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marie

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  1. I can't believe I'm rewatching this, but on the topic of Marissa's death, I still think it was the right call. If anything, it should've happened earlier. It gave S4 a whole new energy and I'd have loved to see a S5 where the characters got to fully move on from the grief stasis they were in to the true next phases of their lives. Watching S4, it's actually wild to me how in such a short span of time Julie and Kaitlin feel more like mother/daughter than Marissa/Julie ever did, how much more I believe Ryan loves Taylor for who she is and not just because it's a drama trope he has to fulfill like with Ryan/Marissa, and even how much more Summer and Taylor feel like actual friends than she and Marissa did. I get saying "just ship her off", but man, I really would've hated having the threat of her return hanging over all the characters' heads and the likely forced Ryan/Marissa endgame they'd have shoved into the last scene. I vastly prefer that everyone was allowed to move on.
  2. lol, same. I've seen this woman getting so much shit online now (lesson obviously learned from the Morbid sitch, huh?), and I can't help feel like everyone wanted her to respond like a freshman dorm RA and not like a skid row hotel manager. We don't even know if she ever even SAW Elisa personally. So yeah, she's probably not terribly emotional about a stranger who died 7 years ago. But I think I also just kind of can relate to her defensiveness about the hotel. She's had years of people accusing her, her employees, and the literal building ITSELF of being murder suspects, when they're just people trying to make a living and put out fires like all the rest of us. It kind of makes me happy that it now has official city landmark status, after seeing years of true crime wannabes call for it to be torn down.
  3. Yeah, this wasn't the Vanguard Award. It wasn't an award at all. The whole situation was weird af. https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/remember-michael-jackson-accepted-made-award-britney-spears-2372005
  4. I actually thought the documentary did a good job delving into this. You have two men being asked to testify and both saying they don't want to. One of their mother's spidey sense kicks in and she knows without really having to be told exactly what she's subconsciously feared for years. The other mother tells her son that he owes it to his "friend" to stand up for him and that he might be the only one who can save him. To me, that anecdote, more than any other explained how Robson stayed in denial. Even when sending out flashing signals that "hey, something is wrong here", no one wanted to hear it. On one side, he had his entire industry worshipping this man. He was working with musicians who were presenting him with invented "Artist of the Millennium" awards (remember that awkward Britney presentation?), and on the other side he had his entire family circling the wagons to protect Jackson. I'm not shocked it took him so long to speak out, I'm shocked he ever did at all.
  5. I really don't see them picking a former HG for the role. And I also don't think Grodner would get much say. This would be over her head. I just don't see them wanting anyone too ott like Rachel or Ross. They need a stabilizing presence who can keep things moving. I'd put money on another Julie, aka someone already with CBS with hosting experience, and probably under 40, to keep appealing to that younger demo.
  6. I really don't see there being any sort of backlash if she's let go. She's never been very respected or popular and that "sources" are emphasizing her loyalty to her husband and refusal to believe his victims, basically gives CBS all the cover they need to say that they can't keep someone on staff who doesn't respect the seriousness of sexual assault. They'll wrap up this season and then probably announce her leaving within the next two weeks.
  7. I'm kind of wondering if a reason we haven't gotten a renewal announcement is that they likely knew this was coming and it's easier to just not renew her contract because there technically ISN'T a show after BB20 yet, than to push her out after the fact. Even if they didn't know for sure Moonves was leaving, there had to have been murmurings for months about the possibilities. Anyway, good riddance. That was a pathetic move last night that pushed me from "she's not responsible for her husband's actions" to "let her go down with that ship then". That said, I don't see CBS trusting an amateur with a major hosting gig, so I don't think it'll be any former houseguests. They'll want someone stable and reliable. Mark McGrath is about the only possibility I see from past houseguests. But I find it more likely that they find a Julie 2.0, an up and comer looking to move beyond co-anchoring the 10:00 news in Dallas.
  8. Really makes you wonder how many warnings they'd already given her. That's quite the terse statement from ABC.
  9. I don't know. It's sort of the fictionalized version of "But I have a black friend". "But I wrote a black and a gender fluid kid!" It's a way to insulate yourself from that criticism. I do think it's also the writers feeling a genuine need to combat a lot of Roseanne's real life ugliness. You can see there's a real desire on their part to NOT make this the Trump Propaganda Hour. But unless they sneak in a later season plot of Roseanne realizing she's betrayed the values of inclusiveness that she used to believe in, I'm not sure it'll work. They've already got Trump out there bragging about this show as if he's the star. I'm sure they're thrilled it's a success, but for a progressive writer or a member of the LGBT community (like Sara is), I would think this has to be a double-edged sword.
  10. They literally took their male lead and had him massacre hundreds of innocent people in their sleep. I don't really feel it's much of a stretch to say that there are some writerly machinations going down in wanting to readjust a lot of opinions viewers have of the character. And I'm not saying "oooh, Bellarke was too threatening on the show and had to die". I'm saying the writers have been crystal clear that they don't intend to explore that ship. And yet the fanbase is still there and very loud. So yes, I do think trying to ease people away from rooting for a storyline they have no intentions of writing probably played a part in their decision to turn Bellamy back into a fairly moronic asshole, this time with a bigger body count.
  11. That's my point though. I would say it makes no sense because the primary purpose of this storyline is to keep Clarke and Bellamy separated (something that has clearly been a driving force since last season) and to drop him out as romantic competition. This isn't just about "shipping". It's basic soap opera writing. When you want a couple to rise, it generally involves sinking other characters so options are killed off. And it's especially lacking in subtlety on this show when the writers have obsessively driven home that they have no intention of having Clarke and Bellamy as a couple and want the audience to move away from that idea. So no, to me it's not coincidental that when they've sounded frustrated by people continuing to ask about that possibility, they kill it off in the most brutal (and unearned) way possible. First, episode after episode of non-interaction and separation, then turning half the pairing into a villain. My guess is Clarke and Lexa will be taking it to a non-subtextual level in the next episode or two, and I don't think Bellamy's downfall coinciding with that is accidental. For people like me, who've never cared about either ship, it's just annoying that they're destroying Bellamy/Octavia, Bellamy/Kane, and Bellamy and Clarke as actual leaders who interact in order to prop up a ship.
  12. Reading all the "Lexa is the best!" and "I don't think Bellamy can come back from this" reactions just makes me think the writers accomplished exactly what they set out to do. And it makes me really not want to watch anymore. I see strings being pulled that have more to do with fan faction pandering than organic story decisions.
  13. I'm truly wondering if they cast Nikki Reed because she already lives in Atlanta so it was convenient. Or if there's crew crossover between this and Vampire Diaries, so she had an in and got bumped up the casting line. Because she is really distractingly terrible.
  14. The entire point of the game is to get to the end and have people vote for you to win. If you piss off so many people they don't want to vote for you, you played a bad game. If you played such a horrible social game that people had a better relationship with the person next to you, you played a bad game. If you were unnecessarily catty and rude to people who held your fate in their hands? You played a bad game. The jury likes John more. Steve has virtually no connection with anyone besides Shelli and Vanessa (who doesn't seem to really like him much of the time). Even John, who he adores and whom he thinks will be campaigning for him, admits he didn't really care about who he went to F2 with. Julia is more liked than Liz by people like Vanessa, Meg, James despite not even having a NAME for the first 5 weeks in the house. If winning this game was about HoH's, Dr. Will wouldn't still be held up as the ultimate player.
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