I’m at work and can’t compare the two at this moment, but the cover from the episode last night sounds similar to a cover I heard on Girls by Aurora. It’s very pretty and lullaby-ish.

The level of production and narrative confidence this show has blows apart anything Benioff and Weiss ever created (disregarding all the legitimately great GRRM content).

If he’d gone straight from Lost to this, I would be deeply cynical. But he made The Leftovers and that was a show that made me a lifelong fan. Thus far he's paid off that trust. I don't think everything will get completely resolved ("Think I'll just, let the mystery be!") But I'm excited to see how this ends. 

Honestly my first thought was Manhattan was Angela & Cal’s strange boy child (w/ his crystal palace model and other general disconnectedness), but Cal makes more sense overall. Great reveal either way!

I can’t help but wonder now if Angela’s children are Manhattan clones. The floating magnets, after all.....

I feel some mild panic at the sheer amount of stuff that needs to be wrapped up in two episodes. I sincerely hope Lindeloff keeps his promise and this really is a self-contained season, but there is so much left to wrap up.

I’d try that, but I just don’t have that much material about knowing Colin Jost.

Thanks to DVD, I finally got to see Doom Patrol! It is a dense show but in a complimentary way. It feels like the shamebaby of Legends of Tomorrow & Legion, & it may be even better than both.

The krill village definitely felt like a STNG episode where they insisted they couldn’t break the Prime Directive, then ended up having a massive phaser battle where a cave-in buried Jean Luc’s native love interest.

The best part was when the inn keeper didn't realize he was trying to but information and just thought he was a big tipper.

Anyone else sort of wish that Cara was an Imperial soldier, just to throw some shade into the generally predictable Empire = always bad people, Rebellion = plucky good people.

I definitely got the feeling Bryce Dallas Howard was trying to make the AT-ST like a T-Rex after her time on Jurassic World.

Probably because those are uniforms not of types, but of the gyms.  They’re the ones worn by the leader and the other trainers of that gym, who’re theoretically also battling it out before the Gym Challenge to assert who’s in the Majors and who’s in the Minors for that season.  You can buy those uniforms like you can…

After you beat the raid, you’ll have a chance to catch the Pokémon. Use a regular old Poké Ball for that one—you’re guaranteed to catch it.

is it difficult being this boring of a person

This was a great episode. (I actually thought AVClub would give it an F so I’m surprised by the C-). Also, who are the two cis white guys from Canada who shouldn’t be offering their opinions on trans issues?  (Trey and Matt are from Colorado).

Yet another reason that the only canon Star Wars is Timothy Zahn’s EU Thrawn novels.

Look, this is why this shit is a big deal. YA novels aren’t some kind of frivolous bullshit that isn’t worth reading because they aren’t The Great American Novel. If you’re at a university to challenge yourself academically, the Common Read isn’t the only place you can do that, and telling everyone that you joined a…

I liked it. The blerg riding was fun. Tina Fey used to say blerg all the time on 30 Rock and she’s a notorious Star Wars fan. Probably it’s just a coincidence, but who knows. That was pretty fun, though, for a Star Wars thing. I liked it a lot more than any of the Star Wars movies they’ve made in my lifetime.

Terrifying fact: that’s not even CLOSE to the world’s biggest catfish. The biggest was a Mekong Giant Catfish caught in Thailand. It weighed around 650 lbs and was 9 feet long.