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Late February 2020. Yeah two really imbalanced detours on this double episode. I guess the second isn't as bad, since it's a keep racing and Phil said "they had a train to catch", which basically means a bunch is coming up. Yeah especially after he criticised the drippage of one of the first cakes. But that team had to redo one of the cakes anyway, so no time lost for them. I mean we all know the judges don't actually judge, it's people behind the camera giving them signs and I guess production noted how everybody blazed through the dart-task and thus lowered the difficulty on the cakes. I actually didn't know little Ben but I can drive stick. Not sure if I can drive automatic though, never tried. :D The major mistake all the racers made was not just asking people on the street. Why would you run around like chickens with their heads cut off instead of just asking one simple question? That rule does indeed exist. They can only open the clue together. Has been the case since TAR 1. Yeah that you could copy other teams seemed unfair to me. Part of the challange was supposed to figure out the right countries. But I guess it's an early leg. There they aren't as big on making the challanges super difficult. Referendum was June 23 2016. But the UK only left the EU January 31 2020. Exit talks took a very long time and at the end the agreement was still shit since the UK wanted to keep all the benefits of being in the EU, but none of the obligations. Naturally the EU said "fuck you" to that and that is how we got the shitshow we got, with the UK now struggling to fill their supermarket shelves and the North Ireland question still not solved. Also yes, January 2020 was like two years ago, if that is what you are asking. 😁

Do people really not know what a bobby is? They need to watch more UK TV. There are some great shows. Really weird seeing the flight attendants being so huggy with strangers. Pre pandemic really was a different time. The night (evening) leg was pretty boring overall. Just a lot of running around. I'm a firm believer that if you do night legs, you should show some of the night life of the city. Maybe it was a bit early in the evening for that. Never overthink on the amazing race. Once you have the clue, you go. But not surprising that my ADHD-bro did that. Could have been me. The UK flag at the cake task was a bit mean, I think. The UK left the EU on January 31 2020 and this was filmed in February 2020. So not much time to hear about it. I guess on the other hand it might have been on the news right before. Also France and Germany are safe and easy picks, so maybe not as mean afterall. Norway isn't in the EU, I would have known that. But I guess easy mistake to make. With all the contracts Norway has going on with the EU, they might as well be in it. Also the dart task seemed a bit imbalanced with the cake task, especially if you had teams who had thrown darts before. You could basically blaze through that in two minutes. I was wondering the whole time why they didn't show more pit stop talk. Should have known that it was a "keep racing", especially since the amazing bath mat wasn't there. I'm a bit sad that the husbands are consistently at the back of the pack. I always love rooting for my fellow gays, but I guess I can't complain with the overall gay track record on the race.

Yeah, but again: It's not like any of those were integral to the plot. The writers could have just left out those injuries and the plot wouldn't have changed one bit. She didn't make herself usefull to the mafia with her doctor skills, she did so with her cleaning skills.

I think it would be more interesting if she was just a cleaner and had to stay alive with those skills and her wits only. It's not like the writers couldn't write it this way. The pilot was already kinda farfetched in a few places.

So the boy has to be in a bubble but nobody has to wear masks when interacting with him? At that stage of health problem I'd expect hazmat suits. Maybe it's severe allergies? That's the only thing I can fanwank. Why does she also have to be a doctor? Wouldn't a show about a smart cleaning lady also work? What is it with TV and doctors and/or cops? Why can't cleaning ladies have a hero? Didn't seem like he and his wife lived their and her boss said that his boss couldn't find out that the party had ever happened. So my therory, they were supposed to house sit and "his crazy wife" invited a bunch of her friends to party there. But she is a doctor! That's important for... um... reasons!

This was a really good show. Fun. The outcome with Estella seemed a lot more realistic than I had thought it would. The actress also was a great choice. Love Dolly Wells. The Trio has great chemistry and now I hope they actually do make the followup series of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Maybe we can even see Dolly Wells again? Since it's a british show, they probably won't make it, but one can hope.

Ah thx. So they were talking about the regrow gel, but he didn't want it. Seems like I didn't quite remember that right. It's been a few years. I guess my problem with it was that the company would provide any prosthetic when there is some regrow gel availible. That sounds quite a bit cheaper. I think the point was more that it seemed like Micchio couldn't handle the preassure. Drummer is so differend from her that she couldn't understand that it wasn't the preassure per se but the killing that Micchio couldn't handle.

I don't know much, but I know that heart-gun-song would actually have a good chance at winning at real Eurovision. It's amazing.

Both of the writers of the expanse books have worked closely with Goerge R. R. Martin, the writer of the song of ice and fire books and recently won a bet, who'd finish their series first, against him: https://winteriscoming.net/2021/06/04/the-expanse-authors-finish-final-book-win-bet-george-rr-martin/ So they are co-workers and to some extend friends, is where the connection comes in. As far as I can tell it has nothing to do with the show and only with the books... thank god for that.

I will have to rewatch but I'm 99,9% sure that he was talking about having it regrown. I can distincly remember that I thought is was bullshit that a robotic arm was cheaper than having one regrown. Maybe you read the books and it was different there? I can blieve that regrowing limbs is a lot cheaper for a TV show than having to CGI actors body parts to look like prosthetics for the rest of the show.

So, let me get this straight: You have somebody who is undercooled and you want to get him warm? You are also on a tropical island and the sun is scroching down at you. Also he's black. So you don't take off his shirt and put him in the sun, you put him into the shade and then you burn stuff to make him warm instead? All of that really made no sense. Also "Lobster for breakfast, how very grand!"? Lobster was considered a trash food, only fit for the lowest of classes at the time. I do like the budding romance here, although I think Passepartout and Fogg would make the cuter couple.

I assume the insurance company would want to go for the cheaper option?

This was some good nostalgia! The Trio talking to each other and reminiscing was sooo great.

There was also a scene in season one where somebody complained that he had to use a robot prosthetic, because the company wouldn't spring to regrow his arm. Which I called bullshit on at the time. There is no way a robot prosthetic is cheaper than just regrowing the arm.

Confirmed: Drummer is from Dorne and not shitty show-Drone, but awesome, fierce book-Dorne!

Have you ever heard Elon Musk speak on stage and/or read his tweets? Because, yeah... that's sadly not just a terribly written and acted SNL parody, that's real life. He called people trying to rescue children from a flooded cave pedophiles, because they wouldn't use his stupid ideas. That was important to show how even the people who mean well can be seduced by fame and fortune and gave him a redemption arc at the end. He broke through the path of his life the algorythm had predicted for him. Almost nobody does that. Even the president was eaten by a brontoroc.

Yes pretty much. Although not even sure if Harry conciously knew that that was what he was doing. I thought they'd go much more in depth into it with the doctor coming back in the last season, but then they just didn't and lumberjacked it instead. Yeah, like an unchecked addict would. He still loved her. He also seemed to love Harrison, before he suffered an aneurysm in the last season and sent him off to south america with a serial killer.

But were those urges inborn and inevitable or were they ingrained into Dexter by Harry and just a bad outlet for his violent urges, that could have been channeled into something much more healthy? Dexter never displayed the other signs you'd expect from a psychopath. He genuinely loved other people. We know that because we heard his inner monologue. He always acted more like an addict. Often hurting the people he loved in the process of getting his next fix, but he still loved them. So would he have been addicted to killing if Harry hadn't trained him that way? I don't think so.

I don't think it was supposed to be a comedy. This was a biting satire and those are never laugh-out-loud-funny. They are always chuckle-at-the-absurdity-funny. Whoever decided to sell this as a comedy did it a huge disservice. I saw a comparison to idiocracy above and I think that's pretty apt. I loved this film, but not as a comedy. As a comedy it would be crap.

I fast forewarded through most of this. I think that about sums up how good the episode was. Yeah, me too. But then, Dexter himself never seemed like a real psychopath and my theory was always that Harry made an innocent boy into a serial killer. He likely could have lived a normal non-murdery life with the right kind of help. I was sure the last season was going for something like that, with the psychologist, Harry met with, projecting her issues with her own son onto Dexter, but then: Nope! Lumberjack Ending!

God this film was infuriating for long stretches. It became a lot more tolerable once accaptence set in. In both the characters and me. At the end it had a perfect ending and I don't mean the president being eaten by the brontoroc, although that was amazing, too. Guess the algorythm can predict what animal on another planet 22000 years in the future will eat you, but it was wrong about Dr. Mindy dying alone. What went through my head during those scenes was: With speed of light video transmission through the internet, you could see the impact long before the shockwave would hit you. That has to be an extra level of terrifying. I think if you have a ship with cryopods the better options would be orbiting earth for a few thousand years, when the eco system will have recovered from the impact, but I guess there had to be something outlandish in this film that was otherwise just a documentary of current politics and capitalism. Overall great movie. One of the best I've seen all year. Comedy? This is barely even satire. There were tanks in the foreground but I think that was just to signify that the launch site was on a military site. They weren't shooting at the launch and if the US would attack it, they'd use planes, missiles or drones.

Further than a mountain range? Yeah, no. I guess they really hate that kid. Or somebody in the CGI-department didn't use their brain (I assume that wasn't a real location). One or the other.

Couldn't they have done that stupid experiment after they rescued the people and thus didn't have to conserve so much power? Or do it on a spacestation. Yes, you have an overarching time crunch, in that you never know where the anomaly will hit next, but you don't have an immediate time crunch. You can do that experiment right...

I know what you meant, but at some point that's probably not going to work anymore. The last family of the dragon probably tried the same. He killed them all.

Probably, but didn't the inners sweep for bombs? That would be extremely careless. Or were those planted afterwards by agents who stayed behind? Ah come on, that's not true... he doesn't care about his followers either. He even only cares about Filip as an extension of himself. Wasn't it last episode where he said "he's part of me"? Typical narcissist. Everybody here seems to agree, but I'm not so sure. Word must have gotten around that Marco stripped the station and left them with only three weeks of food and air. That after he had declared it was their new capitol. Even if some of the belter fleet doesn't like the people of Ceres, a lot probably do. Most will probably have family and friends there. That is going to leave a sour taste in a lot of peoples mouths. I don't think you can really pin it on the inners when people start to asphyxiate there. Three weeks isn't enough time to pin it on the new regime. And if the inners keep everybody there alive, despite of how Marco stripped the station, it's a massive propaganda victory for them. I think Marco put himself in a lose-lose-situation here. There is no way this is going to help him in the long run. He seems to only ever think half a chess move ahead. The only real victories he could clutch were when nobody knew the war had started and he has been losing ground ever since. The only thing that could still save him is his protomolecule stuff, but man is that betting your life on a single horse. It was especially illuminating to hear why the botanist who we had heard earlier in the episode, who was branded as a spy, was really killed. Marco didn't want her research getting out, since it could easily feed and produce air for the people on Ceres. The problem is that Netflix popularised long form story telling stretched over a season and now everybody wants to do it. While it is a great way to tell storys and a lot of stories couldn't be told otherwise, it just doesn't work if you have to wait a week between episodes. A lot of things will feel unimportant, or in too short segments and sometimes whole episodes will feel boring, when they would have been a great breether to slow down in, in the whole story. So a bunch of problems. I fear that a lot of potentially great shows will be cancelled way too soon because they just don't work week to week. On the other hand, I get why companies don't want to dump episodes all at once. It's hard to generate hype that way. My solution to that was always release 5 episodes a week, Sunday to Thursday. So two weeks for your average show to be aired. That way you get the watercooler talk and build continuous hype, but also release the episodes in a timely manner, for the narrative to still be cohesive. Not sure why no streaming service has tried this yet.