It ALSO does the best reconciliation of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, creating both plausible Golden and Silver age timeline options and keeping Steve in WW2 where he really belongs.

Isaiah is legally “dead”, I thought (how he escaped incarceration), so it would be a little weird to ask his permission from a procedural standpoint.  It isn’t a tribute to a “living” person - it’s a memorial to that history. 

So, on the background noise to pay attention scale ....

This is folding laundry on the couch when it inevitably runs on TNT in a couple of years? 

Back when I was a teacher, and we did in service courses, I ended up writing a paper on why “Of Mice and Men” is basically a snuff film (e.g. - the wife is never given a name, we as readers have more empathy for accidental animal deaths than the woman).

This MAY have been influenced by the fact that I was also…

I think the grief is beyond Marvel if you look at the body of his work prior to Black Panther.  For many Black people, it is literally a film career of hope and aspiration, with particular meaning to the way his career overall depicted the Black experience and Black history.  And, as a Marvel actor, there were…

The closer something is to real life, the more acutely aware we are of it not being OUR life. The more something pushes us into the realm of narrative fictionalization, the more we identify with viewpoints of the protagonists. Literally empathy is built my part of our ability to understand storytelling and learn how…

The Pretty-Boy-of-Diminishing-Returns-Who-Dates-The-Main-Cast-Nurse was clearly a stock character of ER that needed to consistently be filled. 

The fight editing felt a bit rushed - I am wondering if limitations on production issues are affecting pacing. 

Abby was the nurse who became a doctor, was involved with and ultimately married Luka, and struggled with Alcoholism (along with Microbiology in med school - we meet her as a nurse because she is having trouble paying tuition for med school). There is a Carter detour romantically, and the arrogant but justified…

I loved her in Dispatches ... honestly, I think she was critical to everything working as well as it did. She is what pulls it into an ensemble piece.

Technically, she does listen to one advisor’s last words: Missandei.

Missandei uses her last words the way Dany uses her dragon on the previous owners of the Unsullied. 

Laurie Metcalf, John Goodman, Katie Sagal has been a recurring player and a fairly decent level of guest stars. Jay R. Ferguson joined as Darlene’s boyfriend. You can’t knock a lot of the cast. 

Literally, once they kicked Roseanne herself they’ve covered the opioid crisis, alcoholism, Covid, employment, multiple…

It’s been surprisingly solid. It is literally about how depressing things can get, economic instability, a lot of stuff on addiction. And the sisters still have some good comic chemistry.  Becky ALSO works at the factory (Darlene is her supervisor), but Becky just went to rehab for alcoholism.

And the new jobs is…

There are two types of lawyers in the British system, which is more inquisitional than adversarial in trial design. Barristers have the ability to represent their clients in court and tend to have specializations, versus Solicitor which is legal advice and something more akin to contract work or the document…

I think Flora’s picture to Miles could either be implied to convey she felt danger, or that he was needed. But given that he was aware of the ghosts and that Flora was alone in the house, he probably felt there was logical obligation. And the bird was the escalation when he could not get himself sent home in any other…

This movie wins points just for highlighting the Metro North commuter rail.  There is some fun with knowing the geography.  And I DO like the capping scene involves Amtrak by comparison.

Thank you for saving me the time of having to watch this.

I have a fondness for original Grey’s - the Christina/Meredith friendship was so well done. Dancing it out (with tequila) is real.

But I have not watched for many many years (about the time Izzy was having ghost sex). So thank you for giving me a head’s up on…

Sigh.

You don’t go to doctor when you don’t conceive IMMEDIATELY .... because that is actually fucking normal. Say it with me people - it can take a couple of months of trying before conceiving. And shit that “OMG I DID NOT GET KNOCKED UP THE 1ST TIME A TRIED” is something WRONG is actually a problem, and contributes…

I am hoping that there is a Halloween Heist flashback episode that ties into something later in the season .... and revisits the guinea pigs. 

There is a really big range between “trouble conceiving” and “infertile”, and a lot of different reasons. Having some kind of fertility issue is not the same a being infertile as a couple (e.g. - low sperm count may make it harder the old fashioned way but be easily rectified with insemination, individual partner…