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True, they did include that scene to let us know that Frankie was out of the picture, but it felt like they left it intentionally vague. Maybe because they weren't sure whether Jonathan Tucker would be available, or how much. I forgot about the "grieving in private" line, which does seem conclusive. But still, there's letting your audience figure things out because it's insulting to spoon-feed them, and there's making everything so cryptic and vague all the time that it really doesn't help. It can be hard to enjoy a show if you feel like you don't know what the hell is going on half the time. Yep, they made Anton a bit sympathetic at the end, there. Jackie is becoming more likeable, and DeCourcy has been more unlikeable this season. Maybe they'll meet in the middle or something and get drunk together. I'd like to see those two have a good chat. Like, a real chat, lay it all out. So much tension, so much foreboding and dread every episode, it would be nice to get a break once in a while. Jenny's solo was short but sweet. Jackie didn't show up, though, did he?

Another good episode. I'm just glad we've got Ward and Rohr back together and bromancing like only they can. The rest is just icing, but storylines are moving along, sometimes predictably and sometimes not. That helps keep things interesting.

Good point. Both John and Sarah knew about Henry's condition obviously, but I think they both said something like "We thought that was all behind us". No, if the guy had five heart surgeries before his first birthday, this is something you keep an eye on, forever. You don't wait until he's 20 and collapses at home and go "Oh yeah, that's right; he has a heart condition!" It was maybe meant to catch us, the viewers, off guard, but it shouldn't have caught John and Sarah off guard.

I thought the point of Nolan's "ugly cry" was that he's always so cheerful and positive when others are around, but he's just holding it in until he gets an opportunity to let it out. He told Sarah (Bones) that he'd be right behind her, he just wanted a few more minutes of fresh air. Then once she was gone, he broke down. Sarah is the one who pointed out earlier that he's always so annoyingly optimistic. Yeah, Wesley trying to tough-talk the cartel dude was pretty laughable. But damn if he didn't give it his all. I still don't care about Tamara. We already have so many characters in this show; do the secondary characters really need their own sidekicks?

Anton goes to shoot DeCourcy and ends up shooting Siobhan. This is only days after attempting to kill Junior and only shooting him in the stomach. He walks right up to the car and... accidentally shoots the passenger instead of the driver? I did like his little speech to Grace about how he's not proud of his "job" but he does it well. And in his head anyway, it's always been about getting out of the projects, for his mama. It's about time Grace woke up. Isaiah had to explain it to her, but he's probably the only one who could; he's the only one she would listen to. I like that Jackie and DeCourcy seem to have resumed their uneasy alliance (it took us five episodes?), and that this is what I thought the show was all about. I agree that Jackie obviously has some kind of angle. He badgered Karen about letting him do this one case before heading off to Lakeville. I'm thinking he's going to try to turn it into something big that'll buy him the leverage to NOT get sent off to Lakeville.

Not much to say, except to echo the WTF of bringing in two rookies, only to have them both gone by the end of the episode. I figured "The Badger" was for comedic effect or something but that Barnes would stick around for a while. I liked her scenes with Bradford, how at first it seemed that maybe he was all enamored with her military background, etc., but then it quickly became obvious that he was adjusting his training style to fit the trainee. Bradford is the man. Man of Honor! Anyway, I figured Barnes would stick around because Nolan will (hopefully) not be a rookie much longer, and there should be at least one rookie on a show called The Rookie.

Marco was the one who got into BU, and was shot while Grace, the Reverend, and others were walking the streets. Kelvin and Anton were talking about it afterward when Kelvin went to visit Anton in prison.

I guess I was wrong about Cathy and the heroin money. When Ward dropped in at the salon, she was packing things up and there was a sign on the window saying Commercial Space for Lease or something like that. So what happened to the $10K worth of dope and/or the money from it? Jackie letting Little Rickey off the hook was his Act of Contrition, assigned to him by the priest. I guess the idea is that Jackie is a corrupt son of a bitch, but deep down somewhere, he can't shake his Catholic upbringing and feels the need to do something to atone. Similarly, his apparent re-interest in... his own wife! A few episodes back, when the three of them were having dinner, Jackie came out of the blue with a compliment on Jenny's voice and support for her joining the choir. Both Benny and Jenny looked at him like "where in the heck did that come from?" I'm fortunate to come from a reasonably functional family, so I never know what to make of scenes like that. I guess I imagine dysfunctional family dinners being full of sniping and snarking at each other, parents bitching at each other, kids on their phones. But I don't know. I guess even families with serious problems still love each other and have dinner together, which is nice. Again thinking back a few episodes, when Jenny was admiring Jackie and got horny and went out to the living room to (ahem) enjoy herself, Jackie gave her shit about it, which I thought was so sad. For all his shit, she still loves him, and wants him. Then this week, he seemed up for some lovin', then went and fucked it up by bringing up the pretty young girl Jenny had brought home for dinner, and how he was hoping for a threesome. Was that supposed to work, to get her in the mood? Overall, I have to agree with those saying that this season feels very different from (and inferior to) the first season. The focus has shifted to things that I'm overall less interested in. Everyone is miserable and horrible all the time. But somehow I can't stop watching. The actors are all killing it. I just wish the show made more sense.

Yeah, that was another clue. She was getting as much out of him as she could, before offing him. We never saw her actually moving any of it, except for the one prison visit. That's doesn't mean that it didn't happen off-screen, but it was a lot to move. She was betting on Jimmy being stupid enough to take her at her word and come up with another brick, and she was right.

I never understood how she was supposedly going to sell thousands of dollars worth of H by smuggling it into the prison two tiny bags at a time inside her. It just doesn't seem like she could move enough product that way to make it worthwhile, but I don't know. That's what got me thinking about how she didn't really want to do it (peddle smack), and maybe was never planning on paying Jimmy back in the first place.

I guess I saw Cathy's dope dealing differently. I figured she sold that first batch, then got another batch from Jimmy, all with no intention of paying for it. He fronted her $10K worth of heroin, enough to save the salon and pay some bills, then shot him. She may not have actually sold all the heroin yet, but that doesn't matter. Whatever money she gets from it is hers now, then she's out. I didn't think she had any intention of going into business with Anton. It was all a long con to get rid of Jimmy and make a bunch of money at the same time. That's why she kept saying she'd pay him, to string him along. Even that phone conversation was carefully worded. She never did actually say she had the money. That sigh was her getting up the nerve to do what she felt she had to do. That last scene with her meeting the kids at the bus, she was smiling and very happy, for the first time in a long time. Jimmy's gone, the salon has been saved, business will eventually come back (or so she believes), and all is well.

I liked how they followed up on stories we'd seen earlier in the series, and how they kept the comedy for the faux-interview show, and kept the serious for the actual police work. The interview segments were in character, but were lampooning those types of shows that try to sensationalize everything. The cast were all in character, but due to the format, we got a glimpse at what they're "really" like. The "Prophet Jedediah" story with Frankie Muniz was played straight, but I found it funny in a meta way because it was a former child star playing a former child star. I tell you, though, the show "Paul's Place" did not look funny at all. It looked horrible. I've never been a sitcom guy, though. Is a kid dumping an entire milkshake on his head, for any reason, ever funny?

I did finished a rewatch as well. It's still impressive the second time around, but now it's just the acting performances and the writing. Those were always good, but before there was all the mystery and mysticism (or whatever it's called) and wondering what the hell is going on. You lose that on rewatch, but it's still fun watching it unfold and all the clues along the way. Still a well-written piece of television. They packed a lot of story into those eight hours.

Snap survivors faced all kinds of problems, many which could be considered life-threatening. There were families with young kids and both parents were suddenly gone. Invalids with their caretakers suddenly gone. Half the police were gone, half the grocery stores, banks and other businesses suddenly lost half their employees. And that's just on average. Some places wouldn't have been affected much, but there would have been areas which were basically anarchy, with no food supply chain but also no police at all, or very few.

Recasting the princesses is something of a running joke, though. They were recast between the first and second movie, so it makes sense that they'd be recast here, too.

Wow, thanks for the background and clarification!

Is "Daisy" a common nickname for "Margaret"? I don't think I've ever heard that before.

It was a nod to Aliens. Biehn was Corporal Hicks, who carrried a shotgun along with all the futuristic weaponry. "I like to keep this handy, for close encounters."

Yoda once mentioned that he trained Jedi for 900 years, so obviously his species lives a very long time. This leads to a 50-year-old "child" who's still a toddler, yet who trained in The Force for "years" (that's the word Ahsoka used). I'm reminded of the saying that wisdom is knowledge plus time. You can have all the smarts in the world, but if you haven't lived the years, you're still just a punk. Grogu is like the opposite of that. He's still a child, but has lived 50 years and seen things and done things, and had The Force with him most of those years. I think that's a big part of what makes his species so strong with The Force. Simply by living so long, they have like 10 times our life experience, 10 times as much time to get better and better with The Force.

I agree about General Talbot. Being bound by what the military is allowed to do and say, he didn't always come off as the helpful ally they might have wanted, but he was a good guy. His ending was indeed "painful yet glorious". If you're gonna go out, go out with a bang!

Yeah, Director Mace was a pretty cool guy. His was a nice little story arc and helped bring that season together.

I watched it today, and enjoyed it. I liked both of the first two, and I liked how the second movie got a little crazier than the first, but in the same spirit. And here, they went another degree with it. This is not exactly Oscar material, and it was never meant to be. Just crazy, silly fun. I don't know if it was as good as the first two, but it was comparable. The reconciliation with Death was surprisingly touching. Bill and Ted's "reunions" with their older selves over the years was strangely touching as well, even as I was laughing out loud. Bill came up with some deep stuff about how we regard our future and past selves, and his observation on how Ted had more trouble getting along with his older selves than he (Bill) did was interesting. It seemed like the "theme" that Bill and Ted literally could not think of themselves in the singular, but always as the two of them, should have either been developed a bit more, or had more payoff, or something. The couples therapy angle felt like one subplot too many to cram into the relatively short runtime, but it was too important to drop. On the other hand, they were together in every scene, as were the girls. But it seemed like there was supposed to be more of a message there.

Wow, thanks for the explanations (Coulson/Sarge). I guess the in-show explanation was so crazy that my brain couldn't absorb it and it just kinda blew past me. I mean really, that's about as hand-wavey, technobabble as you can get. But thanks.

Did we ever get an explanation as to why Sarge was basically a clone of Coulson? I remember he had Coulson's DNA and everything, and obviously was just Coulson after living a life in different circumstances, but I don't remember the explanation.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan, in both cases.