I have to wonder whether the sword was intended to suggest 1001 Nights. Ew.

In Babylon 5 the synthetic scenes are 24fps and the live action 30fps, if I remember right.

We learn something every day. I was aware of metered gas (for cooking and, I imagine, heating) but not of metered electric power.

@AaarghZombies Nor does that article mention Aladdin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_carpet

Requiescat is third person, so Johnny could legitimately retort Quis?

An alternate explanation not involving Smith: the presence of a saboteur would explain the hospital's incompetence.

Is there nudity in Love Actually? (It's been awhile!) Characters include two stand-ins for a porno shoot, meaning that they are used to set up camera angles and so on; in one scene they go through the motions of sex but fully clothed.

And this version of Mycroft is definitely the sort to make such a joke. (Even Spider-Man did it once, iirc, when a British visitor looked the wrong way before crossing a street: “You're in the colonies now.”)

In the same vein as DOA: Kate, released a year ago on Netflix.

Cheap hand calculators came along soon after I learned to use a slide rule. Pretty sure I never afterward saw anyone, of whatever age, use a slide rule other than to demonstrate its principle.

Does a US flag appear anywhere? (I would guess not.) The number of stars would give a lower bound for the date.

I have a half-memory that Redford's character in The Sting (1973) used a bit of paper.

I have not used the word cretin since someone replied, “Non, athénien.”

Perhaps someone has asked this about John Varley's Nine Worlds, over in scifi.se.

Laura at the end is younger than the one who (in the erased timeline) had any contact with Maya. —By “kill his wife twice” I think Maya means: send her on a suicide mission and then, when she survived that, sho ot her in person.

Seems to me not believing in gravity could be a call back to the earlier episode when gravity did not “do its job”. (Or did she get pregnant? I have seen only a few episodes.)

In Cannonball Run, Roger Moore plays Seymour Goldfarb who thinks he is Roger Moore (as James Bond, though I think that name is not mentioned). Likely there are other examples like that.