And so begins the dissolution of most of the remainder of Britain’s formal links to its former Dominions - and given how badly the Tories have screwed things up, probably not much more than even odds on England remaining in union with Scotland too.

The show would have been significantly improved to deviate from the book and kill Viserys off during the hunt given how weak his character development has been and how the plot needs to get moving someplace if they’re not willing or able to do it with the characters. As I mentioned last episode, they’d have been far…

Mostly amused that Amazon bothered to stir itself on its rating system - which has been terrible for over a decade once humans stopped being involved on its side - than anything else.

It’s an interesting theory. The problem with it is that book Sauron knows exactly who he is and what he’s doing pretty shortly after that crash given where we apparently are in the timeline; I won’t spoil the plot for those coming across this comment who haven’t gone into the lore, but you may want to look up Annatar.

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I’m rooting for one of the blue wizards as well, since they’re basically blank slates. It’d also fit with the southern focus; what little we know about them involves establishing themselves in the lands of the humans.

I’m not sure how much I played War In Middle Earth - I was wrecking my education with Ultima V at that point - but when I watched a long play video, the first thing I noticed was the Synergistic Software logo was a straight ripoff of SSI’s.

It can be done if you make it about what trade means at its basic level. As in, can your smallfolk afford to eat or are they about ready to revolt? Can you hold that tourney without a loan? Do you have to rely on the Lancasters (who are at their peak in gold mining unlike GoT) or the Free Cities for a funding? The…

It’s early, but one of the things that’s a bit concerning is that the way they’re filling in the outline here hasn’t really worked yet.

The dialogue that we’re privileged to listen to here as a sneak preview is...not compelling.

In our write-up from Sundance this year

Thanks and agreed; Jimmy’s whole storyline was essentially meaningless to the bombers’ goal and made little difference except to serve as a vehicle to introduce them. It feels like when they broke the season, one thing they realized early is they needed a reason for the space program to continue despite everything…

...where you learn about this new astronaut’s journey and understand who he is as a human, who he loves, and what keeps him going

Whelp, as predicted we got our drama filled finale, and hey, I even got a couple of things right.

Based on RDM’s history of giving the finger to his critics, I am not nearly as optimistic that Danny isn’t going to be back for Season 4.  We shall see.

First, North Korean, not South, but I suspect you’ll get more than a few people with that correction. Per Reddit, the Cernan football refers to him telling Ellen about throwing it on the moon, which is what inspired her to do the tank toss with Apollo 24. Also, Nixon’s portrait has been there all season.

If you’re going to watch E9 tonight, you might want to make sure the pillow is close.

That’s a shame.

You’ll probably enjoy my commentary on the next episode as well, then.

Not really, since character development was non-existent in the movie.