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I think the obvious solution to this is to introduce another atheist-leaning person down the road as part of the gang... someone who is atheist for intellectual rather than emotional reasons, and is pretty cool with other people believing otherwise as long as those people don't @ them all the time. That pretty much jives with my experience when it comes to religion, spirituality or lack thereof - the people who are pushy or antagonistic about it are that way for a psychological reason, not a (lack-of-) faith-based one. Which is all to say: BMH is a charmer and I'll be watching this again.

That's the one! (And mine never embed either. Not sure how other people do it.)

Oh my - they're filming No 8, right? The one with the infamous "To-Meow-Meow" title? What if they're in the voice booth because they're getting altered into kittens and we only hear their thoughts in voiceover?! See, with any other show, I'd scoff and say "Don't be ridiculous; there's no way they're doing anything that insane." But with *this* show....

The third episode is supposed to have punk rock in it, I think? But they should be well beyond that episode by now. Still, the thought of Brandon Routh singing punk rock puts the biggest grin on my face. I only hope that if it happens, we get to see Mick's reaction.

There's a Beebo one submitted that must be seen to be believed.

You can see the season tag line get more informal over...well, time. That's cool.

Ken Levine, who showran M*A*S*H for a few years with his partner David Isaacs and wrote for the show before that, is on record as saying the show made a mistake by writing Frank Burns as such a one-note character. Larry Linville certainly hated it, but by the time they all realized it the character had become so broad there was no realistic way to haul him back. When LL left and they brought on someome new, everyone was determined not to make the same mistake - they wanted Winchester to be more complex, an antagonist of Hawkeye and BJ without being a bad person or an enemy. Of course, David Ogden Steirs elevated everything they conceived of into the stratosphere.

Puss in Boots? @tarotx: How did you get my post to embed in your post?!

Honestly, I figure this is about taking our canon characters and introducing them to the Elseworlds notion. Thus DC/CW/WB can have lots of different continuities going on while sort of linking them together too. Wait for Black Lightning to get a brief cameo as they accidentally jump through his world for a few seconds....

I literally cannot express the depth of joy this show gives me: https://twitter.com/ketomizu/status/1044996728661803008?s=19 ETA: Groddamnit, why won't this tweet embed?!

I'd have to look it up, but there's a story going around that these women aren't just accidentally put together by CNN - they're very Republican with an agenda to get Kavanagh in. But as I only saw the headlines - just too hard to make myself read everything on this subject in the last week - I may have gotten it wrong.

I wouldn't kick Adam Tsekhman out of bed for eating crackers. Just saying.

Mick tellin' it like it is! Praise Beebo!

Just wanted to recommend Kim's Convenience, a Canadian show, if you can get it. It's centred on a Korean family, kids are second-generation Canadian. There are a LOT of different ethnicities and recurring characters. It's pretty gentle comedy, if you're into that.

Courtney Ford as well.

Kinda seems like a waste. Everyone looks down on dwarves in this world, so the one dwarf we've seen as a major character and asked to identify with and feel sorry for...ends up fulfilling the stereotypes of the stupidest and most prejudiced people in this world? Not sure that's going to make sitting through the end seem worthwhile, to me.

Don't know if this is UO or not: I think the credits for The Good Fight and Star Trek: Discovery beat those for Game of Thrones.

Good interview.

Yeah, I think the unexpected popularity of Robin/Barney threw the writers for a loop. They had to stick with it for the ratings, but it didn't line up with their original plan at all. Nor could they give them a bittersweet ending with a happy marriage and Barney's demise - which would've set up Ted and Robin as the sunset romance for both - because they narration had made it clear that Barney was still alive and kicking. And they didn't want to let go of their original ending because they'd publicized about how they'd shot it years ago and knew exactly how the show would end. So they had to Frankenstein a finale that took in all these realities, and it went about as well as could be expected.

I see your point, @selkie. I do think they're shooting themselves in the foot by disclosing such a dynamic right out of the gate, though. Like @possibilities pointed out, people are likely to draw an obvious conclusion from that and decide they're not interested. If they'd gone with a tagline like, "She has magic powers; he has major privileges - how do they make it work?" then it would be much more intriguing. We the audience could then determine from the show that he's a bit of a slacker but makes up for it in other ways.

I don't see how this reboot is going to fly if the white husband is going to be so unlikeable. Why would I want to watch an endlessly patient single mother with extraordinary abilities get ignored and passed over in favour of a lazy white dude? And how do you expect me to buy this special woman would even give that guy the time of day, much less marry him? They'd have to cast The World's Most Charming White Dude (whoever he is) to make that fly, and even then I think it'd be too unpleasant to watch. If the "slacker" part was dropped and the two were presented as a united front, trying to navigate their way through the world's unappreciation of her gifts and overappreciation of his white maleness, with the husband doing his best to be an ally even as he learns to recognize and check his privilege on the way, then I'd probably be interested. As it is, unless this is going to be a particularly loaded-for-bear satire (which wouldn't interest me anyway), I don't see at all how this is going to work.

Please tell me the 5x08 episode name is gonna stick....

I always find it interesting to see who gets hung up on small detail changes in adaptations and who doesn't. I'm definitely of the Master Builder* philosophy when it comes to adaptations, and try to take each one on its own merits. I haven't seen any other adaptations of MotOE other than the Suchet one, but have read the original novel about 50 times; Christie is one of my favourite authors and this is one of her best works. I thought Branaugh and company did a great job. Pfeiffer (unsurprisingly) and Gad (very surprisingly) were probably my favourites. Thought Odom looked like a young Denzel Washington. I didn't miss Dr. Constantine as they folded his most important details into Arbutnoth, but loved the reimagining of M. Bouc. The adaptation was not as dark as Suchet, although I got into the moodiness of that one - when you consider that entry as part of a larger thematic arc in the last season of the Suchet series leading to the events of Curtain, it makes a lot of sense. I haven't seen the Ustinov version yet but I'm sure I'd love it based on what I've heard. I'll track it down some day. Really looking forward to DotN based on what they did here. Sone other Poirot novels I think would be more easily adapted to the big screen: --The ABC Murders - they could really go big with the public scope on that one. Hastings could be introduced - or maybe just bring back Josh Gad's character to be the sidekick. --Evil Under the Sun - sun, sea, interesting characters, murder. I've a soft spot for this novel as it was my introduction to Christie. --Peril at End House - this could be properly atmospheric with some great twists, prominent female roles and, considering the young "fast" set involved, they could make some characters of colour without having to change the story or setting too much. *as per The Lego Movie

Colbert needs a segment akin to Trevor Noah's "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That!" On The Daily Show - something where he can zip through a pile of news and make pithy remarks as quickly as possible.

I'm all for Mara/Paul, but solely so I can get some Sendhil Ramamurthy in some sexytimes scenes....