QuantumMechanic

I'm rooting for it to be at least as bad as it was in S2 (it's not like it can improve much given the production staff). A show needs to maintain a certain level of incompetence to be a fun hatewatch. I do non-ironically like Durin IV and Disa though.

What are the changes? I hate the race format so I basically fastforwarded each race until someone fell or until someone was on the final obstacle, so I missed a lot, obviously.

Has Netflix said anything re: the Vulture/New Yorker piece that just came out? Or had Gaiman already been excised from an active role? And any news about if they are going to rewrite so they aren't using scripts directly penned by him?

It never was figured out. That's the thing. It's a bootstrap paradox, which is one of Moff's stock tropes. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.

This show really gives me the feels. My 95yo mom lives by herself in her house ("I was born here [she literally was] and I'm gonna die here!") while my sister and I are trying to convince her to move into an independent/assisted living place. A year ago she got covid, had to be hospitalized, and when discharged had to spend 3 weeks in a rehab center. Those three weeks were the happiest my sister and I had seen her in years! Doing activities. Talking with people. Picking out her meals at lunch and supper. Doing PT. Once when I was visiting she even practically shooed me out so she could go hang with some of the other residents! My sister and I were hoping that would be the thing that would get her to be willing to move or at least strongly consider it. But no :( She's the last one standing from her generation. All her friends and same-generation relatives are dead and she's bitterly lonely. (And tells my sister and I that every other day). But would apparently rather be lonely than move. Even with the experience she had at rehab. Que sera sera...

Just finished binging season 7! Overall a pretty good season and, if the show really is cancelled for good, a satisfactory ending, IMHO.

When they wrote the season they didn’t know they were gonna be cancelled. When they got the news they were given the chance to do some “patching” of the scripts but could not redo the season to be a swan song. So to a large degree we are getting a season 5 from a continuing series rather than a season 5 for a final season.

When they wrote it (and all the other alleged “filler” ones) they didn’t know this was the last season.

Is that the first time there's been an alternate opening titles sequence? (I honestly don't know since I only watch the opening titles for the first episode of each season and skip it for all the other episodes.)

Absolutely love that verrrrrry long pause by Screenwriter Guy. 🤣

Just the opposite, I think. She specifically said she "spoke no spell" and the like. So I believe she "created" Nicky the old-fashioned way. That he was "from scratch" precisely because she didn't use spells, etc. to conceive him.

I can't express how much I love that they took a colorist's error and a Shatner mispronunciation and ran with it!

No, not the same place. That thing with Frodo happened on Amon Hen which was east of the Misty Mountains, southeast of Rohan, and not that far (in the grand scheme of things) from Gondor. The Sauron/Galadriel fight was in Ost-in-Edhil in Eregion, west of the Misty Mountains and much further north. Remember, Eregion is on the same side of the mountains as the "Speak friend and enter" door to Moria, while visiting Lorien and all that stuff that came after it (like the breaking of the Fellowship) was after going through Moria to the other side of the mountains.

Well, it's hard to say because this story is so different from canon. So canonically the Three are not corrupt. But they are bound by the One and subject to its control. Not because the Three were corrupted but because the One was intentionally made powerful enough to control them.

From an RTD interview with SFX, via BleedingCool: UGH "What everyone leaves out of the equation is that, actually, we're now in a universe in which fairy circles are real and have power."