Scout Finch

The opening credit visuals and song are so stunning! I watched the series years ago but have never forgotten how striking it is. (My other favorite is the gorgeous opening for "Anne Without an E.")

In an earlier episodes one of the powers that be had a throwaway line about a captain who was an ally keeping tabs on activities off site and I immediately thought of him and wasn't surprised at the reveal. My only real complaint--besides the shooting that went on for what seemed like hours--was having to tolerate rapper dude until close to the enzzzAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *remove my cat, Daisy, from keyboard* (Can't resist leaving this in for laughs!) My only real complaint--besides the shooting that went on for what seemed like hours--was having to tolerate rapper dude until nearly the end and that his extremely obnoxious ass wasn't taken out in the first or second game. Come to think of it, Daisy just visualized my inner screams of frustration about it! (Here she is 'helping' me work a couple of months ago.)

Damn, I was wondering how they could pull off a second season but so far I'm finding it more intense now that the game has begun! Already, Gi-hun's anguish is heart-breaking and I could hardly breath during 'Green Light Red Light" as he made every panicked effort to minimize the number of those killed. I'm wondering what the plot contrivance is that kept him from being killed for trying to interfere in it although he was warned at gunpoint not to try to influence the voting. From the episode descriptions it appears that the rest of the games will be different though I doubt the game has been reconfigured just to thwart his efforts. Although it's after midnight and I have to work tomorrow, I can't not watch the rest of the episodes all at once!

One time, right after we discovered Colin would deliberately troll just to start fights on the Internet with things like disparaging generalizations about women, I once replied to a misogynistic comment on, I think, YT with "Is that you, Colin Robinson?" It was probably still too obscure a joke even though the episode had aired that week or that anyone even watched to series to begin with. However, it's hard for me to resist trying to make people laugh! I still mutter that out loud sometimes when reading some particularly egregious comment that seems designed to just stir things up.

Just search 'Breaking Bad alternate ending' and it pulls up a bunch of video sources. Guillermo asking if the coffin was actually going to work and Nandor replying, "There's only one way to find out" reminded me of the same exchange about the launch of the glass elevator in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The latter certainly had its share of dark, sinister elements and eclectic, eccentric characters.

Even Breaking Bad had an alternate ending in the extras where Bryan Cranston wakes up with his wife in his previous show, Malcolm in the Middle.

I'm just here for Eve Hewson, whose dad I've been a huge fan of for about four decades. I've followed her career since The Knick and think she's an amazing actress.

Ten years later but...I'm rewatching the series for the umpteenth time although I usually skip this episode because, spiders. I'm also a huge LoTR fan and sometimes when I watch the trilogy (for the millionth time) I'll 'help' Sam kill Shelob from the couch with my Sting replica (one of my all-time favorite Christmas presents)!

"Pledge Furniture Polish shines and protects, removes dust and fingerprints, and repels demons." Incidentally, my favorite fake blues singer name is Blind Lemon Pledge!

I'm glad Miguel is gone because he was annoyingly cocky! Wait, what?! Just this afternoon an early Stones song came on the radio and the opening beat and guitar made me think for a second that the station was actually playing the Tap's "Gimme Me Some Money." Nope, but I turned down the radio and sang part of it anyway.

I wouldn't think that the audience being too quiet would be more problematic than the audience clapping along in time with someone's floor routine music while you're on an apparatus. There must be a physical rhythm/timing necessary for any routine and I always worry that the crowd's synchronized clapping will throw that off, especially on the balance beam (where getting thrown off could be literal!). I suppose it's an issue with events not running too much longer but I wish they could wait until each gymnast has finished their respective routines so you don't hear the crowd erupting in cheers for the US while you're still doing yours. I would like each of them to get at least some acknowledgment and applause from the audience.

Double post

Michael Emerson is one of my favorite actors and I've been following him since Lost. After despising the malevolent Benjamin Linus, once he ended up so broken and bruised physically and psychologically I ended up feeling so empathetic towards him. Then I absolutely adored him as Harold Finch in Person of Interest. PoI and Evil are shows I initially only began watching because of him but then I got really invested in them as a whole.

I find Tom Bombadil very annoying and once read a great description of him being like some lecherous old guy who hangs out at Renaissance faires!

But...but...drag queens are icky and I don't understand them and they'll somehow turn kids transgender and [other absurd reason(s)]. So recently on my local Facebook Buy Nothing group I gave away a large batch of about 35 Barbie dolls and clothes a friend had passed along to me. After I had already promised them to a mom and her little girl, another mom responded. She said her little boy would be thrilled to get some Barbie clothes if I had any left. I pulled some of the clothes and decided to throw in three of the dolls, too, from the batch before the first mom came and got everything else. I didn't want to assume but just wondered if Ken was in the picture because I had some clothing for him, too. She said her son did have a Ron Weasely doll but mainly just dressed him in robes. Because I loved that this little boy felt so free about enjoying the heck out of playing with Barbies I wanted to give him more than just the--to me, anyway--inadequate amount of clothes I'd pulled from the initial batch so I bought a few of those huge packs of clothing (one for Ron, too) to add to it. I just really wanted to make this kid's day/month/year, you know? Afterward, his awesome mom thanked me again and said that her son was just so in love with all the stuff I gave him! I kind of want to play Barbies with him--and I'm 60!