Nerfect Drifty

I'm having trouble with the mathematics of Abby's age. Harry was never married in the original series, which took place from 1984 to 1992. So Abby must have been born in 1993 at the earliest. She's only 30 and she's a judge? Even for a low level judicial position like that it seems young.

Can you have retconning in a show with no continuity? Treehouse of Horror 35 was good. I liked the gag where they set up Bart and Lisa to be co-pilots of the giant robot, then subvert it for a second with those two never before seen adult siblings, only to have it go right back to normal with an annoyed commentary from Frink. I also liked that the monsters born of political rage spawned from both sides, and the writers didn't take themselves so seriously that they thought the right wing was the only wing capable of being jerks.

That B-story with the pills bugged me. Was Morgan's daughter trying to be furtive? If so, why did she take the pill in the most visible part of the house. If I were trying to take secret pills, I'd go in some place private with a readily available source of potable liquid, such as, say, a bathroom. But they had to have the girl hold the idiot ball just so that the B-story could kick off. Reeks of awful writing to me. But I don't expect much better from a police procedural. It's only October. Give it a week or two. They have to save stuff like that for sweeps.

Experiencing time in a non-linear fashion is an interesting trait, but it makes for some annoying TV. Didn't like things flashing all over the place.

I think that if someone has a time boost but doesn't use it, I would like to see an unused time boost go to the victor of the duel. I hope the ending is not as anticlimactic as last year, when it turned out being 2 squares vs. 79 squares. Would love to see two people with big swatches of territory duke it out in the end. Hate how so many people go back to the floor after a single duel.

I presume that William Kaplan died in the car accident and Billy Maximoff then inhabited his corpse. Where did Billy come from? Was he just some spirit that Wanda had created that flew into William after the spell over Westview was broken? Also, why was the breaking of the spell such an emergency that everyone had to leave the bar mitzvah so suddenly?

The ending felt weirdly anticlimactic because it came down to one final duel, and the amount of territory was so lopsided. I had thought it would come down to something like 40 and 60 or something, but it was like 79 to 2. I liked that it opened with a big duel between two guys with lots of territory.

Been an addictive show and I wish I had remembered to post here before the night before the finale. Last week there were two huge swaths of territory on the board: the one on the left that kept changing hands and the one on the right. I kept wanting to see a challenge between the two big patches so we could get that satisfying huge light-up and someone controlling half the board. Of course that's not a good idea for the player because it gets harder to hold and jeopardizes the $20,000 nightly prize. At one point there will be only two people left so I wonder how that duel will go. It seems anticlimactic to just have it come down to a single duel. I'm hoping there will be special rules, like a best 2 out of 3 thing.

So this corrupt corporate executive is releasing a pesticide that is gonna kill people and cost his company a crapload of money in lawsuits. The only way he can be stopped is if his enemies get a copy of an incriminating memo of which there is only one copy. Instead of feeding the memo into the nearest convenient paper shredder or open flame, this idiot decides to hold on to it? I guess it's for sentimental reasons? Like his dearly departed mother gave him the sheet of paper it's printed on? Or maybe it's a religious thing? I've heard there are some ultra-strict sects of Judaism where you cannot destroy anything that has God's name written on it.

Remember Lothos from the original series? The evil leaper episodes got a lot of hate back then, but I thought it would have been cool if Gideon somehow became Lothos. Some people wrote some original series fan fiction which gave an origin story to Lothos, and that he was a normal guy who got trapped in a supercomputer after a leaping mishap.

I watch because I keep holding out a foolish hope that Sam Beckett will return home.

I think they did that in the original series because it would be too difficult to control animals and babies and stop them from reacting to Dean Stockwell's presence. Here they can just avoid animals all together and CGI them in when they want to.

You think the hacks that write this show are going to take a good actor and give him good material?

Yes but when they did that, it was the story. Like Sam being the young woman who got raped, or the housewife dealing with a husband who didn't approve of her feminist activism, or the first leap as a woman where he dealt with all the sexual harassment and sexism at the car company, or the one where he leapt into a possibly gay military cadet and they tackled the issue of gays in the military. They didn't have some story where Sam had to save someone from drowning, then tack on a "oh yeah by the way my husband is a regressive sexist jerk". This B-plot and that big scene with the bandages was nothing but Author Filibuster. Wanting to spread some message is no excuse for doing your job (entertaining) badly. And given all the problems with the A-story, that part felt more like an Excuse Plot.

Oh okay. That makes more sense.