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3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Stone ... · 1 reply · +9 points

How did you guess? The rest of the book is actually just the characters frolicking in a field of daisies with hopping bunnies. Of course, by "frolicking" I mean fleeing for their lives from the carnivorous bunny swarm that can eat them alive in seconds, while avoiding the flesh-melting gasses that daisies produce during a Season...

3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Broken... · 1 reply · +3 points

So you don't think having people with potentially very lethal magical powers could give a com a critical edge during a time of hardship? They don't have to stop a tsunami, they just have to deal with the consequences. When survivors start fighting over limited resources, I would personally want to be with the group that *didn't* kill everybody who had magic powers.

3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Broken... · 3 replies · +2 points

Other people have survived the Seasons. It may be less that the people of Meov were completely protected by the orogenes, and more that the struggling survivors of Meov had an edge over the struggling survivors that didn't have anyone with powers. Even untrained abilities are better than none. Of course, Meov may also have had better supplies or training in the past.

4 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Sense8':... · 0 replies · +2 points

As far as where Whispers and Wolfgang are, I do think they were in different facilities. (It's possible Wolfgang was in a more secure section of the same facility, but I think it's obvious that they would have saved Wolfgang if they could. I do believe that's the cluster's top priority.) The thing that causes confusion is the time jump between Wolfgang being tortured and Whispers being kidnapped.

I do really love when the tables turn and Will beats the crap out of Whispers. In order to have that surprise, though, we have to skip over a lot. Perhaps the biggest thing is seeing the cluster meet each other in person. But there was enough time for them to all take international flights, meet up, find a way to infiltrate the facility, plan it out, and then execute it. We don't know how long that took. It seems perfectly reasonable that Whispers had enough time to travel from one facility to the other.

Like I said, I love the surprise badassery, but I wish they had found a way to incorporate flashbacks to show us what we missed. Add that to the long list of "things I wish they had more time to show us."

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 0 replies · +10 points

What you are describing is very different from what I've always taken from it. As far as news reporters go, the reporters before and after Clarke's control of the news are portrayed positively; it's only news reports that suppress the truth that are terrible. And I think the show tries to support the idea of standing up to corruption. But you make some good points. Anybody can think of the protagonists' side as representing *their* side, and the reporting against them is "fake news". That is actually quite easy...

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 0 replies · +4 points

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5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 2 replies · +12 points

JMS regarding the credits:
"The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.

Under SAG rules, you must put guest stars of a certain calibre in the opening credits; also, for Melissa to take back-billing would have been a break in her work to date elsewhere. We had no choice in this, it's all stuff regulated by the guilds."

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 1 reply · +10 points

Ah, but did Zathras get it from the Minbari, or did the Minbari get it from Zathras?

Okay, now I want to see the Minbari's 1,000 year old Holy Book of Zathras. I mean, he is really quotable... :D

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 1 reply · +16 points

I think having them look identical would be too confusing to viewers. Someone who missed the episode with Kosh's death would be confused, and viewers who were rewatching or watching out of order would have to remember which Kosh this was. You could include dialog to clarify things, but a different look is simpler than shoehorning in extra lines.

On the other hand, they did stop *just* short of a flashing neon sign saying, "I'm not the nice one." I think some subtlety might have been nice, as well...

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 0 replies · +2 points

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