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From a thematic standpoint, [Bruce melting away] really played into this thought about the quality of life as opposed to the quantity of life. And I believe that Bruce got more appreciation out of the two days he was on Earth than most humans get in a lifetime. So there's a lesson in that too. - Chris Sheridan, showrunner for Resident Alien

Sheridan also said in the latest BTS video (x) they had this story line about Bruce melting away because the show had already established that the Gray aliens can't survive on Earth for long. So when the fx team built the Bruce puppet, they made certain the limbs were detachable.

Also, Sara Tomko has a texture phobia and was grossed out by the scenes of Bruce melting.

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"I don't know how [Alan Tudyk] did it. I don't know how he slept. He was so effortful the whole time. I mean he was so into whatever he was doing at any given moment. It was just a tour-de-force to watch." - Levi Fiehler (Ben) re: Alan Tudyk directing the first 2 eps of Resident Alien season 4 (x)

"I really like when Alan is directing. Cause he contractually has to be nice to us." - Alice Wetterlund (D'arcy)

"As director you see all the departments working so hard. Every thing, every prop, every set, every costume has had many meetings and discussions. A lot of smart, intelligent, thoughtful people have made decisions about why things are going to be the way they are. I have more respect now than ever before about all film and television." - Alan Tudyk (Harry)

BTW, I know from previous BTS videos that the cast like and respect each other. But I still found it very interesting the way Meredith Garretson (Kate) was holding Levi Fiehler's arm in the latest video which is why I did a screencap of that for this post.

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I missed that! I may have to rewatch the ep now. And kudos to the production team given that it was the human gesture that Harry mastered easily and used correctly every time he did it.

I couldn't wait for 11pm local time for the season 4 premiere of Resident Alien. But I assume because I'm on the west coast, the ep was available to stream on demand through my TV service sometime after 9pm.

Did people notice that in addition to drawings of everybody in Patience he was missing, Harry had a drawing of pizza on his cell wall?

Also, I thought they would've put in a time jump to cover how much Sahar and Max have grown. But then I guess there would've been a lot of missing story with all the issues in the lives of Mike, Ben & Kate, and D'arcy with the baby.

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I couldn't wait for 11pm local time for the season 4 premiere of Resident Alien. But I assume because I'm on the west coast, the ep was available to stream on demand through my TV service sometime after 9pm.

Did people notice that in addition to drawings of everybody in Patience he was missing, Harry had a drawing of pizza on his cell wall?

Also, I thought they would've put in a time jump to cover how much Sahar and Max have grown. But then I guess there would've been a lot of missing story with all the issues in the lives of Mike, Ben & Kate, and D'arcy with the baby.

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Pontoon bridges are just linear open-sided waterbeds.

Bridge Types [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Bridge Types [A 4x4 matrix of 16 ways to cross the same rectangular hole in the ground]

Plank [shows a plank laid over the hole] Rope [shows a rope bridge with rope guardrail] Truss [shows a truss bridge with a triangular truss above the bridge deck] Trestle [shows a trestle bridge] Arch [shows stone arches supporting a straight deck] Suspended Arch [shows a single arch, with the bridge deck suspended from it] Draw [shows a truss bridge, with one half opened like an unrealistic draw bridge] Suspension [shows the bridge deck suspended from a cable strung between two pillars and the shores] Filler [shows the hole filled with dirt and stones] Budget Overrun [shows a bridge deck suspended by cables from an artistically shaped pillar] Jump [shows two ramps at the edges of the hole, and a skateboarder jumping across the hole] Halfhearted [shows a ramp at each side of the hole that leads down to the bottom] Waterbed [shows the hole filled with water, two fish and an octopus, a wobbly covering, and two stick figures crossing] L'Engle [shows the hole warped such that the opposite shores meet] Fun [shows a loop-de-loop rollercoaster bridging the hole, and a skateboarder using it to get across] Repurposed Elevator [shows an elevator tower, rotated sideways as a whole, laid across the hole. 2 stick figures using the elevator are also rotated.]

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Poker face "Sloppy Joseph"

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"[The original Star Trek series] was actually quite sophisticated. Things don't have to be gritty and dark to be for adults. You know, science fiction doesn't have to be full of death and swearing and questionable morals to be consumed by adults. It just has to be thoughtful and imaginative. And I'd like to see Star Trek kind of get back to the spirit of the original series a little bit." - Simon Pegg (Scotty in the AOS movies) from a quiz in which he has to match lines to characters he's played (x)

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"If cells were conscious, viruses would be terrifying to them. Imagine spiders that don't crawl on walls, but passively float around the air, hoping to get into your mouth when you are not careful for a moment, crawling into your brain and forcing your insides to produce hundreds of new baby spiders until all your body is filled with them. And then your skin would burst open and all these new spiders would try to get your family and friends. This is literally what viruses do to cells.

Pathogenic viruses are excellent at circumventing the immune system because they have a superpower: Nothing multiplies as fast as they do. And that also means that nothing mutates or changes as fast as viruses. They are basically impossible to beat on that front because they are sloppy and careless. Viruses are so basic that they lack most of the intricate safeguards your cells have to prevent mutations, so they mutate all the time." - from the book Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

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you just got a shitty new job and you’re trying to make the best of it but you have to move to a recently active war zone and the office is literally in in shambles and your new coworker immediately makes sure you know just how much she hates you and the man who’s arguably responsible for your wife’s death shows up to give you a pep talk while a guy formerly in charge of your new department sends you a passive-aggressive (and vaguely flirtatious) Skype call that basically confirms he plans to be an ongoing pain in your ass. also gods from a metaphysical plane beyond human comprehension contact you directly so that you can explain linear time to them while also replaying one of the most traumatic moments in your life and in return they basically appoint you as figurehead for a religion you don’t even believe in. on an unrelated note, you’ve blackmailed the shadiest guy in the office to stick around so that the whole mini-economy doesn’t collapse and meanwhile the people next door are still insisting that you are the official Space Moses. it’s only been a few days

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"Something I do whenever I see a set of stairs because no one ever taught me you're supposed to walk on them. You know, I do it if it's a public space but it's not my preference."

Natasha Lyonne explained the famous scene of Charlie crawling up some stairs in Poker Face during a season 1 recap she did with Rian Johnson. (x)

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My FBI handler is a Sondheim nut, how lucky can a guy get?

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I just had to capture the quick little graphic they put into the Elsbeth season finale showing the overall steps for making a knife out of ramen. It's too bad Mythbusters is long gone as this is the kind of thing I could see them testing.

Also, I hadn't seen anyone mention that the episode title "Ramen Holiday" was a take off on the Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck movie "Roman Holiday". And we had Elsbeth dressed as Audrey Hepburn for the episode that took place during Halloween. Though I suspect that was a coincidence as I doubt they had the finale story line and title planned out that far in advance.

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CARRIE PRESTON AND CARRA PATTERSON as ELSBETH TASCIONI and KAYA BLANKE ELSBETH (2024–) S02E19 · “I've Got a Little List”

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Just a reminder for the Trek fandom that Nimoy very much wanted the story in Star Trek IV to highlight the dangers of humans causing species to go extinct. He felt that because TOS dealt with important social issues, the same should be true in The Voyage Home even if it did have a very light hearted tone.

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Happy May the 4th!

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Did people catch that one of the screens on the bridge had a schematic of the Patrick Starship Enterprise? And it looked like a similar schematic was on the screen behind Spock in the transporter room although all you could see was a portion of an arm and the head.

I love when production teams take such care with little details even when it's for a silly little ad.

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Just wanted to express my appreciation for the Elsbeth show runners for adding bits of humor to the episode titles and the title cards which precede commercial breaks. (One title card had the swaying condo tower in the ep with the high end escort as the killer. Another title card had the crows circling over the location of a body as happened in the ep.) A few weeks ago, we had "Hot Tub Crime Machine" for a title. And this week we had "I Know What You Did 33 Summers Ago" which came after the Ghosts episode "I Know What You Did 37 Summers Ago".

And on a somewhat different note, as soon as Wagner's wife took Judge Crawford's glass to get it refilled I knew the purpose was to get a sample of his DNA. But credit to the writers for having Crawford correctly assessing what was going on. Too often in books, movies, and TV shows, supposedly intelligent characters are a bit too obtuse to the events taking place. And that undermines the willing suspension of disbelief when indulging in a piece of fiction.