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I think she is too. But still…

Tucker was going to win because she was consistent every episode, easily succeeded in escaping her one time in elimination, and came up with good dishes each week. I kinda think she had a bit of a crush on Gordon, despite her not having the ♥️s in the eyes as did Chris when he met Pyet. Nuri, aka “Chef Mur’land” (Maryland) had me a little bummed with his crying. I get it, he put everything he had on the table. He needed the patented Gordon Ramsay “Young man, if only I had had your skills at just 19 years of age! Whatever you do, don't stop cooking." style speech. I myself had already graduated college at his age, and not only was I NOT well on my way to a desired career, I had really not much of an idea of a career to pursue. Props to “Chef Mur’land”…

You pretty much called it. My thoughts previous to the finale was that Mehreen would have to go for Nuri to get to the end…

Nuri is from my part of Mur’land (Maryland), so I’m pushing for him, however I don’t think he’s ganna beat Tucker. Now that he’s out of the basement, I think even with his three in a row eliminations he should be able to level up. He could make the top three. Again, he’s not beating Tucker, but he could be even against Chris or Omi. I don’t think he’s beating Pilar either, but those four are in contention in my book…

See, I have to say I pretty much always liked Joel (Cheating on Midge aside, but without we’d have no show). Lacking much of a backstory, I think of him as being a tough guy, he’s taken at least two beatdowns I can recall, and that he was willing to be owned by the mob and was a stand up guy when he got pinched, what can you say? Mazel tov Joel, you’re a real mensch. So Susie became a show biz baddie. My thoughts are that when the truth came out, Midge called her out and they parted ways, that’s when Susie broke bad. Perhaps when she takes up Midge’s offer to meet she will return to the Susie we remember best…

I believe they were just born too late. Were this sometime before the end of the variety show (1980s?) they would be on teevee every week. Chance has reduced the likelihood of winning having stuck with Ray(!). Sorella gives him a fighting opportunity. Manasseh I wasn’t wild about her song, not so much that it was a bad song, but that she sounded kinda “strangled“, not to mention Gospel songs don’t make it on “The Voice”…

That scene really brought out in my mind how Clark Kent is what makes Superman work. Tyler Hoechlin’s expressiveness showed how a man who is faster than a speeding bullet and all of that could be touched by ordinary people and their perseverance. Maybe he even gained a bit of their strength and courage. Scenes like that really elevate the series. The everyday and mundane of a man trying to raise a family in a small ville. Some episodes I don’t even want there to be a job for Superman…

When Chance (the Rapper) chose RAY! over Jamal. Okeh, when he chose RAY(!) , my partner and I just looked at each other. Not in shock or anything, just blank looks…

Said crap included death threats to the point where he considered suicide and required therapy. I tell you sometimes Sci-Fi fans really suck…

Uh... Those aren't the "Living Waters" of Mandalore...

I’ve been wondering when the (re)discovery of late 20th century Pop and Rock musics took place…

I was thinking when she appeared that it was her, (I don’t remember her being so hot though) I’m not really an online fan, could you maybe explain it to me???

Very retro, so retro, I remember when the Punk Rock band Dead Kennedys did the thing with the tie through the "S" shirt to make a "$" sign back in 1980. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm0t99WmSCM

That was some for real Hip Hop music! I liked the effect of the lyrics of the first song being projected in the back on a simple stage set. It made them more impactful and showed the true lyrical art with its' allusions, simile, double meanings and sheer rhyme. The music was on point as well, with a backbeat that was so strong it made my subwoofer rumble. Black Star were one of the few musical acts that I truly appreciated as underground music that SNL used to champion and I watched both songs without fast-forwarding, occasionally laughing at the skilled and clever wordplay of the two MCs...

I did see the “Rogue One” and while my details and memory of the film are hazy, nonetheless I do consider it one of the better non-OG trilogy films. My intent is to watch it again soonest as Donnie Yen does provide one of the more embarrassing deaths to one very unfortunate stormtrooper. I do have to make light however, after one of my schoolmates reminded me of the Eddie Izard “Star Wars”/American vs British film routine…

I can see it now. Head Death Star Engineer: <Typical Empire British accent> Erm... Galen... I see there's a flaw on these plans here. It appears there's an exhaust port that's just large enough, an X-wing fighter could possible fire a missile down it blowing the whole thing up. Galen: Well, that's just some defeatist thinking. Who would even know? I'll report in to Lord Vader and... Head Death Star Engineer: No, no, no. You're absolutely right. How about we just keep this between the two of us, yes??? Someone writing the script for Ep. 10 must have referenced the classic Eddie Izzard "Star Wars" bit during the scene with the staffers in the security nerve center. "You're not supposed to be here..."

And you are correct re: how the Death Star was designed by the Empire with such an enormous flaw. In a number of ways Cassian Andor points out the overconfidence of the guards to the point that they just don’t bother to listen in on prisoner conversations or even staff the prison in the necessary levels. I think Lutheran is shining the light on this. That when the Empire eventually puts the screws to the populace it’s going to backfire on them. The Empire is not prepared to run the Galaxy long ago and far away. See: Death Star II…

Gosh darn if that wasn’t some acting from Mr. Andy Serkis this episode! From the first when he’s just about to lose his stuff and he’s shaking till he erupts that everyone MUST be in on the escape to his final speech from the command center and the camera squarely on him he’s just killin’ it(!). Then after all that. Kino can’t swim. Heartbreaking… Definitely some great words, and awesome delivery. We’re it not for Andy Serkis as Kino, Stellan Skarsgård would be my episode MVP…

I don’t believe his Mum is ganna make it to the end of the series…

Either the repealed Sokovia Accords or the Department of Damage Control (DDC) should have perhaps (gently) mandated such insurance be taken out. Since She-Hulk is now well known I would think that someone would make a sales call to her offering she sign up for a policy at a reasonable rate...

“Would get”? It’s pretty accurate with showing the same types of reactions and hate the “She-Hulk” programme is currently getting on the internets…

Not quite retirement age, and not as old as I imagined (Math certainly not my strong suit, and not clear on the year of the Mars events). That said, no wonder he was so cranky and his bones so creaky that he needed to take shots presumably to increase his mobility. 고맙습니다…

So how the f*** old is Ed supposed to be then if I’m correct that he learned to speak Korean during the police action that was fought there and ended in 1953???

Since the show falls on soap opera tropes, then Kelly has to get pregnant. The NASA astronauts should have had some sort of semi-permanent contraceptive (both women and since we’re in an alternate timeline, men). <quote>Hated the North Korean twist. Nowhere have we ever been told in this alternative universe that NK is advanced enough to have already gotten a man to the mars. </quote> I imagine the No. Koreans sent the astronaut in this “probe” and didn’t care whether he lived or not. There are speculations he may have been recently resurrected from some sort of technology that would allow him to survive. My thoughts are it may not even need to be the industry standard “suspended animation”, just placing him in a coma like they do in certain current medical conditions would be fine…

You know who else had a plan? The Cylons had a plan. I couldn’t begin to tell you what the plan was or how they were enacting it or if they ever achieved their goal. At the end of the “Battlestar Galactica” series I just went, “Hmm… That was it? That makes no sense…” Robots, androids, artificial intelligences, synthetics are crappy at planning I suppose…