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I watched this while cleaning a set of bearings. The most fascinating part of the experience was just how much dirt came out of them on the second wash. I wasn't expecting that at all.

Tbh, I've found the way this is made pretty boring. The whole two universe thing was obvious from the first episode, so the whole, slow, slow, dreamy, ponderous, slow drip, drip of the 'reveal' was incredibly dull. I found the Paul episode one of the better ones, as it moved through the plot of five episodes in one, so even though it was unnecessary and we learned nothing new, it was less boring. This had the potential to be a hell of a lot more interesting than it was but the way it's made means I keep drifting away from what's happening.

In For All Mankind it's the opposite. Though like Lucy in the Sky, that storyline is based in part on real events. Lucy is loosely based on Lisa Nowack. And in FAM, the story is based on Gordon Cooper's repeated insistences that he saw UFOs on many of his flights.

So Clara went back to Fredrick once she heard he'd inherited some money. Romantic! My main question through this episode was why it was airing in late winter/spring if was to end at Christmas on a big snowy scene. I'm assuming it must have been intended to start in October and end in December but it got pushed back for some reason.

There is just the one episode left right? It's the only reason I'll keep watching (that and the general lack of new shows due to the strikes). I was gutted that episode six wasn't the final one because I'm just sick of it and want it to be over. It's not even enjoyably, campy bad. It's just bad, bad and while the actors are all probably fine, none of them gives a performance that elevates the content. At least in the original series there was the Tamsin Grieg/Paul Ritter reunion that made me smile to think about a lovely bit of squirrel.

I know Fellows didn't actually write this but it's very weird that this show has a major storyline almost identical to one that was just a major storyline on The Gilded Age. And as bad as The Gilded Age is in a lot fo ways, it was still very superior in every way, to this.

Is everyone seriously saying that they aren't enjoying the same fart joke on repeat each episode? Downloaded Nathan farts a lot guys! Farts are smelly. Also, apparently he's fat now.

Is it just me or does Nathan seem kind of dopey in a way that he wasn't in the first two seasons. Both downloaded and reboot Nathans, just seem to be blithely going along with things in a slightly vacant manner. It's striking me as either bad writing in a failed attempt at humour or a sign that for some reason, when a person exists as two separate consciousnesses, neither of them exists to their full potential and they will have to merge into each other at the end of the season.

Dreams, by The Cranberries was the closing song.

It wasn't created by Horgan. It's an adaptation of a Finnish series called Clan (or The Out-Laws in English translation) that was made in 2012. The first few episodes are practically identical though it diverges a bit once it goes on.

That genuinely made no sense. Especially considering that it completely veered away from the clear original intention of the story as laid out in the opening scenes of the first episode. Sheila was a put upon, insecure housewife. Any meanness in her came from her own insecurity, unhappiness and unaddressed trauma. Aerobics would empower her but lead to her becoming more cutthroat. By 1986, she would be massively successful but really not nice. Instead we got whatever the hell that was. And also, what was with the closing song? Sheila VOs about succeeding at her dream, so they picked the first song about dreams that came up on a google search and didn't care that they were ending their very 80s show, with a very, very 90s song?

I genuinely assumed Rory would go get a masters. Rory never really took the best from her time at Yale. In her first year she clung too much to home. Second year she was torn between Dean and moving on to Logan. Third year, she didn't attend for months. Fourth year, she was deeply unsettled at the thought of leaving when she had just found her rhythm at school. She was someone who loved being in education but she was too immature when she went to Yale to really absorb it. Going back as an older woman, who'd lived in the real world enough to know more about what she didn't know, could have led to her having the experience of Yale, or any college, that she never quite got as an under-grad. I thought that she either would do as Charleston suggested and get a masters in Education and become a teacher. Which would have been a great career for her. Or she'd take his advice, but differently, and get an MA/MFA in Literature or Creative Writing. And write a book while also really enjoying college life for a couple of years. Then, after getting published and having moderate success, she'd also maybe end up teaching at college level. Which I think she'd enjoy more than at a high school.

I thought I'd caught a brief flash of Bunny in the trailer so I wouldn't be surprised if she was at least. I could have been wrong though and I don't care enough to watch it again.

I'm not sure that the writers know what they are doing? I'm left wondering at this point if they even remember that the very first scenes of this show were Sheila being a massive success who was a dismissive bitch to the production woman in 1986. The whole show just seems to have characters who lurch through different motivations from episode to episode. Or even within the same scene sometimes. And I honestly can't tell what the hell they are going for with John Breem and his wife and Sheila's feelings for him. When she was crying at the thought of never seeing him again, I was wondering if she was setting him up or something. Not actually emotionally devastated to lose him. I also find it really irritating that the writers think that all of the women they recruited, women who have very clearly spent years in regular athletic training, need Sheila to explain to them how empowering and strengthening exercise can be for women. Especially the woman who was weightlifting. That's just patronising to all women everywhere.

Those listed were all nods to the original Star Wars movie. And they are events specific to this series, they never happened in the Foundation books. These were all little nods to A New Hope.