Including South Asia, too, don't forget! Kala's storyline isn't nearly as dear to me as Sun's, but there was some good stuff with her in the first season, and Tina Desai is just great always.

You don't know us by now?

Shoulda looked down the comments a ways…

Well, Civil War was absolute shit on the page, and they made it into a pretty darn good movie!

Brother (or sister): I was the one Library Lass was originally responding to, and though her position isn't one I share, I gotta say she doesn't deserve to be addressed like that. You're projecting an awful lot onto her perfectly fair comments. Her initial comment didn't mention queer relationships at all. …

Okay.

Fair point. Antipathy may have been too strong a word—distaste? Though it's not based on her appearance so much as her public persona that I've seen. I never really liked the aesthetic of her videos, and she seemed to consciously project vulgarity. Glad to be proved wrong about that last point, at least.

Will do!

OK, I've had a deep antipathy towards Nicki Minaj for her outward image, for a while now.

You can also be happy while being in a romantic relationship. And a romantic relationship brings happiness to Jack and to Ashi. So what's your point?

"Now, are you watching closely?"

"I HOPE YOU ALL DIE IN DEBTOR'S PRISON!"

Viking funeral for me. "No worms, Grandpa!"

Terrible. This is a show with some underlying currents of dread but an overall tenor of hopefulness. Mikkelsen would have totally upset the balance: If he were Whispers, I don't think I would have any doubt but our 8 would be meeting a grisly, brutal end.

While the celebration's going on, all of a sudden:

Right. I've got a pretty good idea of what's going on with the overarching plot… sorta. But enough that I've got a pretty good idea of who Mr. Wednesday, with "just the one [eye]" is.

I remember him, yeah. Shiiiiit.

Oh wow, you are so right about that! I wondered why that Anthropology prof was grating on me. Yup: JMS' writing without anything interesting going on to help the medicine go down easier.

As far as I know.

Yup. I look at an AV Club post from January '16 where I said essentially President Trump was never gonna happen unless "I've somehow misjudged the electorate."