Starchild

In an earlier post I mentioned there was no decent (read: "good guy") characters left, but I stand corrected. So far, Chuck's lawyer friend (Eli? don't recall his name) still seems like an honourable guy.

Yeah these writers are one step away from writing in Tamarian. The only saving grace is that they still use complete sentences.

No offense to anyone, but I wish people would stop chiming in with Doylist explanations when a show has contradictions. We all know the limitations of television. Doylist explanations are no fun, they're pretty much always the same 2 or 3 things (money, time, resources), and they kill a spirited discussion. Watsonian stuff is a lot more interesting to debate about. :) ETA: Doylist explanations should not be brought in unless someone asks, or their Watsonian arguments demonstrate true cluelessness lol

I don't hate her, but the gimmick of making her a descendant of Khan, which has gone nowhere and led to nothing other than disturbing (though not destroying) canon, annoys me. So far it's been a pointless attribute for the character, seemingly done for no other reason than for its own sake. So I guess La'an bears the brunt of my annoyance with TPTB lol.

She's not important to me lol.

Of the queens left, I liked Cookie the least. And of the returning queens, I liked Piche the most. So this was an ideal outcome for me. I like all the queens in the semifinals. I think Sara might be my favourite though. Looks like makeovers next week? OT, anyone know when/if they'll be showing Down Under S3 on Crave? It's kicked off but it hasn't shown up on that channel yet. I had thought we'd be watching the two international franchises at the same time.

Well, if you think about it, Pike's CMO and helmsman have both been taken by the Gorn. So perhaps McCoy and Sulu are temporary transfers to cover those positions. Ortegas dies during the rescue efforts, M'Benga takes a leave of absence to recover, and Bob's your uncle, transfers are permanent. Then we'll have the whole TOS S1 crew in place, just waiting for Kirk to take over. Already. That's a stretch, especially since no one reacted to the species name with any degree of recognition. I haven't seen Arena in a while, so I can't recall if the nuances of acting and dialogue can be interpreted as not "ew what is that" but instead as "ew I thought we were rid of them". It's the only way I can accept that, in Arena, everyone wasn't seeing a Gorn for the first time. Unless SF got everyone to sign gd NDAs again! I mean, who says you have to have seen one for yourself? Wouldn't descriptions/pictures of a species you're almost at war with go out to every ship in the fleet? By this point, never mind that the Enterprise crew should recognize the Gorn, everyone in the Federation should. Lately I've been categorizing the TV series like this in my head: TOS,TAS = classic Trek TNG,DS9,VOY,ENT = revival Trek DSC,PIC,LOW,PRD,SNW = modern Trek If it's true that they'll eventually stop doing new series for a while, then when they come back around again, I'll probably call it post-modern Trek (if I'm still around).

So gross that foot lol She's OK but I wouldn't miss her.

Enough to draw everyone's attention away from poor Guillermo suffering on the floor. But with these guys it wouldn't take much lol

I stopped watching 1 (or 2?) seasons ago because Corey Stoll is one of those actors who, through no fault of their own (just one of those things), I have to grit my teeth to watch, and only if there's some other aspect of the thing I'm watching that I like enough to counter his presence. I'm a big vampire fan so I was able to tolerate him during The Strain (first time I encountered him in big doses). Maggie Siff has the same effect on me. I'm an "eat the rich" type, so after Bobby (entertaining to watch) left, then Taylor (interesting to watch) and Mafee (who seemed to still retain some decency) became as loathsome as everyone else, I was out. I have to watch a few YouTube recap videos ahead of Bobby's return on Sunday to get caught up on the main events I missed. Hopefully everyone will get what they deserve when this series wraps up.

They'll have to retrofit the ship to split all those huge cabins in half. If fairness to Christine, Spock has been in the thick of trying to resolve this issue with the anomaly. I know that if I had an SO who was in the middle of dealing with something that is, or could imminently become, an emergency, I'm not going to distract them with personal news that is not an emergency. I'm going to wait until that's over with.

Maybe because of their unique situation, having lived on Earth continuously almost from its beginning, A & C can also draw booster power from Earth when they combine their efforts. But don't realize it yet. Could this have been their first ever combined miracle? Even so, Aziraphale probably wouldn't know anyway, probably not following Elon's foolishness.

I do appreciate this show's willingness to experiment, but except for Chapel's 60s lounge throwback (catchy!) and the Klingon boy band (hilarious!), I found the songs boring as hell. And this is coming from the world's only living Cop Rock fan.

Well that was sad and disappointing. But I get it, especially if her mom is sick. My dad died with dementia (though, of COVID) and he was essentially not conscious for those last few days I sat with him, even though his eyes were open (in fact he didn't/couldn't close them the whole time). I loved all 3 of her runways, she looked like a completely different person in each of them. Bilal was cool.

That would be a consolation prize, certainly, but I would still feel a little robbed if I didn't see a joyful loving reunion acted out by Michael and David.

I'm not quite sure why there has to be a fight over the methane. Just give others the process to power their communities. You don't lose anything, and you make it less likely they'll cause you harm by coming to take it by force. I can just imagine the New Babylon boss building this huge war machine, rolling up to Manhattan saying "give us the methane" and getting step-by-step instructions in return. "Oh...thanks. Bye, then." Honestly, a concrete island is a terrible place to try to build a self-sustaining community. How much food can you grow? You'd have to turn every rooftop into a garden, and maintain the buildings so they don't fall down (although they should probably be doing that anyway, for the buildings around their living areas; who wants a skyscraper falling on their brownstone in the middle of the night?) As for the methane, if it requires dead bodies then, depending on the efficiency of the process, you have a finite resource on an island. You may be fine for a few more years, but once they're used up, where will you get more? Enough to power a community, anyway. You can depend on your own folks dying, but unless they have refined the process so that one body can fuel a good-sized community for months, they're going to have to start cannibalizing themselves, or go out hunting for strangers. Yeah, Negan should lead these guys back to the mainland.

I do believe that Metatron did want to separate them. We've glossed over the tremendous power in their combined miracle to hide Gabriel, that was so strong even though they both put as little into it as they could. But I don't think it escaped Metatron's notice once it was revealed. I think that's what really brought him into this. If they remained working together, what could they do with their combined power if they really wanted to? They might be able to derail any and all of Heaven's future plans. He can't have that. As for Aziraphale's face in the elevator, to me it didn't look like real happiness, it looked forced and desperate.

True dat

It's a popular theory that fallen angels are not allowed to continue using their old names. Perhaps Aziraphale was asking what his new name is? As for Crowley's reaction to the offer of becoming an angel again, I think he made it pretty clear that he thinks Heaven is supremely hypocritical, just as bad as Hell, and he never wants to be associated with either of them again. Further to that, I think he's explicitly stated that multiple times over the years, and he thought Aziraphale was finally understanding that, and he's disappointed that it seems Aziraphale doesn't really get it after all. Hence his statement that he thinks he understands better than Aziraphale does (including that the angel is being manipulated). But I think Aziraphale understands to a point. There's a thing his face does after he forgives Crowley that suggests to me that he knew that was a step too far, but too late to take it back.

I feel like it would have worked a little better if we still had the same actor from last season playing Beelzebub. This one was just OK, a little flat, didn't have the same edge that would have been a sharper contrast to Gabriel's relentless positivity.

I wonder if we'd see Boyce first. I know that technically he should have already been onboard, since he was CMO during the events of The Cage, and apparently that's already happened here, but we've seen this show play fast and loose with canon details before.

I think someone like Mariner, who simply isn't capable of existing within the command structure, just doesn't belong in Starfleet. I think even she has admitted that once or twice. I can't imagine why she stays, except for maybe both her supremely indulgent parents are SF officers and that's where her confidence (arrogance?) comes from, and she would feel inadequate away from it and them.

Right up to the last second before the kiss, he was so unsure of the nature of his relationship with Crowley, and didn't really believe 100% that Crowley could actually love him when no one else did. I've read comments that talk about how much unresolved trauma Aziraphale is dealing with due to an eternity of emotional neglect/abuse from Heaven. It lowers his self-esteem, fuels his insecurity, ramps up his need for their approval, and informs his lack of courage to make a clean break from them. When you think of it from that perspective, how could he be expected to do anything else?

One might wonder why he followed through when that redemption was rejected, but I think there were a few things that influenced it: Humiliation - since being an angel (aligned with Heaven or not) is something that Aziraphale values so highly, Crowley's rejection of angel status, especially when offered by Aziraphale himself, may feel a little like rejection of Aziraphale. Shock - that kiss really threw him. Between the offer of Heavenly validation and the offer of overt love from Crowley, his head was spinning right off his shoulders Embarrassment - he didn't want to show vulnerability, especially in front of the Metatron Politeness - he had told the Metatron he'd come back and run things, and it's such an integral part of his personality to keep his promises Man, the acting Sheen did with his face through that scene was masterful. Right after the kiss he's so off-center he's in shock, he's crying, his world is upside down. And that final shift in his face before he offers forgiveness: Hesitation - he wants this but he's still afraid. It's still so hard to shake off the fear of offending Heaven that he's lived with literally all his life. Anger - why has Crowley chosen this exact moment to openly declare his love? Why did he wait until now, when things with Heaven are about to change for the better? Why couldn't he have done it before things got crazy again, or after they calmed down? Resolve - it just can't happen now. It was wrong of Crowley to choose this moment. And that's what comes out. And Aziraphale's face in the elevator. Trying and failing and trying again to convince himself he's made the right decision. Or that, if it's the wrong decision, it can still be salvaged at some point in the future. Poor boys.

OK I've been giving this some thought (obsessed? i don't know what you mean) and I think I have an idea. As we all know the Metatron easily manipulated Aziraphale because he knew precisely how Aziraphale would respond. He also knew exactly how Crowley would respond to the offer of rising back to angel status. And despite their cooperation to avert Armageddon, the Metatron correctly predicted that Aziraphale was still just enough in that "good angel", self-denying mindset that would make him willing to choose Heaven over Crowley. It's a near thing, though, because he knows the strength of the relationship between them, and what they can accomplish together. So, what I think is, the offer to Aziraphale is not about bringing him back to Heaven and putting him in charge. It's about separating him from Crowley, so that they don't, once again, ruin whatever new plan they have. I think that's why Derek Jacobi plays it with such slyness. When we, the audience, observe the Metatron as he interacts with Aziraphale, we can see this is not a straight offer, there's subtext there. He's very satisfied at the results of his negotiation, and I think that derives not strictly from Aziraphale's return to Heaven, but from separation of Aziraphale and Crowley. My 2 cents.