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God, I hope not.

One episode in, I'm not sure if I think this is fun trash, or just trash without any redeeming fun. I'm going to give it another episode or two, though.

According to the Lurker's Guide, the idea of Valen as "Minbari not born of Minbari" wasn't introduced until the beginning of the third season. I just can't imagine they wouldn't have seeded that earlier had the ultimate plan been for him to go into the past. Sakai seemed pretty clearly headed for Anna Sheridan's role, IMO.

I think that I didn't like about Woody and Jamie was that they seemed to be playing Carroll O'Conner and Sherman Hemsley, not Archie and George.

Sally said something bitchy about Norman Lear being better served by being retired and traveling.

I was surprised that I ended up really enjoying it. I mean, as with many things in this vein, it's best described as "unnecessary but fun" but it WAS fun. Jeffersons was definitely the stronger of the two, but Anthony Anderson, Marisa Tomei, and Wanda kept AITF from being a total disaster, even with Jaime Foxx seeming to completely miss the point of what they were trying to do. I think the best moment was J-Hud singing. The thing got phenomenal ratings, so I'm sure they're going to do it again. Dare I hope for Golden Girls next time?

That's usually how time travel has been used in actual Marvel Comics. Best example is the Days of Future Past story. Kitty Pryde going back in time didn't change her present, but she did prevent it from becoming 616's future.

How would that work if 2018 Thanos would still have to gather the stones? Steve put them back at the moment they were taken, which were all before the Snap and Thanos' subsequent destruction of them.

But wouldn't the removal of Thanos from 2014 just create an alternate version from that point forward in that timeline? Because if that had happened in the Prime MCU, the Snap wouldn't have happened in the first place, which would have reset everything.

But they don't exist in the 2023 of the MCU Prime timeline. Original Recipe Thanos destroyed that set, which is why they had to be retrieved from and then returned to, the past.

What I keep wondering about with the timeline issue is something the Ancient One said. If the Stones are needed to help defend reality, whether or not Steve's returning them meant that they remained in the original timeline and didn't end up skewing off, 2023 is still left without any. The Time and Mind Stones were the only ones that were actually being used, but if their mere existence keeps extradimensional threats at bay, what happens now? I mean, the power of the Sorcerer Supreme didn't entirely come from the Eye, but will Strange be any less powerful now that he won't have it?

Straczynski's answers about what the Original Plan was are, charitably, inconsistent. Particularly, the excuse that traveling through time 4 years caused Sinclair to age at least fifteen years seemed like an handwave that was onyl partly successful.

"Do you believe this cycle can deliver retribution?" "They have earned the right to try."

I absolutely did not get a tear in my eye.

I assume that the reduced episode count is due to Angela Bassett's schedule. Rather like How to Get Away with Murder is structured so Viola Davis can do other things.

Thirded. In a vacuum, I like the idea that two actors over fifty get a romance storyline, but together, they're like watching paint dry. And given that Athena sparks with everyone, I put the blame on Krause.

I would argue Little Shop of Horrors disputes the first part of that statement.

Uatu specifically was at Fox, but we saw generic ones in the one of the many post-credit scenes in GotG v2.

On one of the DVDs, there's video of Nana Visitor from the S7 wrap party where she said she was hopeful someone would find the show in reruns and realize "Damn, that was a good show!" Took us a while, but we got there.

Rice Krispie Treats were a very popular desperation move this season.

This looks approximately one million times better than the movie.

I'm fairly certain that I was given ketamine sedation when I had one of my surgeries. I have very little memory of it, but my husband told me I was incredibly chatty. The last time I was sedated, which was for an endoscopy, it was with propofol, and he told me I just laid there blinking. For me, the appeal (?) is that the depiction of actual medicine and hospital politics is so goofy that it's as charming as it is maddening.

Veronica Mars meets The Conjuring? I'm into it.

Meet your new Batman. Hard pass.

There are a number of clinics that do ketamine infusion treatments for depression and PTSD. I know of two in Manhattan. Although that's given intravenously and not as a pill, so I have no idea what they were going for with that. There's also a new ketamine derivative that's being marketed under the name Spravato, which is a nasal spray that's just been approved to treat severe depression. The part that didn't make sense to me was that they weren't using the ketamine in the way it's usually used therapeutically. That appeared to be more like a thiopental interview, which is an old, old, old psychiatric technique where a patient is administered sodium thiopental (basically truth serum, although that's a bad description) and they're guided through talking about their traumas because the drug has relaxed them enough to be able confront things.