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So no "The Colbys" spin-off in the works?

I think it was kind of meta for them to explain all the reasons why they couldn't have time traveled to 1917 Russia (germs, everyone speaking English). I remember back in Season 1 when Ray had to swallow some kind of futuristic pill to speak and understand another language (ironically, Russian). Zari talked about her brother a lot, I wonder if he mentioned Zari. If Nate had ever seen a picture, he'd probably make the connection.

I watch Riverdale, where Jughead and Betty are dating. Jughead's father and Betty's mother had a son who is half-brother to both Jughead and Betty.

I had two laugh out loud moments - the bird hitting the cloaked Waverider and Ava's "condolence" which was brimming with jealousy.

At least Gambi is worried about hiding secret identities. Black Lightning and Blackbird are out in the hall yelling with voice resonators and using Anissa's name.

It's like they were trying to reverse the trend over the years of Tim Allen / Mike Baxter being central in every aspect of the show. At a certain point, you can't really freshen up a sitcom. Season 8 is usually that point, like for Wings and Who's the Boss?

Kind of weird that it was easier to find out about Jake Perry through a DNA test than a records search. However, that take down was pretty cool to watch. The impotency thing could have backfired, like if he told Kristen that he banged her mom so hard he turned her evil. David appear to be the damsel in distress on the show these days.

This episode, I noticed Rockne S. O'Bannon was an executive producer. He worked on many of the 1980's Twilight Zone episodes.

I'm not one to think lightning strikes twice. I didn't even like the BSG remake and it definitely didn't follow the story of the original.

I always liked Marcus. I think he had just the right amount of self-deprecation to not make him arrogant. On the other hand, Byron was a humorless zealot who came off as a jerk because the audience already sympathized with telepaths and he constantly whined about how they were treated badly by even the people who were trying to help them.

Actually, Hulu is an even better fit because FOX (Disney) and NBC both own pieces of Hulu, although NBC now has non-voting shares. The only thing that worries me is that Disney is trying to maintain at least 3 streaming services in an attempt to collect revenue in the low-to-mid double digits every month

Being the Soviet Union, you didn't really have the option of quitting the job. But the reality is in that situation, no one really knew how dangerous it was. Acute radiation sickness kills quickly. If someone survives it, it's a matter of statistics as to how much their life gets shortened. It's the same thing for the miners. It hurts to wear a lot of safety equipment all day because you have to exert yourself even more than the job to lug around gear and breathe through filters. Imagine if you get a heart attack from that exertion, as opposed to lung disease 30 years later. As far as what the miners understood, it seemed like even the "experts" didn't really know how to make the mining process safe and still get the job done in time.

I was a physics major and I guess I know enough about about the different kinds of radiation to not be that scared of it. Even the so-called "dirty bomb" scenario would be unlikely to have a devastating effect. On the other hand, pandemics freak me the hell out. I think about the stories like the guy with Ebola in NYC a couple of years ago and that worries me.

Britbox has also distributed some classic episodes to Pluto TV. http://www.plutotv.com So, is this a new thing for British viewers? In the US, I thought classic series episodes were already available on Britbox.

It's hard to have a character driven show with so many caricatures.

That 70's show took place between Fall 1976 and December 1979. Fez was an exchange student for probably 2 years, then he was going to be deported, but he married Laurie Foreman. As for LMS, this was totally a Cousin Oliver deal. The irony is that Boyd is almost aged up to her level and we never see him.

The more places a show can be watched, the less inherent value it has. This is why local TV channels forced cable companies to block transmission of syndicated shows on non-local affiliates in the 90's. With the oldies TV channels and streaming options, it's easy to end up in a situation where the show you like is almost unavailable unless you subscribe to a lot of services or live in a big TV market. Frasier DVDs are available for $87 for all episodes, which comes out to 33 cents an episode. Of course, watching DVDs is much less convenient than streaming devices.

For the time being, even if a company goes out of business, another digital content provider buys the assets and the responsibility to make content available to the purchasers. That may change, of course, but if it does, digital purchasing will take a huge hit and people will start hoarding DVDs instead of buying streams.

Amazon has a bunch of different levels of viewing, unlike Netflix or where it's all available on subscription. If you have Amazon Prime, there are a bunch of titles that are complimentary with the service (free is kind of a misnomer). If you don't have Prime, you can buy or rent a title if it is available for sale. If you buy it, you can watch it even if you don't have Prime. My guess is that Frasier is now in the "paid" tier. This applies to your Amazon account. It doesn't matter if you watch on PC, tablet, Roku or Fire Stick.

Carbon contains a small percentage of radioactive isotopes.

The Roku Channel has a few free episodes this week, including Parts 1-3 of Chernobyl. I'm sure my college professors would be horrified if I tried to explain physics, but what the hell? I'm guessing that Lyudmilla got way more radiation by being outside the night of the explosion than during her hospital time. She probably was less irradiated by leaving the Chernobyl area before others. The danger with alpha radiation is entering the body. Breathing in the radioactive particles is a virtual death sentence. One reason the plant workers draining the tanks wouldn't die immediately is because their skin and lungs were protected by the rubber suits and external air supply. Hiroshima was the "other" kind of radiation. Upon the explosion, gamma rays were blasted in every direction and did their damage quickly. The fallout of other particles were dispersed in the stratosphere and raised the background radiation level for a period of time. Chernobyl was bad because the fallout was concentrated just above ground level. Dense radioactive smoke and particles caught the wind and dispersed slowly, increasing the danger to anyone it its path. Ironically, given the ineffectiveness of both the tunnel and the sand drops, letting it "burn itself out" was what ended up happening. This was definitely a case where the event was bad, but could have been much worse.

Maybe they should recast with the original Kristin.

I object to this show's bias against the color red.

I took a look at the upcoming schedule. Frasier is moving back an hour to 7-9pm ET

Or write fake evidence about people you don't like in your journal, because a teenage girl's musings are "evidence" now.