I felt the same way about Return of the King. When I saw it in the theater, it felt oddly paced and longer than it’s already-long length. It was just a slog. I picked up the extended edition for the sake of completion and because the DVD sets looked nice. I was pleasantly surprised at how much smoother and quicker…

I still haven’t watched the theatrical cut of Dark City and am glad. I read about the theatrical cut after I watched the director’s cut on BD, and it sounds like it basically spoils the film at the beginning. 

Especially if that bb gun is fired out of the barrel of a larger gun. 

It’s pretty far down on the “dangerous jobs” lists; it’s not even in the top 10. That’s just a tale that we tell ourselves so when things like this happen, we can say, “Well, it’s a dangerous job, and they have to make split-second decisions about whether that’s a phone, a toy truck, or a gun.” 

He looks like the serious version of a Wiggles puppet. No bearing on anything that he’s said, done, published, etc. It just struck me in that photo.

I thought this was going to be the outtake reel with Oz’s voicework--- “Good lord... sweet Jesus!” 

Until it left Netflix, The Cleveland Show was a regular in my going-to-sleep rotation. I thought it was superior to Family Guy (which is a very low bar in my estimation) and had some great moments, as you say. When both that and American Dad were vanished, it became difficult to find tolerable fluff to have on as…

I think it was John— It was the “in the beginning” line with “The Word was with God...” in it, wasn’t it? Either way, she wasn’t reading. She needed a better lawyer.

“As it currently stands, June doesn’t appear to have anything particularly important or useful to contribute to the overall resistance movement”

I’m sorry, but as a Main Character™ she has the class skill Main Character Clout, which gives her +1 to all rolls, and once a day, she can reroll any roll of her choosing…

It would be easier to help people get out if she got out first and coordinated with people on the outside and infiltrated. While I’m sure the show will have her superhero her way through next season, it doesn’t make any pragmatic sense to double down on her handmaid garb and wander back into an area where guardians…

The central story could still take place in Gilead:
End of season 2— June leaves to Canada
Premier of Season 3— June is with a cadre of freedom fighters looking for children to liberate from Gilead to reunite with parents.

It’s just that it doesn’t make any sense not to leave that specific hot spot at the very least. 

Right now (at the end of the episode), there is one pocket in Gilead where they are going to be searching, perhaps violently, for a handmaid who stole a baby. Leaving that pocket and coming back in while, I donno, NOT wearing a big red dress and shawl would make so much more sense. Even if she just got a little way…

I would hope so. 

Serena didn’t even consider the standard punishment to be a possibility, so she didn’t believe she was risking anything other than some potential public embarrassment. If there were a scene where she bravely addressed the issue of losing a finger or brazenly offered to cleave it off herself for the opportunity to save…

She never looked at the Bible. They couldn’t prove reading since she was staring at Fred. She should have been more deliberately reading to make her case. That was more of a recitation while holding a book. 

I wouldn’t put it past this show to allow her to say, “I saw someone running off with the child! I saw Serena and called out— we chased as long as we could. I was delirious and got lost. Right, Serena?”

“Praise be.” 

I remembered that this morning. I have a lot of time to think about cartoons at work. 

Remember how much we hated Disqus?  

“Bring Peridot on the ship, Steven! She can fix it, probably!”

From the second the engines got damaged, I just assumed that Paridot would be mane’d in to fix the ship.

I feel like that pool would have been much less well-filtered.