I remember taking the metro to some random neighborhood in the city. Looking at the map yeah it's near the water.

Hafiz Mustafa? I haven't been. I did go to Karaköy Güllüoğlu which was really nice. Would you recommend Hafiz Mustafa next time I'm in Istanbul?

Sadly it was funnier before it became a real thing. I guess it goes to show how smart 30 Rock's writers are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILF_Manor

No way that was Pamela Adlon. Also countless other animated roles. She was so young wow.

Dang. This is a real Captain America from a "What If?" Published in 1983. "What if Captain America was thawed out today (1983)?"

Please save us, Cap. Oh wait, I guess now Disney owns you, too.

I'm 6 feet tall, so walking without glasses was out of the question.

Please explain.

I added now! I needed to get back to my desktop to type up my thoughts.

At a high level, I appreciate them trying something new. The experience overall left us disappointed.

Context: I grew up in NY, and as a child would watch the fireworks with my family from a highway overpass near our home in Queens. More recently I have an apartment with a rooftop that has a great view of the fireworks on the East River. Since the show was on the Hudson this year, we watched it on TV from the family home on Long Island.

Misses: For me/us the show this year missed on several notes.

• Songs. Maybe I'm old fashioned? I much preferred the more classical and orchestral backing tracks for the fireworks as in previous years. It seemed like this year NBC Universal decided to show off all of the songs they have in their song catalog, including the ones they put in every kid's movie soundtrack :/
• Camera work. With live singers for all of the songs this year, the TV broadcast focused heavily on the performers instead of the fireworks. We were watching for the fireworks, not to watch people singing!

Hits:

• The performers were good! It was funny to see how they worked around the lyrics of some of the songs, like pulling just the chorus of George Michael's Freedom, because the rest of it doesn't quite fit the theme.
• What little they showed of the fireworks on TV, they looked pretty good!

I don't know exactly why they decided to move to the Hudson after 10 years on the East River, but I do wonder if that was only place they could secure a concert venue large enough on the water for the musical concert. We joked that Mayor Adams probably wanted it on the Hudson so he could see it from his home in New Jersey. Maybe NBC wants something that's big like ABC's New Years Eve? A friend watching at a bar described the show as "tragic".

As I said, I commend them for trying something new; now please, don't do it again next year.

"You sure this isn't a Lore?"

"Meh, a couple might be Lores."

Regarding Janeway and Chakotay, they had similar moments in Voyager, too. At first she was thinking she'd get back together with her fiance Mark. Then eventually she decides that since she's a captain on a small ship that's isolated from the rest of the federation, she shouldn't fraternize with the crew.

Also though, the two have a tight bond. Think about how long they've known each other, and what they went through together. I mean, she had her first officer infiltrate his ship after which they all got flung to the opposite side of the galaxy, and she made him the first officer. A lot of what we're seeing use just that these two care so much about each other, not necessarily romantically.

I read it as "spock settings" and it still made sense.

Ron Howard