The Eagle's-Eye View

Publicly ridiculing: Cool Wheel LLC, Franklin, NJ

It's pretty clear to me that these are not the product of generative AI... just utterly incompetent photo manipulation.

They're the kind of photos that really make you wonder if this company even actually has possession of any of these cars. (I especially love the one where not only did they crop off the back corner of the car, they didn't even bother to hide the other dealer's front plate.)

~ what I wondered every time I watched the opening sequence of Superhuman Samurai Cyber-Squad when it was on TV in the 90s.

Anyone remember this commercial from probably 25 years ago?

Cashier: "Here's your two cents change."

Customer: "Ah, keep the pennies. They're useless."

~ Jax to @gooseworx, probably.

Happy Father's Day, King K!

So we have confirmation again that Gooseworx lied, but honestly, it was absolutely the right move here, to try to keep people from doing anything stupid.

I will say that the comedy scenes in the middle came at the perfect time, because there was a stretch before that when things seemed a bit too slow for too long.

I'm also glad that we got answers to basically all the remaining big mysteries of the Circus, everything we still needed to know about the backstory -- I don't feel like it was missing anything important.

I was surprised at one longstanding theory that was practically confirmed (with just enough ambiguity for plausible deniability, but come on), but at the same time, it felt believable, not gratuitous.

My immediate reaction to the last shot (...I mean the bird's-eye one; I guess that wasn't the real last shot, but if you've seen the movie, you know what I mean) was that it was a weird one to end on, but... it was hopeful, which I guess is tied in with the message of the series. And there's just enough reason to hope that, given the state everything is in at the end, there could eventually have been a fix at some untold future date for the one thing I'm seeing people call unsatisfying about the ending.