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Meh. Like most words it has multiple specific meanings and in the case of agricultural products, that particular use has a legal definition in some jurisdictions, unlike the word "natural". Still, his rant was amusing, a rant about patenting life-forms might have been fun too.

I can't entirely agree that the episode centred on her, but she was over-featured and as usual her presence felt contrived, awkward and often unnecessary.. A huge problem to me is the need to have other characters talk about her when she is not present. It is galling. I think that chatter actually unbalances the show more than their overuse of her very dull character.

Was he really powerless? Or just weaponless and outmanoeuvred? The way he flew away at the end of the battle screamed "I'll be back" to me.

I really could have done without that, It was clunky and not really accurate. It would have been better if she had said "it worked out in our favour that Katrina freed the horseman", because really, what the wig-stand did was a coin flip as to whether the murderous rage-monkey ex-fiancee who went evil after she jilted him would keep his word to her. As we saw, he was barely capable of keeping to his promise. I enjoy that Ichabod can't trust her shady behind. She's sticking to the skinny jeans and corset look I see, I guess because it's just so damn comfortable?. That thing laces up the back. How on earth does she get it on properly? Oh yeah that's right Katrina is a witch, she probably has some sort of do up my underwear-I'm wearing-on-the-outside spell. She really knows all the important magic. So glad there was no Henry. They have a wonderful dynamic, even if the guy is an unoriginal amalgam of Harrison Ford characters, he entertains me, especially in scenes with Jenny. Their scenes had the feel of being reshoots added after the episode was written and filmed. However they didn't stick out like a sore thumb and I found them enjoyable.

Did they show Irving shoplifing a burrito? after chugging milk looking like some random homeless dude? That ain't right. Yay! Irving is back! How?

I am still open to not despising the former Miss Van Tassel for breathing, I think if the writing was to opt for quality over quantity I might be more inclined to find her presence acceptable. They need to give more thought to defining her character and less to contriving reasons to put her in more scenes. If not shady, she at least has a very different set of motivations than the witnesses. Her actions do not reveal someone who is solidly behind team witness, even if her words assert that position. There is very little there, there when it comes to the wig-stand and what little character she has is woefully inconsistent, there is very little about her that adds up to credibility or really anything at all.

Abbie and Ichabod keep me watching and that includes their moments of disagreement, even when that results in interactions that could be described as disrespectful. I find the sum total is a dynamic that is very believable, highly entertaining and shows two people that have a genuine trust in each other, not blind trust, but the kind of trust people have when they see each other clearly. I love the way they both have a flair for portraying fierce attachment to other characters like Jenny and Irving. I love how most of the secondary characters bring a strong spark to smaller scenes and are well capable of carrying larger moments.

I bet the girls are tired of hearing half-baked suggestions that they "get off their asses and get jobs". I know I'm tired of reading it. They are minor children. Their job is to get properly educated and hopefully at the very least obtain some further education that will upgrade their prospects in life. Jobs ought to go towards savings to help them get a start in life, not contributing to the household expenses of a grown ass woman who collects over-priced dolls but can't pay her bills.

Faith was really the only bright spot in those segments but I would rather not have seen her at all, because she and her sisters have had to face public scrutiny over her mother's bad decisions. As well as being exposed in an uncomfortable, possibly horrible way in their own community, they now also have the dubious fame-bestowed privilege of being picked apart by strangers on the internet. For similar reasons, I didn't care for some of the scenes with Cassidy where she was acting out, even though her eventual dynamic with Daya was endearing. I find I can easily get suckered into reality shows that feature children, but I can get turned off even faster if I feel they are being exposed in a potentially damaging way. The Gosselin's being a prime example.

However becoming disinvested can result in a brief and devastating control over the long run prospects for a show if enough fans reach that point. Cancelled is generally the end for most shows, it's moot after that point which vision for the show was most significant, the program the viewers thought they were watching or the story the creators thought they were telling. Hopefully that won't happen here. I'm glad that enough people still feel invested enough to have an opinion. That it includes some who have stopped watching but still give the show any thought whatsoever tells me they could be wooed back if the writing improved. It's odd to me that they were reportedly flying by the seat of their pants last season and put out such a hugely entertaining show that did fairly well in world-building, but this season, when they have had the luxury of more time it's been comparitively dull and incoherent, kind of the opposite of what I'd expect.

I tend to waver between two things when I try to pinpoint what has been most damaging to the show, the first being there from day one, with Katrina being made Ichabod's wife, the second being the twist of Henry being the son of the Cranes. As well as giving us the template for the CFD, those two twists have weakened the potential of both characters by trying to reinforce their positions as central to the narrative. Ironically, it turned them into time-sucking bores. Sometimes things just need to be simple. Henry worked as a villain. Giving him backstory and motivations based on origins as the Crane's lost boy did not make him more complex and interesting, it just made him whiny and undercut the dark integrity he revealed as a false friend to the witnesses. Greed and malice was enough to make Henry work, greed for power, for prominence, for purpose and just the right amount of unhealthy spite towards his fellow man. That doesn't mean he should have been a one dimensional moustache-twirler but his mommy and daddy issues have made him campy, not layered. Even when he does terrible, vile things he comes across more like an overgrown kid playing at naughty dress-up than what he is, a willing instrument of evil. They should have just left evil to be evil. I don't dispute the notion that an early script would have killed off Katrina, but I think it was changed for the sensible reason that it bent the narrative of the original tale in a wrongheaded direction by disposing of a key character at the start, not as wrongheaded however as making her Crane's wife. Once the decision had been made to keep her in the story, even if the plan was still to have her presence be finite, her position as spouse should have been made into that of his fiancee, his unrequited love or hell, just his trusted friend. Ichabod and Abbie already had a dynamic and evolving relationship, were positioned as co-leads and throwing Mrs Crane into the mix was not an idea rife with dramatic possibility. At least when she was trapped in purgatory, her intrusions were limited. With her here in the present day, the choices for her as wife are either calm or conflict, the couple could have a stable relationship which doesn't need to evolve further or they have difficulty and petty conflict which has the potential to be ..... really mundane. You could give them a static relationship, in which she is the faithful loving wife and her contribution is that of a respite from the main action, a grounding calming presence, perhaps occasionally a damsel to be rescued. Not really very interesting but not an intrusive drain either. They could have made her a dynamic force to be reckoned with, a powerful witch not by reputation but by deed. a finely tuned weapon rather than the broken flashlight she has been written as being. I've really had enough of her looking rueful and shaking her hands like it might reset them with the occasional spark emitting forth They seem to have chosen no defined character for her at all and as a consequence we wound up with a wig-stand.. Her only consistent characteristic is as a walking plot-point that we are supposed to love for the same reasons a five-year old might adore the kindergarten teacher; "She's reeeeeeally prrrrrrretty and I think she's nice." They could have given her an agenda, good, bad, self-serving, misbegotten, something at least, a purpose as opposed to a mere presence. It's all information to be revealed later or maybe everything is exactly what it seems on the surface. Whatever. I stopped hoping there would be something there a while ago and started wishing she'd just go away. I haven't liked her from her first appearance, but I was willing for a long time to engage with her once the character had definition but that hasn't happened and instead she and Henry have been incredibly destructive to Sleepy Hollow maintaining a coherent central narrative. I look forward to Sleepy Hollow incorporating other mythologies but it shouldn't be at the sacrifice of a consistent universe. Season one gave us Crane and Abbie fated to be witnesses, we had the oft referenced necessity of four horsemen allowing Moloch into this world to wreak havoc as part of the end-times and Moloch was a vastly terrifying force. Everything in the present day and the revolutionary past was in service of the notion. Suddenly after investing one and a half seasons in that premise we have two horsemen bringing forth Moloch and he gets stabbed by a crotchety twerp, turns into a wee wailing pink skeleton and vanishes. There wasn't even the remotest attempt to make sense of how the preceding mythology has been negated. Unless Moloch's defeat is an elaborate Illusion, It was just a twist for it's own sake and now we're stuck with the consequences. If it is what it seems and this was the plan all along, it was poorly set up and executed. We are getting stuck with an awful lot that isn't particularly entertaining or coherent. Wig-stand Crane and her snivelling son are a big part of what is wrong but they are not the only part.

Or something was being held.

The only way in which I feel sorry for Mo is english is not his first language and he is surrounded by people who don't speak it either. Not english, not any known language. Scratch that. I never feel sorry for Mo.

I'm mainly here for the genuine snark, for those who make me laugh, especially if they can do so when I don't really agree with them, for the thoughtful well-considered comments and the short, sharp, shocking remarks. I get bored quickly when all I read in a forum is a back and forth between fan-girly fawning and people making harsh, gross comments, but fortunately that largely has not been the case here. I've seen no degeneration in the overall tone because a show participant posted and I don't care for the suggestion that anyone bringing any degree of an informed viewpoint is taking the discussion in a bad direction. Unless they are bending it in a pointlessly off-topic direction, it enhances the debate. I wish the discussion on the reunion show had been a fraction as lively. Between the rote questions the glassy-eyed host was reading in a nominally human-like tone, the way the production spent such a huge chunk of the show on clips and then clearly edited out any spontaneous reactions that contradicted the narrative they portrayed on the show (other than Daya's crying jag), it was dull, dull, dull. If I had watched the season 1 reunion (missed it) and seen something like this waste of time I would have probably given season two a pass and I think this season was more interesting overall. It was very off-putting that the production was so unwilling to let the participants say much about their perceptions of the events as opposed to how it came off on TV. It really underlined how very artificial and reductive the series has been and I found it very boring. It didn't have to be an hour of contradicting what the show had portrayed, It just had to be interesting and if they'd given a little more time to letting the cast speak for themselves it might have been. It was one of the worst reality reunions I've ever seen, just painfully inept.

The only thing I got from Danny and Amy's body language is they didn't want to be there and they were tired of explaining their choices in regards to his father and intimacy. Justin and Evelin did seem a little off however, but again, it could have been discomfort with doing the show, not necessarily each other. That journalist (of a sort) was just there reading softball questions and collecting a paycheck. She seemed more engaged with her makeup than the show participants. She was awful and really dull.

I have a friend who has a name with an unconventional spelling and I know for a fact that he has a minor criminal record. I did an internet search out of purely idle curiosity and came up with a lot of hits for criminal charges, convictions etc for people who clearly weren't him but had exactly the same name, some of those were for quite serious acts and at least one of the people was in a community close to his own. Her name showing up in county records isn't enough to prove that she has an unsavoury history without corroboration that it's exactly the same person, not just someone with the same name.

I don't know how it is in the US but here in Canada a nursing degree is highly advantageous to those planning to immigrate, to the point that some Dr's will re-train as nurses when coming here from some countries, Phillipines being one. You still have to requalify to demonstrate that you are competent to meet professional standards and it's not a cake-walk, but the gap between arrival and finding employment in your field is significantly shorter than in many other regulated professions. If Daya just wanted the advantages of North American life, she likely could have made the move on her own merits. I think her age of 29 might be more relevant. I suspect she wanted to marry, start a family and not unlike Brett's idea that she was culturally predisposed to take commitment to marriage seriously, her perceptions of American men dovetailed with what she was looking for in her spouse.

My goodness, it was boring. I didn't watch the reunion from the first season, was it this bad? It was so dull that a puppy or a kitty would have been the highlight by a long shot. Really it would have been nice to hear the participants talk about themselves and their lives as they settle in off camera, So many of the newly arrived spouses are limited in what they are allowed to do by their current immigration status and I would have liked to have heard how they were using their days. The only thing I got from the clips is that bit with Daya about the ring did come off as less offensive (though still kind of unpleasant or at least maladroit) than it did in the context of her ire over the roses and general bad attitude at the airport, which itself seems less dreadful in retrospect when we consider that Brett was quite late in picking her up after a long flight and she was facing another very long journey in a very short time. It was like one of those boring entertainment "news" shows, where it's all tease with no meat, mostly because they wind up cutting a lot of stuff when they can't hype it up with choppy editing and slo-mo reaction shots.

There are people who will hire the undocumented and then wrap themselves up in claims of social justice which they conveniently forget if someone gets injured on the job. Most of these people simply don't want to pay fair wages, pay into any sort of benefit plan or take any responsibility for safe, appropriate working conditions. They want a free lunch on the backs of those they employ.

If other reality show reunions are anything to judge by, plenty can fall out. The season 1 reunion for Breaking Amish for example contradicted much of how the cast and production had presented the participants on the show. It really depends on how confrontational the participants and host are, plus whatever edit the network feels gives them the most bang for their buck. Sometimes that can expose falsehoods that were presented on the original program, though that can include replacing the deceptions with a different load of unreliable information. ie. As on every Real Housewives reunion ever.

Gven the selective edits this season and last, I'm interested in having it definitively confirmed that she really did skip out on the wedding and reception in it's entirety. I don't doubt that it could have happened after the unpleasantness that went on..... but it could also have happened that she withdrew from active participation and put in an appearance off camera followed by a quick exit.

At this point in the season, I feel like Goffman came in thinking he needed to put his stamp on things and treated the show like something was badly broken and he had the fix for it, not understanding that it is possible to put your own stamp on something that is already good, simply by expanding and adding to it's strengths. Instead he's cut away most of what worked well the first season and substituted it with a bunch of bland , boring relationship troubles. It's like what might have happened if Buffy TVS had lost Joss Whedon in season two and the new showrunner had decided to downplay the emphasis on vampire slaying, re-positioned Cordelia into a lead role, made her Giles' long-lost daughter and had him marry Joyce after a quicky romance and the show became about the new blended family with a side of wacky supernatural hijinx.

I can sort of see where they could have encouraged her to play up being pissed at his inexplicable lateness to pick her up and one thing leading to another with the florists "misunderstanding" his order and him hee-hawing in her face with that incessant nervous laughter. There's also the context that she was about to go on another long journey to pick up Brett's daughter with very little down-time between. In her shoes, I'd be either weepy or showing some anger. The ring stuff was just out of line and rude. Even if it was meant to be a funny tease for the cameras, it didn't come off as one. She could have been more discreet about her concerns and tried to make a better impression on his mother, no matter how exhausted and disappointed she was. By the same token, that recent conversation between Brett and his mom that upset Daya so badly had a definite whiff of the production team stirring the pot for drama. That was another exchange that should have been conducted with more discretion. The gold-digger edit she was getting didn't hold up with more time on camera, She did come off as much more pleasant and genuine as time went on.

Re; the clip. I think it's not fair that Danielle's kids are learning to deal with difficult situations by saying " it's not fair", then listing off complaints that don't fix anything, rather than actually dealing with the problems. Of course Faith could just be humoring her mother by speaking to her using language she understands. Speaking as someone with poor vision, Danielle needs to keep her glasses on if she doesn't have contacts. That unfocused gaze is not a good look on anyone, especially if your eyes settle differently because you've got an additional issue like astigmatism or vastly different levels of correction for each eye.

Personally I am annoyed by Danielle's crappy obnoxious personality. As far as her looks go, she doesn't look bad for someone of her age and weight but, as others have pointed out she's badly groomed and sloppy, which would still be unremarkable to me if it didn't seem reflected in her lifestyle and personal conduct. Mo is good-looking especially compared to some of the other "Tunisian love rats" I've seen pictured online on links shared on this site but handsome is a bit of a stretch. His looks are acceptable. What he is, is young, drastically younger than Danielle and the gap is wide enough to be unsettling. I have no problem overlooking a wide gap in age in a couple if there is obvious affection, attraction and a sense of genuine companionship, all of which is glaringly absent from their relationship. I would be judgemental towards her delusional drama-queen antics if she were a single woman on her own, but she's not. Worse than being a mere fool, she is someone who has responsibility to raise and set a positive example for her children, especially when they are still dependent minors and what we've seen (admittedly through a selectively edited view) is someone who puts their best interests behind her desire to do a walk-through of a fairytale fantasy that has no grounding in reality. We've seen scenes where her children seem to be parenting her. I think she's being grifted, but there are ample indications that she's less a victim than someone running her own self-serving game.