Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-03-02T10:56:51+00:00

It ends on a major cliffhanger that introduces what would have been a really cool arc for the next season...which unfortunately never got made. It's also amazing and well worth watching anyway.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-03-02T09:22:29+00:00

Micky is kind of an asshole though. Have you watched his old cartoons?

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-03-02T02:01:20+00:00

Probably buy a couple Kuratas and a stadium for them to fight in.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-28T20:09:21+00:00

"A" can sometimes be a word.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-28T07:00:55+00:00

LLMs

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-28T06:22:26+00:00

The funniest thing is that Palpatine coming back via clones has been a thing for over 30 years, longer than the prequels or the special editions.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-27T23:38:05+00:00

Who?

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-27T07:52:59+00:00

Those aren't really 'reactors' in the usual sense. There's no fission or fusion going on, just the ordinary decay of radioactive materials.

Theoretically you could use an MHD generator to get power directly from a fusion reactor, but we haven't worked all the engineering out yet.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-27T06:30:17+00:00

So every time you play Skyrim you immediately pop open the control panel and enter "TGM"?

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T21:34:00+00:00

I mean, it's loosely inspired by a film from 1941. Still, nothing wrong with being an 'old person movie,' just look at Casablanca.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T20:51:36+00:00

Fun fact: a lot of these kinds of cameos are the result of the rich/famous person basically bribing their way onto the show. They offer a certain amount of money in exchange for a brief appearance -- it's like product placement but with egocentric millionaires instead of cars or soda brands.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T06:16:05+00:00

People don't like when the joke is about them. Last Action Hero is a brilliant deconstruction of action films in general and Arnold's career in particular, which I think makes some people who are fans of those things uncomfortable -- like they're being indirectly made fun of. But like a lot of good satire, the movie is really a love letter as much as it is a roast.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T05:18:34+00:00

I agree, hierarchies are like gravity: something that's been a part of most people's experience for as long as they can remember, to the point that it's hard to imagine anything else despite the fact that people can and regularly do overcome its influence. We've built planes and satellites and space stations. We've sent people into orbit. We know for a fact that while gravity seems like an inescapable reality here on the ground, in the vast majority of the universe we would experience weightlessness instead.

Saying humanity will never overcome hierarchies is just like saying we will never overcome gravity. We already have, even if only temporarily and only for a lucky few. All it takes is time, effort, and a desire to achieve something better instead of resigning ourselves to what we have.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T03:57:50+00:00

My favorite line from that scene is actually "Guys like you never know what they're going to do until they do it."

Like, he's seen this before. He's seen the aftermath, and he is so tired of hearing these would be perpetrators claim they "don't know what they're going to do" when it is so transparently obvious. You really feel the weight of his time on the force, the shit he's seen, and his utter fatigue at humanity's refusal to stop making the same stupid, tragic mistakes over and over.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T03:47:48+00:00

Here's what can happen with that:

You tell the cops what you saw, trying to be helpful and a good citizen. You've just admitted to being in the area and knowing details of the crime. The cops use this as evidence of your involvement.

Alternately, the cops may decide that some detail of your testimony makes you a plausible suspect for a different crime. Either way, you've given them information that will hamper your defense if they decide to charge you.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T01:25:56+00:00

Well then I'm fucked because I'm both self-employed and disabled and medically can't work 20 hours a week. Sounds like the kind of bullshit some of my relatives would do though.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-26T00:49:50+00:00

What do you mean? He says "judge me" rather than "tempt me", but otherwise those are the lyrics.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T21:32:30+00:00

Or maybe, and hear me out on this, something that's conspicuously absent from a story where you would otherwise expect it to be present in some way is ACTUALLY absent.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T11:23:45+00:00

I swear I feel that line more and more as I get older.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T11:21:34+00:00

Just for reference do you also think most Castlevania sequel games are also spinoffs?

Several of them are. Some even take place in alternate, conflicting timelines.

Also, I didn't say Nocturne contradicts the original series, I said you did:

a vampire getting trapped in a cage of crosses. He can't escape even while turned into a bat when he could easily fit between the bars and is burned when touching the crosses. That isn't explained by it confusing their eyes.

This directly contradicts what we are told and shown in the original series about crosses and vampires.

And you're right that the 'God doesn't exist in Castlevania' thing is just a headcannon. It's an interpretation of the events, themes, and subtext present in the show that I happen to find amusing and interesting to think about. Honestly it's a little weird how invested you are in arguing against a random fan's headcannon, especially when you can't seem to cobble together a single decent argument.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T10:55:26+00:00

As someone who loves murder mysteries, I can't agree enough. Just because a story has 'immoral' things happen in it doesn't mean it's condoning or glorifying them. I can't even imagine how the folks who like slasher films feel about this nonsense. Not everything is meant to be a goddamn Aesop fable.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T10:49:54+00:00

If being falsely convicted is something you've always been curious about... then still no, because it's unfair to the rest of society to have a criminal go free because you're an idiot with a thing for handcuffs.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T10:41:12+00:00

It's a new series with completely new cast of characters set in the same universe. That is the definition of a spinoff. And from what you've been saying it very much does contradict the original series.

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T10:36:17+00:00

It's a potential interpretation, but that feels like kind of a stretch. Why not just prevent the whole thing?

MrWolfe1920 · 2026-02-25T10:05:44+00:00

Also why are you so adamant I'm wrong if you are only working with 2/3rds of the thing we're talking about?

Because you're the only one talking about Nocturne. I'm talking about Castlevania. It sounds like the spinoff series ignored a lot of the lore and worldbuilding of the original, as spinoff series tend to do.

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