Maltaran

I get the feeling that the scene with A-Train and his brother is going to set up for A-Train switching sides over the course of next season and end up working with the Boys

My impression was not that she definitely couldn’t do it, but that she was a) unsure whether or not she could and b) terrified of the consequences if she failed

She survived in The Americans as well

Also, the full Soldier Boy clip that MM was watching at the start of the episode

I also liked the little bit there where we find out why

Presumably they built 1024 because it is 2^10

“I can see your house from here”

What makes you think they’re unedited?

I thought neeps were turnips

My impression from the video is that it’s something of an experiment to see a) how many people buy the books and b) how popular the extra loot boxes are. Now that he/his team have the figures then maybe in future they will do that.

He says the premium hardcovers probably won’t, but he doesn’t rule out then being released as regular books (ie without the illustrations)

It seems to be paywalled

Mars lost something like a third of its fleet to Duarte in the books, so probably don’t have anything to spare

Black Noir’s petting zoo

What an opening

I thought Zaheer would give Azula a run for her money.

No, the water tribes were based on the Inuit, and the actors cast, although not Inuit, are both native Americans

Isn't there a deaf leopard somewhere as well?

The main part of the country is East Ravka, which is where Alina is, the skiff in ep 1 was supposed to take them to West Ravka, which is the bit on the other side of the fold. Ravka is at war with Fjerdan (the Scandinavian-ish northerners), but I don't think they are at war with the Shu, just the Shu are guarding their border and not letting Ravkans go through their lands to get round the southern edge of the Fold. The race thing I think is show only, in the books IIRC Alina wasn't mixed race and the discrimination was because she was a peasant. As far as how the skiffs work, basically the one Grisha is generating wind to fill the sails and push it along.

If you did that in the UK you'd probably get the various versions of Mohammed coming top every year.

It’s on Sky Atlantic, but no idea why the delay

It doesn’t start in the U.K. until May 17

At the start of Interesting Times he’s marooned on a desert island until the wizards use Hex to find him and teleport him back to UU, so my assumption is that his offscreen adventures mostly happen between Eric and Interesting Times. Eric ends with him getting out of Hell but never actually says he got back to Ankh-Morpork