Fair question. This belongs in "Off Topic," so --

AS IF BY MAGIC

BDA, do yourself a favor and watch the movie before you become too firmly entrenched in the view that it's overrated. You'll just be robbing yourself of a tremendous experience otherwise.

So, loved it. Need some time to process it, and definitely another viewing, but wow. Literally breath-taking.

The Clooney tether thing -- it seemed like they'd reached an equilibrium, yes, but a tenuous one. If she'd tugged on him (or he on her), her foot would've come loose and they'd both be adrift. My issue with that scene was more that it's a rather boring trope, severing the cord to sacrifice yourself. Not enough to ruin the movie, just not my favorite scene.

When I make DVDs I'm going to strongly consider making both human translated and Google translated subtitle tracks available, for the lulz.

+1. Alfred's face lights up and the music kicks in and I thought "Oh, awesome."

Then it actually cuts to the reverse angle.  Boohiss.

Is magic resurrection-blood acceptable in the (new) Star Trek universe on a magic bean level? Sure.

Is it stupid, lazy, tension-destroying-forever shitty writing? Also yes.

I'd be interested in Austin. Any of them, really, but I do enjoy sarcasm.

I have no idea what's going to happen in the final hour or how this could possibly be wrapped up in that amount of time. It feels like we're still introducing wrinkles to the story -- Skyler and the DEA is like a mid-season complication, you'd think.

The only expectation I have is that I'm going to be left wanting more, which is the way to go out I guess. The end of this episode could almost have been the finale (the music seemed to think it was) if not for the dangling promise of ricin and guns.

1) BIOSHOCK. The hard-R version Verbinski wanted to make. Would love to see the world of Rapture come to life. Needs some finessing of the story to make it a movie instead of a game, but a lot of great stuff to work with to make a wonderful action-horror piece.

2) THE MUPPET MAN. An absolutely devastating biopic of Jim Henson. It was written without life-rights permission and plays too fast and loose with the facts, and the iconography of the Muppets, for the comfort of his heirs (the opening line in the script is "KERMIT THE FROG, twenty years older than we've ever seen him before, wakes from a DRUNKEN NIGHTMARE"). They actually bought it and it is in development. What comes out the other side will probably be unrecognizable.

3) GHOSTBUSTERS 3. Just, can we please get it over with so I can move on with my life.