I also caught Manchester’s apparent believe he is a Martian, though the bit I heard was “our world”, in clear reference to Mars. I thought that was strange and interesting.

This was most definitely the vibe I was starting to get off this. They make a big deal out of cybernetically augmented individuals and AIs, specifically so they can call out taking them off the table. The word “augmentation” seemed especially loaded, given its past use to refer to the genetically enhanced supermen of…

I am occasionally exposed to this show when other members of my household watch it, and I typically find myself forgetting it is meant to be a period piece at all until suddenly, oh, old timey school room or oil lamp or some specific piece of clothing. For the most part all the costumes, sets, everything look…

I guess we have a few possible options on the drinking thing. One is that everything is something like Star Trek’s synthahol, and the intoxicating effects are easily dismissed. Another is that treatments to rapidly nullify the effects of intoxicants are readily available. And I guess a third is that Gordon just drinks…

I read this and all I could think was that this was an absolutely beautiful experience you’ve shared. Such a simple thing, but beautiful. Thank you.

Two GMG site reviews and neither one of them (nor any of the comments apparently) picked up on or saw fit to to mention the subtle irony of using Devil’s Tower as a site to control an alien spacecraft destroying super weapon?

Two GMG site reviews and neither one of them (nor any of the comments apparently) picked up on or saw fit to to mention the subtle irony of using Devil’s Tower as a site to control an alien spacecraft destroying super weapon?

All hail Shadow.

I do remember the enormous cans of Aquanet in my grandmother’s bathroom. Quite similar I guess.

Well, both my mother and grandmother, both very white women, used to carry them in their purses, and before a certain (very young) age, I just assumed that was the kind of comb women used for some reason. So I’m going to go with maybe on that one.

When I read “comb” I immediately pictured one of those hair picks, which are basically large, short-handled forks and often very sharp. Granted, the story does simply say “comb”, but if one assumes a little imprecision in language or lack of specificity in storytelling, it makes good logical sense.

This was definitely the same sort of line of thought I was having. I found myself wondering if by the end of the season there’d be a Union/Moclan war. Perhaps not that extreme, but almost certainly a breakdown in diplomatic ties.

Indeed, he was quite the shellformer, with weirdly shaped panels that didn’t really fit together easily or well. Nifty shark when you got him together though, with a baked-in pose. Sky-Byte was even nicer, as he had a far more elaborate paint job.

Sky-Byte’s original toy is Transmetal 2 Cybershark from Beast Wars. So... valid description.

Not sure if weird sarcasm, but... I mean, yeah. There’s a disassembled communicator that Reno was stripping for parts on the table where the implant was picked up from.

The cortical implant was pretty clearly built out of parts from a communicator. Now, question the likelihood of THAT if you like and I won’t argue, but it was there in the scene.

It did look pretty fatal. Barry seemed a little shocked and perhaps horrified that he’d survived.

We always used to put PB in the fridge. I loved eating big spoonfuls of it. When it’s cold it stays nicely on the spoon and has a nice firmness. I much prefer that, if it’s a standalone snack. If it’s for sandwich though, yeah, not so good.

Wayyy too many syllables. May I suggest “Plop Pocket”?

I’m going to assume that there’s a seamless universal translator at work somewhere, generally, because otherwise I go mad. That said, there’s a simple reason why everything else gets translated, but “Gilliac” does not: it’s a proper noun. As a general rule, proper nouns are not translated even if they have a known…