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how did bottle caps become currency? its an interesting form.

i got the impression that the Moldaver worshippers are former Shady Springs residents; the mutated residents are the former 'test subjects' that were used by the scientists that were the primary inhabitants of V4. I didn't recall seeing any mutated residents part of the worshipers. the original scientists appear to have been attacked/killed by a mutated test subject. the surviving former test subjects, plus the Shady Springs survivors, are trying to help remaining pregnant test subjects.

i got the impression that Partner was Second Desk and Cartwright Sr was First Desk (which is why River wasn't drummed out altogether). yeah, the agents are in Slough House for reasons, they make stupid mistakes. its why they are usually given real grunt paperwork to do. though river really didn't make a mistake landing him in slough house, that was lady di's machinations. but river definitely proved he's in the right place this season. very enjoyable show. i love how Gary Oldman is just absorbed into the role. i'm guessing that Chernitsky realized that River put his cellphone in Chernitsky's jacket pocket and that's why he drove to London and then ditched the car and jacket. Shirley did a decent fighting job, but didn't finish. i guess we have to have Webb around as a foil. mores the pity.

almost surprised Pashkin held out on shooting Spider as long as he did. sheesh what an annoying idiot. can't believe Louisa didn't check the car boot. i guess that's why she's still in Slough House. Did we ever hear what got her assigned there?

the only problem with calling it Filly is that i keep thinking Philly, which is on the other side of the country.

Wanted to add, both Bill and Jillian correctly point out that the food industry is also to blame because it intentionally makes bad processed food more addictive. yet hardly anyone blames the food industry directly. most people blame the people who can't stop eating the food. as a comparison, people blame smokers too . but when they seek help, pretty much everyone is fine with their using nicotine patches and other outside ways to help. hardly anyone says, "oh just use your will power" anymore, they realize it is a physical addiction that most people can't just go "cold turkey." and at least the tobacco companies were finally held to some accountability, with high taxes on tobacco products and funds used towards treatment and addiction. perhaps something similar should be imposed against food companies on foods with high fat and/or sugar content.

she is trying to sell books, fitness app subscriptions, DVDs, etc.

Quite myopic of River to not think the wife Alex was a cicada. Why else would she suddenly show up at the flight club? im curious why Nevsky was killed now. Why the charade about the meeting?

Just finished S1. Good story , I liked finding out why River was at Slough House, because of the photo he just happened to take due to his own initiative and Diana got Spider to fuck him up. But now I wonder why Charles was killed by Lamb. Diana kept saying that they looked at Standish for treason but couldn’t find anything. We’re Lamb and Cartwright grandfather traitors? Or was Charles? I hope we get the answer to that question. I may have to add the book series to my queue

Just about every medication has some side effects and lots of people take medication for a lifetime. The issue is whether you are affected by the side effects and if so what can you live with for the benefits? Not everyone needs Ozempic but for some, losing weight is better for their health than not.

guess i was wrong about Lucy actually experiencing the sun. the show sure made it look exactly like the vault's corn field. how did Moldaver survive 300 years? she obviously wasn't a ghoul since she died (from something other than a head shot - which appears to be the way you kill them). apparently ghouls can heal their injuries, at least to a point - i actually hope that gets explained more - why did thaddeus heal fully when given the elixer, but Cooper clearly has some injuries and poor Rose was virtually a skeleton? For as long as it has been since the vaults were created, not too many 31ers were brought back to oversee 32 and 33, and 33 had 3 current 31ers before Moldaver's raid. were the vault dwellers living longer? and it seemed like even before the raid, 33's numbers were quite diminished (same with 32) that they must have had issues with interbreeding. so why didn't cooper go into whatever vault Beth and his daughter were taken to? and are they in cold storage chambers too? or will he only find descendants?

Clearly Norm finally found his calling as a detective. was NCR around during the video games? Who bombed it? The mechs or someone else? Lucy was a vault baby. The scene with her mother was clearly in their underground corn field.

Loved the Louisiana ginger root, lol

that certainly seems to be the case.

the ending was very anti-climatic. a merger of two networks and laying off of half the employees is no better a solution that selling off UBN for parts. instead of Marks getting rich, its the shareholders/board. i doubt the fired employees are getting nice golden parachutes. probably 2 weeks pay.

the show runners/writers have difficulty creating a good cohesive story without source material. S8 was indicative at that. they knew how it was supposed to end, but they had no idea how to get there since GRRM hadn't written it.

Howard was fine as the author but didn’t buy her as a spy at all. When it looked like she was doing the Kathleen Turner role of Romancing the Stone, ok, but full blown real spy, nope. I was fine with everyone else. the story was fine, good even, but it needed serious editing to be tighter . Some of the action sequences were too long and “ice skating” on oil was ridiculous.

They indicated that all phones were part of the hack. its looks like Paul was probably behind the hack after all

OJ is dead at 76, due to cancer.

LWT does better journalism research than most other media. Kudos and I hope there are a lot of people in the Biden administration who watched and took notes.

Kids absolutely had emotional problems before 2010. many were just told to ignore them or deal with it. some got through ok, others didn't. Gen Xers were routinely ignored and self-raised. but we didn't have social media publishing every teen runaway or suicide back then, so we didn't hear about it as much. Nor did we have the type of mass shootings that have become prevalent. i agree that social media has made some things worse, or at least we all know about more of them.

For all the interesting changes FAM made to the timeline with different democratic presidents (Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, now Al Gore), one has to remember that because the USSR made it to the moon "first", the Soviet Union still existed in 2003. the show doesn't go into details but one has to wonder how other events were affected because the Soviet Union did not fall. We know 9/11 did not happen. Should we assume the SU did not fail in Afghanistan? what is the situation in the middle east? Is there a European Union? Alternate history is fascinating sometimes.

Bill’s new rule rant takes one side, but there are a lot of non-white people who do want their differences considered. So Dems have to appease both and that’s hard.

No one will believe Sergie killed himself before eating his Big Mac and fries.

Who is Miles? I don’t recall him or his wife from the prior season. GHWB must have been fairly old to be running against Gore in 2000.