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Ready for Yeoh and Ke to take it, followed by hopefully Angela (but Stephanie Hsu would be great too). My favorite film of the year is still TÁR - endlessly fascinating - but EEAAO deserves plenty and Michelle Yeoh being fully realized as a serious leading actor in the West in addition to being HK royalty is overdue.

I love Jamie and I think her performance in the controversial (but IMO very good) recent Halloween trilogy is award-worthy. I'm glad she's nominated finally, but she shouldn't win for this - it should go to Angela Bassett. Everything else, I am fine with EEAAO sweeping it. Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan richly deserve it. That being said I think TÁR is the best of the year.

@AdelaideCate007 I wasn't sure if Vadic was a changeling or if she had some sort of symbiotic communication device with the Founders. That answers that. The question is, is she answering to more Founders or to someone else? Who could co-opt the changelings?

I haven't seen all of that scene but I think that was a good set of performances from both, actually, and some decent dialogue. And I very rarely hand out praise to Y&R or its performers these days, both of those two can ham it up like nobody's business.

Apologies if this was posted - I didn't see it. I wondered if that crewmember was part Deltan. Deltan and Vulcan is a wild mix. More on T'Veen's background.

I saw that. Sad. She was very good in ST4.

For a Trekkie this show is painfully good. As a fan who laughed his way through Nemesis in the theater and has wanted the TNG crew to have a better wrap-up for over 20 years, I share the cast's noted joy over this season being their final bow vs. the movies which, for the most part except FC, largely sucked. They've talked about their relief over this season's closure for them a lot in interviews but these episodes just keep driving it home. Watching the Enterprise crew puzzle things out together intelligently like they did in the old days, competently vs. overly imbuing the material with emotional appeals (something most recent Trek has often been afraid to with the exception of SNW and oddly enough, Lower Decks), was so refreshing after the last few years. And there's still a lot of emotion to be had - the ending, and the Ten-Forward scenes with Picard and co. were great, especially Shaw's Quint from Jaws speech. I figured Shaw had to have been at Wolf 359, or traumatized by the Dominion War (probably both). I assume they have to be cueing up a Titan or other show with Seven, LaForge and presumably Jack by the end of this, assuming Speleers is not committed to more seasons of You on Netflix.

That picture is too blurry to make a determination. I'm 50/50. It would be classy to bring him back, but it wouldn't shock me if they have Miguel on in the background with no lines: The Leslie Brooks Piano Lady special.

The kid is dead, to be clear. Died not long after birth. Sam struggled to conceive for years; her two anonymous children are Danny and Scout. Danny is the child of Sonny's presumed dead right hand enforcer, Jason Morgan, once the central 'hero' of this show who absolutely everything spun around (along with Sonny) for decades until his right-wing evangelical actor, Steve Burton, refused to abide by the network's COVID vaccine mandate and quit/was fired in late 2021. Don't hold your breath on ABC not buckling and bringing him back. Sam's unnecessary and often forgotten daughter, Scout, is the child of Drew Cain (now played by Cameron Mathison), Jason's secret long-lost twin who was brainwashed by evil villains to believe he was Jason and who Sam and co. also believed was Jason for several years. Don't ask. God, I thought Nathan Varni was long gone.

They're dumb to let Lipton slip through their fingers. It's okay though, Lexi Ainsworth came back and he can too.

That does look like Lorie, but I'm not sure why they'd hide it.

I doubt Jackie was making a million by 1980, though.

Yeah, I'd need independent verification that Erika was making a mil by '80.

Please keep calling him this.

LOL. Now that Axios has brought it up and not mean overdramatic libs I'm sure they'll beg for forgiveness. Meanwhile:

RIP:

I dunno who did all this work but someone seriously overhauled the Carla Gray Wikipedia page. There's a lot more detailed info on story than I've ever seen. I had heard before that Ed and Josh allegedly left town in '87 to join Carla and Sadie in Arizona, and the page supports that. But I have no idea if that's true, or if the onscreen implication was that Ed and Carla ultimately got back together after their very sad parting in '85.

The Last of Us is a hit video game that dates back to 2013. It's only going to run a handful of seasons to cover the first, second and possibly third game which does not yet exist.

In honor of Picard/Crusher finally being canon, I rewatched a key episode from the final season of TNG that directly deals with that long-running subplot: "Attached." It still holds up and Stewart and McFadden's performances are wonderful (and @DRW50and other GL fans will be pleased to know Lenore Kasdorf appears, albeit as a very prim and xenophobic alien in a cowl) but it seems like a direct setup for a rekindling of the romance thread between them that the show had, til then, largely abandoned since Season 1. At the end of the episode Picard wants to explore the relationship and Crusher backs off at the last moment, seeming very conflicted as she does so, leading to Picard sadly blowing out the candles on their dinner date before the credits roll. I wonder if this was originally intended to be a serialized thread; they had allegedly floated the idea of marrying Picard and Crusher off in the final season, and I am not sure whether this was either the compromise or a potential starting point for that. I believe Patrick Stewart may also have wanted Picard unattached for potential romance in the films (which only happened with Donna Murphy in Insurrection). The only time it is returned to after "Attached" (and before this year) is in the series finale of TNG, where we see them married and divorced in an AU and then, in the present, Crusher lays a scorching kiss on him near the end of the episode. I have never forgotten watching that live as a kid, I nearly died. The actors discuss the past material a bit here, and you can see a clip from "Attached" in the early segment. I don't have any expectation of the characters ending up together in S3 as Picard seems committed to Orla Brady's character from the first two seasons. I like Brady a lot, but I'm sorry, I'd be happy for Picard and Crusher to surprise me.

Jason/Courtney was clearly only the brainchild of Frons and Chuck Pratt, and nothing Guza cared for. As soon as a bigger fish (Kelly Monaco) was onboard and Pratt was out, Guza terminated Courtney's airtime and then her life.