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{5/5} “‘We gotta get him out of that hippie school.’ ‘I don’t know, Jay, last report card he got straight dolphins.’” Modern Family season 7, aired in 2015-16 Haley attempts to stop Andy from proposing to Beth, but is too late. Haley and Andy like each other — will they get together? Alex is off […]
{4.5/5} “Compromise where you can. Where you can’t, don’t. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say, ‘No, you move.’” Captain America: Civil War, […]
{5/5} “Beckett makes me laugh. She challenges me. I became a better man.” Castle season 8, aired in 2015-16 Beckett is now captain of the 12th precinct. Castle is working as a private investigator — he’s shocked to find out that Alexis has been working his cases without telling him. When Beckett is drawn into […]
{4.5/5} “‘No one in New York ever wants to high five.’ ‘That’s dumb. What do they do when truckasaurus eats a car?’” Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 2, aired in 2016 Kimmy is supposed to be studying for her GED but she keeps helping Dong not get deported. It turns out Titus is technically married and […]
{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 […]