I think it has the writing of a soap opera, plotlines does not make sense, characters have an average IQ near zero, full of internal inconsistencies, without any sense of scale, space and time. "Dinner time TV" that is more enjoyed watching it in the background, but with a wasted huge budget - some good showrunners could have made it a least on a Game of Thrones level series. The "Inside of episode" stuff is really comical when the showrunners and directors speak. Sadly it's the only "Middle-earth" series as of now.   Ah, I forgot: every few minutes there are callbacks to the movies + quotes straight up ripped from them but placed at random, like a sit-com.  

Ooff, Svrcek showing the world what NOT to do when going for a sprint. He seemed like with 200m to go he was still not expecting the sprint to begin...   Epic race though for Behrens, far and away the strongest in this race today, what a monster of a rider.

Hey, we have cross country skiing on snow this weekend!  It is the German Indoor Championships, using what looks to be some top-secret James Bond villain's lair in the former , filled with artificial or preserved snow.     Langlauf - xc-ski.de - YouTube

Another medal for Slovakia

Still on my list and excited about it, everyone I know who has seen it has been positive about it   The only negative things I heard about it were coming from people saying stuff like "this is woke!" and "that is woke!" and "too woke!!", so yeah, nothing that actually matters.   First some other things though. Just finished House of the Dragon's second season, which was fan-tas-tic  Now started with Breaking Bad and Chernobyl and waiting for From's 3rd season to be available.

Great attempt by Jan Christen, but Behrens and Svrcek have caught up with him and are looking mightily strong. Behrens is 1,95m by the way and is overpowering this course, damn.

I watched the first series, will catch up when it's finished.  I'm not that huge Tolkein purist, so did like S1.

I was just talking about her with my dad 2 hours ago because he was watching Downton Abbey, and now I learn this

well, 27 is not so old, personally I wolud be quite happy to have 27

RIP Maggie Smith