time 10,000 people a day are cutting the cord.

I tried to get through this but for a comedy it's strangely lacking in jokes. say what you will about Napolean Dynamite, at least it's an ethos.

Watched it recently - the effects hold up surprisingly well. The bugs move around so much that you can never really focus on them to see how shitty they (probably) look.