TheAnglican

With Tom and Barbara, I think I'd be more comfortable if we could just skip to the time when they're the comfy helpful vicarage couple in a village, possibly starring in a Miss Marple film adaptation. The actors don't have chemistry. Also, why for the love of Pete did Tom have to look for his next girlfriend at Nonnatus? I have to think that all the unmarried women in his parish would have been throwing themselves in his path.

So apparently PBS is just cutting all the Delia and Patsy scenes, eh? That makes it a little confusing to potential new viewers when the feature for which they're cutting to make room is all about lesbianism in the sixties.

I don't know what the production crew fed Don and Jerry last night, but they were like giddy five year olds whose parents gave them pure sugar for supper. I dunno if they were in a good mood because the Sox stomped all over Johnny Cueto, or because Don just enjoys hauling out that old photo of him with Vin Scully, or?

Continuity error alert! The scene in which Fred was waxing philosophical about the boiler and how his predecessor had told him he'd have to massage it every day wasn't quite right - because Nonnatus House had moved since the time that Fred started there!

I'm just getting caught up. I bawled like a baby at the scene in which Dr. Turner comes into the living room and finds all the little gifts from his patients.

So, really - who were the almost 9% of voters who did NOT think that Pedro was Hall-worthy?

Well, like every sports writer in America, I am wondering if the Royals can get their momentum back. If they'd won this game, they could have afforded to treat their next game against MadBum with a little more nonchalance. I don't think Big Game James vs MadBum is really a fair fight right now. I'd love to be wrong, though.

John Tomase of the Boston Herald on Twitter: "Prediction: the Royals end up being the 2007 Rockies. They'll blitz to the World Series and then get swept." I can kind of see that, I guess, but I don't remember enough about the '07 Rockies to draw a reasonable comparison. I was working my tail off at a new job that Fall, and I only vaguely remember Jonathan Papelbon doing the Riverdance. Anyway, Tomase? Right or wrong?

I am pleased but pretty astounded that the Royals took both games in Anaheim. In particular, I've been impressed by how well their pitchers have handled Mike Trout. We'll see if the Royals can sustain this, but the K will surely be rocking on Sunday. And following Sung-Woo Lee on Twitter (their Korean superfan) has been entertaining. Random aside: I haven't watched the Angels much this year before now, and I was admiring Angel Stadium's landscaping. "Hey," I thought to myself. "Those rocks with the waterfalls look like something out of a Disney log flume ride." And then I look it up and realize that Disney Imagineering actually DID the renovation for the stadium, so there's a reason for the resemblance!

You know, I might almost be OK with the Angels winning the whole damn enchilada if it would mean they could retire the rally monkey from 2002. It's been 12 years, guys - you need a new gimmick!

For some reason, I can see Nomar agreeing to do it more than Jason Varitek. Jason is busy working as a special assistant to the Red Sox GM. I'm not sure what Nomar is up to. I assume you mean the former Braves catcher and not the current Giants pitcher? I always get them confused! Anyway, sure, I could go for Javy Lopez. I agree he's cute and if I'm remembering correctly, has kind of a cuddly personality?

I've posted this many times on TWoP, but we need a baseball player on DwTS. It's not going to happen with an active player, because the baseball season straddles both the Fall and Spring DwTS seasons. So, then a retired player. I know he's polarizing for some people, but I always thought Nomar Garciaparra (ex-Red Sox shortstop) would mesh well with the DwTS demo. Plus his wife is Mia Hamm. George Brett, the best Kansas City Royal ever, would also float my boat, but he's 61 and apparently has some orthopedic issues. But he does have some current cred because the Lorde song "Royal" was inspired by his picture. I would die if they could ever get Pedro Martinez (soon to be a Hall of Fame pitcher), but I"m probably dreaming there.

Ermagawd, did Kenny Ortega just really tell Derek that he'd redefined choreography for his generation? Head to desk moment right now.

Honestly, I don't really think I'd even miss Jenny if she just stayed permanently at the mother house and decided to join the order.

Ugh, I just don't think I can take it if Derek wins for a third season in a row. Surprisingly, I have warmed back up to Mark for the first time since Kristi's season, I think.

Her story arc is reminding me of J. R. Martinez's, which I find worrying. J.R. had the feel-good story, but I really thought he was a better dancer than Amy. All of the superlatives being thrown in her direction are just so over the top that I'm grouchy watching this. And grumpily, I think it's unfair for the judges to be handing out perfect 10s for her AT when they knocked over her stool in the middle of her routing. The judges dinged Charlie for a very similar problem.

The moment in this episode when I cried was when Sister Evangelina opened the door to see all the people gathered for her jubilee party. Sob. As you may gather from my username, I have some interest in the questions raised about Anglican nuns, priests, and celibacy. *putting on my academic hat here* An interesting historical note is that there weren't Anglican nuns from the time when Henry VIII broke with Rome until the mid-nineteenth century, when the Oxford Movement brought back practices and institutions to the Anglican church that had previously been deemed too Catholic. Religious orders were probably the most visible of these, but other things that came back included confession and reservation of the sacrament. One other thing that enjoyed a brief renaissance was the idea of voluntary celibacy for male priests. If you were a priest in certain parishes from say, the 1860s through the 1920s, you might have gotten the side-eye if you had gotten married! There are a few contemporary Anglican women's religious communities that were just delighted when women became able to be ordained as priests - because it meant that they could send their own through seminary and ordination. Then they wouldn't have to have a man as a confessor or to celebrate the sacraments.

I liked this episode. I see I was confused, though, because I could have sworn that was Jim Broadbent playing Dr. Latham - but it's somebody else named Roger Morlidge who is new to me. A few more random thoughts: Hey, people finally have telephones in their own houses! Fred has been awfully absent in Season 3. Alec is awfully milquetoast, isn't he? Did I miss why the lay midwives have to share rooms all of a sudden at the new Nonnatus?

Waving back! In other random baseball musings, I am amused that the Astros are going to take the first series of the year from the Yankees.

I can understand why Detroit felt compelled to offer that contract to Cabrera, but I'm sort of at a loss about why more teams aren't offering long-term contracts like the ones the Red Sox offered to Dustin Pedroia. Pedroia's contract has a bit of a hometown discount built in, but it also features some front loading. I have to think that there's a good chance that Cabrera will not be playing for Detroit one way or the other in the last couple of years of that contract, so why not try the same tactic with him?

There was entirely too much self-aware hair going on between Witney and Cody.

A few thoughts: I am evil and clearly going to hell, but it's very convenient that Amy can just switch out her feet to have nice pointy toes for Contemporary. I still hate Derek and he even threw in the frakkin bicycling feet move. I'd like her with anyone but him. I thought that Charlie and Drew were underscored too. (loved Charlie's Pharrell hat at the beginning of his dance.) Threw them both some votes even though I've not bothered to vote for a while. Oh, and I was shocked that Len did not call Charlie and Sharna out for "messin' about" at the beginning. Candace's jive was underwhelming for the pimp spot.

The Rankin/Bass specials were a big part of my 70s childhood. My husband did not have a TV when he was growing up, so I have had to spend a lot of time over the years explaining TV references from before 1996 to him. One of those was recently, when he was trying to figure out what the reference to "the island of misfit toys" was all about in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. So I cued up the clip on YouTube from Rudolph, and it was like a glorious beam of light descended!

See, the thing I've always hated about the Twitter voting is that I use Twitter as a professional medium, and there is no way in Hell that I'm going to subject the people who follow me to a string of inane pair votes for DwTS. And when TPTB don't even bother to explain the voting properly, well, why should anyone else really bother?

Hola! I haven't posted much on TWoP lately, since I boycotted all of last season and some of the one before that. But I watched a bit of the show last week and think that I might be able to tolerate Erin Andrews and that I generally like the cast. If Derek doesn't win a third season in a row, I'll be a very happy camper indeed. Mostly I am shocked that the show is actually going to outlast TWoP.