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@Shevek23 Some very interesting political/cultural theory, and I think all your posits are reasonable. Further thoughts on Murdoch/political culture: You’re right to say it would be totally reasonable for him to have very similar opinions to OTL; some true believers really are out there, who...

I had the same thought about Larry, initially, and I think if this show had been made ten or perhaps even five years ago you could’ve laid down money on a tragic turn of events. It could still happen in the future, after Ellen’s established in politics. I’d like to think that the show might...

RIP Michael Collins Gemini 10 Apollo 8 Apollo 11 --- Apollo 23

Related, I love almost every line delivery from those two cosmonauts. “We would like...hamburgers” is maybe the best delivery of the season, followed closely by, “Do you have...Jack Daniels?” Just note perfect acting from the...I was gonna say Russian, but IMDb says he’s Serbian. Looks like...

He just literally likes car crash songs?:coldsweat: I guess it takes all kinds!

Lol was re-watching with a friend and we hit that scene where the cosmonauts are in the outpost. The astronaut asks the cosmonaut what music he likes and he says he likes, “automobile crash category” and I’m trying to figure out what the hell that could be. It sounds like a badly-translated...

Yeah, we’d have to make allowances for principled retirements, people who opted to retire under a specific president (or not retire under another). But that’s not too too difficult. Heh, I wish Wikipedia had a more coherent way of keeping track of the court from year to year.

Teddy would’ve gotten to replace Douglas as well (who might’ve even retired a bit earlier ITTL). Stevens was seen as pretty liberal IOTL, but I think we can assume Teddy’s choice would be even more to Stevens’ left.

There were four caskets in the tv clip. The show shifts to a more intimate internment after presumably a public, televised ceremony.

Jack Nicholson for Deke! Second choice: Gene Hackman. I love Jodie Foster for Ellen, but also Madeleine Stowe looks so much like her and was relatively big at the time. We have an embarrassingly small number of male Asian actors even doing support work in the 90s. There were more Chinese...

Murdoch’s more at home in, er, “news” production; it was running a network that was the departure for him IOTL. All his Australian and British tabloids are likely still around. The question is to what extent can he break into the US market, and does he even resemble the Murdoch of OTL if he...

That’s a solid call. Telecom is more robust in this era, so an earlier 4th network seems reasonable on that end. And we know IOTL that Paramount was considering it. Maybe not pulling properties (everyone produced for each other and bought from independents more readily in this era) but more...

Now that the initial excitement’s died down, I keep going back to something stupid: that last song. I get it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more iconic 90s band than Nirvana. You immediately know what you’re about to get: another 10-year time jump. But still, I think we could’ve done...

Maybe if they go with a more obscure but still OTL person as president going forward we’ll just have an actor play them. Plenty of actors playing real people so far. The deepfakes are cool but seem like a lot of work, and limit you in your choices. As the writers have eluded to in interviews...

Still processing the ep, but damn compelling. Great tv. I did want to share that image Apple gave to The Ringer, which I guess ended up on the cutting room floor.

(I mean...you shouldn’t be eating capitalist Legos, either.)

Utterly random start: Ole Kirk Christiansen's years as an itinerant carpenter take him a little further afield and he ends up in Leningrad, falling in love with a local and settling there. Alt-Lego (Kirpies, maybe, after kirpich, Russian for brick?) comes to dominate the world toy market. This...

Makes me think of The Wire- yes, the central cast were in a task force (the police part, anyway, though I guess if you squint, what is a gang?) But the rest of the force maintained more standard models- except when they did the Hampsterdam experiment. Then you had the whole division pretty...

Not disagreeing, but check it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pentagon-bathrooms/

But Virginia built it segregated anyway (gallows humor but it’s surprisingly easy to find a bathroom in there). Anyway, FDR was good at not pushing southerners on the issue, keeping them placated. I don’t think it was a matter of personal belief, just pure politicking. He kept the coalition...