Russia issued some empty threats and the Finnish decided it’d be cool to have backup if Russia ever decides they want to take Finland too.

Those empty threats were mostly just bluster and attempting to keep their story straight on Ukraine, but it was still enough to get Finland to move off the fence.

I'll concur with the people saying that seasons 2-3 was probably the peak? Season 1, especially early on, was just a bit rough. Season 4 was a story that didn't translate well to TV, IMO.

Season 5 was cool, but if I had a complaint about it it was that maybe it needed to differ a bit more from the book, a big part of this book was that it was the first time you ever learned anything about the Roci crew's backstory besides Holden. The TV version was probably right to reveal some of that earlier, but they probably needed to change up season 5 a bit more to compensate for it because some of the stories ended up feeling like a bit of a drag.

And what I'm trying to say is that the "consensus" that was forming before the third even released was not just a reflection of the content of IX, but of the state of the franchise following the release of VIII.

A year before TFA released, people were excited for the return of the beloved franchise. A year before TLJ released, people were excited for the story to continue. A year before RoS released, people had a bad feeling about this. And when reviews came out that agreed with their bad feeling, it impacts the movie.

Perhaps, but I'd say that it would have only impacted people who were on the fence about seeing the movie. The bigger problem Lucasfilm had was that so many more people were on the fence this time, because they didn't like the last movie.

Poor word of mouth is never going to talk you out of watching a movie you're genuinely excited for.

Box office for a franchise like this with a captive audience generally has nothing to do with the content of the movie, people who are invested in the story are going to check it out regardless of what word of mouth says. I've always said that box office for a franchise like this is more of a reflection on whether people liked the last one.

Like, this happened a couple times in DC, where Batman vs Superman is successful because of the brand, the title, and the trailer, but if people didn't like the movie they're not going to turn up for Justice League. Same deal with Suicide Squad, if they don't like the Ayer movie, they're less likely to check out the Gunn movie. And then in Star Wars, surprise surprise, Episode IX's numbers were down 25-30% compared to VIII.

By what metric are we calling them "ratings hits"? Obviously the network was happy enough with them to continue but as far as I can tell Amazon, like most streaming networks, just keeps the complete picture to themselves, only cherry picking data to share for marketing purposes.

Like when Netflix will tell you that a show is incredibly successful when it premieres because there were so many streams, then a month later it's cancelled.

You say that as if the insurance company was going to pay for the treatment in that state that still prohibits aid in dying. They'll offer both patients the treatment that barely addresses the symptoms as they were understood in 1973.

Apparently the showrunner said that they had originally intended to do a tenth episode to show the fallout but ultimately decided they liked the cliffhanger effect better. Ben Stiller might have been "blamed" for the idea they all loved.

You don't even have to contact the supplier, you can just tell Eversource that you want to go back to the default plan.

When exploring plans on Energize CT they generally will tell you if there are any signup or cancellation fees or other strings attached. Still, the difference right now is so great (<17 cents vs >24 cents per kwh) that I think exploring other options is the way to go.

Every episode of House has them get the diagnosis wrong like 4 times before finding the answer. Wilson's cancer? Turned out to be gas, but they can't go back.

If absolutely necessary, but you're on insulin, a specific diet, and certain drugs for the rest of your life. It's not something you want to do unless it's life-saving.

He was told he only had a year left, but after his ‘farewell tour’ they found that the tumor was more operable than the first doctor realized. Though IIRC the surgery was pretty invasive and he didn’t do much in public afterwards.

Looking forward to more networks calling this race so I can go to bed, but it sure looks like a decent night in Connecticut at least.

In those books they're in their 70's but are meant to have the bodies analogous to those of people in their 50's today. Someone might not die of old age until they're in their 100's, but age still comes. It would be possible for a TV series to handwave it but it might feel a little bit cheap. I think if they were to do it today, it'd be better to trim down the 30 years to 10 or so and just skip the idea that many of the invading forces had been born on Laconia and had never seen Sol, which works better in the books anyway.

Right? I remember even in 2016 I was sweating when the early results looked promising for Stefanowski, as the rural precincts were the first to report.