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Again, that suggests that mankind somehow survives forever, or even a million more years. Far, far from guaranteed.

There's also an easily probable combination of time travel being possible but humankind being wiped out before discovering/inventing it.

Access to time travel doesn't require massive amounts of power or some other limiter that keeps it in the hands of very few?

Unless, say, Hitler's and the Nazis' actions serve as an essential historical lesson, preventing countless future genocides, maybe even the destruction of entire species. Time and history are incredibly complex.

Thanks for the answer, btw, makes sense.

A criminal organization keeping a limbless guy alive for 30 years so they don't screw up time is crazy creepy. I don't suspect they're going to be especially kind to him through those decades.

There are certainly degrees of likelihood of a wound being fatal. Arrows have far less energy behind them than bullets. Makes a tremendous difference in likelihood of lethality.

Huge step up from last season.

I appreciate it for the way it's different from Smallville, where there was a constant sense of fakeness due to how infrequently anyone ever died. I'm not someone who particularly likes killing in his entertainment, just someone who dislikes constant, utterly unrealistic temporary knock-outs...

One thing I don't exactly follow: if Joe killing himself eliminates his future self — which I get, based on the way time travel is presented — why didn't they simply kill the younger version of the one escaped older Looper, the one they cut bits off of? If you're going to do all of that horrible...

Indeed. I suspect that if asked about you, they would note that your thinking seems slow, that you can't easily take in bits and pieces of many streams of information, quickly coalescing them into a whole impression, including very complex models of social interaction. To be clear, I don't mean...

Saw it tonight. Really, really great film. Much (much) more violent than I expected, which I don't actually enjoy anymore, but still, amazing film.

It doesn't mean the material is gone, it means its structure has decayed beyond our ability to get information out of it. The material didn't (necessarily) cease to exist. In a decade, or two, or ten, we might be able to, I don't know, measure lingering quarks or something. Effectively look...

It's certainly not a matter of not "bothering", for me. I've been ADD all my life and have never had anything resembling attention for single, slow presentations of anything. Because this was as fast as it was I didn't have to multi-task, didn't have to switch away from watching (much), and so...

Wow, wish they'd filmed that. Crazy powerful, and agreed, much more satisfying. Thanks for pointing it out.

On the other hand, science is wrong about stuff like this all the time. Techniques for recovering decayed DNA will improve, and what looks unrecoverable today may well be completely doable one, five, ten years from now.

1. Well done, and well-explained. 2. Loved the many in-jokes. 3. LOVED the speed, both of his speaking and the many visual references. Actually kept my attention throughout, which is very, very rare.

Much better than I expected. I watched all of Smallville, despite cringing through huge swaths of it, and though I kind of liked their depiction of Oliver Queen, this one is already much more interesting. Actually killing people with his arrows and hands made ia big difference, to me.

Feral dogs surviving in the wild would never abandon their kill like that. There's no way that guy's downing enough food to feed himself and all of those dogs. Bugged the hell out of me, along with asthma boy not running like hell once free, instead skulking around extremely visibly. Blah, so...

Smokin' deal, some really well-received stuff, much of which I've been wanting to read. Snapped it up the minute I heard about it.