There haven’t been any naval battles, but there have been plenty of naval ships sunk.

It’s an expansion of the theatre of war, because it happened outside Iran. The method doesn’t really matter to the theatre of war. It is different that it was a naval vessel hitting another naval vessel. In the past there have been missiles launched from naval vessels that hit ground or air targets, and plenty of naval vessels sunk by missiles or drones. But, I’m not sure how relevant that is.

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Yeah. I knew the character from the comics, but I didn’t know how they were going to tell that story in a TV medium. What they came up with was unexpected but great.

What I like is that there’s a reason for the surrealist vibe. Often surreal stuff is the way it is because that’s just how the director likes to make things.

I guess I can sort-of see where you’re coming from. Presumably when they’re bombing an airbase they’re trying to hit planes, destroy runways, etc. If you’re in the break room at the time there’s a decent chance you don’t die. If you’re working on a plane, you’re probably dead. But, when you sink a ship, everyone goes into the water and there’s a good chance they’ll die.

To me, the fact that it happened nowhere near Iran is the bigger deal. It means that parts of the world that aren’t aligned with either side in the war now have to wonder what might explode in their own territory.

OTOH, at least when you sink a military ship there won’t be civilian casualties. If the US had actually declared war on Iran, which of course never happened, but if… then another warship is actually a valid target. This isn’t like blowing up an apartment building because a guy on your kill list is in one of the apartments.

In a sense, if he can speed that often and never be involved in an accident, he might be a very good driver.

My mom is a significantly worse driver. She never speeds, but sometimes she drives so slowly on the highway that she’s a danger to other drivers. In addition, many times, she has damaged her car trying to maneuver in an underground parking garage. AFAIK she has never been in an accident where someone was injured, so there are worse drivers out there.

Tell him it’s a test they don’t think he can pass. Tell him Obama passed easily.

Different from smashing their airfields with missiles? Or, is it different because of where it happened?

Also Monk, Beef, Life, Taxi, and other 4-letter TV shows.

So good.

Only when those presidents are “deep state” types. Most of the time he’s killing and torturing all kinds of people, uncovering all these hidden plots. And he has to be the one man army righting all the wrongs because the establishment is either corrupt, or too slow to react, or whatever.

You’ll probably also be a fan of MASH, Dark, Rome and Silo.

24 was highly influential, but the story just isn’t ever believable, and the amount of death and torture is absurd. I’m sure it’s a MAGA favourite, but for other people I think it’s mostly interesting as a cultural artifact.

One I haven’t seen listed here:

Samurai Jack

It’s a cartoon you need to sit down and pay attention to. There’s often action, and it can be goofy, but it also has a lot of really quiet, contemplative scenes.

All great picks.

Andor is so amazing, I don’t know how Lucasfilm / Disney allowed it to get made. It makes every other Star Wars show look like kids playing with action figures.

Legion is amazing. There’s really nothing else like it. It’s a bit Twin Peaksish I guess?

I’m in the middle of a BSG rewatch right now, and I still love it.

I can see how someone would say that they weren’t sure what they were going to do when they hit season 3. But the first season felt very tight. The miniseries had the cliffhanger that one of the main cast was a cylon. It’s hard to argue that the first few episodes didn’t build on that cliffhanger.

If you’re saying that at the start of the series they didn’t know how they were going to end it, sure. There aren’t a lot of shows that have a multi-season arc all planned out in advance. Babylon 5 is one of the few I know of that did. The problem is that they never know when they’re going to be cancelled, so there’s no point in trying to make a huge story arc when they will probably have to end the story early.

As for movies being better, it’s true that they can tell a longer story than a TV series. But a 2 hour movie is basically only 3 episodes of a TV show (at 45 minutes + commercials each). Movies suffer because everything has to be introduced and resolved so quickly. The “creative bullshit happening for no reason” is often foreshadowing of something that will only be resolved many episodes later.

There was a reason they killed off Alex…

Whenever a game like this flops it gives me hope. Why? Because this kind of game isn’t something that interests me at all. I keep hoping that these companies are going to learn from getting burned, and switch to a style of game that I like more.