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And it's officially over, atleast hopes for a 3rd season are. I guess we'll sit around and hope for a 2 hour movie on NBC, I'm not holding out much hope for that either though. Maybe I'll be pleasently surprised.

Awesome. I really hope Lonzo gets traded now. That would be the most delicious end to this ridiculousness.

Hooray! My Leafs signed John Tavares! I've been waiting pretty much my entire life for the top free agent to choose Toronto, and it finally happened. Young player, easily the most sought after UFA and a former #1 pick choosing to come home to TO. This must be a less potent version of what Clevelanders felt when LeBron came back. Obviously not the same, because as good as John Tavares is, he is not the best player in the league, and he doesn't instantly transform us into a Finals contender, but he does make us a whole lot better, and we were pretty good this year without him. I am so happy. Happy Canada Day everybody!

You shouldn't be, it's very 11th hour, most networks and streaming services have already planned out their upcoming slate, and as entertaining as Timeless might be it doesn't have a lot of perks for a streaming service to pick up. For starters ratings have never been very strong, it got cancelled in season 1 for a reason, and they didn't improve for season 2. Add that into the fact that they have very high production values, and thus very high production costs. Finally while technically Timeless has 2 seasons, they actually only have 26 episodes in their back catalogue, which is pretty much just one seasons worth for most shows. Streaming services like to pick up a show with lots of episodes so subscribers will binge it. That's why stuff like Lucifer gets picked up, which has almost 60 episodes over it's 3 previous seasons. Netflix picks up the tab for 10 episodes and essentially get almost 70.

If LeBron goes to LA, I would be shocked if Lonzo is not shipped out. LeBron is one of the only players who will become the defacto GM on any team he joins, and he's not the biggest fan of the Big Ballers.

Well that's a shame. I guess I have one more hour a week in which to try and be productive and fail.

Fair. But when I fantasize I usually still look like myself in my fantasies. Like maybe I'm a bit more in shape, but I don't fantasize that I look like Idris Elba or anything.

Oh this is a Reverie for you? I assumed you were worried about how you would be represented in someone else's Reverie. Since the hardware is implanted directly into your brain you don't need to worry about your own Reverie; you are probably represented by exactly how you perceive yourself. I guess if you have really low self esteem (or a high degree of vanity) that could result in a "you" that was very different from reality but most people would probably be pretty close to the genuine article.

Community had a lot of interaction with its fanbase. Deliberately working in bits that their fans came up with, and frequently poking gently at them. I've never seen a show this motivated to get renewed though. At the same time I can't recall a time that a network has kept a show dangling this long with no news.

True, but all of these had a novel/graphic novel/years of comics to provide the story framework. It's like you think Zack Snyder is a good film writer cause 300 turned out good, but then he puts out Sucker Punch and you're like "Oh, so that's what happens when he is left to his own devices" Obviously A Song of Ice and Fire has a lot of lore and stories to draw upon but the Battle for the Dawn and the Long Night are purposefully left ambiguous by Martin in order to cement their mythic status. Any one making a series about it is gonna be working without a map, unless Martin decides to provide one.

It's hard to assume anything. If Sansa is involved it's probably as a spectator, unless we're buying into that (IMO very unlikely) "Sansa kills the Mountain" fan theory, and if she's just a spectator they could've easily filmed her parts already and just need to do the actual fighting, a stand in could probably be used if they want someone with her colouring in background shots.

Gee what a fantastic finals, NBA. Thrilling and unpredictable. Thanks for encouraging teams to skyrocket over the salary cap and not doing anything to encourage parity in this league.

I don't really think any of us can say what being burned alive is like. I'm sure it is more painful then a beheading. We hear Dickon and Lord Randyll scream and we see them writhe in the flames. Was it quick? Arguably, but not as quick as a swift stroke to the neck. Was it painless? Absolutely not. She never actually does offer him the Black either, Tyrion suggests it but Randyll points out that she has no way to compel him to the wall, as only someone he has sworn to obey may do that. They also don't show Jon's reaction, but is that so he doesn't paint her as an enemy in our eyes, or is that so he can feel comfortable swearing allegiance to her afterwards? To me that scene was important because she doesn't get into specifics, she tells Jon that "she has fewer enemies now" but she doesn't tell him she publicly executed a House by Dragonfire, she instead paints her actions as the same as Jon's killing of the Bolton men at the Battle of the Bastards. IMO, if we are building to a Jon/Dany standoff at some point, which I don't think is out of the question, it makes sense for him to see her cruelty later, so that he can lose faith in her. He can't exactly lose faith in her if he doesn't have faith in her to begin with. Dany chooses to burn people alive, either slowly or quickly, or feed them to her literal monsters, or lock them in a vault and let them slowly starve to death, or disembowl and crucify them in eye-for-an-eye style of justice. She seems to do this, not for any real reason, but because she likes to do it this way, or possibly to cow the populace into following her through fear in a move straight from the Emperor Palpatine playbook (Fear will keep the local systems in line.) She seems as psychotic as anyone in the series so far, save for the Boltons or the Mad King.

So should the Boltons be allowed to skin people alive until they die? Should the Ironborn be allowed to drown them? Should the Arryns be allowed to huck them out the Moondoor? All these people are rightly seen as at best insane, and at worst mustache twirling cartoonish villains. I don't have issues with Dany performing executions, the Tarlys were in open rebellion and said very clearly that they would never not be. But there's such a thing as a clean death, a beheading, a knife to the heart etc. This is why Ned and the Starks are seen as honourable in the eyes of both the characters and the audience. They don't take their criminals and let wolves eat them alive, because they aren't crazy. Burning people alive does not fit into the category of a clean death. It doesn't matter if it's tradition, it doesn't matter if "her dragons are part of her." It's cruel and unusual and sane people don't burn other people alive. Dany has a history of this too, she doesn't simply execute someone, she goes for a cruel and unnecessarily showy death, such as disembowling 100+ people or locking two people in a vault to starve to death. She's a freaking psychopath.

Yup, and people still watch so the NBA has no reason to change its format. Turns out basketball fans (at least most of them) don't want parity, they just want to see the same two teams meet up year after year.

I wanted more hockey. Not because I wanted the Knights to win or the Caps to lose, I just wanted more. Oh well atleast my Marlies are still playing for the Calder Cup. Congrats to the Caps, finally broke through after 40+ years. Congrats to Ovi, never made it past the second round before this year, but he only needed to do it once to make it all the way.

In the first episode they said just unplugging someone from their Reverie can cause catastrophic neurological issues. It does seem negligent that they wouldn't be working to develop some kind of way to safely end someone's Reverie if they refused to exit though. But at the same time it seems like Reverie is in some kind of beta test at the moment, so they haven't worked out all the kinks.

I'd like this a lot more if her partner was Bart Barley

Damn it might end tonight. I don't mind that the Caps will win, but it'd be nice to see a game 6 or 7. Come on Vegas, stretch this to another game. Get desperate!

Agreed I don't begrudge the Warriors their success, I begrudge the NBA for creating a system where this is even possible. The richest teams in the league should not be allowed to spend 50 million more than the most frugal. The soft cap is stupid, especially in a league where one player can take control of a game.

This episode was a little better than the pilot, but it still wasn't very good. It's difficult to care about any of the characters since we get so little on all of them, except for Mara of course, and it's difficult to care about her when she's moving so goddamn slowly solving these cases and doing it in perhaps the stupidest way possible. I mean it took her for freaking ever to look into the laptop. Speaking of the laptop, it was a horribly contrived way to include Alexis. I find it difficult to believe that an AI that is sophisticated enough to go through decades of facial recognition in seconds wouldn't have been able to help her crack a normal laptop with normal security protocols. There was absolutely no reason for her to bother Alexis, and no reason for Alexis to humour her request, other then the fact that the writers are struggling to find ways to include her character. Hot tip writers, that's a sign of bad writing.

I checked out his twitter link from the crowdfund post. Some of his recent tweets are like "I AM NOT OUT TO GET YOUR MONEY!" But it could be that he just misunderstood what everyone was trying to say about his gesture. I'm sure the cast wasn't accusing him of being a thief, moreso they just don't want the fans wasting their money in what will ultimately be a futile gesture because they know a few thousand isn't going to sway NBC.

Your family could probably provide them with e-mails and pictures and texts and whatever (assuming they could get your password or your phone or whatnot) or even notes or a journal you write on *shudder* paper. I mean they don't have to respect your privacy anymore, you're dead (I'm assuming). But if you stay totally off the grid, then yeah, they're pretty much screwed. I don't think you need to worry about "ending up back in highschool" because of old pics though. For one I'm sure the date would be taken into account. For two, it seems social media retrieval in this case is more to give a sense of personality. It'll help create a virtual approximation of you that is interested in the same things the real you was. If you post a lot about baseball, they'll make sure the virtual you is similarly interested in that, for example.

That's a good point. There's a great chance that the shows that have been crowdfunded did have some kind of of "You raise X amount of dollars and we'll provide the rest!" agreement in place with their distribution networks. Another good point. I hate to think that cynically but this has a lot of opportunity for someone to abscond with the money. Apparently the poor guy who started this has gotten a lot of this kind of talk though, and it seems to have disillusioned him. I hate to think he was just trying to help out, and instead got a bunch of people accusing him of trying to make a quick buck.

I've never seen it done spontaneously. But I have seen something like this. The Veronica Mars movie got made through some kind of crowdfund/kickstarter thing (but that was started by creator and producer Rob Thomas), as have a lot of high production webseries like Wil Wheaton's Tabletop. Nathan Fillion also jokingly suggested something like it for Firefly IIRC and got everyone riled up before he backed down and said that it's simply unfeasible. That also might be what Paterson Joseph is saying, something like Veronica Mars (minimal effects and stunts, not many sets needed, about a 2 hour runtime etc.) is possible to do via crowdfunding, main costs are gonna be towards paying people, and if its a pet project the actors might be willing to work for less, something like Firefly or Timeless, you'd need a huge sum of money, and you can't just pay less for effects and stunts.