Thanks.
The situation on the ground is actually not as bad as that. I think most of the jamming affects aircraft a lot worse than grounded devices. Still, in Haifa (city in the northern half of Israel) even on the ground you can almost never get a good signal of your actual position.
I don't get it, and the world's quickest and last comprehensive DDG search didn't find an explanation either.
I wish books gave me a small map of every location so I don't need to just guess what the author might have been imagining while writing, specifically because of this nonsense.
But eh, who am I kidding, I don't read books anymore :/
I'm in the annoying position of actually being able to blame my GPS. Not my navigation app, the actual GPS signal. My incompetent government, as you might have heard on the news in the past year, has decided to provoke every other country in the region (and plenty more elsewhere) into a regional war. So now in "self defense" from guided missiles, they are constantly jamming GPS signals in my city and some other areas of the country. My GPS has been telling me for months that I'm in Beirut.
Somehow this precaution isn't necessary in Tel Aviv though? Curious....
My interpretation
Their powers changed because the marigold wasn't in them for all those years. Their 'potential powers' within them drifted, and they were only locked in to their new powers when they drank the marigold. In other words, their powers can only change while they don't have them - when they have powers, they stay the same (but can be improved a lot through training as we've seen).
I don't think being mixed with another drink has anything to do with it
But it's all open to interpretation anyway :)
Oh, right. That time and space recreation machine.
I didn't think much of it because basically it didn't make any sense at all. They didn't explain what it was, what it was capable of (or wasn't capable of), what Reginald actually wanted it to do, whether he managed to complete all the preparations/configuration before Allison killed him and pushed the button, what the ramifications of an incomplete configuration might be... Basically, anything could happen and there's no point pondering it (in my mind). It was a really hasty season ending, which is how every season seems to end.
Sorry, what time and space recreation machine? I binged season 4 in one day, did I somehow miss something this huge?
The closest thing I can think of is the memory fiddling machine.
I really enjoyed this show. It has a lot of rough edges, but I really like how they often manage to do quite a lot with what feels like a tight budget (whether it really was tight, I haven't checked). There's very rarely anything spectacular in the VFX space, the show's impact comes down to a great script. The special effects are few and far between, and if I'm honest, they usually don't look that great (with a few exceptions). But I still loved the show and it's because none of that matters.
Regarding the poor communication thing: I agree that it's frustrating, but once I realized that them being a dysfunctional family is the entire premise of the show, I was a lot more accepting of it while watching. They all have intense bottled up feelings about each other, it's actually realistic that they're complete failures at communication.
Most of them had their powers changed.
power changes
Allison got telekinesis, Lila got laser eyes that are just by coincidence exactly the same as Homelander's from The Boys, and Five as you said started teleporting to the multiverse subway. I also think, though I didn't double check, that Ben used to have tentacles come out of his belly/chest and it changed to come out of his back.
There may have been other changes that I've missed, but I think Diego for example keeps the same power, maybe just a bit powered up.
There was a time when blue LEDs were the white whale of electronics, always out of reach and everyone wanted to figure out how to make them work. When someone finally did it, it was considered a massive breakthrough, and rightly so. Now they have somehow become the default cheapo LED, moreso than red or green. Could it be an industry-wide 'fuck you' to physics? "You tried to keep us from making blue LEDs, hah! Now look at us!!!"
Prescriptivist much?