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That's what I hinted at with "Is he also stoned?". :D (the show refered to it as "imprisoned in stone" a few times) Was just wondering if that was confirmed or just speculation.

They sure do. And they are in California, so the queen should have flipped a Tesla, ripped off the bottom plate and ate some NMC or LFP batteries out of it (both have lithium in them). But she didn't. She ate some lead-acid-batteries out of the engine compartment of a few gas-guzzlers. They were talking specifically about lithium. That whole "stabilising metal"-thing the writers pulled out of their behinds anyway. The metal that stabilises NMC batteries is Cobalt, not Lithium. The Lithium ions are what stores the charge. They are about as opposite to stabilising as you can get.

So El-Aurians evidently fought a war against the Q once and made it to a truth?! What do these writers think El-Aurians are? They had to flee from the Borg. The Q on the other hand are all powerfull and can just snap anybody they want out of existence. This is getting stupider by the episode.

The space elevator is interesting. I can see both sides. On the one hand, this is a big prestige project and could net the city infinite money in a few decades. On the other hand, Arpi is right. The materials to build it don't exist yet. You'd need ropes out of graphene or carbon nanotubes and there is no way to produce those in sufficient lengths yet. So a more relaistic project would be to build a research lab / factory to try and produce those materials...

Did the Borg queen just ingest "Lithium" by eating lead-acid batteries out of cars? I just can't with these writers. That's a whole new level of stupid. I'm sure that was just off-screen. Probably had to sex a bunch of male Klingons and that didn't make it past the censor. ;) Well, then that tricorder is seriously defective, because she just ate a bunch of lead. There is no lithium in those batteries.

Did they explain why Anubis isn't doing his job and Taweret is temping as guardian of the afterlife, with a bunch of cue cards, because that is usually not her job? Is he also stoned? Really interesting episode. Much, much better than first few. Also the actor playing young Marc was really really good. It's refreshing to see that there are still good child actors around. Young Picard, we saw an episode or two ago, in the show of the same name, was atrocious. I think people give bad acting performances from children too much of a pass. And I don't mean that as a slight against the children. I mean that as condemnation of the casting departments who don't put in enough energy to find actually good child actors.

Should just be a year. This season took so long because of the pandemic. Unless of course Netflix cancelles it...

That thing Belos summoned was very Bill Cypher. Also Hunter is most likely a clone of said brother. Belos talked about the golden guard always betraying him, that it always hurt to kill them and that he had to make new ones a bunch of times. The lie that Belos and Hutner are family probably isn't actually a lie. Just their exact relation is. Plus, Hunter has the same hair as the brother... Though Belos called him "an old friend". Either he didn't want to give too much away or they weren't brothers, but just grew up together. Edit: I made screenshots of the paintings. I think I got them all: https://imgur.com/a/N8uIYaH

It's the hip thing to do now. Netflix is doing the same with a few shows like Ozark. Doesn't mean it isn't dumb though... Well that's a massive fanwank. We were never shown anything like it. Then where do all those Eldians get their ability to turn into titans from? It only makes sense if they are her descendants. Also after 2000 years it's unlikely that any Eldian isn't a descendant of her, just by pure probability. Grisha said that the Attack Titans unique power was to see future memories. So there is no targeted "sending".

The nanobot part didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The russian scientist worked in a bio weapon facility (they talked about weaponised small pox), the "factory" where they "made the nanobots" looked like a vat where you'd grow bacteria or viruses and it should be realtively easy for anybody to get rid of the bots. So the dilemma at the end wasn't really one. Just stick Bond into an MRI for a few minutes, done. Then it dawned on me. This was supposed to be a virus originally and they changed it because of the pandemic, making it completely nonsensical.

The location wasn't lost it was deliberately unknown to anybody but the one guy.

Thx. So I was wrong, he's not american but french. His father is from hungary. While that's of course a very west country of the ex-soviet union there weren't and aren't an insignificant amount of asians there, the soviet union being mostly located in asia and workers migrating within it. So it might not be unreasonable to think that he might have asian ancestry. Edit: I dug a bit further and stumbled upon this: "The debate about Hungary’s origins rages to this day between archeologists, philologists, and historians, but on one thing all agree: Hungarians are more Asian than European and their story includes an almost epic migration in one direction or another across the great steppe of Russia to their current homeland in the Carpathian Basin. " https://www.alexanderroberts.com/blogs/blog/october-2015/how-the-magyars-became-the-hungarians.aspx So seems like hungarians are mostly of asian descent.

Maybe I'm just super racist, but he looks asian or of asian descent to me. Most likely he is american in reality, like all the "germans" on this show. So I didn't mean "residing in asia currently", of course. Who is the actor? My googlfu doesn't seem to be as strong as yours. Can't figure out his name. It's just been 4 regular years. It's been a little over three years since season 1 aired in our time, but I believe that was set when it was filmed, so in 2018. With season two they likely made the decision to set it in 2022 instead of 2021 to skip over the pandemic.

I said it for multipe season now and I'll stick to it. I think she is the famous "Mrs. Goodman" Saul always talked about during BB.

This was, for the most part, really good as always. It seems like they wanted to get him killed. But that seems super risky. What if he's taken alive and rats them out? Would have been a lot safer to kill him themselves or actually get him out and set him up with a new identity. I'd expect better from Guess Fring. So imo this is bad writing, at least for this shows standards.

I was pretty bored with episodes one and two, not even quite sure how. I think too much action, not enough character. Episodes 3 and 4 have been much more interesting. Especially 4 was really fun and intriguing. I'm 99% sure that the sarcophagus we saw was holding another personality. How many there are? Who knows? The godess at the end was Taweret, generally thought of as a diety of protection. So I assume she is the reason Marc and Steven are still alive. The details we'll certainly learn next episode. Kinda weird that only Ammit got entombed with her avatar. The god's meeting hall seems to be perfectly secure for the other gods who are entombed in stone... Presumably the gods would know if somebody were to try and break in there, but not where the worst of the offenders is kept? That's just nonsensical.

That whole thing was just dumb. It's an electric motor moving a membrane back and forth. Just get a modern electric motor and transmission and you are good. Sourcing parts from an old car was literally the dumbest thing they could have come up with. He probably would have called them "gentlemen". Same thing, just gender appropriate. Somewhat condescending in context, but that's very consistent characterisation for glassy. So I don't think he's sexist, just a bit of a prick.

Okay I'm through. This season was certainly interesting TV. Not as good as the first one, but that is a very, very high bar and unlike with a lot of other shows, this season certainly didn't invalidate or outright destroy the great first one, which is what I was kinda afraid of. But my complaint from above still stands. I want to see Alan and Nadia do more together. It's when those two are connecting that this show really shines for me. I guess there could always be too much of a good thing and the writers might be afraid of that, but at the moment they are really blue balling me. I'm also a bit dubious on the point of this season. Season one had very clear themes. This, either not so much or I didn't get them. Nadia explored her mother issues and family history further, but that was all relatively well dealt with in season one. I guess there will never be total closure with something like this, but not sure if it warranted a whole nother season. Not sure what Allan's story is all about, at all. He is still unhappy in his life. He is anxious and he explores that a bit in the past in his grandmas body, but not that much comes of it. Except for the conversation with his grandma where she reminds him that he is her "perfect baby boy". But does that really change anything or is it important? I'm not sure. What I did think was interesting was how happy he was being seen and treated as a woman, even when it was something as unpleasent as catcalling. I thought the show might explore that angle a bit more. But nothing ever came off it. Maybe setup for the next season? It seems weird to just drop it. Also why would somebody asian be stuck in east Berlin and have family in west Berlin? I mean it's possible and might totally have happened, but doesn't seem very likely. It's a really odd choice to make. Does Charlie Barnett have some asian ancestry and it was implied that that guy might have been his grandfather? They did say the grandma was a single mom. Otherwise I really don't get the choice. I hope this gets another season and I hope that there they'll explore Alan more, with Nadia at his side, this time. Nitpicking time: Why did those Germans only speak super broken german? Is it really that hard to find a half way decent actor who speaks german? There have to be thousands of them.

E05: Nora really didn't get it until all was said and done that she was how her grandma got the family jewlery back? That seemed pretty obvious. I'm a bit disappointed so far. I had hoped her and Alan would do more together this season. Not that Nadia isn't interesting, but I think it would be more interesting if she had somebody to consistantly bounce off of. Also I liked the connection they had forged in the last season and would have liked to see more of it. I guess I won't get much of that either since there are only two episodes left.

S02E01: I was wondering why that red baret guy was so concerned about Nadia. With the reveal that she is in the body of her very pregnant mother, that suddenly made sense. I guess Alan's parents were in germany at the time his mother was pregnant with him? The doors closing behind him said "Keine Tür blockieren". To which I have to give my usual nitpick that that isn't the correct tranlation. Correct would be "Tür nicht blockieren". Even more correct, as in you'd actually might see it in germany, would be "Tür frei halten". Wondering who that woman in the first scene was. Was it Nadia's mother and she's not really dead or was it Nadia in the future? Very glad this is back. Can't wait to see the rest of the episodes.

Ammit, but you are right, in real egyptian mythology Anubis does the weighing and Ammit just devours the bad hearts. But it's Marvel, so it's gotta be different, I guess. Yeah, with every other phone call we heard the other side. Not with his mother. Probably no one on the other end of the line.

I'm sufficiently underwhelmed. Maybe I saw a bit too much social media hyping / marketing, but this was just mediocre and really not as violent or gorey as they made it out to be. Maybe a three episode drop would have helped this one. As it stands I'm a lot more annoyed than pulled in by all the mysteries they set up.

So Philip is probably Bellos. That was my theory very early on, but it got kinda shaky when we saw him and he didn't look human. But he probably changed his appearance with all the magic that is keeping him alive until the eclipse.

It also didn't sound like he ever made a counter offer. He just rejected the job offer outright. If he wasn't that keen on the LA job he could have totally said "Look at my current job I'm getting payed X, if you really want me, your are going to have to beat that." If that had failed, it also wouldn't have looked as bad as it does now. Seems to me the writers did everything this episode they could to throw Toby under the bus. Kate is right, this isn't the old Toby anymore, this is basically a different character. I just don't believe that change happened organically, I think the writers forced it.

I know there are sales realted jobs in IT, but it never seemed like he was in any of those. From what I got he was just in the IT department of the company, so keeping the companies IT running. I have a feeling the writers just invented these sales calls because they couldn't come up with a better way to generate additional conflict.