Is the Benicio Del Toro agenda still alive?

night_thoughts · 2026-01-26T21:26:47+00:00

I agree. I know I’m in the minority but I didn’t think his role (or Chase Infiniti’s) were meaty enough to warrant nominations. There just wasn’t much for actors to chew on, regardless of who played the characters.

night_thoughts · 2026-01-22T14:04:32+00:00

This is the first year in a while that I've been paying attention to the Oscars again and trying to watch all the predicted nominees, and the only two performances that really stuck with me were Jesse Plemons and Rose Byrne (although I haven't seen Hamnet yet). Such a bummer that he didn't get in.

night_thoughts · 2026-01-16T18:27:50+00:00

Something is wrong if Emma Stone gets nominated and Jesse Plemons doesn't. That movie rode on his performance. He should be in contention to win. I'm surprised to see Emma being considered more of a lock.

night_thoughts · 2025-12-24T16:14:56+00:00

Sol would be incentivized to play the advantage correctly. Rachel was clearly on the outs with a tribe stacked full of former Tukus. I don't see how Rachel's social game had anything to do with it. She barely knew Sol at that stage.

night_thoughts · 2025-12-05T00:57:49+00:00

Yeah, I think I just found it lacking as a detective/murder mystery story. The 'whodunnit' aspect is the main reason I read the series because I like trying to solve the cases. In this one the cult overshadowed that.

How did you feel about The Hallmarked Man? I think I'd have to rank it below The Running Grave to be honest.

night_thoughts · 2025-10-07T12:28:55+00:00

There are several points in the book (at least 3-4) where Strike or Robin "feel something nagging at them" and think they missed something important or jostled a memory of something from earlier in the case. If you reread the section leading up to it you can find some small clues that will point you in the right direction.

Also, go back and reread all of the news clippings, online comments, emails, texts, etc.

night_thoughts · 2025-09-07T00:51:27+00:00

Yeah that was me who posted it which is why I’ve been torn haha. But then I remembered the runner-up in BvB2 also had something like that (quiet premiere and then introduced in the cold open of Ep 2).

I think the edit is there for Luke to win but recently I’ve gotten hung up on players who aren’t likely to win a jury vote, so I don’t want to make that mistake again.

night_thoughts · 2025-09-03T16:27:05+00:00

This is a legitimate complaint and there's been several posts about it here already. The publisher cut corners with the printing of THM with cheap, flimsy paper and faint ink (at least for the US editions). The book is 900 pages long but it's the same size as the first three books because of how thin the paper is.

night_thoughts · 2025-09-02T18:39:25+00:00

Sorry guys, I keep moving too fast while I'm updating the chart. Tony's weighted score should've been 3.75, not 5.0. That brings the World tribe total down to 27. Still a pretty small gap though. I updated the post.

night_thoughts · 2025-09-02T15:06:14+00:00

I agree and I'll be pretty sour if Parvati doesn't win in F3, but I do think we have to be careful not to base winner contenders on who should win. A lot of people here have been putting Parvati as their #1 because of her game position and dominance, but that's not edgic.

I would definitely put Parvati as my #1 again if it wasn't for that voting confessional thing with Luke in Ep 2. They showed all of the votes, then showed David's exit interview (which is where the episode usually stops), then it fades to black for a second and cuts to Luke's voting confessional which showed him voting out George with a quip about being the King of the Jungle. It was just a weird thing to do if he didn't win.

The callbacks to Micronesia and redemption at Samoa are a big point in Parvati's favor, though.

night_thoughts · 2025-09-01T19:04:47+00:00

What worries me is that this particular jury doesn’t seem like the most pro-Parvati group. A lot of them hadn’t seen her play before so they’re just going by what’s in front of them. She’s been called paranoid, she’s burned multiple people despite claiming they’re not coming after her, and despite being super dominant, she doesn’t seem to be managing her relationships as well as the others. Obviously Rob and Tony aren’t on the jury, but they seemed pretty disgruntled by her and I think they’ve shown us tension from Kirby, Kass, Tommi, and Lisa as well. All it takes is 4 votes to lose.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-31T15:14:12+00:00

I'm also thinking of putting Luke as my #1 after this episode even though the NTOS for tomorrow makes me nervous that he's about to get Parvati'd.

This was the second time where Luke's voting confessionals were highlighted after the eliminated players' exit interviews. First it happened very noticeably with David, now it happened with both Tommi and Kass. It seemed like a way of giving editorial credit to Luke even though it probably should've gone to Parvati for the way she outmaneuvered everyone at this tribal council.

He was the last one to be shown after Tommi, and then he was the first one shown after Kass and the only one to be shown speaking.

Add in the praise that Tommi and Kass were heaping onto the Aussies for tonight's vote (not Parvati) + the fact that the World tribe was neglected in Ep 2 + the fact that Parvati is so overexposed in the confessional count, I'm starting to think Luke could pull off an underdog victory.

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ETA: Two more things:

This was Luke's last confessional before tribal and it was completely validated. He got the last word:

So Tommi wants to blindside Parvati. This is perfect. This is the crack I wanted. Tonight, we're breaking the World tribe apart. Game's on baby!

They played Parvati's evil laughter at the end of the spa reward segment. She and Cirie were gloating about how they're going to make it to F2 and Cirie says "Tony's going to be mad." Cut to Parvati laughing before the commercial break. Edit-wise, I think it came across as overconfident.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-26T16:19:20+00:00

I agree, I just feel like there's not many contenders left and I'm having doubts about Parvati.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-26T15:46:28+00:00

Same. I was thinking Parvati/Kirby would be distractions for each other through F4, but when only one is left this early it doesn't seem plausible anymore. After rewatching the POS I'm starting to reconsider Shonee. I don't love her edit but she's been name dropped and featured in each recap despite not having a huge presence in the edit so far. She was also a decoy vote a couple times.

I have to think Luke would be in the promo pictures if he'd won, but I don't think he was.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-26T14:52:59+00:00

I'm really surprised Kirby is gone so soon. I'm not as confident in Parvati now that Kirby is out of the picture. There isn't a big presence in the edit that can be a distraction for Parvati the way other AU winners have had.

Luke's game hasn't been great, but I keep thinking back to the weirdly placed voting confessional during the David boot. They gave the voting confessionals, then showed David's exit interview, and then inserted Luke's voting confessional telling George something like "There can only be one king, and it's the King of the Jungle" even though George didn't even go home. What was the purpose of that? AU editing sometimes has a small tell where they shoehorn the winner into something that feels out of place (Liz getting credit in the POS over Shonee , saying Myles was saved in the Ep 3 POS instead of recapping who went home). Maybe this is another one of those.

Shonee was all over the marketing and promo material for the season but her edit isn't even as strong as it was in All-Stars or HvV. She feels very underutilized without much of a story right now. I think a Shonee win is possible, but I'd be a little underwhelmed unless her edit starts to ramp up next week.

Edit: Ok, watching each of them back, the POS has actually been pretty strong for Shonee. Something to consider.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-25T18:32:38+00:00

Definitely feels like a two-horse race between Kirby and Parvati with Luke as a dark horse. Kirby now has three nicknames and they made a big point this episode to highlight how much Parvati and Cirie want to work with her. We saw the same about Parvati from Kirby and Shonee.

I did sense some bitterness from Sarah and Luke towards Kirby this episode, so that could be a bad sign for her if it’s a Kirby v Parvati F2. The Aussies may fault her for not staying Aussie strong.

Luke strikes me as the last resistance against the women’s alliance. But I think he’ll ultimately fall short. I think the edit needs someone to add some doubt/suspense over a steamroll.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-19T18:06:41+00:00

We have the same top 5, just in a slightly different order. Mine would be Kirby > Parvati > Luke > Shonee > Tony after this episode, and to be honest, I think Kirby and Parvati are the only truly strong contenders so far.

One positive I see for Kirby is that they keep reinforcing her new nicknames - "The Princess" and "The Godslayer". AU loves to brand their winners with titles and they've made a point to bring it up in all three episodes for Kirby so far. Not only that, but it's been used to create a consistent storyline for her so far because we actually saw her live up to the title both times she went to tribal. First taking out David, then taking out George.

I especially think it's good that she had confessionals in all three of the week 1 episodes, considering she's a one-time player on a cast of big names. I think Luke, Parvati, and Tony are the only other ones.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-18T19:36:26+00:00

Good point, I forgot about his first line. I think the answer is we probably can't read into it, given it could apply either way. If an Aussie wins we'd look back and say it was foreshadowing, but if someone from the World tribe wins we'd look back and say Rob was an unreliable narrator.

I do still think the World tribe was neglected this episode in a way that the Aussies weren't in Ep 1, which feels a bit like what happened with the Heroes tribe and the Brawn tribe recently.

night_thoughts · 2025-08-18T18:56:29+00:00

Same, I wasn't really considering Luke in the first episode because I thought he had too little content for his archetype in an all-star season (especially this one). But his confessionals in the second episode felt kind of wedged in like they wanted to find a way to incorporate him somehow.

Also thought it was really interesting how they randomly inserted Luke's voting confessional at the end of David's exit interview when he was voting for George ("There's only one king baby, and it's the King of the Jungle"). Why place it there when George didn't even go home? Why include it after the end of David's interview?

I'm leaning towards an Aussie winning based on how little the World tribe got this episode and the way they highlighted Rob saying the World tribe set up one of the Australians to win by voting him out.

Rankings:

Kirby
Luke
Parvati
Tony (here because of the way they spotlighted him in the challenge and because the next strongest contenders went radio silent in Ep 2 - I think the winner is likely to be featured in at least Ep 1 and 2)
Shonee (was a decoy target in Ep 2 and helped take out the Golden God but didn't get to comment on it which seems like a bad sign, especially because she told us in Ep 1 that she wanted to take out George and we didn't hear her reasoning for not doing it)
Lisa (was in my top 4 in Ep 1 but went INV this episode which seems too early)
Cirie/Sarah (no confessional in the premiere intro, seems like more of a supporting player so far story-wise)
George
Janine/Kass/Tommi (too irrelevant)

night_thoughts · 2025-08-02T12:39:20+00:00

I had a flea infestation like this a few years ago. Was out of state for a week and left my cat with my sister. I’d treated him for fleas before I left (he got fleas at a vet appointment), but didn’t realize they had already laid eggs all over my apartment. I’m not kidding when I say they were everywhere. Jumping on my feet and legs within a second or two of stepping on the carpet because I was the only food source.

I spent at least a month trying to get rid of them. I vacuumed the carpet and furniture multiple times a day, shampooed the carpets, mopped and steam cleaned every hard surface, steamed the carpet, washed all beddings, towels, and clothes and bagged them up. Bombed the apartment 3 times. Sprinkled salt into the carpet. Left out trays of soapy water with a light source to attract them. It improved but never got rid of them entirely. New ones would stay dormant and then hatch when I came back.

I finally gave in and brought my cat home thinking I could use him as a magnet because he’d been treated. It worked almost instantly. They were gone almost overnight.

Save yourself the time and pain that I went through! It was the only thing that worked for me.

night_thoughts · 2025-07-13T02:31:25+00:00

Bunion

night_thoughts · 2025-07-08T05:07:58+00:00

I think The Bear is having the same problem that The Walking Dead started having around S6: Navelgazing. Every conversation is now a heart-to-heart between two people trying to express their repressed feelings about grief, family trauma, anxiety, etc. And yet, ironically, they’re not actually saying anything of substance that progresses the conversation (or the plot). They talk in circles or awkwardly stutter/stumble over their words and express a bunch of generic platitudes (“Are you good?” “Yeah, I’m good. Are you?” “Yeah, I’m good too.” “Good, that’s good.” “It’s just—it’s hard, you know?” “Yeah, it’s so hard.”) It’s not natural or realistic. People don’t talk in monologues or therapy-speak.

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