I’m very sorry that happened to you, and I suppose I’m glad you experienced a feeling of catharsis for him having having his ass beaten. I don’t feel sorry for him, but I can’t help but feel that the lesson here is that the beatings did not make the next women he abused any safer.

Umm, I’m pretty sure the Sopranos were judging Tony’s crew for being unsophisticated dingbats, not the quality of the food, which looked delicious and was portrayed as such.

I think it is totally reasonable for Driver to walk out if he’d established ahead of time that he did not want to made to watch/listen to himself.

I was a band/theatre kid in the 80s (graduated high school ‘91), and I hate the fuck out of Cats. At best it’s a showcase for some great dancing and acrobatics. The music is pretty awful (as is everything ALW did after JC: Superstar or *maybe* Evita), the lyrics are weird, the characters are sketches, and the plot is…

I had trouble with that one too, though actually when I was reading the popup on the right i was suddenly able to “see” the yellow dots.

Woah, I did Nazi that coming.

Whom are you even calling “the left” here? What is it that people are being intolerant of? Nobody is burning Google to the ground. Nobody is even suggesting boycotting Google (which, fair enough, is nearly impossible if you want to engage with the internet in any meaningful way). Reporting on what might be some…

They are *exactly* as stupid as all the ones we adopted instantly X number of years ago (about 30 for me since I’m 46).

McClintock is pretty great if you like this kind of thing. I particularly liked the Slayer/Katrina and the Waves one:

Yeah, I feel similarly. I actually have read the books, but it was so long ago, I only dimly remember them, and while I’ve occasionally noticed that some character or another didn’t have their daemon around, it has bothered me exactly not at all.

I’m reminded of an interview with Dick Wolf (Law and Order executive producer) where he said one of the things he was surprised by is how often, when someone says “fine, go ahead and shoot me”, the person does, in fact, shoot them, and then brings up as a defense “he told me to shoot him!”

“Squirtloaf makes a good point” sure isn’t a thing I thought I’d ever type. Thanks internet!

The corpse message is in flashback - somehow Trieu receives it and arranges/knows when and where Veidt will crash to earth in statue form.

Wasn’t that WWI German propaganda (at least in the context of the story)? Will is meant to be 106 years old, so if his father was in a World War, it would have been I, not II (unless they jimmied with that part of the timeline too and I missed it, but doesn’t adult Will read a headline about Hitler?)

Sure but he does put a lot of weight on social engineering, and maybe he “figured out” that a child with the combination of his genetic material and...someone else’s would be needed for his vision of humanity (remember, we’re already meant to accept that he engineered the presidency change down to the exact individual…

Oh I think she was already smug...

Who said it was a “love” child? It could easily have been a genetically engineered child with a perfect mate who was left copious video diaries from Veidt to do exactly what she is doing - Veidt-as-Harry-Seldon does seem to be a path the show is exploring.

Oh I was more talking about the characters he’s played in things like Fargo where he plays people with that characteristic.

I think we call that “William H Macy-ing”

Well yeah, but he was a guy with superpowers in a superhero story, even if a dark one. That’s going to let some people distance character from “real life” to some degree. Here he’s playing a real life murderer who murdered 12 real people.