Yes. They consistently choose the worst thing to happen at all points. Unlike the reviewer, I dont find ANY of the changes worthwhile. (Maybe Tom choosing to go to Vegas on his own was good). The Dayna-and-the-note thing was an example of the Commercial Cliffhanger trope I mentioned  elsewhere.  It seems they wrote…

Sonce it’s all unstated and unshown this is all friendly speculation. But...

Let’s not forget Ralph(Rae) Brentner on the trek to Vegas. Also, let’s not forget Ghost Nick helping Tom. I have to assume the reason they chose a speaking actor was so that he could, at one point, speak.

I think a female Trashy would have been a very cool change. Fiona Dourif would have been great. (as her dad would have been in an earlier time.) Some of the lesser parts here are because of the BC tax credit. The Judge is an obvious one. Local Canuck actor.

Yeah.  It was good.  Too bad they just marginalized Whoopi, too.  I think she could have really made this role something.

I sort of agree.  But Frannie’s baby gets it.

Well, it’s a big week for definition issues.

In the book he is very engaging and expressive. He exudes awareness and intelligence.  Maybe they're saving it up for when he's  Dream Nick 

The book has it where the military commander played by JK Simmons, here, oversees making sure the disease is spread to the rest of the planet. Unknown what happens in this show. 

On the “nobody is queer” point. Out of curiosity. Does a character have to aver their sexuality to count? People of all sexualities prefer to be seen as more than their sexuality, no? Dayna’s a canonical lesbian. Rae, Glen, Tom, Joe, Mother A, Weizak, and the head of the body crew all just are doing their thing. No…

Again, should the one who utters the word, or any label, and think that they are being insulting, they are hurling a slur. Regardless of how the target feels about it. If one one knows themselves to be a fat boy and is either ok with, or comes to terms with, that fact, it can still be hurtful if a person sez “Hey…

The movement was started by a woman and just indicates “involuntarily celibate”  It was taken up as an angry man thing, and while I agree that Harold would decide whether he took it poorly or not, if it was hurled at him in a derogatory way, it wouldn’t matter what he thought, but what the person who used it thought. …

It’s hard to get wound up about anything on this show anymore. It’s an incoherent mess, and not striving for much else. This universe’s Nick died as he lived. Just standing there like a tool. Joe, rather than leading Mother Abigail back, just does his best Carrie Henn. Stu continues to be useless. Frannie decides not…

You aren’t wrong. We discussed that at some length last ep. Agreed. It’s a complete departure and not helpful to the story. Though a surprising number of folks here found that kind of neverending Bacchanal enticing.

Labels are neither good nor bad. It’s the intent behind them. I think that the word “liberal” can mean something great. When the far-right folks call someone a “liberal” are they using it as a compliment? I’ve known many a woman who’s referred to herself as a “chick.” There are those, though, that consider that label…

It doesn’t help your argument, the one where lawdog used the word wrong but you use it right, by Jove!, to note that there are multiple meanings. So I discounted it. I think you forgot the point you’re arguing. What else ya got? We’re tenacious, you an’ me, eh?

THERE’S the recognitions I know.

The problem with a tv show is that there is still the mindset that you have to structure everything around commercials.... even though that is less and less if a thing. So a story can’t breathe naturally. Three scenes, CLIFFHANGER! *break* three scenes... and there is some truth to it. The much-maligned Boulder…

yeah.

That’s not what YOU think it means.  I suspect it's because you use it and consider yourself a paragon of virtue.