Spoil Me

Thank you so much to D'Nique for commissioning this episode! It has been nearly a year since the first time I covered these sections, hence me covering them again in full to refresh myself. D'Nique was able to commission the entire book upfront to ensure its completion, and I'm looking forward to finding out what happened beyond the point I had to leave off reading last time. It's startling how mu...

Thank you very much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! These two episodes are very fun, and I'm really glad to have a Soos-centric episode considering how often I have felt like his character doesn't entirely work for me. I actually really liked getting a better look at his life and some details that make him seem like more of a full character. The second episode is a series of short stori...

Thank you very much to Denise for commissioning this episode! Whew boy, these are some really tough fucking chapters. First off there's the reveal that the way that the stone people were made is actually in reverse of what I had thought; the orogenes as we know them appear to have come BEFORE the stone people, which is totally confusing and yet, once explained, makes the most sense. Then there's t...

Thank you so much to Abbey for commissioning this episode, and thank you to Yama for correcting my mistake on the earlier post in which I thought that I had fucked up and in fact HAD, but in a different way than I thought. Oof! It's been a confusing month, y'all! It's finally the finale episode! And I was really impressed with the way this book ended, even despite the fact that there's not a horri...

Thank you very much to Denise for commissioning this episode! In this section, there's still a lot of mystery surrounding what the history of the stone people is, and although I'm getting to the point where I'm almost formulating theories, it's still a little too soon for me to grasp enough for those theories to make much sense. Nassun, for her part, is getting into the heart of this creepy dead c...

Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode! So this episode was a bunch of my worst fears realized because I want so much for Kathryn to be trusted and become a part of things, but it looks like that's simply not an option. Instead, we have to jump to PRO-LEVEL GASLIGHTING, which lemme tell ya...not my first choice. And I have a lot of questions about the loose ends being tied u...

Thank you very much to Nikolai for commissioning this episode! Well then, I guess it's about to pop off, huh? I cannot figure out what could have happened to Jonas to cause him to become Adam, but whatever it was it must have been fucking traumatic. And considering the way that Noah behaved when he saw the pages that have been missing, he's not telling anyone the whole story anymore which makes me...

Thank you so much to Yama for commissioning this episode and starting us off on the next book! It's going to be a minute before the next one starts, but I'm already into it and I'm mad about where this section stops. Nita gets sent to fucking Scotland! I mean, there's a shock. And I have to say that I don't really feel that her parents are being fair with trying to separate her from not only her b...

Thank you so much Denise for commissioning this episode, and making it an extra-long episode because apparently I need it. This section is when we start getting into Hoa's history in earnest, and there's something not being said that's being hinted at and I am trying to figure out what it is. I'm feeling that there's going to be a twist regarding how the stone people are made, or how the obelisks...

Thank you very much to Karyn for commissioning this episode! I'm so glad to be continuing my journey through this show because it really does seem to be the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, this episode is BONKERS and I'm so unsure how the hell we can possibly move forward from here effectively. I mean, there's the whole implication that maybe McClaren might be ordered to assassinate his wife be...

Thank you very much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! I am very excited to be getting further into this season because it looks like we're going to get even deeper into the mysteries while STILL continuing to meet new and fun characters. But mostly, I'm loyal to the old, and I'm delighted to see Pacifica Northwest is back. Golf War is a particularly weird and bloodthirsty episode, conside...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! I can't believe that we've reached the end of this book and we still haven't found out exactly what the hell happens with the big showdown at the Abbey! Does Ara live? I'm hoping so, but what a cliffhanger to end things on! But I'm getting ahead of myself. First there's the whole thing with Clera to deal with, and boy it's ugly and sad...

Thank you ever so much to Nikolai for commissioning this episode! This episode is the second one in a row I believe in which we do not see Jonas, and let me tell you, I'm dying to know what the hell he's up to. However, we get some more Claudia and I'm really intrigued by the way she is apparently playing the game. What is up with the pages she has that Noah seems to covet? And who the fuck is Ada...

Thank you very much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! We've only got one more to go before this story wraps up, and I for one am still on the edge of my seat. I want to know what exactly Mogget is up to, I want to see Sam reunited with Sabriel and Touchstone, I want to see Nick rescued (PLEASE let him be rescued) and I want to see what it looks like to bind a creature of this kind of power....

Thank you so much to Nikki for commissioning this episode! I am really loving this show, and this episode gets to the heart of one of the reasons why; the overall implications to what the ability to "travel" means when it's given to human beings. Regular old human beings who maybe don't have the purest intentions. It turns out that this episode is a little ambivalent about whether Donner was lying...

Thank you very much to Devin for commissioning this episode! Wow, I wasn't ready for this book to be over. I had no idea we were so close to the end! That's not to say that I think this book is badly paced, because in fact I'm rather impressed with how compact the whole thing it, while still managing to be complex and wildly imaginative. The ending of this story is just as compassionate as the end...

Thank you very much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! Y'all I have to tell you YET AGAIN how fucking nervous it makes me when Lirael goes into Death. Omfg it just gives me the worst anxiety, and she is spending SO LONG in there this time around! And still isn't even halfway to the gate she needs! I can't handle it. There's a lot going on with Mogget, too, which I didn't really pick up on la...

Thank you eternally to Melanie for letting me use this commission slot towards a property of my choice! This episode was really tough to sit through in places because the tension is through the fucking roof. My god, whomever thought of Villanelle breaking into Eve's house to force to her to have dinner is a goddamn genius. What a fucking scene. And then there's the whole thing with fucking Frank....

Thank you ever so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! Oh boy I am so excited to be getting into the next season of the show y'all. This is a real pleasure to cover, and so strange and different in so many ways while still feeling deeply familiar in its humor and friendliness. I expected this season to begin with an explanation of what the hell Grunkle Stan is up to. If not his overall...

Thank you very much to Jacqui for commissioning this episode! Whew, it's been a long journey to get here but damn has the ride been wild! This finale episode is really really satisfying in a lot of ways, but there are some things that really didn't rub me the right way. I'm struggling to sort through the things I thought were great and the things I find kind of ugly. First of all, there's the reve...

Thank you so much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! Wow so I was tempted to say that this is when things really begin to pop off, but there's so much left of this book that I'm actually guessing that isn't true at all. Because you know what? Nick is still alive, and I have a terrible feeling that things won't really be popping off until he's dead. And I hate it. In these chapters, the dead...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! I'm blown away that we're almost done with this whole book, and I have to laugh at the fact that I almost accidentally read into the next section because I AM OVEREAGER OKAY. In this section, the girls are taken ranging and are assigned a meeting place that they have to get to on their own. It's a smart and brutal test, and they're allo...

Thank you to Melanie for commissioning this episode! Yay! This episode of this show was so damn tense that I almost couldn't handle it. I still haven't had a chance to watch the next one, and I'm not at all sure what the hell is going to happen to Frank. To be honest, I'm not totally sure I care because he has been fucking people's lives up real bad, but I'm curious. We get a little more of Villan...

Thank you so much to Jill for commissioning this episode! I feel like for some reason, this episode really hammered home to me that the narrative of this show is not going to follow the model that I had expected at all. I think it's because of the fact that we see what happened to Ulrich and it's so unthinkably bleak that it made me reevaluate everything. In other news, this episode deals a lot wi...

Thank you very much to Karyn for commissioning this episode of Travelers! I really appreciate you, and I love this show! This episode has an interesting premise in that it's mostly about all of the crew coming to terms with living in their new bodies and lives without any sort of mission. They're feeling rather unmoored and probably frightened, and none of them is coping especially well. However,...