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{4.5/5} “Good people try to move on from a betrayal like it’s an exception not the rule.” Blue Bloods season 6, aired in 2015-16 When terrorists threatening New York, everyone must do whatever they can to find them before they strike. Frank’s old partner is planning on publishing a book about how things were on […]
{5/5} “Sir, I think we’re going to need a bigger blackboard.” Murdoch Mysteries season 3, aired in 2010 Murdoch finds himself in England with no memory of who he is — while there he must stop an assassination. When a constable from another station dies Murdoch suspects a fellow police officer is the killer. When […]
{4.5/5} “The changeling changed. It would never be human, but it was human enough for something like empathy with its professors. They were trying to understand, and teach about, the human condition — but were themselves trapped in human bodies; stuck in human culture like ancient insects in amber.” Camouflage by Joe Haldeman, published in […]
{5/5} “Why don’t you go play in the office a minute? Sue someone for everything they’ve got. Maybe send a fax to one of your girlfriends.” — Fletcher, to his 5-year-old son Max Liar Liar, released in 1997 Fletcher is a lawyer, the kind that does whatever it takes to win. His son Max, who’s […]
Some movies have a central aspect that must be believable for the movie to work. Here are some examples. The list started with negative examples but I thought I’d include some positive ones as well for contrast. Alien: Resurrection Do you believe Ripley has been cloned? Yes. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Do Batman […]
{4.5/5} “‘So I heard you, like, ran into these things before… What did you do?’ ‘I died.’” Alien: Resurrection, released in 1997 Once again Ripley wakes up and it’s decades later. This time it’s even more surprising since she was dead. But a military research ship has cloned her from blood samples. They didn’t particularly […]
{4.5/5} “I was fated, it seems, to live among people who suffered beyond measure from grief, who were driven mad by it. Though I suffered grief, I was doomed to sanity.” Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 2008 Lavinia spends much of her time outside, playing with her friends. But she’s the daughter […]
{4.5/5} “If I get sick, I will underperform. If I underperform, our stock prices will fall, thousands of people will lose their job, the S & P will take a hit, and you will personally have triggered the next recession. Do you want to be the next Lehman Brothers?” Supergirl season 1, aired in 2015-16 […]
{4.5/5} “The alien is incapable of language, does not possess a society in our sense of it and instead of our massive vocabulary, the thousands of words we have and the millions of subtleties of personal relationships which clutter up our thoughts and unconscious minds, it has an instinct and mind directed to technology… Both […]
{4.5/5} “Someone’s got to return the van after he kills you all.” Mr. Right, released in 2015 Martha found out her boyfriend was cheating on her, so she’s pretty upset. She meets a funny guy in a store and they go on a date. They find that they’re clicking well together. He says he’s a […]