The bit where Sally’s friend says she doesn’t watch much TV, then lists off a long list of all the normiest shows she does watch was hilarious.

I assume it will be the Janus Films library (Janus and Criterion technically aren’t the same company, but they work very closely together) plus whatever other stuff they can license.

The Magicians got a Season 4 Premiere review. (I don’t see anything here about this getting regular coverage).

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Thinking about it now, that contribution shouldn’t have gotten her into the good place at all, if like Martin Luther King Jr.’s or whoever’s couldn’t. Her idea is being implemented by her sister and it doesn’t sound like it’s made an impact on society being broken. If the positive ranking of her action would have…

I dunno, I could probably buy that the Legends wasted a bunch of money on condiments even though they have a free, unlimited supply from the waverider.

I agree that I wish they’d played more with the fallout of that stuff. But I am glad the writers didn’t forget about Simmons’ ruthlessness in this arc (for example when she tried to murder Ward in season 2). She makes a pretty good partner for bad-Fitz, actually.

Thinking about it, this season happened in such a compressed timeframe they’d only be missing, what, a couple weeks together? Granted, that would be including their engagement and wedding, but still.

They weren’t married yet. Frozen-Fitz’s last memory of Jemma would be her disappearing at the diner from the season 4 finale and his only memories of this seasons would be the stuff in the flashback episode prior to being frozen.

There really isn’t any logic I can think of for Frozen-Fitz to be erased. But there is kind of one for the rest of the team (including now dead Fitz) to be because they have memories/experiences of a timeline that will no longer happen.

If that’s the case, I guess the alternate timeline would be a continuation of the what we saw in the first half of the season where the earth has been destroyed, right? So basically what happens to the people they left behind after they traveled back in time.

Basically, prior to them breaking the the loop in this episode, everything was a 12 Monkeys (the movie, I haven’t seen the show) style stable time loop, with no alternate timelines and only a single series of events that resulted in the earth being destroyed. So this whole time in the second half of the season there…

Yeah, my assumption has been that the future timeline we’ve seen this season isn’t one where half of humanity disappeared. Either because of your explanation, or because it takes place after (or “after” in a time travel iteration sense) whatever way movies resolve things.

I’ve never understood the logic of people thinking that a smaller number of episodes would mean a larger budget per episode. It’s not like the constraint is ABC/Disney having a limited amount of cash to spend.

Well, OUaT is a show that’s done seven seasons and lost almost its entire main cast a year ago.

Actually, the ratings aren’t that bad considering the Friday timeslot (or perhaps, more acurately, the ratings for everything on broadcast is bad). Most of the ratings sites have it as a tossup. I actually think its fate comes down more to whether Disney/Marvel think bringing it back is good for the brand.

Actually, I think it’s that HBO does care and wants everything to be 16:9. I read a twitter conversation between filmmakers a while back and the only time they use a non 16:9 transfer is when the filmaker put it into their contract.

Many of the mythology episodes are great, but they work more as standalones (or two parters) within a larger continuity, rather than forming an arc in the way we now expect serialized tv to do.

The show hinted at a bunch of other explanations as well. Anyone else remember the subplot about Mulder donating sperm for in vitro fertilization?

Even going by the Wikipedia description, this does kinda sound like an alternate world, if orcs and stuff are commonplace and a large portion of the population. Buffy and Twilight (I’m not familiar with True Blood) are set in the real world with the fantasy stuff being basically a secret subculture.