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Eesh, that one really tested my faith in the show. The Stevens kids front and centre and they’re the worst thing about the show. Isn’t Jimmy supposed to be nearing 30 by now? And this story feels like it’s written for a 15 year old, doing bad shit cos a pretty girl smiled at him. So many stupid moments in this; how the fuck did they steal a statue? What there’s no cameras at the front of the main building? Thank god they had a badge so they could get to … that bit that Jimmy had to pass to get the badge in the first place. Ed clearly knew Danny was high, so maybe restrict his access to the drugs? Maybe don’t put him anywhere near anything critical, instead of saying “Hit me! Be a man!” What lesson is he hoping to leave Danny with there? And other guy knew Danny was a liability, should never have left him watching something so critical. This whole trope of ‘drug user empties another pill and looks at himself in the mirror’, there must have half a dozen of those same scenes by now. Contender for worst episode ever I think.

So, I was 11 in 1994* and wasn’t paying attention to the progress of gay rights in the US. Did the level of outrage seem about right here? It kinda felt overdone but I’m not sure. I know the military thing would be an issue, but it would’ve been nice to balance that with some segment of the population being happy for him. Maybe swap out a Danny scene… another classic from him. “Doesn’t think I’m cut out?! I’ll show him!” *destroys some equipment* *actually, I had a feeling that was too early for Supergrass - ‘Alright’, do we assume we’ve rolled around to July 1995? Did Kelly get sent the song from Earth?

Finally caught up! Whew. It’d be so cool if the forum had a feature where it flagged up episode dates in discussions like this. Had to keep cross referencing airdates and post dates. Such a great series, but gotta agree about Danny. It was so out of character for Karen to sleep with him, and now he’s just a ticking time bomb and we’re just sat waiting for him to fuck up his life. Agree with the previous post; he’s absolutely stupid enough to tell Ed. I put money that he does by the end of the season. It’s a bit of a shame that we’ve only seen him act like a jerk, the part where he got his life together and became an astronaut was off screen. All we’ve seen him do is pine after Karen.

So he managed to finish an email, apologising for a blog that isn’t written, a blog about a sample chapter that isn’t written, from a book that isn’t written. I guess we should be grateful he made it to the end of the email?

I don’t actually own a computer anymore, my iMac gradually got used less and less in favour of the iPad. Just never have any call for it. I watch everything on a TV, YouTube and all streaming. I still find it weird when YouTubers say ‘hit the bell in the corner’ and wonder who the hell’s watching on a computer, and not in full screen. I use Prime a lot more recently since I discover they have all of South Park, though weirdly it might be a glitch - it says they only have selected seasons, and the others are purchasable, but then you just go to one that’s free and go down to the episodes and along, it’ll play all of them.

Holy shiiiit this gets dark… long, but worth a watch if you have the time.

For some reason ‘Horse-mmunity’ cracked me up, and seemed to sum up the type of humour they were aiming for here.

I forgot to mention this, it’s really weird that something so important is buried in the appendix. It’s all fantasy and then you hit the appendix ‘so, these aliens landed...’ ... WTF?

I really enjoyed the first two books, the third was OK but I felt like they built up the mystery of Kellhus’s Dad a bit too much and the pay off wasn’t worth it. The first and second of the next trilogy, I’ve never been so bored reading a climax. They’re in a cave, they’re in another cave, they’re in another cave, cave, another cave, yawn. Never bothered with the last two.

I haven’t see that season, but that sounds awful. I bailed half way through the Jo Brand season cos I got the same vibe from her. It’s quite childish, the “you can’t fail if you don’t try” attitude. The show’s best when the contestants are funny, but also really want to win and are truly competitive.

Yea it is one of those shows that’s only really as good as the contestants. I think season 2 was my favourite.

I attempted Discworld many, many years ago but lost my way somewhere in the middle of The Colour of Magic. It sounds like it isn’t the best example of the Discworld novels, but does that mean it’s better to start elsewhere? Or is chronologically still the preferred option?

So, I’m not exactly sure what to call what it is I generally look for on YouTube, but I love discovering interesting mini-documentaries about pretty much any subject. Adam Neely has this excellent video on a particular jazz solo, but ends up getting really in depth about what it is about music that connects with an audience: Trekspertise is a fantastic Star Trek channel, and their review of Lower Decks delves into what it is about all Trek that resonates with them: And the great Lemmino, who researches random mysteries and produces some superb videos. Love to hear of any other YouTubers who can hit these heights, engaging, well produced, insightful, interesting stuff on any topic really.

I’m watching for the first time at the moment, and I’m really impressed with the voice actor of Aang, and that’s just a voice. It’d be a very tough cast.

Indeed. Genuine question; what portion of the ultimate audience that Netflix would hope for for this series come from fans of the animated series? Is it not better to keep everyone positive by keeping the original creators on, fixing whatever their issues may be? Or is that naive, and actually the old fan base would be negligible in terms of numbers? I suppose most would still watch, albeit with a more negative predisposition.

Can I ask a question about Tigana? I've just started Part II, Dianora.

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Yea it was just a muddled conclusion I'd come to from reading other posts about the chapter without reading it. I think I probably agree that Ramsay under false impressions is most likely. Although I do wonder; is there any reason to suspect he didn't? Why did all the conspiracy theories start, other than the fact it'd be lame if such an important character was unceremoniously killed off through a letter?

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Does anyone know if there's a way to edit the bolded "Quote" text at the top of a quote box? So if I were to post an excerpt from Jaime I aFfC, I could type that into the top so it appeared instead of the word Quote? I thought I'd done it earlier when i pressed delete at the beginning of the quote and it moved to the title line, but I haven't been able to replicate it. I can't remember what the code is to do it, if that would still work?

I finally got round to reading this. I'm working on a combined Feast/Dance/Winds reading order, and I gleaned that this took place before Jon's last chapter so I've put it a few chapters behind it. I was a bit disappointed as I'd heard mention that the Pink Letter theories rested on this chapter, so I was hoping it was gonna prove Stannis wrote it and therefore he was alive and well......well, it's not conclusive. There's a lot of good points to the theory, but I can't shake the lack of motive. Is he trying to get a significant enough army from them to make a difference in the battle? Despite Castle Black not contributing an army to anything other than beyond the wall for thousands of years? Even if they hadn't 'killed' Jon, and had by some miracle agreed to abandon the far greater threat to the North, how far away are they? What's stopping them getting stuck in the same snow that's preventing Stannis from going anywhere? It all seems too elaborate for such an unlikely chance at such a small reward. And the Mance part doesn't quite fit, I don't see any reason to think that Theon found out who Abel was. And I'm not buying that Stannis was in on the switcheroo. He was a deserter, laws should be made of iron, not of pudding. It also seems odd to have such crucial chronology out of order for GRRM, I can only assume the plan was to include the battle but still end the book with Jon's stabbing, and so he had to shuffle things around.

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