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Only 4 episodes left. Plot points dangling

It's complicated.

Ok, you have two repeats about some "bioweapon" in this episode, just before Miller gets his ass fired for being too competent for once. (he's supposed to be a joke of a cop, if you haven't guessed. Dawes stresses the point, although you may not understand the context) My own speculation is...

Depends on the nature of the "intervention". A state must regulate markets; fully unregulated markets lead to inefficients/dysfunctional markets due to various effects, including monopolies, cartels, monopsonies, and all kind of funky and unexpected stuff and so on. However, deciding what the...

Side note: it's not as if there's not precedent enough for this in SF: That's basically the On-Off star used inA Deepness in the Skywhere Transcendent technology is used to temporarily modify local space-time and enable advanced computing systems that are otherwise impossible, and they use the...

And, presumably, that's why they did it, straight out of the box, in the very first scenes. "This is not just a Lord of the Rings copy" is a necessity in a world where The Hobbit trilogy just finished last year and having played Gollum(!!!) is a major career move for an actor.

QFT. You had half a second early in the first episode to tell you that real shit is coming, and that's all until probably "Windmills" (ep 7).

More of the same, roughly. I'm not even sure I picked the 4th book.

You could argue that it's more gory, since instead of blowing the station, he leads an assault with a company of space marines. He has orders to retake the station for the corp. that owns it, not to blow an expensive piece of infrastructure to bits. His marines kill every defender they encounter...

They are much closer than they started with at the end of ep 1. when the Canterbury was blown up. They started with fighting against each other, and they're now at the point where they agree to disagree. It's just a slower process than need to. The episode felt less of a filler episode than I...

Note that The Laundry Files is completely separate universe from A Colder War; the only common point is basically that Lovecraft was right. The Laundry Files is not a cold war series, it's started as "computer geek is made an offer he can't refuse to work controlling magic for her Majesty's...

If you are capped on your upgrades already, yea. Otherwise, you need to sacrifice 5 +5 ilvl upgrades for one +3 ilvl upgrade.

Both Mad Max and The Martian arenominated to the Producer Guild Awards for Best Movie, which are supposedly good predictor for Oscars. Both are also at the top of the weighted list of Rerolled. We're also good predictors for Oscar nominations, right?

Want fake fantasy? Grab the Merchant Princes series, which was reissued in omnibus form:The Bloodline Feudis the first volume, see the 3 books combo in "frequently purchased". It's interesting because it was officially marketed as fantasy because Stross contracts were preventing him from...

Got relatively lucky with mine; I simply put all the spawn points on Tomtom, and flew across all. Spotted one visiting a bit over a dozen of them, grabbed, done.

Here's a pic of Billie Lourd in the movie; she might indeed be the one you saw in a later scene. You're not the only one who think they saw Sutherland there, although he's not mentioned anywhere on the mainstream movie sites so it might be a lookalike.

At one point, you should bite it and start collaborations. A lot of authors that find themselves bogged into popular series get an additional author in to revive their own motivation. Clarke was bugged all the time about making yet another sequel to 2001, so he picked Baxter and went at it...

Dark Matter is weak, and Killjoys felt a bit formulaic. But 12 Monkeys is a pure joy to watch. Can't wait for the big reveals on exactly what Jennifer Goines means in the show.

All of them are dancing around the elephant in the room.

He is. It's just that A Song of Ice and Fire was not, and never has been his "magnum opus", the way everyone wants it to be. His longest storyline (Wildcards) stayed on course because he didn't write it himself apart for a few stories here and there. His only problem is the show. Without the...

If you happen to pick the Creepy Crawlies Halloween decoration, you have half a dozen pets in your garrison on an insta respawn. First is always undead, the other two are random for the zone. Plus you have the pet mistress that can heal your pet team. If you tore down your decorations for...

Hmmm, forgot that one. Should be looking to do it at least from time to time...

The pineapple one, but I'm on EU realms, so that's probably not going to be possible.

Saw an article on Disney's current strategy, and they are clearly edging their bets on their IP collection (witness SW). They are not that confident that a copyright extension is going to be possible.

I stopped farming the dailies after my mount, doing the Greench daily is more time consuming due to medium ass travel in old world and I still ended up with 1 Lounge Cushion missing. With 10 characters. The one brought at your garrison decoration goblin is a toy, not a pet. The pet tonk is a...

There's two who don't have Mad Max AT ALL.

Ok, so new years average list (score 5,4, 3, 2, 1 for top 5 choices, 1/2, 1/3 1/4 and so on the rest) yields 5 top contenders: Top 1 uncontested: Mad Max: Fury Road (average 4.27) Top 2-3: Star Wars episode 7 (average 2) and The Martian (average 1.85) Top 4-5: Kingsman (average 1.11) and Ex...

That, or they were "I know George too much, no way I'm doing that with him breathing on my neck..."

Seconded. The fun bit is that Amazon usually displays upcoming Baen & Tor books two months before their own websites list them. It used to be that you could search for books and tick them as "I have it" directly, but they dropped that (why? oh why?) and you can only do that from...

She went into politics, which is basically what she always knew (daughter - adopted - of major politician) and what the New Republic needed after the fall of the Empire. No time for Jedi training. The blame is laid on the "Knights of Ren", which Ben Solo joined (and take the moniker that comes...

Well, (really ep 9/10 spoilage)

5 down, one to go.

And yet, funnily enough, when you watch other movies, you don't get the same characters having the same scenes, etc. There's a difference between using archetypes and redoing the same movie with the same characters with just different faces.

This is the bit where some of the dynamics change, because the "escape from the Death Star" arc occurs at the beginning rather than in the middle of the movie. Poe is assuming the Leia role : he has the secret data, hides it in the droid he sends away when the "Empire" is going to capture him...

In this movie, Han is basically doing what Obi-Wan did in the original; he's the semi-legendary guy that "Luke" heard about who shows up unexpectedly (no sandmen in space), who tells our hero that all those stories about the Force are absolutely true, tries to arrange passage to the Rebellion...

The first set pictures that were all over twitter were all of his Tibet-pre-training period, so he did not look like he should.

My top 3 would be: - The Martian - Mad Max: Fury Road - Ant-Man Just checked 2016 and I have something like at least 18 movies lined up. Yikes.

I think Disney understands very well the reasons why Ep 1-3 should ignored as much as you can. You don't pretend they never happened, you just ignore them. Although I could totally understand if Snoke's appearance was revealed as a fake and he's in fact a scar-faced Gungan (we all know who...

But they can't. They've decided to keep Rey's exact origin a top-level secret, so they can't allude to anything. But the fight itself owes a lot to that final fight in TRJ, where Luke fights Vader and is basically losing, then Vader suddenly threatens to get to Leia, and Luke gets all bothered...

That's what he his. Hux has not the slightest respect for him, even the two stormtroopers we see turning back are obviously doing an "oh, shit, he's doing it again" moment. Everyone is only tolerating him because he's Snoke's pet jedi. The problem with the pirates in Han's ship is that they have...