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That was fast. Apparently the entire night’s lineup in live plus seven is running 350 to 400 percent higher year to year over last yearin viewers and the demo. Averaging six plus to eight million or so week to week are strong numbers in this environment.

A clear (and accurate) shout out to the song from Moulan Rouge. The song lyrics fit Jamie and Claire perfectly.

There’s a need for a reminder that Matt Lauria was on Friday Night Lights (Luke) One reason why I wanted to watch. Also, he was on the original iteration of CSI in 2011-2012 for three episodes as an FBI agent not as Josh Folsom. But still…

Due to the length of the source material, it would be impossible to film this particular story exactly as written, which Asimov did between the 1940s and the 1990s. As it is, I first read the original trilogy in 1965, (same year as Dune and Stranger In A Strange Land), still in junior high school. The public library was worth something in those days, they were very current about carrying newly published titles even science fiction. I’ve waited for decades for this particular source material to make it to the screen; but I’m not sure the technology existed to do so until now.

If you paid even the slightest attention to the credit sequence, one would have noticed that Bear McCreary is composing the music for the Foundation series. He's written his first blog entry about the music of Foundation, including a mind-blowing reveal of new music technology, called Seldon Black, he and a collaborator developed for scoring the series, as well as the first of what will be a series of albums of music from the series. https://bearmccreary.com/foundation/

From what I've read, David S. Goyer has said the plan is 80 episodes total, 10 episodes a year.

Two things I definitely like about the premiere of the revival. The return of the “Who Are You” in the credits sequence. And having Matt Lauria (FNL)as one of the leads.

The only reason I am watching this is because of Luke Kleintank, going back to his time on The Man In The High Castle. In episode 3, he made an off hand reference about Ohio, which was fun, as he was born in Ohio. I’m not sure why Dick Wolf allowed a plot line of Jamie and Scott seeing each other, but then it’s not otherwise uncommon in the Wolf Universe for most of his other shows, but it doesn’t seem to fit.

With the flashback in this episode, I was finally able to see the David James Elliott inside the character of Tom. Camera angles or something.

Now that Netflix has officially confirmed a second season of Young Royals to air globally on Netflix in 2022, it makes sense to fix the oversight of not having a place to discuss this interesting young adult drama. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/09/22/young-royals-renewed-for-season-2-at-netflix-309514/20210922netflix05/ For those not familiar with this series, which dropped its six episode season one on July 1st globally on Netflix, with both Swedish and English audio tracks, ( the entire cast did their own voice dubbing for the English soundtrack) is the story of Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding) adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

Follow the plane! Anything about the cast even are not photo verified, except the plane, which Bertram confirmed on Facebook. The plane has been tracked through publicly sourced air traffic flight information which only stays up a short period of time. But as far as I know, there not been a photo sourced spoiler since production restarted.

I’m surprised the shoe was able to tie Donna and Hawk stories together into an opening that may still leave the show a device get Hawk Bach at some future point and not the one way ticket to Ann Afterlife. The show tied together several threads and advanced the overall story by a lot during this hour.

The bit about the charter jet appears to be true. And it appears the original 33 cast is returning, but that’s not confirmed. Nor have I seen anything about whether the three legs previously filmed will be kept or scrapped. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other changes made to reduce risk, such no local drivers and use of technology to reduce the overall number of camera crews and local production such ass drone cameras. (If you watched the MLB Field of Dreams game five weeks ago, you can see what a difference drone cameras made in the broadcast.) Most of this is my speculation based on the perception that WRP and CBS wants to minimize any possible exposure to unvaccinated locals and get the rest of season 33 in the can.

Yep and yep. It took long enough two seasons? for them to recognize they’re best with the other. Nathan as Max, Nathan as Jones, Nathan as Jones being Max, it’s been fun watching this unfold this season. And they name dropped Greg since Tanner Novlan hasn’t been in the last couple of episodes. Is it just me, or is Isabel more tolerable this season?

From my reading, the Deadline article has nothing new. For an insight into current quarantine and travel information country by country, that is being updated regularly, use this link to CNN: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/us-international-travel-covid-19/index.html

Overall, I found this episode simply unwatchable, perhaps the worse episode in this series’ six year run. I can’t believe the writer’s room couldn’t have done better.

The design of the device was akin to what was actually being used as portable devices, not connected to a mainframe computer in the early 19800s. (I know as I used a KayPro brand device, using an early version of WordStar and DOS 2.0 to keyboard and edit a manuscript in the summer of 1982.) Within two years we were seeing desktop computer in the market place, but anything looking like notebooks weren’t really in the marketplace until the end of the 1990s.

At that moment, Joe is still undercover, and he’s dealing with someone who he knows has information that he needs. These two episodes are the first where we get an idea of how both Joe and his late father tick. That opens up all sorts of storytelling about the family. And not yet mentioned Sean and his siblings are Joe’s cousins.

As far as I know, a second season hasn’t been cancelled. I think the problem is protocols related to COVID-19 and the fact that season one was filed in various European nations.

Keep in mind that as we’re discussing Mars, experiments on the newest rover and helicopter are demonstrating that Oxygen can be extracted on the Martian surface, we known there’s evidence of H2O underneath the surface, the clouds are water clouds, btw, and breaking down Martian source water will also provide hydrogen. And that’s in our timeline. The closing scene in season two shows that Man landed on Mae in 1994. So clearly in the FAM timeline these Robles were somehow solved. It just an strange coincidence that Provenance and Ingenuity landed on Mars as we reached the end oof season two.

At the end of season two, Danny was already in the Naval Academy, the season basically was in the summer of 1983 or 1984. Jimmy would be in high school. Had the US maintained its level of real spending after Apollo, it very easily could have established a lunar base and headed towards Mars. These were things that were being discuss in our timeline in the early 1970s. Apollo 11 did come close to being a disaster, though it was kept secret at the time. In fact, Armstrong and Aldrin had to maneuver away from the planned landing spot full of rocks to avoid a crash landing. They landed the Eagle basically on fumes although the fuel for lunar takeoff wasn’t affected. One of the fun things is watching how historical events and people in our real timeline did or didn’t appear in the FAM timeline. Brezhnev and Gorbachev don’t appear at all. It’s also surprising that John Glenn apparently was never elected as a US Senator. (Or at least not yet) So that’s a fun part of watching FAM.

Apple News had an interview with RDM and he’s explained each season will take about a decade jump from the previous season, and if it feels right they might go a bit into the future. Well we now can definitely understand why Danny Stevens was cast in season two, and left little doubt both Stevens boys will be around next season at a minimum. Admiral Ed will most likely be the head of the military side of the space program; have no idea if Ellen ends up running NASA or goes into politics. Mars? After what we saw IRL, the first helicopter flight on the surface of Mars, the ability to make water, and the presence of an atmosphere, etc., it will be interesting to see what the writer’s room comes up with.

Lee Atwater was an shameless political hack in our timeline. The nature of GOP political attacks trace back to Atwater, even 40 years later. Would Ellen rather run for Congress than be NASA Administrator? Her immediate personal issue has cleared up, so it’s unlikely to rear itself in a Senate confirmation. A political campaign would be different.

By 1984, Apple was selling their first PCs. I remember where there was an Apple store, one of my.uncles had one in his realty management company for bookkeeping. And that was the year of Apple’s iconic “1984” Super Bowl commercial. So the green droid monitor were accurate, color monitors weren’t more than a year or two away.

I had not realized that Jared Harris is the son of acting legend Richard Harris. Jared was in the first two seasons of The Expanse, before he did Chernobyl, and the factoid was mentioned in a new series of podcasts about the Expanse that begins with the first episode of season one, hosted by Ty Frenck (half of the duo of James S.A. Corey, the authors of The Expanse series of novels, novellas, and short stories) and who’s an executive producer and writer on the TV series, and actor Wes Chatham, who portrays Amos on the series. They post their podcasts on the Ty and That Guy you tube channel, a fascinating listen on its own accord.