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  1. Brad did a good job of salvaging his piece. The finished product was one of my favorites. I really liked Nao's piece, it was both beautiful and meaningful. Though I think Elliot's was the clear winner. I was willing to see how Teigan's piece turned out—I think there's too much of a knee-jerk reaction against concepts that are cute or upbeat in the Art world. But her execution would have been bad for a college student just starting out. Chris really showed his ass in being so proud of that unimpressive bit of work. The coffee rings idea was interesting, but there was no there there for the major element.
  2. Deborah was off-putting to me at first, but I found myself warming up to her as the series progressed. And I thought she always came up with interesting and creative ideas, even if her technical proficiency sometimes fell short of Janusz's and Alexander's. I was rooting for her to win over the last three episodes.
  3. I think that dark hand color could have been balanced out if Janusz had made the blanket base a bold red or blue to balance it out rather than white with thin traces of other colors, and introduced some folds/bulges rather than having it be flat. Alexander's idea was nice in theory, but you'd have to spin the piece fast enough to get a flickering double image of the two sets of lungs for it to really work. Could make a nice installation piece as a sped up video rather than being physically present. Deborah's really was the best response to the challenge. I wasn't bothered by the oversized gum—it's not as if real feet are transparent either, but no one complained about that.
  4. I agreed with the decision on this one, I felt that Deborah's and Patrick's piece had more artistic merit both in the symbolism and the technical skills involved in producing it.
  5. I think I liked Annette's heart more than Leah's footprint, but those were the two standouts for me. I'd be thrilled to have either fixture in my home.
  6. I thought Janusz's piece was very evocative and powerful, even if it was apparently simple (though I'm not sure that nesting one object inside another is actually that simple). I did take an immediate liking to Katherine Gray—she reminds me of my best teachers in college, being knowledgable and up-front in her assessments, yet kind and encouraging. I bet being a student in her classes is awesome.
  7. Considering that said parties are for gay men, Trevor's already halfway there to being the entertainment.
  8. Definitely reserve a seat for me at that table. Nancy is just so viscerally unpleasant to watch and listen to. And I can't even find any narratively redeeming features for Stephanie. (I have developed a fondness for Flower, but she's the ghost I would miss the least out of the main 8, so I think Sheila Carrasco's maternity leave was a happy bit of synergy.)
  9. Sas knew he had the power before there was a house there, when he and Thorfin were the only ghosts present. Presumably he found it out via proximity to fellow members of the Lenape, or European settlers who were in the area before Isaac's time.
  10. I suppose Angrboða could still be her mother like in the myths. Either as a jötunn Odin dallied with, or as an Asgardian wife prior to Frigga. In Norse mythology Odin had a lot of kids by a lot of mothers, though Hela wasn't one of them.
  11. To be fair, I don't think Marvel (or any other studio) worries about backlash from Nazis for not treating their culture with sensitivity and respect. I too really enjoyed the episode—Kahhori was a very appealing character who got me interested in her story in a surprisingly short amount of time. And the dialogue being almost entirely in languages other than English was icing on the cake. I'd be more than fine with the series exploring the setting with original characters instead of existing MCU ones if this level of quality could be maintained.
  12. The multi-megaton steam explosion sounded very off to me. I know volcanic explosions involving seawater can be that massive or more, but I don't see how a superheated steam explosion of thousands of tons of water could equal millions of tons of dynamite. I get that the ecological impact could be just as severe because of the greater amount of radioactive material carried aloft by the steam and rained down for hundreds or thousands of kilometers. But I would expect the power plant to be pulverized, not completely disintegrated at the center of a kilometers-wide crater.
  13. Maybe boat maintenance is so expensive she can no longer afford her mortgage?
  14. I also like how instead of having Luke be oblivious to his crush on Nathan, he's fully aware and all-in. Plus, it was hilarious when he objected to backup Nathan being traded for him and started fanning the gangster faster.
  15. That was Luke Cook voicing Salem, though I agree that getting Nick Bakay to reprise his role would have been the cherry on top of this delicious sundae. The meta-ness of existence as an eternal sitcom set really worked for me, and sold the mind-bending qualities of the Eldritch Terrors far better than hobos or tentacles or jackbooted hall monitors could.
  16. The basic idea of the Returned as the distinction between life and death being erased to the detriment of both was pretty chilling, and I liked Lazarus being presented as its representive facing off in a chess game against the natural order in the form of Mambo Marie. But the conflict also manifesting as a battle of the bands MCed by Lucifer was terribly cheesy, and the guy playing the ringleader of Satanic Panic may have rivalled Musetta Vander for terrible line delivery.
  17. More importantly, how did he manage that so casually in the first place? Tricking and trapping Sabrina I'll buy, she tends to accept everything at face value and act before thinking things through. But I can't imagine Lucifer or Lillith being so trusting of his duplicitous clay ass, and the former has already proved that most methods of containing him are very temporary at best.
  18. It makes no sense that there are longtime inviolable rules for the succession of Hell when it's a monarchy established by an immortal ruler, who's incidentally standing right there being lectured about who gets his throne of they win the competition!
  19. Aside from the fact that Zelda recently had everyone saying their prayers to Lilith before going to bed at night, you'd think the fact that she's the world's oldest witch, still in possession of her full powers, and was able to at least temporarily restore Sabrina's witchcraft after she'd given her power away might have figured into the decision of whether or not to welcome her.
  20. Something I don't get is the show's insistence on the Dark Lord and his creator as newer usurpers to the old gods of antiquity. Even in the real world that's probably only true from a Eurocentric perspective, as I believe worship of Yahweh in the Middle East goes back to the late Bronze Age similar to the Greek myths the pagans draw on. But in the context of the show we've literally seen a flashback to Lilith—the first woman—wandering after being kicked out of the Garden of Eden. And the pagan deities sure didn't have worship established in the Americas first if that's where Satan landed after his fall and ran across her.
  21. Certainly he's a huge upgrade from Jesse Eisenberg. It'll be interesting to see what he does as someone with few redeeming features.
  22. I think we needed a break from Watiti more than he needed a break from Marvel films.
  23. I know that the Dark Lord's appearance to denounce Blackwood was a trick of Sabrina's but it really could have just as easily been the real deal considering how much time he spends popping up in Greendale. Given that, it seems particularly foolish for Blackwood to be plotting against his chosen one and advancing his own he-man-woman-haters philosophy for the Church of Night unbidden. It's one thing to insert your own agenda as a spokesman for an absent and possibly fictional deity, but when your god has a habit of showing up in person to hand out marching orders that seems like the sort of thing you should get prior clearance for.
  24. Late to the party, but the warlocks' club makes little sense in multiple respects. Aside from the whole no women allowed/traditional to take (mostly heterosexual) warlocks there for debauchery dichotomy, there's also the question of how this huge, swanky-looking club would stay in business if its only customers are the male members of Greendale's witch population which barely fills a small chapel. Even if all of them drank like Harvey's dad I doubt it could turn a profit. I about lost it when the Dark Lord told Sabrina that he'd manifested on earth to demand that she steal a stick of gum.
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