Actually, I’m not quite “duck and cover” old. But I’d say at least 30% of the popular media in my childhood (I was always a scifi fan) had man-made worldwide apocalypse as a theme, either as a current plot point or part of its back story. I’d say my age group didn’t necessarily FEAR it, but we did sort of just assume…

Yeah, it was going to be so awesome after we rebuilt from the nuclear war....

I would assume the perception of Wing as the “best” series has much to do with the fact that it was the first to air on American television. It holds a special nostalgic place, and that’s hard to compete with.

That shuttle crash really was one of the finest examples of such a thing I’ve ever seen. Tense, understated, gripping, emotional but never over the top. The computer steadily repeating the ground warning, but never blaring ridiculous alarms. The actual visuals of the impacts and the rear section shearing away. I was…

Hm, LA, you’re right... well, I guess that puts it solidly in season 3 then. The first half of it was ok anyway.

Oh, that’s an unfortunate coincidence (and typo). I thought you were talking about Spacey when you said “Rapp rape”, which would have been a somewhat extreme description of the incident described. But you mean Fatty Arbuckle and Virginia Rappe.

If she could have just gotten past the whole killing Fester and stealing his money bit, she would have been a really quite fine addition to their family.

I couldn’t help but laugh immediately when she spoke for the first time, as I flashed back to her work on cheezy action cartoon “Mummies Alive!”. It seemed almost too specific (if obscure) of a reference not to be a call-back of some sort.

No, those were the people injured in the nerve gas attack, not the truck drivers.

TOS wasn’t all that subtle in general, but that episode was a particularly large sledgehammer....

I quite similarly find it frustrating when people wish me a “blessed day”. Been hearing that more often lately.

Indeed! Despite it having a lot of conceptual similarity to the Black Mirror episode (I didn’t see the Community one people have mentioned), it did ultimately go a somewhat different and interesting way with it.

Obviously there are some holes in the concept, but it seems clear that the badges were functionally legit. And also that their society doesn’t put a lot of value on keeping track of peoples’ personal information. Only their up/downvotes matter. The thing I found most odd was that they got the badges so easily, and for…

I definitely felt like this was the most “balanced” episode to date, in terms of the use of humor. It integrated well into the plot, rarely felt forced into the moment, and when it did stray into the juvenile, the characters were called on it and paid consequences for it.

This is FASCINATING. Two people interpreting this allegorical incident as representing diametrically opposed positions on the political/philosophical scale. Never have I seen such clear evidence that these behaviors are identical, despite supposedly being “right” or “left”.

Worth mentioning that this would probably push the society into chaos as actual horrible crimes go unpunished too (remember, this is the entirety of their legal system apparently). I mean, I suppose your life is trashed with that many downvotes, but a mass murderer would still get released back into the general…

Nah, no way Bundy would be VP.

I have seen several stories on this, and I’ve found one issue confusing and in need of clarification. Does EVERYTHING need a fix, or just the devices operating as access points? Typically access points are called out, but then the rest of the writing seems to imply ALL devices using wifi are directly affected. Of…

Thing is, they’ve had portals in OUAT before, and they were a much simpler affair. The MCU-style portal is a complex affair with all kinds of crazy particle fire/spark/smoke. It can’t possibly be cheaper than what they used to use.

I think Malloy gave him a look for “Chris and Devon”, but otherwise it seemed to generally go the other direction.