ItCouldBeWorse

Catherine was a staunch Catholic, and Mary was heir to the Protestant throne. He had to mitigate Catherine's influence, although a lot of good that did once "Bloody Mary" was Queen.

Every poisoned, dying mom should keep their young child close enough to witness their heart stopping, seizures, etc. Though I guess if Trixie wasn't in the hospital, we'd be complaining that she must be home alone since Dan and Maze were busy.

So the reason she and Alex are no longer searching for Jeremiah is so they don't have to pay back the insurance money?

So she'll stop upgrading to gas lighting and resume using candles, which can be resold for easy cash.

It's an anti-bullying thing. If a student invites every child in his/her class except one and then all the kids talk about how fun the party is going to be/was, it's a way to bully and isolate the uninvited child. The uninvited child's parents can use that as evidence that the school is supporting a bullying environment and sue the school. Schools are required to get involved with events that take place outside of school if they effect things that happen in school. (It's the same reason my school can suspend students who get into fights off school grounds on the weekends or get caught drinking/using drugs outside of school.) As mentioned earlier, Randall is in a private school. These are rules that the parents have agreed to abide by (even if Rebecca and Jack seemed oblivious) when they enrolled him. I'm sure there was a book of school policies, including dress codes, etc. If parents don't like the rules, they are free to 1) work to change them; 2) take their children out of the school. Isn't that kind of the point? Kate isn't cool enough to be aware that her classmates wouldn't be thrilled with a tulle and gloves Madonna party, perhaps preferring something edgier, or at least, a chance to mingle with the boys. Kevin's friends would likely have been totally fine having a "boys only" party. In retrospect, when Kate had her "girls only" party, Kevin should have had a playdate elsewhere, or hung out at Randall's party, and then had his party after Kate's was over.

My favorite. Taraji's was beautiful but way too revealing for my taste. And if an actress has to pull up her dress repeatedly before accepting her award, it's not the right dress for an award show (Viola, I think?).

My thoughts exactly. If you are nominated for best actor/actress, best not to have a great costar also nominated. On the other hand, Cranston's role was really a showcase for him alone, whereas the other 4 actors did share a lot of screentime with their costars.

Fair enough, but even before the Cloud, when I, too, used a disc or thumb drive, I always emailed myself anything I couldn't afford to lose as a backup. I still do. Yeah, someone could hack my email and steal my thesis, but I could also lose a thumb drive/ it could become corrupted, so I'd rather take my chances with email and not kick myself after the fact for my carelessness/bad luck with the thumb drive.

Do professors really save their only copy of their magnum opus on their desktop, instead of in Google Drive, or perhaps emailing themselves the latest version? Even Microsoft now lets you save Word documents in their cloud. That was the worst choice of all.

So, since Ray was a surgeon, (although not necessarily a brain surgeon) if Mick had confided in him, he could have removed the chip, freeing up Martin for Firestorm. Of course, Ray's encouragement of George Lucas would have been missing, but with Firestorm available, perhaps he wouldn't have been so afraid in the first place. For those who are enjoying Darhk and Merlyn's camaraderie, it certainly looks like they wiped out an entire police station without a second thought.

Or the last Sherlock episode, "The Final Problem"? From the PTV recap (not really a spoiler, but just in case):

That is an excellent point! Supergirl was in it, too! I guess that Nate's cartoon is not the same as our cartoon.

And "Katroina Barnett" or whatever she called herself, is back. Which hopefully is a good thing.

Evan doesn't have his own room, so why did he look upset when Simon rapped about taking it?

Oh, Mike and Harvey: stop worrying about the Ethics Committee. Mike 1) hasn't graduated from college 2) hasn't graduated from law school 3) hasn't taken the bar exam under his own name, which you can't do in NY without attending law school: http://www.nybarexam.org/eligible/eligibility.htm 4) is a convicted felon (who can no longer vote) and would probably have trouble getting a job in the fast food industry AND 5) is a felon convicted of practicing law without a license! How would having the attorney who prosecuted you testify that you pled guilty to said crime when you could have been acquitted (despite your years of misleading people) help you before the Ethics Committee? How would the word of a Harvard Ethics professor whose class you pretended to have taken helped? Why would said professor defend your "right" to practice law before the Ethics Committee despite your efforts to avoid ethical behavior? I never thought that the show would move forward by attempting to have Mike actually become a lawyer. And yelling at each other almost non-stop. On the bright side, no Jessica seems to equate with less gratuitous cursing, though. She was quite the potty-mouth!

I hadn't realized that aspect may have been part of what bugged me (at the time I was ping-ponging between being taken aback at how off-key Cecily was and gleefully anticipating what watching would do to President Man-baby's blood pressure), but if Sasheer was going to join in and improve the number by making it a duet, why the hell WASN'T she there from the first note? Because: 1) it's not unexpected that black Americans will sorely miss President Obama, so it makes more of a point to have a white woman start the song and 2) the song is from a movie in which non-black students (citizens), including the white girl who sang the song, came to greatly appreciate their black teacher (leader) so, parallelism?

I had forgotten where Dre wanted her to go (public school in California) and whether she had decided (she hadn't). I have a memory like a steel trap -- tusted shut! It's all irrelevant until she finds out where she has been accepted, anyway.

Denise Huxtable went to a historically black college. I didn't hear that about Zoey. Bow wants her to go to her alma mater, Brown. I wonder if they will use a real college, as for Alex on Modern Family, or a fictional one as on A Different World.

I just found the answer: http://tvline.com/2017/01/19/blackish-spinoff-yara-shahidi-zoey-college-abc/

He isn't human, but I thought he was being sarcastic about "Paris City," as if he knew they weren't who they said they were.

Another reason they couldn't wed was that Victoria needed to remain in England, and Alexander, the eventual heir, would have to live in Russia. It was never a possibility as soon as Victoria became the heir-apparent. Her uncle Leopold was not King of the Belgians when he married her cousin Charlotte, the then-heir to the throne, although it is possible that the King of the Belgians could split his time between two countries. Not so the Queen of England or the Czar.

So if George Lucas had not directed his films, Ray would be a surgeon, but Nate would be a yoga instructor? No insult meant to yoga instructors, but what does that say about Nate's natural intellectual curiosity versus Ray's? It seemed like a dig.

Randall is in a private school. Never having gone to one, it seems to me that private schools pretty much make up their own rules. Their funding comes from the parents, so if no one complains about the policy - or if they actually asked for the policy so kids don't feel left out - then the school can do whatever they choose. It's a private school thing. It's part of the school culture, an attempt to teach kindness and empathy. Not that public schools don't attempt to teach kindness, but they can't mandate birthday party rules, other than to forbid distributing invitations in school.

Rebecca said he did attend the classmates' parties, and they weren't his friends. Every classmate isn't a friend of every other classmate, and still kids go, because (aside from their parents making the decision for them), they want other kids to come to their party. That's the way those things work, and it's got to sting a little when you have almost zero reciprocity. And sometimes in a non-school setting, without their parents and teacher around, kids can find out they might have found a new friend. I've seen that with my own kids. The truth is, my kids went to any birthday party they were invited to, unless there was a conflict, because it's the polite thing to do. It does seem strange that the other parents didn't have their kids attend Randall's party. However, Randall is new to the school and perhaps Rebecca and Jack don't realize that although the rule is, if you invite 1 kid from the class, you have to invite them all, in reality, the kids only go the the parties of those with whom they are good friends. Therefore, they have Randall go to all the parties. In my kids' school, the rule was that if you invited half the class kids of one gender to a party, you had to invite them all. So if there were 12 boys in the class, you could invite up to the 5 with whom you were truly friendly. If you liked 7 of the boys, you invited all 12.

And it would have spoiled Randall's party for him. He's mature enough to realize that he wouldn't want to attend the party of someone whom he wasn't friends with; why would he want to subject his schoolmates to the same discomfort? He enjoyed his party just the way it was. I'd rather be with a few good friends than a bunch of people with whom I had little in common.