PurpleTentacle

Finally, a 100 years before "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" happened?

Then you hated this episode? :D I don't like it. Because that is literally every other scifi, with varying shades of gray. Star Trek used to be aspirational. Sure there were flaws in the Federation, but not something as massive as this one.

Measure of a man was written by somebody with extensive knowledge of military law and court proceedings. This was clearly not. There were good parts, but the episode could have been great if the court proceedings weren't a complete clown show. Sad, really. The whole Asylum thing doesn't make a lick of sense. These writers don't know the difference between Star Fleet and the Federation, do they? That's like saying "somebody fleeing from persecution may seek asylum in the US military." Hell they don't even seem to know what Asylum is. It's certainly not "you can lie about your youself, break a bunch of laws and rise up throught the ranks in the military." I also don't love that the writers seem to want to cram current day problems into the federation, in general. Star Trek has always worked with alegory for modern problems, but the federation was mostly good, except for some insane admirals of the week. Where you could find the alegories for our modern problems was with alien races, not in the federation. Most importantly I'm frustrated with this whole storyline. We know it doesn't go anywhere substancial. The ban on genetic augementation is still around in the 24th century. (btw. maybe somebody there should have asked the Illyrian's for help, considering how big a failure rate genetic augmentations had like a 100 years after Una's trial) So what's the point here? Couldn't we have done this in a show set after ST:Picard?

Yes, blink and you miss it suggestions. Jaggers to Pip: "And as for me going to Molly's bed at night... Well... As an innocent boy from the marshes, you have not realized the truth about me. And never shall you hear it from my lips." Also earlier there was a bit of a suggestion, that he might know the ship captain, who tried to rape Pip a bit more personally. Though I didn't get the impression that he knew that the captain would go that far.

Yeah Cary has crossed over into unpleasent and not at all funny for me. While Brook does it for all the wrong reasons, at least she is trying to do and actually does do good. Cary is just a self centered asshole, who can't even be, or pretend to be, happy for his friends when they (seemingly) find success. While really awfull characters can be a lot of fun (it's always sunny), it doesn't quite work here. I think for that to work Cary isn't absurd enough and it doesn't help that he started out as a somewhat real character.

Considering some of the things I read about her, this was pretty tame. There is working hard and then there is being a slave driver. Traditional Network shows with 20+ episodes are grueling at the best of times, this seems to have been a whole nother level, with all the extra work, like singing, dancing, etc., normal Network shows don't have to deal with. It would have been more realistic to have ~16 episode seasons, but then the studio and Ryan Murphy would have raked in slightly less money. Also probably would have made for a more quality show. By season 2 the auto tune got to atrocious levels. But I guess that didn't bother the fans, so why would it bother the people running the show? Because the hair dresser intimated that somebody gave Corey premission and wouldn't even name names, it is a smear campaign against Lea Michelle? Let's say that wasn't her and/or it isn't true at all, all the other things said about her are still true and were pretty down played in this documentary...

To be honest, this was pretty much a nothing-burger. Nothing but publically availible information. Maybe it could have made for an interesting 1 hour documentary, but stretching it to over two hours was just painfull. Also at the beginning of episode 2 that message from Corey shortly before his death "Every day has been better than the last!" and everybody saying how weird and/or tragic that was... Guys, that dude was on a ton of drugs. He was literally high when he wrote that message. Of course he felt great. That's how it is before you crash.

As long as there isn't other very damning evidence, nobody is going to pay much mind what Isaac has to say. The word of a career criminal is not enough to nail anybody for anything.

And why would the testimony of a career criminal be worth anything?

She was also on Disjointed with Kathy Bates and is on a bunch of College Humor stuff. She is one of those actors who are everywhere but you don't know their names.

Utkarsh Ambudkar is currently playing Bor'Dor Dog'Son on Critical Role: I think it's fair to say that he knows a lot less about D&D than Jay, but it's still very fun. A warning though, this is in the middle of a campaign, so if you try to start here, you'll likely be very lost.

What shows have you been watching and can you recommend some? I expect the ending of shows to suck and most of the time they do. This was nice. I love that Midge and Susie are friends again. That's pretty much all I wanted from this. I'm a bit diappointed that Midge isn't back with Joel. I think after all the growing both of them have done, they would be good for each other now. Makes me even wonder if they were back together for a time and he's dead now? I thought it was pretty good. It didn't make me laugh a bunch, but I think that is because we knew most of it already. Those were some of her greatest hits, she put together for a wide audience to hear for the first time. In reality the show ran for another 10 minutes and her standup was over 7 minutes. That show ran waaaaay long. I also very rarely laugh out loud. But just today I wanted to rewatch the black lotus SNL sketch. Since I couldn't find it on youtube I put on the whole episode, intending to fast foreward through it, but got stuck on the first sketch. I don't know what it is, but Aubrey Plaza slays me. She is great in serious roles, but that is really a waste of her talents. She is a comedy genious. The rest of the episode was also great. Recently watched Louis CK's newest comedy special and that got a few smirks, nothing more. Didn't help that about one thrid were recycled jokes from the 80s, that he seemed to think were new and edgy. Another thing I watched recently, that actually did get a few genuine laughs out of me, was this comedy special by Ashley Gavin:

I have very mixed feelings about this ending and it took me a few days to collect my thoughts. First I think it was made clear that Mrs. Davis was a concious being with desires. That was made apparent by her craving the approvel of her mother. If you want to call that a subconcious or a subroutine (though calling it a subroutine is dumb) doesn't matter. That indicates that she is alive. Was she dumb? Sure, but there are millions of dumb people out there and killing them is still generally frowned upon. So I have to conclude that Simone just murdered somebody, because she didn't like her. I guess the ending is that Simone finally gets the love and approvel of her mother and Mrs. Davis can just go ahead and die in a fire? K... Also I have to say, Mrs. Davis seems to have been a massive plus for humanity. So what if she was made to satisfy and not to care? That is a hell of a lot better than nothing. Simone even had one wish. She could have wished for Davis to get her code improved, to include some compassion. I'm sure she would have agreed to that. Why would you just murder her? That being said, the mysteries were mostly wrapped up well (though who was the dude in the restaurant behind the counter when Jesus wasn't there?). Good for Mrs. Davis that christianity was literally real in this universe, so she had a holy grail to destroy. In our universe she would have been screwed. But why did she search for the holy grail at all? Yeah it was in the chicken wing mission statement, but Joy said that she had striped all references to the chicken wing company out of the AI before she put it on the internet. Did she leave in training data? She put an AI model with training data, she had trained for a chicken wing app on the internet? That doesn't make sense. You can't manually strip out things from training data. That's what makes AI such a clusterfuck. You can put filters on it, but then those filters would be blatently obvious, like "ignore all chicken wing related stuff", and would have meant that everybody should have known what Davis was made for years ago. The (not really) death centers were explained well. But what about people who still think their lifes are worthless and still want to die after riding the rollercoaster? That was a very Hollywood ending, that everybody seems to be cured by the near death experience. In reality most people won't be changed by the experience. Nice that the horse is still alive, though I don't see how Davis would have pulled off that switcheroo. Overall this was a fun show that didn't drag out its mysteries and didn't overstay its welcome. But I could have done with an ending that was a little tighter and didn't just ignore the moral question at hand.

Still seems weird. From the article you linked: Seems like that depiction was pretty harmless compared to the real guy: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1983/3/7/the-truth-about-gandhi-pbtbhe-movie/ My personal highlight is how he prevented his wife from getting penicillin, that would have saved her life, but when he was infected with Malaria, he couldn't get medicine into his veins fast enough.

Other people have answered this already. So just a tip for the future: google music search can find pretty much anything. It found the title of this song in 5 seconds. I mean it's nice that everybody on this shows seems to have bought foregiveness on sale and is now handing it to Nate as a gift, without him earning it in the slightest. That still doesn't mean that I as a viewer have to do the same or think he deserves it.

Seems weird that this is called "Clone High (2023)" instead of just "Clone High season 2", which this is. When arrested development came back it wasn't called "Arrested Development (2014)". Did the original show really get cancelled because of Gandhi? Why? He doesn't seem any more offensive than all the other characters. which is to say "very", but in an endearing way. So far this is even more funny than season 1. I approve. "Women and their glass ceilings, that they are always prancing around on top of!"

Sorry writers, the whole Nate thing is the definition of "too little, too late". There needed to be a lot more work done throughout the season to get to the point where he could come back to Richmond.

Those were just sensory deprevation glasses and drugs. VR glasses are quite a bit bigger. Why not just a blindfold to make it clearer? I don't know.

So why did Jim Moss just let Barry walk out of there? Even if he thinks that Cousineau is the mastermind behind the scenes, Barry is still a killer who killed countless people, including his daughter. This is very, very contrived writing.

I was wondering if I had missed an episode. That was a weird way to reveal that. Especially since they made it seem like Nate was fired. It makes more sense that he quit. But even for that there was very little buildup. This season is really uneven. Seems like they squandered time in the beginning episodes and are now desperatly trying to get everything done before the end.

First of all I want to clarify Perchtenlaufen isn't a german holiday. It's bavarian and austrian. They are weird down there. Roy looks good in colour, but I think he looks best in "no shirt". Though if he was wearing "no shirt" all the time, I probably wouldn't get any of what's happening in scenes he's in, because I would be too distracted. After Roy said "I will cut your eyes out", that was a genuine break from Phil Dunster, wasn't it? You know it's nice that this still has a lot of comedy. A lot of dramedies have the tendency to drift into full on drama in their last season *cough* Barry *cough*. Of course Ted Lasso always tended more towards the comedy than the drama, but still. This episode was really fun. Roy being in a place where he can be with Keeley and they can be good for each other is nice. Rebecca getting completely over Rupert is nice. Rebecca sticking it to the asshole billionair is nice. Keeley getting to be her own boss and to work with Barbara was nice. Nice things all around.

He said it himself shortly before Sam mentioned the gambling debts: "The New York Knicks have been blowing some very large second half leads."

Somebody went up that beam of light at very fast speeds. Nobody came down. So I think it's pretty clear that that beam sucked somebody off and sucked them off good.

That's what I was thinking. The obvious choice would be Hetty, since she's grown so much in recent times, or maybe Alberta since she's solved her murder and forgave a friend. But if the last cliffhanger is any indication, it's going to be a basement ghost. Although the reason why they rushed Alberta's murder mystery, that could have easily gone on for another season, might have been that Danielle Pinnock wants off the show. Guess we'll see.

There was some stuffing going on there, right? I could swear in one shot there was less filling. I mean once the writers had decided, that Mary had made the grail out of her son's skull, there was really only one casting choice. 😉 Also is Mary Mrs. Davis in some shape or form? They have the same goal and Mrs. Davis is called Madonna in Italy... That can't just be a coincidence, right?