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So maybe Billy and Sarah will both end up dating Simone?

I'm really hoping that we're not going to some weird relationship triangle between Billy, Simone and Sarah.

One thing I just found which is new, or at least, new me, is that Season Five did not start with Episode 1. It started with an Episode 0, which can be found here: https://play.history.com/shows/forged-in-fire/season-5/episode-0

Sarah reminds me a little of the Huntress from Birds of Prey. Sarah is extremely competent at being an assassin, er, lawyer, but incredibly socially awkward at almost everything outside of that.

Or Grandad got a baby-sitter. Or Alfie can be trusted to look after himself for a couple of days given that he's also a member of their conspiracy to avenge his mother. Meanwhile Sarah being a psuedo-Shakespearean villain with her quotes will never not be adorable and funny.

Sarah isn't a villain doing a monologue. This is more like an honorable formal declaration of war. Sarah became very vulnerable with Matty and revealed something deeply personal to her. Then, as a tactic to avoid discovery, Matty essentially betrayed Sarah in giving first chair to Billy. Meanwhile, I need to pay more attention. I didn't realize that Jason Ritter was Julian and not Billy (Holy Shit. Dipper Pines is almost 45). Also, Edwin Kingston is played by Sam Anderson AKA Holland Manners, the King of Evil Lawyers from Angel.

We also got Patricia Belcher from Bones and Sam Anderson from Angel.

I haven't actually finished 10.13, but I was mildly disappointed that neither contestant chose John Rambo's survival knife. It's a knife with a saw-back spine that was designed by actual human people to be used by other actual human people. No elves, no video game stuff.

So the Collin Sage vs Steve Koster competition was kind of awful. No one looked good at the end. Collin Sage is "Unbeaten" with a blade in three pieces during the KEAL test. Steve Koster looks like a spoilsport for being pissed about failing to meet the parameters of the weapon that he picked for the challenge. And the judges remind us with their "Rules are rules" stuff how often those rules have been arbitrary guidelines in the past. I recall multiple episodes where multiple participants have failed to meet parameters but have been allowed to continue because [insert dumb justification in this space].

Just saw an ad on History that a new season is coming October 2.

Kelly, who made a falchion with an actual horse head pommel! Who noted in one of the championship episode (where she placed third out of five) that she'd gotten mad at her malfunctioning washing machine so she turned it into a knife. Honestly you could tell that Willow's hog-splitter looked huge compared to the other guy's. Doug could probably tell that at a glance but he still wanted to test Willow's so he could split a hog. And he did. Twice. I did like the hug at the end when J. denied that he was big but completely owned that he was scary.

Haven't actually seen the episode yet. but I think I can take a shot at these. Why TVAmensia? Because plot. Maybe they're on variant timelines because they were variants. Think about Sylvie's life for a bit. From the (Asgard equivalent) age of maybe 8-12 she's been running from the TVA and hiding in places where everyone there dies over and over and over again. She slew the person ultimately responsible for all that and apparently that somehow made things worse. Maybe she doesn't want to work at Mickey D's forever, but just wants to chill out there for maybe a good decade where her worst problem will be "Oh shit! That guy did want fries with that after all!"

The weird weapons are part of the main draw for me. The first part is generally 5800 version of "Okay, camp knife, bowie or seax?" But then we get examples and histories on weapons we've never heard of plus get to see them tested/wielded. Turning to this most recent episode, Willow was adorable and I was so glad she won. As for the other guy, I mean, sucks that he didn't even get tested... but when parameters are a thing, measuring tape is your bestest friend. Use it.

Just started this and young Mariner is so adorable. She's like if Boimler and Tendi had a baby that wasn't green.

I suck at remembering names, but this episode kind of went by the numbers. For the first guy out, dude, if you have 15 minutes left, unless your blade is ready to sell in a market, keep working. I admit that was a mild surprise. I thought Ben had the most to do, but I guess deciding to relax those last 15 minutes annoyed the judges like crazy. The second guy out was much less of a surprise. He was half-assing his pins. He knew that. And still did it. So yeah, his handle fell apart in testing. And for the final part, Travis seemed to get that his handle wasn't working but still didn't bother to redo it and that was pretty much that. Ben made a superior weapon that was comfortable to wield. Plus, damn. Double pig slicing. Cut the carcass in half and then cut it in half again.