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Or for the same reason they were never used in Star Trek. Masks and gloves would be obsolete by 2422 because medical technology would have developed a kind of force field that would have eliminated the risk of contamination. That was the explanation that Beverly Crusher gave in an episode of TNG as to why she never used them to examine patients or perform surgery.

I liked John's reaction when he saw that Natalie's warsuit was superior to his because she had made some upgrades to his original design that he'd never even thought of. I think that that's when he realized that she's very much her father's daughter and that he can't keep trying to protect her as though she were a helpless little girl anymore. Did anyone else find the Bizarro version of the Eiffel Tower as amusing as I did?

They expect Bizarro Lana to come looking for her so they can merge. Letting Lana in on Clark and Jordan's secret was part of their approach to warning her as well as to explaining why she had been kidnapped by Bizarros in the first place.

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And Lana herself recognized afterwards that she'd been too hard on Jordan. On the other hand, Jordan also admitted that Lana was right. Sarah is mature enough that she can handle knowing the truth, but Jordan isn't yet experienced enough with his powers to be able to protect her 24/7 once she does learn the truth and acquires a target on her back as a result of learning it. Not even his father can do that, as Lana reminded him and as his own parents would have also told him based upon their own experiences going back to long before Jordan and Jonathan were even born.

Just be glad it's not the original Silver Age Lucy from the comics. SHE was a straight-up bitch most of the time, especially when it came to how she treated her boyfriend, Jimmy Olsen!

That's missing the point, in my opinion. Seth has repeatedly said that this was never supposed to be a laugh-out-loud comedy like Family Guy. It was a gross miscalculation on FOX's part to market it as such. As he put it, he had always intended for it to be a "sci-fi/drama cake with comedy frosting," although I would say that it's really more of a comedy ganache.He means for it to be an homage to Star Trek: The Next Generation in particular, not a parody of it. That's why he's been gradually toning down the overt comedy (something that he started doing in Season 2), and now that Hulu has given him the freedom to tell stories on a more adult level than he could on FOX, he's deliberately amping up the sci-fi and drama and giving the comedy a more subtle, natural, and organic role as opposed to making the whole show a constant yukfest that overrelies on the sort of puerile toilet humor that most of us outgrew by the time we'd finished puberty. I, for one, applaud him for the new direction he's taken the show in.

Enough times to know that he was right about it never turning out well for him or anyone else, so her attempt to resurrect Frost would be an even bigger disaster, just as her attempt to bring Ronnie back almost got everyone killed. That and her own experience with Barry's attempts to rewrite his personal history to one more to his liking should have taught her that there are some things that should never be messed with. Clearly, she hasn't learned a thing, and that's why Barry literally had to go scorched earth on her to stop her in her tracks.

I knew that having Kirby discover the house and its power would be the key to stopping Harper and breaking the temporal loop chain. And it was so satisfying to see Harper getting a taste of his own medicine once Kirby figured out how to use the power of the house against him to so radically alter his existence that it completely undid everything that he had done. So I'm guessing that after Kirby had had her fill of using the house's power to set her own timeline as she wanted it, she used the house's power one last time to send it and herself back to 1848, and then killed herself to close her own temporal loop. Perhaps if there were to be a second season, it could be used to show the origin of the house and its power and how its different owners would use it over the course of time.

If there were ever a way to finally bring closure for Legends of Tomorrow fans, Dreamer's ongoing stories would be it. I've always felt that she and Brainy would have been perfect additions to the Legends, since they could definitely have used someone with her powers, and she and Brainy both would have fit right in with them and would have understood them (and vice versa) perfectly.

Especially since Lana now also knows that Jordan has developing powers. How is she going to explain to Sarah why Jordan and Jonathan are suddenly off-limits without telling her the whole truth?

Don't give me that, Eric. You owe us this after seven years of loyalty and that cliffhanger ending!

Actually, it comes from a Greek word meaning "head-foot." And it is spelled κεφαλόποδο in that language. So the hard "c" in the English is a natural, if uncommon, variant.

In the 22nd Century yet! I wonder what his reaction would be to the human Gideon if he ever met her during a crossover episode with Legends.

That was a marketing error by FOX. They made the mistake of trying to sell it as a pure comedy or mere parody of Star Trek, which was NEVER what Seth intended it to be. He himself described the show early on as "a sci-fi/drama cake with comedy frosting." So this has always been the show's intended direction from the beginning. Seth is just putting more emphasis on what he has always considered to be the true nature of the show at its core.

Actually, he's said that he's open to doing more seasons as long as the viewership is there for it.

I'll be interested to see how the rest of the season plays out. Kirby seems to be the key to breaking the neverending temporal chain, since (a) she survived when she apparently wasn't supposed to -- Harper seemed genuinely shocked to learn that she was still alive years after the first attack -- and (b) she experiences random time/reality shifts that completely threw Harper for a loop the first time he experienced one with her. She is the paradox that is also the weakest link in the chain, and she's bound to set foot in the house (and thus in Harper's native era) eventually. That should be fascinating to see.

I thought Episode 6 made that pretty clear when it gave us Harper's backstory. The house is a time portal that can take Harper from his own time (1920) up to about 70 years into the future from his point of view, but it's also a temporal loop in that he relives the same events over and over again. That's why he can predict everything his victims will do before they do it and how he was able to implant a key from 1992 into a victim he had murdered 20 years earlier. The astronomer in 1992 wasn't his most recent victim -- she was simply one link in a neverending circular chain.

So I finally broke down and subscribed to Apple TV so I could watch this, and boy, was it worth that $4.99 a month! There's not a lot that I can add to everyone's comments about how great this show is. The trailers really didn't do it justice, but I was intrigued by the premise. I can't imagine what it would be like to have my work self as a completely separate entity from my "home" self, with no knowledge or memory of my original "home" existence. But it does raise some interesting legal, ethical, and moral questions. For example, if, as Helena said, the "outie" is the REAL person, with the "innie" being basically an artificial construct that only exists as long as the workday/working life of the "innie" exists, can the "outie" be held legally responsible for something that the "innie" does while at work, and vice versa? And I assume that if something like COVID were a thing in the Severance universe, working from home would never be an option for the "innies," although they would be just as vulnerable to the spread of the pandemic as the "outies" would. So as we await Season 2, I'm sure everyone has a favorite scene from Season 1. One of mine is the scene in the garden between Irv B. and Burt G. I can understand why "fraternizing" would definitely be forbidden to the "innies" (since, the normal HR implications aside, their sole purpose is to do their jobs at Lumon, so there'd be no point to having any romantic liaisons at work because they'd never lead to anything outside of work because the would-be lovers would not even know that anyone else at work even existed "out there.") But it really was heartbreaking to see them come so close but in the end be shut down completely. I do hope there's more of a focus on that in Season 2. So, what's everyone else's favorite scene/character?

Boy, isn't THAT the truth. This is definitely a theater-quality trailer, and it makes me think that The Orville could very easily make the transition to full feature-length movies if Seth ever wanted to go in that direction after the series itself wraps up!

Good point. I mean, he didn't even tell Lois until things really started getting serious between them (and it took them both 14 years to tell their own children, and they both admit that waiting that long to tell them was a mistake). I'm still waiting for the history lesson about how and when Sam found out!

They grew up together and even dated when both were in high school. That's a far higher level than just hang-out buddies.

No apologies necessary. That was really just my bitterness talking. I agree with your point.

Yes, you are a bit late to the party. The show was officially canceled about two weeks ago.

It's a great scene, but it irritates me somewhat, since I speak fluent French, German, and Spanish, and the translation chain really begins to break down between the German and the Spanish before it gets to Lucy and back. And the German/Spanish translator's German is terrible!