It really grinds my gears when inconsiderate people litter.

Attaboy! That's the way to hit a home run!

Beautiful Zel, of a rare rabbit-eared race like Fhi, magenta humanoid alien pony-tail flopping about with her leaderish gestures, her head shaking and bopping away like a whinnying horse, claimed she didn't have that ability, though she did.

The psychological simplification, implicit in an attempt to explain five adult lives by the - grantedly dramatic - events of one night is heavy-handed and untrue, and the characters think tritely, with lines like I sit helpless, chained to my chair, manacled to my unedited and unacceptable life.