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The dark blue ones are probably photoshopped and/or the saturation cranked to all hell. But it does seem to range quite a bit, from a green-ish brown to a pretty clear blue.

So the Paine telescope was pretty clearly the Webb. Guess in the FAM-universe they got it up there at least 20 years earlier than in ours. Probably more, considering how many delays it had here. Thing is, and I don't want to have to do this every episode but they leave me no choice, I feel I have to point out a bit of bullshittery here. This is an infrared telescope. The images it produces don't look like if you'd make a photo. When you see images from the Webb that look like that, they were recoloured. So why did the freshly made images look like this here? Also why would it have been pointed towards Mars anyway? None of this makes any sense. I also don't buy that they can tell that there is Iridium in the asteroid. How would they be able to? If they had long term data, with it flying by quite a few other objects, they could probably calculate its mass and then guess a probable composition, but even with that they wouldn't be able to say "Iridium!", they'd just be able to say that it has a big amount of heavy metals. But they don't even have that. They just discovered it. Not quite sure why they chose Iridium as this super desirable metal that everybody wants and produces so much geopolitical turmoil anyway. It is rarer than Gold or Platinum, true, but it also has less applications. Maybe, if it was abundant, we'd find more applications for it, but as it stands today, I would have gone for Platinum. That can be usefull in a bunch of catalytic converters, fuel cells, etc. Anyway, kind of funny how they were so direct with their FOX news parody as to call it eagel news. It's even got that animal name... Kelly telling her son that a year goes by fast is such a blatant lie. I remember being that age. A year was an eternity. Like close to a decade for me today. Kid's brains perceive time a lot different than adult's. Glad she decided to bring her son with her. It sure hit Dev right in the feels and opened some old wounds even further, that she wouldn't abandon her son, like his mother did him. So Danny is just dead afterall. Lame. After they dragged this out for literally half the season, I would have hoped for some more. And also Danielle, the bible? Didn't you have anything good to read? No wonder the poor guy offed himself. But at the end of this episode she finally did the right thing and fired Ed. That really has been a long time coming.

It wouldn't be standard e-mail protocol, since that also depends on getting an answer from the server you are sending it to. This would all have to be custom protocols, that are fine with never getting an answer or an answer like half an hour later. In essence, the speed of light is really fast, but on a cosmic scale, really, really slow. So anything realtime is just out and anybody designing systems for communication between earth and mars just has to deal with it. (until we can create stable wormholes, though those would break causality, so maybe they are only theoretically possible and not actually, it's a whole can of worms.) I don't think it's technically a broadcast or even a multicast, if you only send it to one reciever, but you could send a video stream through the satelite. It just wouldn't work like our internet streaming, where there is a bunch of packets flying back and forth. the packets would only go in one direction and if some are lost, they are lost. Also of course you couldn't switch channels, unless all channels would be beamed up to you, which would probably be too much bandwidth. So I assume Ed had to tell, whoever is responsible on earth for that, in advance what they wanted to watch. The domestic terrorism from last season might have had a similar effect on TV. Jack Bauer might hunt a few less brown people in that show, but that would probably be the main difference.

Not all of them, but quite a few. Peacock guy and lotus ladies I assume were fake. River dance dude I'd assume was real and they just had a long discussion with him beforehand how harshly he should judge it. Hay-ladies, I don't know. Sometimes it's a language barrier (a quick aside through an interpreter is hard) and sometimes the judges are just actors and have no idea what they are doing. For example the hay-ladies were clearly actors, because nobody has made hay like that in a 100 years, but the judging was pretty cut and dry, so maybe the producers just let them do it.

Pretty sure also if you are left handed, if you learned with your right. Shifting in tune with pressing the clutch is pure muscle memory. Well if your family is rich, you get a lot of opportunities. Rewatching, he is pretty damn fine, but first time watching my eyes were solidly on Rob. Love me a sturdy man. Might be different depending on time of year, rain fall, etc. Sounds like some voodoo economics bullshit. I will try to not hold that against him. The judges we see on screen rarely judge the task. Usually it's a producer behind the camera giving a thumbs up or down. Here the crowd was clearly instructed to react to that accordingly. We saw them go through normal airport procedure, so I kinda doubt it. We also saw barely anything of the plane on camera. Also there were two guys visible when the beards were stowing their backpacks, but those could have been camera and/or sound guys. Edit: Rewatching there also seems to be a woman with blond hair behind the guy in the baseball cap.

Shifting with your left hand does sound very icky. I can see why the racers really didn't like it. Oh that river dance roadblock. I'd still be there today. I have rythm as long as I don't think about it. As soon as I think about it, I get all discombobulated. Having that so late in the race that some people have used up their roadblocks is evil. Corey had a really enthusiastic teacher (also great idea to chose her that way) and I get why he was a bit smitten with her, even though personally I was more excited when Rob took his shirt off in the beginning of the episode. At first, I thought the swing at the end of the hurling was brutal, especially if you never played anything like baseball before, but I think the ball just had to go into or above the football goal, even if it bounced beforehand, so it was more about accuracy than power and so probably doable. Considering ALs face in the confessionals it was pretty clear who got last on this leg. Still a fun one overall.

What does that have to do with the internet?

There is just no physical way to connect directly to the internet. A miminum 3 minute delay makes it unworkable. They could have a server on Mars, that mirrors certain sites, but that seems like a waste of bandwidth on their only satelite to begin with and if they did, they wouldn't waste bandwidth on mirroring porn sites. No need to sweep for anything, it just wouldn't be there.

Oh there are a bunch more: Like how did River Song get her regenerations? If it's genetic, like we were told in the timeless child arc, there is really only one way. She must be the doctor's and Amy's daughter, not Rory's. As if that wasn't bad enough that would mean that the doctor married his own daughter, kissed her a bunch and presumably did even more with her. If regnerations are genetic and regenerations are spliced into timelords genes why are they limited to 12? Is that an artificial limit that Tecteun put in. Why? And more importantly how is more "regeneration energy" transfared to a timelord, when it's a genetic trait and not some technology related to the time vortex, like it was explained before? Also why do only timelords have regenerations? Shouldn't normal Gallifreyans have it, since timelords with the gene would have children and those would be normal Gallifreyans, till they graduate from the acedemy? Is the regeneration edited out at birth and only given back when they graduate? That seems very cruel. "Sorry kid, you could have survived this head first fall from the swing onto a sharp rock, but you know, gotta take away your natural abilities, so we can give them back to you at some artificial point in your life or maybe never." Or are the looms a thing again? But even there, same question applies. And there are quite a few more. You really can't think about the timeless child too hard or it all falls apart. So even if a retcon would have some rough edges (though I think you can explain it away 99% seamlessly) it would still be a lot better than what we have now. Originally I didn't want to get too much into it, but I felt the need to explain why I think that yes, it is that bad, since a lot of you don't seem to have a problem with it. Probably won't change anybody's mind, but needed to be said. Of course the Jo Martin Tardis is extra weird, since that was made with the timeless child as the solution in mind and so you'd think they'd get it right. This would also be fixed if Jo Martin was actually a doctor between the second and third. Just sayin'.

Tecteun (who was actually one of the founders of Gallifrey, whatever, who cares) lied about the doctor's origin for [insert reason here] and manipulated the master into believing it. The master being manipulated by Gallifrey's founders is kinda just par for the course at this point. All the other doctors we've seen actually worked for the CIA between the second and third doctor. Done. I personally think the timeless child origin changes a whole bunch about the doctor. In addition to the whole commentary on class and how you can be special no matter where you come from, you don't have to be born that way, which is the big one here, it means he would have never needed additional regneration energy from the timelords, since he has unlimited regenerations and so it doesn't make sense that Matt Smith looked like a mummy at the end there. It also doesn't make sense that Jo Martin had a police box Tardis, 100s of years before the chameleon circuit got stuck in England in the 1960s. I guess ymmv, but I think thematically and canonically, we'd be much better off if we could retcon this nonsense away as quickly as possible. It's probably gallifreyan and only resembles our word by coincidence. The Tardis wasn't there to translate so it was probably inevitable that he'd slip into his native tounge at some point, when explaining something technical. Gravity... sounds weird. But it's fun to learn a gallifreyan word, finally.

I'm implying that people don't like to shit on stuff their friends made. That's not a conspiracy theory and should be pretty obvious. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't like that the doctor is now super extra special and the source of regeneration. That the doctor was just a very lowly timelord, who one day decided to steal a tardis, was always a big part of their personality and something Russel liked about them, as far as I understood it in past interviews. While Russel certainly lies in interviews, that has been a consistent throughline when he was showrunner the first time, with no need to lie about.

It probably had more to do with covid restrictions. The specials were filmed from early May to late July 2022. Obviously you could film with more people at the time, as seen last special, but it would have been very expensive. I guess having more money for special effects is a nice side-effect. I suspect that will change next week. We just had to reaquainted to the two first.

Mavity! I wonder how long they'll keep that one up. The doctor realising he's queer (now) and Donna being like "well I always knew", kinda made my day. It was funny and yet fitting. In the control rooms: RTD is really good at these small moments and the reveal that this wasn't two scenes that happened one after the other intercut, but happening simultaniously was pretty damn great. It reminded me of midnight. Then it went a bit attack on titan, which gave me good chuckle. Can't tell me that RTD hasn't seen that show. I had really hoped that the timeless child nonsense would be retconned. But I kinda doubt it now. I guess there is still a small chance. Gotta set a good retcon up, afterall. But I think all these showrunners just know each other too much and are too friendly with each other. We'll probably need to wait another 20 years till somebody corrects that massive mistake. Also the Flux now only wiped out half the universe? Well that's a massive change, without much of a setup, to the point that I have a hard time even calling it a retcon. After the season basically nothing but earth was left. I guess better this way than having to try and spend time to get the universe back, but still... The explaination for the hostile action ending and the Tardis coming back seemed a little thin. Afterall, the hostiles could still try to take over the Tardis. Or was the self destruct the hostile action? In that case it shouldn't be over untill the self destruct is finished, right? That part of the script might have needed another pass... But a good horror episode. I disagree with RTD when he said it was like nothing we'd ever seen on doctor who. After all it's a lot like something he had already written on doctor who. But still, very good.

There were clearly a bunch of taller buildings right in the line of sight and plenty close enough for an elite sniper. They could have done a better job obscuring that. Anyway, this was a very fun and chaotic show. I don't think they could ever top this, but I still hope they get a second season. I'd like to see the characters again. Maybe next time Trunk can seduce a groom and hilarity ensues. That would be something never before seen on TV, as opposed to a lesbian seducing the bride, which is pretty cliche by now. After a second season they are cancelled either way. It's Netflix afterall.

I don't speak the language, but you can tell how the actress playing Lana/Anastasia is struggeling to pronounce those russian words. I suspect for poeple who speak russian, this is going to be some mild torture. I like how they reset their intoxication. If these characters were genre savy they would have waited with the drinking for a few hours. Although it stretches a bit of disbelieve how big guy just keeps missing something to eat. It's Vegas, there has to be a food cart at any corner, not to mention McDonalds, super markets, etc. If only Ivan wasn't such a petty bitch, he could have been off with his sister.

I suspected that Lana was some kind of operative, but I thought she was unaffiliated. I don't think her actions made sense if she is Koslov's sister. I'd have to rewatch, but I'm pretty sure she put the team on the tail of her brother's men multiple times, at a time where that wasn't advantagous to him.

Somebody on the writing staff really likes their massive fake dicks, don't they? I'm pretty sure Lana is an operative. I thought she was fishy before, but now she killed a dude off screen. That is a telltale sign. If there wasn't something up with that, they would have shown us how it went down. She is probably not affiliated with any of the groups we have seen so far, but either a free agent or with some other group. Otherwise what we've seen so far doesn't make much sense.

A route marker is generally not considered a task, even though it's something you got to do.

They said earlier in the episode that she had somehow acess to the rovers. Not sure how that wouldn't be obvious though. While that would be fun. That doesn't seem to be within FAM technology. Maybe when Kelly is 100. They don't have the internet. They can get messages and TV from earth and send messages back, but that's it. Mars is between 3 and 22 light-minutes away from earth (depending where the planets currently are in their orbits). The internet works by constantly sending request and recieve packets back and forth. That's not possible with that kind of delay. The only way they could get internet porn is if they asked somebody on earth to send it in their video-messages. Not sure if the dude wants to tell his family about his "weird requests".

Considering it took about the time as recycling half a flat, I think there was a good amount of editing.

This show is really fun. Well when it comes to fake dicks, this was sadly one of the worse ones. Even if a weird alarm sounds, you can probably take the 30s it takes to pee. What are you going to do from the other side of the base? I was wondering when that guac was going to kick in.

Well yeah, but the cologne leg wasn't filmed during Karneval either which starts in November. Looking it up, Wikipedia says they got to europe on June 30th. So this leg would have been some time in early July, which is a lot closer to the summer solstice than I had thought. I guess TV cameras and the rain clouds made 5am look darker than it usually would have been that time of year. They both speak french. It's just that one speaks it a bit better.

Look I'm not an expert, but these consequences the Helios dude suffered seem ridiculous. Even if the suit completely lost preassure immediatly, which it did not look like, he would have gone from 1 bar to 6 millibar. That can make your lungs rupture, if they are full, which is a concern, but it doesn't seem to have been what happened here. It won't give you the super-bends, as they stated here. For comparison 2 bar is only 10 meters down in water. That is about the depth the bends can occur, but it is only the threshold and the case will be pretty minor and can be resolved with a hyperbaric chamber pretty fast, more like hours than days. (Edit: Actually thinking about it, in this case you wouldn't even need a hyperbaric chamber, you'd just need to bring him inside. In diving accidents you use the chamber to put the diver back on the preassure where they started [let's say 5 bar] and then slowly bring them back down to 1 bar. But this dude started at 1 bar and he lives at 1 bar, so putting him back into the habitat should be all that's needed. None of this makes any sense!) They act like he went from 10 bar to 0 or something. That being said, Svetlana assaulted a guy and should stand trial, as long as it's fair. So India was a good solution once it was proposed. The original punishment of 60 days suspension was an insult and I understand why the helios workers would have been mad. Glad Danielle saw the light there, with some preassure from earth. Of course Ed was completely unreasonable as always. Danielle is so right about him always doing this bullshit and getting people killed or at least into serious danger. I did notice thought that they still wouldn't say what exactly happened to Danny. I feel like Irina Morozova could have been honest(ish) with Margo. "He will stand trial, but not for his fuckup, but the attempted cover up." That seems reasonable and would make sure that you aren't caught in a lie if Margo finds out. You don't have to exactly tell that the outcome is a foregone conclusion and that it's off to the gulag for life for him. Also "NASA never appreciated you"? Margo was the damn director of NASA. How much more appreciation can you get? That has to have been the worst attempt at appealing to somebodies ego I've ever seen.

I'm calling so much bullshit on the reason that asteroid mission failed. NASA has never worked in imperial units. So they would have never sent the specifications in pound-feet. There have been conversion errors that lead to mission failures, specifically to NASA ramming a probe into the Mars surface, instead of landing it, but it was because NASA was using metric and the american companies manufacturing parts were not. Since then NASA requires all companies who work with them to use metric. I don't know why, but stuff like this really grinds my gears.

When exactly was this shot? It did look pretty dark for 5am in the middle of summer in sweden. Around the summer solstice that's how it looks like at 4am in central germany and sweden is significantly further north. Were we getting into September here? Did not know they shot it this close to airing. Yeah, maybe if their "nobel prizes" with their names and the year on it had hung on the wall and they only had their names in front of them on the table and didn't sit in order. That would have been more of a challange. But the race, not always, but usually, tries to balance both detours and it seemed both took about the same amount of time if you did them well. So I can't fault the designers for this not being harder. Maybe it even was harder to begin with and in testing they noticed that it took too long. Thing is, if you stay there for a while, you are wasting time. At first glance it did look like something very detail oriented and they were there very, very early in the morning, so you might reason that the race has very difficult tasks for you, so the leg takes till the evening. It just turned out that you only had to put the right amount of flowers and you were good. Maybe the producers got the weather report and wanted teams to get out of there before it started raining, so made it easier. It really wasn't. The names on the menue were the same as on the cards. There was no translation required. You could have just said them how you thought they sounded in english and that would have worked. But there was nobody on the mat when they got there. Phil usually takes a while to debrief, especially if there are three teams in front of him at the same time. So it can't have been that close. I mean still. When Corey and Rob were going for the express pass, Corey stayed behind Rob and asked if he was okay at some point. Contrast that with AL, who ran ahead up the stairs, while her father was basically only half up and then screamed down at him to hurry up, while he was clearly already going as fast as he could. She said "go, please don't let them on." Meaning she tried to actually take the bus, which would have been a rules violation. Did you have a clue that told you "take the subway"? If a clue tells you "take the subway", you take the subway and nothing else. If the race wanted you to take a bus and the subway, it would have said "travel by bus and subway" or "travel via public transport". Usually teams have to rough it to wait for HOO. A nice hanger in the summer in sweden seems like a better option than on the side of the road in india (yeah that has happened). Yeah. Considering his family is rich, I doubt he ever waited tables. I mean they gave directions to the nearest public transport, a bus station, which probably would have taken them to the subway station. People in sweden can't be expected to know that on the amazing race you are only allowed to take the transportation that is on the clue and nothing else.