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In the episode where they meet, “Dinner at Eight” season 1 episode 3, Niles is struck by her beauty and asks “You’re Daphne?” two times. After the second time, she replies “it’s nice to meet you”. Then in the much later season 8 episode “Daphne Returns”, Frasier takes Niles into certain flashbacks to explore how he developed his feelings for her. One of these shows that original meeting in season 1 - yet this time, she says “right again” when Niles asks the second time.

I always thought that this scene showed the original one rather than having the characters reenact the scene since they both look much younger and how they did back in the first season, yet this difference makes me wonder whether there were two versions of it with the original airing and syndication versions being slightly different.

I know this is an extremely minute detail, but as a Frasier Sleeper who has seen both episodes literally over a hundred times, it stands out to me and makes me wonder about it every single time I see one of those two episodes! I thought that maybe someone here might know the answer. Thanks!

Breaking the Ice is such an underrated episode! Not only does it have some of the best lines and jokes (It smells like a fish died, and all the other fish sent flowers!), it’s such a pivotal episode regarding the Martin/boys relationship. Yet for some reason, I almost never hear anyone talking about this one…even on here?

What do you think of it?

When Roland lays his objects at the foot of the tower, it says “the first two heiroglyphics had faded away” and proceeds to show the new word that meant “found”. But the thing is, unless I’m going crazy or got a misprinted copy, there’s very clearly only ONE symbol that has disappeared - the one at the beginning. There were five symbols with a space in the middle for “unfound”, and then four symbols with a space in the middle for “found”. There is NO way I can possibly see to interpret it as having lost TWO symbols as it says instead of just one.

Can someone please confirm that this isn’t just my tower overloaded brain going crazy? 🤪 Thanks!

Frasier Crane’s Day Off.

He was delirious from fever and accuses Daphne of plotting with Niles because “he knew about the two of them”. Granted, that line can be interpreted in ways other than a crush or secret romantic relationship, but I’ve always strongly felt that had Frasier continued his ramblings for even a few seconds longer, he absolutely would have spilled the beans - six years early.

No, seriously. When she’s imprisoned in Oxford, and intended to embarrass herself and lose her dignity by denying her a toilet. It would have saved her from that as well as giving a giant “fuck you” to the racist deadbeats who intentionally put her in that position. Ok yes, in the real world, doing something like that could be very dangerous because of the potentially violent repercussions, but it’s also specifically stated that because she was somewhat of a public figure and had money, they didn’t dare touch her and limited themselves to assaulting her bags instead of her.

I’m actually not even necessarily saying that she did the wrong thing here - just that this always occurs to me whenever I read this part, and I’ve never seen anyone else discussing that particular plot point before.

PS. I’m using the name Odetta instead of Susannah because that’s who she (mostly) was at the time.

Why exactly DID he lie about the land being called Empathica? King, via Susannah, tells us the difference between sympathy and empathy when she tries to figure this out, and of course we know later that Dandelo feeds by stealing emotions from others (which must be related to the answer), but I still can’t quite see why that would make him have to lie about the name of the place…as if he actually COULDN’T say it, or that doing so would cause him harm.

I feel like I’m being really dumb, and the answer is right there and obvious, but I just can’t quite get there for some reason.

Eddie. It’s not because of his relatable story or his position as the comic relief of the tale. It’s because he died so damn SLOWLY. Especially for a gunslinger, who might be expected to at least go relatively quickly. His death was just so brutal and raw, with how drawn out it was and the slow, mental anguish it was causing Jake, Susannah and Roland. We already know he’s not going to survive since King effectively spoiled that early, several times in fact, beginning with the Ka Shume chapter. Also, it was a brutal head wound that was not survivable. The slow burn of his death and the devastation of the others is hard to take, whether Eddie is a favorite character or not. It’s one of the only parts of the entire saga that I find both very depressing AND hard to read, no matter how many times I have and despite knowing exactly what’s coming. Susannah also is just so LOST, she’s far beyond grief.

It’s the first time I’ve seen that, and I’ve put in quite a few hours into this game.

Also, do you think I’m ready for Hell? I’m a lvl 68 Paladin and my hammers plus Concentration hit for 2247-2286 damage. But I can also die pretty quickly and easily if I’m caught in a large group of monsters. Stats are:

Strength: 103
Dex: 111
Vitality: 218
Energy: 25

Defense: 526
Stamina: 379
Life: 869
Mana: 265

All resistances are 75.

Blessed hammer is level 24
Concentration is level 23 (both from items boosting these specific skills as well as adding one to ALL skills)
Vigor is level 15
Holy Shield is level 10
Might and Blessed Aim are both level 4

Everything else is level 2 except what I haven’t learned at all.

Since my hammers and Concentration do so much damage together, I’m hesitant to switch to anything else except Vigor for speed when farming Nightmare Countess for runes.

I’m using Lore for my helm and Ancient’s Pledge for a shield. Stealth body armor. Gloves are Lava Gout, amulet adds +2 to all offensive Paladin skills. Everything else kind of sucks and is magic but not unique.

Thanks all!!

In the chapter “The Shining Wire” when Mordred kills Walter, there’s a line describing that wire coming out of the baby’s “toothless, pink-gummed mouth”. But we saw that he was actually born with a full set of teeth, which is something specific Susannah notes that makes him different from a regular human baby at birth. I can’t think of any way to explain this; Mordred doesn’t have shapeshifting powers except for the spider, and he certainly never lost his teeth at any point were told about, so I assume this must be a minor mistake that the editors didn’t catch.

I thought only Callahan gained that “ability” since he was forced to drink Barlow’s blood. The only thing I can think of (that’s not a plot hole) is that Callahan being part of their Ka-tet allowed them all to see it as a way of sharing khef?

Is it a reference to something else, or a wholly original name?

It took me such a long time to level to 73, and I still can’t really do Hell difficulty other than the first few quests. My equipment isn’t too bad and the problem isn’t taking too much damage, but being unable to INFLICT enough damage to do anything but spin back and forth over an enemy for five minutes to kill them. As a hammer-throwing Paladin with Concentrate boosting it, I’m already doing 800 damage at the beginning of Nightmare and I shot up 20 levels in a day.

The most frustrating thing though is how long it takes to find good equipment as a Barb with such a low killing rate. As a Paladin, you can blow through so many enemies in such little time, it’s laughable.

I know I’m a bit late to the party, so I always played as a Barb when I first got the game as a kid when it came out and continued that habit whenever I revisited it in later years. But now this is like playing an entirely new game.

First off, I’m well aware that almost every culture has some forms of organ meat eaten either as a delicacy or in times of hunger. The thing is, ALL of it is made from essentially the same stuff; proteins and fats with some carbohydrates. While there are certainly many different types of foods based on organ meats that can be found and enjoyed worldwide as I said, I don’t think it can be disputed that by and large, to most modern humans anyway, meat is almost always muscle tissue first and foremost. These also tend to be very specific organs within certain cultures; there may be a regional preference for liver or even organs like brain, stomach, etc. but I’m not aware of any society that accepts ALL the organs (or nearly all) as meat along with muscle, and would eat any of these interchangeably.

So my question is, how did so much otherwise edible and nutritious food energy become taboo or at least wildly underexploited? Is it simply that there is a nearly universal culinarily preference for muscle over all other organs? Is it just because there’s more of it than any other specific part? Is it purely an accident of history that societies in general came to regard this other protein as taboo, or at least unappetizing? The likely “built in” negative reaction to more blatant gore and rarely seen anatomy, and therefore viewing organs as more unsightly? Did it originally have something to do with its qualities with respect to cooking with fire? Something else entirely?

One hypothesis I’m predicting people will think of is that organ meat may be more likely to carry disease. This is certainly true in regard to the intestines. A well-known dangerous organ meat is polar bear liver due to the very high concentration of Vitamin A stored there. The thing is, I’m not sure that this is very specific to the internal organs in general. Raw or undercooked muscle meat can still spread many bacterial and parasitic diseases, and if muscle tissue is generally less affected by these than organ tissue, I’m unaware of it. Almost every human being without the benefit of modern medicine has or had numerous different parasites by adulthood and many deadly epidemics can be caused by eating meat of any kind. Certainly consumption of the brain is rare, but by no means unheard of. Eating that organ in particular can cause lethal prion diseases, so maybe there’s some correlation of that and it’s lower consumption even when compared to other organ meat.

So yeah - if you really stop to think about it and are being completely objective, taking the time to make a kill and only scavenging one type of nutritious product from it while throwing away the rest (and losing all the potential profits that could be had if organ meats had more universal appeal, it actually seems pretty odd and demands an explanation.

Every time I quest for the tower, I view her a little differently. She’s a swirling vortex of contradictions. On the one hand, she sees no problem with killing mortal men by…well yeah, she kills them with no remorse. Yet we also see some empathy from her in the sixth book, see her afraid, and almost get the sense that she and Susannah could have been friends on another level of the Tower. She also got screwed in what was probably the worst possible deal anyone has ever made in the entire multiverse (trading her immortality just to become mortal and in near constant pain from her pregnancy, constantly feared being betrayed and not allowed to keep her baby, WAS in fact going to be betrayed, went insane after birthing Mordred, and finally was painfully killed as he quite literally sucked all the life out of her once immortal body).

So she never got even a minute of the thing she wanted so badly, she let RF make her mortal.

Hard to imagine a worse deal than that.

Assuming that she actually does have some degree of psychic abilities, it’s the first time that there’s an indication that Niles really MIGHT be destined to get with Daphne. When he pulls that figurine out of the bag and it becomes clear that it’s a dragon, It gets me every time. It really was a beautiful moment and sets up the main story arc of the entire next season. Even though Daphne is now engaged, that moment presages the incipient conflict that will finally start to come out in Back Talk and conclude at the end with Something Borrowed, Someone Blue/And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon.

And by the rings of Septaris Five, you will pay, Doctor Crane. You will…

… Oh, hi, Kenny!

… You will PAY.

No, seriously. It’s an interesting question because of the obvious associations of Slytherin with Pure Bloods, ancient families, cunning, etc., but I also feel that underneath all of that, Lucius genuinely does love his son. Treasures him, even. Would parental love win out over centuries of racial supremacy?