Donny Ketchum
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I cannot remember the name of the episode, but I don't feel all that bad for the victim in the episode with Stephen Collins and Warner from Legally Blonde (I cannot remember his real name for the life of me). I mean, she probably didn't deserve to die, but sleeping with your fiance and his dad, then not using protection with his father so that you end up pregnant by him, and then blackmailing him, isn't really the smartest thing you could do.
That would be "Trade" in season nine. And no, I didn't feel sorry for Jenna, either. She put herself in that mess.
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And yeah, if I were the mom of the dead boyfriend, no way could I forgive that, no matter what color/race/religion they were.
I wouldn't, either, but I wouldn't throw racist epithets, either, no matter how much I was grieving.
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I hope we can use this thread to find other episodes, too.
The one in which a woman died while swimming in a pool because she'd been poisoned ahead of time. Which one was that? Title and season, please. Oh, and motive of the perp.
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"The War At Home" reminds me of how annoying (yet great acting) Rita Moreno was as Goren's mother. She's one of the most-awarded actresses of her time. But her character annoys the hell out of me.
Speaking of that episode, why did Goren just leave so suddenly after the perp was busted? I never got why.
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Name a F4 player who doesn't. ;>
Michele from BB11 comes to mind.
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Steve won part two of the final HoH Competition.
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After seeing it mentioned in season two's thread, I thought of another horrible parent: the father in "Suite Sorrow." Manipulated his own daughter and her own love life for years, did all sorts of messed-up shit to her. Even though it wasn't part of Goren and Eames's plan, I almost can't blame his daughter for offing him at the end.
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Oh? So Tequan will be leaving soon?
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Caught the Finland episode last night. Can't remember TAR going there, because I can only remember so much.
They went there in season ten. They also had a rock task there, among other things. The Cho Brothers, Erwin & Godwin, were eliminated there. So far, it's the only visit they've made there.
So Spud finally performs and gets himself and Rock into first place after being in last place in the last episode. But if anything could take them out in the future, it could be Spud's potential to go for any dare he's given.
Ennui & Crimson don't look half-bad without their makeup. But after they got over the horror of losing it and just seeing themselves for who they are under it, they got right back to business. I'm a bit shocked that they've been together three years without seeing each other under the makeup.
I wonder if Jacques & Josee are going to quit to send the Hawaiian lava rock back to Hawaii?
Ryan & Stephanie totally hate each other, yet they're going to remain in the race with each other? Um . . . okay.
This episode was pretty light on most of the teams. Seems like a lot of it surrounded the Owen & Noah/Emma & Kitty drama and Ennui & Crimson's drama, as well as Rock & Spud's rising underdog storyline. Other than that, I heard some things from MacArthur, Junior, Carrie, and Devin, but not many others.
I was a little sad to lose Jay & Mickey. With six men's teams left, though, we were due to finally lose another one. And I'm glad that Emma at least felt bad that her trick basically eliminated them.
Well, now we wait out the weekend before the race goes on.
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Again, there was too much Abigail. It is indeed telling that her nightmare was about Chad being imprisoned and begging to see her. And of course, she lies to Ben about what the nightmare was about, and uses it to manipulate him by saying it was a dream about him abandoning her and the baby. She really is an amoral piece of shit.
I really don't see the problem with that. They'd just had a fight about Chad earlier that day. She probably just wanted to avoid having another one about him. It didn't bother me that she didn't mention that her dream was about him.
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Opening sequence revealed for TAR27, along with Second Chances:
Looks incredible! :)
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Opening sequence revealed for Second Chances, along with TAR27:
Gotta say, it looks pretty sweet. Too bad they'll forego it every week on TV like they've done for several seasons now.
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Even when Gabi does something horrible, like paying a lunatic to kidnap a friend, I can't hate her.
To be fair, she didn't even pay him to do that. She just paid Andrew to stalk her. The kidnapping he did all on his own, even without her knowledge at first.
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They are actually friends.
Actually, they're not anymore. That ended when Abigail heard about Gabi's part in Melanie's kidnapping and that she killed Nick.
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John is GONE now. Finally. Why discuss his winning chances? There are none, so that's irrelevant.
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Ah, since I mentioned them on another thread, I might as well mention them here.
Brittany, Andrea, and Paige from "Mean" deserve mentions. Granted, we have no knowledge of what their parents were like, but everything described about them made it sound like they'd all been raised by decent parents, so I think they can qualify for this thread. Brittany snaps and kills her supposed "friend," Emily, over something, and Andrea and Paige just stand by, do nothing, and help themselves to Emily's belongings after she's murdered. As Casey says in the episode, "[T]hey're monsters. They're mean, vicious little girls who think they can do whatever they want, and up until now, they've gotten away with it." I'm still happy with how she made sure they all went down.
Holden in "Holden's Manifesto" deserves to be on this thread too. He rapes and murders people all because he can't get any. His ninny mom annoyed me in that episode with her constant excuses that Holden was mentally ill. No, he wasn't mentally ill, he was a resentful, entitled psycho, and she was an enabler.
Holden was a terrible kid, but I don't know if he qualifies here since his mother doesn't sound like she was a particularly good one. This was mostly about otherwise good parents who still had shitty children.
That said, at least he was taken down by Rollins instead of Olivia, for a change. Her doing nearly everything was getting very old.
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Also, I may be kind of a bad person for saying this, but since he's a fictional character, I'll let myself off the hook: Closure, Pt 2 is amazingly satisfying when Harper and her rapist's wife team up to kill her rapist in a way that gets both of them off scot-free. I'm a pretty peaceful individual, but seeing that jackass end up dead was pretty satisfying.
I've never seen that one. How did they do it?
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I'm not denying Sabrina didn't bring all this up with Michael, but she didn't force him to change his mind. If he doesn't have the strength of character to make his own decisions and stand by them, that's on him. IMO, Michael's resolve was already starting to crumble when he stopped being mad at Carly for keeping the secret, and that had nothing to do with Sabrina.
Thank you, thank you! I swear some people act like Sabrina put a gun to Michael's head and made him give back Avery. The only reason she broached the topic of Michael giving her back was because Michael said he wanted to make peace with his family. Ultimately the decision whether to give her up was Michael's, and Michael's alone. And even after he gave her back he still kept his distance from Sonny at least. It was this latest shooting that made him suddenly drop all pretense of Sonny hate and worship at his altar again. Sabrina certainly never advocated that he should forgive Carly or Sonny wholesale and start calling Carly the best mother ever or basically chalk up AJ's death to a "mess up."
I had rage blackouts every time she was blamed for this. Thank you both for bringing up that all she did was help Michael sort through his conflicting emotions and made a suggestion, not an order.
Am I the only one hoping that Morgan waving a gun at Alexis (and Julian) because he found them, thanks to TJ, results in Molly deciding that's the last straw and dumping his stupid ass? He heard Alexis leave with Julian, so he chose giving into Morgan's bullying and disregarding Molly's mom's welfare out of loyalty to and admiration for Sonny.
I've never liked T.J. with Molly, so I hope that that does indeed result in them coming to an end.
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Her relationship with Nick was his business. He was unofficial step father to her daughter with Will. He had a say. It was also his house.
But he did stick his nose into the Chad/Melanie/Andrew kidnap thing.
That first one was his business, yes. I wasn't talking about that.
But yes, the second one was absolutely none of his business.
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My UO is that I like Paul, and I hate the nickname "Sparkle".
I like him, too, and I hate it, as well. I don't know where it even came from.
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I'll give Gabi one thing: bitch is #TeamWilSon no matter what. Even when she was horrible to Sonny, she was rooting for WilSon to work out. Consistency is nice for once.
Uh, she was horrible to Sonny only in response to Sonny being horrible to her first. Over something that was literally none of his business. Otherwise, she tried to be as civil as possible to him.
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There's probably a few, but the one that popped into my head immediately when seeing this thread is Rooney Mara's character in Fat. I mean, she probably didn't deserve to get her finger cut off, but DAMN was she an unsympathetic, whiny bitch. I won't lie, I laughed when they dramatically whipped out her photos from fat camp.
Not only did I feel no sympathy for Jessica, but I also felt none whatsoever for her friend, Tommy, for beating up poor Rudi unprovoked. Not that I condone murder, but hurting a guy just over his weight does deserve some form of karmic payback. As Blaine said at one point in the episode, Jessica and Tommy were the ones who threw the first punch at the Bixton kids. They started everything. So the Bixtons essentially finished it.
Didn't feel sorry for Emily, the dead girl found at the beginning of "Mean," either. She spent her entire high school career bullying poor Agnes just because she was fat. So hearing that her other friend, Brittany, killed her over something dumb while her other two friends, Andrea and Paige, just watched and took her stuff after she was dead was a nice dose of karma for her, too. Doesn't excuse them, of course. But again, karma at its finest.
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Gabi's return comes at a pretty bad time. Rafe is so after this killer, because murderer's of Serena and Paige are bad and evil people, but Gabi's going to be let free to walk around months after murdering a Horton?
But she killed that Horton to help another Horton. It kinda balances out. I think that's why Hope was the most torn about the whole situation when it came out.
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So the Beijing episode:
I found Noah's attempts at wooing Emma amusing, as well as Owen and Kitty's frustrations with how badly they were playing things.
Hey. Jay & Mickey finished third on the Dubai leg. How did they end up with the last four teams en route to China?!
Josee still doesn't realize that her lava rock is bringing her and Jacques bad luck, I see.
I don't know how Devin doesn't see that Carrie has the hots for him. Seems like everyone else around them does. I did like Carrie averting Devin's gaze so she could pump her fists at the camera during their confessional, though. And I did like him encouraging her through the eating challenge. But even so, she would be a better girlfriend for him than this Shelley would.
Ryan & Stephanie totally hate each other now. Yet their mutual hatred drives them right into a win. Crazy.
It was hinted at in Hawaii, but it's now on display here. Brody is totally crushing on MacArthur, much to Geoff and Sanders's surprise.
Dwayne has to feel embarrassed right now. He and Junior got stuck with the last group because he had to go to the bathroom before getting their flight, and then he's in a delirious state because of scorpion stings, forcing Junior to coax him through the rest of the leg while he's in said delirious state. Junior's one strong, determined kid, and he's not even in his teens yet!
So this is the most we see of Rock & Spud. Rock tries to motivate Spud with these chocolate pork snacks to finally get them up in the ranks and out of last. It does get Spud moving, but it doesn't get them out of last. And in the end, Spud gets them penalized when, in his sugar high, he does the Botch and Watch that Rock is supposed to do. It's irrelevant because they come in last, anyway, but fortunately for them, it's a non-elimination episode, so they're still in it. Honestly, they're the only team left with no real storyline, so they have to go in tomorrow's episode, right? They have to. I don't want an animated version of Andrew & Dan, Brian & Ericka, or Josh & Brent and see a cockroach team stick around while other, stronger, more deserving teams get tossed in favor of them. Besides, the show needs to start trimming down the all-male teams. Nearly halfway done, and we still have six of them in it!
Without spoilers, are there any direct or obvious shout-outs to famous tasks from the main show, and do they hew closely to the other TAR staples, like U-turns, NELs, etc?
There are no Yields or U-Turns, but there are NELs. But they're treated like the ones of seasons one through four of TAR in that there is no non-elimination penalty. No mugging of money (since the teams don't seem to have them, anyway), no mugging of possessions, no being marked for elimination, and no Speed Bumps. Just being told they're still in it, and that's that. And with twenty-five episodes leading up to the finale and likely only three teams making it to the end, that leaves room for fifteen elimination episodes and ten non-elimination episodes. We've had four non-eliminations thus far (that saved Gerry & Pete in Canada, Laurie & Miles in Iceland, Ryan & Stephanie in Hawaii, and, most recently, Rock & Spud in China), as well as six eliminations (Leonard & Tammy in Morocco, Gerry & Pete in France, Mary & Ellody in the Mediterranean, Laurie & Miles in Brazil, Tom & Jen in Romania, and, most recently, Kelly & Taylor in Dubai).
All-Ins are the equivalent to Route Infos in that the teams must have both members complete the tasks. Either-Ors are the equivalent of Detours in that the teams must choose between two tasks. Botch and Watches are the equivalent of Roadblocks in that one member of each team must perform the task. But unlike TAR, this show forces the teams to have their members take turns, which I think would be a nice change for TAR to implement. It would prevent laziness from showing up in weaker team members.
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"YOU'RE DISGUSTING! YOU ARE!" The Worst Parents on SVU
in Law & Order: SVU
It is, and one of my favorite episodes.:)