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I'm this >< close to giving up. And I don't think I've ever said that about a Chuck Lorre show. I like my sitcoms with a little "com" in them. And all I'm getting is bitterness. Last night's episode was 30 22 minutes of angry and resentful people. Hell, I'll watch the news if I want to see that. Lorre's shows have always had unhappy people, but he tempers it with humor and humility, and his characters have always cared for each other. But I'm having trouble finding ANY of that in this show. I keep thinking at some point the writers turn the corner, and take us from spiteful and sullen characters, to people who care about each other. That's the blueprint for 90% of his shows. But we're ten episodes in, and nothing has changed. I'm officially putting the writers on notice. 😁

Tomorrow Thur 1/30.

Keeps getting better and better.

The most interesting part of this show was blown up in the first five minutes. 😁

Is he okay? They said he's in the ICU.

Maybe it's on Disney+ now? Sometimes the Hulu login doesn't show the D+ shows.

North Island, actually

Great start. I don't know how this show keeps getting renewed, but I'll take it!

I liked S1, but didn't love it. When it ended, I was 'meh" whether I even wanted it to return. Or cared. But something changed in S2. It's much funnier, and I find myself enjoying each episode. Not sure what the writers changed, but the stories are better, the writing is sharper, just a much better show overall. This has now become one of my favorite shows.

Am I the only one, when I see the title of this thread, I say it in my head in SM-33's voice.

Holy Moley! So that's who Desmond Hart is.

I think his dad was either Head of IT, or the shadow to Head of IT. There's no way anyone gets in the vault except those two. We've seen that in our Silo. I think his dad got scared because the rebellion was overtaking the silo, and he feared for his son's life, so he put him in the Vault, gave him the code, and told him "don't let anyone in". That's why Solo kept repeating that phrase a couple eps ago. I don't think he has any other big secret other than that, because he was probably a kid when it happened. I have no idea what his real name is, or if there is/was even an actual Solo, or he made that up.

Rubber chickens?😐

Agree, what you said and @gibasi above you. The show is all over the place, writing that doesn't make sense, characters that come and go. It needs a cohesive showrunner to put it together, and quickly. Last week was terrible, and this week was almost as bad. My favorite was when the manager (older Korean, guilty guy) took his client from police custody without even asking. Just "we're done here". Usually they follow the police show trope of "If you're not going to charge my client, then we're leaving". I think I'm out. Each week gets more ridiculous, rather than better.

And they showed an entire montage of her opening that door. 😁

So the next three vote-offs are Genevieve, Sam, and Andy. In that order unless Immunity throws it off. The four-way alliance of Sue, Rachel, Teeny and Caroline is tight, and with any brains, they'll stick together. Sue is the outsider, but they need her to keep a majority for now. And I don't see the core group breaking away for now. They seem to understand they can run to the end if they play it smart. Then the four of them will battle for the final three spots. The only fly in the ointment is Sue, the other three won't flip. Sue might decide to pull a blindside and vote with G/S/A, and create a 4-3 majority. Maybe vote off Rachel? But Sue & Caroline seemed to make up, and I don't see her going off at this point. But if anyone is going to do it, it has to be this week, while you can still create a 4-3 majority.

The rebellion was about 140 years ago, if I remember the timeline they've discussed on this show. So whatever caused the rift between Bernard and the Judge, it wasn't the Rebellion.

This might have been the most "suspension of disbelief" episode yet. Everything from standing in front of a train, to an engineer intentionally driving at 20+MPH over the limit to make up for time, to the safety system out and everyone just shrugs it off. No engineer drives fast to make up for time. They have control centers that make NASA look like last year's technology that oversee the rail systems. They know how fast a train is allowed to go, and take that into account in all the scenarios. No engineer just "drives faster". And if a major safety system was down, all hell would break loose. They wouldn't just ignore it. And to think some "rando" (remember, the avg person has no idea who the Prof is) could go on TV, make up some story about how delays are gonna happen, and bad delays, and get millions to change their plans? And change them so quickly, that almost instantly the trains can change their schedules? Spoiler: The rail companies don't make changes in 30 minutes. And tankers don't suddenly decide to roll down the tracks because a few cancellations "made room for them". C'mon, this entire episode was beyond belief. I don't think I can keep watching. It's like each episode goes further down the "crazy town" tracks (pun intended).

Yes, as @Skooma said above, the producers do NOT allow them to wash up after a mud challenge, so when go to The Sanctuary ("Where good...."), they look like crap. Someone mentioned this a week or two ago in an exit interview. How they really wanted to clean up, but they were told to go straight to the table. One of the items they are provided by production is unlimited sunscreen. I'm not sure if it was that way in the early days, but they do it now. Along with any items needed by females for "female issues".

I'm confused, I don't think that matches what E1 told us. I think the first scenes of the Sisterhood, where Valya was young-ish, and Raquella was dying, was around year 80. Because the scenes of "present day" started with a "30 years later" note. Making them around year 110 or so. But Raquella was in the war, which was 80 years before the first Sisterhood scenes, so she had to be 100+ at that time. But I could be wrong, I'm easily confused on these dates.

Absolutely not! For many social media sites, and other sites where you create content, they own that content. EX: Facebook owns what you post. And can use it how they like, with a few limitations. Very few. But cloud backup is VERY different. I don't know a single one that says they own your files. Here is an excerpt from the Terms & Conditions of Backblaze, who I use. They are clear it is mine, and they can't do anything with it, beyond what's necessary to provide their services: You can back up, host, store, and share your own files on Backblaze. The materials you upload to Backblaze are yours and yours alone. You give us permission to use that material solely to do what's necessary to provide our services, including storing, displaying, reproducing, and distributing those materials. We don't sell the files you store with us to third parties, and we don't use them for advertising purposes. We can disclose your files only in the limited circumstances described in our Privacy Notice.

I have a process where they are manually backed up all the time, but to my own device, not Google's cloud. Then that device is backed up to a cloud account also, for dbl safety.

It's not quite that simple. Actors in a show like this are usually guaranteed X amount of money. They can't say "we'll pay you $N per episode", and then only have them appear in (for example) three episodes. The contract will detail it, but most likely they get either $X per season, and appearances won't matter, or they'll get $X per episode, and are guaranteed a certain number of episodes. Either way, they know exactly how much they're making. This is NOT a tactic to save money after the fact. Actors & agents aren't that foolish.

On Wallach IX, young Valya Harkonnen promises Mother Superior Raquella that she'll protect the Sisterhood by putting one of their own on the Imperial Throne. Thirty years later, Valya faces a threat to her long-awaited plan.

While your point is (mostly) valid, not all of us backup to the cloud. I specifically have my Pixel 9 set to NOT backup photos, cloud or anywhere.