Bubbles
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Really annoyed with Regina's change of heart but pretty much expected it after the childhood abuse reveal. Women on TV are rarely allowed to not want kids simply because they don't want them, it has to be because they're broken in some way that can later get fixed to allow them to accept their lady destiny. That, or they get knocked up accidentally and just accept it like they have no options.
The PJ stuff was all way too melodramatic, and the "the hair wasn't Jon's" twist was ridiculously obvious.
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I thought the resolution between Sutton and Richard was overly simplistic and cutesy. As a board member he likely has a fiduciary duty, so there may very well be things she tells him about work that he can't ethically just pretend not to know.
Jane and Pinstripe have good chemistry, but I hate the "reformed player" trope so much. Also, I call shenanigans on him being Mr. Perfect Boyfriend. Relationship skills take some practice, and dude was a player until like five minutes ago.
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Not really an other role per se, but Yanic Truesdale is one of the panelists on Canada Reads this year. For the non-Canadians, Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" on the radio in which five Canadian celebrities each champion a book by a Canadian author. Over the course of a week they debate the books and each day they vote to eliminate one until one book is declared the winner.
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On 2018-12-01 at 4:32 PM, Blergh said:
The narrator at the beginning says that it's the day before Christmas, and the whole story takes place that same day. He refers to the snow as "Christmas snow" in that same intro, so it's clearly meant to be broader than just Christmas Day. Karen gets on the train saying her Mom probably won't mind as long as she's home by Christmas, and the animals in the forest are waiting for Santa to come, which also points to Christmas Eve.
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According to TVLine we'll be getting more of Richard's backstory and family next season. I'm not sure why they think anyone is clamouring for that.
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And of course Jacqueline was also Jan on The Office.
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12 hours ago, retrograde said:
But they keep trying to find excuses to have these girls sing and, yeah, they have good voices, but they're unrealistically good and it takes me out of the show.
The part I found most unrealistic about it in this episode was that a band of 20-something dude-bros knew how to play that song.
I'm really not a fan of where they're going with Pinstripe. The whole "cad reformed by the love of a good woman" trope is so tired and toxic. It was so refreshing earlier in the season when Jane acknowledged that going back to Pinstripe was pointless even though they had great chemistry because they weren't looking for the same thing, but now they seem pretty intent on undoing that. I don't know, I feel like last season the show did a better job in general of steering around the obvious tropes and cliches.
Athough, points for not going down the road of having one of the explicit photos Kat was showing off to the girls at the start of the episode accidentally wind up on the new Scarlet site.
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As others have said, I guess it's just as well that Jane is back at Scarlet because we all knew it would happen, but I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't address the award in that at all. You'd think Jane would have at least considered the possibility that it was a cynical move by Scarlet to get the award-winning writer back on staff to better capitalize on the win. She also didn't seem to give much thought to other doors the award could open, even after seeing the boost she got just from the nomination. The show rushed from her struggling as a freelancer to doing well almost overnight, and I wish they had taken a bit more time to establish that in the end she's coming back because she wants to, not because she needs to.
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On 2018-06-25 at 10:36 PM, sashayshante said:
I'm a vocal feminist and support the body positivity movement, but I can't get behind the healthy at any size idea because, science.
You mean like the science that shows that a single-minded emphasis on weight as the most important determinant of health tends to result in worse health outcomes for fat people, and that programs that focus on taking steps to be healthier regardless of size can actually be more effective for weight loss than those where weight loss is the primary goal?
I watched the episode a while ago and don't really remember the specifics of their conversation, but it came across to me as pretty much "I'm a huge supporter of body positivity when it means telling thin white women to accept their tiny imperfections but I draw the line at telling fat people they shouldn't hate themselves".
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15 hours ago, Daltrey said:
I too have been wondering if there's friction among the cast that's been keeping almost everyone segregated, to a certain extent.
I assume it's a budget issue. By keeping everyone separate it's easier to mix and match which fraction of the main cast is in each episode. But yeah, it's weird to be keeping everyone apart in the final stretch of episodes. I had kind of assumed they'd reunite Gunnar and Scarlett in the end but I don't see how that's possible when they're never in the same room.
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45 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:
I like the board stuff, but I wish there was a little less of "Jacqueline schools the old white men about women and social media." I also find the new board member, Cleo, a bit too much of a cliché. But these are nitpicks.
I think the storyline with the new board member has potential. I'm intrigued by the idea of Jacqueline, a powerful woman who legitimately supports and empowers other women, having to deal with someone who pays lip service to "girl power" and "women looking out for each other" while actually acting in kind of backstabby and anti-feminist ways. It's also nice that they're giving Jacqueline something to do other than be the ridiculously perfect boss.
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2 hours ago, LadyMustang65 said:
I get why Jessie feels she can't take on Brad. She doesn't have money, and he was able to throw her under the bus in the divorce, so she now has a 'record' of being unstable. That's a very tough uphill climb. But I'm at the point where I want her to just grab her son and take off. The longer she lets Brad fuck their kid up, the harder it's going to be for him to ever recover.
That kid is also old enough that I have a hard time understanding why the idea of him testifying at a custody hearing was a complete nonstarter for her without even having a conversation with him about it. He clearly doesn't like spending time with his dad and feels like he has no control over his situation, so he might welcome the opportunity to have his feelings taken into consideration.
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Juliette's storyline felt really disjointed. Last time we saw her she was fully indoctrinated into the cult and telling Avery she didn't want to see him anymore, and this episode started with her criticizing the leadership and wanting to leave. We're clearly supposed to infer that realizing she was pregnant changed her outlook on the situation, but I wish they had actually taken the time to show us that. And the pregnancy makes it pretty clear she and Avery are endgame- it's the only conceivable way Avery could possibly come back to her in the time remaining.
The cast feels less cohesive in general this season. Characters have always had their own arcs, individually or in small groups, but there used to be way more cross-over interaction, like at the Bluebird or the Highway 65 office. Scarlett is pretty much entirely off on her own, and there are fairly distinct groupings of Will-Avery-Gunnar and Deacon-Maddie-Daphne with very little mixing happening otherwise.
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I didn't mind Dove Cameron so much before this episode because I thought Ruby was supposed to be flat and robotic, but man, her performance tonight was painful.
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8 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said:
I really hate the fact that Papa Pope ends up being the one who saves the day while Olivia spends most of the episode with her lips quivering and jumping Fitz's bones. Why couldn't Olivia have given the speech about white privilege and point out that she, a strong black woman, had put two presidents in office and probably saved all the men sitting on the committee's asses before their various tawdry affairs were revealed. I could believe that Olivia would end up strutting down the Mall and have her picture in the National Portrait Gallery.
Yeah, I find it disappointing in the same way that the Buffy series finale was: ending a show about a strong woman with a man ultimately saving the day rather than letting her be the hero of her own story. Granted, Olivia hasn't been anything resembling a hero in a very long time, but it seemed like a major misstep to have her set up the events of the finale last week by outing B613 and convincing everyone else to join the crusade and then have her spend most of the actual finale being passive while the actions of men (Lonnie, Jake, Cyrus, Papa Pope) drive the plot.
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I actually kind of liked Cyrus' ending. It felt like poetic justice that the guy who fancies himself an evil genius puppet master had to do his own dirty work for once and couldn't really handle it, and now he has to has to live with that.
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8 hours ago, dmc said:
Serena...ehhh...let's be real...most of us have been made crazy by a relationship before...this incident does not make her crazy.
Yeah, that seemed like a classic case of a man-child who's too afraid to actually break up with someone so he just ghosts her and then acts all "bitches be crazy" when she comes after him for an explanation.
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8 hours ago, Lady Calypso said:
Daisy said that she didn't want her powers back if that meant destroying the world, but that was even before they got back from space. Fitz never tried to explain why he needed her to have her powers back to close the rift that also might have destroyed at least the town they've been in
The only reason she even came back from space is because Coulson incapacitated her and brought her back against her will. I'm not excusing Fitz, but I really doubt that if he'd explained it to her she'd have said "oh, well ok then." I also find it interesting that Fitz and Deke are mostly considered unforgivable around these parts but Coulson basically kidnapping Daisy goes unmentioned.
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4 hours ago, Madding crowd said:
I get that but the Bachelor's were walking around shirtless and Quinn was walking around in a short sleeved dress. There have also been scenes in the pool or lounging around in swim wear-still not buying the winter parkas.
The men are trying to get airtime and show off for Serena, and Quinn is constantly drinking.
As for Quinn's career, my impression is that she kind of let Chet take most of the credit for Everlasting's success while they were together, or at least she didn't fight as hard for her due as she has since they broke up.
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4 hours ago, Sandman said:
And speaking of self-delusion, for both Simmons and Yo-Yo to conclude that time paradoxes make them invulnerable strikes me as alarmingly dumb.
I'm not convinced yet that Simmons actually believes that as opposed to seeing it as a potential way to give Fitz some hope and nudge him back towards the light.
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Jahmil French (Dave) has been cast in a pilot with Jenna Dewan Tatum:
http://tvline.com/2018/03/19/mixtape-cast-jenna-dewan-tatum-fox-musical-drama-pilot/
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Shanae Grimes is starring in a new cop show called The Detail. I think it's Canadian.
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Jonathan Jackson is TVLine's performer of the week:
https://tvline.com/2018/02/17/jonathan-jackson-nashville-performance-avery-season-6/
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On 2018-01-11 at 0:13 AM, TVbitch said:
Jesus God. They are still trying to make "Maddie" happen with yet another lame song that was quite possibly almost as bad as the "Tidal Wave" thing. I just don't find her talent at a level where this is believable. I would have much rather have seen a story line about the two sisters finding fame and that creating upheavel and conflict in their lives.
There were a few points where I thought they might do a storyline about Daphne getting some public attention and Maddie being jealous, and I would have been all in for that. It always seemed ridiculous that Maddie got all the attention after that awards show tribute to Rayna where she broke down and then Daphne stepped up to the mic and kept going. In real life they both would have been invited on all the morning shows and Maddie would have had to sit there and pretend to smile while everyone fawned over Daphne.
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The Rankin-Bass Christmas Specials - General Discussion
in The Rankin-Bass Christmas Specials
He works one day a year. All the children of the world should miss Christmas because Santa has the sniffles? Suck it up, do your job and then enjoy your 364 day vacation.