Starchild

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.

Same. And really, where else would a romance between Gabriel and Beelzebub have come from?

Agreed. A lot of fans think he might have been Raphael, whom we never hear about being around in Heaven.

Interesting points. Couple of questions: I had thought all demons were fallen angels. Were some demons created after the Fall? If Crowley might be Lucifer, then who came out of the ground in S1? Didn't they actually call him Lucifer (or Satan, same thing)?

Well yes, but Aziraphale could always change his mind. Or not cooperate once up there, he's already shown himself to be contrary so they can't just assume he'll go along with something he doesn't want to go along with just because. It just felt like more than the surface manipulation to me.

Did anyone else get the feeling that the Metatron has something up his sleeve? The looks he kept throwing Aziraphale seemed quite suspicious to me. I know there's something out there called the "coffee theory", which I presume is something about the Metatron doing something to the coffee so that when Aziraphale drank it (something the Metatron was very insistent on) he would become more malleable, more likely to take the new job. But honestly Aziraphale didn't seem to be acting any differently to me.

Apparently it was a full-fledged League of Gentlemen reunion, if not all in the same scenes. ETA: 3 acted in the same scenes, one was a writer.

I don't even remember seeing them get through the tent task. Did they show it? Or were they so good at it that it really did go that fast.

Ironic, but acceptable.

Well that was unexpected. I think Mami Watta was physically incapable of picking her jaw up off the floor after that elimination.

Love the Skye Boat Song! Have you heard Roger Whittaker's whistling version, where he adds in the sounds of seagulls? Brilliant.

I thought I heard dialogue in TOS that suggested Kirk learned from Spock. But I suppose it doesn't have to mean he learned from the beginning, only that Spock helped to sharpen Kirk's skills. One of my guilty pleasures is watching a reaction video on YouTube, where a young person who's never heard music from my generation listens to it for the first time. Their faces when they hear someone like Karen Carpenter for the first time is everything. And inevitably there's the comment about "no autotune back then."

It looks like Justin just shut down. I think Jermaine realized that no amount of trying to communicate was going to work, and that's why he said, let's just go. He's had a rough go of it for sure. That being said, I get bored when one team dominates.

As a fan of the queens, this was a disappointing episode. I feel for Jermaine discovering how little resilience his partner actually has. It was Justin who quit, both times. I could feel Jermaine's frustration and I'm impressed he didn't just start crying from it. Interesting that Justin didn't outright apologize for it all though, at least not on camera. I would be tripping over all the sorry's I was dropping. I hope they can redeem themselves. I don't think hate is warranted, since they haven't hurt anyone other than themselves, especially not for Jermaine. It's not like Justin's waffling ended up knocking out another team. They may have delayed some teams that could have been able to catch up to the frontrunners, but we don't know that for sure.

Ha, wouldn't it be funny (not) if they pulled a "Fear" and S2 starts with Negan already in charge of a new Sanctuary in NYC, with throwaway comments about how he took over and married the theatre boss and made the Croat his right hand man and Maggie is already in some jail cell and they don't bother to show how any of it happened with flashbacks.

The Queen of the Opera reminded me of the following, in no particular order: Patti LuPone Laurie Metcalf Frances Conroy Sarah Paulson In the most awesome ways, of course.

Yes. Roddenberry may have wanted to focus on the peaceful missions, and good on him for that, but there was no alternative force when things got hairy. We've never seen one fleet for exploration/science and one for war/defense. We've only ever seen a few ships that specialize in one (Reliant) or the other (Defiant). Starfleet is for both science/exploration and military/defense purposes, there's no two ways about it, really.

I never watch those. Why are they doing those now anyway? Why not just go straight into the next show like they used to? My guess? They tricked Maggie into bringing him, making her think they wanted to kill him, because she wouldn't do it if she knew the real reason: they always admired his leadership and want him to create a new Sanctuary to keep the outside world from interfering with them. They're going to try to talk him into doing it all over again, make him the King. Tempting after all the crow he's had to eat over the last few years, no? The Marshal is beginning to see shades of gray and may become his new Simon. And of course, he'll keep Hershel and try to mentor him as he once did Carl. Setting up the massive eventual showdown with Maggie. Many people have said they wanted a show that focused on the early years of Negan establishing the Sanctuary. Maybe that's what this is? Maggie was lying about the food being stolen. Ginny climbed the tower and found it full of grain. Then they showed the Croat handing Maggie the wanted poster, telling us that he intended for her to bring Negan to the island all along.

We've seen that, when necessary, these vessels of exploration become battleships. It would be a challenging transition if they didn't maintain the military org structure. I think it's true that there was more militarism in the later Treks, not so much during TOS and TAS, though it started creeping in during the TOS movies. By that measure I can see a show like SNW, in the same timeframe, being less militaristic as well. However, this crew is still a heck of lot less formal than (some of the same) crew that would man this ship just a few years later under Kirk.

I don't think it's disrespect in the "military" sense. I think it just feels like a much more casual environment. Earlier Trek had the characters interacting in a more structured, hierarchical organization, where superiors gave orders and were friendly, but not friends, with their subordinates. This Trek feels more like a civilian workplace with a horizontal org structure where the CEO (captain) is trying to be more socially/emotionally available to the employees (crew). Members of the military don't interact with each other like this. And yes you can argue Starfleet isn't exactly a military organization, but honestly, if they aren't the Federation's military defense force, then who is? They act to defend their citizens against all threats, so if they're not considered military, they are the Federation's police force, at the very least, and large police forces have a quasi-military, hierarchical structure. So, bottom line, the way they interact with each other gives me (and some others, it seems) a little cognitive dissonance. Jellico would hate it lol.

That points multiplier twist feels like it could produce a result that is less than fair.

I have to say, the bit where everyone talking at once gives the host a headache and she has to scream for silence? Yeah that bit is tired.

For a second I was thinking that his friend (already forgot his name) is actually a werewolf without realizing it, and that's what Guillermo is becoming. 3 weeks since the bite, maybe one more week until the full moon. But I don't see how his friend could be a werewolf instead of a vampire and not realize it by now.

This is where Ginny using her words would have come in handy. "Hey, guys?" Her silence feels more like teen stubbornness than emotional trauma. It's annoying. How brave would it have been if that kid really did turn out to be Hershel?

Oh well if they give two away, that's alright then.