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That's kind of both prequel and spin off because it's not really featuring Walt.

Last season seems several hundred years ago.

That's as relevant as ever and always a welcome plot on any show for me. I certainly enjoyed the longer run time to give more heft to the Builders plot. I liked that the show was willing to go there and show the Kaylon killing the children. I actually would like if some of the Builders escape and we run into them at some point. Although they don't really say how long it has been since then. Clearly, long enough that Isaac is a second generation, but that's not overly long that any survivors would be died out. I also liked how the entire debacle basically centered around that the CEO treated the Kaylon as the Ford Pinto. I liked the humor though. It was well timed and placed. The whole dinner scene was hilarious. From the wine to asking if Kelly mated with Ed to Gordon, and then Bortus sticking the whole landing - They are *awful*. Not at all. That's why I like the show. The plan was doomed to blow up and was just ridiculous. It was worth it for Ed and Kelly to have to open some wounds, but no, they shouldn't have been there. They handwaved it fairly enough, but I like that they aren't the flagship of the Union. I mean, they said, the Union is looking for all the friends they can make with the Krill out and Kaylon still a threat. Maybe the Admiralty is just sending out ships on a long shot to a whole bunch of smaller civilizations. "Man haters? Send Ed and Kelly. They usually come up with something borderline." I've said before that I don't feel the Union is that established as an entity so they just might not have the personnel. I actually would like to see an episode from the Admiralty pov with all of our favorites just to hear them all complaining. You're not going to get much discussion of the Union itself in terms of governance unless you're in the higher levels. I don't even recall if there's a president of Earth or whatever. I didn't think it was that extreme until Kelly said all that. I thought it was more '50s housewife'. That's a huge bridge to gap there and underscores how desperate the Union is.

She also killed it in the Boondocks.

Brilliant. She could do the flute solo in place of the sax at the end. EPMD did a song called The Steve Martin, but it's about a dance based on the 70s 'wild' Steve Martin.

There is no hip hop artist in the 80s that didn't sample Funky Drummer. To be fair, there wasn't any laws about sampling and paying royalties back then because it was so unprecedented. In fact, PE had a song about it on that Nation of Millions record for sampling. I thought it was just hilarious that Mabel was freaking about how she knew the song without ever hearing it before, and Charles was so nonchalant about how every rapper has sampled it because I thought of Funky Drummer immediately. Mabel's reaction of relief that she wasn't crazy was just as good.

Vamanos Pest, obvs.

She moved and made a rustling sound that attracted the culprit. Unless it was Theo seeing some debris, he couldn't have heard here. The figure was thin. It could have been the baby daddy.

They also might not solve the murder this season, but solve the art theft and all that too. There's a lot more going on than last season.

I'd be fine if the Dimas' were the culprits here. They clearly have motive. I don't think the guy in the hall was Teddy because he wasn't big enough, and I don't think Theo would have heard Lucy though. Nina's babydaddy could be the culprit and just not told her too. I figure we have to have seen everyone involved by now. I was hoping Lucy would stick around, but clearly, she's got to return. The whole album was hilarious, but the icing was that Charles is pulling $200K/year from rappers sampling the song. Oliver's loss of breath was a brilliant reaction.

Like people now wouldn't do that if there was the technology.

It's my weekend movie. I better get some good Rudy.

'Human Isaac' sure had the same stiffness in his walk and positioning with the arms, so I would think they're the same.

The space station debris was from somewhere else. They all went to check it out and were housed by the Kaylon. It seemed to be a ruse by them to lure out the Union to get the time travel device.

I thought it was going to be on IMBD again.

To be fair, Oliver was the one who shut the door. That's entirely in character.

I know we're at the point of just riffing, and that is a strong indicator of a good episode. Certainly anyone in the military gets all the vaccinations, so to be fair, Gordon could have brought back some disease that in 2422 they have vaccines, but could have wiped out everyone. I thought it was funny that they mentioned covid because I'm not sure 400 years later that was even well known beyond an historical footnote.

He sang a lot on American Dad too. Really funny songs. I don't think it would be too hard for Ed et al. in 2422 to track Gordon's descendants from 2025. They found the obit fast enough. With the computing power they have and the digital fingerprints we leave, certainly they could track some of them if they couldn't do all. Sure though, other people that were influenced and affected by him, there's no way to track that. I was thinking they were going to find one of Gordon's descendants actually did something like Nobel level good and have to make the decision to take him out of 2015. However, Gordon isn't a bad guy, and he pointed out that Ed and Kelly were still there, so while it's not certain that he didn't cause any big problems; it is likely imo. That's why we fit probability distributions to everything because we don't know how things happen; rainfall, radioactive decay, and so on. It seems more likely to me that him being there affected nothing at all. I'm not complaining. I like the show. It's been B+ for me this season, but these last two were solid As. Really, they could have made this alone a 2 hour movie.

Or tennis players when they serve.

And the episode of Farscape where they thought they were helping. Very much no. Clearly, this temporal directive practically terrifies the Union. I wonder if something did happen that led to it being policy? People in general are poor at risk mitigation and only fix things after something goes wrong. Seemingly this was a proactive policy. On the one hand, I would have thought maybe they worked out a way to have a 2025 Gordon live his life, as they showed, it was a full life and nothing went wrong. Presumably, they could have tracked his descendants, as I said before. On the other, just ripping Gordon out of his new life is kind of bold. I mean, it's Seth's show; I give him credit for playing Ed so harsh. Bringing in Talla at the end and just being like, yeah we're going back to 2015 and you're not going to know this anyway is stone cold. But as John said, that universe has been created now with the 96 y/o Gordon. I would like to see how that plays out. The show has been really good with its own continuity so I don't think this is a one off plot. Not for nothing too Ed, you guys went down to the out of phase planet and Kelly ended up creating a religion. So, not quite a temporal directive, but still not so smooth there either.

I was surprised the entire ship went back. I thought they would have 'beamed' Ed and Kelly or LaMarr, or Claire to go down and locate him and then like open some window to take them back. Many of you all called that there was going to be some plot where Isaac and Charly had to work together. I mean, not surprising, but I liked that it was paired with getting the mineral or whatever it was. I don't know if anyone watches Farscape, but I was thinking about Kansas and Moya hiding out when they were showing the Orville behind the Moon. I thought it was interesting that Ed and Kelly were so hardline with Gordon. I really liked the three of them arguing about it. They were all really good. Grimes really shined. Same with the conversation with his wife. The derivative scene would have been the wife being 'oh you lied to me all this time; how can I trust you blah blah'. I did like how the time jumps were so violent. Technically, though, at the end, any ship can disengage the quantum drive, and just drive into the future. I was also surprised that Ed and Kelly told Gordon the whole deal too. I wonder if they told him he lived to 96. The other on that; if they got his obit, surely they could have seen what his descendents did. Sure, make the attempt, but if amounted to just regular people (not influencing the Union), they could have just faked his death. On the other hand, this was a cruel ending, which I kind of like too. I do kind of hope that they somehow figure out that this bites them in the future. Those are called 'Hugo' iirc. Those might be just books. I paused to read it. He was just a pilot for a small place and built his own plane. So what? I liked the episode, but I would have liked in their argument if Gordon had said, 'what did I do that was so bad?' Because he did say, 'maybe my son is your ancestor to Kelly,' and that the Union clearly still exists, but a more salient question is Gordon's influence on his family goes down through the centuries to where the whole Krill and Kaylon mess is averted.

I had the same problem with Star Trek - why do these ships not have rear guns? Babylon 5 ships were much better engineered. I am glad that Gordon went down to engineering and was intending to destroy the time device and just that the explosion sent him off instead of him thinking he could just do back and do something. It was kind of nice that it seemed he lived a good life. He built his own plane!

I actually enjoyed the Russia plot. I grew up with the Cold War, and it's a movie/show/whatever set in the 80s. You kind of can't not have some Soviet plot.

Gomez's reaction shot of terror when Bunny started crying was brilliant. I enjoyed the tragedy that the three of them could have just invited her in and maybe saved her life. They cut off the episode when Mabel ran into Bunny in her apartment, but at the same time, that's when the guys got the text to get off the roof and out of the building. If they're being framed, then someone they know had to have seen something to warn them who hasn't spoken up yet.

Probably a before it became monthly and after the 2010s. There used to be actual entertainment journalism. Feature length articles. Even Steven King's column was a good op-ed on pop culture things. The movie critics actually knew what they were talking about and they dug up films that aren't going to get a lot of coverage. Being in a large metro area, I hopped on the bus and went all over to art house theaters and the like to catch these gems. I liked the 'what to watch' every week because it would tip me off to shows I might not have known about. They even had content on like SciFi tv movies to check out. I think when they either folded into or were bought by People is when they dived because it was all those 'blurb' articles and much more superficial than actually written and edited articles. No more gems, no more what to watch. Tragic. I think I had been a subscriber since 1995 - 2017 or 18. I still read it digitally, but I just got to the point where it was too much garbage.