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Indeed. He was exactly six months shy of reaching the century mark. And he remained sharp as a tack to the end. RIP Mr. Storch, and thanks for the countless hours of entertainment that I grew up laughing along with!

All right, 2022, can we please slow down just a notch or three? It's only July 8. Save something for the second half of the year!

Or not. As Ed and Kelly both pointed out, there was no way to know exactly how much damage had been done to the timeline or what kind of changes had occurred between 2015 and 2422. Four-hundred seven years is a long time. And Ed was correct in pointing out that Gordon's marriage and family in 2025 were a temporal paradox that shouldn't have existed because it was never supposed to have existed (what with Gordon actually having been born more than 300 years after Laura died).

Which is why the Prime Directive of Star Trek and the Union equivalent of it here are seen as universally despised draconian laws because they require one to constantly ignore that "human condition." On the other hand, the Enterprise episode "Cogenitor" demonstrates exactly why the Prime Directive exists. The Prime Directive didn't exist in Captain Archer's time, so Tucker set out to liberate what he saw as a member of an enslaved species, the Cogenitors. His motives were pure and understandable from his and our point of view, but as the events of that episode unfolded, his noble act of liberation turned out to be disastrous for that planet's culture and the specific individuals involved because it not only led to the suicide of the "enslaved" Cogenitor, it also destroyed any hope of the couple to whom the Cogenitor belonged to have any children because they needed the Cogenitor to complete the reproductive process.

And where does that leave Claire, who seems to be starting to have feelings for Isaac again herself?

I loved this episode. I have always wanted to see a time-travel episode that sent the Orville back to our era, and Seth and crew really delivered. I liked the call-back to "Lasting Impressions." I remember someone in that episode discussion thread predicting that Gordon would somehow find himself back in 2015 and meet the real Laura and have a relationship with her. This was also a nod to both "The Inner Light" from TNG and "The City on the Edge of Forever" from TOS with Laura as Gordon's Edith Keeler. And I did NOT have "Charly is an out and proud lesbian who was secretly in love with Amanda" on my bingo card, did you? It explains why she really hates Isaac and will never forgive him. Yes, she's still an annoying bitch whom I would love to slap 400 years into HER future, but at least the passion with which she hates Isaac is coming from an understandable place. It's just too bad that there's really nowhere for her to go in terms of growth. Nope. It will still be fresh. Time-travel doesn't age or rejuvenate the people and things that are doing it. That's why the crew didn't go back to a point of non-existence as they traveled back to 2015/2025 or age 400 years during the return trip to 2422.

That would be the worst possible direction they could go in. Clark and Lois have long been established to be soulmates (or, to borrow a phrase from The Flash, lightning rods for each other). You simply DON'T try to drive one of the Universe's biggest power couples apart, and Lana herself would know better than to try to pursue Clark, especially since she just patched things up with both Clark and Lois, whom she'd be putting in the same position that she herself was in when Kyle cheated on HER if she tried to make moves on Clark. Lana knows what it's like to be cheated on. There's no way she'd put Lois through that (and the fans would be be calling for the showrunner's head on a platter if she did!).

It did when I watched it!

Just watch the episode, and it will make sense.

I agree. His tone was too sharp, but I would have just put that down to nerves since, as you pointed out, he's always been shy about drawing any attention to himself or to his talents.

It depends, too, on the culture. For example, Latin-American culture is well-known for having a much more lax attitude toward time than Anglo-Americans do, so "be there at 8 PM" means in practice "not before 9," so if you arrive at 8 PM on the dot, it's going to be awkward for everyone because nothing and nobody is going to be ready for you. The way to avoid that is to ask upon receiving the invitation, "¿Hora inglesa u hora española?" ("English time or Spanish time?")

That explains why she's such a Mean Girl!

That line about the garbage taking itself out made me laugh out loud, @Joimiaroxeu! 😆

The Positive Forces amplified her powers and also gave her the ability to take any other meta's powers as part of their plan to have her help free them from the limbo that the Negative Forces had trapped them in by way of the same time sickness that had infected Iris. Nope. Thawne is done. The show runner made clear in several post-finale interviews that both his and Frost's deaths are going to stick, although he also said that Tom Cavanagh would be back next season in a different role. No word yet on who that will be, though.

Topa had some curves and a more feminine build and appearance after the procedure. Her fingernails were also slightly longer and manicured to look more like a girl's fingernails.

Not by flying backwards. By flying faster than light per the Theory of Relativity. Time-traveling that way was one of his canon comic-book powers during the Silver Age.

The show had already been renewed for Season 9 before the CW massacre that took Legends and Batwoman from us took place. The question, therefore, is whether there will be a Season 10 for The Flash.

But did you notice how he looked right at Former Mayor Asshole at the end of his speech as he said the words "trying to promote her own self-interests"? That was a priceless own!

Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch do, since they're all Germanic languages. Finnish, however, is NOT a Germanic language. Its closest relative is Hungarian, so it's an entirely different animal.

Correct. "Before" in those phrases is a preposition, not an adverb. Adverbs can only modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, never nouns. The problem is that many words like "before" can be used as different parts of speech in English, and one has to rely on the context to understand how they are being used in a given sentence.

Mom clearly never studied German or any other languages related to English. That's a very common practice in those languages. For example, in German, we'd say "Kommst du mit?" ("Are you coming with?") No German would ever ask "Mit wem?" ("With whom?") in response, because "mit mir" ("with me") is understood. Words like "mit" are called separable prefixes, and they are the origin of our practice of ending sentences with prepositions.

As a preposition, "before" is a preposition of place, not time. In this case, "before" is an adverb of time modifying the compound verb "has gone" that immediately precedes it. And if you will remember your Latin, there was an equivalent temporal adverb: "antea" ("ante" is the preposition -- "before" in the locative sense -- and "antequam" is the corresponding temporal conjunction (as in "Wake me up before you go.").

2422 or thereabouts.

I'd say that it was more a matter of teaching Rudy that "actions have consequences." Or, as Benjamin Franklin once put it, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

Neither of which was ever a real rule in English. Both were superimpositions by 18th Century grammarians who insisted that English should be more like Latin. Latin can't have split infinitives because Latin infinitives are a single word; there is no counterpart to the "to" in "to go." And Latin can never end a sentence with a preposition because Latin prepositions must always govern an object, from which it can never be separated. That said, the clause in question doesn't end with a preposition in any event. "Before" isn't a preposition as it's used here. It's an adverb of time, so it CAN end the clause.