If you take the tutorial Angela receives on the cleansing process at face value, then you’d need a large source of CSF to wash out the Nostalgia. So much that it would be ridiculous to transplant it from another human. But maybe an animal the size of an elephant could produce enough to make the process work.

I think the episode did a great job directing the audience towards that conclusion, starting with the focus Lady Trieu put on Cal’s amnesia towards the beginning. When Trieu confirms Manhattan is in Tulsa disguised as a human, the second half of the puzzle falls into place.

The main idea about using the Force that’s repeated in basically all Star Wars media is that the user needs to calm their mind to find that connection.  The game should probably argue that Cal finds that calmness through physical exertion, whether that was meditation through martial arts training, or the sense of time…

If I may offer a second opinion, another potential diagnosis may be psychosomatic affluenza. It’s a condition characterized by a patient’s desire to appear so rich that they are unable to understand, much less abide by, the rules governing normal members of society. However, sufferers lack the main cause of true…

The advertising campaign around Nostalgia was supposed to abuse public fears of an uncertain future, and if it wasn’t a psy-op itself it definitely helped Veidt develop his skills of mass manipulation. I don’t think the perfume had any mind altering effects, though.

The student was a junior when she joined the committee. She graduated in 2017. Ready Player One was assigned in 2014, which would have been her freshman year. Not only did she not have a say in it being assigned, it quite possibly could be the original motivation for her harsh stance.

The big thing I noticed out of Laurie, Angela, and Lady Trieu’s conversation was all of the times Laurie dropped “thermodynamic miracles.” That phrase was also peppered throughout the very important comic book conversation in which Laurie argues on behalf of humanity against Jon’s disinterest. Jon comes to the…

This was highlighted before the episode, but I find it delightfully grim.

There were a few of hints last episode that time is progressing differently for Veidt than in Tulsa. Besides the candle, his attitude towards his servants changed dramatically, and he went from writing a play to having it performed multiple times. This episode adds to that with another candle, as well as the rapidly…

The entire storyline with Veidt is currently a mystery. It’s completely divorced from anything else happening in the series. We’re still very much in a “why are we spending so much time on this” stage, and if it never relates back to Tulsa, it could easily be viewed as a waste of time.

Interestingly, this is a place where the political media and associated commentators can take a lesson from professional wrestling. Specifically, the concept that a title does not make a champion.

I can’t tell if he’s responding to the boos or if he just put on the fake smile when he recognized the camera was on him and went back to resting Trump face once it was off.

Veidt’s scenes are happening in a separate timeline, right? While Tulsa picked up right where we left off last episode, Veidt has moved forward a considerable amount. Possibly a full year, considering this episode’s anniversary cake has two candles now.  The time jump would also explain how his play has been completed…

My eyes were definitely drawn to Chloe in that segment.  But I really enjoyed the Scooby-Doo-esque color palette they had the dancers wearing.

Three starts isn’t a large enough data set to declare a statistical anomaly, at most all you’re getting from that is a trend. Especially in Greinke’s case, where his ERA against the Rays is an obvious outlier driving up his total ERA for the post-season. Greinke had a better than average night, but with a season long…

It’s an oversized sleep mask she’s planning to use to claim plausible deniability to her father’s crimes.  How could she possibly be involved if she couldn’t even see what he was doing?!

Trump eclipsing 50 Cent for Worst Ceremonial First Pitch is the least he could do for this country.

Looks like he gave his receiver a shot to make the play. It’s the same type of throw announcers talk about incessantly when fawning over Drew Brees.  And Lockett came through for his QB.

Surprised they blew the play dead. Since the Saints played the Rams and had a potential QB strip blown dead as an incompletion, the refs have seemingly made a point of allowing potential turnovers to run rather than ending the play.

I read this telling myself this is one of those situations where the team has a strong relationship with the reporter, like the Dodgers seemed to have with Tennant a while back.  Perhaps the Rays should try incorporating a bucket of Hi-Chew should they win again.