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No. The showrunners have made it clear that that's neither the premise nor the point of the show. The point of both the premise and of the show itself is that there is no such thing as a "wrong choice." Each choice is equally valid and simply carries with it its own unique chain of consequences, which is why we have three different timelines, each one stemming from a specific choice that Joe made that fateful day of his graduation from college. Not a choice that he COULD have made. A choice that he actually DID make in each specific timeline. In other words, all three timelines are very real. Think of it as getting to observe the goings-on in three separate parallel universes at the same time.

And Brainy does own a timeship, so... .

And another part of my youth is gone: Joanna Cameron, Star of "The Secrets of Isis," dies at Age 70 Rest in peace, Ms. Cameron. And you, too, Messrs. Scolari and Tyler!

It normally is. He was first diagnosed in 2018, but the cancer spread from his prostate to his bones. He eventually became paralyzed from the waist down because of it.

James Michael Tyler, who played Gunther on "Friends," has passed away from Stage 4 prostate cancer at the age of 59. https://twitter.com/extratv/status/1452387967578738691 Cancer can to go Hell.

Good point. And they might not have bothered to use protection because Amy's infertility issues were already public knowledge, so they would have had no reason to believe that there was any danger that she would get pregnant as a result of that one-night stand with Bobby.

Gideon would make a better captain, since she knows the Legends better than anyone else, including Sara.

Did that opening scene with the two doomed coeds give anyone else flashbacks to the original "Jaws," or just me? I mean, seriously, I could almost hear the first notes of the theme from that movie!

Which is going to make it exponentially worse when the truth eventually DOES come out -- and in a VERY public way. You think the tabloids won't run with the story that Joe had a "secret love child" years ago once it gets leaked? Their publishers live for this sort of scandal! I mean, I get why Joe chickened out about telling Amy (he's right -- how do you drop a bomb like that on someone who's still dealing with her own infertility issues?), but Rocker Frank is right. It's only going to blow Joe's marriage up even worse when Amy finds out the truth the hard way.

They always have been. They've turned on Supergirl at least two other times before finally coming to their senses. Then again, it can't be easy living in a city that is constantly under the threat of destruction by supervillains because that's where their most powerful superheroes are based. That's what that whole Sons of Liberty thing was all about a few years ago.

I didn't mean to imply that it was a romantic or a sex thing, since it clearly wasn't (although giving Ryan a ridiculously expensive gift could have been interpreted as such). But there was nothing "awesome" about Ryan that would have merited such over-the-top treatment. And no, I don' t think Ryan reminded Michael of his stepfather, since Michael hated his stepfather. I think Ryan really reminded Michael of himself at a younger age. That's the only reason I can think of that makes sense. And it wasn't that Michael didn't want Toby to like him. Michael didn't care whether Toby liked him or not. Michael just flat-out hated him because he saw Toby as a perpetual buzzkill who was always stopping him from making things "fun" around the office. Michael desperately wanted a family more than anything, so he set out to make the office staff into one, and in Michael's mind, families don't have boundaries or limits. They just exist to have fun and to make everything all about him. Toby was a constant threat to Michael's vision for his "family." Which makes me wonder why ANDY hated Toby. Andy had his over-the-top moments (and a stupid impetuous streak that nearly cost him his job and DID end up costing him his relationship with Erin), but I've never seen any evidence of Toby constantly giving Andy the smackdown the way he constantly had to with Michael.

That always baffled me. I couldn't figure out what the deal was with Michael's weird man-crush on Ryan. I mean, at least Oscar's gay (although Ryan is obviously not Oscar's type), so a crush that way would make some sense. I think Michael must have just seen Ryan as a younger version of himself.

Ryan is the worst and most dangerous kind of asshole. He'll be be all charming and "aw shucks" to your face and then stab you in the back the moment it's turned. And then HE'LL get pissed off that YOU'RE pissed off at HIM for stabbing you in the back!

Well, I've started warming up to Nellie now that I've finished Season 8. I guess my initial hatred of her came from the way she steamrolled all over everybody (especially Andy after he came back from Florida). But I've softened on her now that Andy is back as manager again and they've both buried the hatchet. It also helps that I've learned a little more about her backstory now and why she is the way she is. Those voicemails to her that Pam deleted had me feeling sorry for her by the end of the season. But Robert? Good riddance! Oh, and one more thing: Ryan. He is unbelievably insufferable the way he refuses to accept that Kelly chose Ravi -- I mean, this from a guy who couldn't stand to be around Kelly just a few years ago and wanted no part of a romantic relationship with her!

I'm not ashamed to admit that I cheered when Nyxly magically knocked Andrea on her ass. It's about time somebody did!

I've just reached the point in Season 8 where Nellie has been introduced. I hate her worse than I hate Robert California. I know the producers felt they had a huge void to fill when Steve Carrell left, but I feel that they were way overcompensating by introducing such thoroughly unlikeable characters in rapid succession. And what was up with having Cathy try out of the blue to seduce Jim in Florida? What was THAT all about?

It already is. Jacob got on board with it before he turned himself in and gave Mary the wherewithal to hire real doctors to do the heavy lifting for her until she finished medical school and was fully authorized to practice medicine. Since she still owns the clinic, she can legally continue to do whatever she wants regarding patients who would normally fall through the cracks of the medical system -- as she said, as twisted as Liam was, he did have a point about the system and its fatal flaws -- and use her new status as a full-fledged doctor to help fix the system the right way.

In fairness, though, Alex admitted that she was wrong to keep pushing Esme and sincerely apologized to her for it.

Makes perfect sense to me. I mean, how the hell did he talk Jo into giving him HER job as the CEO of Sabre? This is a woman who always saw through Michael and Dwight's bullcrap and wasn't afraid to put either of them in his place as needed. Robert shouldn't have been able to bamboozle her like that!

Granted, Ryan was an asshole who should never have been re-hired after being convicted of defrauding the shareholders when he was a VP (in the real world, he almost certainly would have been legally barred from ever holding a position of trust again), but even he didn't deserve someone like Kelly, who just kept throwing herself at him until he finally just stopped resisting her and let her drag him into the relationship because resisting her was too exhausting. As I've watched their "relationship" develop, it's been clear to me that she was always WAY more into him than he was into her. I would have gotten her in front of HR on Day 1 even if I had to go over Toby's head to do it. Oh, and don't get me started on Michael's weird man-crush on Ryan. What WAS that, anyway?

That doesn't mean that his identity was unknown or that he couldn't have been identified. Jenny knew damn well that Rocker Joe was the father. She deliberately chose to cut him out of her and their child's lives by withholding information that he had the right to know -- and all to punish him for not going to be with her right after graduation!

I tried to figure out which figure was who, and I think I recognized all of them from the first 6 seasons. Currently, I'm bingeing my way through Season 8, and I have to say that I'm still enjoying it as a first-time viewer. Andy is my favorite character. He's not quite as clueless as Michael, although he does have a few over-the-top tendencies that I think come from the fact that he just tries too hard to be Michael 2.0. I haven't yet gotten to the part where he turns on Erin, but given the fact that she first unceremoniously dumped him for Gabe (what did she ever SEE in him?), I'll give him some slack when things start going south with her again (and I actually find her a bit annoying anyway, so I won't shed too many tears for her). The only other two characters I find really annoying are Kelly and Robert California. Kelly would have made me stabby a long time ago with her vapid self-absorption and complete inability to shut the hell up for more than five minutes at a time. I honestly wonder why Ryan ever put up with her at all. And there's something about Robert that bugs me, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I really wonder why it was felt necessary to make him a permanent fixture. Anyway, I'm really enjoying this show!

One of the things that I thought was funny (yet oh so dead-on for the Zeitgeist of the time) was the one woman's reaction to seeing "The Bullet Blondes" outside the bank as they were just about to enter the bank. She was so thoroughly unimpressed with them (because bank robberies there were apparently as common an occurrence as sunrise) that her initial reaction to them was "Meh!" And then when they actually started robbing the bank, did she call the cops? Nope. She started fangirling them! That was pretty normal for the time period. Bank robbers and other assorted criminals gained something of a celebrity cult status on a regular basis -- in fact, that's the premise and the driving force of "Chicago."

Whoa, they aren't kidding about having Gwyn not even remotely resemble John Constantine. I would never have guessed that that was Matt Ryan if I hadn't just been told it was!

But that begs the question. Rocker Joe's identity as the father was not unknown -- it was known to Jenny. And the only reason Rocker Joe had no contact with the child is that he never had the opportunity to have contact before the adoption because he never knew the child even existed. So I don't think that rule can apply here. Rocker Joe could argue that Jenny knew he was the father but never gave him the chance to be a father to the child because she deliberately withheld the fact of the child's existence from him.