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That's logical, though. Any additional theatrical revenue simply diminishes the lure its meant to be for the Netflix service, thus costing them money on that end.

I wouldn't really call it predictable, especially since Gilles/Poirier and Guignard/Fabbri haven't competed against each other yet, and Chock/Bates have been dealing with errors thus far (they really need to turn the momentum around, though).

I don't see why it would be an anachronism. Policing was never a job that made you rich.

It looks like this might be Piper & Paul's season. The ladies' event at the Final will be really interesting (and four nations represented, for the first time since 2017).

It's funny how much Elon Musk worked to make this movie more relevant in the month or so between when I saw it at TIFF and when it is getting more general release.

Kaori, Ye-lim and Isabeau are all guaranteed. Loena and Mai will be in as long as they don’t finish well off the podium this weekend. Rinka is on the bubble with her 1st + 5th, but as long as Anastasia Gubanova doesn’t place top two this weekend she’s also in.

Star 80, which I mentioned above, is an excellent film if you’re interested in Stratten.

The ending took me by surprise insofar as I'm much more familiar with Dorothy Stratten's story versus Banerjee's, so I wasn't expecting that to happen because the show took some pretty significant liberties with how they got to that point. But this is a series about Banerjee, not her and Paul, so that makes some sense from a dramatic perspective. Bits of Paul's time emceeing are depicted in Bob Fosse's film Star 80 (the mud wrestling, in particular), but I don't believe the Chippendales connection is ever raised there.

The vast majority of audiences had no relationship whatsoever to any of the MCU characters prior to the debut of their film incarnations. Iron Man is not a classic character that people all over the world want to see, Iron Man-as-played-by-Robert Downey Jr. is. The Guardians of the Galaxy, who are C-list characters at best in the comics and had no wider pop cultural profile at all, got turned into a hugely successful franchise. The MCU at this point is big enough to create new stars, it doesn't need to continually recast a handful of extant heroes.

I'm so happy for Lolo & Nik, the biggest win of their careers so far. I definitely wasn't expecting that, and they clearly weren't either. Another big surprise is Kim beating Sakamoto, the first Korean win on the circuit since 2009. Rinka can count her blessings that the American ladies all tanked here, otherwise her Grand Prix Final hopes would be slim to none.

I'm excited that Marjorie & Zach seem to have definitively entered the 80+ RD club, since they've done it twice this season, though for whatever reason the camerawork for their performance today way mostly shot from bad angles (maybe the front-facing camera was malfunctioning?).

Definitely lesser. He only had two quads and I think one triple Axel.

Tragically, Roman leads after the short program, so he is doomed in the free skate.

My understanding is that Sam Claflin wasn't available for this one.

Not really a lack of will, it's just that there are rules and procedures to follow. Any time a federation just decides to ignore the rules they can gum up the works for a bit.

I believe Deanna just became the oldest Grand Prix gold medalist in history. Also the first Canadian Grand Prix win for somebody other than Piper & Paul since 2017. Ye-lim Kim's reaction to still being the silver medalist despite not skating particularly well was hilarious.

If they're not on Rhaenyra's side, nobody is going to listen to them about that (which would be tenuous anyway, as they're also Rhaenyra's direct heirs and she has her own house).

But they have no authority to call the betrothals off. Baela and Rhaena are Daemon's daughters, they're his to betroth as he sees fit, answerable only to the head of House Targaryen (which is Rhaenyra, as they see it).

The scene where Daemon immediately kneels to Rhaenyra at her impromptu coronation amused me since Matt Smith's Prince Philip in The Crown has an episode-length snit about doing this.

Nobody last episode knew he had gone rogue, which is why he wasn't stopped. He's a Kingsguard, he'd be assumed to be on the king's business wherever he went (including into the king's quarters, which is presumably where he got the crown).

I don't see the problem. They've got at least two seasons, probably, before Aemond dies. They can build him up as a villain over then. I like the change, as a whole, because it makes Aemond smarter (he knows that killing Lucerys is a dumb move) and gives him somewhere to go rather than being a complete psycho from the beginning.

Presumably because that didn't happen in the world of ASOIAF. It happened in the TV universe.

The general character/dialogue on this show is consistently pretty good, but I've by now noticed that the action pieces are often a bit contrived.