Lol did it solve anything though?

If you actually watch the full episode, the timeline of events is:

• Someone rents a new house and finds a skeleton in the marsh behind it. It’s a ~30 year old woman who died in the winter and was bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly.
• They send away for DNA sequencing but the lab doesn’t get back to them for like a year and half.
• In the meantime they look at missing persons cases (over 100 in North Carolina they state, though presumably ~half that once you filter for skeletal women)
• They determine that this woman’s case seems most likely based on all the other details about her case. The forensic tech who’s oddly interested in how much pain people feel as they die is interested in using “impose an image of a skull on a face technique” to see if it matches.
• She reaches out to a skateboarding computer science professor who uses gimp to paste a semi transparent layer of the skull on top of a picture of that victim’s face and thinks it probably maybe matches.
• They get fed up with the DNA lab and send it to a second one that responds in three weeks confirming it was who they thought.
• They talk to the victim’s friends who point out what party she was at the night she disappeared.
• The people at the party say that she was hanging out with this one big truck driver after everyone else. His story has been that she walked home after everyone else left, in January, for 7 miles.
• They interview him a few times and he eventually says that they had sex that night and she belittled him for not getting it up and he pushed her and she he hit her head on the nightstand and he left and she was fine when he left.
• He’s convicted of murder and dumping her body because that’s an obvious crock of shit.

Kinda feels like the whole GIMP escapade was just a waste of everyone’s time and all it took to solve the case was basic police work in terms of interviewing people who saw her last. By the time they tried GIMP they already had a prime missing person that they thought it was, and they wouldn’t have had to try gimp if they just went to a second / competent DNA lab immediately. The way they present it is a little unclear, but it sounds like they didn’t even pull the suspect in for further interviewing until they finally got the DNA confirmation for who it was.

Old man yells at cloud isn’t an age, it’s a bitter mindset.

An fuck off with these dumbass, utterly vacuous Anti JavaScript rants.

I’m getting so sick of people being like “I keep getting hurt by bullets, clearly it’s the steel industry that’s the problem”.

Your issue isn’t with JavaScript it’s with advertising and data tracking and profit driven product managers and the things that force developers to focus on churning out bad UXs.

I can build an insanely fast and performant blog with Gatsby or Next.js and have the full power of React to build a modern pleasant components hierarchy and also have it be entirely statically rendered and load instantly.

And guess what, unlike the author apparently, I don’t find it a mystery. I understand every aspect of the stack I’m using and why each part is doing what . And unlike the author’s tech stack, I don’t need a constantly running server just to render my client’s application and provide basic interactivity on their $500 phone with a GPU more powerful than any that existed from 10 years ago.

This article literally says absolutely nothing substantive. It just rants about how websites are less performant and react is complicated and ignore the reality that if every data tracking script happened backend instead, there would still be performance issues because they are there for the sole reason that those websites do not care to pay to fix them. Full stop. They could fix those performance issues now, while still including JavaScript and data tracking, but they don’t because they don’t care and never would.

Clearly that’s indicative of you two both being accurate in your assessments.

Totally couldn’t be an old man yells at cloud situation with you two separated by close to a decade…

I feel like you’re making excuses for bad writing because you like the show.

I too enjoy it, I’ve just been burned by this pattern before. It’s easy to write mysterybox openings, and it’s easy to prolong them by continuing to throw twists out every time theres been a lull, it’s hard to conclude them in a satisfying and sensible way.

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Everything about Lumon staffing has been minimal though. The staff in every department feel too small for the size of the space they’re in.

Just like from a managerial and reporting standpoint, how many direct managers does the marching band department have? How many elevators do they take to get to their department every day?

And why are they all equally as primed to revolt as MDR? They could easily have just sat in front of the vending machine and blocked it, why did they let Milchick knock it over unless they wanted an excuse to physically harm him?

You’d prefer that the Sci fi about having a switch that can turn you into multiple people based on a religious cult in a universe which is both simultaneously more advanced but uses older aesthetics than ours be more realistic to how normal offices work?

Yes, that is literally the core concept of the show.

The severing technology and Lumon itself are the two things about the world that drive it’s difference from ours. Nothing they’ve established in their world building would explain why the C&M department would be that large, when literally every other department is extremely minimal, and C&M has played no role in any previous celebrations.

You’re completely ignoring the subtext of Milchick, a Black man who evidently gets disadvantaged at work due to his skin color, using his power as the floor manager to choose a marching band as the method of celebration for their achievement. It directly ties into his season-long arc.

Just because it makes sense with one character’s arc, doesn’t meant it makes sense in the broader context of the show.

There are lots of ways a writer could have written the conclusion to that character arc for Milchick that didn’t require suddenly establishing not just a full department, but the biggest department we’ve seen at the company by far, consisting entirely of marching band players that are apparently very practiced.

Why is the goat department 6 people and MDR 4 then?

The reality is the marching band department makes absolutely zero sense. That scene was clearly just written in because the fans smiled and clapped when they saw Millchek dance at the end of season 1 and some crappy writer though ‘how can we make an even better dancing scene than season 1, that’s what the fans want!’

Nowhere is it stated that C&M come into work every day, they might only come in for special occasions, or they could have other jobs in-between.

They’re putting temps through brain surgery?

Also, did you count 160 people, or are you guessing? It looked like way fewer to me, though still a rather large number.

I was being dramatic to express my point

I honestly don’t get the “mystery box” criticism. The biggest mysteries have already been explained.