There’s not really a damnation in Egyptian mythology. It’s just oblivion, the destruction of the soul.

The show gets a lot right with the Egyptian mythology, too, but also switches things around (the Weighing comes before the Barque, and failing Ma’at means Ammit swallows the soul…and oblivion follows.) Some of this is for drama, some for convenience, some part of the show set-up (though they show Osiris active, so he,…

We’ve seen Jake in this episode.

We actually got Jake in this episode, and he’d fit with your thought - when Marc is zapped back to Harrow’s office he shows up with a bandage on his nose and traces of blood. He speaks differently, has a different, tougher accent, and his attitude is way more aggressive.

This is act two right now. This is where all the plans go sideways and Everything We Know Is Wrong. Jurati has killed the Borg Queen and been reinfected, yet another butterfly has been stepped on (several, if we consider the Rios rescue), and Q is really making a mess of things. Next week will be *painful* indeed.…

The title and band sequence are nods to DS9, just to note. Viva Vic Fontaine!

I was saying earlier that this seems unusually choppy for an episode directed by Two-Takes Frakes.

I actually thought it was on point for a hapless bloke like Mr. Grant. He actually sounds a bit north of the Watford Gap…not much north, though, just off the end of the Metroland lines.

It’s more like 75% of e. Coli — the 50% in the various creatures, plus 50% of what then remains. Otherwise…correct.

The truly disappointing thing about that super expensive LOTR series that a huge chunk of that money went to Saul Zaentz and the Tolkein estate.

Funnily enough, the only one of the main TV shows that’s *definitively* at-best MCU adjacent is “Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, and then only after the first three seasons. It finished up at least several timelines away, though, and a candidate for a TVA reset. “Cloak & Dagger” and “Runaways” are a bit grey-area, but could…

They need to keep Jack around. He needs to meet Mantis so we can have the MCU version of the Celestial Madonna arc…which will be hilarious. Especially if Gunn directs it.

He is, yes, plus there’s the idd thing that this is supposed to be the 4th wall breaking She-Hulk, so I wonder if they’re going to tie this to the multiverse. The MCU is unchained!

If I recall it’s actually *very* quickly mentioned in the film.

One of the Haim girls, so it’s probably nipples everywhere (at least one of their videos has all three in tank tops and panties throughout and it’s, errrr, highly distracting.)

I’m finding it harder and harder to give a damn about this series, honestly. I could defend it up to a point, but now…not really, no.

The Second Foundation seems to be here via Hardin’s visions (and Gaal’s.)

Nice update, Rob…but the battleship isn’t stated as having blown up any planets, just that it’s capable of producing atom blasts capable of shattering a planet. 

Yeah, a lot of it depends on which rights they have — technically they *could* reveal Demerzel as Daneel if they have rights to the prequels and sequels, but I think it puts Giskard off-limits as they’re not really part of the Foundation prequels. They can still go with Zeroth, but as something Daneel develops. It…

And Galaxia.