Like everything else, what seems like a good idea can head down a road we shouldn’t take. If VR makes the cows less stressed during the winter, then why let them out of the barn in the spring?

A chosen cow will rise up to free HER bovine brothers and sisters!

I’m sure that’s only when they get their personal special weapon. Like selecting a willow branch to make into your wand. (A real wand, not Harry Potter.)

Bald is beautiful. In the last year I’ve gotten crushes on three different balding men. Now I know I must be old...

True... but he’s not just picking up from his bounty hunter days. Clearly his time with the Tuskens is going to change his philosophy of life.

He did a pretty good job with the choreography.

I think it’s 8-10 years after A New Hope.

So is this any worse than kissing someone on the mouth? I mean, you’re slobbering all over them! And touching them! People used to do this? Ew!!

In my community there are police vehicles which are not technically unmarked but are black with “[Town] Police” painted on the side in black.

Some people must like a big helping of prejudice with their morning coffee. The Twelve Tribes have some pretty unattractive beliefs and practices - they ran a cafe in my hometown too - but so far no one has suggested anything more than that the fire began on their property accidentally.

That’s a possibility, but I’d rather have more than one fighting woman character. In most of the Star Wars movies there is one female lead and you need a magnifying glass to find anyone else who has more than two lines. As Yoda said, “There is another!”

The pitfall of episodic drama is that viewers expect an answer to the whodunit (or whatdunit) by the end of each episode. Miniseries may wrap up the storyline in a month; some shows can take multiple seasons to produce a resolution; but the kind of thoughtful yet realistic series you describe would need to be more…

I know what an N95 mask is, because it says so on it, but it would be good to show a picture of “medical-grade surgical” masks. The blue and white papery ones? The hospital ones that tie in the back? The video linked in the fourth section of the article is not helpful.

Each week I am so impressed by the artistry of Olivia Colman and David Thewlis. They act their talented heads off.

Good point about the lanes. I stay in the middle lane if there is one. That way I don’t have to deal with cars entering the highway on my right, and all the speed demons can go far far away from me.

My mother made goose once in a while for Christmas, mainly in the Sixties. I doubt that she ever did any kind of poaching or boiling first. It is, indeed, very fatty but then you might a well save the fat for something.

The growth in the characters over the years has been a delight to both viewers and book readers. This season, each episode will be a gift. (Although sadly, more Monica. More sadly, no Jose Zuniga.)

A major feminist voice that we have lost way, way too soon.

Rowland did not “buy the town”. There are attractive private homes; businesses include McKenzie-Childs home decor (already out of the financial reach of most people). People have been visiting “historic, charming” Aurora for decades, with or without Pleasant Rowland. No, I’m not on the payroll.

How can an act of cowardice be “brazen”?