I am already so behind on watching and between this and MCC I don't know what I will do.

Yeah, there seems to be a lot of rumors about who will and won't be in (even Joe has been dropping trollish hints though that seems very unlikely). I figure there's a reasonable chance Martyn will manage to be not normal about it even if Ren doesn't play, though!

I don't think it's super likely the shards thing will happen because they do seem to try to keep Life stand-alone, mostly, but it's on there because it would be *very* funny if it did!