Lemur

I think she's very interested in staying in the US. I have to wonder exactly what Coltee's chances of getting another K1 would be considering the horrendous outcome of his marriage. In the words of Xander Cage, I live for this $%^&. I mean, it looked like they're living in a trailer at some point, so can you really say it's better?

He's like a sack of melted ice cream. And I noticed the Real Tree Camo recliner is still alive and well. Larissa should have taken it out into the backyard and burned that thing. You have to image that doctor needs the appearance fee very badly to participate in this show. As for Baby Girl Lisa and Cameo .... my sister has a birthday coming up ... *rubs hands deviously*

Do they get credit for it not being a face/neck tattoo? No? No credit? Moving on ... Years from now, Syngin will look back on that story and wonder that maybe, just maybe, if that bouncer had felt like bodily removing a crazy drunk American, he wouldn't be in this mess.

Truth of the matter is, if she wanted to make sure it got done on time, the officiant could have *gone with her to the airport*, did the ceremony for the paperwork and then redo the vows for the party later. But alas, that's not dramatic enough ...

Guess who's back? Lemur's back. (I know, I know, you didn't know I was gone.) I said the exact same thing, though yes, they aren't Pam and Tommy. Syngin hasn't broken her nose and there's no sex tape ... yet. All the fillers. Jasmin had all the fillers. Some times multiple fillers in places already filled. As for her wanting to be a kept woman ... I hate to stereotype Finns like this, but I've met a couple who were like this. I knew of one who was working on her third Masters degree and waiting for Mr. Right Enough to Marry to come along. She's focusing on how long she needs to make an actual effort with this marriage thing before she can ask Syngin for an open relationship. Maybe she hit up the torrents of "Ancient Aliens" and realized how incredibly, offensively dumb Mike is? See, and this is why I used to tailgate weddings and show up *just* tipsy enough to ensure that none of my friends wanted my help.

That's without any possible Florida Resident discount and previous cruiser discount.

So, how far a daemon can be from a person depends on a couple of things ... The first is how well they can bare the pain of their daemon being far away and vice versa. Some people deal with it better than others. Some daemons can go much farther, some prefer to stay close. For example, in one book set in the same universe that's not covered by this series, a character's daemon is able to watch over a child while he is fighting the big bad a good ways away. It's painful, but they manage. But it's also fairly rare. There are three other possibilities ... all of which are heavy spoilers ... None of these are likely or canonical.

Answer is here.

So this is some random and canon-though-not-in-the-book trivia that spoils nothing, the monkey's name is Ozymandias. (Asriel's snow leopard is Stelmaria.) Anyone else notice the completely different demeanors of the daemons in the bath scene?

Exactly. If I may expound a bit, Dust is .... You'd have to think of the physical constraints of settling into an animal shape.

I actually like this change, as one of the bigger complaints about the books I've seen was that Pullman spends so much time world building in the first book but then immediately drops it and sets a good bit of the second book in our current world. Also, I think getting Will involved in the narrative earlier will be less jarring. I guess I always knew, as it was the sort of orphan-narrative trick I'm always on the look-out for. (I also read a lot of books featuring orphans when I was a kid. Don't know why, I have a perfectly lovely family but yeah, orphans were cool.) I agree though, it shouldn't be a huge shock to anyone but Lyra.

No, Lord Boreal is Magisterium through and through. He was at the Magisterium HQ in the first episode and he was more than happy to "dispose" of that pesky journalist at Mrs. Coulter's party. Asriel is anti-Magisterium. It's long title is General Oblation Board Of London, so G.O.B.O.L. Phonetically, Gobble. As for religion, they've been pretty up front that the Church is the State in Lyra's world and that the Magisterium and it's various arms including the GOB, are the government. They can clearly go further than that - see the birds in the scenes where the Gyptians raid warehouse. A good many of them seemed to be street kids, so I don't know know if they even knew they were abducted. A good many of them seemed to be under Ms. Coulter's sway, except Roger who was doing his best to get a coded message out to Lyra. Sudden cardiac death? Stroke? Take your pick.

What if they're sub-humans like Angela? 😉

Native American and American are two different things though. My people may have come over before the US was a nation, but that doesn't mean we're Native American. And I'd never claim to be a "Native Born American" as that has certain connotations in both history and politics. That said, I think I've been behind your co-worker coming back through customs a time or two. I wonder how many times a day they ask that question.

Welp, my family's been in the US so long we stopped hyphenating roughly 150 years ago so I self-identity as a basic white chick. That doesn't mean we're native though. Correction: Basic white chick from Philadelphia. I wouldn't doubt that. Also, he has a certain manchild quality to him, what with this emphasis on owning big boy toys and going ot yacht parties with celebrities.

And yet you'd be surprised how many cruisers are resistant to doing this, due to the money, effort and non-necessity of it. Then again, a lot of them don't buy trip insurance either, so go figure. Yeeeeesssssss beeeeebe. As the wise man Steve Miller once said, "Go on, take the money and run." I think part of the issue is that Tania has a (shall we say) heightened awareness of these sort of issues and may be taking great pride in "turning" him away from whatever small amount of ingrained racism he may have. Also, she clearly lives for the drama. I also think the 90 Day franchise hasn't exactly been kind to South Africa, between this couple and the one from The Other Way. Well, it used to be called Stalingrad and it was almost completely destroyed by one of the largest battles in world history in 1942-1943 and then rebuilt. Much of the dirty, backward, old was bombed or shelled out of existence.

If he has a Captain Save-a-Ho complex, maybe even less creepy as he sees himself as her White Knight. It's difficult without actually seeing them together to pin down their dynamics.

Oh, they're still out there. They may be illegal in Germany, but there are several National Socialists parties in both the US and in Europe. (Remember, Norway willingly sided with the Germans against the Russians because they have a centuries-old problem with the Russians trying to invade and occupy Norway.) It's an easier way of saying Lantino/Latina. Instead of typing that, Latinx. (It's also non-binary.)

Love that they opened in the Great Flood, it's a nice call-out to La Belle Sauvage.

I don't know how much of this is "Book Talk", but I'll spoiler tag answers to be on the safe side. Absolutely, better than the movie. I really, really loved Daniel Craig being casted as Asriel in the movie but hated how he was written. That said, I'm already enjoying McAvoy as Asriel. Visually and as an actor.

But she's in LURVE. Cmon now. Do you really think those two have a court order for custody and child support? Oh Hell Naw.

Not sure if it's the same from immigration hearings, but reality television content is generally consider inadmissible in court because it's edited for effect and/or entertainment. (Hang out in the Teen Mom forums enough and this becomes something of mantra.)

Uber doesn't care. They're a technology platform, not a taxi service. (Uber's line of reasoning, not mine.) Cruising is cheaper (book during Hurricane season, book an interior, etc.) and doesn't require a passport and the necessary expenses/legwork to get a passport. Yeah, she's not digging gold with this dude. More like used tin foil.

Considering she was recently popped for DUI and one of her daughters is incarcerated for having a sexual relationship with a minor, that's a very safe assumption. They can't all be winners .... or such memorable losers that they get to keep coming back, season after season. HARD AGREE. Do you really think that because the apartheid laws were ended society in South Africa just magically because inclusive? I mean hell, we ended slavery in the 1860s and we still have racial inequalities in the US. He may have grown up after the end of lawful apartheid but that doesn't mean he wasn't subjected to a systematically racist society.