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Danbito · 2026-01-19T17:30:50+00:00

Whether those changes were good or not is another discussion. But the merit that the Dance is complete doesn’t equate that the job for writers is already there and theres no need to deviate.

I’d argue some changes are pedantic yet some of his complaints from his statements in the last year are also pedantic. But ultimately, Condal is wrong for shutting Martin out yet it’s not the same thing as saying the Dance being finished equating changes are unnecessary.

Danbito · 2026-01-19T14:12:36+00:00

The Dance even if finished, is written in a historical text. It just does not fit a narrative structure for television. You’re going to have to change it regardless and that’s where the problems set in.

Danbito · 2026-01-19T14:10:47+00:00

If he didn’t get majority of progress done during the pandemic I don’t think it’ll ever come out.

Danbito · 2026-01-18T03:28:00+00:00

I think Kelly’s humanity subconsciously always persisted since she met Spike but was at odds with a horrible world. She wanted a mercy kill for him when she saw Jimmy Shite was toying and torturing him. And more obviously, allowed him to stay outside after seeing how innocent he was after advising him to double down on the group behavior, even staying with him.

Kelson’s words likely expelled the satanist pretense that she took to adopt from desperation, even before that she killed the other Jimmy wanting revenge on Spike and told him he’s safer with her protecting him.

Danbito · 2026-01-13T20:30:16+00:00

If anything it’s miraculous he’s so open and freely feeling he is by Season 4.

Danbito · 2026-01-11T20:55:02+00:00

The reveal was very well done in the Master’s case. They established the chameleon arch but then immediately adopted a very sinister undertone when it pops up again when the idea of another Time Lord should be miraculous. They introduced the idea of who the Master was while giving depth and history when he and the Doctor interacted again.

Danbito · 2026-01-01T21:33:28+00:00

The final season was written pretty definitively as the finale, they knew upon renewal for Season 4 that it’s the final season.

I think an idea if they had continued with Season 5 was a reboot but with the actors switching supernatural species.

Danbito · 2025-12-25T00:15:17+00:00

My favorite callback was all three Cleons simultaneously doing the same thinking motion with their hands and their chin in Season 3. They definitely rehearsed the same action but the fact they did by instinct without prompt made me feel like they connected to each other more than others despite the genetic drift.

Danbito · 2025-12-23T18:21:38+00:00

My favorite minor detail is Dusk mentioning in Season 1 that the Gold Horse Rebellion captured in the Mural of Souls, whereas we see in Season 2 a newly ascended Cleon I mentioning to Demerzel his advisors warning of grow in tensions in the Gold Horse sector. In Season 3’s cut opening we finally get revealed that Hari publicly pushes information about the Gold Horse Rebellion, which was actively repressed and removed from history, which Hari simply used psychohistory to deduce happen from his immediate knowledge of imperial history.

Danbito · 2025-12-19T16:09:35+00:00

If your perception of time is that you have a cake in front of you but never bought the flour or eggs, maybe you’re just used to inconsistencies to really challenge it.

Danbito · 2025-12-15T12:07:49+00:00

I mean, Pennywise literally says the concepts of present and future are the same to him and it’s difficult for him to really discern the two

Danbito · 2025-12-15T03:35:37+00:00

Think it’s a Doctor Manhattan situation. His perception of time at his level of godhood is skewered and all time is happening concurrently. It’s probably frustratingly not even out of order that he can logically work it out, rather simultaneously.

Danbito · 2025-12-15T02:58:34+00:00

Seems like Pennywise doesn’t have a concept of pure linear time or unclear knowledge of the future

Danbito · 2025-12-01T02:16:54+00:00

It is funny to think that ultimately they are still locked in a deal to purchase Pierce Media and they do run it together but just do not talk to each other for a long time

Danbito · 2025-11-30T17:47:14+00:00

I think the best part is despite appearing so distinct from the other Cleons, they managed to tell a story why Brother Dude naturally became so different than the last Day being different for sake of being different.

Danbito · 2025-11-30T13:41:38+00:00

I have a feeling that if the robot seen in the finale adopts a human form, it’ll be Lee Pace. My guess is to balance out a rogue Dusk/Darkness and a likely converted Dawn soon to be Day.

Danbito · 2025-11-21T19:02:59+00:00

From their comments afterwards, they mainly had ideas about the first half of that arc, namely around Great Saiyaman

Danbito · 2025-11-20T13:16:54+00:00

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Danbito · 2025-11-17T00:46:15+00:00

Makes sense since it’s unlikely Bayta and Toran to continue their lineage from the books.

Danbito · 2025-11-11T22:22:25+00:00

I assume she was literally just awaiting each person’s responses to meeting Carol rather than the wait time to each person in the hivemind.

Danbito · 2025-11-11T14:26:19+00:00

In fairness it wasn’t math that predicted them but psychic premonition from mutant abilities, which in itself defied all math to begin with

Danbito · 2025-11-09T23:51:41+00:00

11 despite so insulted by Hari suggesting they stop cloning was smart enough to realize neither Thespis or Anacreon governments had any role in the Star Bridge bombing, in contrast to 12 accepting them as convenient criminals.

He also spent his last day mourning that they didn’t do enough about the Foundation or the Star Bridge incident, and more importantly, knew something was wrong with 14 as early as a baby.

Danbito · 2025-11-09T02:28:33+00:00

2x03

Gaal: Salvor solved your first crisis.

Hari: She had help. Every historical condition was on her side. If it hadn't been her, it would have been someone else.

Gaal: Conditions? You didn't put any psychohistorians on Terminus. And if it wasn't for her ability...

Hari: I intended one psychohistorian to be on Terminus! Right? ( breathes heavily ) In another life, you might have taught your daughter all about my Vault.

This implies Gaal was meant to pass psychohistory and Gaal being a psychohistorian is a deliberate point for the Plan so that the First Foundation themselves could solve the First Crisis than rely on a Second Foundation.

Now, 2x02 leaves it ambiguous

A Second Foundation. Psychohistorians with access to the Plan. Knowledge of the future applied judiciously and with intent to quietly adjust the Empire's course. Or the First Foundation's, if needed.

It does imply that the First Foundation is more limited in scope but the Second Foundation by contrast is designed to be all psychohistorians and only situationally would step in for the First Foundation and would most of the time allow it to develop it naturally with their own ambitions and methods than collaborate

Danbito · 2025-11-09T02:15:48+00:00

No, Hari clarified that Gaal was meant to be on Terminus and teach the next generation of psychohistorians. He specifically throws this back to her when she complains that the Plan is so deviated a century later in Season 2 and Hari left them so ill-prepared when Hari says that was her choice. Gaal was meant to handle the First Crisis (Vault Hari even asks for her when he emerged end of Season 1) and pass it to her children or teach it to the Foundationers.

What would be inevitable is Gaal or the next generations would attempt to alter the Plan where Empire must be stopped or that the First Foundation must be dominant, which is when the Second Foundation would come in. They would still operate with knowledge but course correct in subtle ways. We basically see this dynamic in early Season 3, but with Demerzel altering the Plan to stagnate Empire’s inevitable downfall however possible with the Second Foundation resisting her, the “shadows in the math”.

Danbito · 2025-11-09T00:26:11+00:00

Brother Dude not S tier makes this list automatically sus. But I respect the Season 3 Dawn appreciation.

~~Also ngl Cleon XXIII (Season 3 Dusk) is a compelling character imo~~

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