It had me at Star War’s first Jewish mother. 

Andor manages to put more complexity and depth into Mon Mothma in 5 minutes of screen time than 45 years of Star Wars material. And more development than Rogue one puts into all of it’s characters in it’s full run time.

Edwards is not involved with Andor, and notably had enough trouble wrangling Rogue one that Gilroy was brought in to help finish and polish the picture. Purportedly the same job he pulled uncredited on Godzilla. With apparently Edwards picking him to do so both times.

It’s not “water added”. Frozen fish, and especially shellfish are often packaged with sodium triphosphate (STPP). It’s a preservative that’s meant to limit damage from freezing. It also contributes a rubbery texture and causes the flesh to bloat up with added water during processing. That tends to get dumped the…

Diver scallops are the same sorts of sea scallops you might run into. But collected by divers instead of by dredge.

And the fact that they’re particularly large, dry packed, diver, sea scallops.

Most sharks are inedible. They piss their their skin, and the meat is suffused with urea. Gives them a nasty ammoniated taste.

I had heard of tourist trap seaside restaurants using hole punches to pop scallop sized discs out of the wings of rays and skates

. Real scallops cost quite a bit; for example, online retailer Maine Lobster Now sells them for $76.99 per pound.

I think it’s more to do with Tolkien’s conception of what he was doing. The medieval literature and folklore he was working from and trying to emulate. Mostly didn’t have a lot of Magic Missile style magic going down. And a lot of the magic it did feature was more high weirdness, when something more specific was…

Magic in Middle Earth in general was far subtler than we typically see in fantasy these days. It’s all in making things and putting power into them, stuff like Sauron influencing people from afar, the food and drink from the Elves that’s preternaturally fortifying.

because Zaentz/Middle-earth Enterprise owned the movie rights to The Hobbit and LotR — and still do, though now they’re owned by Embracer.

There’s a lot of speculation, even though there’s been a clear answer.

The Tolkien Estate and New Line/Warner Bros had a pretty antagonistic relationship.

The production has been pretty explicit that they haven’t gotten any additional rights. They do have more direct cooperation from the estate, and seemingly a better relationship.

They have no right to the Silmarillion, the show runners have explicitly confirmed that . The Estate will not, and has not licensed it.

Which is mostly likely to be descended from or related to BA.4/5. Which is why they’re pressing on to a booster targeted at that, rather than the one for BA.1. Which that had ready to go a while back.

Ok fine, then, but why the “emergency use” only approval?

RTFA

From what I understand this is not on top of dept or within expected expenses. This was a shortfall beyond predictions rooted in heavy spending that didn’t generate revenue.