I’m pretty glad, at this point, that I was not watching The Umbrella Academy in real time and don’t have to wait for season 2. Dang.

My exact reaction! Also, I was going to riot if Hazel and Agnes didn't get their happily ever after.

Hazel+Agnes4ever! Makes me want to pick up some donuts and go birdwatching

Ok, only a few minutes into season 2, but UA did not waste any time before getting very weird. I wanted to note that I appreciate the detail that Diego lands in a classic superhero stance and he's the only one who does.

Well, now I do have to wait for season 3, argh!

Sorry, quester, I said I’d talk about The Witcher and then I drowned in the sea of The Umbrella Academy - all that holy-shit-what-just-happened drove everything else out of my brain. I’m sure I’ll recover enough to refresh my memory about this bath scene before too long…

So Witcher…. A lot of people don’t like the wigs, but I think Henry Cavills is usually pretty good and Tom Lenk and Felicia Day agree! (They have a Witcher podcast).

I am usually thinking it’s funny that his hair is always tied back and yet wisps are always loose to get in his eyes, which is a pretty good reaction to a wig. I mean, it’s certainly better than the one on the bard. That is a travesty.

WoT:

I am completely bewildered. I've generally been onboard with the changes from the books so far, but I have no idea what they think they're doing now.

ETA: A quick check of reactions online so far has been show-only people going "That was great, I can't wait for next season!" and book readers going "What the fuck just happened?" so apparently I'm not alone.

The Expanse

It seems that each episode of the current season has a bonus scene in the Extras section. Video, not just stills or after-show discussion.

The Expanse

Yes! Short (2-5 minutes?) scenes can be accessed through X-ray. They seem truly to be bonus extras so far, not anything that'd really furthering the plot, but they're enjoyable. The latest one is Amos and Bobbie, so that's good times.

The Witcher

Rewatching was absolutely the right call for me. I wasn't too confused about the 3 storylines taking place at different times, I actually figured that out fairly early, but what DID confuse me was the rate each storyline was taking place at. Like, I assumed at first that because Show Called Witcher that Geralt's story was more or less continuous and the gap between, for example, episodes 5 & 6 was invisible to me and made for a jarring narrative. But I figured out on the rewatch that while we are getting Ceri's story more or less as a whole, we are just getting the highlights of how Geralt and Yennefer got to the point of everything that happens in the finale. The season is kind of all backstory. which is weird, conceptually, but does work once I realized that was what was happening.

And then Season 2 kind of becomes the Mandalorian. So that's nice. I actually haven't finished the season 2 rewatch - I felt less confused about what happened in it but it turns out that I just tuned out a lot of what was going on with the mages because everything mage related really bored me in season 1, at least on the first watch.

I've also started reading the books and I'm kind of mad about it because I did not need another multi-volume fantasy series in my life but it actually is pretty good so what the hell. I've read worse for less reason. The reason being, ultimately, that I like the way Henry Cavill says "Hmm", pretty much everything follows from that.

I would like someone to tell me about the video games at some point because I'm not going to play them but I'm curious what they are like.

And, yes, I have had Toss a Coin to Your Witcher stuck in my head for days and days. Occasionally replaced with Burn Butcher Burn (which I do like but it's just not as catchy) and, oddly, Istanbul Not Constantinople but that can happen at any time for no reason at all.

I read an article that said they were originally planning on Geralt being more talkative in the show, but Cavill is able to convey so much in a single syllable (mostly "hmm" or "fuck", if you follow the memes) that they decided making him terse worked better.