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  1. I have to say that as someone that eventually quit the show because of pacing and constant re-focusing to a bunch of C stories for episodes at a time to delay pay off on any kind of story I cared about to the point that I no longer cared.... I am so happy, that Michonne and Rick aren't going to spend the entirety of the series separated with near miss reunions.
  2. I think that was just a nod to the comics. I seem to recall living with a vague dread of Rick's hand going bye bye during the series. I quit the original run of the show due to its pacing and I find that I'm leery of the show for that reason. I liked the episode well enough, I guess. But I'm now expecting the next episode is going to be Michonne's journey. Which is fine. But I don't know if I can put up with Rick and Michonne immediately going their separate ways for episode 3. And this episode makes it feel like they will. It feels like that is why they did the whole thing with Rick nearly committing suicide then burning his letters to Michonne, etc.
  3. That is probably true on their reasoning but it was also totally not necessary, because they already have the metacrisis Doctor that had a happy ending with Rose that they could bring back from an alternate reality if they need a Tennant ratings bump. Which is frankly the reason I thought they did that too. And as much as I liked Rose and Ten I thought that was a bad idea too. I think they also set up a problem with the audience expecting guest appearances that will undermine the new Doctor. Doctor Who re-generates. Doctor Who has to go on without his companions. That is the tragedy of the Doctor. This show is not Doctor Who anymore. It has devolved into leaning into worse impulses of bad fan fiction. These episodes were so, so stupid.
  4. I've a couple different sound quality versions of the scene. One of them sounded like Carol said "don't come back". The conversation was awkward and stilted enough that I think it was spun for hype about returning characters but was really a warning from Carol to Daryl that something was wrong (enemies invaded) Alexandria and she couldn't exactly speak freely but decided to get him a warning that he shouldn't come back. Carol knows he'll come back but that would tell him something is up. Daryl definitely heard it as someone came back.
  5. California got simultaneously hit by a hurricane and an earthquake?
  6. Those set pictures were dreadful. Snow White is the one animated movie that I think its a very bad idea for Disney to veer too far away from in the live version of the movie. This primarily because so many non-Disney live movies Snow White movies have already been made. I've already seen versions where almost anything Disney can do differently has already been done. Because everyone else can go off the original tale but the Disney animated version is not in public domain. I would probably feel different if they were trying to do anything truly innovative which I highly doubt. Or if they were in a different place in their ability to make a watchable movie.
  7. Geese migrating North by road instead of sky unbothered by car horns and barring your way home leading to a weird IRL game of frogger....but with geese.
  8. Has anyone ever encountered a company with an interview process that includes a candidate being asked to create a presentation on an assigned topic, present it to a panel and the answer questions in a Q&A session. My company is inconsistent in how hiring is done. Its kind of a manager by manager or site by site thing. I err on the side of making it as painless for the candidate as possible. I do not do personality tests, presentations, round after round of interviews, etc. So I'm trying to figure out how weird this presentation thing is. Is this a thing? I'm leaning towards it being some consequence of our reporting structure changing and having Europeans applying what is "normal" for them in an interview process to the US. Or maybe its that particular HR person. It seems like it would drive any good candidate running for the hills. I'm curious how many people they've got lined up for this are going to nope out before the "interview".
  9. Anticlimactic because she admitted what everyone believed anyway. Too bad they don't have a habit of filming the cast watching the shows because in this case it would have been funny to see Sandoval react in real time.
  10. I got the feeling that Sandoval thought he only needed to keep her quiet until the reunion was over. And she is retaliating against him for being ignored. Is it realistic to think she was filming for the episodes 6 days after the reunion or did she call someone up and say she had more she wanted to say.
  11. I believe that most corporate DEI programs are just to tick the ESG box for an investment bank, sprinkled in with a few true believers. My company has a number of DEI meetings and policies that manage to be simultaneously racist and sexist to everyone all at once, with a smattering of good and helpful trainings.
  12. Was the HR director presenting a metric of how much your US demographics differ from the DEI benchmark at the time. Ours did that a few months after outsourcing the most diverse departments and creating a massive turnover problem. I refer to this HR director as "the one that understands neither math or human nature". I dubbed her that after she rolled out our idiotic compensation program shortly after joining the company.
  13. At least the Godfather was rated R. 1984 was the year that I was repeatedly traumatized by being brought by my parents to PG movies. Gremlins underneath my bed. I don't recall what drove us out of Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan, just crying in the lobby (I'm assuming there was a gorilla massacre or something like that). And I still haven't seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom beyond the part where the still beating heart is pulled out of someone's chest. That movie created the PG-13 rating.
  14. Its not like he went out to the press with it as far as I'm aware of (I could be wrong as I'm not aware of everything he's said). Everything I mentioned was excerpts from the sheriff report. Is he supposed to lie to the authorities to not come off as self-serving? Also he fired at the ground, not while it was pointed at people. Just to be totally clear.
  15. But by comparison Jensen Ackles did check his weapon. He visually inspected his weapon and shot it into the ground to make sure it wasn't live. The live rounds they found on set (there were six) has a logo stamped on them so it sounded like they could be visually determined by checking the weapon (although I didn't see it specifically say the dummies had no logo or a different logo so that isn't conclusive). Ackles also stated to the sheriff that he was counseling other actors to also check their weapons (no one reported that I could find if this conversation with Baldwin ever happened). But if Ackles managed to pick up from prior acting gigs that he needs to practice gun safety (and I think he said somewhere that it was Supernatural that trained him on gun safety) , then Alec Baldwin must have been educated on gun safety on one of the like 150 productions he's been involved in. If there were any indication Baldwin showed some concern over gun safey at any point then I think they wouldn't have charged him even if this had still happened. But from what I can tell he never did one single thing to try to make the set safe or to make sure the gun he was handling was safe up to and including keeping his finger off the trigger.
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