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I had liked Carter's grandmother on her previous appearances, but I had no sympathy for her this episode. Not only did she know she shouldn't be driving, but she had the means to avoid driving. It would have been one thing if she'd needed to get somewhere and couldn't afford a taxi, but dammit, she probably had a car and chauffeur on staff. There was no excuse for her to be behind the wheel.

Was wondering when the second season would air and now I've found it's airing on RTE in Ireland starting the 10th January, yay!

For everybody feeling sorry for poor Henry being bricked up. And yes, I did go searching to find out what eventually happened to him. https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_(T%26F)

Elizabeth is in the middle of getting her PhD. She told the students that she was 'Miss' Zott until she had finished it and would then be Doctor Zott. Teaching is quite likely a requirement for the PhD course. Or maybe Elizabeth feels that it's important to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists, just as she educated and inspired her TV audiences. One thing that annoyed me about Calvin's mother. Why did she not have her foundation lawyer approach Calvin and explain the situation, rather than trying to communicate by letters. Calvin dumped the letters because he thought they were from money-grabbing imposters, but if the lawyer for the foundation that had been funding him all along was able to vouch for his mother's identity then surely that would have made a difference.

It's been a while since I saw Season 2, but IIRC, wasn't Harry sent home on medical leave because there were concerns that he'd follow in his father's footsteps

“‘‘Twas beauty killed the beast”. “No it wasn’t, it was smashing into the ground like that”. (I’ve always preferred the Discworld take on it)

Savita Halappanavar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar If dead children didn't get gun laws changed, then dead women won't get abortion laws changed in the USA.

I think you’re wrong about that. She stayed in the UK as a teenager after her parents went back to Norway. But her previous interactions with Michael were when they were both police officers. So presumably mid 20s which would make Annika 40 something now.

No rules maybe, but there is precedent. IIRC, there's been more than one occasion when a baker either had to leave part way through or wasn't able to attend at all, and in both cases there was nobody sent home. Edited because I found a link from 2018. https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/why-nobody-was-sent-home-on-great-british-bake-off-last-night/37332302.html So at least three times before, this has happened.

It could be that the coach on the vault ends up blocking the judges view of the landings. Whereas most of the bar elements are in the air, so they're not blocking the judges view.

Dougal has it covered.

@GHScorpiosRule do you mean the series finale Curtain: Poirot's last case? In the books, most of the time when Hastings returns to England after his marriage, his wife is mentioned as running their estates in South America. By the time of Curtain however, (although why I'm spoiling an almost 50 year old book, I don't know!)

I had one maths teacher who would teach up until the bell went, finish whatever problem he was working on and *then* say a Hail Mary before he'd let us go. And woe betide anybody who dared start packing their books away before he was finished. He was the school principal so nobody could say anything about it.

My Digital TV guide is showing Bake Off airing on Tuesday the 26th September. Tuesday the 12th, Channel 4 is airing a football match in the Bake Off time slot. Tuesday the 19th, they're airing a documentary "The truth about the 'skinny' jab". Somebody in the scheduling department has a twisted sense of humor by putting that on instead of the baking show we're waiting for!

It doesn't appear to be starting in the UK until the 26th September.

New season starting on Thursday the 21st September, yay!

AFAIK, Melissa Navia's lack of screen time/showcase plots was at least in part due to the fact that her partner died suddenly just before filming for season 2 and TPTB were trying to give her space to grieve. So it's not like she was just sidelined for no reason. Hopefully Ortegas will not only survive to season 3, but get her episode in the spotlight as well.

I just presumed that Howard told them every detail, including what he said to the 'ghost'.

Well, at least she didn't have the usual soap opera issue of not knowing which of her partners had gotten her pregnant!

True, but that seems illogical. Spock is the second in command on the Enterprise and has interacted with Chapel several times before that scene. At some point he must have been introduced to her. Just because he only uses one name, doesn't mean he wouldn't remember other people's names.

And whatever about staying at home, the whole point of a holter monitor is that it's a passive device that records heart rhythm. It's not something that the wearer has to activate when they think their heart is acting up.

Re 1, Agreed. They could have had somebody bring up the possibility of survivors and have it dismissed as unlikely or point out that smashing the field generator was the only way the known survivors on the planet had any chance of survival. Re 2, Disagree. I'm pretty sure that Captain Batel had more pressing things on her mind at that time than her crew. She knows they're dead (presumably Pike told her what her ship looked like), but if she stops to grieve and lament for them, then the remaining survivors might end up dead as well. Matt Decker had the luxury of a time and place to grieve. Batel didn't.

Hello, Ortegas was there as well. I know the writers seem to forget about her, but come on she finally gets an away mission and this happens! If she makes it back to the Enterprise, and I really hope she does, I can see her swearing off away missions for good! That said, if TPTB, do feel the need for a main crew casualty, it’s probably going to be between her and La’an.

We've already had TOS. I want to keep the SNW crew around for as many seasons as they can stretch it out to. A single season doesn't have to take a year of Starfleet time. Much as I loved TOS, I want to keep Ortegas and Pike and Una around and not have them replaced. Bringing Kirk in for so much of S2 was bad enough and felt like TPTB didn't have enough confidence that the show could stand alone without his presence. (I did have similar feelings about Pike/Spock/Una showing up on Discovery and almost didn't watch SNW because of it) As for this episode, I HATE CLIFFHANGERS! I was also rather concerned that after we were finally going to get Ortegas on an away mission that she wouldn't survive it. (I was that concerned that when the episode dropped, I actually scrolled to the end just to make sure she'd be okay...or at least not dead!) I do think I'm going to have to rewatch Subspace Rhapsody again just to soothe my nerves after this ep. (and then maybe a full series rewatch to fill in the gap until next season)

Normal communications were down though, even before the music started. Uhura was having to transfer messages manually. Maybe Christine decided that since both Spock and Uhura were working round the clock to fix the issue that taking up their time and space with a personal message that wasn't time sensitive, might not have been a good idea. I was rewatching again, and I loved that even the ships were 'dancing' in the final sequence. Also loved Pike's horrified reaction when Ortegas started singing in the opening number!