u/LizBert712

Spoilers ahead.

After Orpheus sang his song and Persephone and Hades achieved balance again by remembering the song of their love, how do you think Hadestown changed? Were people still keeping their heads low and forgetting their names and building a pointless wall? Or would it be different?

Who lowkey needs justice??? The more obscure the better.

Mine are:

Justice for the poor camel driver that Gran nearly killed in Egypt by hijacking his camel!

And Justice for Natalie the Designer, whose only crime was designing Emily’s bathroom and who turned down future work so she could design the Dragonfly — only to lose the job anyway because Lorelai had an Emily moment.

I have heard from several sources never to leave stuff in your car, even in the short term, because petty theft is a big problem.

The thing is, like most travelers, we are going to be doing stuff on the way as we travel from one place to the next. How do people handle their stuff in situations like that? Do places have lockers you can rent, for example? Or is there some kind of extra security you can put on your car? Would love any tips.

I’m comparing course platform/LMS options for a small-business asynchronous training use case, and I'd be interested in hearing from people who have made similar decisions in practice.

A solo course owner wants to offer self-paced training for a professional/technical audience. The platform needs to look reasonably streamlined, handle enrollment/payment without too much manual administration since she's doing this on her own, and provide enough analytics to understand whether learners are completing the course, struggling with particular concepts or assessment items, etc.

The course might include Articulate/Rise/Storyline-style interactive practice activities, but SCORM tracking isn't essential if the official evaluation can happen through the platform’s own quizzes, assignments, or other trackable assessments. Since the course would be asynchronous and largely unmoderated, course-level and assessment-level analytics matter: progress, completion, quiz performance, question-level results, where people tend to drop off, etc.

Discussion/community features are not a major priority, and this platform does not need to support thousands of learners yet. The bigger priorities are low admin burden, a professional learner experience, useful analytics, and reasonable cost.

I've been looking at LearnWorlds, TalentLMS, Thinkific, Teachable, Podia, and MoodleCloud/hosted Moodle. Anyone up for sharing experience with these (or similar) LMS/course platforms? I’d especially appreciate hearing about what worked well in practice vs. what became harder to administer than expected.

Season seven gets a lot of flack for not being as good as the rest of the show. It will never go down as a great season or anything, but I would argue that it is underrated. The Palladinos left the show in a really difficult place, and I think season seven, while it isn’t always fun to watch, spends most of its time tying up loose ends in ways that the show needs.

1. Lorelai marries Christopher. Yes, it’s difficult to watch, and yes, Chris keeps pushing her to do things she’s obviously not ready for, and it’s unpleasant. But they needed it. “Chris and Lorelai” and the potential relationship there hovered over every relationship Lorelai had (was he originally supposed to be her endgame or something?) She needed to get him out of her system and resolve that tension once and for all.
2. Rory makes friends. Her friendship with Paris pretty much is the only one we see developed at Yale until season seven. I know they needed to keep the focus on the primary relationships, but that was ridiculous. Season seven gives her college friendships unrelated to Logan or Paris. I think she needed those.
3. Rory proves that she’s got what it takes to become a journalist One reason the “Mitchum was right” debate keeps coming up is, he asks a question the show the show asks consistently: does Rory have what it takes to go after what she wants – journalism especially– or will her lack of confidence when she doesn’t succeed in something take her down? I feel like season seven answers that question by having her put all her prospects (realistically or not) into the NYT fellowship — and then having her not get it. This is exactly the kind of thing that would take Rory out in the past. At this point, she really can’t afford a long-term freak out. Instead, she cries on her mom‘s shoulder — and then picks herself up and handles it. She does what she needs to do and she gets a job and she shows that she has learned to handle important setbacks. That question needed resolution.
4. Luke and Lorelai. Season seven had a lot of hard work to do with those two because season six had left them in the most horrible place. Given that they only had one season to repair the damage, the writers did a great job with that. Lorelei and Luke both apologize. They acknowledge that they have hurt each other and what exactly they have done to each other and they say they’re sorry, and they mean it. And they forgive each other. When they get back together, you get the feeling this won’t happen again.

This post is already ludicrously long, so I will stop – except to say that if AYITL is ASP‘s idea of what season seven should’ve been, I am very glad that she left because that would’ve been a disaster. Season seven did a much better job resolving some of the show’s major questions. (Though like many other people, I hate what they did to Lane.)

TL;DR — season seven isn’t always fun to watch, but it resolves several long-term areas of tension in ways that the show needed.