Jump to content

billfromlaketravis

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    18,147
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by billfromlaketravis

  1. 1 hour ago, Slacks said:

    It took me 45 minutes to get from BW8 to top golf one day after work back in 2016. F that.

    my (reverse) commute from the goof to memorial City was 25 minutes.

    I’d argue there’s no such thing as a reverse commute in Houston anymore. 45, 59,  and 10 are very busy in every direction from 730am to 10am and 330pm until after 7pm. If it touches a 610, Westpark, or Beltway entrance ramp there will be traffic. 
     

    I drove the “reverse commute” from the Heights to Memorial City for about 6 years. I often worked out before work. If I wasn’t on I-10 by 730am,  I was screwed. I left at 430pm everyday and traffic was always miserable. 
     

    I live in Memorial now and commute to Greenway Plaza. Much better commute. I just never get on the interstates or 610. Any construction or even a lawn crew blocking a lane causes massive delays, but Briar Forest/San Felipe, Westheimer, and Richmond will all get you east/west. 
     

    Many people in my office work the graveyard shift. 5am - 3pm. Katy guys swear by it, but if they don’t leave at 3 they’re cooked. They never attend happy hours, but hey they made their choice. 

  2. 5 minutes ago, Mac8111 said:

    So i has the confuse in regards to the last scene.  

     

    Yabushi kills guard.  Sees the grapple hooks.  Opens door and ninjas appear and do not kill him.  He kills other guard.  Ninjas are everywhere at this point.   Then he runs into rooms alerting everyone.  Then he runs off with Mariko and crew.   

    I assumed he was in on the attack if he is killing guards and not getting killed by ninjas, but why run off with the targets? 

    Gotta make it look good to Toranaga’s surviving men because of course they’re going to report back to him. 

  3. 1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    they never covered this son of toranaga, did they?

    As Ishido stated on the show, Toranaga has other sons. Naga was his fourth son in the books.

    I believe the newborn boy is actually Toranaga’s first grandchild in the books. 

    Toranga’s eldest son is his carbon copy and heir. He’s barely in the book and only appears in the final couple chapters. I don’t expect him to be on the show. 

  4. 3 minutes ago, locodos said:

    IDK I thought it was a form of keeping track of timing of the mission.  I wondered about that too

    Yes he was counting and timing out the attack. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
  5. 3 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

     

      Hide contents

    I was dreading this episode, holding out hope the story runners changed Mariko's ending. Of all the things to stay faithful to the script...

    I wish they'd had the time and desire to flesh out anjin and Mariko's relationship. They completely skipped the journey from Anjiro to Osaka. They didn't have any of the intimate conversations held in Latin only for their ears. There's a significant layer missing in the story without that context.

    The treatment (obliteration) of Dell'Aqua's storyline is odd to me. They might as well not have put him in the show and used the time devoted to the black ship instead on making the romance more believable.

     

    Regarding the second paragraph, this. But they’d have to film an additional episode most likely.

    I think the showrunners wanted to keep it very succinct at 10 episodes. More likely they were given a 10 episode budget. 

  6. I think they need to get 2 starters in the second round. 
     

    It’ll be too early for safety at 42, and I’m not sure there’s value for a safety at 59 either. I’d go corner at 42, and best available iDL or OG at 59.

    They can’t depend on Kenyon Green to do shit other than medically retire. Guard needs to get addressed in the second or third rounds. 

  7. Another hope for next week. 
     

    Spoiler

    I hope there are a couple flashbacks in the finale. In the book prior to the Taiko’s death, a Chinese soothsayer visits Osaka and tells the key players their fortunes. Let’s just say her accuracy is up there with Maggy the Frog. 

    The payoff is awesome in the book’s final pages. Probably the lone highlight of the Clavell’s ending. 

     

  8. Book readers and show watchers, is We’s Einstein joke in the books or did B&W write that? I’m pressed if they wrote that for the show. It’s a perfect analogy for 3 Body Problem. 

    I started The Dark Forest. I don’t like the narrator as much. Some English guy. 
     

    The pacing is a little jerky, but the Evans - San-Ti conversations are great. It’s pretty obvious the San-Ti didn’t need Evans when the Sophons reach Earth.

    I’m currently in the Wallfacers chapter. Pretty cool. 
     

    I’m trying not to look ahead, but it’s clear The Dark Forest is building towards something big. 

    • Hook 'Em 1
  9. Terrific episode. The ninja attack was a little rushed, but no complaints. 
     

    Spoiler

    Mariko is a better fighter in the book than depicted on the show. She takes down a bunch of grays (Ishido’s men)when she attempts to leave Osaka. Exhaustion finally gets her to yield.

    I know the show has budget constraints, but the ninja attack is a pretty long sequence in the book. The Browns (Toranga’s men) fight valiantly, but the ninjas are extremely skilled fighters and they got the drop on them. Blackthorne and Mariko are able to hold out for hours in the Toranaga panic room until they blow up the door and Mariko. The attack ends near dawn and all of Osaka knows about it in the morning. Using ninja is the most shameful thing a samurai can do, so Ishido is fucked politically. 

    It might be too late in the show to address, but there are many questions about the heirs true parentage throughout the book. I’ll leave it there in hopes they get to it next week. 

     

     

    • Hook 'Em 3
  10. I think Israel is done. Iran has almost certainly moved anybody important into an embassy/consulate or back to Iran. And oh yeah, they need finish off Hamas and somehow restart their economy.

    I’d argue that couldn’t handle another war. US reluctance to fund it, and if they hit Iran, Hezbollah is going to hit them with everything they have. I doubt they want to open a new war on at least 2 fronts. 

  11. 4 hours ago, kevwun said:

    He had a rep for partying too much early in his college career.  Getting a DWI right before the draft did a lot of damage to him having put that behind him.

    Saying he almost quit football several times in his Path to Draft profile Probably didn’t help either. 

  12. 3 hours ago, Red Five said:
      Reveal hidden contents

    My reaction to the ship scene in both the book and the tv show. Like, oh, we're slicing babies in half now.

    200w.gif?cid=6c09b952ojmmoqekvtznebgfbt1

     

    Spoiler

    While the book is much better than the Netflix adaption, the ship scene was incredible to see on film. 
     

    For the non-book readers, the ship scene is described from a distance in the book without many details about events inside the ship. Evan’s death is described as oh by the way the rich guy died.

    It would be too damned complicated to depict in 8 episodes, but I think the 3 different factions of the ETO n should be explained by B&W. Their visions are so radically different that they’re really 3 separate groups. 
     

    The San-Ti perspective chapters would be awesome to see on film. I hope we get to see it. 

     

  13. 2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    The Turks are pretty duplicitous and are run by an autocrat, but I’ll buy it.

    The US, under current management, was going to stop the attack, but asking for restraint and warning Israel is extremely consistent with current US Foreign Policy. 
     

    I hate that Turkey has so much influence in the region. They seem to be the mediators on every single dispute now.

    Wasn’t going to stop the attack*

  14. 4 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

    All worked out ahead of time 

     

    The Turks are pretty duplicitous and are run by an autocrat, but I’ll buy it.

    The US, under current management, was going to stop the attack, but asking for restraint and warning Israel is extremely consistent with current US Foreign Policy. 
     

    I hate that Turkey has so much influence in the region. They seem to be the mediators on every single dispute now.

    • Hook 'Em 1
×
×
  • Create New...