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I thought the zombie idea was lame, but I thought they actually missed an opportunity to tell a real story.  What if the Union officers, not the Confederate ones, got bitten?  Instead of telling another stereotypical "all Southerners were racists" story, what if they'd flipped it on its head?

Imagine the time pirate lands and bites the Union officers.  Instead of "the Confederacy wins the war", the more realistic scenario is that the zombie apocalypse happens (which fits in with Stein's paranoia).  Because, you know, the confederates probably wouldn't have been able to win the war either since their soldiers are all mindless zombies.

So now the Legends have to work with the confederates.  Jax and Amaya would be outraged, but they would have to figure it out.  The confederate soldiers might be outraged to have to fight with Jax and Amaya, but they'd get over it when they realized how much danger they were in.  Jax and Amaya would learn that the confederates were people, and the confederates would have a greater understanding of how equal everyone really is.  There could still be the slave stuff if they wanted (confederate soldiers kidnap Jax and return him to a plantation, etc), but it wouldn't all be so cliche.

Vixen knows there are more animals than just gorillas, right?  I think 90% of her "animal powers" have been a gorilla.

The problem with using them at all is that the mystery will always fade away.  When you create a villain like the Kromaggs or the Borg, they're supposed to seem insurmountable.  That's why it's so thrilling to see our heroes escape at the end.  Like Invasion and Q Who, our heroes don't *win*, but they're lucky enough (with help) to escape to live another day.  But the threat is always there that they'll come back.

The problem with an enemy like that is that a) you've set yourself up where they have to come back (Chekov's gun), and b) each time you use them, the magic will fade away.  Our heroes will be more prepared the second time, but if they escape with their lives each time, luck/help can't keep getting all the credit.  Maybe the odds weren't insurmountable.  Maybe the villain wasn't that good in the first place.  It's why the Kromaggs aren't able to do much damage to the Sliders, even though they'd conquered hundreds of worlds.  It's why the Borg slaughtered everyone at Wolf 359 but couldn't destroy Voyager.

I think that's why Torme didn't want to do it.  It's a Pandora's box that would end up being less fun no matter what.

But I don't see why them being fallible makes them any less scary.

And depending on the main goal of the Kromaggs in "occupying worlds", then it might be even easier.  If they just want to conquer and leave, that's easy.  They get to add a tally mark to their name without expending any resources.  If they want to take up resources and leave, then they could also do that.  You sneak attack, grab everything you need as quickly as possible, and leave before any resistance can be formed.

But even if they wanted to hold worlds just to hold them, technology can fill in many of the gaps that would typically require "kromaggpower" - and if humans decided to launch guerrilla campaigns across the world...then that's fine.  Even if they got a stronghold on the planet, the Kromaggs could temporarily divert resources, wipe out the resistance, and regain control.

Depending on how realistic you want it to be, the first person that popped in my mind was Ellie Kemper.  She might've done the show if it was on CBS....she might be bigger than the CW.  She's also probably older than what you're looking for, but she could play a lot younger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Kemper

Season one Community Alison Brie could also do it, I think.

Haha, I thought status updates was just a miscellaneous thread.  But, yeah, I don't need a thread for any zombie shows.

Man, I did too.  I thought it was really bland.  I haven't seen her in much, but it just didn't do anything for me.

I think the alien bar is lazy, but I don't think it means they're out of ideas.  If anything, I feel like they're throwing out a ton of ideas for this season.  Maybe too many, honestly.

He's staying on as EP so I'm hoping he'll still be involved enough to make sure it's good.  Or maybe it's some sort of negotiation tactic.

I want this to be good really badly.

I think I dislike Rowena as much as Info dislikes Crowley.  I was sorta hoping Lucifer would kill them both and we could move on.  I thought Rick Springfield did a decent job as Lucifer, though.

And I like that the UK Men of Letters seem to have weaponized the lore a bit better than the Winchesters have.  I think this could be a cool storyline if they do it correctly.  But I bet they make them into villains and show that the brothers' way is the better way.

Do all the shows need the stupid intro?  I used to think they were a nice way to start the show, but they're just annoying me now.  The Legends one seems the most forced, especially now that Sara is doing it, but they're all dumb now.

ARROW - I know they want to stick with "something else" theme but it doesn't fit anymore.  And the "I had to become the Green Arrow" line is really dumb.

FLASH - This one has bothered me for a while now, too.  The "ordinary forensic scientist" line has always bothered me because I don't think there's a lot of "ordinary forensic scientists" just running around (pun intended).  But it's also bothered me when Barry has only been the Fastest Man alive for a handful of episodes.  Most of the time, he's trying to be faster to catch up to one of his villains.  I know it's his title, but it's been unequivocally wrong most of the show's run.

SUPERGIRL - This one seems the most natural, but it's just copying the original Arrow and Flash ones.

LEGENDS - They've only had about 20 episodes, but the storyline is already confusing and dumb.  They shouldn't add any extra attention to it.  The only bonus is that it's short.

The fact that they have these little intros and then a "previously on..." segment just makes the whole thing worse.  They need to try something else.

The problem with the Walking Dead is that I don't care about any of the characters.  Last night's episode was brutal and daring with a villain (played by Sliders alum Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who should be terrifying. 

And, yet, I can't even spoil the big cliffhanger because I can't even remember the character's name who died.  Nor did I care to look it up.  And that was even one of the characters I liked.  They killed a second major character a few minutes later, and it didn't even affect me.

The show was too attached to certain characters (who are essentially Navy SEALs now) so they had to kill off most major characters they add to the show.  So the old characters are boring and the new characters don't last long enough for you to care. 

The fact that the plot is repetitive is the problem that gets referenced the most, but I think that's just sorta the way the show would have to be.  They'd have to look for shelter, and shelter would reasonably be failing all over the place.

The actors are good, and the performances are good.  I just don't care about any of the characters at all.

Is it weird that this was strangely convincing?

Well, again, I don't think he was placed there by Bill to win.  He might have also recommended that he run for genuinely friendly reasons.  But let's be honest....his wife was running.  His wife was going to be running against him or against his party.  He wants his wife to be president.  So either he was setting Donald up to fail, setting the Republican Party up to fail, or he's a naive idiot.  At this point, all three are possible in my mind.

I think Bill knew what kind of person Donald is, and he thought two things.  He's going to say a bunch of terrible things about the other candidates, and Republicans are never going to elect him.  Maybe he thought it'd be good for Donald's ego or his bottom line.  Maybe he thought Donald would have some fun.  But even in his wildest dreams, I don't think Bill thought that Donald would win the nomination....just weaken the eventual nominee enough that Hillary could beat him.

It's just funny because Hillary has run exclusively on how dangerous Trump is.  So her family essentially created the monster and then created the white knight to defeat their own monster.

Exactly.  All this talk about how it's going to destabilize the government is insane talk.  It's why I say CNN is just Liberal Fox News.  It used to be Fox News that was just throwing out crazy conspiracy theories, but CNN is just as bad now.  It's fear mongering and overblowing everything.

No matter who's elected, we're all going to wake up November 9 and realize how stupid we were for worrying so much about this.

Now I'll say this about Hillary.  There's talk of the GOP fearing that they could lose their stranglehold on the House.  If that happens and the Democrats take the House, Hillary will have *ZERO* excuses if she can't make people's lives markedly better.  You can't blame the other party when your party has control of all three branches.  And since Democratic policies aren't universally perfect, all the Republican nominee next time has to say is, "Hey, they had full control, and look how bad things are."

In other words, she better be as qualified and prepared as they think she is.  If she's not, expect the swing the other way to be massive.

I mean, I see it.  I thought the whole interrogation scene, maybe because of the way it was lit, made him seem alien.  Later in the movie, he admits he was born in Kansas so I thought it was odd that he referred to Krypton as his world.  "Where I'm from" or "Where I was born" might have been a little more honest to his situation.  Maybe at that time he was trying to appear more alien, but I feel like both those lines are about equal in terms of alien-ness.

But I'm with you on this.  Clark should only embrace parts of his Kryptonian nature because at his core, he should think of himself as human.

Yeah, but I thought Man of Steel was much worse than this.  "On my world, it means hope."  Owning the language is one thing....in Man of Steel, he only knows of Krypton as a concept.  It's not his world at all.  Did that not bother you?

In the defense of that line on Supergirl, he would've had to say "in English" - if he'd said "our language" it would've been construed as being Kryptonian (since he's standing with Kara when he says it).

And I thought the chest looked bad throughout (on both actors).  I wonder if they made it, realized how bad it looked, and couldn't afford to fix it.  They should've just done a Tony Stark and had the green glow through his shirt most of the time.

I still don't understand how the source makes the evidence less damning.

Yes, we need to be protecting our data.  Yes, it's Russia.  But here's the problem:

1) What do you want us to do about it?
2) The emails are still showing *a lot* of issues with Hillary Clinton

If we're going to blame the Republicans for nominating a horrible candidate in Donald Trump, equal blame needs to be given to the Democrats for nominating Hillary Clinton.  The fact that one of these guys has to win doesn't mean that one of them should win.  One will be president but neither should be.

Is Garrett Wang really a celebrity? 

How the information was acquired doesn't make any difference to me.  Were you guilty or were you not guilty?  None of this stuff is going to be prosecuted so it's all about the court of public opinion.  If someone running for political office is lying to us, I want to know about it.  Republican, Democrat, whoever.  Whether it's intercepted by the FBI, the Russians, or Martians.  Illegal evidence gathering might matter in a trial, but it doesn't make the person any less guilty of the crime.

If we're mad that the Russians are stealing our emails, then we need to make cyber security a priority.  Because if they can hack all these emails, they have much much more info where that came from.

And, yes, of course they got into the server.

Hillary's going to make him look like an open book.

Yeah, it was odd.  When they were separated in time, I thought "oh, this is kinda a cool way of dealing with the season.  They'll be separated in time, doing their own thing, and then each week will be a mission to put the team back together before they fight Thawne and Darhk."

Then, five minutes later, it's all back to normal.  I thought they were going to have Sara reference how badass it would've been for Ray to survive with dinosaurs for as long as he did, but they didn't.  I also wondered why they couldn't have just gone back to find him before he was ever in any danger.

The show is lazy.  But I do think it's watchable.  Easily the worst of the Arrowverse shows.  Or do you think Supergirl is still worse, Info?

I haven't started it yet and probably won't for a while.  I've liked the Netflix series so far, but they need to cut back from 13 episodes.  Daredevil (both seasons) and Jessica Jones have struggled with pacing for that many episodes.  I've read Luke Cage suffers from the same issues.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how … residency/

I don't know who this guy is, but vote McMullin!

I think Cruz would've been close.  I think Kasich or Ryan would've destroyed her.  I'm not sure Pence wouldn't have won pretty handily if they'd dug him out of mothballs to run. 

Jeb or Rubio, I don't know.

But I think all of them could've beaten her.  She has nothing to say positively about herself.  And I think if she were running against anyone else, the "most qualified candidate ever" would have been researched and debunked.  The media was too busy with all of Trump's BS to even look into it.  Or, honestly, even recognize who she's running against.

Yeah, but it was all a means to an end.  I think she set him up to be president so she could be president.  If Bill had his way, he'd rather be chasing coeds.  I think she built him up and used him.

Yeah but that opens up a huge can of worms that I don't think the show can really handle.  And there's already cracks in the wall of that.  Jay referred to his Wells as "Harry."  Which is correct - that's what they called him based on Season One.

But if Thawne didn't become Wells and go evil, there wouldn't have been any reason to call Earth-2 Wells "Harry".  The only reason they did is because it creeped them out to call him Dr. Wells when he ended up being evil.  It could be a coincidence (it isn't a clever nickname - Earth-2 Wells might've gone by Harry anyway), but it's one of those little things that they might not pick up on.

But, statistically, that's sorta ridiculous.  It's like walking out your front door and basing your entire opinion on the universe based on what you see.  There are infinite worlds.  The Kromaggs could've sent a million people through a million wormholes once a day for a hundred years, and they'd barely scrape the surface on the number of worlds there are.

I prefer to think of the multiverse in terms of the Earth itself, and worlds that you can slide to are all pretty similar to the ones around it.  The Sliders go to a ton of worlds, but there's not a ton of key differences.  Almost all evolved life.  Almost all evolved  (identically evolved) humans.  Almost all evolved pretty similarly in terms of language and culture.  Statistically, you should be able to slide a lifetime and not see more than one world where the United States exists in the form we know it (considering how insignificant the US is in the grand scheme of the universe).

So in my example, the Sliders spend their entire time sliding in one part of one city.  Humans evolved.  Everything is generally pretty similar to the worlds around them.  Some minor political differences but generally the same.  The sliders' timer is the equivalent of walking.

The Kromaggs are in a different part of the city.  Still mammals.  Still bipedal.  Still primate-evolved.  But not humans...so it's a different part of the same city.  To get to the other part of town, you'd need something else.  A car.  A train.  A taxi.  Something Quinn never developed.  Maybe (some) Kromaggs did.

In other parts of the world, there are other cities.  Dominant life that evolved from fish.  Or dinosaurs.  Or something completely different.  This would definitely take a train or a car or a plane.

Then there's other parts of the world where life either doesn't exist or doesn't exist in a form we'd recognize or understand.  You'd need something really strong (plane, ship, spacecraft) to get to that part of the world.

In my example, Kromagg prime would actually be in the human part of town which is why humans could slide there and Kromaggs could only slide to "human" worlds.

So the way I understand branching would lead me to believe that there are just as many human worlds as Kromagg worlds and mermaid worlds and dinosaur worlds.  The Sliders didn't interact with them because their technology limited them to the area they could "walk" to.  And it would only require the creation of better tech to see what else the multiverse could show.

But there's no evidence that Kromagg Prime is the only Kromagg world, right?  And it sorta goes against the idea of branching.  Unless Kromagg worlds don't branch for whatever reason.

He announced his candidacy in June of 2015, and yet all this stuff is coming up now.  Hillary would say that the Republicans were just bad at opposition research, but *all* of them were bad?  The media just started looking into him in the last month? 

WikiLeaks and Assange are doing their hacks the same way.  If they have an October surprise that anyone would care about (and I think anything short of concrete evidence of a murder doesn't stop her from winning), they're holding onto it as late as possible.  But at least WikiLeaks isn't claiming to have any integrity.

Whether they did it to help Hillary or just to help their own ratings by keeping Trump in the race, waiting until this point is bad journalism.