I had a peek at season 5, new captain and no ivanova. The new captain has some of the Ivanova attributes from what I can see in the first episode.

First impressions I don’t think it’s a huge loss, I found ivanova the least engaging of everyone, Marcus was an interesting foil for her as he was so engaging.

That’s a lot of rape… Humans have such a fascination with some types of “moral problems” yet seem to care nothing for others.

Interesting, the story feels finished to a certain degree. I’ll go looking for this third space movie.

And they did a “girls’ mission” which didn’t feel like those forced “girls’” missions.

Just finished season 3, fan-flipping-tastic. Season 4 and cortage is a great new character.

To be fair, I’ve wanted to like the show for decades. I love DS9 as a binge watch and recently flipped between a rewatch and giving B5 another crack. I think I would often get to episode 7 in season 1 and lose interest. It hooked me this time. The jump from pilot to episode 1 was a little jarring, but man it had me completely this time.

All the characters are so brilliant in their own way. Faceless weird aliens who say less than 3 words in an interaction (Kosh and “Kosh”) have dramatic character development and differences.

The “nice guy at first” but jerk doctor who’s just like his dad who he struggles with.

Just waiting to see if walkabout works for him.

G’Kar and Molari, the aides… Ah it’s such a rich tapestry.

About 15 episodes into season 3, holy crap it just keeps getting better. They manage to do the “war” thing sooo much better than ds9 did the dominion war.

Also Walter Koenig is fantastic. Just watching Ship of Tears.

The purple Drazi look cooler.

These are an essential piece of beach/holiday gear to fix your jandals(flipflops or thongs in Australia)with.

I get visions of HAL or that Simpsons Halloween special with the sentient house.

Also enjoying the episode on fanatical xenophobia too!

Totally, kinda hope the majority of American voters agree this year.

I’ve also noticed that for some communities, such as the conservative community, the posts get downvoted heaps because they are as accessible as any community. On Reddit I just wouldn’t have seen their posts. This potentially makes it unwelcome for people of particular ideologies. (Possibly a self governing trait of the wider community)

No such thing as a fish promotes Babbel, they have a code thingee too to get some percent off the first year.

I mean, in this day and age why isn’t [insert what I know to be true] accepted by [everyone who I perceive to be wrong]. Hegel leads to another Russian smart man who argues a bunch of it might be due to this idea of perezhivanie; how we make sense of what is happening (particularly dramatic events) through our cognition, our emotions and filtered through our needs.

How we make sense of stuff leads to how we behave/believe. This is impacted by our social environment, how we are brought up, our experiences, and our reasoning of those experiences.

It’s why it is argued that information alone will never change someone’s mind about something, it needs to be attached to an emotion and an experience to unpack.

This is an absolute win and should be promoted.

I’m curious, what happens when you block a user? Do you just not see anything from them anymore? Cause that seems like a super effective way to not get irate at a user you really don’t agree with on anything and can’t have a civil conversation with.

I found them interesting in the sense that they were very simple books, compared to Douglas Adam’s stuff which was also written for a different medium (I believe/could be wrong there), where he writes in quips and ideas rather than simple plot. Compare that again to Jasper Fforde who comes from writing for movies and his books also feel quite different.

I’ve just discovered Jasper Fforde and am into book 6 of the Thursday Next series.

I’ve just read these as well, I was wondering what your thoughts were after completion? Much more character development I thought in the novels than in the series.