shelley1234

I wanna hate Bananas, I do. But I can't. I won't. I don't.

I wish that the teams that didn't win the the Exile got to still stay in the house, so we could see the fights, the hook-ups and the drama of the ex's once they are truly no longer in the competition. I said BOO when TJ told Hailey and Thomas that they were headed to the airport. The sweat challenge? So disgusting. And the color of the sweat in Dustin and Jessica's container....super GROSS!

I was not jumping up and down when Maggie got chopped in half. I don't like Emma Roberts and wish someone else had been cast in the role, but all in all...I did like the sense of growth and redemption in her character. She came in thinking that the freaks were just something that gets her to an end and she didn't even think of them as real people. As the season progressed that changed and not just because of Jimmy. Her bringing Ma Petit back and not being able to kill her was a big ol' change for me. She was able to see the people and not just see them as freaks. I also feel for Jimmy since how much can the guy lose. He's lost both of his parents and the person he loves. Guy has to believe he is cursed. I always love it when Kiddo Cromwell plays a younger version of his dad. They did it in the show Betrayal last year (that only me and 2 other people actually watched). I just think it makes a flashback just magical since John is just an absolute mirror image of his dad.

IMO...and of course YMMV...how someone's name is spelled and pronounced is their own personal deal and I don't think someone should basically have to get over themselves because they happen to react when someone doesn't pronounce their name the way they and their family pronounce it. My family liked the extra E in names....therefore I am ShellEy. If someone spells it Shelly, I don't react as strongly as Ian does when someone mispronounces his name, but I am bugged by it especially when they are sent an email or a message which has my name correctly spelled on it. I think for Ian when he has made the point to tell someone the correct pronunciation of his name and they still don't bother to do it correct, it grates. I can totally associate with that.

I'm totally meh about New Girl this season. I still watch it because I used to really like it, but now it's just okay...and I watch out of obligation. I don't think I laughed one time while watching last night. It missed any of that ebb and flow between the roomies that it used to have.

I totally agree. While Geraldo is pond scum, I find it pretty impressive he was able to get that kind of money twice. Of course....both times were for HIS charity. It would be interesting to see how much money Geraldo would raise for someone else's charity...and I imagine it would be significantly less. If I was on Geraldo's team, I would have pitched a big ol' fit at him declaring that he was the PM again once it was announced it was a fundraising challenge. Those challenges are the ones that bring big bucks to your charity unlike the other challenges that raise your charity a measly 20K in comparison. I would have told Geraldo he already PMed the big task and it was someone else's turn. I do think that you have to have a strategy going into a show like this. I think you have to have people lined up who know you are going to call and that a check needs to come, no questions asked. I think you also have to let people know you may need to do it more than once and have some kind of sign of when it is for the BIG CHECK for their own charity and when it is just a decent check when it is for the team, but someone else. The "stars" who really have no shot in a show like this are the D List celebrities who just don't have those kinds of people in their rolodex. I think that Lorenzo and Kate are great examples. They may have a person or two who may be able to come through for them, but not someone they can call for a huge check and more than once. Lorenzo even stated as much in the pie episode...saying he can't bring in the big bucks, so he better get in the kitchen and make a good pie. I'd also really like to see a challenge that assessed the stars "fame" in a way that wasn't about money. I'd love a task where it is how many people...fans...regular ol' people...that you can get to show up for some kind of event, etc. In the first challenge it was great that Kevin Jonas could tweet to 4 million people, but in reality that didn't really mean much. I'd be really interested in one that did look at the star power amongst the Average Joes. Make it happen Trump people!!

It's brutal watching the show this season knowing what happens with Diem and that it starts on screen. And it does put all the stupid drama in perspective. Who cares about Nany and Theresa whining and bitching about her whoring when at the same time Diem is starting on the road with the illness that will come back once again and this time take her life.

As for baseball players....the huge stars do have tons of money on hand. I am a big ol' honkin' Red Sox fan and the players who have their own foundations all have at least one fundraiser event every year....and the other players on the team and the famous retired players always come and make HUGE donations. David Ortiz has a golf fundraiser every winter in the Dominican where he raises a few million dollars when his player friends show up, play golf and throw checks at the cause. Damon also did a fundraiser every year when he was with the Yankees and the same was true....he could have had Jeter, Papi, Mo, etc send a check to support his foundation. If Ian Ziering could come into the show with checks already in his pocket, the same could easily be said of Damon. Because he is associated with 2 teams that have those types of players, he should have been able to get a lot of money pretty easily if he did his homework. As for T.O. Yes, he could call retired players....he could call current players. The man is famous and knows famous people. He has to know people who have some disposable income. He could have worked some angles, got the Michael Strahans of the world to show up and throw down a check. I think it would be more difficult for him than Damon, but he could still easily get 20K if he even tried.

That kills me. You know what show you are going on and should have a big pile of your rich friends ready and willing to donate big checks when you call. Johnny Damon doesn't know tons of bajillionaire baseball players? He could have Derek Jeter and David Ortiz and the rest of the baseball elite on his speed dial for those tasks when you have to raise more money than the other team. I am assuming the same could be said for Terrell with the rich football players he must know. I could see people like Kate or Lorenzo not having those contacts, but for people like Damon and Owens...sorry, no excuse. And. I will keep watching this show in hopes of seeing the day when Geraldo and his ego get fired. What a total jerkbag. I do think it'll take a lot for him to actually be fired though since Trump loves his radical Republican friend and when Trump considers you a friend...you will last in the competition, but I am hoping something trips him up so that the combover has to fire him.

I'm a self admitted big ol' Joshie Jackson fan, so it is not shocking that I respectfully disagree. I think Josh has always been able to pretty effectively convey emotion at the drop of a hat. His face shows exactly where his character is at. One of the best scenes of the whole series for me was Jackson sitting on the side of the street in NYC and talking to Alison about losing their son. It's the first time I actually felt the loss of their child. Alison talked about it a lot, but it's the first time I felt it. If we are to believe Alison's account in this episode, I felt most uncomfortable when watching Cole's breakdown and confrontation, but that is because I truly had no idea what he would do and how far he would take his pain and rage. It got out of control, but I didn't see that as bad acting, I saw it as following where the character was at. I saw it as Alison giving Noah a friendly reminder to not deviate from the plan while he was in lockup.

I find it hard to believe that the father in law said it at all....especially to Noah. The father in law knows that Noah still has Alison aka the woman he cheated on his daughter with, so I doubt he would say anything to even remotely try to relate with his behavior. The father in law would show nothing but contempt and belittlement for the man that would dare to cheat on his precious daughter. Do as I say....not as I do. The father in law still very much considers Noah to be the lowly, poor, hired help.....so the idea that he would cheat on Helen is something that would be aghast to him.

Yep, that was her. Naturally Cole Lockhart would trust her none! *winks*

I felt like way too much happened too quickly in this episode. I expected the takeover of the Embassy and the battle to last more than half an episode. I did get a giggle of joy when Quinn took out the 3 guards and then stole their walkie talkie....I really thought Homeland was going to go with the whole John McClain Die Hard angle and was so looking forward to it. Unfortunately, it only lasted for about 5 minutes before Quinn was at the vault door and then chasing the bag guys only to be thwarted by their bomb trickery. Pfft! I wanted Yippee Kay Yay! While I thought it was all kinds of idiotic for Lockhart to open the door, it was an interesting piece of character development. Lockhart has been openly critical (often with good cause) of Carrie and her inability to follow order/chain of command and to just all around make the right choice when she is out in the field. Since Lockhart is someone who spends his days sitting behind a desk, I think he got a rude awakening that actually walking the walk is much harder than just talking the talk. I also liked seeing Lockhart so affected by the idea of losing someone he considered a colleague and maybe even a friend. It really made him so much more human....much more stupid, but also human. Max. Awe....poor buddy. He broke my heart this episode with his clear love for Fara. I was also entertained and maybe even amused by his conversation chastising Carrie after Fara's death. While it is true that Carrie could have been nicer, kinder and gentler with her....Carrie's job is to protect her assets and the country (which yes, she tends to do a pretty piss poor job of, but none the less)....not be Fara's BFF. I also rewatched the interaction and while Carrie clearly hears Max and shares his sadness and guilt....when he continues with the "why couldn't you be nicer"....there is a brief moment that Carrie totally side eyes and rolls her eyes at him before sucking it up, saying she wished she had and then the gently touching of Max on his shoulder. That scene to me was Claire Danes at her finest. The Ambassador and her husband....wow...those suckers deserve each other. Oh Saul. Mandy Patankin is nothing short of spectacular. He really brought it and while I would like him to be able to decompress and help with what Quinn was doing, it's also just showing how much trauma and war can leave devastating marks. Saul came out of that experience a different and broken man....and while he would love nothing more than to just will himself beyond it, he cannot. Sighs. And now it seems like the season will wind down with Quinn and Carrie all alone battling against a terrorist regime. I am sure in classic 24 style, it'll end in a blaze of glory, but good lord....in the real world, they are both dead already. Still. I'm in. I'm riveted. Bring me more.

Interesting episode....as I say each basically each and every week. While it was a nice plot point for Noah to go back to Montauk in the cold of winter, I find it absolutely unbelievable that Helen would agree or consent to having Noah go there without her literally being glued to his side. Or if she did that she wouldn't have a way for him to be under careful watch every second he was there. I agree that Whitney is probably preggers and I'd also say it's probably the now dead Scott's kid. Of course a lot of time seems to have passed between the affair timeline and the current, so maybe she got an abortion or Scotty did something to make her lose the baby...and as a result Whitney or Noah did something in a rage that ended with being ran off the road. As for the party and the hospital with Noah and Alison. At first I thought their timelines were going to be completely different when it showed her grandmother having the heart attack early on and Cole knowing about it. If that was the case that would have been the biggest difference to date....however, she still got the call in Alison's version and had to go because her grandmother took a turn for the worse. In Alison's version Noah is shown as a man who is in many ways her knight in shining armor. The anvils for this were all over the place....Athena calling him the calvery and then even Alison finding a white knight toy of her son's in the final moments. Noah was able to do what Cole couldn't, probably because he wasn't so in the middle of it...and say the emotions that Alison was feeling about her grandmother's death being all mixed up in her still unresolved feelings about her son. Alison's mother....she can get bent. For all her talk about being connected with the emotions and people's auras....yeah, really? I guess when it comes to something outside of her own selfishness...to realize her daughter signing a DNR wouldn't trigger thoughts and emotions about her child she lost and could not act to save. Boo lady. The scenes with the detective are interesting. I do not think that Noah and Alison are together in the current/future timeline. I also don't think that Alison and Cole are together, given where she is sitting at Scotty's funeral. It was interesting the scene didn't show us where Cole was sitting, but we had to assume he was sitting up front, probably right next to Mama Lockhart.

We at least had her reference it. In the 1st episode where Cole is at the fire pit laughing and drinking with friends, she makes a reference that he is able to seem to move on and do normal things and that she hates him for it. While yes, it is Noah's memory.....Alison's memories show the same attitude as well. At the party when Alison remarked at how Helen treated & spoke to the help, etc. While neither may be accurate...with both showing it, I consider it more likely.

I think this is part of it. Noah knew that Oscar would keep asking for more. I also think Noah didn't like someone "like Oscar" having that much power over him. Thirdly, I think that the panic attack kinda shocked Noah and pushed him to just stop hiding it and lay it all out in front of Helen.

I think people were thinking that maybe it had a tracker on it, not that it contained an explosive.

Agree. I never saw Cole portrayed that way at all. He works the land and doesn't wear a suit and tie, but I see his portrayed as a man very knowledgeable about his community, his family and the world around him. He is the silent, brooding type who may not deal with things in front of him, but his mere presence at the town meeting alone shows that he is not a man who lacks intelligence.

The two younger twins were too damn identical....by the time it got down to just the two of them, I was so confused and had no idea who was who and who was making what. One of them won! YAY! Which one? No idea.

I have little if any problems with Cole...other than him being a drug dealer and all. I think his reaction to Alison cheating was not what you would expect from a small town jerk. If anything he was much more emo about it than I have ever expected. Cole showed up because of the missing drugs...yes, but he only spent a couple minutes talking about it before it became absolutely clear why he really came to see Alison.

I'd prefer to see him go all Die Hard....working against the terrorist from the inside who have no idea he is in the building. Yippee Kay Yay....

I kind of expected that to connect with Alison and her self mutilating side story and was surprised when it didn't. That's assuming that both sides of the story coincided and that neither one of them is telling tall tales. I couldn't decide in my head if Helen knew about the affair or not when she was talking to Alison in the store. I wanted to assume she did since it totally seemed like the waspy way of thanking someone while really telling them to go fuck themselves.

There has been a lot of discussion about how there isn't a lot of chemistry between Noah and Alison and I think this episode really highlighted that for me....as the chemistry and relationships between the married couples was much more on display. I believed both of their relationships....the dysfunction and the love that was once and is now lost. Joshua Jackson also knocked it outta the park in this episode. Mesmerizing. Who thinks you can sell drugs back to a drug dealer? What are these people? I also thought of Whitney when they joked with Scotty that he was seen about town with some brunette. I always look for those moments when their two accounts overlap and tonight's episode was Noah hugging his family and shutting the blinds and then seeing in Alison's account that it was in response to seeing her creeping in his window on the street.

Holy %&^%! Rarely does tv surprise me anymore and this episode knocked me on my ass.

That was my response. The slow roll of the show went into warp speed in the last episode. I knew that the Lockharts were moving drugs and that Cole was involved as soon as Alison brought the cooler to the taxi stand in the early episodes and chastised whoever she gave it to saying "Cole wants that door left shut." Drugs and Cole is in charge. She isn't a hapless victim in it all though...she's just as involved since she picks it up each and everyday. Since we now know that Scotty is the guy who is dead.....I'll buy that Whitney or Martin did it. Either Whitney is a lover spat gone wrong or Martin finds out what the Lockharts are going and since he seems to always do the wrong thing at the wrong time, it goes sideways. I could see Noah and Alison being willing to cover it up if it was one of his kids.