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I was spoiled too today by Tiktok. Nothing TAR related has ever popped up on my feed and today some news tiktok popped up showing them celebrating. I'm always happy when a non-young male team wins because it can be rare but all the teams were pretty great. I did tear up pretty hard when Craig said he would always be there for her and for her family when-.

The montage was moving quick but I feel like the grandkids (who were the twins I think primarily?) were looking around 8-10 though I am bad at aging for kids. The one thing that is getting me is that the triplets never look like they are aging. They turned 40 last year... then 6ish years later (last season plus the 5 year time jump) Kate got married. So near the end there, they should be 50ish and look the exact same. I am bad at remembering but also, didn't Rebecca look 100 years old during the flashfoward but looked older, but fine during Miguel's funeral? But one of the twins was a teen, so she doesn't live for many more years beyond that I don't think. This show and it's timelines... My mom has Parkinson's and has had a rough few years with it with steep declines so the Rebecca storyline has always been really tough for me and this episode ... with Kevin helping dress her, and talking about nurse care, and the exercises. Was all a bit too real.

Kate is a miserable human being. Even on her wedding day "something will go wrong!" Like geez.

Honestly, seems exactly like the thing they would say under their breath to/around him over the next five years and it will cement into his memory. You think Kate isn't going to be resentful about this? Any time Jack points out the scar, oh well that was the day your dad left the gate open...

It really annoys me how much Randel and Kevin insert themselves into Kate and Toby's marriage. From the comments over Thanksgiving, to this fight. It's not like Toby has ever been physical, Kate doesn't need protecting against him. He must always feel ganged up on and it's not a good place to be in when you're trying to work something out. This show wants to paint it as a nice thing but it's so toxic to me. When I was a baby, I fell down the stairs in one of those rolly chairs because my dad left the gate open. My mom did blame my dad for it for awhile, but unlike these two, they are still married 30+ years later. Mistakes happen. Toby was being screamed at and he was rushing. These two need therapy. Also, this show and it's red herrings. Why the nonsense about the ~green egg when it had nothing to do with the scar?

I have a hard time watching Andrea and her lack of urgency and general stupidity. I get she seemingly was raised sheltered and has no idea about any danger but lord. She's talking to a bunch of people, taking her sweet time getting out of town, not attempting to hide her appearance.

I think it's "nicer" to say it's age vs immaturity. I am closer to his age, but work and am friends with people her age and they're both married and settled. There is a difference due to age - how we grew up, the things we grew up with, etc but in terms of lifestyle - no one is throwing ragers and breaking tables beyond college years.

"if you're mad I called you another woman's name and said I wished it was her, then that's a little weird." Go eff yourself bro. Showed all you need to know when it comes to how he deals with conflict. I always feel bad for the people who are on this show that just show up in the background. What's their story. Give me that tea.

Rewatched the series now and this has to be my least favourite so far. Watching the first 5, I am struck by how outdated it is - the name calling, the violence threats, the gross nicknames for teams. They were common in reality TV back then but I never really realize how it tapered off until now. This season was the epitome of it (so far) - it seemed like no couple actually liked each other. Calling Milly -mole and the constant barrage of insults. The "letting a gay guy beat you". The groping in India which the women just dealt with as their male partners laughed it off.

Now that the finale is aired I can definitely say, I really did not like what they did with the 20 years after plotline. Yes, the book was more straightforward with Tyler=evil and to me, that is fine. The virus was no longer the enemy, but there was still terror. Things don't have to be so convoluted. In the show, they still made him evil but tried to make him sympathetic and gave him a happy ending? Wandering off with all his stolen children, at least the ones who survived because the others he blew up with land mines? They gave Miranda a hero's ending with calling the plane but I still wish we got the shot of her sitting on the beach, looking out to the ships. It was a scene that was so vivid in my head after I finished the book.

It was 9 months after the virus hit. The doctor had asked Jeeven when he woke up "what/who were you doing 280 days ago". It was also a few days before the winter equinox, which is December 21st (which doesn't totally make sense in the timeline, because I thought the virus hit right before Christmas). But the show is really messing with things like that, so I'll ignore that. That is why she told the story of the blackout in NYC where there was a baby boom, because when the world crumbled, people slept together, and boom. Babies.

I find the changes they are making from the book are very...stereotypical of a show such as this, and it's disappointing. I am bad at remembering the book too but a few scenes stay with me - Miranda sitting on the beach, looking at the container ships offshore, slowly dying, and the prospect of making the choice to leave your disabled friend behind in order to survive. Instead, they make him a heroin addict with a bum hip who gets stabbed and dies... they made the show way more violent than I remember the book being (at least in the 'beginning' times). Prophet isn't creepy enough in the book? Make his followers children. Because children are creepy. And yes Haleth, in the book I feel like the Museum was just a spot for the symphony to meet up after getting separated. Instead, they made they choices of the group strange as to why they would go there. Like, why is Kristen bothering with the Prophet? Why did they suddenly decide to follow Keith Mars after all this time of his weird harassment? There are bits of the show I love but other parts just aren't making sense and it's frustrating because they want to add more mystery than there has to be.

When she slipped and fell, she dropped the boat keys off the dock into the water. I think the taping (which Jeevan and his brother also did in the first episode) was to block the air circulation since presumably the virus was airborne. And I agree - spaceman was a hallucination. He was also in the background when she was on the bus the first time.

I can't remember exactly what the line was but something in the first episode made me think that they are going to have him have trained but maybe dropped out? Perhaps another reason to move the panic attacks up - maybe the storyline will be that he was in training but started to have panic attacks and had to quit. Then again - still weird that he got up on stage and did absolutely nothing. Figured he'd at least try CPR or something. Having Jeevan and Kristen together is a weird change but I do get it from a story perspective. I did think it was weird in the book how he had just disappeared for most of it and given how these characters are all interconnected along the way, it makes sense for them to make that connection a bit stronger

It's always infuriating when they change a storyline to fit an American audience, especially when the story takes place in the Great Lakes so they'd end up in America eventually anyway. I did read that they started off filming in Chicago but due to COVID, moved to Canada/GTA area.