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That's Niven's Paradox. Or, as Larry Niven originally stated: "If it is possible to change the past, then time travel will never be invented." The reasoning is that in an infinity of time, every moment in history is simultaneously a target, causing continuous fluctuation of events, which in turn instantly resolves itself to the timeline in which there is no time travel, and therefor no flux.

Welp, this week on "Time Traveling While Black", we discover that an organization that can find costumes for the critical mission of doing whatever turns out to need doing, doesn't bother coming up with aliases ahead of time, let alone even the outline of a back story. What unit are you from? Actually, i'm in the home guard militia, but they sent here to help keep order during the festivities.

I suspect the park as it is now, is not 30 years old. I think there were smaller scale encounter venues to start with and grew as they gained popularity. I would suspect that the current incarnation that seems to occupy a huge fraction of Montana is maybe 10 years old. But they keep reusing the older robots even as they build new ones. As for the nudity, the only thing i have ever been concerned with was that it should be equal opportunity. That's a big failing in GOT. We'll see how it works out in WW.

I don't get how killing a robot's mother, extended family, and neighbors causes her to voice a secret plus commentary "it's not for you". That's video game logic. But i think non communication is the main problem, not evolving AI. While everyone knows that the big boss, an eccentric genius who might be a little unhinged, wants to give the robots more nuanced personalities, but he won't explain all the details, or how it relates to his grand vision. The head programmer is interrogating robots in admin mode, but not telling anyone so no one is checking to see how that might itself be effecting their behavior. Operations isn't telling either tech or management about the disturbing way their premium customer interacts with the robots. They just see him as a reliable source of income who also helps keep their job interesting. So tech is working on incomplete data. And management is probably not telling corporate about all the problems.

i'm pretty sure that if i were in that position, by the second day i'd be talking to all the governors, not just the rebellious ones, and ask them to appoint interim senators to be made available at the nearest air force base for expedited delivery, probably to a conference room at the pentagon.

As John Goodman and his staff, preceded by their shadows, stride towards the Oval, Bartlett's people look horrified, like junior sorcerers who've just successfully summoned a demon. It was a terrific piece of cinematography.

i was ready to quit at the end of the last season. i still am, but i'm not as mad as i was, so we'll see. Also, a couple months ago i had a benign tumor removed from my leg under local anesthesia. The doctor used a term i didn't know, subcuticular. So i said, what's the difference between subcuticular and subcutaneous. The doctor said, good question, can any of the trainees answer it? A couple said um, er, and the other three suddenly got very busy with whatever they were doing. At that moment, i felt really let down. Because if that had been Grey's season one, one of them (probably Cristina) would have elbowed someone else in the solar plexus to be first with the answer. Turns out, while subcutaneous means the fat layer underneath the skin, subcuticular means just under the first layer of skin.

Liam would be so relieved if his brother returned. Which of course would set the stage for a disillusionment subplot as big brother turns out to be less than the paragon he drew up idolizing.

A girl is not The Waif, it is just another face some no one checked out of the library.

I still want it to end in 1992. Stan travels to Moscow and finds Philip and Elizabeth working the Intourist counter.

stupid me. i thought bran was going to read young hodor and figure out how to fix grown hodor. oh hodor! :(

And now, i'm out. Shonda may continue to torture Calli, or send her away. She can keep screwing with Miranda's personality and relationships or move on to someone else. I don't care, i'm not enabling her anymore.

A tribute to Misha. This episode i completely accepted that this was a different person from Castiel.

also, it would have been cool if god had done a vessel duplication, so we could have misha playing both roles at the same time.

or, if you don't like that one, how about this: the death of god brings back death, the entity, who says there are no rules anymore so he might as well take everyone. next season, the boys must team up with amara to stop him.

also, killing god? he should have stood back up a second later and looked at amara sadly. "that hurt, but i've been killed before". amara looks alarmed "christ!" she exclaims. "i and my father are one", he says, then threatens to forgive her. she flees.

team was too light, should've had some leviathans, leftover godlings, vampires, more hunters, and a few reapers.

Tara: i think if you were in someone's lap, they'd notice you just fine. And then they'd give you a big Tatiana and Oleg shushky for yelling at the tv.

Come home, Clair Bear, all is forgiven!

Chuck finds both Winchesters dead on the floor. A pistol lies between them. And a note. "Dear God". You are even more disappointing than your universe. And between you and Amara, things are probably going to get even more screwed up than ever. So we're going to the only place left where we know we'll find peace and quiet. The Inbetween. Hope you get out of your funk and actually fix things for once. If you happen to free Cas, tell him Baby is his.

Dr. Sweet says that squid don't grow that big. And that was what they knew back then, kraken was a legend, all the squids they found were less than monstrous in size. We know better now, we've found all kinds of monster squids. So, some period accuracy there. But not literary accuracy. Sure, cinematic versions of 20,00 Leagues Under the Sea show Nemo's crew fighting giant squids or sometimes octopi. And i wouldn't be surprised if that had already started back in the magic lantern era. But. That's. Not. In. The. Book! In the book, they fight giant cuttlefish! Poor cuttlefish, the cephalopod that gets no love. Cthulhu suffers from the same revisionism. He's described as having a face resembling a cuttlefish, but that's not how he's depicted. Anyway, what i'm trying to say, is that any Verne loving zoologist, or vampire posing as one, would have said something about it.

when the shaman drank in his smoke and then we saw a montage of desert scenes, i had a sudden Billy Jack vibe. And then when Ethan was sucked into the medicine dream, it got stronger.

"if they kept their tongues" could mean "if they kept their mouths shut". cutting out tongues would be a lousy idea it would make his spies easier to identify.

In the books, Varys puts Tyrion on the boat but stays behind to take the active role he has avoided all his life, assassinating the last few left in the Lannister administration with any hope of holding things together. It didn't make sense for the showrunners to have him go onboard as well. Your explanation seems as good as any.

In the books, it has to do with demonstrable power. Practitioners of the red god's faith have always had fire rituals. Recently, these rituals have started producing real fire. That's a great asset to proselytizing. Add that it is historically a minority sect, and it's already attractive to the common people. Now it looks as if the Red God is getting ready to burn the oppressors, it's really popular.