I’m curious how the show will play out for me, but having read the books I do think that since the book slowly reveals mysteries and expands its scope, the show would benefit from the weekly discourse from everyone being on the same page. It’s kinda made for “did you see what happened last week?”/”What do you think…

I think generally a story this epic and with a loooong list of characters is helped by this medium. The book introduces a ton of characters many of whom have Chinese names that just don’t roll off my American tongue, so it was a real challenge keeping the characters straight. I think that would be easier to track on TV…

*Indiana Jones has entered the chat*

He was just trying to get that lame-o out of his yard!

I’ve seen a few think pieces discussing nostalgic TV watching like it’s something that just started with streaming. Kinda ignores things like “Nick at Night” and day time syndicated TV that has been a thing for decades.  None of this is new

It’s six weeks later, yes, but I only just finished watching the season tonight (last two episodes) and the finale just minutes ago. And, yes, I’ll gladly cop to crying my eyes out at the final minute or so before the credits rolled.

The other aspect of it is that being a die-hard insane sports fan is SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE and even encouraged, wheras being a die-hard fan of some nerd thing ... isn’t.

There has been a trend to dismiss the HP books as “no, they’re actually really bad!”

“entitled to whatever they enjoy” ... “grow up a little”

I was an adult when I first read them, and didn’t find them bad. Maybe I’m just a semi-literate dolt?

Eh, I’d say that appreciation of variety is a good thing to have. The way some people talk about entertainment, it’s like “Okay, you’re 30 now! Time to eat steak or seafood for every meal, and NO CANDY.”

No problem!

The actual Three Body Problem is a pretty famous problem in physics (basically it is easy to compute how two bodies, say the Earth and the Moon, move in relation to each other, but once you add a third body, say the Sun, it is far harder because that third body is influencing both of the others and you have to resort…

Personally I don’t think a flash forward, like your Breaking Bad examples, are the same as a time jump. To me, a time jump is shifting the main events of the series forward by months, if not years, to change the dynamic of the characters / plot.

Heaven Sent has to be the best episode the show ever did, classic or modern.

Came here just for this. The whole season finale episode you don’t understand how Jack’s “flashback” scenes fit into the timeline of everything and you’re trying to pin down his bearded alcoholism to dealing with his divorce or father issues or whatever, and figure out when/how he cleaned up before the flashback…

At least a couple not listed, both in the Doctor Who sphere (which I guess is sort of a cheat):

Not even an honorable mention for LOST? The “we have to go back” twist that seemed like a flashback, and was in fact a time jump, was pretty amazing. And the show, for all it’s problems, had a ton of time jumps to choose from. I mean there was was even a full season about fixing two disconnected timelines.

“...Dune his Part Two...” -> “...doing his part to...”