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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you listen to NPR and hang out with other people who listen to NPR, you can do this all the time. Like I know I've found my people when I overhear someone say "I was listening to Science Friday and they had a fascinating discussion on [obscure subject]." Dude, I ALSO heard that episode.

Also, do you have kids? Mine is 6 and we have a lot of conversations about meteorology, plate tectonics, dinosaurs, the process of photosynthesis, why traffic moves so slowly sometimes, etc.

Finally, in the third Mission Impossible movie (the one directed by JJ Abrams) there is this great moment near the beginning where Ethan Hunt is "retired" and playing house with his wife and they are hosting a party. Someone asks him to explain what he does again, and it's revealed that he is pretending to be a traffic engineer. Tom Cruise then launches into a monologue about how fascinating it is to see how small acts like a person braking to make an exit or swerving into someone else's lane can have ripple effects in traffic patterns that can go for miles (I'm paraphrasing and probably getting it wrong, but that's the gist). The joke is that as he's saying this, people are like "wow so boring" and stop asking him about work, but whenever I see this movie, I always think "Say more."

Also if anyone wants to have a lengthy conversation about the Mission Impossible movie series, its various directors, the relative success of installments as works of cinema and as commercial endeavors, whether Tom Cruise is a net good or a net bad in society, or draw through lines between [b]Alias, Lost, Mission Impossible, The Leftovers, and Watchmen series[/b], Hit. Me. Up.[/quote]

I loved Alias and La Femme Nikita show. Does LFN also belong on this list? They were pretty mission impossibleish. Same with Sanctuary from SciFi. And Torchwood.[/quote]

Perhaps, but the link is more about creators -- JJ Abrams created Alias and was executive producer on Lost (created with Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber). Mission Impossible 3 launched Abrams into film directing, whereas Lindelof went not o creat both the Leftovers and the Watchman series.[/quote]

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