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  1. I believe the necklace, at least, was a loaner, because we only saw him telling her she got to keep the earrings. But yeah, I'm with those who found that whole thing a bit creepy. The ride to get wherever that was looked like fun, though. Those roads looked beautiful, and with some fun swooping. I wouldn't want to ride on that seat for very long, though. Ugh, yes. The begging for the dumpee to not think of the dumper as a bad guy is annoying enough, but seriously, dude, you are not entitled to a hug that she clearly does not want. How, especially in the current climate, has anyone not clued into the fact that that sort of thing is not cool? But seriously, this is the first time she's ever been dumped? Oh honey. Sooner or later it's bound to happen to you by someone you actually know and care about, and, although it probably won't involve the embarrassment of having it shown on TV, it will still be much much worse than this was, so brace yourself. Well, strictly speaking, everything in an English Bible is a transliteration, because Hebrew, Aramaic, and the various other languages it was originally written in do not use the same alphabet as English does, so there isn't really a "correct" spelling using our alphabet... Bibiana had me rolling my eyes pretty hard. I'm really not sure exactly how she expected to obtain the "time with Arie" (drink!) she wanted, since she appeared to be entirely unwilling to go after it herself. Was she expecting to get called up when it was her turn or something? Has she never seen this show? Even her reaction toward the end of the group date, when she was all "You think I want to go talk to him now?" I mean, you've been whining about nothing else all evening, so... yes? The demolition derby, though, although probably a terrible choice for a date activity, was fun to watch. And I'll even admit to feeling a little for Annaliese. I have been in a bumper car exactly once in my life, and I found it a singularly unpleasant experience. It didn't traumatize me quite the way it seems to have her, but the idea that it could didn't seem entirely beyond the realm of believability to me. Live long enough, and you learn that there are all kinds of bizarre phobias out there, and even the ridiculous ones are just as intense to the people who have them as the more understandable ones are.
  2. I really loved Owen and Cristina for a long time. But on a rewatch, I located the exact point when it (specifically, he) started to go downhill. I couldn't tell you what season or episode, but it's, I guess, the first time she has told him that she doesn't want kids. He's surprised, which, fine, but almost the first thing he says in response is that that was a childish opinion that she would grow out of. I don't know how that slid past me the first time, but on that rewatch, it was like everything just ground to a screeching halt. They were on borrowed time from that moment.
  3. I was actually less bothered by the initial Gizzie hookup than by the subsequent attempt to make them an actual thing. As @racj82 says, it's hardly unheard-of for friends to develop other feelings (especially when one of them is still grieving his dad and starting to regret the hasty, ill-advised marriage that arose from that), and a drunken hookup is definitely believable. But the two of them really didn't have anything even vaguely resembling chemistry, so everything after that was just painfully awkward. Which I guess could also happen in real life following the initial hookup, but it was just so unpleasant to watch. The small saving grace is that it does at least seem like the writers knew, if not from the beginning, then very quickly, that it was not going to work, and gave it a mercifully swift end. I don't pay a lot of attention to whatever fandom exists around this show, but it almost makes me wonder if there was clamouring from avid Gizzie shippers, and the writers decided to humour them for just long enough to show everyone why they were not doing this.
  4. They'd hardly be the first. The phrase "starting a family" has always infuriated me for precisely that reason.
  5. This is the thing that I just can't wrap my head around. If it happens once, OK, fine. Everybody's human, and we all have those moments when it was perfectly clear to us because we knew what we meant. You explain whatever it is and say oops, I guess we shouldn't have cut that scene, and you strive to do better. But when you are constantly being asked to explain things because they're not clear enough on their own merits, how do you not recognize that you have a problem?
  6. No, you're not. Appearance-wise, he's not quite as spot-on as some, but it's believable. And I've definitely picked up a few times when the way he said something sounded very much like the way Jared would have said it. I can't really speak to mannerisms, because I'm not usually watching particularly closely, but I'd believe it. Also, I didn't quote this part, but as someone who often has some acid-reflux if I try to go to bed too soon after drinking, I am fully on board with day drinking. I've never really understood why, before 5, drinking often gets you at least a side eye, but after 5, it suddenly becomes perfectly acceptable. I mean, if you're pounding them back starting with breakfast and not letting up until you pass out at night, that's obviously a problem. But really, what's the difference between a couple of drinks in the middle of the afternoon and a couple of drinks after dinner? Ahem. Sorry for the digression. I'm also kind of still stuck on the ballet recital. What about all the people who bought their tickets in advance? Are we to believe that no one did, and they all just showed up day-of, and no one balked at the sudden ticket price increase (likely in the neighbourhood of at least 25x more than they would have been advertised previously)? Even well-off people aren't necessarily in a position to just drop $1100 (assuming a couple) with no advance notice or planning. I know this is a show full of hand-waving, but I just can't even with this one.
  7. There was, but I believe he was dead. Of course, there could still be some sort of Alt!Wish!Baelfire. Maybe we'll get a flashback about how some mysterious benefactor arranged for him to get it for some sort of nefarious purpose that we will definitely care about. Anyway, as suspected, I'm done. It was nice to see Emma and Captain Swan again, and I'm glad they're still getting their happy ending. And, although Colin is so, so pretty, I'm afraid I just don't really care about Wish!Hook, and I care about the rest of them even less. So enjoy, y'all! Maybe I'll pop by for the finale. Oh, but I also just wanted to add that the idea that anyone — including the little ballerinas' parents — would pay $550 for a children's ballet recital, no matter what amazing cause it was supporting, is beyond ridiculous. As is the idea that you can turn something like a ballet recital into the kind of charity gala that can command $550 ticket prices basically overnight.
  8. Haven't watched yet, but this doesn't surprise me. He's always been good with the subtleties — such as the time Rumple appeared as him to trick Belle into giving up the dagger. Looking forward to watching his work, seeing RealKillian and Emma head off into the portal, and ignoring whatever happens in the rest of this season.
  9. That didn't really bother me, because she did a lot more neuro than most of the others did (I suppose we don't really know much about Maggie's training, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to believe that she specialized in cardio pretty quickly), and might have specialized there if the whole trial switcheroo thing hadn't happened. So it didn't seem beyond the realm of possibility that she would know more about the specifics of what was happening down there than some of the others would. Or the next one. Who the hell knows? Yeah, I didn't really dig it either. Especially because, if I'm not mistaken, aren't there interviews involved in getting into med school in the first place? So it's not like this would be any of these people's first exposure to such a thing. Some awkwardness, sure, that's to be expected, and some of them I think were definitely dismissed for trivial reasons. But some of them — like that one who couldn't even speak audibly — I don't see how they could have even made it this far. I thought that too. There's no real danger in putting her name on it, because Hubby doesn't know her name. So it's really only the photo that would be an issue, and it is beyond absurd that that would be a deal-breaker. "Greatest paper ever, amazing surgery, etc. But since you can't provide a photo of all the participants, I'm afraid we can't accept it." No. That said, if somehow it did get to the point of nomination or winning the Harper Avery, then avoiding the photos would probably become rather harder. But for simple paper publication? Come on.
  10. Oh good. Because what this already convoluted, confusing, and hard-to-follow story needed was time paradoxes. Those always clear things up nicely.
  11. I have to admit, I had a chuckle when he replaced "Insert poetic opening here" or whatever with "Once upon a time." Because that's definitely a solid and specific enough opening* that once you're through that hurdle, the rest will just come flowing out effortlessly. Only a true literary genius could come up with that stunner of an opening. "It was a dark and stormy night..." would have been better. * That totally isn't already the actual title of your first book...
  12. So that... happened. Many of you have covered my general thoughts already (from why does a step-grandmother get any say in anything having to do with the kid to how blah everything seems). I will watch the next episode to see what the deal is with Emma, but after that, I think I'm out. Although Colin is so, so pretty... But OMG, this. Everything about the motorcycle drove me nuts. Him riding around insanely recklessly through the freaking forest on a bike that is not designed for off-roading, with NO HELMET. And then Cinderella, who's presumably never even seen an engine or a bicycle, can somehow manage to learn how to ride a motorcycle in a giant dress and heels (and again, no helmet!) just from having it explained to her, and she also goes tearing off through the forest. No. Just no. My motorcycle-riding self just cringed through the whole thing.
  13. That part actually made me laugh out loud. And then be grateful that it didn't immediately pivot to "So you weren't actually apologizing at all, and you still owe me an apology."
  14. We have our share of racial issues up here, much as we like to pretend we don't, and Quebec is definitely no exception to that. Also, we are incessantly bombarded with US media, so it'd be pretty hard for a Canadian to claim to not understand the connotations of that particular word. That part maybe less so in Quebec, because of the push for French, but still. I'd have a hard time believing she wouldn't have some clue about stuff like that. That said, one known instance of using a racially loaded term does not necessarily a racist make. Just means she's existed in a world where that word is associated with black people a lot more than it ought to be, and has perhaps absorbed that. For which she is not blameless, certainly, but I'd suggest that it's a pretty big leap from "not especially woke" to "full-blown racist." (Despite the understanding that being "not especially woke" in and of itself is a major contributor to systemic racism.)
  15. One of the "fun" (or not so fun, depending on how much of a purist one is) parts of this show is that even those of us who have read the book are surprised sometimes. Despite being a reasonably faithful adaptation of the book, there were some rather significant liberties taken. For Season 2, we'll all be in the dark together.
  16. I know this is Grey's, the land of the inappropriate workplace behaviour, but Carina seriously needs to tone it down. I'm about as sex-positive as they come, but learn some boundaries. You don't tell your partner's co-workers about the sex you had last night. You don't stick your hands down her pants (I assume that's what we're supposed to infer was happening there) right in the middle of a hallway at work. I appreciate that they have way better chemistry than Arizona and Minnick, but come on. I wanted to smack April. It's fine to have all the stars in your eyes about the magic of homecoming and all that, but her speech to the girl was, frankly, gross. The idea that, just because a guy makes a grand gesture, you owe him something? Has this not been a major topic of discussion, writings, etc. for years at this point? For a woman to push that crap on another woman is seriously just plain gross. I would much rather have seen it reversed: the girl feeling like she should say yes, and April telling her to go with her actual feelings and not be swayed by the grand gesture. I think we were supposed to understand that the girl actually did want to go with hot air balloon guy, but was feeling social pressure to go with someone cooler, but that doesn't make April's speech any less ooky. As for Jo and Alex, I think the only way to accept anything about them is to pretend that basically everything between Alex coming home and finding her with DeLuca and this season never happened. We can pretend that that happened, and maybe they had a bit of a falling out, but no one got beaten up, and at some point, presumably her marriage had to have come out as well, but that's it. If you will yourself to forget the rest of it, their reconciliation and continued relationship can work. And because it was actually one of my favourites for a long time (largely because of their relative lack of drama and their ability to actually talk to each other about things that were bothering them), I'm going to do just that. We'll see how it goes.
  17. Re. the shoes: This. I got that it was a metaphor and all that, but it just seemed too exaggerated. There are a lot of steps between the practically stilettos she started with and frumpy clogs. Society may say that you have to wear dress shoes — heels, even — but it doesn't say that they need to be 5" heels. That was your decision. Re. the sex toys: I was prepared to accept the masturbate-in-the-MRI concept, despite all the handwaving that it requires, but the realization that she was providing the sex toys was just a step too far for me. I'm sure they're being sterilized and all, but still, the idea of using the same toys that who knows how many other women have also used? Nope. Also, someone needs to have a serious talk with that woman about privacy requirements. When DeLuca came in, he wanted to know whose brain he was looking at (which is a question that, unless he's going to be involved in a case, should not be answered — and he should know better than to even ask), but he already knew it was a friend of his. No way should he have known anything of the sort.
  18. This pretty much sums up my impressions. So many loose ends that were just completely dropped last season have been picked up again, which is great. Perhaps someone could make a supercut of anything from last season that would actually be required in order to understand stuff that comes up going forward, and then we can all just pretend that the rest of the season never happened. Here's hoping we continue to have people behaving a little more like actual people than they have in what seems like ages. Also, I am not remotely into the idea of another Teddy & Owen triangle situation, but I'd be more than OK if he traded Amelia for Teddy...
  19. I also wanted to chime in and thank you for sharing your thoughts as you go through all this with fresh eyes. It's really interesting to revisit the events of this season and compare your thoughts (fairly similar to mine at the time, in many cases) to mine now. Your point above is, I think, what makes the show simultaneously fascinating and frustrating, because at a certain point, it becomes really hard to root for anyone, but you're still asked to. At this point, I don't think I even have a favourite character ("barely like" is probably my most positive feeling toward most of them), but I still find it quite compelling, and continue to look forward to seeing where everything goes. Looking forward to seeing what you think as you go along, too.
  20. Agreed. He really butchered some of those words, well beyond a straight-up bad accent. I also felt for whichever of the Giver boys was doing the riding, because he seemed to have some sense of French pronunciation, but his partner's was atrocious, and trying to figure out directions from words that badly mangled, on top of whatever static was on the comms? Yikes. I fully expected Giver to end up winning, because I figured winning the last several legs would not equate to winning the last, plus Sam & Paul were my favourites, so I figured they wouldn't win. And I was pretty sure Korey and Ivana would not pull out a last-minute win, either. They power through sheer physical tasks, but they're... possibly not the brightest racers we've ever seen, and they have the worst taxi luck. I like them as people, but I figured they were a pretty long shot. But then Sam and Paul did win, and I was happy. The Bonhomme scaring Giver and the interminable muzak-accompanied elevator ride were perhaps my favourite moments.
  21. Oh please no. Watching him awkwardly and incompetently juggle two women was painful enough. I don't need to see him try it with a few dozen.
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