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Nice to know that I made the right decision not to bother. This was never a love/hate relationship. They both really just despised each other, particularly Blair. Bullshit officially erased from everything in my head. Forever.

I'm not made of wood, people. That is a picture that just makes me really fucking happy.

When Henry says something along the lines of 'slipping through the sculptures like a shadow' as they were doing so... very evocative. Kind of made me jealous. I'd love to have access to a museum at night. Okay, it depends on the museum because there are some I'm fine staying out of but the V&A? Yes please.

I got a schadenfreude kick out of thirsty-ass journalist not getting the hint. When Alex told Nora they had made out in the hot tub 'during the campaign' that's like at least three years ago? And, yes, Taylor Zakhar Perez (and therefore Alex) is ridiculously hot so I get why Miguel was trying to make it happen again BUT Lord Alex looked mildly uncomfortable the first time he flirted again in the movie and he sure as hell didn't give any 'ooo, let's make this happen again' vibes during any of their interactions. I mean, interaction number two where Alex was staking out the entrance so he could get eyes on Henry and barely made eye contact with Miguel and the second he did clap eyes on Henry was barely even able to focus on anything Miguel was saying... dude, I'm embarrassed for you. At least Alex got to just lay it out for him later. "Do you honestly think anything is going to happen between us? I don't like the way you conduct yourself, you're an asshole, excuse me while I go rail my hot royal boyfriend who decided to surprise me." I enjoyed this immensely. The two leads are likeable which is hard enough in ANY romcom, the groundwork is laid well that it's believable they'll last after the movie ends (also rare in a lot of romcoms, I feel), no one dies, the leads are rootable together, and yes very very very pretty to look at. I also appreciate the lube and the condoms. Sidenote: Uma Thurman was giving me Julia Sugarbaker and I am here for it.

Be fair, he did put it down to gaze at Henry so maybe he wasn't completely engrossed in the book.

Lineker is one of the top international goal scorers for the English national team. He was a regular top scorer during his club years and the only player to be top scorer for three different clubs. He won the Golden Boot in the 1986 World Cup. He never received a yellow or red card during the entirety of his career. He started his professional career at Leicester (he was born there) so it was a huge thing when they won the league a few years back. He was the guy that organized a consortium to invest in the team and save it from bankruptcy and was named honorary vice-president for the team as a result. And he also played at Barcelona for a few years under the management of who? Johann Cryff. He's also the one who coined the phrase: Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.

I am not going to stand for this Jeff Beck erasure, people. Absolutely not!! While I'm in agreement that Roy's ass is probably hairy, not only did he defend himself to the team but pointed out that they all knew well and good that it wasn't, and no one pushed back on that so... I'm going to have to believe that training room and just understand why Rebecca would make assumptions. I did get a kick out of former dickhead manager/current TV pundit going on about how Isaac wasn't captain when HE ran Richmond because he wasn't temperamentally suited to it. Um, no, he wasn't captain BECAUSE ROY WAS THERE. And of course, Isaac has proven to be a wonderful captain. So wrong on all counts former dickhead manager! Rupert continues to be Rupert. I don't believe any of his behavior was in thinking that Nate could 'do better' than Jade. I don't think for a moment that Rupert even thinks of Nate as a person. He's a tool for Rupert to use, nothing more, nothing less. The car? A means of making that tool remain beholden to him as the 'one who sees so much more in Nate than anyone else ever did.' Will Nate not participating in Rupert's... whatever that was? result in retaliation? Mmm, I think it will only be a means of Rupert being able to shed Nate whenever Rupert feels like it, or when he starts losing or something. "Well, I could see you weren't really cut out for the job after all. You don't really have that killer instinct that's necessary for a Real Man." Blah blah blah nonsense. Rupert tears down. That's all he does. Meanwhile, Rebecca is building up and that's a beautiful thing to watch after season one where she was just lashing out. Seeing her as a complete person who got that forgiveness from Ted and then moved forward to repair the various bridges in her life and now be a source of comfort and inspiration herself... and yes, tough love towards Roy who actually responded. Although I loved the initial comment from Keeley about Roy doing the presser. "He hates them but he's really good at it." Keeley was absolutely right. Please heat that rift between her and Roy! They are so good together!!

Rooney's longest stint was with Man U. He did come to the US and play for DC United and is actually head coach there now. As for the team cleaning up the restaurant I go back and forth on it. The show has been making a point in tying them together very closely and things like the haunted training room, Jamie's return to the squad, Sam's fight with the sponsor, the Christmas episode and, yes, the Netherlands episode have worked at making that a major part of the Richmond storyline. Plus, this is football where these are kids and they get scouted and picked up at very young ages so their whole lives pretty much revolve around the pitch. Roy often mentioned how young he was when he was sent off to play. In real life, take Leo Messi who went from Argentina to Spain at the age of 13... and he'd been scouted in Argentina and focused on football by at least age 6. Was the pillow fight silly and unbelievable? Yes, but I found the restaurant scene heartwarming enough to buy it given how insular the football world is when you're actively in it. I agree that Dr. Jake is the most at fault in the relationship with Michelle but it is flat out irritating that no one seems to be willing to call that shit out for what it is. No one is saying the words out loud and having to watch Ted sit with them being awkward as all get out when everything about that relationship is fuuuuuucked up. I really liked how Rebecca talked Ted down about Michelle and Jacob being in Paris but I'd love it even more if she pointed out what a mess Michelle's new relationship actually is but that's her problem, not Ted's. I learned about transference from Frasier. Just wish someone else would call it out here already and I wish Ted would just move the fuck on already.

That's a fairly common trope in the actual comics. There isn't a cure for cancer, hell, we don't have a cure for the common cold despite all the other strides we've made and it gets very sketchy when they try to confront that in the books. You have situations where Wakanda had a cure and they wouldn't share it with outsiders which got really ugly for a bit. Or you have funny bits like the villain Sauron (not Lord of the Rings guy) who, when confronted by Spider-Man about his ability to cure cancer with his genetic studied said 'but I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!' Jane's story was, I thought interesting because the cancer was considered, by the hammer, to be a part of her and the chemo was a poison that it eradicated every time she became Thor. Becoming Thor was killing her and she continued to do it because the world and the universe needed her. And that's why she was welcomed to Valhalla. She was a warrior and a hero. Now, in comics, I thought they played it all well.

Yeah, it was D&D Gatekeeper misogyny directed at the GM's girlfriend because 'girls can't play' combined with Marisha playing a class that is really a lot... especially considering they had transitioned from Pathfinder to D&D so she got a few things wrong from time to time. She also got accused of metagaming a lot which, whatever, we all sometimes have problems with that. Plus, considering Orion during the same time period was metagaming like crazy and full on messing with his sorcerer points in game and didn't get a fraction of the rage that Marisha got. It was a whole bunch of horseshit. Plus, combined with Beau, you could see that Marisha likes playing seriously awkward characters that need to go on a journey. She really seems to like that trope and there is NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. Hell, Laudna (C3) falls under that category, too. The frustrating thing is that you still see some of that shit. It gets shouted down by others because, at this point, the majority of the fanbase is sick to death of that crap. It was all so over the top in those early days that I don't think a legitimate gripe is even something people want to hear anymore. By 'legitimate gripe' I mean things like 'well, I just don't like the kind of characters she plays.' No one cares to hear it, you know? That's how bad it was. It's not something that's too likely to come up in THIS show but...

Nobody cared enough about Suede to dredge that up. To be fair, Todd's initial 'redemption' arc wasn't about washing away his sins so much as working to make him a viable character to stick around which was good because... yikes. That whole mess in the abandoned church or whatever when Suede died... oh lord. For me at the time, I hated Marty, I hated Suede and I hated Todd. I was kind of hoping that the whole building would just blow up and take them all out. It is funny to think about how hard they leaned into making not!Todd so palatable after the Grossening that they brought fucking Powell and Rebecca back, crazier than before, but didn't do that with Suede. Which, again, just shows how little anyone cared about him at all.

I love seeing how much love Keyleth is getting in this series. Marisha was getting shit on so hard by viewers at the time. Twitch-chat was fucking AWFUL and it carried over into Campaign 2 with a lot of rage directed at Beau. There were just a lot of people out there who settled on a 'hate this lady for reasons' and really made that part of their personality. So I really love seeing people respond to Keyleth the way they have. Great stuff. Also... have we all seen that they're doing a Mighty Nein series, too? I'm just so happy. I really like the way they've done the dragons. How different they all are. And, MAN, Umbrasyl... acid breath is serious shit. To be fair, all of their breath weapons are serious shit and the show has done amazing at showing how destructive ancient dragons can be. Hard core.

That is a hell of a cliffhanger to leave the first drop on. Well done and damn did I ever love the buildup.

Oh man, this book was vitally important to me growing up. I read the shit out of it. It fell apart, I read it so much. I love that this is going to be a period piece (pun absolutely intended) and staying in the 70s. ALL IN.

Blair was absolutely free and single when she started hooking up with Eli. At that point, she was DONE with Vic!Todd but they decided to make Blair get a little dog in manger regarding Tea to, I suppose, 'keep things interesting' or whatever. Tea was in the process of dumping VicTodd (or just separating for awhile?) because Dani hated him so much when Blair and Eli first banged it out. The problem was that Blair and Eli were super fun and hot and sexy and people responded to that which I don't think the powers that be wanted. Basically, VicTodd was Blair's sad sack ex who couldn't be with his Twu Wuv Tea. And Blair was briefly living in Rapehaus (VicTodd's new place with the shitty cow print rug) because... was that post Powell and nuRebecca's brief moment of 'oh for fuck's sake, really? these guys?' to make us feel really really really bad for VicTodd after the fucking Rapemance shit with Marty. Seriously, Blair and Eli were the best part of that nonsense.

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Oh, I don't know. Linus gave Charlie Brown a cherished item to help bring him luck or whatever, Charlie Brown KNOWS how important and cherished the blanket is and treats it rather shoddily. Not only does he not know where it is when Linus comes looking for it, and sure, let's attribute that to the stress of the Spelling Bee but the blanket doesn't 'turn up.' Charlie Brown had it stuffed under his bed and was using it to polish his shoes. Let's face it, Charlie Brown didn't give two shits about that blanket and treated it like that. Linus gave his friend something important to him for the trip to the Spelling Bee and Charlie Brown couldn't be bothered to respect that. Was Linus an asshole when Charlie couldn't remember where the blanket was? Yes. Was Charlie an asshole for how he treated the thing he knew was important to his friend? Also yes.

Gotta love that WWII Pacific Theater propaganda. And by 'gotta love' I mean the exact opposite.

Is that stereotypically Asian? He looks more like a stereotypical vampire to me. pointy ears, widow's peak, pointy eyebrows. Given his underwater enemies have often referred to his 'pink' skin as a means of demeaning him, I always figured he was depicted as white. And the reason for his skin color is that his Atlantean mother got pregnant via a ship captain. Googling it, his father's name is Leonard McKenzie so... probably a white dude. But again, not the prime factor of his character. Half Atlantean/half surface? Yes. Specifically white? I say no. There are a lot of captains of a lot of ships on the ocean, specifically who Namor's biological father is really isn't the point. As far as he's concerned, he is the King of Atlantis and surface dwellers (except for Sue Storm maybe) can jump up their collective asses and die.

Namor being white isn't his primary characteristic it was just default when he was created. His primary characteristic is that he's more antagonistic and has his own kingdom that doesn't much care about the surface world until they start fucking things up for HIS people. Namor would prefer the surface world to fuck right off. Also, he hates covering up his nips. Steve Rogers. for example, was designed very specifically to be the Aryan Ideal once he received the Super Soldier Serum and also to personally be against everything that Hitler wanted in that Aryan Ideal. That was a purposeful design to how the character looked. The only thing specific about Namor's skin color, to be honest, is that it isn't blue like other Atlanteans because he is mixed so he could, by rights, be ANY surface human color but blue. And, again, showing off the nips.

Watching the social media side of the Avs in Finland against the Blue Jackets has been a delight. The whole team in the sauna while Lehky sings a song as he throws water on the coals... the jump into the Baltic (Newy saying it wasn't too cold and just like home... oh, those Newfie boys.) Mikko and Lehky doing interviews together. Mikko got a hatty in the first game and Lehky scored (with a great pass from MacK) in the second. What fun!!

Ummm... what? Look, TikTok is enjoyable. It (and the pandemic) weirdly produced a new interest in sea shanties for a time. I enjoy watching foragers forage and people ripping their sister's basic home decoration. But a musical based off of what people on TikTok expect musicals to be? Why does this sound like a bunch of middle aged guys trying to be hip and 'speak to the youth?'

Idiot or asshole? Overly Sarcastic Productions does a great breakdown of Victor in their Halloween recap of Frankenstein. And they followed it up the next year or so by doing a recap of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and also pointed out that as far as the scientific process goes, Jekyll had it all over Victor.

There's two Hawkeyes running around, there's two Wolverines. It's fine. It's not like you can't tell them apart. She more than earned the name and mutants don't die anymore (like officially, not as part of comic book tropes) so, you know, whatever. Meanwhile, in comics Avengers, Eternals and Krakoans teamed up to create a Celestial God to counter act the war the Prime Eternal declared on the mutants and based a lot of it off of Tony (he was part of the team that created this 'god') which resulted in Steve failing its judgement (and getting incinerated -- it's okay, Nightcrawler eschewed Krakoan policy and resurrected him) while Tony passed judgement while I sat there going 'am I supposed be surprised that a god based on Tony failed Steve?' And then afterwards Tony had to go 'sooo... Steve tell me how you feel about failing that judgement, huh?' And Steve was having none of it. Never change, boys. Never change. (I really liked the AXE crossover. Even with the judgements and all Tony was still going 'Steve's out there buying us what time he can' but of course he had to rub it in afterwards.)

Jesus Christ, James, that's what fanfiction is for, you utter doorknob.