CatWarmer

Am I the only one who yelled “Mother of Dragons” when the ?dinosaurs started emerging from the monolith? I wish this show inspired me to read the books (as The Expanse and Shadow and Bone did), but like Wheel of Time, sounds like too intensive of detail for me.

For a moment I thought that was Rand on the beach at the end and he was about to discover the Statue of Liberty. But other than that, I'm relatively lost. Better than Foundation for sure, but much prefer Witcher. And Expanse.

It goes back to a Greek fable where there's a dog in a manger (barn) who doesn't want to eat the grain but won't let the horse have it. It now refers to anyone who prevents others from having something for which they have no use - mainly out of ill will.

Riveting episode! I think my favorite moment was in the car with the three driving to do - what? They were just planning on confronting Logan with no real plan. But clearly Kendall - who had been broken and literally down in the dirt - had been thinking like a businessman and not as a child. Out of nowhere, he lifted his head and said there was a way to stop the sale. He had thought there was no hope, and now he saw hope, and it revived him. It was a Kendall we hadn't seen in a very long time - the focused and aware operator. It was a subtle but powerful change. I know nothing of the legalities, but did it really matter when Logan cut the deal with Caroline? If (presumably) Tom hadn't alerted him, couldn't he have done it after they showed up? And it's most likely someone (probably Gerri) would have foreseen the possibility anyway. And of course as others have pointed out, it might not be legal. That wouldn't stop Logan, and Caroline wouldn't have a clue. I also like Mattson name dropping Zuckerberg. Like Mark said, you know Mark, right?

Just found time to watch this episode last night and am amused by the fashion discussion. The outfit that made me laugh the most was Greg’s short sleeve polo shirt. It’s exactly the look my clueless adult son would think was appropriate.

Shota did cut himself badly and called for a medic. He continued to work with one hand while his other hand was being bandaged behind his back. It was impressive cooking; I think he had only five minutes to go at that point.

Same Astor - John Jacob got around.

I don’t eat seafood so can’t comment on the dishes but I was VERY excited to see Cannon Beach. I just watched the episode after getting back last night from a five day road trip all the way up I5 from San Diego to Seattle and back again. I drove up with my son, and we detoured to Cannon Beach to wishfully see sunset at Haystack Rock. It was misty and foggy, but way better than the weather during the taping! We had dinner in Cannon Beach but not at that resort or restaurant. Then we stayed the night in Astoria but didn’t go to the co op LOL. It was so exciting to see the locations we had just been to. Then I drove back south with my husband, and we stopped for lunch on Thursday at Willamette Valley Vineyards, where we had a lovely meal on the lawn overlooking the vineyard. And now I know how to pronounce Willamette - if it really is correct to put the accent on the second syllable.

While reading this discussion, I was thinking of Julia Child in The French Chef cooking on an electric stove top and not complaining (well, hardly ever). I read up a little on why she did so and learned that (1) it would have been too difficult to get gas lines into the TV studio and (2) she was cooking for the home chef and they primarily had electric stoves in homes at that time. So if Julia could comfortably cook great food on electric burners while simultaneously explaining to viewers how to do what she was doing, it should have been no big deal for the cheftestants.

I don’t usually watch LCK but did watch this one (on the Bravo website). I wanted to give Richard Blais a shout out. I gather it was his first time there? He seemed polite and helpful and concerned for the chefs.

Last week I walked away saying “I have no idea what’s going on.” Tonight I walked away saying “Consciousness time traveling from a dystopian future with crazy armies fighting each other and potentially helpful yet mysterious aliens and portals and misbehaving spores...” Still no idea what’s going on but at least I have a framework for it! And that’s without being able to understand half of what was being said in the first chapter. I did enjoy how Stripe (the stripe?) wakes up in the asylum and is so fed up and annoyed and tired of trying then just takes over completely.

We make a homemade Mac & Cheese with Campbell's Tomato Bisque soup (thinned with milk) layered with the macaroni and cheeses. But of course that wouldn't be possible in half an hour.

We likely did; shopped there often - it was a small town! Son graduated HC in 2006. We moved away in 2015.

Yes, and I think Blais just meant literally the food looked too white, not White, and not that it didn't represent Black cuisine. He hadn't tasted it yet, and probably realized how others at the table were eyeing it. It was somewhat of a play on words, although apparently up for misinterpretation.

I do admit I've liked most of the Joss Whedon shows so this also appealed. It was intriguing although hard to understand what people were saying. That made it a little harder to work out the characters. Loved the opera dresses! Maladie seemed to be channeling Bellatrix Lestrange! It felt good to be sitting down in front of HBO on a Sunday night. Hopefully future episodes will match the first.

The first time we went to Juniper & Ivy, we had recently moved to San Diego and it was my birthday. I mentioned that to the waitress and that I enjoyed Top Chef. A little while later, Richard Blaise came to our table, wished me happy birthday, and sat next to me for a picture. He was very polite so I’ve felt favorable ever since. I don’t think his hair is any more attention grabbing than Padma’s low cut dresses! Maybe they filmed when the barber shops were closed and he was just trying to deal with long hair LOL. We moved from Chicago with all its great restaurants, so it’s been fun seeing San Diego cuisine grow in even the last few years. Sara the winner actually grew up in the area, although she didn’t start cooking until after she left.

Nowhere else to say this (husband would have no idea what I was talking about) but that habit of Diana ducking her head and shyly looking up through her eyelashes has been driving me crazy for three episodes. I knew that gesture so well but from where? Finally got it tonight - Renee Zelleweger as Roxie Hart when being interviewed by the press or on the witness stand. Exactly the same. Been binging this since signing up for Netflix a couple of weeks ago (after binging Bridgerton, or course).

You can afford to go anywhere when you have psychic paper! Boarding pass, paid reservations, Interpol officer credentials, "give the bearer all necessary assistance", whatever you need it to say.

We lived in Hinsdale for 27 years. But now we've been in San Diego for five years.

I have indeed seen Contagion (for the first time a couple of years ago) and have thought of it from the start this year. What’s surreal is that some scenes were filmed in the little town next to where we used to live, along with other parts of Chicago. So there was Matt Damon walking down the same street I’ve walked down. After seeing the movie, I remembered the articles in the local paper about the filming.

First I binged watched 12 Monkeys, then I binge watched Counterpart. and then I decided the current pandemic could be worse, actually. Loved both series, but liked the finale of 12 Monkeys better. Great arc of the entire four seasons. Counterpart's last couple of episodes had a lot of illogical steps, as noted above. I did enjoy coming here to hear everyone's thoughts from last year. Now that I've watched the time travel dystopian pandemic, and the alternate worlds pandemic, what next?

They did kick it up several notches, a nice change from mainly running around underground corridors. My favorite part was the ship being brought onboard by tractor beams. First I’m thinking, ok, Star Wars, are they going to hide under the floorboards. Then I realized the ship was being docked by a series of relay tractor beams. Just a little detail, but a cool one. This show was my last regular broadcast tv watching - from now on, any series I watch are all streaming. No more “must see tv”. So extra sadness for me.

Between time travel, alternate timelines, virtual alternate realities, multiverses, etc., at some point you just have to give up and go along for the ride without trying to make logic of it. I was just watching something (maybe 12 Monkeys) where characters have to reconcile their remembered timeline with a new timeline that they created - they have both memories, but eventually the old one fades away after much mental trauma. I don’t much care for Nathaniel and Kora and hope they become secondary quickly in the finale. I do believe Fitz is alive somewhere and somewhen, and that he put in the failsafe for good reason - it wasn’t enough for Jemma to know she couldn’t remember where Fitz is. So whatever he is doing is so vital that she had to forget him entirely to protect him. Sybil did say all timelines where they fail is due to his existence. Ergo, he still exists. i loved it when Coulsen realizes, hey, I speak Computer! Because he lived in Computerland.

I live on the west coast with the delayed broadcast so sometimes peek at the boards while the show is on to spoil myself if I get worried about a chef. I did that this week and was so happy and relieved to see that Kevin was going. I was then able to really enjoy the show and think nyah nyah Kevin on his attitude. Won’t need to do that next week since I’ll be happy with any winner.

And Malarkey seemed to be writing on a notebook on his lap.