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  1. Based on the previews for the second half of the season, which were shown at the end of the episode, things do not look good for big Jerry. I've decided that TWD is set in locations that don't match our reality. Of course, no one would name a planned community Alexandria when there's already a big city with that name in the area. Tonight, there was a stop in Waterford, Va., which I drive through every day. While it has an elementary school and a community center, there's no library there. (The entire village is designated as a national historic site due to its founding in 1733 by Quakers.) And later, Michonne sailed for Tangier Sound, which is in the Chesapeake Bay, but I always took Oceanside to be on the Atlantic coast, so they'd actually have to sail around the tip of the Eastern Shore peninsula to get there -- like the old expression, going around their elbow to get to their thumb. Following actual geography, it would be a much shorter distance to go west over land.
  2. Another idiot here. I thought the same thing. In my defense, I was watching on a small screen. On The Talking Dead, they pointed out that this clue from an earlier episode: Dante joking about Siddiq staring at his mouth (which would have been the only recognizable part of his face with his Whisperers mask on).
  3. Or will we ever see a flashback of how Dante was accepted into Alexandria?
  4. I've just gotten caught up on this season. I've watched every single one of them, but last spring I got really bored and had to binge watch most of it. Then I held off on this current season because I thought the addition of Boston Rob and Sandra sounded pretty lame and would pull needed time away from the story. But to my surprise, I am liking this season more than any in recent years. Maybe it's because there's so much diversity among the cast this time. Even the Rob and Sandra bits have been entertaining, although I think they've already run out of good tips to share. I had to laugh at the comment about finding Dean's face intriguing. Dean does look like Noah Wylie after multiple fistfights (a combination of comments above). Apologies to Springsteen fans, but my first thought was that he looks a bit like a young Bruce, too. Props to him for that hot bod, though, and for having hair that never seems to get messed up. The episode title referred to an early comment about him in this episode, and I went back and forth several times on whether he was being voted off or the title was just a misdirect. How is it that Survivor has gone this many seasons without casting a Canadian? And in an odd coincidence, I just ate at an Applebee's last week, for the first time in many years. It's the closest restaurant to home, but we never go there because there's something that feels institutional or prepackaged about it all -- the food, the lighting, the decor, etc. We only went because it was too late to go to any of our favorite places.
  5. I apologize for not remembering everything from the past season, but did we ever see Alpha tell Beta that Lydia was dead? I remember Alpha disowning her daughter, but was her story that Lydia was killed in the slaughter at the fair? And what kind of crazy bird's nest was that anyway that Lydia was supposed to live in when she returned?
  6. Right. When Tara (and that guy who disappeared soon after) first found Oceanside, they'd been out exploring for weeks. Maybe the satellite landed someplace in between the two communities. Although, we should probably give up trying to make sense of the geography. There are no mountains or rocky gorges anywhere near the beaches of Virginia (not that this episode could have been shot on a mid-Atlantic beach anyway, given that there were palm trees growing on it).
  7. I hope that was merely a technique used specifically for this episode, in which scenes were playing out concurrently just before the satellite appeared in the sky. I found the whole thing with the satellite hard to believe. Of all places on the planet, it lands near this particular beach? And then there's anything at all to salvage, let alone functioning electronics, when the satellite should have burned up on entry?
  8. I think the new doctor is just the kind of overbearing jerk who likes to joke about same-sex attraction at every opportunity. My bigger question was, where did the new doctor come from? It appears to have been several months between the snowstorm of the previous season finale and this episode's warm weather on the beach, but the new guy seems unscathed by any hardships faced by the rest of the characters.
  9. I found Stefen Yeritsyan's (the Armenian ballroom dancer's) chest distracting. It's one thing to go shirtless and quite another to wear a see-through top with a blazer. I kept thinking I was being flashed by woman boobs!
  10. I'm surprised none of them mentioned their wives. I thought the writers were drawing on the same comparisons that were made before the U.S. gave gay people the right to marry and women the right to vote.
  11. And Varys was penning letters about Jon's parentage right up to being executed, so one would think the cat would be well out of the bag. Which is part of the reason I'm still confused about why Jon was imprisoned for killing the Mad Queen while 20 years earlier, everyone was fine with Jamie killing the Mad King. I get that Grey Worm and his army presented a problem, but once they had sailed away after accepting Jon's punishment, why not allow Jon to come back?
  12. I really thought that might happen when Tyrion discovered them almost on top of that pile of rubble, instead of the bottom of it. There were only a few bricks covering them, although when we last saw them, they were standing on the level floor.
  13. For a second, I thought that must have been a really tough visual to line up -- completely forgetting that it was CGI. It had the effect of making Dany look demonic to the viewers. There was also a lot of imagery that called back to the Nazi era -- the giant flag with the red insignia, the speech before the highly regimented troops -- all unsettling. I wondered where in Kings Landing that giant set of stairs was exactly as it related to the wall around the city and how it escaped destruction.
  14. I also remember when the winner was announced, it was covered with a $1 million check presentation the next morning on the CBS morning show. I'm not sure if they mentioned it, not even in their 90-second news clip review.
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