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He isn't occasionally intense, he is always intense and his mood swings from the lowest lows to the highest highs at the drop of the hat. Yes, Ryan is very good at keeping him in line, but he's about the only thing that stand between Dusty and regular meltdowns. I won't continue speculating how he is in private. However, I can say, how he is on the race, I wouldn't want to spend 5 minutes with him.

That is true and maybe I'm just a judgemental bitch. But knowing these kind of emotionally unstable people, it usually doesn't get better when they are in private, it usually gets much, much worse. It's really not about this one task but his behaviour throughout the whole race. I mean if this is the best they could do then that's pretty damning. They probably should have learned from the haybales (and afaik did so when that one came around the second time) that you hide more than the required number of clues/coins on the playing field. Otherwise it takes way too long and is way too unfair to the last team there. What would have stoped them from just placing 6 or 8 coins in that arena? Nothing.

Pretty sure because that was Vivian's imagination of what happened and she doesn't speak German. The other scenes she imagined were also in English. Except for the train conductor, for some reason. Maybe we are supposed to think that she heard the German train conductor in present time and incorporated him, but like I said, that's just not a thing and hasn't been in the 36 years I've been alive. So it's a bit inconsistent.

The final episode could have totally been a "where are they now" ending, with them all meeting up in the mansion for a drink at the end. Plus, like I said, I don't follow the meta. A lot of shows have 12 episode seasons now.

Good thing Gary is an alien. I don't think anybody else could survive being spaced temporalzoned. To be honest, they had me there for a good long while. I don't follow the meta of most shows I watch and I thought this might be a series finale. It wouldn't have been a bad one, to be perfectly fair. Looking it up now: while the showrunner "debunked" a leak, that legends was already renewed, I'm inclined to believe that the initial leak was in fact correct. They would have to know by now and them saying "oh we don't know one way or the other" seems fishy.

That would have been clever. But nope. The first time she had her arms crossed, the second time stretched out, but pointed more towards the middle of the arena, when the correct rocks were on the right. I mean, this wasn't classic amazing race, but the winners should absolutely have bragging rights. This was much harder than any seasons in recent history (which is a bit sad, but it is the truth). Well they are in europe. Most people will speak at least passable english. Also all the racers this season at least aren't dumb as rocks, so they don't try to speak spanish in france.. They did get money in the pre covid legs. Not sure if they still get money. If they do, probably not much. I miss the "you have X dollars for this leg of the race"-info in general, but I guess at some point, many years ago, production decided that it wasn't important. I don't think anybody hates Ryan. Good for Dusty that he is working on his problems, but sometimes that's just not enough. He still seems way too unstable to have a family. I feel sorry for that kid. He should have waited till that "working on it" paid off in better results. Sorry, not sorry.

Yeah, the animation is great. They just need better music. Inuyasha would have been the furthest comparison for me, but I really only know the german openings. The first one was techno/pop, the second one straight up pop and then the show was cancelled. -.- Have to watch it at some point. I just looked it up and it seems like they actually dubbed the remaining episodes into german in 2018 (after having stoped in season 2 in 2005). Have to look up where to find those. Usually I watch anime with subs, but I'm used to the german voices and 180+ episodes is a bit much for subs. Anyway you can find those openings here and I guess I will look up the english openings. Hmm after having watched the english and japanese opening I still don't quite get the comparison. Those also have pop songs.

Did they really try to edit that like it was a sprint to the finish, after they had given us a timer on how long Dusty was flipping stones? Seriously? I mean I know Arun and Natalia do get very lost, but not that lost. I never like these needle in a haystack challanges. They don't require any skill, just luck and they disproportionally disadvantage teams that get there later or don't have as much luck in the beginning, as there get to be less and less needles. At least it was a non-elim. The leg design was really bad. There was not even a theoretical chance to catch up after the needle task. Absolutely no skill incolved in the detour. Didn't even have a bunch of colourfull task masters and clue givers like last week had. Only actors who played ancient greeks way too seriously. Dusty was annoying as hell again. You have anger issues? You don't say. I never would have guessed that from the unhinged emotional state you've shown over the whole race. This time it was at least a bit more warrented than the last times, but still... Really, only thing I enjoyed this episode was Kim explaining the dong-dong-dong-sound. Let's hope next week is better.

Oh what I forogt: Was it ever explained why there are 9 main titans? From the information we have there is no reason, right?

Scream 5 was fun, but the killers and their motives were a bit uninspired. Really the boyfriend and the creepy girl, because they didn't like the last stab-movie? Maybe the writers thought they were princessbriding us, but meh. Dewey's death annoyed me. He was a cop for decades. He should know that you don't walk up to somebody you want to shoot. A gun is a ranged weapon. He should be good enough with one that he could have landed that shot from just outside the elevator. If you want to kill him, by all means. But don't make him stupid to do so. That just sucks. Scream always was meta, but I think we might have gone a tad too far with this one. I'll have to rewatch the other movies at some point, to see how this one ranks. Me too. Slashers just bore the hell out of me. I think Scream is different because a good part of it is a murder mystery, thus actually interesting, and because it's partially a parody. I can recommend "the boys" and "star trek: lower decks".

"cuffs didn't fit him"? Seriously?! What kind of hack writing is that? And now there is only one pair of prison uniform his size, because he's so big? I mean seriously. They act like he's 10'5 instead of 6'5. God, what annoying bullshit.

Scanlan taking on this whole mansion on his own was really cool. But I think nothing can beat how it played out in my head during the campaign. I think that should have rightfully been a suicide mission with nobody there to revive him, and with hindsight, knowing how much Sam wanted to role a new character, maybe that was even his plan. But the dice rolled extremely well and the outcome was epic. Sometimes things just work out. The rest of the episodes were also really fun. Do I remember that wrong or didn't they start the acid in the campaign on their own? That was hilarious. But I guess it makes for better drama if Vax is controlled here and starts it because of that. Still sad that, like I had feared, they cut the sun tree talking to Keyleth. I would have celebrated so hard if we had gotten to hear "Hey, Kiki!". Also I always thought it was a big missed opportunity that it wasn't the sun tree who taught Keyleth treestride and hoped they would change it in the show. That would have made so much sense, his roots being connected with everything, him being old and wise, him having been planted by a god, etc. But I guess the writers didn't agree. So she just had that ability all along and just needed to believe in herself or something. Lame. Anyway. Good show. Can't wait for season two. Hopefully by then they'll get some opening music that fits the tone of the show better than that instrumental stuff. The newest attack on titan season has metal music for the opening for crying out loud. They should really be a bit braver here and not just do what all western shows do at the moment.

I hope they still do it. There is no way Disneys version will have as much charme as this show has. The Disney one is probably going to be a soulless action spectacle.

I do have to say again how amazing basically all the opening credits are. The newest one using a metal song? Perfection. Wish other shows would take note. Like the Legend of Vox Machina. Great show, but abysmal opening. Sadly we still haven't gotten an explaination. The war hammer titan wasn't needed. All that was needed was the founding titan and a titan with royal blood. Always sad when a show has plot holes the size of barn doors. There basically has to be a part 3. No way they are wrapping this up in only two more episodes, right? They are playing really fast and loose with "final season". But I guess that's what everybody does these days. 4x21 (#80) & 4x23 (#82):

I'm already annoyed at the first episode and the unrealistic expactations this sets for men. Not only do we constantly have to see men who look like mounds of muscle and get hard in 5s tops in all kinds of hollywood movies and TV shows, no now the men even get actively shamed if they don't get hard in 5s tops. That's just great. Are we trying to achieve gender equality by giving men just as much body dismorphia as women have? That seems like the worst solution to the problem. Dear writers: A lot of men need a bit of foreplay, too. Some need some physical stimulation by themselves or their partner applied directly to the forehead penis. And sometimes, hopefully rarely, it doesn't work at all and that's okay, too. Men are not soulless sex machines, even if media often betrays them like it.

It was him. That kind of CGI is still increadibly expensive. Why would you ever do that if you'd have to pay for his likeness and him voiceacting anyway? Cheaper to fly him out for a day. She didn't. That movie was filmed way too long ago. The Fantastic Beasts film series? Also bunch of other stuff. Just because you only watch super hero movies and shows doesn't mean he isn't a working actor. PS: It seems everybody loves James Gunn and loves to work with him. Cavill apparently said he would have liked to have done this cameo, but he couldn't, since Netflix owns his likeness for the next two years. (which btw. means he's making BANK of the witcher. Exclusive deals aren't cheap)

I think they already made that pretty clear last season. The octopy asked for help from their cousins. It's not about conquering the planet it's about saving it. I guess the aliens could have tried a diplomatic approach first, but knowing us humans, they probably had the right idea, that only killing us all would work. Since when is Deputy Liv a skank?

Is it just me or was that a really dumb move by Astra? 50 years is a really long time. Harry learned to love one human in like a few months (I don't think that much time has passed on the show), arguably two. In 50 years he probably has hundreds of people he loves and wants to protect. Maybe she doesn't get to see that side of him as much as we do, but still she should learn to extrapolate a little. Also as an aside, Harry is not wrong. It would be a lot better for other life on this planet if humans were all killed. Since there is other intelligent life in the galaxy and even on this planet, it doesn't seem like that much of a loss, tbh.

That's an extreme stretch to interpret as "he is gay". I wouldn't assume that to mean gay and I live in a way more open time. I thought it was about him being one of those types of guys who always say "oh I have a guy for this, give him a call" and I still think it was. That was probably about the most blatent one, but that is with our hindsight. Did you know that the Naval criminal investigative sevrice spent decades searching for the illusive Dorothy, so many gay men were apperently friends with, because they thought she could help them root out the homosexual problem? Yeah, that's the level of clueless even criminal investigators were back then, now about triple that for the general public. Of course he did, but he never sued anybody for stating he was flamboyant. That was blatently obvious. And Midge said nothing more. I can see her being a blabbermouth being a problem, but the smart move would have been to keep her close and not tell her anything anymore. What he did was not only petty but also a dumb move. If Midge wasn't a much better person than I am, all his dirty little secrets would be all over the newspapers the next day. And again, she didn't tell anybody at the Apollo what they didn't already know. Otherwise there wouldn't have been laughter but outrage, stunned slince, indignation, etc. It's like she told a crowd "Liberace sure likes wearing sparkly clothes, huh guys?!"

I forgot how riduiculously attracted I am to Joel. Not really my usual type but something about how he looks in those shirts just does it for me. I think if I were Midge I'd just blast the real reason, why Shy fired me, from the rooftops. Of course it could be that nobody believes her, but at this point what does she have to lose? He certainly deserves it for being such a dick to her. The dickishness has just increased from last season, with him letting Miriam and Susie drive all the way to the airport, despite them having been already replaced by that point. I'd like to reiterate that Midge didn't tell the crowd at the Apollo anything they didn't already know, otherwise it wouldn't have been funny and that she only told them that Shy was a bit flamboyant. That was at a time where people didn't put two and two together. Everbody thought liberace was straight, for crying out loud. Firing her and especially in that way was just such a dick move. She didn't out anybody. At this point, she probably should though. Absolutely. I wasn't into it in the beginning but by the end it had me laughing out loud a bunch. Not many shows can get more than a chuckle out of me. Well done.

If species die others fill the void. Also if you are that advanced, you can clone anything if you really have to. Also their technology is ridiculously advanced. They are thousands of years beyond us (if that technology is even remotely possible). How did they durvive so long? Or did they fuck up their planet when they already had technology far beyond us? Doesn't seem plausible.

Same for me with cucumber. Can't stand the taste. Always have to be carefull to specify to put that not on my food, like when I order a Döner. One bite and I'll be close to retching. But I still had them before. Her saying she never had raw onion before was just weird.

Maybe she meant she never had *raw* onion before. I mean, same question: How is that even possible? They go raw in salads, on Döner Kebab, on Souvlaki, on Mettbrötchen, on Burger etc. Dusty is at a 13 and I really need him to take it down to at least an 8. He gets way too hyper when things go well and too frustrated when they don't. I always have to remind myself that the race is a very high stress environment, otherwise I'd think drugs or mental illness. I mean hot dogs really need roasted onion. If you put raw onions on a hot dog you've clearly lost control of your life.

I was wondering for a while now if they still had separate sound guys. That always seemed super unwieldy and mics really have gotten good enough that camera mounted ones should suffice. This episode we saw quite a few camera men but no sound guys and I think I saw mics mouted on the cameras, so I'm leaning towards no seperate sound guy anymore. If you'd asked me to spell souvlaki, I would have done it just like this. But then I think that's a bit closer to how a german would write it than a native english speaker. Of course with the vendors accent I'm not quite sure if I had recognised the word. I love how Kim and Penn fit together. Kim: "Oh, did we eat the clue?", that sparks something in Penn that connects the eating to the paper (a leap that actually gets easier with ADHD) he screams "Oh!" and digs through the trash. The souvlaki vendor was a fun character. I wish they had more judges with a bit of swagger. The second roadblock clearly had a "the other partner, from the one who did the first roadblock this leg, must do the this one" disclaimer that wasn't shown. It did look impossible at first, but was clearly designed to be done on the second try. Since the required saints didn't change you knew what you were looking for. I think Penn was really impressive getting it the first time. Hyperfocus has never worked for me like that. Yes, it's a thing, but you can't control it. You just focus on stuff you find interesting and that is usually super interesting but useless stuff, like all the possible explainations for the fermi paradox. Although being extremely stimulated due to being on the Amazing Race might do the trick, not sure. I know some people don't like those two (although I think a lot have come around) but I like that there is some ADHD-visibility out there finally (although the race show it in a touch too positve light for my liking, but oh well). It was pretty clear that the twins would come in last by the shadows on the ground and the tint of the sun. Although I didn't completely dismiss the possibility that Arun and Natalia might just drive all the way to Norway instead of getting to the pitstop.

Wow, they got Jason Mamoa, Ezra Miller and Viola Davis for cameos. Impressive. This was a fun episode and a satisfying ending to the season. At the end I was so worried that the queen of the butterflies (don't know how to spell her name) was in one of them. Harcourt most of all. Was a big relieve when the queen showed up at the end. I'm not sure if Chris is really hallucinating or if his father maybe packed some kind of psychic imprint of himself into those helmets. I counted less than 20 confirmed shots from her. For two full clips that's more than reasonable. It's always a double edged sword. Give a society technology they aren't ready for yet and they might just destroy themselves with it. Although fusion power plants should be pretty safe. The more questionable thing here is that a society that has made it to interstellar travel and teleportation couldn't clean up their own planet. I mean global warming at that level of civilisation is just childs play. Just block a bit of the suns rays with satelites, done. Or scrub the CO2 from the atmosphere. You clearly have near limitless power and resources if you are that advanced. Most everything else would be childs play, too.