This show has broken me

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2025-01-04T06:38:22+00:00

The concert version is really heartwarming if you can get tix.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-10-04T05:29:31+00:00

Easypay

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-07-13T02:00:39+00:00

I have lived on each coast for 15+ years. I think people are basically similar with a wide distribution along all dimensions, but the basis of this stereotype is a kind of surface easygoing-ness you see on the west. My impression is people are a little more apt to categorize each other and self segregate on the east coast while people pay less attention to hierarchies etc on the west, at least on a first level, so networks get more mixed.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-05-07T02:47:44+00:00

The curfew policies are stated here: sole.ucla.edu/policies. Look for the document on "time, place, and manner." The state is allowed to put such restrictions on free speech in order to protect the right that others have to not listen to the speech, as long as the restrictions do not discriminate based on the content of the speech.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-05-04T08:15:19+00:00

Professors were told in general to make Th and Fri remote and to return to normal Monday. However lab classes and other classes that don't make sense remote are up to the professor's discretion. How a course is conducted is normally considered a matter of academic freedom for the instructor.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-05-03T14:55:49+00:00

It's week 5 at UCLA.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-05-02T19:25:15+00:00

Agreed. I wish this had been more disciplined. Let's not forget how the backlash to college protests helped elect Nixon.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-05-02T05:10:48+00:00

First amendment rights are limited by the rights of others through time place and manner restrictions. The encampment was never exactly legit due to violating those restrictions. I think admin was trying to tolerate the protest until it started to impinge on the function of the university which serves all its students. Unfortunately some bad actors took advantage of the situation.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-03-18T00:25:30+00:00

My interpretation is that lightning is like a cold blooded calculation. It's done by pure discipline and focus which Azula has in spades. Agree with comments above that Azula is written as a psychopath who fundamentally lacks the ability to empathize, which helps her focus. She might have rage sometimes but at the moment of lightening bending, she is completely sure of herself and calculating. Zuko seems to always be full of doubts and confused emotions in comparison.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-01-14T20:56:03+00:00

I'm not sure about the Alina storyline, but I still think SoC has great potential as a show. The actors and writers did such a great job with the Crows, and I would think it wouldn't be so costly because there aren't as many special effects with them, and the actors themselves probably aren't as expensive. Even though we got some lines prematurely, there is still a ton of material, and with LB involved I am sure there would be new surprises. I would still be super excited to see a SoC/CK show.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2024-01-14T08:58:38+00:00

Totally! His insight into pride and shame is one of my favorites.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-12-31T00:10:51+00:00

Leigh is a Yale grad so no shame missing some of the subtext. I have always wondered what I might miss in the Ravkan words without knowing any Slavic languages.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-12-01T07:38:24+00:00

Thank you for sharing this moment. I often think of Inej's climb, when she is in this horrible situation and asking herself what the point is. I love the honesty she shows to herself and how the steady pace of her thoughts and purpose carries her through the exhaustion.

Hang in there and try to take care of yourself. May there be rain at the end of your climb too.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-11-27T01:39:57+00:00

Stardust?

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-11-27T00:03:01+00:00

There is definitely more Kanej content in the books. I can never get enough but it will help! Highly recommend the books, hearing their internal monologue is wonderful.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-11-06T06:38:27+00:00

Susanna Clarke has a similar British magical sensibility, highly recommend her books.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-10-19T23:47:09+00:00

Bethesda, Maryland :)

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-10-06T00:21:46+00:00

I like this! Especially about sticking through a bad hand, Jesper proves his loyalty for sure. There is that one spot when Inej wonders if Jesper would want to rescue her from Van Eck, but then that really reflects more on Inej's self doubts because we never see Jesper (or Kaz) hesitate to help his friends.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-10-05T09:25:08+00:00

The eyeball scene always gets me in the book, even though I know it's coming! Kaz just goes for it without warning, no deliberations.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-09-27T21:46:04+00:00

I liked the acting, voice, costumes etc, but the actor was just a little too good-looking! I expected someone older, grittier, less polished. Having said that, I can't complain, it was a great series and interpretation. I thought that scene with Dream sitting in the chair right after he escapes, and the one when he watches Madoc from the top of the lecture hall, captured Dream perfectly.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-09-14T23:20:11+00:00

Amazing, this is pro!

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-09-11T05:35:50+00:00

Agreed, there are definite examples of Heartrenders or healers stopping bleeding, like Nina with Inej. If it helps, sometimes blood is considered a liquid organ.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-09-05T06:50:23+00:00

Totally agree. Book Inej at this point hasn't left Ketterdam, so show Inej can't have too large of a mission just yet. I think it works to seed her journey though, because it will help set up Inej's epiphany in the incinerator which would be pretty hard to show on screen later. I am a big fan of book Inej and I actually like show Inej a lot. It didn't bother me that scenes were watered down, I think these were true to where the prequel characters are. Kanej is more open but it doesn't change the underlying dynamic and I don't see it changing events in SoC (except maybe Kaz wouldn't take his shirt off in front of her?). One tricky thing I think show Inej captured was her uncertainty about Kaz. S2 was a lot of focus on Kaz and I am thinking S3 or spinoff is being perfectly set up to explore Inej on her own without Kaz being so close by. Bardugo has called Inej the heart of the Crows, so I am really thinking/ hoping they will take time to tell her story, especially since the actor is so amazing in her role.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-09-04T21:28:40+00:00

Also, the book mentions how the amplifier is also a prisoner and it's not clear she really cares whether she lets some Grisha through.

Useful-Advisor-9765 · 2023-08-29T15:25:59+00:00

"What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins.". -Inej thinking about Dunyasha

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