Emily Thrace

Yeah that was almost painfully obvious but they are clearly going for a younger demo hear so I will let that slide. When he used to force on that key it shook a lot. It reminded me of Hala over on the Obi-Wan series. I wonder if he might be using magnets rather than being an actual force user. Although he is the right age to have been a padawan or newly qualified when the temple fell. So far this show was a little slow. It felt like we spent a lot of time getting the gang together. It was cute but I am not sure it was fun enough to justify itself yet. With such a simple premise the danger could be show gets bogged down in side quests. I will keep watching for now though.

Yeah fandom likes to think everyone is gay but it doesn't usually work that way. Eddie has always been straight and never seemed possessive of Buck or attracted to him. I like Tommy and I hope he sticks around. Frankly Eddie had better romantic chemistry with May or even Linda Bates than Buck IMO. Also I figured Gerrard wouldn't last through the Beenado but I figured the bees would finish him off not Buck. I do think he will die and Buck will have serious guilt. I do wonder if the others will get dragged in. Chimney looked skeptical (which is kinda his default in fairness) but he is also would lie for Buck if he had to. I also think the story with Mara is going to push Chimney and Maddie into thinking it time to give Jee a sibling. Which could go a couple of ways. It might be nice for them to have a baby without a pandemic complicating things. Or given how rough post partem was for Maddie maybe they could adopt.

The pets could simply be the dog didn't like going down the stairs. A lot of dogs don't like certain flooring or textures. I had a dog who wouldn't go into a room if it was dark. Cats tend to be territorial and unless it was part of it normal routine and would stay upstairs. The cat could also be how the phone got knocked off the table. It's also possible the animals did go down at some point and some of blood had dried so they didn't leave any prints. I also wonder if she tripped over the dog when she fell. If she was yelling at the dog and she thought her human was mad at her then Ruby might have gone to hide. It's also possible her migraine made her dizzy and that's why she fell and had a hard time getting up. Or she took something like Naproxen that thinned her blood and made her bleed out faster. It does look like she got up and then fell back down. If she broke her occipital bone she may have been having trouble seeing as well.

Showrunners for the show are still JD Payne and Patrick McKay. Who read "Sauron was invading the edges of Galadriels mind" and thought romance. Which is misogynistic and creepy on so many levels I don't know where to start. Clearly the rot starts at the top on this one. The male characters are still more complex and layered largely because they are allowed to be by the writers. I suspect some of that is because the two I named above have certain baises and beliefs about women.

Yeah considering how they spent its frustrating that they didn't seem to think the writers mattered too much. They had a great team writing the Expanse (different genre but structurally quite similar actually) not go with them? Or drive a truck full of money up to RDM's house. Or how about hire a fucking woman if your going to have a female lead. So many of the shows problems can be summed up as these knuckleheads can't write women. At least not as 3 dimensional humans capable of thinking of more than one thing at a time. It is getting better but honestly thats more the acting than anything else. Charlie Vickers is really shooting for that Emmy. The sad thing about Durin's promise to Disa is you know he is going to break it. I just hope she doesn't die and they use that as an excuse for Durin to go nuts. I was really worried when she chased the crystal into that dark cave. It's too early for the Balrog but Goblin attack might fit.

I think something to note is that Jedi (much like tha Catholic Church) other force users as evil by default. The training Sol witnessed wasn't exactly benign either. I do wonder if ascension meant some kind of ritual sacrifice. Perhaps uf not for the twins then possibly thier mother's.

I wonder if there wasn't actually a third faction involved and that is who Mae is working for now. They may have been lead there by the Jedi and attacked the coven for their own reasons. I also think the Coven probably has a connection to the witches of Dathomir. There was an Asian member of the group who didn't speak but got a fair bit of camera focus. Parent or Grandparent of Morgan Elspeth perhaps? As an Idigenous person there was a very Residential school feel to this episode. The idea that the coven was not allowed to raise their own children in thier beliefs is deeply disturbing to me. The Jedi came across very cop like in this episode. It reminded me a lot of the image below. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kent-monkman/key-works/the-scream/ That said I don't think the show is saying the Jedi are really in the right here. This show is still about what went wrong and Jedi hypocrisy bubling beneath the surface. Offering it as choice to the children does make a difference but what does a 4 year old know about making that kind of decision? I get the very Hogwartz idea of keeping all the super powered kids in one place so they grow up accepting of thier difference and are less likely to go rogue. However as Rowling pointed making that mandatory makes it less about education and more about controlling the power these kids have. Which is another interesting facet of the Jedi order. They are basically the ruling governments attempt to control the Force itself. Which is why casting Osha, Mae and thier Mother as black women is actually rather brilliant. We see them go up against this clearly powerful white lady it gives a bit of shorthand to the power dynamics in play. It also makes Sol the Asian man playing more of a middle ground rather appropriate as well. Whether that was intentional or just unconscious bias might show in how the rest of the season plays out.

I wonder if it's that Amir is in contact with other survivors of the fire in Minnesota and one of them followed him and started the fire. I suspect this season is suffering from the shortened season more than anything else. They are trying to shove a lot of character stuff into a lot fewer episodes. I also wonder if they spent so much on the cruise ship disaster they ran out of budget for the later episodes.

Yeah it was kind of gross actually especially when you consider that the stereotype that all Jews have money is half the reason they were targeted by the Nazis on the first place. Also the Kurcs don't seem all that rich to me. They are solidly middle class but they live in an apartment not a mansion. I think the reviewer might have been confused by the crystal and college educations which are now more of a rich person thing but back then were just standard requirements for middle class people especially in Europe. Also the story about keeping the older kids alive on scraps during WW1 makes me think it more that the family built up their business from not much and made it successful. In any case calling Holocaust victims privileged is a bit ridiculous. The characters are going through what is one of histories worst atrocities money alone never saved anyone from the Nazis. The first Passover scene broke my heart a bit. It would have been the last one happy for so many families. It helps hit home that the Nazis destroyed not just people but a way of life. I do like that this is a bit of different story and it's not a torturous slog through Auschwitz. (There have been a bit of glut of those stories in the last few years and some of them felt explotive and dubiously historical. ) I like that this story is pointing out that the Soviets were often not so much liberators as they were less bad oppressors than the Nazis. I also like that the cast is almost all Jewish actors. There is something missing often in stories that cast actors who don't have a full understanding of the culture and history.

I wonder if it a case of since the ship has its transponder off the US coast gaurd is assuming the Mexican coast has it in thier sights and vice versa. It did look rather close to the border so it may be a case of each government assuming the other is taking care of it. Especially since no SOS has gone out. Yeah think about all the kitchen staff slicing and dicing in 10 foot waves. Don't tell me he never sees any blood. Most cruises would at least have IV bags for dehydration and extreme seasickness. Disney offers B12 infusions AKA an IV in the freaking spa on thier new ships.

I think it something like that. Although with the therapy and the migraines I wonder if we might be headed for a health crisis with Athena. I feel like they are trying to set something up here with Bathena that is going to be ongoing after they get off the cruise ship. Yeah I feel like Buck took the wrong tack there and should have just underlined the importance of honesty and transparency in relationships. Empathy is great but not the strongest suit for most teens in any case. Honesty would appeal to Christopher's sense of right and wrong which has been pretty solid historically.

Watching the opening it looks like the guy watching the DVD goes to hit pause when he gets up. I suspect he hit the repeat button instead because he was distracted. I also find it interesting that there is the implication that the scientists had some kind of role in a Native woman's death. I do wonder if the isolated all male environment wouldn't be a breeding ground for aggressive behavior. There have been cases of people going off the rails in places like that. The nature of the activists murder is meant to make it seem like her death is tied to her activism but "disgust" as Navarro put it would fit with intimate partner violence as well. Or someone who was rejected and hates women for it. Maybe getting away with one murder led him to think he could do more.

Something to keep in mind is the diary is something Amy wrote to incriminate Nick not necessarily the gospel truth. It's likely his anger and resentment were exaggerated to make him look guilty.

I think Steve Martin is 78 so the show will continue for as long as he wants to do it. I also think that since Steve Martin is 78 TPTB are hedging thier bets on how long he will be able to do it. It's not so much that Steve Martin doesn't want to do the show it's just everyone involved recognizes that he he could quite easily be forced into retirement. So I suspect renewal in this case came down to Steve Martin feeling like he had another season in him. (And possibly his doctor decarlaring him fit)

I'm more resigned to it being Tobert. It does feel a bit repetitive for it to be one of their love interests. I do like the theory that he is actually an undercover agent investigating Ben's drug use. I do wonder if it's going to turn out that Ben tripped over Howard's cat and fell or something like thay rather than being pushed.