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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.

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.

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.

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.

California got simultaneously hit by a hurricane and an earthquake?

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I suspect that they liked you but the commute is causing them as much trepidation as its causing you. As someone who has been on the hiring side. If you are interviewing for a job with a long commute you have to overcome what the the person hiring would feel about having a long commute themselves. If they would not be willing to do it or do it and hate it, they'll assume you won't be willing to do it for long no matter what you say to them. No one wants to hire someone they think will just be biding time until the get a better (shorter commute) offer just to have to start hiring all over again because bringing on a new employee comes with extra work that they'd rather not have to repeat. And they are probably not in a place to bend on the 3 days per week. That probably came from top down and has a significant amount of disgruntlement from the people they pushed it down onto. Making exceptions in that type of an environment creates too much trouble amongst everyone else. A company might make that type of exception for their highest, indispensable performer who has a good reason for needing the exception. They aren't going to consider it for a new hire.

I've been skimming clips related to Lucy being shot since seeing her, Anna, Holly, and Robert on a mag in the check out line. I get that I have no actual idea what has been happening in the last decade or so and my frame of reference is mostly rooted circa before Port Charles went off the air and anything I've seen since then didn't commit to long term memory. But is there seriously no one who gives a crap that Lucy is shot and presumed dead other than Michael E. Knight possessed by the ghost of an old civil war era Southern general (I had to watch old AMC clips to see if I somehow missed that accent on Tad Martin). Damn it Scott. You, Lucy, and Dominique got me hooked me on this show. You are an ass. And Felicia. Just like old times. I hope Lucy got over wanting to be Felicia's friend at some point considering she also seems to not care. Are Mac and Kevin still on the show? Even with internet sleuthing I can never figure out who is recurring and who is gone. Kills my desire to pick the show back up again every time. That and having drama and then failing to play out the drama in a well rounded way. I think i'm going to presume tales of Luke's death are exaggerated and he returned the favor Lucy did for him in Puerto Rico.

I'm going to give an example of an anonymous complaint I'm going to make if my mother doesn't decide to make it and I'm not going to feel one iota bad about it . Hey big box store. Your delivery service for appliances suck. But worse than sucking you have a pervasive culture of grifting and extortion happening. My elderly mother had these experiences on the delivery of the same appliance that has been rescheduled over a half dozen times. Delivery guy 1 - dispatch sent to the wrong city and asked my mother to pay him for his trouble because the company won't. Delivery guy 1 also said delivery guy 2 would probably come with the appliance if he was offered some money. Delivery guy 3 brought the appliance and said installation wasn't included and asked for money to do it (its free/included and my mom knew that and demanded he write a statement that the money was going to big box so she could get reimbursed when it got sorted out). Delivery guy 3 left appliance uninstalled and openned the installation box to remove parts to make the next installation fail. My elderly mother is scared that these guys who can get fired for this shit know where she lives. She'll probably report them anyway but that she's talking about "whatever happens, happens" has me serriously angry at these companies allowing this situation to occur. And I will be having a chat with them. I will not override my mom's concern about them finding out or guessing who reported them so being vague might be necessary.

My workplace made some outsourcing decision that are not going well. That being an understatement. This has culminated in me having no Fs. No fear. No filter, And zero F@#$s to give. I was also informed of a decision this week that made my cup of righteous indignation runneth over and my protective instincts for my team go to eleven. So, I took the nuclear option on problem escalation (because worse that can happen is I get fired and that would be a relief at this point). I had an extensive chat with the boss second from the top (of the company). And he spilled all the tea. I have spent years in conversations with co-workers that are mostly questions. What were they thinking? Do they know what they just did? Do they understand just how bad things are? It is weird to have a blow by blow explanation of how that outsourcing decision got made, who knew what and when (although I'm assuming some level of unreliable narration re:their part in decisions), and what is going on now. Anyway, among other things, 2nd boss from the top is going to try to avert the thing I was told about. And I called my boss and told him that part (and only that part ..because I am playing with fire) and the sacrifice I am going to make (monetarily) to protect my team from this undeserved crap if that doesn't work out. It’s not the money, it’s the message. And I'm not going to deliver the message to my team that my boss' boss delivered to us middle managers on behalf of the CEO. My boss went pale when I told him what I was going to do to protect my team. Probably because he now has to either do the same to protect his team or explain why I'm not being compensated for my performance. That will be a shitshow of its own for reasons I won't even get into because so much drama is going on that one post can't contain it. Anyway, I now have a situation where a handful of senior leaders or my boss is going to have to do the right thing. And if they don't, I'm going to quit. Because there is no room for plausible deniability. I got ahead of this one before it happened. And there is right and wrong and nothing in the middle. If I don't quit, I think I'm going to have to add Jiminy Cricket to my list of job titles. It’s pretty clear that the employees are not even in the top 10 of things it occurs to the leaders of the company to think about. I mean I got a good reaction when I pointed out "this is how human nature works and this is bad consequence of not thinking about people who facilitate good things" but that I had to point that out at all is disheartening. I was literally told that they "forgot" my high performing, critical to success team is in reporting structure of low performing organization being sent a message. I don't think my workplace will get better anytime soon because all the quick fixes require time travel to undo stupid decisions. But I'm feeling pretty good about taking control of the situation and not let this shit fester any longer. Oh, forgot something. Want to know how my conversation with the 2nd boss from the top ended? {him} : Would you be comfortable talking to the CEO? {me} Sure. No idea if that will happen. There was a thinly veiled if CEO can take one more person explaining the mess that his decisions have caused in that question.

I have historically had a liking for terrible blond dye jobs. No idea why. Its been a mystery since childhood. I think Buckaroo Bonzai's Perfect Tommy broke my brain. Or maybe Billy Idol. So yes, I liked Spike and Buffy and I always blamed the hair. But that was apparently not the problem. Because I don't like that. I think the article said it was for a movie called Ferrari. I hope they styled it differently because I think that is part of what is bothering me about it.

I think that there should be a rule that everyone who feels the need to comment on Britney Spears should be required to watch/re-watch South Park Britney's New Look. I watched it forteen years ago. it made an impact. This many years later i really have no need to help with the harvest by criticizing her on social media.

I'm not interested in a Buffy reboot with a different actress. But that sounds like the thing I'd like to see least in the world. Probably because we already saw in and it was the downfall of the show to me. I wasn't thrilled with Buffy the abbreviated college years. But poof Buffy has a sister. Then her mother dies. Now Buffy is basically a single mother figure trying to balance that and slaying. Maybe I could have liked it if it was a series that happened years later. But it was to too much of a transition for the original run and left a bad taste for me.

Depending on how I'm interpretting things, I think that the performative and self-congratulatory about being weird is what I liked about it. Ijust love a funny exploration of pop culture and tropes and meta humor. My liking of shows like Community is probably similiar to why I found this place and TWoP. Before all TV started absolutely sucking, I did way more picking apart of TV and movies than the normal viewer does, so I tend to love shows that do that really well in a funny way. Community was that show that did the weird episode that noramlly happend once a season or series every episode. I don't really care that a lot of the time the only plausible explanation is that the whole show is in Abed's head. I really only loved season 1-3. The show just never recovered from the backstage drama from season 4 onward. I also found that this was one of those shows that didn't hit its groove until later in the first season. It wasn't bad in the beginning, but it didn't hook me until like half way in. I found that once I watch some of the "well thats just batshit insane farce" episodes that I like the earlier episodes much better on rewatch. And I mean that more in I don't want to sit through a slide show of a strangers childhood way; but once I care about you, I'm more interested in where you came from and how you used to be.

I concur on the disengenuos. I'd say its most likely written by and put out by a PR person for Miller or WB. The thing that is going to be interesting is that it should become clear fairly quickly if its genuine because there are people under Miller's influence that should have a reaction that is most likely going to make it to the media if there is a change to the status quo. Tokata Iron Eyes for one hasn't been silent through this on social and will likely react if Miller is really seeking treatment. If Miller is getting help that is great, honestly (although I doubt it) because there is little he isn't getting a pass on already without getting help. The only oustanding charge at the moment is stealing several bottles of alcohol. Hawaii ended in a fine and a dismissal. Everything else is mostly restraining orders and no charges. There is no indication that anything about that stuff is going to result in criminal charges. So I think this is one of two things. Miller has been tipped that charges are coming and is trying to get ahead of it. Or WB has enough pull in Miller's "Flash" contract that they could get Miller to capitulate to making this statement.

FBI forensics analysis of the Rust shooting concludes that, contrary to Baldwin's invterview with George Stephanopoulos, the trigger of the gun was pulled. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/rust-shooting-fbi-investigation-alec-baldwin-1235340797/#article-comments