Metroid Prime

I wouldn’t want to be mauled by a fearsome gonad either.

So, Rowsdower… is that a stupid name?

I liked it too, great art style. Although since I’m already nitpicking: a morning star on a chain seems like the least practical underwater weapon imaginable.

In Le Morte d’Arthur we learn that the scabbard is actually more valuable than Excalibur itself because any wounds received by the bearer wold never bleed. In the final panel of the comic there is a large pool of blood forming, presumably by the lady of the lake’s death (or maybe her hand being bitten off). There shouldn’t be blood.

Except that the scabbard makes the wearer immune to blood loss.

Good metaphor, particularly for Cause and Effect, but that episode doesn’t qualify because every loop iteration actually happened.

I like this theory in general and I think modern TV could benefit from more slower paced bottle shows. Maybe the fake-out is just an easy device to write within those constraints. But why does Voyager use it so much more than other Trek shows?

Projections is a perfectly good early Doctor episode. It walks so that later Doctor episodes can run and be even more amazing. For me, in re-watches particularly, it has at least one too many fake-out to make it really great (the false ending with Kes in sickbay). A few more on that list a really good too; it almost pained me to put Living Witness on there for example because I love it. I felt a little better about it when I went back and saw that almost all the TNG episodes that do fake-outs were good to great.

Voyager constantly uses the “everything goes back to the way it was” ending, but I didn’t count all of them because they’re mostly not designed to fool the viewers. Threshold is a fine example of that trope and a bad episode (though I softened to it a little bit listening to the Delta Flyers podcast; at least I get what they were going for now) so I’m right there with you on that one.

Ha. Yeah, I enjoy a Doctor Who sometimes but I almost never actually retain them in my memory, and one reason might be because I know going in that they’re all going to end in some kind of hyper-contrived insanity. Which isn’t to say I don’t like them, just that it’s harder to remember stuff that has no connection to anything!