Crap. This JUST got added to my DirecTV package like a month or two ago. Something. One day just suddenly I noticed it was there. In SD, but still. I hadn’t watched it much due to just not feeling like TV in general , but I caught at least one episode of the 90s Outer Limits show and was very happy about that.

This seems to have been cropped to remove any details that might credit the original source.

The rest of the movie could be utter garbage, but I’ll call it a win if they do a satisfying take on the intro from the show. Opening credits sequences are pretty out of fashion these days, but they can make or break an anthology series, and AYAOTD had a real winner. It needs to be a significant part of any adaptation.

I seem to recall that generally “Santa” gifts magically appeared overnight (or while we were out to dinner, which was a pretty darn neat trick the first time it happened), and were not wrapped. Other gifts did come explicitly from parents (and others), and typically were wrapped, and were usually under the tree for…

Mesh support really did do a lot to kill that “best Lego set in the universe” feeling that building with prims in-world gave. I still create with mesh in Blender for SL, but far less freely than when I could just start plunking down prims and seeing what I came up with.

This is covered in the story.

I’m good with this. Accent, sure. Also name, fashion sense, attitude, everything completely manufactured because she decided to radically reinvent herself.

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…