SnarkShark

I guess you could consider that a cliffhanger. 😄 Pruning via the timesticks doesn't kill. It sends you to the End of Time. Don't think it works that way. The ingredients for the Kangs didn't need a source. It's already part of there being Variants.

Ouch. For me this was bad. REALLY REALLY groaningly bad. To try and be fair... its just a first episode. But a bad one.

What "both timelines"? It's one timeline. Just different times in it.

For me, that was both ridiculous and awesome. MacGuffins galore, but in the best way. And I'm certainly not going to complain about getting Ke Huy Quan.

Is it weird that simultaneously this episode felt like a really dumb thing to exist, but also enjoyable?

Some of the Anime conventions, like Superman having a Transformation sequence, irk me a bit. I do like that the show is doing certain other things different. Lois and Clsrk immediately being attracted to each other was a nice touch. It ditched a lot of cliches built up around them. Lois and Clark (and Jimmy) being pretty much at the same starting point at The Planet, and the first two coming off as young as Jimmy, worked for me. Lois being somehow even MORE of a pitbull than traditionally (where she's already like that, but its amped up here based on her ambition and wish to be taken seriously) but also drawn as tomboyish but very cute, works too. She's less traditionally confident than most versions of Lois, but her ambition makes up for it. Lois being shown as really smart is also cool. The comics had to make excuses, like Clark's glasses hypnotizing people, for years... and it was lame. This show almost necessitated Lois figure it out, the moment they decided that this Lois really looks at, and pays attention to, Clark. Anyway, so far so good.

I found this an interesting idea, even if the execution feels a bit awkward. Then again I've only seen one episode so far. I'm unsure if this concept would have been better or worse if the contestants never actually met. The idea of them being anonymous to each other during the actual competition rounds and ratings is interesting, but the attempts at double blinds to hide their identity (like cooking in a non-obvious style to what people know about them) and trying to guess partners identity, may not be helping the show.

I forgot that Alter Ego was singing. I actually thought this was somehow the same show. What I want to know is how that tech looks live, at the taping, on the stage (to the live audience). I mean it's all too easy to make things look good in post-producion. I hate that they even do stuff like the fake reveal, where the "real person" appears on the stage after a CGI dissolve. Where common sense tells you they just stopped the shot, did a replacement, then told the audience to react like they didn't see the person there until after the CGI. What baloney. It certainly makes you suspicious that nothing we see on screen actually looked like that on the day. I mean after the COVID episodes of shows like The Masked Singet I even question if that's a real audience. Let's say the CGI they see live is like 20% of what we see in an episode, and actually just on a big screen instead of projected in a 3D space, like they imply. Would a live audience go that nuts seeing that?

So the conclusion is that they all got at least a little better, some more than a little, except for Solomon, who got even worse.

I didn't think the jokes in that four minutes were anywhere near the best they've had that character tell, but I did like the plot they used to set that up. THAT was well written, even if the jokes weren't really. And actually, I did like the predictive joke tie-ins back to what we've already seen of her adult children. The Jeopardy ending was pretty good. We needed to see that things worked out with those two, and this was a creative way to do it. It's strongly implied they do this daily, or as often as possible with Midge constantly traveling. I also liked those end credits. It took me embarrassingly long to realize what was going on with them. That it was establishing shots for all our characters, but then marched through the timeline of the show (but never showing Midge, or any of our characters). If they're using Joan Rivers as part of her template...Joan never put on weight. If we saw Midge even a bit older (80s) I imagine like Joan she'd look TOO skinny... kind of skeletal. I had older female relatives who aged like that. Super-skinny, then eventually TOO skinny.

Just watched the First episode (the first aired, at least). Had never seen it before. It never occurred to me before that the protagonist of this show AND Star Trek are both "James T. Lastname" (they say the "T" in the episode, when he meets President Grant). Did Roddenberry simply copy? They were probably shooting the second pilot for Trek right about the time that The Wild Wild West first aired. Edit - Never mind. Found the likely answer. Gene L. c**** worked on both.

That was exceptional, in every way possible. This definitely should be the Emmy submission.

I already hated the direction they've been taking with 80s Midge being a real ahole. But now her kids are too? Oy. As over the top as it is for Midge to literally be a helecopter parent, for her son to wind up that humorless is a real pile of crap. And with a fiance that passes a verdict on Midge after literally 2 minutes of contact (and all her son can do is shrug, seem to agree, and say "she's my Mom"? Ick.

To be fair, Jack is her investor, not her boss. Still it's likely not the best idea. I'll admit I didn't see it coming. Jack was FAR too interesting character to be a one-off, but I assumed "mentor". Zava leaving seemed obvious. Rebecca not actually being capable of biological children seemed obvious too. Jamie's growth has been well played. Jade coming around on Nate was another element I didn't predict.

I think they explained it in the actual script fairly well.

I don't like the implications in the past two episodes that Future Midge is kind of a nightmare. Yes, she's always a mess. Often thoughtless. Definitely neurotic. And yes, we've even seen plenty to suggest she's a very questionable parent. But between the 4am call crap last episode with her daughter (admittedly echoed by how she calls Suzie in the middle of the night), the unexplained split with Suzie, and how insincere some of that faux 60-Minutes interview came off? Ugh.

One of those drunk women on the Today Show says there will be a movie. I'm guessing the pandemic did a number on Monk.

Wow. Some great FArt (fan art):

Clearly Zava can't last long. There's no story if they just win the title solely on his back.

That was... odd. Several parts of it.

Does the person who's not Jack Klugman in the Quincy clip?

Well, except it looks 100% like her (plus I've seen that photo before). She was also in The Hardy Boys, and Quincy ME.

I'd assume the body of Picard was part of a frameup job for an attack, but... they already have Picard framed pretty well without that. It probably has something to do with Stupid Jack, I suppose. But not that sickness they both have. They can't be the only people with it. Instead it probably has to do with whatever briefly gave Stupid Jack advanced abilities. Once again, Worf is what mostly saves an episode. Since this involves shapechangers, are we even going to briefly believe that's actually Deanna?

Fark 35 year old looking Jack Crusher II. Each episode he sucks more. Ro is the only thing that saved this episode (okay, maybe Worf a little).

Saw the rest of the episodes. Without spoiling, I'll simply say it would have been REALLY embarrassing and discrediting to the show if anyone else besides the person who won had won. In a way it made it obvious who'd win, for me even from the first few episodes, because while at least half of those people were decent choreographers, only one of them seemed totally in command at every practice they showed, and only that same person coaxed something indistinguishable from any real big show performance every single time. To me it also looked like most of those dancers were asking themselves who they'd most want to work for in the outside world. The fun person? Or the person who clearly got results?