It's geographically impossible for Canada to completely eliminate trade with the US.
I absolutely agree that it should be minimized, though.
Agreed. If there's a greater purpose here, keeping it from Canadians is a pretty big blunder.
Even if we reach a deal, it’s not like Trump is stable or trustworthy enough to honour it.
I don't think this is entirely true - Trump is obviously not trustworthy, but the government has been able to leverage CUSMA to lessen the impact of the attempted tariffs. There seems to be some benefit to having a formal deal in place.
But I'm definitely not comfortable with this capitulation at all.
Some sort of surprising outcomes last weekend
It's funny, I was just about to say the narratives of the season seem to be taking shape, but you're right - there are still some things up in the air.
Riders vs Bombers in the West Finals?
I wouldn't be mad about that at all. But I do hope BC can get things more together - I like Buck Pierce.
My Argos won without Chad Kelly yesterday
I'd also like to see the defending champs gather some more steam.
That quote is...really something. RTD has a habit of overexplaining things to the point of incomprehensibility, but that takes it to a new level.
I do think the basics of what he's getting at ring true - they certainly struggled a bit with "how much sexism should the Thirteenth Doctor encounter," and "how much racism should the Fifteenth Doctor encounter?" They both probably should have encountered more than they did, but if the story isn't about that, you run the risk of derailing the entire story. But if you include it "casually," as just a fact of the world, as they did in this case...that's not necessarily better. But maybe it's still worthwhile?
I don't think there's a right answer, but RTD sure managed to find a wrong one.
On this topic, I was certainly laughing right along with the show's depiction of Mickey-as-a-murder-suspect, but that has unsettling racial implications on its own, if you really interrogate the idea.
Hopefully, this launch will go without major hitches. Canada Day week is probably a good time to do it, since there will be fewer commuters.
Oh boy, it's the one with the farting aliens.
I don't care for this one at all. It's a very pure expression of RTD's "kid-friendly" vision of Doctor Who, but...it makes it kid-friendly by featuring farting aliens. No thanks.
But there's still good stuff! Pretty much everything about Rose's return is pretty great. Jackie's anger and relief after Rose has been missing for a year, Mickey's status as a suspected murderer, all good stuff. We get to meet Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, who's always a delight. We get to see UNIT, still with "United Nations" in their name. We also get to meet Toshiko Sato.
The broad strokes of the plot are interesting. A crashed UFO, faked by aliens not as a diversion, but as a trap for the council of Big Brains that would immediately convene. I like that a lot. I also liked the way the Doctor immediately drops his dismissiveness of ~~Ricky~~ Mickey as soon as he says something intelligent.
But at the end of the day, those farting aliens are always going to be there.
I didn't say that.
There is no kill switch for the F-35, but the JPO’s statement points to the very real problems with the weapons system. In its own words, the jet “operates under well-established agreements,” its strength “lies in its global partnership,” and JPO “[remains] committed to providing all users with the full functionality and support they require.” In other words, the F-35 doesn’t fly unless JPO helps you, but don’t worry because it’s committed to helping.
The F-35 may not have a “kill switch” in the traditional sense, but the countries who bought it are locked into an irrevocable pact with Lockheed Martin and America. ALIS/ ODIN might not be able to turn off the F-35 remotely, but losing access to it can make it impossible to fly.
Only one country has escaped the F-35 software and logistics trap while still being able to fly the jet: Israel. The IDF’s contract for the jet allows it to operate its own software systems without ALIS/ ODIN and conduct its own maintenance.
I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.
Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):
“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”
I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:
The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.
The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.
The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.
And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.
My expectations for this one were high, but I'm really impressed with how well they pulled it off. Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid did a great job of dialing their performances back just enough, and the SNW cast went just a little bit broader.
Good point, and shame on me for not giving Trinity Wells the acknowledgement she deserves!