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But where can I get my own horned helmet?

I'd say we've crossed the threshold of everybody reading it should have finished by now or stayed out until they did. Let there be Spoilage I think Grace got used to hearing the notes for the words they meant, as noted he stopped relying on the spreadsheet and at the very end was speaking with...

that's kinda taken out of context. The people who didn't like any of the new shows (and it happens every time), it's tied to not being like what they're used to.

that's a bit better, but given that there's less testing on <18s, they ought to be due the $1mil and the grups can get $300K. Ageism goes both ways. Young folks want the moolah!

hmm, $5 million vs. college scholarship? Give me the $5 million and I'll decide on my own education path. if you truly got $5 mil (taxes on prizes or payout schedules are weird), that's a $100K salary for 50 years. Surely outside of Harvard, one can go to college for less than that a year...

I'll check back when this thread pops back up near the top... :)

Finished HM last night. Anybody else ready to talk about it? I don't recall this being a full spoilers thread, so I can wait... :)

I'm a little over 70%. Stuff is going wrong now. Still a bit simplistic in problem/solution setup. Now I thought The Martian was a continuous stack of every step had a problem (and immediate solution). Perhaps in this book he's trying a different approach. Haven't read Artemis, so I'm not...

We saw it. Early thoughts are that it looked fun. And that they had a ready excuse for allowing SOME time travel. Just not Loki's. Crazy Idea #1 discounting bubblegum kid pointing to the devil in the church (probably Mephisto), when Moebius tells Loki that the threat who is killing his men...

not quite. It is true that people who like Trek, but hate some series or other, it's likely because it's not what they're familiar with. New fans don't grok TOS. old fans don't like Disco. But Voyager's episodicness and hand-me downedness cripples it with choices the writers made that get...

Shives did a pretty good job summarizing the many issues of Voyager (might have some swearing?): His core beef is that Voyager got hand-me down ideas like Q and the Borg, best exemplified by the fact that Garret Wang's uniform included Brent Spiner's shoes because they reused that. Most the...

Indeed. Like TNG, DS9 delivers powerful episodes. Not all the time, but, the entire cast had amazing arcs in away that TNG as an episodic series couldn't. Nog's journey from scamp to Starfleet Officer, for instance. Which is a stark contrast to virtually no growth arc for Voyager characters...

Series: TNG DS9 PIC TOS DIS ENT LD TAS VOY DS9 really picked up its game, but TNG set it all up that the others from its era built off of. I like Discovery, but it is so ADD fast paced that it loses the concept of exploring worlds and travelling in space itself is part of the pacing. Voyager...

I had a thought, so I checked. This book was published on May 4th, 2021. I'm going to guess it took the publisher a year to turn this out from the initial manuscript Weir sent in. So he did likely did NOT write this in 2020. The book is too optimistic about the world coming together to solve...

he dropped the silly not-swearing-isms early enough. Clearly trying to foreshadow a person who watched what theys said. I'm not seeing a problem with it. I'm still somewhere in the book. Hard to say without spoilers. One difference between Martian and Mary is the former had dang near...

aye, there is that. I just don't know what to do about the many blasphemies of Snarf. Perhaps it is a matter for the Pastriarchy to decide.

I was at a con with a bunch of Lost people on a panel and I think it was Michael Emmerson said he had a chat with one of the producers. That yielded this nugget: people loved or hated the ending because Lost had good characters and intriguing plot, but the ending focussed only on Character and...

started it a couple days ago. I'm about yay far into it. Hard to talk about where without spoiling. It's a neat little puzzle, kind of reminds me of the hitch hiker's guide text adventure game where you wake up after transporting onto the vogon ship and have to figure out what sense to use.

I disagree with this metric because networks are fickle and actual good shows do get canceled without an ending. Netflix is notorious for this (ex. The OA). We could just as easily sample all sci-fi shows first 13 episodes so they all have a level playing field. Its possible other favorite...

This is great, and the key difference in this piece is that you didn't stupidly say Cannoli isn't Dessert. You don't like Cannoli. Got it. I'm not big on them either. You also didn't gripe about this one special ingredient cannoli some guy said he was gonna make, but his place got shut down...