castalie | Show finale?

Waiting with bated breath for the newest session of the Assemblée Nationale to start at 10.00PM (ETA: heee, it started! Hello, M. Bartolone, hello! ♥) I was even more excited than usual about tonight's episode because some spoilers have leaked over the afternoon - via a couple of BNFs, including an active LGBT twitter account - saying that the debate might end sooner than expected and I actually thought - extremely naively, I admit - that it might mean that they were going to air the show finale earlier than planned, ie that the Final vote was going to happen. Of course that is not how it works, though it does mean (M. Bartolone insisted on it when he opened the session) that they are going to try and go through the last three articles, meaning going through ALL THE REMAINING AMENDMENTS, in one last sitting so that they're done with that part of the process. Then, as planned, everyone will wait for February, 12th for the official vote to take place.

Speaking of the ending of the season/show,

yami_tai was asking me earlier over Whatsapp what I was going to do without my daily fix. Valid question, yes, I'll miss directAN (except for how it means we'll be done with that part of the narrative) but I should be fine for a little while because there's a spin-off in the works! Let's not forget that after the Assemblée Nationale, the bill will be sent to the Senate for a new reading - hopefully the last one - with "experts" (association representatives, lawyers but also sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists etc.) being invited to discuss the issue and give their opinions.

TPTB already announced that those hearings will be either aired live or made available on-line later on. Wait, turns out I'm already behind the spin-off as it already started two days ago; the the first three hearings already happened. That new show will last till the end of February. I wonder if it'll be as popular as the original??

If the Senate adopts the text as is, then it's All Good. If they don't, it means the shuttle between the two Houses starts; the modified bill is sent back to the National Assembly for another reading (in fannish term, we get a season 2) before it goes back to the Senate for the same thing. Let's hope it won't come to that.

Also, omg! I haven't watched the latest Arrow yet! If you have, you can spoil me, did Diggle and Oliver elope and got married in secret? :p

[ETA: hey, I missed a session adjournment because I was talking to my dad! What happened, was there a fight or did they just take a break? *looks for reviews*

ETA2: hahaha, I pimped the debate to my dad and told him about some of the "twists" and he decided to give it a try, he's now watching it on tv #NewFanInThemaking?]