Unofficial Apolyton Predicts

[Elok]

Well, I'm rewatching Firefly while the wife and kids are off on a road trip. Checked out the Wiki page's list of episodes they didn't get around to:

Since the cancellation of the series, various cast and crew members have revealed details they had planned for the show's future:[66][67]

Alan Tudyk had the idea for an episode about a planet that is always day on one side, and night on the other. On the night side, Jayne accidentally spills a type of pheromone on himself and the crew, which attracts a species of dogs. The crew are chased back to the ship by these dogs. There River uses her mind powers to domesticate the dogs.
Adam Baldwin wanted to make an episode in which Jayne goes up against Mal as captain of his own ship.
Tim Minear revealed the secret of Inara's syringe, as seen in the pilot episode; she is infected with a deadly disease. There would have been an episode where she is gang-raped by Reavers. Because she injected herself with the syringe, all of the Reavers on the ship die.
According to Nathan Fillion, there was an episode in which the crew land on a dying planet. The inhabitants try to steal Serenity, after they explain to the crew about their need to get off the planet. The problem is that unless they were to run into another ship along the way, with the extra passengers, Serenity would not have enough fuel and oxygen to make it to the closest destination. While everyone else is asleep, Mal takes the ship himself and discovers that help never would have arrived.

And I thought Heart of Gold was bad. It's probably for the best that the series got cancelled on a high note.

[Lorizael]

The 2000s were a different time. Read the synopses for the first season episodes of TNG and DS9 and marvel at the fact that they made it 7 seasons.

[Elok]

I'm not sure anything good comes of revisiting the past that way. I've already watched Gargoyles with my son. It was quite cheesy and stilted, and full of hamfisted morals to boot. Then I watched the original Voltron, which was a whole new level of terrible. I think I'd like to dig up Exosquad, but I freaking loved Exosquad and I'd hate for that to suck too.

[Lorizael]

I mean, I love me some DS9. It's my favorite Trek and got quite good in the middle. (And I can confirm that it's still pretty good, having rewatched the whole thing back in 2014.) It's just that TV is a different beast these days. Way more TV than there used to be, way more competition, much less tolerance for shows "still finding their footing" and whatnot. But TV-free-TV is changing that, too.

[Giancarlo]

Anyways...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/53df5a3f-28e9-3bfe-a026-4cf1bc625c6e/what-a-trump-wipeout-could.html

But this poll showed a solid lead for Mitt Romney until very late in 2012 when it swung quite suddenly — and surprisingly — toward President Barack Obama and aligned itself more closely with the rest of the major national polls.

And it looks like it's already starting to swing. Accord to IDB and Rasmussen it would have been President Mittens, but they had to save their own skin until late on.

Back to the exciting Presidential race everyone wants over... lol. That IDB poll is one of the worst out there. Some say "most accurate in 2012". Not really.

[Lorizael]

****, the election's not over yet? Well there goes my night.

[Elok]

Screw the election, this thread is about old TV shows now.

[Aeson]

Which would you rather watch? The Apprentice or Madam Secretary?

[Giancarlo]

****, the election's not over yet? Well there goes my night.

Don't you wish you could crash land on an island with no news or anything and come back when it's over lol?

[Lorizael]

Screw the election, this thread is about old TV shows now.

I'm Lorizael and I approve this message.

[Uncle Sparky]

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[Egbert]

Don't you wish you could crash land on an island with no news or anything and come back when it's over lol?

Good idea

[pchang]

I already voted, so I don't care anymore.

[C0ckney]

The UK politicians are hand in hand with the tax dodgers (both Labor and Tory).

It is the same thing, just a different form.

JM

no, jon, it really isn't, and i am surprised by your naïveté here. politicians everywhere make the tax code easier for their backers to navigate; the same is true of the 'revolving door' between government regulators and big companies. but hillary's corruption is a whole other level.

let's take a single example: the british prime minister gave a speech to goldman sachs on 26 may (before she became prime minister, leaked and reported here). guess how much she got paid for it? nothing. clinton, meanwhile, received $675,000 for three speeches. what were they paying so much for? it wasn't to hear her dulcet tones.

[Jon Miller]

If you are accusing her of being cozy with the bankers because they pay her to meet with her then I agree with this accusation, but this coziness is the problem and is exactly the same as 'make the tax code easier for their backers to navigate' or 'revolving door'. As such there is no difference between Hillary and UK leaders.

If instead you are accusing her of accepting bribes, mainly that the 675,000 was not paid in order to meet with her/listen to her but rather in exchange for some specific action on her part, then I think you are wrong.

The tradition of paying rich/powerful/otherwise desirable people ridiculous sums just to meet you and speak to you has been a tradition in the US for some time. It isn't even only for politicians. Look at the cost to meet with Elon Musk or Tim Cook (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/24/...lunch-auction/).

It is a problem but the same problem as the 'revolving door'/etc, namely one of access.

JM