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I'd imagine if you were a relatively nice person and saw someone going out with a complete asshole you'd wonder why they were interested in that person when they could be in a relationship with someone who wanted and treated them well. Of course this is all conjecture for me since I openly ask people whether they want to hook up and if they reject me I'm like "ok that's cool. Have a good one" and off I go. Sometimes I get annoyed if someone rejects me in a particularly mean or condescending way, especially in bars where the expectation is to get drunk and hook up and people act like that's a foreign concept to them. It's so disingenuous but that's life. Some people are just going to be unnecessarily stupid or frustrating. Though in highschool I did pine from afar for both a boy and girl (weird time highschool) and I didn't act on either of those because one was a apparently straight boy and the other was in a relationship with some guy and back then I was socially awkward (or more so than now). I didn't have a low opinion of her for dating some one else, it was just inconvenient for me and her bf seemed fairly decent so I didn't really have any objections to them dating. It was just kind of unpleasant to watch sometimes when they got lovey dovey and it sent little daggers into my feels. Lol adolescence. Personally I think there's a fine line from unrequited longing and being a creepy stalker who intentionally invades someone's life in order to manipulate them into liking them. Rebecca is so over that line, if she was a man she'd be openly vilified for stalking Josh. P.s Loved the comic, it was a good way of describing how some people take advantage of others through manipulation instead of engaging in healthy adult behaviors like open and honest communication.

I'm curious would Rebecca be considered the feminine version of the Nice Guy phenomena that seems to be so popular to ridicule? She has essentially been friendzoned and is constantly trying to make Josh like like her while passive aggressively undermining his current stable relationship because of her wants and desires with little to no regard for how that might effect Josh.

Thanks for the info. I used to really love this show but the poor plot resolutions and disappearing characters kind of removed it from the must watch pile and now it's on the I'll get around to it later pile.

The problem isn't so much the inference that she's just a normal person in an odd situation dealing with odd things. It's that it's so specific and repetitive. We get it Kendra, you were a barista, we heard you the first time and it's even less interesting the second time around. Probably doesn't help that it seems to be in the previouslies a lot. I just hope it doesn't become some kind of catchphrase. "I used to be a barista." I do find it amusing to think of Kendra and Sara hooking up, not because I'm into that personally but because Hawk man would probably be so annoyed when he finds out whenever he reincarnates and or is revived or whatever. I can already hear the dialogue in my head "You hooked up with another woman? What about our great love spanning millenia?" "I was bored, we were on a break. Shut up already. You're making me wish you were dead again."

Probably why I abandoned this show when Parrish started piling up bodies on a tree stump... for reasons. That and I'm so frustrated that no one is interested in figuring out what the full extent of their abilities are. Not the True Alpha, Banshee, Kitsune or whichever new one they added. Chimeras ? It's like they're all content to just find out things out at the last minute usually at the expense of a dozen people dying each season. I came here to lurk to see if anything interesting has happened ? Has it ? Would anyone recommend this or any other episode this season as being of particularly high value to watch ? Or would I be better off trying to find a decent Sterek or Liam/Scott compilation video for funniness/sweetness ? Probably Off topic but I'm not sure where to post this. Sorry in advance.

I think the gist of it was supposed to be that having a power of a God without having the discipline and patience to use it properly can lead to bad things... like beckoning to otherworldly Beast or trying to provide a body for a homicidal spirit or trapping someone in a nightmare forever as a 'prank'. One of those "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should." For instance Marina boosting Julia's magic without providing her with any foundation on why she's learning it or what can go wrong or even providing a decent reason as to why she should be bothered learning that particular spell. Personally I'm not sure what an appropriate way of dealing with psychotics with magical powers is. I mean if mind wiping doesn't work and is morally questionable. What are the other options? Allow them to use magic unchecked ? Magical police ? Magical jail ? Executions ? In this episode alone Marina and Julia committed telepathic assault with indifference to whether it'd cause insanity or death and we have no indication that there will be any consequences or punishment for either.

Unfortunately it's unclear whether she was blocking video surveillance or not since we never saw her learn that spell. So it's unclear whether she was doing magic recklessly without considering consequences or whether she was doing so out of a lack of morality. We've never seen Julia have a job or working so it's unclear how she paid for things prior to learning ATM stealing magic. Also if Hedge Witches fund their life via theft that could be another reason Brakebill students think less of them as a group. We don't really know what effect magic has on this universe. Does it poke holes in reality, is it consequence free, are there unforeseen supply chain issues eg people losing their jobs because of discrepancies in bank accounts and or an overflow of gold in the markets. At this point I don't even know if the spell Marina and Julia used on Quentin is black magic or whether they have such a concept in this universe. The Dean seemed kind of unruffled by a spell that essentially traps someone in a never ending nightmare. It would be good to have some indication of how difficult/complex that spell was. Could Julia have cast that spell on her lonesome ? Or did she need the magical power of a more experienced Hedge Witch. This stuff bugs me because it's hard to be invested if I don't really know what the stakes are for the characters most of the time.

Well that just makes what I suspected worse.

Yeah it would be great to get some world building info on if there's any rules about magic use in the Muggle world or not. At this point it comes across as half baked. Magicians learn magic at Brakebills or if they get kicked out or rejected they end up as Hedge Witches and ... unknown what or where they go from there. Do classically trained/ self taught magicians have covens where they cast higher order spells? Do either side have a over reaching agenda? Global conquest? Accumulation of magic/power? So far all I learned from this episode is that Brakebills needs a more effective method of dealing with ex students and they have shitty security. Also how does Kady keep her double agent status secret from all the telepaths at that school ? That and according to Marina post memory restoration, the hedge witches are a league behind what the Brakebills are offering in terms of magic.

Well if we're being really pedantic about literal meanings than we'd need a greying man who has never been touched by a woman in any way... It's probably best not to overthink this. Otherwise we'd have to wonder why that guy thought it needed a grey hair in the first place as the final ingredient.

Greg is snarky and often insensitive to how his attitude affects people while Rebecca ditched her job, moved, bought a place all to stalk her ex boyfriend. In this episode alone she trespassed, commissioned a crime of vandalism, lied, lied some more, lied to a police officer and dumped out all her emotional baggage to a delivery boy. Greg probably does have the higher ground. He may be a foolish narcissist but I don't remember him committing any crimes or engaging in elaborate antics just to get Rebecca's attention. I don't see any reason why Greg should have to tolerate Rebecca's self indulgent self loathing. Especially as she has at least one of those moments a week. Usually resulted from a failed scheme to get Josh's attention and she never learns anything from it.

Personally I just find the whole depressed questioning the meaning of his life often dull to watch. I watch shows to be entertained. Trying to do a serious arc with only 6 episodes really only sometimes work with British shows like In the Flesh. With this it feels like those people you knew ten years ago have shown up on the door and won't shut up about their missing child that you never liked and it's just awkward and tedious. Then again maybe it's just me but I really hate when characters go on and on about their offspring without doing anything productive about it eg Harpers Island, Lost. Either pay attention to your offspring or shut up about them. I have no interest in William. I barely remember him. I also wasn't fond of the resolution of the trash monster. That trash monster killed the woman that filed the injunction trying to stop the homeless from being transferred to that old hospital. Sure she had her own selfish motivations but I got the impression she had a child who is now motherless.

To be fair on Allanon, he's relying on teenagers who are all hormonal about each other to finish a quest while the elves ignore everything he says and literally stab him in the back. It was nice to see Will bonding with One Ear Elfman and using his plant based knowledge to help that guy out. I wonder if that Ear trade was the original reason that Elfs and gnomes fought.

I'm so glad that Prince number 1 is dead and the Changeling is presumably dead dead. Unfortunately the princes gave the bad guy his sword which probably increases his power somehow. *sigh* These elves aren't doing well. I liked that one eared elf, ruthless but efficient, sliced that elf murderers throat so they could move on.

I found the episode amusing but I'm still not sure if this season/revival is going anywhere so it kind of felt like filler. Also in some ways like a british Skit for some reason with everyone going off in random directions and being snarky. *shrugs*

I am not ashamed to admit that I squeed when Zero kissed Jude in public. Then I laughed at all the non facial reactions everyone had about them kissing. Does anyone there even know Zero was bi ? I honestly can't keep track of who knows what on this show. It will be interesting to see what kind of blowback Zero gets for doing guys and girls. Will he get more gay fans or less ? due to the whole bi thing. I'm so curious to see how Jude will react when Zero gets gay men throwing themselves at him. He was hilariously snippy to a coat girl when she was flirting with his man. Lionel's faked "you hurt me so bad" was so EPIC. I love her. She's hilarious. She really put Pete in his place. What a drip thinking he was responsible for Lionel's attitude. She's merely trying to hold onto the team she blackmailed her way into control of by telling people the truth. It's not exactly kicking puppies Pete.

It's weird but Hawkboy even with the same character would have been more tolerable simply because I could have spent the time thinking about how he's really pushy on the whole we've been in love for thousands of years and we're destined to be together routine and been giggling at what a silly super hero name he had. I think Girl and Boy is more tolerable when they're children/teenagers than when they're adults. It just comes off as weird that they never update/change their names. I'm so glad I've never tried to keep track of the DC comic universe. It sounds ridiculously confusing. Not that Marvel is much better...

The editing had Julia complaining about not knowing Quentin would suffer that much to let's get on a field trip to get more magic. Not exactly showing much contrition for her actions. Maybe if we had a voice over from her POV or she had a sounding board I could take her actions to mean "I'll do a Richard Reeds and try everything I can to fix what I sort of unintentionally did to my best friend". Unfortunately it just came off as while she didn't mean for it to go that far she didn't really care enough to harass Marina into fixing it immediately.

Honestly it's less about what she's currently been allowed to get away with, the stalking, breaking and entering, spending large amounts of money just to be near Josh, the infiltration of his friend group and more that its probable that by the end not only will Josh ditch his current girlfriend for her. He'll completely be fine with all the lies and erratic behavior because he likes her too... *GAG* It just brings back too many bad memories about watching Ally Mcbeal where she'd hallucinate in open court and everyone would be like oh you're so wonderful and magical. Everyone enabled her psychosis. It was worrying. The constant back and forth I need a man, oh here's a perfectly good one, wait he's bisexual, I can't deal with that was also terrible. Personally there's only so much "I'm doing incredibly stupid things over and over again and end up feeling miserable because it's all so juvenile" that I can stand before all that negative reinforcement has to have some sort of effect on her behavior. It's not that she hasn't become a perfectly rounded person by episode 11 it's that I think she's actually get more erratic and obsessive over the season.

Well this episode was the most I laughed. Surprisingly enough from Quentin. He got some really good moments this episode. "Penny a dick in every reality." Is definitely amusing Then the terrible renditions of Taylor Swift songs. Hilariously bad. Like real karaoke. Also the magical impotence when he was trying to show off his miniature sun. As for Julia and the hedge witches they're dead to me. Psychic rape is so not cool. It's worse since Julia knows what it's like to have her mind tampered with and yet she decided messing with her supposedly best friend's sanity because he was callous to her about her rejection and she's beyond the moral horizon for me. The fact that it took her so long to do something about Quentin's condition makes it worse. I think it's more that she was so wish washy about it. If you're going to screw over your friends go all Mystique and ditch them completely don't snipe at them and then be all pathetic about the consequences of your own actions. I honestly don't know where Kady ended up. I guess it really depends on whether she's alive next episode and if we ever get an explanation for her being an errand girl to Marina.

Yeah at least he's being honest about that. He does keep getting sucked into her psycho drama even though he knows he shouldn't. Hence why he had been trying to avoid her since the beach party. Admittedly that town house set up seems weird since from what little we saw of the outside there was a wall blocking sight of the glass door hence why Rebecca was doing the panicky backtracking explanation to Josh about guilty vandals. I don't know. I guess it doesn't really hold up to much scrutiny.

Yeah I wasn't really happy with her cutting him off repeatedly though it makes it more obvious why noone wants to partner with her. She's not very perceptive. Hey this guy keeps telling me he's the devil and he got shot 6 times I wonder how he survived... *yawn* Tiresome. I like the Devil but he's already become too soft too fast and it's kind of sapping the fun out of the show. It doesn't really leave him with much room to grow when in episode one he's driving one dude insane and by episode 3 he basically gives his imposter a free pass for impugning his rep with the ladies. Oh well. The really funny thing is I still find the child actor completely tolerable. She's probably second after Tom Ellis as far as enjoyable characters. I'm not really sure what's up with Maize. I'm kind of hoping she tries to take Lucifer's place in hell because she seems wasted being his frustrated sidekick.

I don't care about the characters genders, sexualities or races as long as they're interesting. One of my favorite characters is a blue female plant off Farscape. I don't care about quotas. I care about an interesting and entertaining show. Some shows can get a diverse cast eg Selfie and do so seamlessly while others fail miserably at being a good show by trying to be 'diverse' and progressive eg Glee. I haven't seen anyone complain that Jax took the place of a white dude. From what I've gathered most of these characters are based on 50 year old comics or a more recent show so it can be difficult to do the race and gender roulette well. Especially since they seem to be going by Star Trek rules and having a cast of 9 people.

It was so good to see Josh sort of getting a clue about Rebecca's behavior at long last. Hopefully he won't do the standard thing of forgiving her immediately because she starts crying or spinning another sob story. This is the second time she's been trespassing like a loon. It was also good that Greg got a chance to vent about Rebecca using him as a consolation prize any time Josh rejects her because it's not really fair on him. I'm really getting over the rinse and repeat nature of Rebecca's obsession and self pity sessions.

This episode was great as long as I focus only on the banter and not on all the terrible decisions that everyone minus Cold and Sara make. Heatwave is also fairly competent despite his preference for mindless violence. Sadly most of the team are still dealing with their own personal issues or letting their egos get in the way of the mission. I did find it weird that 22nd? century time ships could be damaged so easily by 1980 missile tech. I liked that the Russian scientist wasn't a patsy and knew exactly what was going on with Savage and the project. As for Ray, he's quite amusing with Cold as a companion but he really needs to shut up and do what he's told by more worldly teammates once in a while. He always ignores Cold advice much to the team's detriment.