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Are we detaining people coming across the other border?  AFAIK we're still doing "catch and release" on that end.

I agree with all of that.  I'm just saying that if someone were determined to do a revival of the original series with the original characters there are ways of making it work.

IMO, the best we could hope for in that ballpark would be a reunion movie that served as a jumping off point for a new generation of Sliders.

Unfortunately, we elected such a person president

Wade and Quinn would be pretty easy to deal with.

She was drugged and the Kromaggs have mind altering abilities, so she likely wouldn't remember any of what happened after she was captured.  When they encountered her in Requiem she didn't even know where she was.  As for rape, the series never said that explicitly.  I prefer to think she was used as a surrogate; Kromagg egg fertilized by Kromagg male implanted in her for gestation.  Still bad, but not quite as bad.

Quinn also might not remember his time being merged.  Certainly he wouldn't have any memory after New Gods for Old.  It's a manageable problem.

Sliders would work more easily in this context, since the world at large changes every issue.  The only continuity is among the Sliders themselves.

I met a woman named Diana Davis today

The Siskel theory was that if you like westerns you're going to see whatever western comes out regardless of reviews, and thus won't need critical appraisal.  If you hate westerns you won't see it regardless of reviews, and again won't need (or likely bother to read) critical opinion.  He saw his job as informing people who are lukewarm about westerns whether this particular one was worth seeing.  His all time favorite film was Saturday Night Fever, nominally a dance movie but one that transcended the genre to appeal to a broader audience.  I'm not a huge fan of dance films generally, but I agree with him that Saturday Night Fever is worth seeing even if dance films are not usually your thing.

That was the dynamic that fueled Siskel & Ebert to fame.  Roger tried to judge films by their own standards; if it's a western then how good of a western is it?  Gene looked for movies to transcend their genres; will this western appeal to people who aren't aficionados of westerns?  Both are defensible approaches, IMO.

The audience is self selecting, they go in already liking the kind of film it is.  Most critics try to compare films with others from different genres and styles, to weigh whether a film-goer who doesn't have a predilection for the kind of film it is would enjoy it.

As for Death Wish, the original and all its sequels were awful and wholly undermined the theme of the book.  I imagine the remake will be in a similar vein.

There is almost zero chance the bill gets signed before January because of the PayGo rules.  If they don't pass a waiver (which the Dems would surely filibuster) the tax bill would cause massive cuts in medicare and other programs.  Despite GOP rhetoric, they're not actually interested in cutting spending.  That's why the bill hasn't actually been enrolled yet, let alone signed.

I call bullshit.  Companies like that budget months ahead.  I wouldn't be 100% convinced it would affect next year's bonuses.

They won the war, but lost the peace.  Which was inevitable, if you think about it.  The power structure was too entrenched and the one living jedi had no experience in how to unravel all that bureaucracy.  Unless Luke was going to declare himself emperor and slowly dismantle it, the galactic government was going to continue to be oppressive and cruel.

The FBI and the Kromaggs are not mutually exclusive.  It could be that the FBI's #1 priority is defending their world against the Maggs, through gathering information and finding new weapons.  It could also tie in to why they're after the Sliders.  If the Kromaggs catch Quinn and company, it would lead them right to Earth Prime.  Therefore the FBI wants to stop our heroes from sliding around.

I guess we're about to find out how Sabrina would work.  The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is in development as a companion series.

Something can be piracy even if not done for profit.

I was thinking about cross overs while rewatching an episode of Pitch.  A cross over doesn't have to be the main thrust of the story, it could be almost like a cameo.  In the case of Pitch, a quick aside where the Sliders are leaving the ballpark after a game and remarking about how they never thought they would see a woman who was good enough to play in the majors but Ginny Baker is something special or such like that.  It would be a fun little Easter Egg.

Those guys each had a fully staffed state department with a secretary experienced in international relations.  Trump has a former CEO who seems content to let many positions remain vacant.  There's no undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security.  There's no assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.  There's no assistant secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation.  There's no no ambassador to South Korea.  Any of those positions sound useful in this situation?

Because we're obligated by treaty to defend Japan.  That's why they never built their military back up after WWII.

The third act, with all the action, was well done.  And it did establish that the Death Star had hyperspace capability.

The Doctor changes personality in each regeneration.  That was established back when Patrick Troughton took over as the Second Doctor.  Changing sexual preference could easily be incorporated as part of that.

It's not really a rewatch if I didn't watch it the first time, right?

CNN has become the left wing equivalent of Fox News, pretending to be journalists when they're actually propagandists.

A more "realistic" Sliders would have the heroes dead within a slide or two.  They would slide into a world with no atmosphere or some other factor that makes it unable to support life.

I agree that worlds similar to Earth Prime generally make for better story telling.  Still, there would be nothing wrong with throwing in a really strange one from time to time.

Well, it's more about expectations. Batman vs. Superman was supposed to do Avengers-like numbers, and came up about $40 million short on opening weekend (and terrible word of mouth cut its legs out from underneath it). Suicide Squad got terrible reviews, but the $325 million gross domestically exceeded most reasonable expectations (i.e., the people that either thought it would open to $150, or the ones that thought it would have to do at least that to be considered anything but a flop).

Wonder Woman, on the other hand, was a bit of a wild card. Would people (read: the assholes that harass women for being women that dare to do male things, etc.) go see a woman super hero? Would the baggage from the other DC movies drag it down? Most people seemed to be thinking $80s, so to wind up at $103 million when the dust settled is pretty impressive. Plus, those great reviews should give it the kind of legs the previous entries haven't been able to have. In fact, you can already kinda see it since it's basically doing the same numbers for the first Monday and Tuesday that SS did ($27.4 to $26), with the handicap of doing it in early June, when a lot of schools are still in session compared to SS in August. BvS was in that $27 million range for that first Monday/Tuesday as well, despite both of them opening well higher than WW.

It could be that the Klingons are in the process of changing from the ridge headed type of TNG (which we saw in ENT as well) into the smooth-foreheaded TOS Klingons.

There's no political machine that can impeach Trump that WILL without (from this week on) damning evidence of misdeeds presented by the special counsel's investigation. At least on the Russian matter. Trump can still go off in some other way that causes Republicans in the house to draft articles of impeachment. I would like to say how unlikely that is but you NEVER know with Donald Trump. It's impossible to predict what he will or will not do and what the subsequent fallout of something Donald Trump could do might be.

As far as what ifs around there not being any there, there? I think many people have suggested that Trump's resistance and reactions to further and prolonged investigations on Russia might very well be blindly based on his insecurities over being perceived as somehow not having won the White House on his own. That it's all a Democratic effort to discredit his victory and de-legitimize his presidency. And that he, and this is the blindly part, with no perception of proper boundaries for a president has trampled into many potentially impeachable areas just out of his own personal insecurities. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable scenario actually.

But... the cover up, as they say, is ALWAYS worse than the crime. And in this case, the cover up might be all there really is. In a fair and just Washington, it really should be all that's needed to remove Donald Trump from office. Fair and square. Comey's notes, as we've all heard, are, like any FBI agents contemporaneous notes, taken as having a high evidentiary value. Those notes show a president clearly attempting to improperly influence an FBI investigation into his campaign. And he admitted that his firing of Comey was based on Comey's FBI investigation of the Trump campaign. His spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that they, the White House, hoped for a speedy resolution of the FBI investigation AND that their dismissal of Comey was something they hope would help that to happen.

Stunningly stupid admissions that completely back-up Comey's notes and the concerns he's voiced through associates of a president attempting to influence him to drop the Russian investigation. We would and should celebrate the removal of office of a president who does just these things and nothing more.

So... your hypothetical is what exactly? That we should assume for a second that this stuff that actually happened DIDN'T happen? I don't understand. If Trump hadn't done all of this stuff and was being railroaded out of Washington without justification? No that wouldn't be something to celebrate.

The real problem is that, instead of making America great again, something many people quite honestly hoped he could do, Trump remains, as long as he is in office, an existential threat to liberty and justice and many other more specific linchpins of the American political system. He threatens a free press. He is actively attempting to brush aside long-established independence between the White House and FBI, something that would leave essentially nothing with any teeth in it that has political independence that could check this, or any subsequent, White House's actions.

So... again... not saying there's any actual collusion with Russia, etc. There's already IMO enough in the public record to warrant or justify Trump being removed from office. I suggest that if the investigation only turns up what we already KNOW, confirms it through Comey's notes, and supporting materials like public statements and like... confirming through testimony whether Trump DID ask the VP and AG to leave the room before talking one-on-one to Comey, etc. that this would be enough to remove Trump from office.

So what corrupt and underhanded methods are you referring to? What's YOUR evidence of anything like that happening? What's your reasons, for example, for thinking Robert Mueller might participate in any corrupt and underhanded methods that would result in the removal from office of the President of the United States?

There appears to be plenty of proof to convict Flynn.  If it's as bad as it looks, it becomes a game of what-did-he-know-and-when-did-he-know-it with Trump and other senior officials.

That line is gone.  Our current president is a reality TV star.

It's been coming a long time, really since Kennedy and the widespread ownership of televisions.  Presidents have always hung out with the beautiful people.  TV allowed us to see it instead of occasionally reading about it.