Fallacy

I think Jesse has gorgeous hair, and I’m envious that her hair dries into nice waves rather than a total frizz ball like mine does if I let it air dry. I don’t see a foot of split ends either. I suspect she trims off the bottom inch or so every three months, so the rest of it is perfectly healthy. Plus, she doesn’t regularly straighten it or color it like Jinger does, so it’s not nearly as heat damaged.

Okay. A: Why are they just now airing it, and why do I have to wait until Thursday to see the last episode? And B: How am I supposed to stay away from spoilers now? I really want to know everything, but I don’t want to miss the chance to experience the second hand embarrassment that will come with watching the final episode spoiler free.

This is by far the craziest show ever. Jessica needs rehab ASAP and Mark needs to run immediately. Damien and Gianna will never work. He’s in lust, not love, and she’s just barely willing to use him for 6 months for a few thousand more Instagram followers. I can’t remember the names of the two who have awesome parents but are so vanilla, they bore each other already. Kelly and Kevin? How the hell do you consider marrying someone you’re not even willing to bang yet? I guess I’m rooting for Lauren and Cameron and Amber and Barnett though there is something a little off about Cameron and Amber is just so young and dumb. Barnett surprisingly seems like he really is in love with Amber and vice versa, so maybe those two crazy kids will make it work.

Heroes versus Villains also had a ridiculous amount of Rob time in the first five episodes, but if the people who hate Rob waited it out, then they got to watch a great season unfold. I think the same will happen this season. I really think the red tribe has the advantage and Rob will be out before the merge. I haven’t read any spoilers because I hate spoilers with this show in particular, but I just can’t image Rob making it deep into this game. The other side on their tribe already have two advantages over team Ethan, Rob, and Parvati in the form of Denise and Adam’s shared immunity power and Jeremy’s advantage to leave tribal if he needs to. So if Rob’s tribe goes back to tribal council next week, Rob can really only target Ben safely without an immunity idol bouncing him out of the game, and I can totally see Adam and Denise using their idol and their votes to get him out. Even if Rob’s tribe doesn’t lose another immunity challenge, he will still get voted out by team red immediately. Basically, to me, all signs point to Rob being an early vote out. Now I happen to love him so I hope I’m wrong.

Exactly. They’re not voting Rob out because they’re just stupid. They’re not voting him out because he’s a huge meat shield who is usually great in challenges. At this point in the game, it makes far more sense to vote out a weaker player who doesn’t contribute much to the challenges and who has gotten completely paranoid. I still say Rob and Parv are out pre-merge. If not, then yes, I’ll conceded that their tribe mates are dumb asses.

Starz released the episode early for Valentine’s Day. Am I the only one who has already watched it? I won’t say anything else about it yet in case I am.

Parvati and Rob had the funniest conversation on the beach, and Rob making it through the first tribal council proves he’s still crazy good at this game. However, his love for Amber is 100% Achilles heal, so when he finds out she was the first out, he’s going to screw up his game by getting overly emotional about it. I expect he will not make it anywhere close to the merge. I’m way over Sandra and her hurt feelings, but she too played the first days well by immediately and convincingly turning those hurt feelings to her advantage. I love Yul and Sophie and Wendell, so if they manage to run the game, I’m okay with that.

Why hasn’t she posted an after picture by now? You’d think that would have been the third pic in her post. Are we lowly “fan” undeserving of seeing her hair after she had the roots done, or is the pic with the Brussels sprouts (which are always gross) the “after” pic. I did notice plenty of blond “highlights” in that pic. I don’t like her hair with the bleached streaks and would much prefer brown with caramel highlights like somebody else posted.

I noticed the shirt and Alyssa’s make up palette. Thanks for letting me know their friends because I had assumed he was just a fan. I love me some Alyssa Edwards! I thoroughly enjoyed this show and will definitely be watching next season. I also don’t want any audience involvement, but I would like to see more of their conversations via group or private chat. Finally, I think Shuby let “Rebecca” off way too easy because he’s such a nice guy. Then everyone else took their cue from Shuby and did the same. I couldn’t stand “Rebecca” so I wanted to see a little more karma come his way. Oh well. Overall, I was happy with the outcome.

To me, complmentarianism is inherently misogynistic. I definitely would have pitched a fit on the cruise you described. I don’t know why women like Jinger go along with this stuff.

I still think JJ copied the arc of the original trilogy and relied on the fact that Ben Solo is Han and Leia’s son so he could assume safely that most of the audience would want to see Kylo Ren turn back to the light. The audience’s love of Han and Leia made us primed to root for their son to turn to the light. Plus, JJ gave us a very conflicted Kylo Ren from the start while Vader didn’t seem at all conflicted in the first or even the second film.

I’ve seen so many people complain about Rey and Ben’s kiss because it supports the dangerous narrative that the love of a good woman can turn a bad guy into a good one, but to me, the Rey/Ben thing is the same as the Luke/Anakin thing. The only difference is romantic love versus family love. Luke didn’t love Vader, and Rey didn’t love Kylo Ren. She loved Ben Solo who she saw hidden inside Kylo Ren just like Luke saw his father Anakin inside Vader. Rey and Ren have a nearly identical conversation in The Last Jedi that Luke had with Vader in Return of the Jedi. Rey and Luke both say that they see the conflict and the good in Ren and Vader, respectively. They both are also confident that they can save them, that Ren and Vader will turn back to the light. In this last film, Rey kissing Ben is no different than Luke expressing his love for his father and his loss over his death at the end of Return of the Jedi. i just don’t get why Star Wars fans were perfectly willing to accept that Luke loved his father, who he had never known as Anakin, but only inside of Vader, but then some fans hate that Rey loved the Ben she saw inside of Kylo Ren. My biggest gripe with the movie is that seeing Adam Driver as Ben Solo made me wish the entire new trilogy hadn’t been written with him playing a dark sided Kylo Ren. I thought Driver never looked more gorgeous than he did running in as Ben Solo to stand with Rey against the Emperor, and the beautiful, joyful smile he gave after that kiss just made me wish even more that he played Ben in all three movies.

But they did give back. They had a big old family flea market fundraiser and raised a little over 18K that they gave to the children’s hospital that treated Josie. This was shown in season 12, episode 9.

Yes it is! Also, is that there only Christmas tree, and are they living in a trailer again? The table they are sitting at appears to be connected to the wall. I’m confused.

Season 40 would be the perfect opportunity for Survivor to allow the game to play in its original format, but that’s not going to happen obviously and I think that was a mistake.

You can’t deny the facts. Men are getting way, way, way more votes to win than women. And yes if 11 out of 14 winners were women, I would also question that gender disparity. I think future Survivor juries need to consider if their perceptions of the final three have anything to do with their existing ideas and beliefs about gender. Just a little critical thinking about why they believe what they believe would help.

There is no way that Kelli and the show didn’t come to a settlement out of court. Jeff admitted on camera that the producers made a mistake and he admitted on camera that Kelli was right. There is no way that Jeff acknowledges how wrong the show was if they didn’t already have an agreement with Kelli not to take further civil action. There is also no way Sia doesn’t give Kelli at least 100 thousand dollars if Sia doesn’t know about the settlement. I think Jeff and the show made a very smart move when he started that interview by acknowledging the Kelli was right. That acknowledgment is what every victim wants to hear. And I believe that the acknowledgment was part of the settlement. I would bet Kelli got $1 million because she could argue she was robbed of her chance of winning because of the producer’s actions. And a million bucks is nothing for CBS to spend to get back the goodwill of its audience when Kelli “forgives” them, which is basically what she did on the show tonight.

I watched that entire video, and I’m sorry but I don’t see any favoring of Sam over Israel or any dislike of Israel. I see two parents who are trying to decorate and film at the same time, interacting with their children normally. I heard Derrick thank Israel twice in that video, and I heard Jill and Derrick ask both Sam and Israel to stop two different sets of behavior: Israel being impatient and not to gentle with the ornaments and Sam playing with the light switches. No, Israel does not get their undivided attention, and no, they didn’t answer all 20 plus questions he asked over that 16 minute video, but that seems perfectly normal to me. The fact is Israel is at that more than a little annoying stage where his brain is working a mile in a minute, and he never shuts up. There’s nothing wrong with his behavior of course, but there’s also nothing horribly wrong with how Jill and Derrick respond to him.

I watched all 20 minutes too and thought it was really well done. She gave helpful tips, demonstrated her practices in action, and avoided being condescending by repeatedly saying they’re not perfect but they are practicing. I was impressed overall. The only flaw is that Ben offered nothing, and while Jessa was encouraging the boys to eat their dinner, he was scrolling on his phone. On the more positive note, you can tell that Ben was in charge of keeping the boys entertained while she made parts of the video.

That’s how we do it too, so I didn’t see anything wrong with Jill’s method of thawing her turkey. I did however wonder at her cooking it overnight, but I’ve never cooked a turkey that big so maybe it’s fine. I know my grandma used to stick hers in the oven at like six in the morning, and she bought big turkeys like Jill’s turkey.

In the video, she does a really nice job of explaining how she made those three pictures. Honestly, I want to make some too now that I’ve seen her tutorial, which is a win for her in terms of being a social media influencer.

She didn’t seem to be an abnormal amount of pain for a woman giving birth, to me. Still, I would have begged for an epidural right around the time she vomited the first time. I did spot the nurse wiping her arm with an alcohol swap so I bet she had a quick shot of pain meds or at least some anti-nausea meds. Kendra has way more patience than me. I would have yelled at the nurse for telling me to wait to push. At a certain point, the body just takes over and you have to push. So I was more surprised that they tried to get her to wait. I would have lost it entirely at that point. Many women choose not to have an epidural, and when it comes to labor and delivery, I don’t think anyone, other than the laboring mother and her doctor, should get a say in that choice. At no point did I see Kendra’s mom or Joe tell Kendra not to get an epidural so who knows why Kendra didn’t get one this time. We can speculate of course, but I bet Kendra believes it was her choice entirely.

I saw real affection between Elizabeth and Phillip in this episode that I liked. He did that cute kiss goodbye moment. Then he took her by the hand to lead her off stage while giving the spy a dirty look. Then he asked to speak with the spy to try to persuade him to leave the palace quietly. In both of those scenes, he seemed protective of Elizabeth. I also noted his crankiness when she noisily buttered her toast while he was trying to watch the news, but that didn’t seem like a sign that there was no love or affection left between them. It seemed like normal everyday annoying things a spouse does sometimes. It’s certainly Margaret and Tony who are a disaster. He hates her at this point, which is just sad. Finally, after this first episode, I have every confidence in the recast. I think Tobias Menze is playing Philip very similarly to how Matt did, especially in their speaking style. That goes for Olivia and Claire too. They really nailed those speaking patterns. I also noticed that Olivia folds her hands the same, and Tobias puts one hand in his front pocket the same too, so they do some physical ticks to make them seem familiar to us in these roles.

It looks like it will be a beautiful home for them when they’re finished with a gorgeous kitchen. I’m a little jealous in fact. After their loss, I’m good with good things happening for them right now.

Ivy is adorable just like her brothers, and I do believe Blessa love their kids. However, Ben would bore me to tears as a husband, so I don’t know what Jessa ever saw in him. He seems more than a little dumb, and Jessa is not. I know many feel sympathy for Ben because he let his lust for a hot girl trap him in an early marriage and a growing family, but I feel more sympathy for Jessa who has to deal with his mumbling. I’ve yet to see Ben speak with any conviction, clarity, or passion. He just mumbles some nonsense. I guess Jessa wanted a man she could control, and she sure got her wish. The downside is that Ben rarely seems to care about anything. He just takes up space and brings home a bit of money. What else does he do? He can’t even build a deck off their bedroom. Jessa has to call in her brothers for that. I know we joke about all the toilets Ben cleans because of that one episode in which we saw him clean one toilet for JimBob. But, maybe Ben only does janitor work because he lacks the brain power to do much else. My only sympathy for Ben is that he has JimBob for a father in law.