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Makes sense because this is the show I wish Homeland had been. I love the contrast of Keri Russell's unambiguous American sensibilities contrasted with polite British understatement. Paraphrased: "Is that what begging sounds like?" "If the President could make a statement..." "For fuck's sake! If the house is on fire, tell me it's on fire!"

Is it just me or does this moment look like it is straight out of a Beastie Boys video?

I found this episode to be more of a Disco episode than a DS9 episode, that's for sure. I saw them reaching for the Duet parallel in this episode but they didn't quite get there. I don't know why everyone is so offended that the Klingon killed his own men. Klingon captains smoke their lieutenants all the time for any number of reasons and you'd think by now they'd know that is a feature rather than a bug. What is so special about M'Benga's warrior juice? He said it was adrenaline and pain inhibitors, doesn't sound hard to make if you ask me. Is there Deltan parsley in it and the commandos can't synthesize it because they can't get the mixture just right or something? FWIW, I don't think Chapel saw a damn thing and she is straight up lying to Pike. It will be interesting to see if this comes up again next episode. Same here. OMWF was a gimmick episode but it did some heavy lifting plot-wise. So I hope this is the direction we go in as opposed to Lucifer's musical episode which was both fun and funny but otherwise unremarkable.

I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but I loved how Ortegas and Chapel snuggled up to him in the lounge. Lower Decks has established that Boimler does have a certain charm with the ladies but he's totally oblivious to it and/or finds it annoying. Great payoff for Una's plot from earlier in the season. Having said that, while she is the poster child for Starfleet, I don't think her genetic status ever gets revealed or else Dr. Bashir wouldn't have had to struggle with the same issue so many years later. Does the end scene mean that the LD crew is gallivanting around the galaxy drunk on Orion booze all the time?

Did a bunch of episode end up on the cutting room floor or something? I feel like there was some important stuff missing here. There was a shot of a missile in a silo getting ready to launch. No dialog, no tense scene of NORAD dudes waiting for the red phone to ring, etc. Just a shot of a missile, you figure it out. Same with some dudes in a dusty locale driving a Humvee and a classified folder getting handed from a nameless character to another nameless character. All I could think of was that I hoped whoever was handing that folder out had proper authorization to do it. I did like Gravik in this episode. We finally get a good sense of who he is and what his motivations are. I wish we had seen more of this Gravik instead of the "look how evil I am!" version we've been watching in the other five episodes. Who was that one woman at the end who got attacked and turned things around on her attackers? I'd like to know more about her!

I'm pretty sure they played one game of chess, Spock let Chapel win (Kirk calls it but he thinks it's because Uhura distracted Spock) and then they went off to do... other things.

I think so but I also took it as a reference to Big Game, a movie Samuel L. Jackson starred in that was set in Finland. That movie has a silly premise but is a lot of fun. When the baddies came after G'iah and Priscilla, I noticed a lot of folks bleeding red. I thought maybe it was a setup to have them kill a bunch of humans but they just left right after Priscilla said she wasn't going to. I appreciated G'iah having the genre-savvy to point out that sticking around in a location that you know is going to be attacked is a terrible idea.

The first four episodes of season 3 leaked online a few weeks ago... or so I heard.

They weren't too clear on the space geography in this one but I am pretty sure the "Vulcan system" consists of at least 40 Eridani A and 40 Eridani B, with the planet of Vulcan being in the B part. The haunted moon was in the A part... I think. As for Vulcans not exploring it, I could see that. It takes a dumbass human pilot to see a dangerous anomaly and fly closer to it while the wise logical Vulcans keep their distance.

One moment I appreciated in this episode was Hudson being out of it after the car crash. I was in a car crash this year and those first few moments after are a whole other world. It is rare to see that in TV and movies. Usually a character gets hit by a vehicle or is in some high impact situation where they should be damn near dead but they can solve quadratic equations while doing jumping jacks five seconds later.

Also quite fitting that Red had to die for Ressler (in a fucking helicopter!) to be able to catch up to him. Hilarious that Ressler went to the right address but forget to search the entire property. No payoff with Siya, I really thought she was going to be a double agent. Maybe she was originally written that way and they changed their minds. I don't think Lizzie got a single mention in this episode. I guess when they were tossing around ideas for the finale someone must have said "we'll come up with some bull shit" and that is exactly what they went with.

This might actually be a deep cut reference to The Hunt for Red October. Every single time the action moves to a new location, there is a heading to tell the reader where they are. I think Red Storm Rising does the same thing but Clancy dropped it in later books.

I don't know but it sure looked to me like God came down from Heaven and stopped those MF bullets.

This show is the Hattori Hanzo of honing snark. What once was sharp wit is now, after ten years of this show, snark that could cut God.

It's a King James version as published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have one three feet away from me, I'd recognize it anywhere. The most recent episode mentioned Mormon missionaries in Nigeria as well. I don't know where they are going with the Mormon angle on this show but several characters are connected to it.

I'm sure it would have been impractical for any number of reasons but it would have been hilarious if the team from Blindspot had been the ones dismantling the Post Office. The Andrew McCarthy cameo was fun though. I like Herbie's low-key crush on Siya. He brought coffee to the table but only for her and when he finds out that the Task Force is shutting down, she's the only one he mentions by name. He kind of even proposed to her with the whole crime-fighting van idea. I must also take a moment to appreciate that when Red's plane blew up no one was fooled for a single second. On the other hand, it was silly that Hudson and crew made all their moves in full view of the Task Force which allowed Dembe to do something sneaky. If you had put them in another room you might have succeeded. Ressler calling Cooper and Dembe calling Red is solid proof that the Task Force is every bit as corrupt as Hudson says it is. See also Cooper telling the AG "fuck it, I don't care anymore, Red has defeated stronger opponents than you many times". I actually feel worse for Ressler losing his NA buddy than I do for him losing Liz.

I had to laugh at Dr. M'Benga not knowing how to ride in a shuttle. Pike is very clear that it is going to be a bumpy ride and M'Benga is just leaning up against a console. Dude, take a chair! It was nice to see Nurse Chapel doing her actual job. I think the interpretation of the Prime Directive in this episode is... fuzzy. Asteroid hits are not considered natural? I believe there are some dinosaurs who would like a word about that.

Well I didn't hate it but I am very confused. Jocelyn was the villain the whole time? I can sort of see that but yeah, count me in amongst the people who thought Plan B meant Tedros being driven out to a remote location and shot dead. Hell, just take him to the other side of the property and shoot him dead and if the neighbors complain tell them you're testing out a version of a song with gunshots in it. It's the Teddy's Dead remix, it's straight fire! Same thing most of the audience said around episode 2: "Fuck this noise, I'm out!" I think she was actually in on it. If it has been Jocelyn all along, she knew how to manipulate Tedros into manipulating Xander so she could get rid of Rob. But not before getting that dick because she's a truly nasty pop bad girl™️. The one thing I found myself wondering about is if they did indeed end up using the facial picture as the album cover. After they mentioned that idea they never brought it up again. What a weird show. I'm almost tempted to re-watch it from the beginning to see if my Jocelyn is the villain theory holds. Almost.

Well, two episodes in and I am not sure what exactly is supposed to be going on. There are a lot of elements of Clear and Present Danger in this but it is definitely not a 1:1 adaptation. CaPD's bad guy was the National Security Advisor who was trying to score political points for the President during an election year. He got the CIA and Chavez's team involved in counter-narcotics operations in Colombia but things didn't go according to plan and Jack Ryan got pulled in (from the Intelligence Directorate) despite the other leadership at CIA actively working to keep him out of it. There are elements of all of this in here but they've put it in a blender and added some other really random stuff. Clancy's books mention Mormons a few times so I guess the man himself had some LDS friends. And so far we have seen two LDS-branded bibles, one in Myanmar and one at Miller's place. I think this might be the first spy thriller I have ever seen where Mormons are the villains. Cathy's dad is a villain as well and there's no way he's a Mormon because if he was, she wouldn't be having sleepovers at Jack's place. Weird choice for a villain. Cathy's dad is described in the books as an asshole but there is never any great detail to it other than him thinking Jack is a bum because he does CIA stuff instead of making real money in the private sector. The editing in the second episode was weird. Miller meets Jack at Generic Park, leaves in a panic and goes straight home. Chavez is there and should be able to figure out where he is going. Cathy's dad shows up, ties Miller to a chair, force-feeds him pills and booze and manages to get away clean even though Chavez should have been right behind Miller. Jack and Greer show up a few minutes later. Is this show going to be like 24 where the assassins are omnipotent and we're always literally a minute behind them?

Toby Leonard Moore, who plays Hudson on this show also plays Bryan Connerty on the show Billions where he had a conflict with Paul Giamatti's Chuck Rhoades. Billions has a similar soapy sort of vibe as this show but none of the violence. Since both shows have been on for several years now there have been a bunch of actors who have been in both, including Harry Lennix (Cooper) and Amir Arison (Aram).

I think Congressman Hudson was just putting the finishing touches on the "Cooper's Treason" (feat. The Ghost of Lizzie and the FBI's Least Wanted) mixtape he's about to drop. It's going to be straight fire!

Out of all of the seasons of The Blacklist I think this one has actually been my favorite. I'm enjoying watching Reddington dismantle his own empire from within while simultaneously tricking the FBI into incriminating themselves. Despite the tie-in to the earlier episode where Red took Lizzie to Latvia for "answers", I think this episode is a bit of a retcon. I'm not going to go back and check but there is no way Red has had access to all of this intel all along. I'm also reasonably sure buildings like the US Capitol are swept for electronic listening devices randomly and often.

Save a chair for me, this is my favorite SNW episode so far and one of the better episodes of Star Trek that I have seen in the past several years/series. There were two absurdities that took me out of the episode a bit. First was that bridge, the "Lake Ontario" bridge. To cross the lake and connect to the US (if the start point is somewhere near the CN Tower) yes there will be some cost overruns to put it lightly. The other bit was with the cops letting Kirk off with a warning. Canadian cops are polite but they will absolutely tell you to fuck off if you try to interfere with them while they are doing their jobs. But I feel like The Voyage Home had some similarly silly bits so I'll call it a tribute and leave it at that. I also thought hustling chess was a weird way to make money but again, it's a dramatic shortcut so we don't have to see them get real jobs and work for 30 years to be able to afford a parking spot in downtown Toronto. Maybe they found a wallet while they were wandering all over the place. Canada finally gets some Star Trek love! Not only do we get the CN Tower, we get a Roots store, Canadian money (yes, it is colorful and made of polymer) and a cop holding what is clearly a Tim Horton's cup. We also get poutine although the version they were eating did not look like it had cheese curds on it. Still, this episode was so Canadian it bleeds maple syrup. Speaking of the Roots store, they don't have a biker-style leather jacket listed currently but the leather jackets they do have right now start at $900 CAD. They would be secured to the hanger by a steel cable and the staff would have to come over and unlock them for you to try one on. You would not be able to just put one on and walk out with it. But I appreciate that SNW does not want to be the show that teaches people how to shoplift. I thought it was great that La'an brought the jacket to the future with her. Apparently they are still in style because while Pike noted she wasn't in uniform, he didn't ask La'an why she was wearing such an ancient style. But while she did bring back her Roots haul, she also left a handgun behind in Khan's room. She sets it down, has a chat with him and leaves without picking it back up. Was that supposed to happen? I appreciated the canon patching here, where the Romulan explains that history pushes events in particular directions. This is why SNW doesn't quite line up with TOS or even Discovery for that matter. All the temporal shenanigans across all the series have put us a few universes over from the "prime" universe if there ever was one.

It sounded like Fury dropped a Captain Planet reference to Rhodey when they were talking. If so, that was hilarious. I'm not sure why G'iah was sneaking around when she could have just disguised herself as anyone really. Disguise as Gravik if they see you, ask them why they are talking shit about you. Speaking of which, I wonder if the soldier who got tortured actually did get killed in the woods or if he was faking his injuries and took the place of the guy who was supposed to shoot him.

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