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My last weekend with YouTube on the AppleTV (fuck Google for ending support over ads; the Yahoo! Screen app still airs Community without them) I spent browsing some montages of battle sequences from 宇宙戦艦ヤマト and Battlestar Galactica, and I realized it was from the latter that Man of Steel borrowed its cinematography. Later that night I sat through one of the bad alien episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and noticed on a commercial for Gilligan’s Island that Dawn Wells looked quite a bit like Jenna-Louise Coleman:

I find making connections like these strangely rewarding. “The Invisibles clouds,” I call them. Maybe it’s not too strange, after all; in my declining years, it’s more comforting than to admit there’s more left that I can’t account for.

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