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I like that with alterations; GET RID OF KATRINA!!!! Reveal that Jeremy was not Ichabod's son and perhaps not Katrina's either, use Henry sparingly. Bring back Jenny, relegate Hawley to occasional sidekick status. Bring back Irving, tell the story you've set up for him. Give Reyes a purpose other than being notIrving or get rid of her. Get rid of the head of Headless and also his lonely little head. ditto to the rest As awful as I think Katrina is, she can be marginalized or disappear with little damage to the narrative. The bigger misstep involved giving ichabod a lost son and having him be an over-the-top moustache-twirling, scenery-chewing time-suck, that family tie needs to be severed. I really think the time is overdue for a revisionist reveal about her spat with the coven and the birth of Jeremy. I'm glad to read that it's not only fans, but critics also who are noting the declne of the show. I enjoyed the links.

She was astoundingly obtuse about their break-up. Any reasonable person would have realized she'd been dumped with his words to her after the un-wedding. Instead she went charging into his apartment without knocking, like she was still welcome to do so. It's not like she was trying to apologize for her her actions and ask for a reconciliation, she didn't think she'd done anything wrong and believed they were still an intact couple. Holy Crap! How many times and in how many different ways did he tell her they were over and he found her lies unforgiveable? I was expecting him to start drawing on a whiteboard or do some sort of presentation with his lap-top to try and explain it to her. Any character other than Kiki and I would expect that her behavior was the opening as she transitioned into bunny-boiler mode. There are too many characters already riding the crazy-train on this show, so it's just as well that they don't go there. Also, Rosalie, shut-up. Don't apologize to Kiki. Neither you nor Michael owe her anything and you are just giving her an opening to screech at you, nobody needs to hear that. Leaving is the only thing to do if she won't go away. Loved Michael asking for the return of the keys. Hee!

You could be correct. On a larger screen there appeared to be a bit of door frame in the shot in front of her, it may be an illusion caused by a shadow, I can't tell either way on a smaller screen and I think I'll bypass re-watching a single scene repeatedly to settle a minor difference of opinion over a question that will be easily answered tomorrow. Whichever it is, Michael defiled a bed Kiki considers her own, it's an awesome sight to behold whether it's the one she used to tag-team the sons of Carly in Michaels apartment or the one she called squatters rights on at Michaels brownstone. He really really doesn't, I hope the poor wee thing is Morgan's. He didn't give a rat's ass about the newest girlchild until he tried to use her as get out of jail card. He showed a heck of a lot of concern over the preemie newborn being toted around by a lunatic when he was leaving voicemails about her disappearance with Shawn the incompetent flunky as he prepared to shoot the child's murderous Mom to death. His revenge was more important to him than the welfare of a medically fragile infant. (Ok that kid is slightly smaller that a preschooler... but still..) I wonder what bothered him more, the fact she shot Connie, who he didn't even really want back or the fact that a girly can shoot straighter than him.

She had keys, though not to the room they were in, she could see them through the open doorway of a separate room while she was standing inside the door she had unlocked, bugging her eyes, flaring her nostrils and generally making rather amusing troll faces in a situation where I'm fairly certain we weren't meant to be laughing at her. We heard the keys jingling loudly when Rosalie and Michael were makking and then it cut to her letting herself in. Bwah! Still laughing!

You may be correct and I did notice the incongruity, but I wouldn't rely on this crew being arsed to accurately reflect the layout of Michael's apartment if all that we are supposed to see is Kiki spying him and Rosalie through the open bedroom door. Frank is a notorious cheapskate, he won't put up Michael's apartment set just so we can see Kiki cross a room. Kiki was looking for Michael after her talk with Silas, it doesn't seem likely that she would expect to find him at her place, but I suppose she could have stopped off at her "own" place first. Kudos to Michael if he decided to ride Rosalie in a bed he owns and the mooch isn't paying for. Awesome eviction notice, "Mikey". There is a Prince Edward County in the province of Ontario that has become known over the past few years as a B&B and weekend cottage spot that is gay-friendly.

I laughed and laughed at the look on Kiki's face when she saw another woman in the bed where she'd fucked Michael and his brother. Her jaw jutted out so far that she looked like she could crack walnuts just by nodding. Ummm? what kind of a psycho just lets herself into the apartment of the boyfriend who just dumped her for good reason? Oh yeah, that's right, a smug, ignorant know-it-all with no damn sense, who thinks he's in the wrong for being upset, that's who.

I tend to think the long run plan of the show includes doing a very slow burn with Abbie and Ichabod and part of that involves bringing his marriage to Katrina to an end but doing so with an actual arc, rather than abruptly and not writing that end as a foregone conclusion from the start. Maybe they will write her character off after that point, villainize her or turn her into a helpful spectre in the afterlife. (If they do I hope she's always cloaked in swirling mist so that Party City wig perched on her head looks less awful.) Her character is always so very off-putting that at this point I can no longer dismiss it as poor chemistry or ham-handed writing or casting that missed the mark. There is nothing epic about the love between the Cranes. She lies and manipulates constantly, he seems to trust and respect her less with each episode and shows his (decreasing) devotion by behaving like he just inhaled something stupifying. I do have to wonder if part of the reason they have been so subtle in depicting Ichabod and Abbie being drawn together is they don't want to commit themselves to it too strongly because of fears of pushback from the network. I'm actually glad that instead of having a married man pine for another and turning Abbie into the other woman, whether as a mistress or via an emotional affair, they they seem to be writing the Cranes as falling apart first. Besides which I don't need Ichabod and Abbie to be a couple for the show to work for me. They have chemistry that works on every level, romantic is the least of it. I don't care for Hawley and Abbie because of the Jenny factor and I don't see them as people who would be drawn to one another beyond physically. Whether he's a spoiler or a fallback to taking the Ichabbie route, I don't look forward to the show going there.

I noticed that too and was also bothered by their poor command of the only language they (presumably) speak. The problem is more than just poor grammer, which I could overlook, they seem quite inarticulate.

I'm inclined to think most things that we see of Chelsea and Yamir are producer driven. I think they are strictly on the show to get any kind of media exposure for Yamir while he gets his visa and hopes for attention from the Latin music market in the US. I'm not sure if Gabriels verbal smackdowns, etc are what he would have done with Yamir and Chelsea regardless of the cameras, but they all have a very staged feel in terms of his demeanor and actions. I didn't have an issue with Chelsea's mom's comments about the meatpacking plant. Even if Yamir does have any kind of degree, his limited English skills and the smallness of the locale limit his job prospects. Unless he gets very lucky, he's looking at entry-level, low income work to start and a great deal of that can involve jobs that deal with the public which he can't very well do until his ability to communicate improves. The meatpacking plant option is gross, but at least they'll have no problem hiring him and he'll have an income while he and Chelsea figure out life beyond her parent's basement. I think they are telling a very specific, pre-determined narrative with these two. And yeah, Chelsea needs to pull her head out of her butt, put on her big-girl pants and earn a living too, instead of everyone else making sacrifices so she can be happy. I like this couple, but both of them seem immature, However they both seem more grownup than Danielle and she's a woman well into her forties with nearly grown children. Personally, I think Dani's as much of a scam artist as Mo. They are both very dishonest about what they have to offer each other and rather stupid for not doing more homework.

It really is a shame that there is no way the censors would allow a turn of phrase like "crypt-fuckers" on our show.

I think it was a huge stockyard complex and the noise of the cattle had attracted a walker mega-herd that had trapped itself within the fences and remained there for who knows how long. There were definitely human forms in the fenced areas, I have HD and a good-sized tv so I could make it out, but just barely. I also had to turn off all the lights to see the night-time conversations in the bookstore and I really had to concentrate to catch the dialogue. I also nearly missed the black-eye and other signs of trauma on Ellen because the colour was washed out in the flashbacks and they were so brief. What they did show was enough for me to piece together a coherent narrative, just not a completely accurate one according to Talking Dead. If TWD wanted to make the rape of his family members the trigger that caused Abraham to destroy the men in the store they needed to signal that better than they did. In what aired, it's not there, it's hidden backstory. It's something we guess at, someone else could see the same thing and mistakenly guess that Abraham slaps his family around if a clue to why she was so freaked out after seeing him beat people to death was bruising on his wife's face. That is, if you even caught that injury. It's maybe not a great idea to have telling details that are very nearly obscured by style choices like extreme darkness or partially washing the color out of a scene. We only know definitively from other sources. All we know from what we saw is that *something* had made Abraham go Rambo on people who were a threat to his family and afterwards, his family were as frightened of him as they had been of the other men and ran from him as soon as he was asleep. Also, trauma or not, Ellen was a thoughtless pea-brained idiot, even fan-wanking that she'd been sheltered from how awful things were outside of the grocery store, she still knew there was a damn zombie apocalypse going on and that she and her children were low-hanging fruit for predatory humans.

I wouldn't mind Michael giving Sonny a disabling injury by shooting him in the foot or the hand or a joint ..... any joint will do. *ahem* Unfortunately in terms of soap logic, it gives Sonny a retroactive pass by putting him in the position of "forgiving " Michael. I think it's best that at most Michael fires a gun next to Sonny to see if he'll make wee-wee.

He could have said "She's my Blood, She'll want for nothing." There are quite a few ways he could have referenced little baby whatsit without seeming to distance himself emotionally from her. I'm inclined to think him not claiming her was a conscious writing choice.

The lost little boy hiding in nasty ol' Henry keeps recalling to my mind, the movie "The Celll" concerning a psychologist who travels into the unconscious mind of a serial killer in order to learn the whereabouts of his latest victim before she dies, which hinges on communicating with his childhood self. Towards the end she has to essentially kill that child in order to release him from the torment his adult self causes. (Really silly overwrought movie, visually stunning but rather empty, sort of like Katrina, really.) I could get behind Sleepy Hollow cutting out the annoying sentimentality of the Cranes' need to "save" their lost boy by essentially releasing that part of his soul away from adult Henry leaving the rotten jerk to enjoy his own smarmy remarks, evil smirks, and seniors discounts without whining about his mommy and Daddy issues. He's his own man , not a child, it was a mistake making him the spawn of Ichabod and that flame-haired, smug asshole he married. Despite the title of Sleepy Hollow pointing to Ichabod as the lead, I've felt that it was a shared position between Abbie and himself. Certainly that's how it was when the show was working better than it is now. The show feels off-balance when the writing and production step away from that partnership. I think one of the reasons I find Katrina's useless self so irritating is her mere presence tampers with that balance. Add to that, she's annoying as heck and she has a hairstyle that takes me out of every scene she's in because of it's cheesy romance-novel cover-art look and to me she's nothing more than a misstep that needs to be eased out of the narrative. Or blown up real good, either is fine.

To me it coming so, so fast, infuriating as it was, is strangely satisfying because it makes Morgan's loyalty to Sonny such weak sauce. It's like he changes his mind depending on who he's talking to and has few hard and fast opinions oif his own. It's also why I hope , if the baby isn't a tock, I would prefer it be his over Sonny's. Actually there are a lot of reasons I'd prefer that, Sonny and his unwrapped weiner need to stoop spawning little mychilds.. Why oh why if we have to endure so many stories of sad Sonny do we not get one in which he stutterbarks and whinges about a problem with infertility Bigtime UCG I tell ya. It would be good for Morgan if he had one person in his corner, someone he is completely loyal to himself. With even grade-schoolers being venal, backstabbing, little creeps, I think an infant is the only safe bet. Kiki is an absolute horror, Ava is rotten, Sonny is worthless and disgusting, Carly is a terrible person who lives too far up her own ass and Morgan's fellow sibs have too many problems of their own given that they are related to either Carly or Sonny.

I've loathed Katrina since her first appearance, I think she's nothing more than than an obstacle combined with a McGuffin, she has no strong character and just exists to provide plot-points. I've been open to liking her, once there was something there to admire, but I've yet to see anything to interest me. I'm glad Crane is finally starting to shake off her hold on him given her incessant deception. I don't see much in the way of chemistry between them and find that puzzling, given that I think the actor and character shows a great deal of chemistry of various kinds with others. I think at some point that there will be a reveal that casts her in a poor and destructive light in regards to what Henry really is. I think his existence as the son of Ichabod and Katrina is much more complicated than what we've already been told.

It feels like trolling, RonC just daring fans to complain without it sounding ugly. Personally, I find it hard to believe that someone like Pip who has a functioning brain in her head and an abundance of common sense, prop-duty aside, would find anything appealling about Milo. I can't even see him as physically attractive.

My best guess is that it was so heavily entangled with what they had planned for Luke and fakeLuke that they had to truncate the story until Tony Geary was available again.

never mind

It would be amusing if Jordan and Shawn tried to simultaneously place one another under arrest. Or Jordan and Julian for that matter.

Judgie-grudgie is going to seize Rocco from Lulu, if that's how his mind works. Oh the humanity, oh the bug-eyes.

That judge's underwear is too damn tight. His commands are verging on ordering her to work as a maid/butler/farmhand to prove her worthiness. It reeks of bad comedy contrivance. TPTB need to end the suck on this and just have the over-stepping fucker removed from the case and give Naxie some credible ostacles and conflicts. Why not give them problems with either of his bat-crap crazy aunty-mothers? Hell, have the judge be under the thrall to one of them for... reasons. This whole thing is happening for ......reasons, might as well stick with that as the motivator.

On OLTL there were a few, I can't think of one he's pulled off on GH. They've all had rushed stories alternating with yawning absences. The only couple that had steady attention was Purina and they were a lost cause due to poor chemistry and reductive writing. Her insta-love for him verged on making her seem unbalanced, while the writing and acting that had him vaccilating between wild grief for notdead Robin and mild appreciation of Sabrina's old-fashioned virtues didn't exactly come off as someone rediscovering life and love.

We're calling that stuff "white-wash"?

That strikes me as a good way to torpedo a first date if the consumption of veal, even if you pointedly avoid the overrated crate-fed crap, is something that offends the person on the other side of the table. See also; foie gras. Maxie was recently vegan, even if it was at the behest of the Hamburgler. She might have some residual reservations about some sources of meat.