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It was a dumb scheme and consistent with Cole being a dope.

I think at least part of Otto's motivation was that Corlys is Daemon's ally and he wanted to prevent his proposal that his daughter Laela marry Viserys.

I think it's admirable to not let grief make you do irrational things. He's the opposite of Aegon and Ser Criston. Otto was the one holding things together by keeping power out of the hands of Daemon. The problem is the Aegon isn't much better, so we're seeing the same level of chaos we would have had if Daemon has been able to take the throne.

As someone who is pro-Aemond and anti-Daemon, I enjoy seeing the latter (hopefully) being made to look worse in the eyes of the audience. I also wish the ending had been more like in the book.

My mind did go to that. I was a fan of Rey's parents being nobodies and of TLJ in general and was disappointed with how the next movie wiped that all away. I would rather they keep Ruby's parentage as is, not make her unseen father be someone special, and just have her be important because the Doctor cares about her and not because she has some special heritage or was created for a specific purpose.

Finally finished the show. The resolution of the Progenitor tech was what I expected from the start, since I know A Final Unity.

Part of me wonders if Sage is playing the long con with some sort of anti-Vought or anti-Homelander plot.

I just don't think the answers are that important. The dots either found the creatures or made them, it doesn't matter which. From a storytelling perspective, the people needed to be eaten in a non-random order so that the Doctor could figure out that there was a purpose behind their deaths and name is just as good as any other field in a database and easier to show the audience. The show doesn't need to over-explain every detail.

JG felt like Paul Rudd's better-looking younger brother. Really loved Scooby Doo. I thought Che was killing it before the joke swap. And of course the joke swap itself was it's usual fun, but that is definitely my type of humor

I think this season was pitched as a jumping on point for new viewers on Disney Plus, so I actually expected more of it.

L'ak was given what looks like busy-work that doesn't require much thought. And the others are probably assigned to watch him. I assume there is some sort of traditional Breen xenophobia which makes the Primark think that L'ak would never try to escape or partner with a courier.

Several have asked why they don't fix the other towers. Discovery has a priority mission. Fixing the other towers, however brief it might take, is a job for a follow-up mission, one that you send after Burnham files her report admitting to breaking the Prime Directive so that you can assess the cultural damage. I would not be surprised if Starfleet deems their mission so important that at least some violations of the Prime Directive are tolerable.

I really appreciate Che for going with it with the not sending military aid joke.

As far as I know, no one had seen what the Breen look like outside of their refrigeration suits in the DS9 era and lived to tell about it and I think it was implied they would kill someone who did, so it is likely they choose to be secretive about their looks all the way to the show's current era. There's precedent for not knowing what another species looks like, with the Federation not knowing what Romulans looked like until TOS.

Erigah wasn't declared by the Primarch until L'ak killed the other Breen. There would not have been a bounty if he just killed Moll. Clearly, the reason was the betrayal. She asked why he didn't kill his uncle. L'ak answered, "He raised me.". Perhaps this means that he values family and will eventually convince Moll to find kinship with Book.

The van stops, then there's a cut, and the clown jumps out. The team certainly believed she was lying. People are willing to kill over much less than $2 million. I might kill someone over $2 million if I thought I could get away with it.

I've never cared about hair continuity, but then I was never bothered by what people claimed were bad wigs on Arrow, but which never took me out of the story. Knight's father didn't seem too disturbed that she was deviating from The Plan. I half-expected the Far East job to be a test to show her that she was truly happy where she is now.

I think this is the first episode where I truly felt the chemistry between Whistler and Lucy, where Whistler is the straight-laced person who feels she needs to be more spontaneous and Lucy is the person to bring that out of her and Lucy wants a stable partner. I'm not sure if that is a solid foundation for a long-term relationship in real life, but it works in television. If people feel Sam Hanna is being underused, other people would feel he is taking over the show at the expense of the regular cast if he were being used more. Right now, they should be introducing the character in a way that doesn't confuse viewers who didn't watch the LA show.

I think the best SNL political humor is when they just have no respect for the person they are skewering and go balls-to-the-wall in mocking someone. The reporting is that Katie Britt is on Trump's shortlist for VP and I'm going to be happy if SNL gets a chance to run that impression into the ground.

I get the sense that Sam has a personal mission of his own.

If they were hell-bent on having a controversial comedian who's been accused of being a hack, they should have gotten Jo Koy.

They talked about Julie wanting a dog....

No, I thought he was staying with Tennant.

It's from the lyrics to Dancing Queen. The joke swap is right up my alley and my favorite was the Michael Jackson one.

Anyone else feel like Tendi has been given a secret mission among the Orions?