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I'm a little sad that this show isn't going to continue, but I'm really enjoying it. I loved that Dionysus could absolutely destroy Hera, and has lots of reasons to do so, but is being totally sincere in his "we all will keep each other's secrets and be friends now." I don't think it even occurred to him to threaten Hera. So sweet. Of course Medusa is on Team Destroy the Gods. Good for her. I really hope that we get a scene of Caeneus and his mom in the next episode. He was so sad. He lost his dog and his girl. He really needs a hug.

Last week, I made a comment to my husband that the editor of the episode was kinda being a dick for including a clip of Dylan tripping on his skateboard instead of using a clip where he does something cool, but now I see that it was foreshadowing for Dylan falling off his stool this episode. I've been watching this show for years and yet, every time I hear "it's biscuit week," my brain immediately thinks American biscuits and I get excited to see what kind of flavors and/or different types of biscuits they're going to make. Every time.

I like "Gods get their power from people's belief" stories. Here the people don't believe in the Gods because they know they exist so having Zeus and the others drink their souls to get power is a cool work around. I am curious about the effect of non-renewal for the strength of the souls. Zeus power chugging the water at the end made me wonder if the soul water isn't as potent as it could be since all the souls are new. At this point, no one is getting renewed so every soul that goes through the Frame is level 1. Back in the day, when people were renewed, did the souls that had previous lives have more power? Was a soul that had already had 5 previous lives worth 6 newbie souls? Is that why the water loop starting to falter? Kind of like how my students will eat an entire bag of Takis before 1st hour and then wonder why they are so hungry an hour later. There just isn't the same nutritional value in brand new souls that there is in aged souls.

Hera was amazing in this episode. She's not usually my favorite in any retelling; she tends to only get portrayed as a jealous bitch without much nuance. I like her better as a strong and capable antagonist to Zeus, even if he doesn't know it. Watching her manipulate Zeus was great. I'm glad the Fates weren't really after Ariadne. I know that the Fates don't care about technicalities. They went after Heracles for killing his children, even though he was drugged/cursed and not in control of himself. But going after a baby for murder would be ridiculous.

I am so confused about the ball boys. I always got the impression that humans can't go to Mt.Olympus and that all of the Gods' servants up there were just other lower ranking deities. (Kind of how in our world, the ladies in waiting of the Queen were other noble ladies and not poor women) Ganymede was mortal before he became Zeus's cup bearer but he was turned immortal so he could have the job. Who are the ball boys? If they are just regular humans, how did they get these jobs? Are they true believers, like Riddy's mom? Are their families given money/high esteem/etc?

I think the idea is that the Fates gave them permission to try, not a guarantee that they would be successful. Other people have won the contest on other days, but no one has successfully come back. Dionysus thinks that Orpheus will be successful because his love is so strong. I knew there was going to something weird on the other side of the Frame. From what I can remember, the Greek Mythology doesn't have any kind of reincarnation so I thought it was weird that they kept talking about going for Renewal. Dennis is so cute and I'm more worried about him than any of the other characters, human or God.

It's so hard for me to feel bad for the Trojan 7. In our world, the death penalty is unjust and killing people for not respecting your religious beliefs is obviously evil, but this is a world where the Greek Gods actually exist. They are petty, violent, and will absolutely wipe out an entire region of people if their feelings get hurt. Minos had no choice but to quickly and publicly punish them in order to protect everyone else. "It's a prank!" Not in a world where Zeus actually exists. It's the same with Zeus's side piece in the last episode. Lady, what are you doing? Do you not know about Hera? Horribly punishing the women Zeus cheats with is like her defining personality trait. I can't feel sorry for someone who does something so stupid.

I'm really enjoying Carol as the newest ghost. I know that she cheated on Pete and doesn't seem to feel any remorse, but Hetty had factories run with child labor and Thor was a Viking, so definitely a rapist, and they don't feel any remorse for their sins either. Pete thinks that Carol thinks he's pathetic, but Carol didn't actually do or say anything to suggest that. In fact, it was the opposite. She seemed genuinely pleased that he was dating other ghosts. And not in a "now I don't have to feel guilty" way. To me, it seemed more like running into an old high school boy/girlfriend 20 years later and being happy for them that they got married. I laughed so much at Jay (and the ghosts) getting into pipe unclogging videos because they're oddly satisfying. I don't watch those, but I have gotten into hoof trimming videos and yeah, there is something weirdly soothing about a Scottish guy cleaning up a cow's hoof.

Me too. I don't like donuts, but like donut holes. I think they taste different. My theory is it has something to do with the surface area to inside donut ratio. This episode was meh for me. I liked a bunch of little things, but it had way too many cringy things for me. I get pretty intense second-hand embarrassment and I wanted to curl up and disappear almost every time Sam talked to the cool couple. Her pumpkin costume to hide her belly was super cute tho.

I love Sass but if I'm being honest, I think PastHetty made the right choice. Being poor now sucks, but being poor in the 1800s? So much worse. Especially as a woman. We at least have social programs and legal protections. Back then, the only protections Hetty had, both legal and social, came from her financial privilege. She'd basically be trading becoming the property of a rich man for becoming the property of a poor man. She has no transferable skills that she could use to make money to help her husband. Even the careers open to women at the time, like becoming a Governess, would be closed to her because there's no way a family posh enough to want a Governess would allow their young, impressionable daughters to be taught by the kind of girl who poses for ankle portraits and runs away with a painter. And most likely, the painter would lose all of his patrons because rich families wouldn't want him around their daughters/wives/sisters after the scandal either. Elias was a monster and it sucks for Hetty that she had to marry him, but better that than starving in a ditch while you wait for the syphilis to kill you. *shrug*

I just started watching this show on Netflix. I'm really liking it so far. I love all the town people and their love/hate relationships with each other. I live in a regular sized town, but a branch of my family lives in a town with about 2,000 people. Even if you hate someone, you still hang out and go to parties and stuff together because there's no one else your age to hang out with. And everyone has dated everyone and has weird complicated past baggage. I loved the reveal that the two aliens were actually humans working for the government/armed forces. I was totally expecting them to be aliens and then we would end the season with a standoff where Harry has learned to love his town and has to protect them from the other aliens. I also really liked Harry being homesick and wanting to go home. It was a nice, "humanizing" moment. The only storyline I'm having an issue with is the Asta/Jay stuff. I'm almost positive there are very specific Federal laws about how Native American adoptions work and you absolutely cannot just hand over a Native American baby to a random white family. There has to be an attempt to place the child with their biological family, then to their local tribe, and then with the extended tribe. Given how close and loving Asta's family is, there's no way they wouldn't have kept her baby or at the very least, kept up with family visits in order to teach her all about her cultural heritage. It pulls me out of every scene that they are in.

I loved Luther's apology to Vanya. I want them to become friends. Allison's storyline is not working for me. I know that on a meta-level, the writers can't have Allison go on national tv and rumor away racism, but I need an in-story reason for her not using her power. And no, not wanting to because she feels bad that she rumored her own child isn't enough of a reason for me. Have it be that her powers don't work anymore because of her throat injury or that she can only rumor one person at a time now so she can't do anything when there's two cops or something. But don't start the season with her rumoring a group of people (who possibly don't speak her language) to having their heads explode and then sort of shrug your shoulders at Allison letting her husband get taken away. Ugh. Ben and Klaus continue to be the greatest.

I finally got a chance to start season 2. I'm loving it so far, but I'm confused by the "We have 10 days to save the world...again!" plotline. I'm not a soldier and have no strategy skills, but doesn't it take longer than 10 days to plan an invasion? You'd need to organize transport for thousands of people and for all of the vehicles (trucks, tanks, smaller planes, etc) they'd need once they got here. You'd need to organize transport for all of the food those thousands of soldiers would need, and fuel for all of the vehicles. You'd need to organize resupply lines and other war stuff. If Russian is full-scale invading Texas, then whatever domino that started this apocalypse has to have already been tipped, right? I normally like Diego, but it feels like he is carrying the Idiot-ball for plot related reasons, and I hate it. I'm pretty sure rule one of time travel is don't announce to everyone that you are a time traveler sent to stop a future event, unless you want to end up locked in a mental hospital. Diego is way too smart to be that dumb, and Diego isn't that smart. If the writers needed him locked up so he couldn't reconnect with his siblings, it makes more sense to have him be jailed because of some racist judical system issues, but maybe they thought it'd be too close to Alison's storyline? I'm loving all the rest of the siblings and can't wait for them to be reunited. Especially Alison and Vanya. Their relationship is so interesting and I want more of it.

I forgot to mention my two favorite parts, both from the brother phone call. (1) Sterling Brown's ability to get his eyes to water right on cue is incredible. It always amazes me when actors are able to do that. I can make myself cry, but it's going to involve a lot of huffy breathing and forcing myself to think of the saddest things I can imagine, and it's going to take awhile. Actors who can instantly make themselves create one single tear drop are something else. (2) Kevin's reassurance of how the shirtless dancing was playing in the public eye. It reminded me of him thinking that getting arrested breaking into Joni Mitchell's house with his mom could really work for him. I like that Kevin has repeatedly been shown to be really good at this part of his job.

If they wanted to write a storyline where Randal connects with his bio family, why not just have him start hanging out with all of his cousins from William's side? I'm pretty sure they lived in Philadelphia. But then Kate told him that she knew where he was because they have a same friend on Facebook.