I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m bi and I really only care about the person’s personality when I date them. What’s between their legs is irrelevant to me (I would like kids someday, but in vitro is always an option if I can’t biologically have kids with them).

I do think fiction can affect reality, particularly when…

And me, at the time, thought Whittaker’s death was the “twist,” so I relaxed from that point on and then was properly surprised by the Dil reveal. (Chalk up missing the now-obvious breadcrumbs to me having less life experience at that point, plus seeing the relationship through a MONA LISA lens, thinking Jordan had a…

Dil says “I thought you knew,” but her follow-up is “What were you doing in the bar, if you didn’t know?” From her point of view that’s a totally reasonable question, and it’s interesting to see Jordan’s comments in this interview about the real-life bar that this was based on, because when I first saw the movie as a…

I just checked Jaye Davidson and isn’t trans. He’s also unrecognizable these days unless you know it’s him.

I haven’t seen this film in years and I don’t remember if I had the same reaction, but of all the movies to compare it to there was Ace Ventura, Pet Detective and its vomit scene that really stood out to me as hateful and disgusting. If I recall correctly The Crying Game treated Dil with more respect otherwise from…

On the official podcast, Shantel said she had 1:30 am call times to get through makeup

“ quite how our patriotic light colonel met the Glorious Leader’s objective to get to Mars, let alone be alive on it that long after.”

Not really. The weight is mainly an issue when you are trying to escape earth’s surface. Once you are in space it’s nowhere near as much of a factor. It was already established that the North Koreans had been sending up probes and satellites for the previous few years so there’s no reason why they couldn’t have sent…

https://www.si.edu/object/tray-food-heating-skylab%3Anasm_A19810315000

So I have a question. According to the show Joel Kinnaman’s character, Ed Baldwin, was born in 1932. Which means during season 4, which takes place in 1994/1995, Ed Baldwin is in his early 60's?

That argument was certainly won quickly.

“ it’s beyond implausible that some space scientist would be that ideologically committed that he’d spout blithe Soviet propaganda at Kelly.”

Didn’t Danny get grounded by NASA for falling off the wagon and getting arrested? I’m pretty sure he joined Helios because he had no other option.

I can’t be arsed with the whole Danny storyline either but to be fair, it’s not like the idea of an astronaut acting completely fucking loopy over a love triangle isn’t without precedent...

Listen I like nitpicking science goofs as much as anyone else, but it beggars belief that the communication time delay was an actual goof given they mention that very thing later in the *same* episode. Mostly likely the scene was supposed to be occurring at the beginning of the mission when they were still close to…

Just FYI but the USSR collapsed in 1991, not 1989.

Danny and Ed’s card game:

God fucking dammit. This shit pisses me the fuck off. I teach kids who have lived through severe trauma and I would be lying if I said that the track of their home life, the things they have witnessed at a young age that would send a shiver down your spine, and their lack of support system may mean that some of them…

good luck getting an apology. this is johnson county, the same place as the hooters incident from a few months ago. that asshole still has his job, by the way.

Our kids are not allowed to have childhoods. No laughter, no horseplay, no joy. None. Welcome to Continuous Traumatic Stress!