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  1. Wow. That was my least favorite episode of the entire series—for many of the reasons you all mentioned above. A few additional thoughts: -The Russians insist on bringing Ed’s cosmonaut girlfriend home to be punished, but then wave Margot’s immunity and let the Americans take her to trial instead of punishing her themselves? Didn’t buy that. Glad they finally had Margot realize that her life mimicked that of her Nazi mentor. - the episode was confusing -I was shocked to realize that in the show creators’ eyes, Ed was obviously still the hero who not only got his way, but who also seemingly lived and also seeningly wasn’t punished for instigating the mutiny and the shooting of his friend, the base commander! (Similarly, was Dev just wandering about freely at the end? ) The only storyline that held up this season was Margot and Aida. Chekhov’s gun was FINALLY dug up! Pity it was for this. I can sadly see why Apple didn’t rush in with a pickup yet. So unfortunate. I loved the first season so much! BUT- the further into the future this show gets, the worse it gets.
  2. This season is so bad overall, that for once I actually found watching Kevin’s panel (relatively more) entertaining!
  3. Agreed. I’m mainly interested in the Margo plot. I was very excited to see Sergei. “Meanwhile, back on Mars, Ed does something stupid.” Ed is so out of control that I’m wondering if he is in the very early stages of dementia.
  4. I was wondering how they got to the injured astronauts too. I know Ed can be stubborn and self-centered, but now he’s just a petulant child who is breaking things because he didn’t get his way. I can’t decide if it’s organic or too big a jump for the character. More Margot! “Hey kids, let’s steal an asteroid!”
  5. X has only played before as part of a big loyal alliance, with bigger targets he could use as shields and others doing a lot of the social work for him. Although he and Taylor put together a four person alliance, Dani is gone (alas), Taylor had to go against him in the trim a tree alliance, and Josh is probably still annoyed by his team assignment in the same challenge. So X is having to play a very different game than he is used to and I don’t think he is going to shine as brightly. I think Nicole might pull out another win…
  6. I can’t see Ed making it past this season. But I do predict he’ll rise like a phoenix from his self-made ashes to selflessly save the day on one last mission! I can’t wait for the Aleida Margot confrontation! I too was very confused about the Danny storyline. Was it a flashback? There is no lack of food up there now, but there used to be. Also, why bury the North Korean’s gun in the sand last season if they weren’t going to have Danny use it on himself?
  7. They must have heard one another getting up and walking around the circle. Even if you couldn’t pinpoint exactly who it was coming from, you could get pretty close!
  8. So Theresa is not a broker, she’s more support staff. At a high level and she probably makes really good money, but not the kind of money many of us initially thought. And possibly not what Gerry thought. From the beginning I found Jerry’s wide-eyed naïf behavior super creepy. And it actually made me feel a bit guilty for being so cynical about this supposedly kind, sweet, and innocent widow. I’ll give him a possible pass for lying about his dating history, as I imagine that the show may have encouraged that. But if that stuff is true about him going Dutch with his partner, but making her give him the money in advance—so he’d seem like the generous man to strangers, it’s gross. It’s not even like “Oh I’ll catch the check and we can split stuff later. It’s all about appearances. Also, I can imagine a person getting caught up in the moment and saying “I love you” to two people in the middle of a process like this. But to say it to THREE within days of each other? Ugh.
  9. Considering how badly most of them faked their “deaths” I find it hard to believe they are acting the rest of the time.
  10. With regard to Orion. If I just married someone, and they made a comment that was extremely prejudiced against people of my background, I too would have a lot of trouble reconciling that, even if they did it out of ignorance. With new friends, I use those situations as an opportunity for education, which he actually got to do for the whole audience. But knowing it’s my new spouse, whom I know very little about, would be tough. That being said…if the person genuinely said it out of ignorance, and had a good heart, I would tread cautiously, but give them some grace about it. He was still really angry about it on the aftershow and Keisha spoke to him about intentions and grace.
  11. 1. I was sure the older doctor was going to play the role of the old man in the original series and be some kind of insider. I’m surprised that more people didn’t purposefully bond with him because of that. I would have! Surprised he’s gone already. (Although we never saw the contents of that chocolate bar. Maybe it was a Wonka type bar with a secret message allowing him to come back into the game?) 2. They all knew that eventually duos would probably be set to play the marble game. Why on earth did they choose to picnic with their closest alleys!? They all took the tug of war pairing into consideration for that contest (wrongly, but still…) why chance it with someone you don’t want to lose? Rooting for the NYT’s writer-mom and the games maker. (The cast has a really interesting mix of people/professions). I’m enjoying this a lot!
  12. The New York Times just trashed this. I disagree. I think it’s really interesting seeing how they’ve adapted the show from the original and then how the contestants keep misreading things because they know how it was originally done and they don’t expect the changes.
  13. There are a number of former “wish list” players, who said they’d only come back if it was for less than two or three weeks. from this season, I’d most like to see Cory. others I’d like to see: Danielle and Brittany (not Frankie!), Nakomas, Vanessa.
  14. A few. observations: 1. Aleida seems to have been demoted. By now she should be running the agency, or at least still be running the control room. But she’s now back to working a control desk. I assume this is tied to the PTSD and the loss of Margot. 2. The North Korean astronaut’s gun was buried in the ground near his ship last season, with a little marker sticking up. I assume Danny used it to kill himself, but as suggested above, this might just be a red herring. I didn’t like the whole Danny’s obsession with Karen story last season. Although I miss her, I won’t miss that. (Still not buying that Karen from season one became a giant mogul/ceo of a scientific company by season three). 3. Isn’t Ed older than Danielle and Margot? That might explain some of the differences in their appearances. 4. I’m most interested in seeing how Margot’s storyline plays out.
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