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I was referring as to why the former starting quarterback didn't finger Candace as his source. Clearly he had revealed that he had been using it, thus the search of the school w/ the... XK sniffing dogs. And I'm not sure how Jon dealing it would be a tipping point, the participation of an ineligible player(one using PED's) would be the rationale for forfeiting games. As soon as the original starter's use is discovered, those games are essentially forfeit, it's just a matter of doing the paperwork and making it official. I don't know if Jon had even played in a game up until the point he took over the starting job. I don't see how if would be any different if the quarterback had just been getting his XK directly from Candace's supplier.

How did it hurt the football team? The whole XK thing was exposed because the original quarterback (who looked more like a left guard and didn't throw the ball very well, but was starting because... he could bench 300lbs?🙄) got sick, he was using before Jon even knew about it, that revelation would have what got the games won forfeited and season cancelled, not the fact that Jon was covering for Candace. I'm kinda perplexed as to why he didn't reveal where he was getting it himself, I don't know why he would have proteced Candace, they really should have offered an explanation for that. A lot of hate for Canace on this forum, and her being a "drug dealer". But it sound like her family was pretty desperate, and once she was in her supplier wasn't about letting her out. I'm not sure it's even established that XK is a controlled substance. If it is, John Henry and Nat were doing some serious law breaking when they went to go grab some of their own. You can hem and haw over "but they are using if for good purposes", but to a kid who is forced to worry about her family losing their home or putting food on the table, those might be pretty good purposes on their mind. For that matter, is it even on a banned substance list of PED's for sports organizations? Because trying to retroactively penalize a player or team for using something that wasn't actually explicitly banned for them to be using is not going go fly if that player or team has any desire of challenging decision.

1. Damn, not much in the way of comfort from Lois when her son gets dumped by his first girlfriend, that he thinks he's in love with. She is a hard ass. 2. Sara's family continues to have a really inflated opinion of her and what she deserves. Which I get, you always want your kid go know you're on their side, but considering how the Kent/Lang family are supposed to be pretty friendly with each other, Sara's parents don't seem especially supportive of her relationship w/ Jordan. I hear a lot more of "he doesn't deserve you for x reason" talk than "he's a good kid, be patient and maybe you can work things out".

Also, Clark has no business trying to guilt Jon for the football season being cancelled. Let's remember how the X-K was discovered in the first place- the "starting" quarterback was getting sick from his use, that revealed X-K use on the Smallville team, and his participation in all those prior games would have led to the forfeits. Its the whole reason they came to the school looking for it(rolling my eyes at the X-K sniffing dogs and having the... county sheriff? doing a search for space rocks that turn people into superhumans instead of a federal agency). I can see some town people blaming Jon if the believe he was dealing it, but Clark knows that is not case. For that matter, why is the other quarterback not revealing his source? The sheriff didn't go directly to Candace, so he didn't name her. I bet a visit from, idk, Super-fucking-man asking him to do the right thing might convince him that he should come clean.

I think my bigger nitpick is that, Jordan having displayed a notable level of power previously, neither Sam nor Jordan seems to be all that curious about or shocked by the fact that Jon kinda just kicked Jordan's ass. Boy, that's hard to explain.

Honestly, I just don't get why anyone is following Brida. I don't buy her as a strong warrior or military leader, she's not portrayed as particularly charismatic or cunning. Why is anyone following her orders?

Ok, I thought I noticed something in episode 6, wondering if anyone else did, or if I'm even correct

So, I had noticed before on previous watches that the bus driver's neighbor/lover was played by Kristin Dattilo, who played the estranged wife(Harry) of Charisma Carpenter's co-star/love interest Doyle on Angel. But this is the first time it struck me that the bus driver's name was Ed... DOYLE. That can't have been a coincidence😮🤔😁

God damn, I love Veronica, but this episode really hammers bike that she is an awful friend. The SPRING dance is going on during this episode, and she asks Wallace "you're on the basketball team, aren't you?". The season has been going in since probably November, and she's not even sure if he's been in the team, much less gone to a game to support him(realistically, the season should be over by the time of a spring dance)? I've always gotten a kick out of the next episode and how Veronica gets to see the view of Wallace from kids at another school when she goes undercover and realises he's kind of a rock star, but on this rewatch I just really notice the timeline more and how late in the season this is taking place. Now I really wish they had been able to drop this and the following episode into the season earlier, like around Christmas or right before, then it kind of becomes cute that Veronica doesn't know that what she views as her dorky best friend is really a basketball star, and it would make sense that she hadn't been to any games, with her not exactly being someone who's had a great experience at Neptune and feels the need to show a bunch of school spirit or is interested in sports. But for the entire season to go by with her seemingly not even knowing Wallace is playing, or if she thinks he might be not going to a game, really sucks on her part.

Can this show please just stop with any high school football related story lines? They do them so badly, I can't imagine any of the series writers ever played a high school sport.(To be fair, few television shows portray high school sports w/ any accuracy).

I don't see how "food supply" would have anything tho do w/ it, according to Gau dragons roamed the land ages ago and these bones are fossilized, they are clearly there long before New York City was even a glimmer of an idea, probably thousands of years. We don't even know if these dragons ate people, for that matter. I took it as the dragons lived and subsequently died in different places all over the world(I didn't get the impression the bones were transported there), and sometimes cities would happen to rise over or near their remains, close enough to be destroyed by their excavation(Chernobyl, Pompeii). There may just as well have been some sites where the Hand found deposits over the years that were less populated and whatever destruction the excavation caused was less extensive or well known. That said, there is just a lot that doesn't make sense about the plot. Why elders of Kun Lun decided to create some kind if barrier around this set of bones but apparently not around any others in the millennia since the Hand has been seeking them out gets no explanation. The best head cannon I can come up with is, that having seen the devastation the removing these bones can cause and seeing the growth of one if the worlds largest cities directly in top of some, they took steps to protect they city from the Hands eventual pursuit of them sometime in the last few hundred years or so. That doesn't explain why they wouldn't have done the same for Chernobyl, considering that was fairly recent. Enjoyable series, but has its share of flaws and inconsistencies. Every time they mention using the last of "the substance" (ugh, they couldn't give a name after thousands if years? They could have given it something, maybe in another language, that would have still concealed its true nature for the same effect) on Electra, I I cringe, because clearly Bakuto died LONG(Claire's ongoing story through Daredevil, Luke Cage, and finally Iron Fist gives us a timeline to measure of sorts) after Electra was killed and her body placed in the blood-filled resurrection chamber, I can only assume there was some left for him.

Anybody else ever wonder how awful the All Valley Tournament has been over the three decades between the movies and the show? None of the other dojos can manage to get anyone past the quarter finals against these 3 dojos full of students who have been training for just over a year at the most, many significant less. I know the whole mythology is built on the bullied outsider/underdog defying the odds, and I could accept Daniel, Miguel, and Robbie as exceptional students who went through intensive, one-on-one training(or close to it) with true karate masters. But when it gets to the point of Kenny making the semifinals, A 100 lb 13 or 14 year old kid w/ like a month of training against nearly full grown 18 yr olds who I'd imagine have years of experience, it's really starting to cheapen the the victory for whoever wins, imo. It just no longer appears to be a very competitive tournament. It would probably work better for me if the tournament had age brackets and maybe a novice division(something such a tournament would certainly have, in addition to having a girls division long before now), that way you you could still have these characters winning matches and scoring points for their teams without diminishing the accomplishments of any of the older, more experienced victors.

I have no idea. He just assaulted his sister's defenseless neighbor. The only thing that made his presence remotely tolerable was seeing him get run out of the dojo or beat down. The only times I have ever been on the side of Kreese or Silver. He's a creepy weirdo. I just want him to go away forever.

Everything involving Stingray is pretty cringe. Let's not forget he was just on probation, and if there is not a warrant it for his arrest I will just be pissed. There is no way his sister's neighbor didn't file assault charges against him. That whole scene just made all the high school kids look like assholes, too. Cheering for this old weirdo while he assaulted someone who can't defend themself. Yeah, I get the guy was going go shut down their party, but these kids are way to desensitized to violence, even the ones that have nothing go do with Karate.

I may have laughed out loud at the idea that anyone believes Kingpin is actually dead. Even w/o any knowledge of the comics or the characters or relevant storylines, it is just basic television storytelling. No actual visual confirmation, no body... almost certainly no death.

Tom Welling returns to Michael's podcast. Couple of interesting things to note. 1. They talk briefly about the animated Smallville project they are developing and will be pitching next month. But a bit later Tom mentions that they have 2 projects that they are working on together. They never discuss the second one. 2. At the end if the interview, Michael asks Tom if he would be interested in playing Superman now (a live action version, one would assume, since we know they are already developing the animated version). Tom actually seems like he would very much be interested in playing that role now. Could these two be trying to generate some interest in a live action Smallville revival project?

But i think the key is that she IS a decent person, probably the most decent if all the mages we've met, and she absolutely would tell Geralt that Yen was alive if she knew that he had been looking for her. I highly doubt that she would have even propositioned him if she knew that he was mourning the death if someone he loved just weeks earlier, whether if had been Yenn or anyone else. I can't find any reason to doubt that she would have told him.

I'd be fine w/ it if they didn't keep moving them close to it and them steering away. Triss starts listing off the names of dead mages an Geralt stops her before she is done and he can learn Yennefer is not among them.🙄 Geralt talks about being at the aftermath of Sodden and is clearly affected by it on a personal level, but Triss doesn't seem curious why.🙄 Triss puts the moves on Geralt and he rejects her, she's hurt by it, but he doesn't explain that he just lost someone he loves days earlier.🙄 It's already a little silly that be wouldn't ask about Yenn, he knows Triss would be aware of her fate even if he doesn't know that they were actually friends, and his assumption that she is dead was based on the fact that he couldn't find her in a mass of like 30,000 bodies from the numbers we heard. How long did he look? But I can accept that. But then putting them into situations where if they just asked that one more question or said one more thing... that is just a it much for me.

Omg, did Christmas just come early!? I'm 5 minutes into the episode and please tell me they just showed us Wilson Fisk!!!! 😃😃😃

Also, exactly how old is that pizza? Kate has been at school. Kate got into town, told her mom she was going to make a quick stop by her apartment and then come over. That led straight into the party and the rest if the nights events. Did Kate, during her quick stop, order a large pizza and eat all if it except for one slice? Possible, but when she is looking for something to feed the dog, I get the distinct vibe of "I wonder what I have in here, oh, just this old slice if pizza", which I would assume she would know already if she had just ordered and ate it and then put the leftovers in an otherwise completely empty fridge.

Just looking at this title makes me all kinds of sentimental. Not because of anything to really do w/ the show, but because I used to have a Corgi mix named Calisto❤

Which does beg the question, why does she need to tell her mom she needs a bow at the funeral? I would assume if she were that involved with and accomplished at archery, she would already own one.🤔

Not sure how I feel about Julia's heel turn. I had been kinda suspecting it coming for a few episodes, but her stated motives for turning on Spike were nonsense. 1. She was offended by the notion of Spike believing Vicious's words about her choosing Vicious. Seriously? You were willingly involved with Vicious for quite a while it seems, and appeared completely happy with the relationship. I don't think it was portrayed and being any kind if secret what Vicious did for The Syndicate. Now, just because you happen to see one instance of his violence in person, everyone should assume that there is no way you would willingly choose to be with him? 2. She's angry Spike didn't come back for her? Wtf? Ignoring the fact that it is completely plausible that she chose to be w/ Vicious, as stated above, Spike and her were romantically involved for... one day. Literally, one day. So she's mad that a guy she hooked up w/ once didn't mount a suicide mission go rescue her from a relationship that he had every reason to give she was happily in? Anna even told Spike that Julia was happy when he asked about her.

When Sarah is describing EPP, the disease that makes people extremely photosensitive and iron deficient, she suggests it is responsible for myths, which I take as a clear allusion to vampire lore. I don't make much of the fact they they can go into church or homes uninvited, or aren't burned by crosses, etc. Plenty of vampire fiction picks and chooses what attributes to portray as "true" and "myth" when it comes to vampires within a specific universe. We've seen plenty where they aren't burned by sunlight(Dracula, Twilight), even though that is one of the most commonly found attributes. I feel like the writers choice to avoid using the word vampire was purely stylistic, even though at some point it becomes just too odd that no one just blurts out ,"jfc, its a vampire! "