Potanical Pardon

Microcenter for the East Coast and Fry's for the West (even though they still have locations spread out, but still). This show gets me. Basically, they're the same kind of store targeted towards techies. Fry's is much larger in scale and sells all kinds of random other stuff too like musical instruments, vinyl, has cafes inside of it and $5 knock-off versions of expensive perfume that according to my wife, are pretty damn identical. Fry's floor people can't be bothered to help, but that's fine since its target audience already knows what they're looking for. Microcenter's floor people fall over each other to stick their commission sticker on your product. They both serve their purpose: If impatient and cannot wait for Newegg or Amazon Prime deliveries, go to these stores, price-match, and be on your way. So yeah, basically think of when Best Buy had to compete with Compusa and Circuit City back in the day...imagine those big box stores all merged together and then make them a million, billion times more nerdy and niche. Let's see, what else...oh yeah, they both have Apple products/sections, but I guarantee all their actually knowledgable staff will judge you for that in varying degrees...which begs the question, if you guys are so awesome and knowledgable at this stuff, why the fuck are you working retail? Just sharing tidbits for the viewers who aren't familiar with either. P.S., Both stores online stores/sites majorly suck (and are super-dated...like the same site they were more or less from twenty years ago) which I've always found odd given their nature. And both are the only places I ever see Bawls for sale.

It's not okay to be a terrible person, owning it or not. That's why Jamie and Cat are still horrible people. No free passes even though we get moments to humanize them.

I get that he's a pedo, a creeper, all of that. The implication is that all the other houses look down on House Frey for probably similar reasons. But the dude owns it. He knows what he is and he isn't fronting while most other Houses do. They all have something terrible or embarassing and act like they don't while going after the easy target. All the incest and child brides in the Targaryen history and even the unofficial Lannisters buys respect because they happen to be both a ruling class and bathe. And this wouldn't be the first or second example of Cat being a beeyotch. She bullied Littlefinger along with the Stark kids back in the day too. That's how that whole Lysa thing started. Yeah, I know they were kids. That excuse doesn't fly when the same traits are present in the adult version. And they pick up their judgy-judgeness from their judgy-judge parents. The Frey's shit does stink...I'm just calling out Cat, Sansa, most Starks on it too.

I'm speaking about when they were kids. Walder makes reference to the Tully's treating his family like shit. Pre-Red Wedding Cat is all aghast and insulted that she and Robb have to feign civility to the likes of Walder. That's a beeyotch thing. As for the shade Jaime threw at Walder. That totally backfired. All it showed Jaime was a mirror of himself. That he isn't above, superior, a better anything than Walder. Walder owned Jaime, not the other way around. It's the first step towards Jaime finally thinking on his own and reclaiming his humanity.

Twist! Theon is Stark and Jon Snow is Greyjoy!

Could be. But we still have 1-2 seasons left (sort of). We know Dany's got the Southern Realms, Greyjoy fleet, plus the Dothraki and Unsullied. Jon has all of the North minus (maybe) the Karstarks and Umbers. I have no idea where the remaining Baratheon army and loyal houses are - both Stannis and Renly's. Cersei's all whatever, fuck em all and has like The Mountain and I guess the Lannister Army, maybe some others like Sam's dad. I'm thinking Littlefinger isn't too happy about this sudden King in the North scenario in his way. I can see him offering Cersei the support of the Vale and it's entire huge undefeated armies and boats as well as those of Euron's after convincing him it would be mutually beneficial in exchange for Cersei marrying him and making him King. He'll also leave the breadcrumbs and redirect the BWB towards Kings Landing to deal with the Mountain. If all works out for him, he'll want to push Cersei out of a window and then marry Sansa to unite the Seven Kingdoms and offer support to the North against the White Walkers. Sansa might even be part of this plot because she also thinks she's suddenly an expert and a strategist while all she's really been doing is mimicking and play-acting a grown-up. It's like at work, when the entry-level, fresh out of undergrad kids come in and start working and put on their "adult voice". Adorable and hilarious. And this too is a newer version of when a kid graduates from high school, spends a quarter/semester in college, comes home for the holidays and gabbing away in his/her new voice about philosophy or poli-sci...something insufferable trying to impress everyone at home that they know everything and are all gwowns up! After everything, Sansa's desire is the same as it ever was when she wanted to be Joffrey's queen. Cersei is so toast unless she makes some quick and shady alliances. Kyburn is like the closest thing to anyone with a brain near her, so distrustful Littlefinger would also be valuable to her in that way. I don't see them winning. Team Dany still has so much of an advantage - brains, numbers and dragons. But I do see something like Littlefinger (who has always been end game Big Bad, to me) putting a huge dent/damper on things. Whatever goes down here, Arya and Jaime are going to be in the same room at the same time. And Brienne has to be here too. Cersei is going to be Arya's last name to get to and Arya will fail and die. There are too many callbacks and references for both Arya and Jaime to have to be present and involved in Cersei's end. Jaime will ultimately have to be the one to finish the job for a thousand different reasons and more than even Arya. He has freaking golden hand for a reason! Gold. Lannisters. Inorganic/cold. Heavy. You hold things with it that you care about. You kill things with it that you don't care about. Arya will probably see it all as she slowly dies and Jaime will get to have a Stark representative to finally confront and apologize to. Oh and I don't know why or how, but somehow Brienne has to kill Jaime/not kill Jaime. Her entire arc has been all about the honors and nobility. It has to end with her having to decide between that and doing what's right, though it will bring her dishonor. Maybe it'll have something to do with Arya there and her oath to Cat and how she said to Jaime after River Run, that she's honor-bound to fight against him if he...I forget what exactly...assaults The Twins? And then doesn't. She's all about those oaths. It's in her sword's name. Or some equal but opposite one where Jaime would have to die.

It's for this very same reason I also don't blame Walder Frey nor hate him and his family; fuck bread customs. Cat and the Tullys, and by extension the Starks treated that family like shit since forever. Yeah they're a joke and everyone in Westeros knows it, but her beeyotch attitude brought it on herself. They never directly did anything to her nor her family. I'm biased, but I really cannot stand how high and mighty the Starks are portrayed. They're only allowed to be victims or heroes. And I do love Lyanna and Jon Snow as characters. And Arya on and off.

They need a UI/UX guy. That's it. It's why the new technology is foreign to the public. Of course, I'm biased because that's what I am, but poo-pooing that design guy and that sort of input should have been the first sign to them. (It was the first clue to the audience for the season's plot, at least.) You need to convey and communicate between user and machine and do it in such a way that is automatically intuitive. The way we read a book, traditionally left-to-right, a screen, the top-left or top-right we're conditioned to look for close/min/maximize and menus, etc. I realize that I'm super-simplifying it. The microwave oven is my favorite metaphor. A bunch of engineers, with decades since its invention, no real industrial designer - and they come up with more and more and more buttons to interact with on the machine that NO ONE uses, though its inner workings and energy efficiency I'm sure have gotten better. I've had constant battles with the back-end programmers for over a decade because of this exact thing. They get it because they're conditioned to already be familiar with all the prompts, fields, buttons. Even if they've never seen a program or app before they intuitively know how to find "the thing" they're looking for to do the thing they want. The most common example is when I do campaigns for a company - redoing a website/app. The engineers and sales will go out of the way to accommodate the client to bring the costs down by spending heavy on what the consumer/public sees but almost nothing for the intranet/what the content-creators see and use. Content-creators could be photographers, authors, bloggers/journalists, tax preparers, accountants...anybody not a programmer. Because the interface that they use isn't widely seen, it usually looks like shit and is overly complicated and unnecessarily intimidating. And so because zero or almost-zero budget went towards that, programmers basically duplicate the interface that they use to make this interface - one that they see every day. And then hours pass upon launch and the same thing happens: emails and phone calls from the clients that say "I don't get it. Everything." As early as that same day or within the week, suddenly people are pulled off other jobs to go train/teach clients for days. So dumb. Even afterwards, they only kinda-sorta get it and it has a domino effect onto the public widely used and seen website because they're only going to provide content that they're comfortable putting up. The public site suddenly looks crappier than in any alpha, beta or even the early pre-production meetings; it could be the best design and product ever on the public end, but it won't take long over time for it to break, feel lacking, be incomplete as in order to stay looking awesome and being an awesome experience, it becomes cumbersome, ignorable, and forgettable as the same negative experience is occurring behind the scenes. Sorry to nerd out on the logistical side of a comedy, but this show does do an excellent job of fictional satire in that environment. Pied Piper's answer is an entirely new interface on mobile and web. That does require some $$$. They don't have front-end programmers at all that would have chimed in. Maybe that girl who uses spaces instead of tabs is one. PP needs a team of designers and developers that solely work on the front-end UI/UX, but with no money, it can be done with one person if they're good enough, willing enough, the unicorn of someone who can draw pretty pictures, be socially aware and is good at the maths. Kindred spirit! Almost every engineer I know thinks this arrogantly. The CTOs and other ones I've worked with have softened over time after repeated exercises of why their shit isn't usable. They ALWAYS blame the client for not getting it, and they made no mistake. Then someone above them has to insist that they do "something" to make the client happy after launch, and besides going over and holding their hand they just insert some ugly, buggy shortcut modular thing that is kind-of familiar to the client because they are more or less familiar with commenting/posting on the web. But yeah, after some time you can kind-of get them to tone down their animosity towards the UI/UX side, even listen to it. But they still don't listen initially. It has to go wrong first before they're like "Okay, what I'm doing didn't work THIS time (I'm sure it will next time)."

I don't understand at all how Jaime knew his plan would work - that he just knew knew knew the Castellan would follow honor rules or whatever, that even if he did, that anyone/everyone would go along with it too. I don't buy that writing. I also don't understand at all how Arya beating/killing the Terminator meant that she was now "No One" to Jaqen. Huh?

Weakest episode. And it was shot like it was the director's first time behind a camera.

This was the first IP and bit of pop-culture that began to define my tastes at age four. I remember having to go spend that summer abroad and all I could speak and breathe was Voltron. Luckily, I was in Asia and my older cousins allowed me to irrationally talk them into renting the VHS of all the Voltron episodes available at the time every day for months - we had to trek miles just for that one video store everyday. Oddly, much later in life I'd discover that Voltron was really two different Japanese shows turned into one in America making up different storylines, but I guess even the American version made its way back to over there since I am 100% sure it was "Voltron" and not GoLion nor Dairugger XV that I watched. I think I read an article once where the original guy in the US who wanted to adapt the show here, didn't know the name of the show nor understood it and the best he could do was convey that he wanted "the cartoon with the lions". As the story goes, he actually meant some complete different show, but the Japanese studio sent him over GoLion instead. Then he just rolled with it.

I'm so happy! Childhood not ruined!

I think I've figured it out! Everyone is bonkers. Everyone is everyone! Elliot and Angela aren't the real thems and they're both looney tunes. Darlene is Angela's imaginary friend. Elliot played along with it long time ago and now she's this figment of both their imaginations. Darlene in fsociety is really Angela doing stuff. Her cheaty boyfriend is fake. Their boss at Allsafe is imaginary which also solves Gideon/Tyrell and Gideon/Elliot. Elliot and Mr. Robot are month-old creations. The tombstone name is just imagined. Tyrell is the real identity/look but is not the real person. Fsociety members are all imagined by both of them. Angela's dad isn't real. He like never leaves that house. Real dad probably went into debt paying also for Angela's psych needs. There's also that bit about haven't had seen Darlene in a long time - that she returned to NYC. So imaginary AngelaDad was like "Hey!" as a reference to Angela's subconscious that this identity hadn't been seen in awhile. Gideon scenes - party other employees, his partner - those are Elliot (or whatever original ID is) again. Gideon's like his ideal perfect good guy persona. Gideon's partner may or may not be real. Trenton is one of Angela's about the ultimate American immigrant family underdog. The other two need to be fleshed out more to be sure, but are kindof randoms created out of necessity. But yeah, Gideon being imagined also solves any Tyrell/Elliot discrepancies. For all we know, assistant/secretary isn't even a "the" or an "a". That could be her office. She could be an exec who was really nice about coffee spills and just having Tyrell sit in her chair as she put her own files down on her desk. Her being in the communal space of chaos when Elliot asks where Tyrell is could be her just picking up the phone there and doing something. Or she's totally imagined too. Tyrell's nameplate on the door is like the Edward Allderson tombstone. Tyrell when he fires the dbags seems like he's in some lounge or exec room where he again likes to just sit in the power desk/chair and I could have sworn a different room from how what we think of his office looking. Joanna and Evil Corp CEO are the only for-sure real main people. Scott, the cops, Krista, Ollie are real too...or maybe he's fake. Angela as Darlene did use his handle to contact Dark Army peeps. Okay, I'm convinced he's imagined too, since Elliot uses that name with Joanna out of desperation. Ollie is probably Angela's imagined idealized version of Elliot, while cheaty boyfriend is her imagined pathetic version of Elliot. I'm totally joking about all of this. Whatever. Everything's not real, everyone's not real! I'm guessing the Danish/Swedish knowledge has to do with younger Elliot learning how to hack and a lot of resources and code were in Danish. Plus we saw he started out doing web design/dev, so he'd have to have used other countries' lax government oversight servers and have to communicate frequently enough to pick up the language.

It's the app on my Xbox One. Installed and used for the first time just for this show. I never clicked any ads for anything since like maybe 1995. Similarly, AdBlock+, Disconnect, HTTPS everywhere, almost never use Google, etc - as close as I can reasonably get to minimizing my digital footprint. It's funny-ironic because of the show, but really annoying. Not even nursing homes with the Game Show Network on all the time have this much Pharma. Lyrica, Chantix, a Fibromyalgia one (which might be Lyrica, I forget), heart disease...or side effects of suicidal thoughts, heart disease, IBS, constipation, strokes. I've since seen the Tina Fey Amex ads with the Silicon Valley guy where she makes fun of the gloves for feet flip-flops and a Target one too. One more episode and I should have these concretely memorized. ETA: Creepy! After that post now the ads are totally different!!! Hampton Inn, Some James Harden one, Warcraft movie. Haha.

I started watching this when it first aired and got almost halfway through the season before life stuff and I just fell behind. So now that Season 2 is coming up I finally found some time to binge-complete a bunch of shows. I was wondering...so I'm watching the episodes through the USA Now App. Ugh the commercials are everywhere, but on top of that they're ALWAYS for some depressing drug. Holy crap it is so annoying and depressing. Especially because, well it's this show so. Is this normal? Or did USA's ad tracking somehow conjure up that this type of advertising is relevant to me incorrectly? Oy!!!!

I just stumbled across this show and am binging now. I love it! It's totally Vacation, original recipe and rebootquel.

I can see Stargirl being put in for no other reason than Geoff Johns created her based on his sister, and everything he's been involved in he's worked her into. You could even have Ted and Jack Knight in an arc. Forget Skyman/Star-Spangled Kid. Red Tornado/Cyclone feels like a must because how can you resist someone wearing a cooking pot helmet...and diversity. I also don't think they can resist having an Atom/Atom team-up, so they'll probably put Al Pratt in, but give him Damage/Nuklon(Atom Smasher) powers. But this is kind of redundant with Firestorm and Heatwave. Still. Power Girl they maybe could do because of the Supergirl show. They'd have to find a really good wig to use the same actress who I'm sure they won't want to cut her hair and probably put it in her contract. Dr. Midnite and Mr. Terrific is possible, but the Waverider ship already has some weird purple ray/bacta tank type of infirmary and they have two sciencey guys already. Dr. Fate's inclusion could spell a return of the Hawks and even Savage, the way the show has him. I'm about 90% sure adult Per Degaton will show up or even be the Big Bad. He's also heavily involved with Hourman's powers mythos-wise. They could do Wildcat, present-day since he trained Laurel, or maybe his great-grandfather shared the same name and they recast. If they ever do a real Jay Garrick, he'd be a must for a crossover. Jesse Quick and her dad were JSA so they could too. Her mom was Liberty Belle and All-Star Squadron/JSA. Spectre's too powerful and supernatural and Sand/Sandman is too premonition-y and they already have Gideon/time files or whatever they're called. Johnny Thunder/Jakeem/Thunderbolt is wacky enough that they could do a filler episode but no more because he's OP. Alan Scott won't happen because of the movies but they could do nods and stuff like they already have done with Hal Jordan on the other shows. They could bring back Huntress/Helena from Arrow. I'd love for Black Adam/Captain Marvel (Shazam!) to be included but there's a movie coming out. That shit plus Dr. Fate could redeem the Hawks for the show. They're so interesting except for whenever stories emphasize their love story - it's just as bad in the comics. The curse/incarnation thing is fine, they just don't need to harp on it all the time

I've always run with the assumption that Arrow's Mirakuru is the comics' Miraclo. They could tie that and Ivo into Hourman easily. Not just the drug, but Ivo also co-created Tomorrow Woman, who is Android Hourman's brief but awesome love interest, and Android Hourman's archnemesis, Amazo, though he was/is originally a Justice League villain. I lean more towards Android Hourman as far as where the Legends writers will pick stuff from since that was time-travel based, and OG Rex Tyler and his son, Rick Tyler really aren't...until Android Hourman's influence in certain ways on them. Plus he's the way more interesting and fun one. Think Marvel's Vision/Spock knows everything type minus any arrogance plus socially awkward and naive. The brief appearance in the Legends finale feels more like Rick than Rex so far - chip on the shoulder, wrist-intravenous delivery system of Miraclo as opposed to pill-popping (they didn't want any angry parents calling in about that). My hope is that the Arrowverse Rex has some hybrid of Miraclo/Mirakuru wrist-delivery for super strength without the psycho and fatal side-effects which will probably play into having powers for only one hour as well as the hourglass tachyon necklace/pendant thing as both a timer and Timepoint (think Vanishing Point but a local miniature one around his neck that lasts only an hour total cumulatively) - maybe a future Ray helped with that). Time vision is pretty cool too. The Legends crew would essentially have a walking version of the Occulus they just destroyed.

Justice Society of America = a kajillion billion times cooler and more interesting than the Justice League has ever been or will ever be. Oh good. No more Hawks, though you can't do anything Thanagar without shoehorning them back in one day. Sigh. Fun fact: Rex Tyler's son Rick marries Jessie Quick. No clue when this Rex comes from, so it could still happen. Also this Rex seems to have his android-clone-son-kinda-sorta-something, Matthew Tyler, time-travel Hourman schtick. I hope we get to see the pirate-boat timeship he has.

More or less, yes. You can view it as the "word of God" superpower. Less persuasion powers, not mind control, but more literal command as if God told someone they had to do something from a burning bush and only chosen someones could handle it otherwise bad things could happen, ie anyone else on Mt. Sinai would go blind or deaf from witnessing power so great. Or like Arc of the Covenant facemelting Nazis and "unworthy" Tom Cruise exploding.

Rudaaay! and other Misfit! Hated her on AoS, though. I guess I'll have to reread Preacher. It's been awhile but so far this perfectly captures the spirit of the book. I love whoever's directing. The shots are beautiful, the characters and humor are great. Great editing too. I almost didn't recognize Dan Dority.

Dany has Tyrion and Varys as voices of reason. I think Sam will be Jon's. They both have a red priestess. Dario and Greyworm cancel out Tormund and Davos. Hmmm. Sansa's just along for the ride...she's like Cersei in thinking they're hot shit and not stupid. Brienne seems to be off on her own adventure probably with Pod. I have no idea if Bran is headed for Jon or The Wall. If he's going to tied into Jon's origin, I guess it would have to be Jon and inform on the White Wakers. So then maybe Jon doesn't get Sam's counsel who would then return and not desert the Night's Watch and help prepare them with whatever he finds out at the Maester place. Thinking it through, that has to be what happens because there's only Edd at the Wall to care about and you just don't build a wall that massive in a story without it coming down dramatically. So maybe you're right. Jon's going to still need someone besides Mel and Davos as kindof strategists. I guess one of those other laughably loyal Northerner families will produce a yet to be seen trustable advisor.

I think the implication of how time(-travel) works is what happened, happened. Young Hodor is the proof. He was always going to have present-day Bran warg-trip in the past and cause him brain damage. Ned dying happened the way it happened. Any time we will have Bran affect the past, it'll be his present but have already happened as history. So there shouldn't be any altering of events that we've seen, just moments where we see the present-day Bran play a part in what we know/knew about the past.

I thought for sure he was going to say something finally before the end. Why couldn't that Forest girl have just thrown her acorn grenade and still ran with them? Now we have two Red Women who both think their respective ruler is the right one. That means neither is, yeah? Man, so much happened! Ahhhh! Preacher is starting, but all I can think about is GoT!

Dayum.