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Who is advising Harry about the optics of what he writes?

With all the revelations, something that I’ve wondered about for a while is how isolated he’s become from whatever support network he had.

“Yankees Fans. (Eyeroll.)

One of the few things I remember from watching Attack of the Clones in the theater on the day of release (or for that matter now, since I think I’ve fast forwarded through it at most a couple of times since) was the “Yoda! Yoda! Yoda!” chants as it was clear who was about to be the cavalry charging over the hill, and

It also actually had a romance

Great find. I’m almost positive there was at least one more (and maybe two? - they played constantly on the TV guide channel) with him trying to murder the implied boyfriend at Meadow’s college, but you see exactly why nearly 25 years later I remembered this as one of the most misleading promos ever made.

Imperioli says he couldn’t tell if The Sopranos was supposed to be a spoof, a comedy

Alex Wellerstein has expanded on his brief comment on the Oppenheimer clearance, and I think it’s worth passing along what else he had to say given he’s about as good as it comes to nuclear history.

I’m glad to see someone else on the 1883 train.

What an idiotic move.

Besides her impressive songwriting skills, she always struck me as perhaps the only member of the group who learned from the megastar days that this wasn’t who she wanted to be and grew from the experience.

Lincoln needs to be higher if for no other reason that the thesis presented in it about why he pushed for the Thirteenth when he did is genuine historical research; there were several articles on that at the time. It also properly points out just how much of the North wasn’t all that enthusiastic about where Lincoln

What Sweeney’s comments made me think of was Uma Thurman circa 1988, where I remember a review of Dangerous Liaisons that said there were audible gasps in the theater when she took her shirt off. (I also suspect no mainstream reviewer would write that nowadays.)

“It’s raining again.”

The finale was decent; it was everything that led up to it that was the problem.

Butter also vacuum seals well and if you do that it’s got a like a 3 year freezer life.

In all the analysis about what was wrong with the show, it’s a shame that the main plot criticism didn’t get more play because it really was at the root of the issues. It’s even worse since unlike much of the rest of the series, at its core EoTW had a fairly solid spine to build around even if contained tropes: the

S3 got formally picked up at Comic Con a couple months ago, so it’s mostly a hope that someone competent will be running it by then.

While there are certainly multiple issues with Rings of Power, it is a best-of show in comparison to S1 of Wheel of Time.

Last week’s action-packed blood feast finally delivered Rings fans the epic battles TV viewers crave.