QuantumMechanic

Pretty much the entire season :( My favorite moment in the episode was when Rod finally realized all he had to do to get the soccer goal was to just truck everyone in his way and just kick it in. Especially the background music and clobbering that one guy just before the goal.

Big difference between being in a spot where a team is native speakers for a leg or two vs doing it for the entire season. Just like it would be BS for, say, every single roadblock to be super athletic.

I started to well up a bit at that too. That was the sole good thing about the episode. That and seeing and hearing the original handset.

Looks like the writers were having trouble with the script deadline approaching and watched Midnight Run and Home Alone.

If it ends, as rumored, basically the day Rogue One starts, don’t think he or we need to worry about sequels.

I took that more as "intentionally look like something filmed in 1961"

You'd be surprised. I have a friend who's a director at Meta and we've talked about what comp packages are these days and you might be amazed what even right-out-of-school compensation is at the FAANGs. $250+K total comp starting out is not a rare thing. It's a whole other world.

For starters they are, IIRC, software engineers at Google, so each one’s share of the prize is definitely less than two years’ and quite possibly less than one year’s compensation. There’s also buzz out there that their family is also quite well off, but I don’t know about that one way or the other.

Soooo.... I thought the bi-generation thing was going to mean that FourTenTeen was now mortal and would be stuck on earth and that's how he'd let go and "stop". But I guess he's neither mortal nor stuck on earth. So the letting go and stopping is (I guess?) because with another Doctor out there he doesn't have to do anything anymore and can just have a life because Fifteen and beyond will be out saving the Universe?

Wow. That episode was a big step backwards on so many axes. Re-establishing Addison as the hologram, Ian's ridiculous out of nowhere anti-science garbage (especially the "it's ok to believe in nonsense because who knows, amiright?" crap), the obviously not New England landscape (and I swear that in the post-rain scene at the end the buildings looked more like a mid-1800s Old West set), all the stuff people mentioned with William, the apples, Ben not even trying to fit in (not to mentioning whispering/talking to (from other peoples' POV) the air -- that wouldn't be suspicious at all, no sir!) and on and on. One thing I was curious about -- would there even be an Irish person in 1692 Massachusetts?

I actually think Ben (and his actor) is doing a good job as the leaper except for the making almost no effort to hide when he's talking to the hologram. And I like Ian and Jenn as holograms. My problem (not unique to the crowd here) is that I cannot stand Addison as a character and cannot stand her interactions with Ben. And further that I have no interest in any of the "back at QL HQ" stuff. And yes, while this season still contains those flaws it is still better than last season was.

Boston? Which, by the way, flagrantly stole the Stockholm transit system logo.

Pretty clear she left him. Maybe she finally realized what an unethical turd he was and dropped him. Though it's more likely because he didn't give a single shit about what the kid was interested in. He was exhibiting way more than "lack of interest in soccer". That was asshole levels of "I'm going to performatively demonstrate how little I care about or share one of your major interests." I don't think Michelle is interested in Ted again. I think they've reached an amicable co-parenting place. And why rip the kid away from all his friends, etc. to go to the UK where he probably won't see much of his father anyways? (Being the head coach of a Premiere League team is a huge time sink.). I'm also not convinced that Ted wants to remain in the UK anyways. He took the job as an escapist way to avoid the pain of his personal situation. With that mostly resolved he has no need to stay there. And will be more comfortable back in the US anyways.

Interesting! So the 14->15 regen is actually going to be in the last 60th special and then Christmas will be all 15?

Yeah -- some people complaining about people complaining about the show are conflating two things. There are the people who want to pretend gay and enby and trans people don't exist. And there are the people who are fine with that but put quality storytelling above Making Some Point. For example, the scene were the neighborhood kids deadname Rose and then Donna and Sylvia talk about that and how Sylvia tries to use the right pronouns and Donna talks about how enraged she was by what happened was natural and was a great scene. (Natural because that taunting is something that really happens and Donna and Sylvia's discussion in the wake of it follow naturally from that.) But the metacrisis plot resolution scene was eyerollingly anvilicious and clunky and takes one out of the story. (Not to mention that it (a) was a clear contradiction of the point the episode had been trying to make and (b) was blatantly sexist to boot!)