At a great distance. Without shouting somehow. Impressions: Exposition week unfortunately continues, and this was also all stuff that I thought was pretty self-evident as of last week. So of course we needed to spend the first 17 or so minutes of the episode going over every single detail of it, in talking heads exposition […]
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