Or, as Jason says, like a tent.

Perfect reply. All the stars for you.

It’s not a parody. Basically, if it could be, it would just plain be a Star Trek show, but they couldn’t do that, so they got as close as they could without invoking a lawsuit. And also there’s jokes.

What I liked was that even Captain Mercer has had enough of Malloy’s crap during the course of the episode. I’d like to see a payoff for that down the line, but I doubt it will happen.

I believe when he was introduced, he was stated to be 10. Given the time that’s passed, he’s got to be around 13. I was pretty much right there with you wondering about the extremely juvenile label. Regression is not uncommon in children as a method to deal with trauma, but I don’t imagine this show is functioning on…

Crow! Crow!

Just the Ghibli Museum, apparently. Nowhere else.

My favorite tiny bit of the episode was Caitlin complaining that the entirety of her mutant medical training was “a week long course in variant human medicine”, if I recall the quote correctly. I just love tiny details that point to how a world that is otherwise familiar is affected by the presence of stuff like…

They are quite real. My small-town nowhere bank branch has one.

Well, her powers were apparently overextended by the long distance transport. This medication would stimulate the affected processes back to their normal levels. You use the same thing on a healthy individual, you get a rush and a high, and maybe systemic damage. The principle is the same in plenty of other, real…

I’ve always hated “power inhibiting collars” and the like. If it’s that easy to do, why isn’t it used literally everywhere? They’re generally depicted as universal to all powers and quite common.

She used her general knowledge of how hospitals work to fake it. She pulled on some scrubs, pulled some names off a chart on the wall, and just acted like she was supposed to be there. A little luck, the right words, and an overworked environment and she’s not even questioned.

Normal president: spins, distances themselves, maybe apologizes.

Am I the only one that noticed that the portals between realms are now identical to the ones used in Doctor Strange and Agents of SHIELD? I mean, was this already a thing and I just didn’t catch it?

You can’t even argue “changing word usage” on that one. That’s just... typos at best, laziness and/or ignorance at worst. It’s a hill I frequently find myself on as well.

This feels like a linguistic trap. I am definitely not saying that.

Battles lost. War ongoing. *shrug*

That very much depends on the nature of the dictionary I’d think, and the people running it.

We must fight this. Without it, there is no word that means specifically what “literally” means. Well, none I know. This is a hill I would choose to die on. Metaphorically.

I almost didn’t mention this, but then I saw that this came from a site called “Apartment Therapy”, so...