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A couple of thoughts. 1) Fork in the Road : I wonder if they were thinking they could better present the teams by creating "two parallel races" of seven teams. In most seasons, all the teams in the middle get sort of ignored with the emphasis on the the couple running at the front and the couple running at the bottom. In this case you had two races so they might have thought they could bring more attention to more teams. Not sure it worked. 2) Sing option -- If I'd been a contestant and selected this I would have been pissed when I got to the venue and they said there were "movements." That's freaking dancing, and I choose sing because I have two left feet and no rhythm and I know that s rhythmic movement (dance) challenge means that my team is getting Philelimiated at the detour site. The option said one or the other not both.

ETA: Apparently we are in 1941, so my thoughts are incorrect. I figured Tristan is back because the North Africa Campaign is over, or really close to over (Looked it up, it ended May of 1943). From the causal reading I've done on WWII over the years, the North Africa Campaign used camels as pack animals, probably along with horses and mules. Therefore, a large need for vets. While some pack animals were used in the European Theatre, I think most of the movement of men and goods was via mechanical means. So, with the reduced use of animals, the service had a reduced need for vets. Tristan can come home. Having severed honorably, Tristan can come back to England, help his brother out, spend some time training and perhaps find other ways to contribute to the war effort.

Not directly related to C&E, but came across this article about "family" vloggers giving up their adopted kid. It contains this gem about the "family" vloggers and maybe what we have to look forward to: https://www.thecut.com/2024/06/youtube-myka-james-stauffer-huxley-adoption.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pocket_hits&utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-SPONSORED&FINANCEBUZZ-2024_06_12=&sponsored=0&position=3&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=fd3b41ab-3a11-49ba-b4fe-fd9479c78332&url=https://www.thecut.com/2024/06/youtube-myka-james-stauffer-huxley-adoption.html

I tend to disagree, we are not seeing Older Sheldon tell the story of Young Sheldon. I think they started off the show that way, but it deviated fairly quickly in the first season. There are too many scenes that occur that are not from Sheldon's point of view, and that he would not have been aware of. I would also say that as a viewer I think there have been many episodes that don't even include a narration, of if they have narration it's been so inconsequential to my viewing of the story that I don't remember it. I think we are seeing the Young Sheldon story as an observer, with occasional narration by Older Sheldon when he is either involved, or has some opinion about what happened. I think this is what explains the discrepancies.

I also liked season 1, but this one felt very cartoonish.

I think the "tricky" is the marketing and business development side of things. To user your phrasing, there are "rubes" from all over the country moving to Central Florida, and based on the Facebook post in my neighborhood, most of them don't have the skills to change the paper roll in the bathroom without hiring someone to do it. A challenge in Central Florida is that there are pockets of people that don't need a handyman to hang a curtain rod, and then there are places where people are willing to pay $150-$200 a window to hang a curtain rod. From the videos that I've watched since they moved to Florida it looks like they are in the Eustis area. The area they are in, and probably for about 30-40 minute drive around (especially to the north, east and west) mostly has people that are capable of doing a lot of things for themselves. If you go about hour south in the Dr. Phillips/Windemere area around Universal and Disney, or southeast over to the Lake Nona area you've got a crap ton of big city transplants that are challenged with changing the sprinkler head on their irrigation system and are constantly begging people to show up and do the most mundane of home maintenance tasks. Really, just showing up on time and attempting the job will get a five star review. As long as he does nothing that modified the structure of the house, he can do pretty much anything as a handyman in Florida. This especially plays to his strength building things (cabinets, shelves, beds, builtins,etc) and there is still a ton of demand for that. I see weekly post in my neighborhood looking for someone to do those kinds of things. I'm curious if he really "moved" Pain Construction though. It's been a couple of months, but when I was renewing my company's Florida state and local registrations I looked online for Paine Construction in the public registration databases maintained by the state and local counties and didn't find anything. I wonder if he moved down here and went to work for someone else.

I think what happened during the pandemic was school at home vs home schooling. I know our local districts here in Central Florida simply had the kids log in on a laptop and watch the teacher . Now, that is pretty much what the Webster's are doing (and I assume most of the other siblings). They get the ABECCA (?? spelling) DVD's that have basically filmed the teacher in front of a classroom and make the kids sit there and watch. There's really no big difference between that and sending your kid to a school, since they develop not at their pace, but at the pace of the class on the DVD.

Homeschooling does not mean you can't go to Ga. Tech. Public school doesn't mean you're going to get in to Ga. Tech either. I know people like to snark on the Bates here, but the level of ignorance about home schooling and bias towards public schools is frustrating to read. As a parent of a grown and successful child that was home schooled I've seen bad home schooling and a I've seen really successful home schooling. Growing up as an Army brat, I am the product of many public school systems across the county and a couple of DOD schools, and I've seen some good schools and some really bad public schools. It's anecdotal, but of four or five girls my daughter grew up with that wanted to be doctors or vets, the only two that made it (one to medical school and the other vet school) were home schooled. The public schooled kids hit college math and biology courses and were out for the count. I have numerous friends that teach in public schools, mostly at the elementary level, and they refer to the system as "an age based promotion system" in which ability or merit plays no part. From the one 9 week break we took from home schooling in the fourth grade I'd have to agree.

When I originally watched season 1 & 2, and then rewatched again while waiting for season 3, the way this show worked as fable telling vehicle reminded me of my favorite TV show of all time, the Andy Griffith show. If you've ever talked to an Andy fan you know the Black & White episodes are considered the finest. You watch them over and over again, can quote dialog and story lines. The Color episodes are OK, but you don't go out of your way to watch them again. Then there's Mayberry RFD that you may have watched once, but it's the spin off with all the supporting characters that still wanted to keep going when Andy quit. I think this show is pretty much the same. Seasons 1&2 are awesome, and you can rewatch and enjoy in a timeless manner. Season 3, most will have watched it at least once but it won't be on the must rewatch list to love and know Ted Lasso. And if there's a spin-of like Richmond - Keely PR, well, ...

I think what's wrong it is too 2 years to get here. I didn't watch seasons 1 and 2 when they came out since I didn't have apple so I was able to stream them for the first time in the middle of 2022. According to IMDB Season 1 ran Sept-Oct 2020, Season 2 ran Jul - Oct 2021 and then we waited until March of 2023 for season 3 to start. I think the delay in the timing of season 3 gave the creators and writers too much time to reflect on what they had produced and let the great press they were getting go to their heads. Instead of a show that was about a goofy but effective football turned soccer coach, they started writing for all the supporting stories that came out of that premise and lost the charm and cohesiveness of the original and sidelined the main story. As it is, I feel like I'm watching a different show in season 3.

Showed up here thinking this would be a major topic of conversation. Got a page long discourse on dog breeds and behavior. Guess I'm just too simple, because the "I took Spanish at community college" line made me pause the stream so I could laugh and enjoy it. I really never looked at the dang dog.

How much narrating did Adult Sheldon do in this last episode? I'm not going to re-watch, but I can't remember a single time the I heard from Adult Sheldon. In the beginning I don't think we had shows that didn't include a lot of Adult Sheldon talking about what happened. I really don't understand why people can't get over the bolded. I know based on my life experience, this is a very reasonable explanation. I grew up with one side of my family heavily influenced by anti-drinking religions, and drinking any amount == alcoholic. They often labeled members of the other side of my family as alcoholics and womanizers. If you had asked me to characterize some of these relatives in my late 20's, early 30's I would have used some of these labels to sum them up, because that's what I'd heard. In most cases it would be wrong. If you tell me Sheldon had a religious mother, and she and the dad broke up, and the dad drank, I have no problem believing that she would regularly describe him as an alcoholic. It might even work as part of her coping mechanism as she makes a life without George in the future. I can easily see Sheldon adopting that explanation and excuse, especially if he feels the results of these future events impact him negatively in some way. It's an easy way to label something that was a problem, blame someone and move on. Even further, since in this show we are seeing what Sheldon didn't see (things like MeeMaw running the "arcade" and Georgie having conversations with Mandy, Misty and Billy talking in front of the school, etc) we are experiencing The Coopers, not Sheldon's biography. And that's what I'm enjoying seeing, not a lot of scripts that just show me Kid Sheldon doing things that Adult Sheldon said on BBT.

Doesn't this pretty much describe adult Sheldon for most of the BBT.

I agree with @SilverStormm's ranking of the other versions. I liked the host of the UK the best, and the US the least. I liked the contestants of AUS the best and the US the least. I think AUS was the only one where there never seemed to be any screaming and shouting at breakfast or the round table. I also thought that the AUS players seemed to put the most time into trying to figure out how a traitor was acting. Once they latched onto the swimming for the shield contest, they pretty much had all the original traitors. I also liked the AUS version having the pile of silver bars in the middle of the round table each episode. I think the UK version seemed to show more explanations of how the game was being played given to the players. For instance I think it was in the first episode that the host said that the traitors would be able to recruit. I also think it was the UK version where one of the Traitors summed up their feelings about "lying" to the others by saying it was no different than sitting around playing poker with these others and bluffing. It's the game and how you play it. I watched the non-US version spoiled, and it really didn't impact my enjoyment of the show. In fact when and episode started I'd head to the Wikipedia page to see what was going to happen and watch for it. In reading the Wikipedia, I ended up linking to the Netherlands version. It seems they've had 3 seasons (Netherlands Traitors). I like how they did the end game: I think the game is really tilted towards the Traitor winning it all, so I think I like either of these end games better than the ones shows in the AUS/UK/US versions of the show.

Much the same way her older brother was in an earlier season when he found Missy and Sheldon at a high school party when they shouldn't have been. I'd say it goes to how they were raised by Mary and George that leads to that behavior.