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Saw Charlie X the other night on MeTV, this is one of my favorite episodes. It isn't often a protagonist can be so completely terrifying on one level, but then garner as much sympathy when he meets his fate. The poor kid just didn't have the maturity and experiences to deal with his abilities (and hormones). One in a long line of Star Trek's fascination with omnipotent characters. When I came aboard!

Yeah, but usually by that time the cold winter has set in. It's still fairly early in the Australia version, and there is like nothing. We have guesses for mammal, fish, and bird already. No way that's a fish, I'm thinking, but she is eating it raw, so maybe she's having sushi.

I think it's the infamous missing wolf from the season 2 intro (I think it was season 2). There was footage of a wolf charging the camera, but it never showed up during the season. There was a fair amount of discussion about it.

I think it's a combination of bad casting and a really difficult environment. The terrain is novel to look out after seeing all the North American versions of Alone, but they don't seem to be much good for supporting people trying to survive. Like the one guy said an episode or two ago, he hadn't even seen anything alive the whole time he'd been there. And the fishing seems less than ideal. I'm curious about the lady in the intro who is chewing on the ribcage of... some animal. I wonder what it is, and how she got it. Answers forthcoming, hopefully.

Duane tapped out in episode five. He says "I just need social interaction. I can't be alone". He did realize that the name of the show is literally "Alone", right?

I'd like to know specifically why Adam decided to study the manual, and why the others didn't deem it necessary. Maybe the showed a general instruction to everybody to study the manual, but I don't remember, and I'm certainly not going back to look.

I loved The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, but I don't have a PS5, I still have the 4. The great thing about those games is they were each kind of like a South Park episode. Not sure I like the Battle Royale concept though.

For all the bad and mediocre reviews on this film, I quite enjoyed it. Didn't see anything wrong with it at all, really. Could have done a smidge more with Michael Keaton, but all in all great fun, I thought.

I haven't read the Star Trek novels, but curiously they do reference the supervisor program that Gary Seven was involved with in season two of Star Trek: Picard also.

Just pointing out here, that if you watched Star Trek: Picard, there's a little easter egg about the origins of Kahn at the end of the second season.

I wonder if someone told them at some point or other, "Study the hab manual, it may come in handy"? Or if they just gave it to them and let them do what they wanted with it. Only Adam made any mention of studying the manual whenever he had the chance. Also, did they each have a copy or was there just one laying around?

That would have been good in Into Darkness, but I can't imagine anyone playing a better Kahn than Ricardo Montalban. Maybe there was some Mexican DNA spliced into his genetics. This is off topic, but did you know all the Nazis in Hogan's Heroes were played by Jewish actors? I thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.

Agreed, people are too touchy about things like that. Like Ian McKellen said, it's all pretend. What's the point of being an actor if you can't stretch a little bit? Why even have actors if you can only be yourself?

To watch the place until next season, probably.

Fully agree. It's a shame too, because Into Darkness could have been so much better. Montalban was from Mexico, but since you said Bollywood, I stated thinking about Indian actors (or actors with Indian ancestry) that were famous in the US, and how they would play Kahn. The only ones I could think of off the top of my head were Dev Patel, Kal Penn, and Kunal Nayyar (who played Raj on The Big Bang Theory). I'm sure Patel would have done a good job, and maybe even Penn, for a more quirky take. But for some reason I'd really like to see what Raj playing Kahn would be like 😄

I think the point was that Shatner was some sort of supernatural being, or had spent so much time in space that he was immune to the Mars environment. Which admittedly makes no sense, but what are you going to do?

So the original, predominant alliance votes themselves into the final three. What a surprise - not. Yawn. I won't be watching another season of this if there is one. Unless there's a celebrity that interests me for some reason. Funny, I don't remember seeing Adam's broadcast on the news. I would have thought that would have been a big deal. Oh well.

You left out the key part: "But do it because it is what you want to do". What he was saying wasn't so bad, he just phrased it kind of roughly. But he's a masculine guy, what do you expect?

The Dick Van Dyke Show was nothing if not well written.

Well, let's just say it worked for you, but not for me. I guess it goes along with all the other craziness on the show, but I didn't care for it. It smacks of being similar to wife swapping to me. Which apparently works for some people, but I still think it's jenky. If you want to do it, have at it, it's just not my cup of tea.

Good point, but I still think it's icky, and jenky.

Maybe, after all, they look like they could be in their 20s or 30s 😄

Honestly, when you said interracial component, I had to stop and think for a minute what you were talking about. Anyway, if you are uncomfortable with the word disgusted, you can substitute it with something else. You're right, this wasn't a direction that I would have taken, nor do I think it is a wise thing to do. Seriously, I doubt that most high school students would have the maturity to navigate this sort of relationship without problems, even if they approved of such a thing.

It's mainly the idea of these four close friends that we've known all this time, deciding to turn their senior year into a sexual free for all. I can't imagine doing that with my group of friends that I hung out with in high school. I guess it fits in with Archie's pursuit of beatnik sleaziness or whatever (he was always kind of a male slut on the show anyway), but it's just not my cup of tea. Oh wow, look how liberated they are. Meh. I've already explained I am old fashioned, and think people should be responsible sexually. I don't believe that sex should be the casual toy it is so often portrayed as these days. Why are you so interested in what I am disgusted by?