PurpleTentacle

No you can't. The outside pieces can look just like the inside piece. For example the upper middle piece turned 90° to the right could absolutely be mistaken to fit in the center slot. I think what you don't get is that every piece has 4 different possible rotations in 9 different spots, which theoretically shakes out to 262.144 different combinations. Of course roads can't go off the map, which narrows it down, but not by that much. This puzzle is deceptively hard, especially without a fixed starting location. If commenters can't figure that out from the comfort of their couch, I don't begrudge racers for not figuring it out in the south american heat.

I was wondering where I knew Caitlin Reilly (the female sprite) from and it wasn't on her IMDB. This episode it came to me. She is in a bunch of Dropout stuff.

Guess the whole cat-business was just a lame excuse to set the show in America. Boooo! But speaking of that business, Edwin, honey, just fuck the cat king and be done with this whole thing. It's not like you don't want to. Let's be real, if you weren't so repressed you would have done it without any quit pro quo.

Those two aren't a couple? Boooooo! I also think I liked their portrayal in Doom Patrol more. These guys mannerisms and speach affectations seem just so over the top... Should have gotten the same actors back. So that witch is just going to kidnap and kill another girl, irsn't she? Great solve of the problem there dead boys... Oh they got Ruth Connell. Well that's fun. Why can she reprise the character she played in Doom Patrol but not the boys? Overall this was entertaining enough. I'll give it a few more episodes, see how it developes.

It's still a COVID-season like season 33 and 34.

I could, but after 7 seasons that's just boring and too late. That should have happened in season 5 at the latest, with her finally cutting him off completely. I mean her getting out still wouldn't have happened if Lisa Edelstein hadn't refused to come back, even after he drove a car into her house. The writers would have flip-floped with their relationship again and probably put them together by the end.

He was saying "You can't do it because you don't speak spanish." Is she going to learn spanish during this leg of the race? No? Then he is just right. From what I can see, the problem here is that Amber won't admit to her limitations and let her partner take over, when she can't do something. I'm sure Vinny can't do other things and then she can tell him the same. He could probably be nicer about it. But I can see how that would get on your nerves after a while.

It was not a jigsaw puzzle. It was a puzzle that had tiles with perfectly straight sides. Which means you can't easily see where the corners of the puzzle are. Also you could have had the pieces in the wrong direction. Something that also doesn't happen with a jigsaw puzzle. Of course a lot of the teams made it much harder than it needed to be, but they were exhausted from the heat. It's probably not as easy as it seems from your comfy couch. I think that was very overblown. That was a bad season, but nobody in charge was afraid that that would lead to a cancellation. TAR had bad seasons before. It would need to have real low viewer numbers to get cancelled and that season didn't.

That's just sand. Real flith you largely don't see. The ocean basically looks some shade of brown everywhere outside of some tropical islands. You should see the water off europe's atlantic coast. Cameras on the car. We had that in the previous covid seasons as well, when they were in two-seater cars. Btw. I'm pretty sure this is a fakeout. They seem to have caught "their mistake" (looked like the crews mistake to me) right away and probably doubled back and got them.

Uh keeping beat is my horror scenario. I'm good at it as long as I don't think about it, but as soon as I do it suddenly becomes impossible. So I think I would have done the show. While singing in spanish, a language I don't speak, doesn't sound appealing either, everything there seemed pretty doable. But that probably would have been the wrong decision. The drums seemed much faster. Cesar might speak spanish, but he can't sing at all. That was pretty painfull. Ricky on the other hand was really not bad. Amber is horrible at directions, but won't admit it. That's the problem here, not that they are both strong willed individuals. Love that Angie and Danny came so close to number one. Still don't think they have any chance of winning. As soon as Angie has to do roadblocks again, it's going to be pain for them. It was pretty obvious the firefighters would lose, considering how long they were searching for the plaza. We never saw them with any other team afterwards. But the editors did a nice job trying to obscure that fact.

7x15 This is still the dumbest shit. If you can't forgive an addict for temporarily relapsing when his girlfriend is dying, when can you forgive him? And it's not like you haven't forgiven much, much worse things. The contortions the writers went through trying to make this fit. "You weren't really there for me, because you were on drugs." Bitch please. I'm not saying that Cuddy shouldn't stand up for herself, but that was what broke the cammels back? That's just holding an addict to an impossible standard. If that was always her stance, she should have never begun a relationship with him in the first place. Also it was the penultimate season. Did the writers really have to jerk us around yet again? At least Cuddy and House trying to navigate their romantic relationship was new and interesting. After this point it was all downhill and I can absolutely see why Lisa Edelstein wouldn't come back for the final season.

If you are satire you don't have to hold to the rules of your universe as tightly, as long as deviating from them serves the satire. In that sense it's a bit easier. But on the other hand, if you are satire, you actually have to be funny and being funny is hard. Not necessarily laughoutloud-funny, but at least amusing-funny. I also very much disagree with your statement that Fallout isn't trying. I think it tried and succeeded at a lot of things. Counterpoint: Elon Musk.

7x07 This show is ridiculous a lot of the time but this especially makes no sense. House argues with the CDC guy over giving the patient interferon. The CDC guy says he's not opening the door for anybody, while a guy in a hazmat suit is in there and they just passed something through the airlock. Why can't they just pass the interferon through the airlock to him? Even worse, during their argument the guy comes out of the room! So that whole argument was complete bullshit. Because, they just opened the door for somebody. Of course then House walks in without a hazmat suit, but none of that was necessary!

I don't think pooling your skills to make it further in the race is a popularity constest. Danny is good at navigating, Amber is good at puzzles (well at least better than Angie). Why shouldn't they help each other? Also as multiple people have pointed out, this has been going on since season one. So it hasn't "become" anything. It always has been this way. It's just happening more often this season because of the covid setup (bunched starting and all self driving). That's about the opposite from what is happening here. Building alliences and showing your worth to other teams is a skill, just like driving stick and being physically fit. What you are describing is a team that lacks any and all social skills.

I think it wouldn't be considered ground till it hardens. But that brings up another question: Can ghosts not swim? Would they just fall through the water, if you threw them in a lake? If they can swim, then yeah flower probably should have been able to float up in the concrete.

Ghost rules are weird. I mean if you are in the ground and you jump, shouldn't the higher ground, you jumped to, now become your floor and so you could jump out of any whole (or rather in the dirt next to the hole) in a few hops? Maybe that is a thing and the ghosts just never thought to try it?

But since it doesn't, Danny actually had a good strategy. The other teams played it like "uh we just couldn't bear to see Angie suffer", but reality was that they didn't trust their own navigation skills and wanted to follow Danny. He had made himself indispensable. That's why they gave their "opponent" the solution. On the amazing race you really are only opponents to a point. If you are not coming in first anyway, it is often good strategy to work together and make sure you are not coming in last. The only leg you have to win is the final one. That's just playing the game. You always want teams behind you and they couldn't be sure there was yet another team even further back. That was always allowed. Your teammate can't help during a roadblock, other teams can help as much as they want. Them's the rules. It just used to be done less and I suspect will be done less again, when there is less self-driving (as we saw last season). Teams like to stay in a pack during those, since getting lost completely, when you are alone, can easily mean the end of your race. I mean they made it pretty far. Danny is the race fan here. He had applied multiple times with his sister, but the producers only let him on when he applied with his mom. Them's the breaks. You can only participate if production lets you. Except it's not cheating, since the rules permit it. If they didn't, Phil would have had them sit next to the Pitstop for at least half an hour. You may not like it. I'm certainly not wild about it. But it's within the rules. The reason is that production likes it when teams help each other. And usually so do the viewers. It's just that it's too much this season. But how do you regulate that? A rule allowing or disallowing something is easy, a rule defining something in between is hard. So maybe we'll just have to suffer through a bad season from time to time. I'm sure if it happens too often, production will do something about it. But 2 seasons out of 36 doesn't seem too bad. He doesn't have to. They were solidly middle of the pack. If not for them working together, his mom might still be doing the puzzle. I really think they got the better end of the deal this episode. When it comes to later legs, they'll have to do their own thing. But hopefully Angie will have banked so many roadblocks by then that Danny can do the rest. But let's be real here, they have no shot of winning this anyway. So their best case scenario is making it as far as possible and seeing as many things as they can. Because you had to get into the race car between every puzzle attempt? I'm sure Angie would have prefered to just stay with the puzzle and try to solve it without driving around the track multiple times. Those bottles are Polyethylenterephthalate and usually get turned into fibres for clothing. It's just that the shredding is usually done by machines... Nope, that stuff is actually worth money and easily recyclable. It's not your run of the mill plastic where the best you can hope for is that it's burnt for electricity. Well if you know that, then why did you call it cheating? "Cheating" is not a synomym for "I don't like that". Nobody who's getting participation trophies likes them. It feels like somebody rubbing it in, that you lost. Participation trophies are for the parents, so they don't feel as bad about their kids losing. Also I fail to see how that has anything to do with what happened in this episode. Well if they don't, doesn't that mean they lack an important race skill, like driving stick or being physically fit? I think she was way more calculating than you give her credit for. If they had gotten out of there, there is a good chance they would have gotten so lost, they would have come in last, given the navigation skills we have seen from them in previous episodes. This way came in 4th. So, not bad.

The writers seem to be trying to cram as many plot points from the comics into this season as they can and lose all narrative pacing in the process. Even Professor X has only been "dead" for 5 episodes, before he showed up again. Usually you'd expect him to be dead for a season and then have a stinger of him being alive at the end of the final episode.

Considering they still have chickens I don't see why they wouldn't have pigs.

It was a nice foreshadowing in an earlier episode where Lucy said that as a little kid she thought she played in a corn field under the real sun. Now we know, she actually did. So Kyle MacLachlan nuclear bombed an entire city? Man he is a nasty piece of work. Btw. the show did amazing things with its budget, but it clearly didn't go into deaging him convincingly. That was rough. And I always thought it was easier if you had a lot of footage from an actor when he was younger, like you would have here. What was Moldaver on about with her cold fusion the whole time? What is in the fusion cores if not cold fusion? Can't really be hot fusion in such a small form factor. But even if it was, they already seem to provide unlimited energy, so what is the difference to her cold fusion? At first I thought maybe Vault-Tec didn't just lock it away, but used it in the fusion cores, just propriatary. But that can't be, since the suits run on fusion cores and Cooper Howard had fought in one of those years before she developed cold fusion. Speaking of Moldaver, so how did she survive and not age for over 200 years? She wasn't a Ghoul and it didn't seem like she was frozen for any time. Are they just never going to reveal that? Because it seems like her story is over. I still don't think Vault-Tecs plan makes much logical sense. But it makes a weird kind of internal sense. I could see it happening if enough Elon- Musk- type billionairs get together to realise their delusions of grandeur. I was googling something about the show a few days ago and accidentally stumbled over a reddit thread where people discussed who dropped the bombs in the war. The overwhelming consensus was that it was China. Nobody ever even mentioned Vault-Tec. But I have to say, from a world building perspective it being Vault-tec makes so much sense and I wouldn't be surprised if that was also always the plan in the games, but just kept vague until now. Of course like I said, the plan is just insane. Not only is the plan basically "1. steal underpants, 2. ???, 3. ???, 4. Profit!", but even the profit, where there is no war anymore, because there aren't any factions, is insane. Humans will always split into factions along arbitrary lines. We have seen this in history time and again. Yet, it isn't unbelievable that some people would actually believe it. I actually read the sentiment from quite a few people about the Attack on Titan finale, that if Eren had just killed everybody on the planet but the Eldians, there would never again be war. It blew my mind that some people would actually believe something this stupid. But there they were. The Deathclaw skull at the end was a nice touch. I guess we are saving the real thing for future seasons. I can live with that. I very much assume that there will be future seasons, as this is getting very good word of mouth and seems to get quite good numbers, as far as you can tell with a streaming service.

Man, Dogmeat gets around between our protagonists. I guess the experiments in Vault 4 explain why that Axolotl had fingers in its mouth. Those descendants of the experiments were really super nice guys though. Lucy, honey, when somebody asks you what the experiment in your vault was and you don't know of any, you are the experiment. Though I'm interested in learning what specifically the experiment is. Thaddeus, you are not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you? Once the "doctor" told you that you didn't have to worry about radiation anymore, you should have known you were a Ghoul now. Still, could have been worse. The alternative would most certainly have been death.

Oh live action Matt Berry. Nice. I mean it's true that Vault-Tec is only beholden to its shareholders, but I don't think shareholders would like it if the entire society and thus the economic system would explode. I don't think you can convert Vault-Tec stock into bottle caps... Moldaver was alive over 200 years ago without being a Ghoul? Interesting. Those experiments in Vault 4 are weird.

The sinister nature of the vaults lowly comes to the surface. This is going to be fun.

Matt Berry really voices everything nowadays, doesn't he? Not that I'm complaining.

Shitter doesn't seem to be a very well thoughtout job. If you feed pigs, they produce shit for the flies and on top of that you can butcher them for meat after a relatively short time. Also couldn't they find one fat actor in Hollywood, if this guy is supposed to be fat? Was that water thing a mutated Axolotl? I guess they are meat eaters.