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So I guess I was wrong and others here had it figured out. Hari is just a hologram and the coffin was a red hering, I guess? I thought that would be too standard scifi and not interesting enough. I should know better by now, with these writers. And I mean they are introducing time distortion stuff with Gaal knowing the future and the vault being sent back in time. So why not do a stasis coffin? Oh well. That "dark star" looks an awfull lot like a black hole... Why not call it a black hole? On the weapons platform: So the commander had outrun his usefullness when he opened the door, but not the warden? How would they know at that point that there would be forcefields to bypass and how would they know the commanders nanobots wouldn't be needed anymore. Seems an awfull lot like plot-armour. Also 99% sure that boyfriend faked his suit malfunctioning and is going to circle back, to surpringly pop up next episode and/or floated to one of those old mining stations to try the coms. That death wasn't heroic enough and I don't get "subverting tropes" from this show.

I mean that's just not true. ADHD and autism come in many forms and levels of severity. A person with ADHD might be much worse off than another person with autism. People just don't believe that, because ADHD has such a cute name, that describes one symptom, and one of the least severe at that. I've long since said it should be renamed to the root cause, so something along the lines of "Dopamine deficiency disorder". That might get the impact on somebodies life across more accurately, that they have a lack of one of the most fundamental neurtransmitters, often a massive one. But I guess you can't change the name of a disease after it was named once, no matter how shit the name is and no matter how nobody understood the root causes 10 years ago, let alone when it was named... Still, Salen has no right or frame of reference to compare her ADHD to Shauns autism.

I asumme the drain is to relieve preassure above the blockage which gives them time to remove the blockage if one happens again. They also said they would manage the rest with medication. So medication for the day to day and the tube in case of emergencies. Like I said, I have no idea if that medical sense, but it at least seems to make mechanical sense.

The last one is because pharmacies freshly fill orange bottles with your medication. That is just mind boggling. Of course that is going to go wrong all the time. How come you don't have prepackaged medication like most other countries? It's a pharmacy, not an artisanal bakery.

So an echo of a demon asks you under threat to make a magical key for him. The making of the key has no verbal components, the only thing that gives the key its prupose is your intention. Do you: A) Make a key that banishes all echos in the vacinity to the well house. B) Make a key that destroys all echos in the vacinity. C) Make a key that splits the human echo from the demon echo, to save the poor guy who got posessed decades ago (bonus if it can split demons from people in general). D) Give the demon exactly what it wants, a key to make more demons. If you answerd D), congratulations! You are as dumb as a Locke! (which surprisingly is dumber than a log).

I mean, I guess so? She would have had to have a colostomybag regardless. Now she only needs it for emergencies and can usually eat solid food and live pretty much normally, I guess? Don't ask me if that makes any sense medically, but that is what I got from this.

So Lea fixed and cleaned (and probably repainted) that car in what, like a day after her full time job at the hospital without Glassy noticing? Um, sure.

First of all, Ola didn't say she didn't believe in the specific Aliens in Lily's stories or that Aliens had visited earth, she said she didn't believe in Aliens existing at all and that is just stupid. Second of all, the universe is near infinite. Somewhere out there, there probably are Alien's like in Lily's stories. They weren't that exotic. That's just a matter of probability. Near infinite worlds, near infinite outcomes. Nah, if your believes are stupid like "I don't believe there is any alien life in the entire universe", you should be called out for that. That's like saying "I blieve the earth is flat".

Guess we now got confirmation that the previous generation were a bunch of morons, too. "Strength in numbers? No! I've got to do this alone!"

Just when I thought this season the characters were acting a bit smarter, they pull a 180 and they are dumb as bricks again. Kinsey doesn't trust her friend when he tells her he was controlled somehow. She also doesn't put two and two together when the anywhere key was found in their house. Sam gets into a ghost race with Dodge instead of just sneaking back to the body when they were distracted. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. A visible parasite is interesting though. Wondering if a key could be made to get them off.

You are right, there were some in the wide shots in a "blink and you miss it" moment. Still in closeups only women were ever presented as an option for Dawn. So I'm not sure if the men were there as an option for him or maybe more for other important people there. Well he seems to look like all the other Cleons, so he has to be a clone. Also it didn't seem unusual that the clones are decanted in secret. Dusk would have seen that happen once before. Of course it could be that Demerzel made subtle changes to their DNA over the generations, but I'm leaning towards bad writing. The writers haven't earned the benefit of the doubt, in my opinion.

I appreciate that the kids seem to be a lot less dumb than last season. Thinking about the music box was smart. Although, you might have considered that the same people who have it also have the anywhere key.

Almost an entire episode on Terminus. How "fun". There was a bit with Empire. That was interesting and Dawn seemed a bit less creepy than the last few weeks. So there are minor imperfections in the cloning process. But to be honest I don't see how color blindness would be introduced. It would have to be a whole new corruption the the Y-Chromosom and I'd expect a catastrophic illness in that case, before I'd expect colour blindness. I mean it probably is theoretically possible, but exceedingly unlikely. But these writers have never given any shit about science. So why should I expect them to start now? I mean "math" might as well be replaced by "magic" in these scripts and it would make more sense, not less. That Dawn was so good at hunting the raptors because he's color blind was at least good foreshadowing. I always find it curious that Empires concubines are exlusively women and that that is taken for granted. There have to have been a few gay or bi Cleons in the line. Even with genetically identical twins you sometimes have pairs where one is straight and one is gay. It's not entirely genetics that determine our sexual orientation. But I doubt the writers know about that... Day being with that religion... To be honest, the teachings don't seem to be completely at odds with emperial cloning. You could just say that in Empire the sould always reincarnated into the same body and is shared by the three living Cleons, giving it a unique perspective, being able to learn and grow at three times the speed a normal soul would, since it is living three lives at the same time. Maybe he should have schmoozed the charasmatic leader candidate instead of the log of wood and tried to work something out with her. Nothing here about Hari and Gaal. These writers really know what the audience wants to see. -.-

I really don't think the person got what the problem with that song was. The truck is a central element. It turns from something Evan loves to something that took his father away and he is now afraid of, will take his mother away, too. Of course Moore is going to put emphasis on the word. The original boradway singer did as well. The problem is that this song really isn't super fancy, so the singer has to carry all of it, without any help and Moore just isn't a good enough singer to do that. But that isn't even the worst part. The poster made another tweet below this one linking to a post of theirs on letterboxd, where they called this user-review "the definitive burn on this film" and uh boy is it ever 'problematic'. First of all, most of it can be summed up by "a grown man wouldn't act that way and Platt looks like a grown man, therefore I can't believe any of it!". And I always thought I had a problem with suspension of disbelieve. When a movie violates the rules it itself established, like Avangers Endgame with timetravel or a piece of media proports to be based in science, but then just makes up nonsensical stuff, it takes me right out and I can't enjoy it anymore. But that's not the case here. The movie established that Evan is a highschool student, a kid, and so he is. Never was that rule violated anywhere in the movie. I have a feeling these kinds of people wouldn't think twice about 20 logical inconsistencies in a movie, but as soon as an actor has one wrinkle on his face, now that's immersion breaking! But the really bad part is this: Coming from somebody who's only experience with mental illness is most likely a mild generalised anxiety disorder, caused by their helicopter parents, which they can bond with their friends over. Oh, the irony. "Waving through a window" is probably the most accurate description I've ever heard of growing up not neurotypical. I originally thought I'd quote a few passages here, but honestly, I'd just end up posting all of the lyrics here. There is nothing in that song that isn't completely on point. While you could argue semantics here, that being atypical is not a mental illness, it is a physical difference in the brain, so a physical disability, it will cause quite a few mental illnesses, since people just don't understand you. And that's not a teenage "nobody understands me", that's a literal "nobody understands me". I was going to write more, but I don't even know where to begin. On a lighter note, something I just remembered, as I was talking about "Waving through a window", the first two lines are poignant, but as a german also always kinda funny to me: "I've learned to slam on the brake. Before I even turn the key." Yeah, before you turn the key you have to step on the break and the clutch, otherwise you are going to have a bad time. 😄

*sigh* I'm sure you are right. I had so much hope for this show. Why can't every show be The Expanse? That's more of a complaint I would have with this, too. It didn't tell us anything new about her, didn't reallly progress her character, nothing. And how she would have heard about the competition is a really good question. Considering stars you can't see don't exist: No. Planets can't orbit imaginary stars. ;)

I can believe that the life support systems in it could only support one person. That is the least my suspension of disbelieve has been strained this entire show. 😆

That Hari wasn't dead was crystal clear when they said they shot him into space "in a coffin he designed". So it seems the original plan was for Raych to get into the cryo pod and be picked up all these years later, since he has access to the ships controls. But Gaal realised that something wasn't right in the math, ran to Hari's quarters, interrupted the plan and so Raych had to sacrifice himself for her. A dark star? As in a star comprised of mostly dark matter? As far as I know those are theoretical stars that might have existed in the early Universe, but probably not anymore, if they even existed at all. I'm not even convinced dark matter exists (the mass difference we see in the universe might be explained by primordial black holes). Also if such a star existed it wouldn't be dark, it would shine like a super massive star. It's just called a dark star because it produces it's energy by the annihilation of dark matter (theoretically of course). Or do they mean Antimatter stars? Those would also shine much like normal stars. The only thing you couldn't see would be a black hole and yes planets can and do orbit them, but there wouldn't just be one known planet and why wouldn't they just call it a black hole? Also those planets would be very cold. But that goes for everything orbiting anything you can't actually see... Those Anacreons shoot like storm troopers. To be fair, it seems like a very recent development. The guy who got executed said he used to have scientific discussions with her parents and Gaal was there for those. Then some religious purge came and her parents fell in line. I mean look at pictures of Iran from the 70s and then from the 80s onwards. You'll see a pretty big shift (thank you CIA /s). That was Hari. Seems like some kind of stasis (time freezy) shenanigans going on there. Probably the same technology they send the vault back in time with eventually.

I can't understand all the reviews saying "worst musical movie ever". In fact, if you exclude all the Disney animated movies, this might be one of the best in the last two decades. Let's see off the top of my head: Cats - worse Mama Mia - worse (though I love it, guilty pleasure) Les Mis - worse (though some great songs) I get the feeling these people just don't like musical movies and just like to pile on. Musical movies are there to deliver great songs and that this one did, with a competent narrative to string it all together. Only complaint from me is that it is a bit overlong. I'm not sure what I would have cut, but something should have been. Sadly I live far away from any place where live musicals are performed and if I'd like to see them in their original language, I'd have to take drive (and take a ferry) to another country. So musical movies are basically the only way to get my fix and I'm glad when they are as good as this one. I'm sure it would have been 10 times better on stage, but we can't all live in New York. I never even heard of "Waving through a window" before seeing this movie and it destroys me every time hearing it... in a good way. He really doesn't look that old when you see photos of him. I'd say he passes as Hollywood-movie-teen. It's just all the choices they made were wrong. They gave him that haircut, to make him look young and it's very: Also I think they made the choice to put depressed-makeup on him to show how the character feels, but if you have an old dude playing a teenager you don't have the luxury of that choice. Slather him in ten layers of makeup to make his skin look silky smooth! Also when you see him in photos with his full beard, he looks considerably younger. So I would have said: Fuck it, let him have it in the movie. He's an early bloomer, so what? Maybe even put a spotlight on it with a line from his mom or something. Like I said: All the wrong choices. I wrote the stuff above this quote before I read your post and it seems that we are in agreement. They aged him up instead of aging him down. No idea how they didn't fix that after the first day of shooting. I listened to the song on the broadway recording and it's much, much better there. A big part is that the actress there conveys her emotions in the song, while Moore seems to be too preoccupied to sing half way decently to also act on top. It's a bit of a shame.

Would have had no complaints if that was what they said, but they specifically said that the laptop had no network connection and thus Breanna couldn't hack in.

She's not his doctor or healthcare provider, she's his employer, so I doubt she broke any HIPAA laws. But there might be other laws regarding employers having to keep their employes data save. I'm german so wouldn't know about these laws in the US. There is however the right to your own image. I'm pretty sure that is the same everywhere in the developed world. She can't just plaster his photo on a wall without premission.

Shaun is right, they can't both be right and Salen is full of shit. Every study shows that hand air dryers are a desaster that spray bacteria everywhere and they aren't even better for the environment than paper towels (like somebody said ealier in the episode). I can't speak to the other changes, other than that the doctors will stink real fast in those synthetic scrubs and I don't think that will attract rich clientel, but if it's researched as badly as her hand dryer idea, it can't be good. And it's nice that she values "unique perspectives", but maybe she should value the unique perspective of actually reading scientific studies!

"This is an energy dense battery that achieves 600 watt-kilogramms per hour." 🤦‍♂️ Oh my god. Who screwed this up this badly? Was it the writers? Or was it the actor and nobody caught it? I mean that might be the worst tech-gibberish I've ever heard. Makes absolutely no sense. Correct would be 600 watt-hours per kilogramm (600 Wh/kg). And for the record that would be really impressive. LFP batteries are currently at about 175 Wh/kg, NMC batteries at about 200 Wh/kg. I know the guy is a grifter and he doesn't actually have a battery with that capacity, but come on, a grifter would know his stuff better than this. At least I can fanwank, that Sophies horrible german, with an accent so thick you could support a sky scraper on it, might fool an american, who isn't a native speaker. Often in shows we are to believe that other germans are fooled or that the characters are german and my eyes almost fall out of their sockets from all the rolling. Still, could you stop with the ", nein?" at the end of a sentence? That only works if you translate a ", no?" directly and why would a german do that when trying to speak english? If you want to show them falling back to german for a few words the correct word to use would be ", oder?". Harry, do you think you should maybe zip up your hazmat suit there, buddy? I'm pretty sure those few batteries wouldn't contaminate anything to a noticable extend. There isn't actually that much Cobalt in NMC batteries. It ranges from 13% to 4%. Pretty much none of it would reach ground water. That dump site would have needed to be from a whole vehicle fleet, not from a few experimental batteries, to have such an effect. And I know they said "he overstuffed" those batteries with heavy metal, but that still wouldn't be that much from the dump site we've seen and it frankly makes no sense. If anything you'd overstuff the batteries with Lithium and change them so that with every charge some Lithium gets unrecoverably stripped. That would reduce the charge cycles by a lot but it would give you temporarily a high energy density. Other than that it was a fun episode. But this was quite a bit more than the usual stuff you had to ignore in a Leverage episode. At some point it becomes a bit much.

Interesting enough I just rewatched the pilot of the original Leverage and the "Shouldn't I be playing the computer guy?" "No, I need you to actually be the computer guy." conversation we had this episode between Sophie and Breanna happened the same way there between Nate and Hardison. Intentional callback or the writers not remembering what they wrote 12 years ago? You decide. :D

A bit of a one note character for James Masters. I would have liked to see a more fun villain from him, maybe recurring. The interludes of Sophie and Parker in the vatican were amazing. I guess they are doing a few episodes this season that are light on certain characters to squeze out one or two more episodes? It actually makes for a nice change of pace, mixing the team up now and then. Does Drew Powell keep getting hotter or do I just belong in horny jail?

So, the Goop episode. This was fun and had a satisfying conclusion. If only somebody could ship Gwyneth Paltrow off to a gas station in the middle of nowhere. Minor complaint: Blockchains don't work offline. So that whole thing with having to overcome the airgap was a bit bullshitty. Which of course is only a problem since hackers on this show are magical and can break into every computer on a network.