A volcano will kill them all, Pompeii style.

The couple of small details I found interesting in this episode were:

Autocorrect really beat Aemond’s ass here.

Laenor was a good father to Rhaenyra’s children, he tried to do his duty to the realm.

The wife’s face tells a story that the words don’t. Her face was full of sorrow and fear. That combined with the husband buying it for her creates a scenario where it seems less like he got her something she wanted and more he got her something so she would become what he wants. Commercials only have a short time to…

I think a better ad would have been the original Peloton lady, now incredibly buff, watching the episode while she cycles. She sees Mr Big die, mutters “Pussy”, and keeps on riding.

I liked this one better than last week’s just because it felt like it really had one difference (Hope joining SHIELD then dying) that set off everything’s events. Last week’s had one difference (T’Challa gets kidnapped) but then there’s like a dozen more things that have to fall into place for that story to happen.

My take was that Shane never would have assumed the gift in his suitcase was from Rachel, because he didn’t take Rachel’s grief as genuine in the first place. He was just humoring her as she had what, in Shane’s eyes, was just a temporary depressive episode (“after you’re done spiraling...”), but figured she’d sort…

The suite being bad was the point. Shane didn't even care as long as he "won".

I think she was more talking about Kai being arrested. I’m not sure she feels that deeply about the history of Hawaii’s native people.

I wish there was anything “uniquely odd” about it. She’s just someone who thinks she has the right to tell a person of color what to do. That’s neither a rare attitude among white people nor a mental health condition. For more than a decade, far right media has hyped people up, convincing a good portion of them that…

“We have rules, I don’t... have to go find out what they are.”

To me, Shane seemed more “annoyed and embarrassed” upset than “heartbroken and shellshocked that I drove my young wife to suicide yesterday” upset.

Someone on Twitter suggested that she might had been going through a crisis of confidence when she met Shane. And maybe he gave her some validation at first which swept her off her feet.

As I’ve said before, Shane was okay to talk about the dead body but not his wife’s whereabouts, suggesting they are two separate things.

But she’s a writer, I doubt it’s rare for her to stumble across a fellow reader.

I think you’re right in that she has been rolling her eyes at his behavior. She said in a previous episode, and accurately, that he wasn’t dealing with his knowledge of his dad’s homosexuality at all well. I read her reaction to his complaint on the scuba boat as surprise, and that it was, to her, another case of him…

Quinn was in awe of those guys because while he’s getting a scuba training in the kiddie pool talking about what it means to be a man with his father, these guys are maneuvering a canoe on the ocean with skillful ease just being men by travelling on the water using their manual power. Later, he sees them hanging out…

Yeah, I feel like he saw those guys and thought about never being a part of something, you know? Like a group or a team of people working together. Our phones, ironically, keep us so siloed as people and I think it must really affect people who are in a growth mode.

While I loved this episode and really liked the Madripoor one too, I’d say that COVID definitely seemed like a factor in all three of these episodes. The ending here definitely would have made more sense if they’d originally designed it for there to be masses of people shoving and rioting to get on the ship, making…