Dame sans merci

Watching this episode, I couldn't help but remember the discussion I had online about the Ted/Rebecca relationship where I was snottily told to 'learn some media literacy' because I didn't think it had a romantic endgame. Am I a petty, petty bitch who allowed herself a chuckle thinking about that snotty shipper after the finale? Yes, yes, I am.

I think this is much more likely than him ending up with Rebecca: i'm going to be utterly flabbergasted if he turns out to be straight!

But Keeley was coming out with lines like 'dipping my toe back into the lady pool' back in season 1: this isn't something they've just pulled out of their arse, she's always been written as bi.

There was one recently where Southampton's Mara attempted a bicycle kick and managed to kick Chelsea's Azpilicueta in the face: it initially looked pretty nasty (the noise was HORRIBLE) but thankfully he was okay. But, as you say, incidents like that are pretty rare.

Hello, fellow long-suffering Spurs fan! Yes, Spurs being knocked out by lower league opposition isn't a surprise at this point, either in reality or fiction...

Their game against Tottenham last season was an FA cup quarter final, I believe...?

Was that the scene where Mordo is explaining the dangers of dream-walking to Strange and Chavez? The guy next to me muttered to his companion that it looked like a 'Meatloaf video'. 😆

Mine too, even though it was opening day. The vibe was very flat. I think...I kind of hated this? Somehow both dull AND over-stuffed, characterisation that was shallow as a puddle, horrible dialogue, a forgettable score, and direction that looked distractingly dated. Welp.

As irritating as that moment was, I didn't think it's something that's gender-specific - the last time I can recall the MCU doing something similar, it was Peter Quill losing his mind over Gamora's death and ruining the plan to take down Thanos.

Jamie's accent? That's a Manchester accent. He's a 'Mancunian'.

I appreciate that Herron's been put on the spot there...but that branch can't have been pruned, or we wouldn't have had old Steve visiting Sam in the present day time frame.

Perhaps - if that is the case - our Loki will see the version of himself who's achieved all the power he could ever want, and then ultimately reject that path for himself. So much of what we've seen in the show thus far is about whether we have choice and free will . For Loki, learning that there's a timeline where he DOES win, but being able to turn away from the version of him that acquires all that power and control, would be a huge character moment.

Especially since whilst he was in the Sublime - unaware and defenceless - he could have used Stubbs to keep him safe back in the real world.

There was an absolute mountain of stupidity this week, but for some reason the thing that sticks out as the pinnacle of all the idiocy is Serac leaving that message for his brother...in English. Why?!

I just assumed that the simulation (which seems to have...just kept running based on the fact that Lee has been merrily programming away in there - why though?) was on a mobile server or similar. Maeve recognises at one point when the world 'shimmers' that they've been plugged into the Delos servers. That wasn't Hector's original pearl - they found him in cold storage and transferred the data from his pearl over to the Delos labs, before they torched the bodies in cold storage, A new question: we learn in episode 2 that time moves faster in the simulation, so the real world looks slower. Errr....why didn't that happen here?