ItCouldBeWorse

The conversation at the end was Stein telling Jefferson that he was having visions of a woman he couldn't name but that he thought he loved, and Jefferson saying that Clarissa was going to be furious, or words to that effect. As I said in the speculation thread:

I thought Jerry said he was out of rum and xanax. Ramen is funny, too! Hee I heard Ramen. Been there done that *sigh* But rum is funny too. hehehe I heard "ramen" which has a reputation as lonely-guy food, and is more likely to be found in a drugstore than rum, at least where I live!

I predict that when Stein told his younger self to cherish Clarissa more, they wound up creating a child, and Stein is now a father!

And Cam would be in hog heaven!

Obviously, I'm off topic with this, but what did they give kids with marks in the 70s if something in the 80s is a C? What was considered a fail? There are not enough letters between A and F for this system! This is why everyone should just use numbers. My recollection: 64 was failing. 65-66: D; 67-69: D+; 70-73: C-; 74-76: C; 77-79: C+; 80-83: B-; 84-86: B; 87-89: B+; 90-93: A-; 94-97: A; 98-100: A+ So, an 81 would be a B-.

Yes, Ethan and Evan must be receiving A+++++++ on everything. (Should be Emery and Evan.) Completely not like this in the US. I'm not saying that a mediocre grade in math will mean no admission to a competitive university, but all academic subjects are part of your GPA (grade point average) and it would be very dangerous to purposely ignore a subject. A grade of "C" would be very noticeable. Perhaps they made enough on the raffle to cover the cost of the food, staff and decorations (and live turkey). I thought there would be push-back from the staff about working on Thanksgiving, even at time-and-a-half, but I guess they're too afraid of Jessica to argue.

Does David Chappelle often wear clothing with his own name on it? (Monologue, Kids Talk Politics, closing.) Also, it appears that he is still a smoker - Inside SNL, the bumper, the closing.

She's been an actress since childhood who's worked steadily and had some success. Enough to buy her home (and I'm guessing her mother's place is a guest house on the property?) as well as pay support to her ex. Since they live in California, I assume he's entitled to half her earnings while they were together and she's probably paying them out over time. Should have had a pre-nup.

CRISPR Not a drug therapy, but a genome editing tool. It was very cute, but I was wondering how cold their apartment was that Agnes needed her little crocheted cap inside.

We called them that in 1990.

Not a good sign that her friend took the whole thing, though. Probably better that she doesn't get involved driving the girls to soccer.

Red said that Katarina was sent to seduce many men, not only Kirk and himself. Perhaps she became pregnant from one of the other men, but kept the baby because she didn't want to/couldn't abort it, and because it would keep Kirk even closer to her if he thought they had a child together. At what point did Katarina need to provide Kirk with false DNA evidence demonstrating that Masha was his child? Did he doubt Masha's paternity because he knew she was sleeping with Red? It sounds like he knew their relationship wasn't good some time before Red took Masha. I don't know what Red whispered in Kirk's ear, or why he had to whisper it since no one else was there except to keep the mystery going, but since Red has memories of Katarina walking into the ocean I hope that it's not that she is still alive. What if the secret that gave Kirk the will to live (with Red still in the world) was that when Katarina left him, she was actually pregnant with a second child, who was Kirk's, and that that child is out there somewhere? Completely farfetched, but that would get him moving quickly. Red would have had to have given him some message that could only have come from Katarina to make him believe it, though. I still don't think that Red is Lizzie's father. Maybe Katarina asked him to take care of Lizzie if she died, so in his mind he was her father, although he gave credit for that to her adoptive dad.

Assuming that Prince/bodyguard is a binary question (he's one or the other) let's take a look at possible statements and consequences. 1) "I am the crown prince of Daxum" - True At best he gets treated like royalty. At worst he gets treated, well, like he's already eing treated. There's been no indication he has any real enemies. Daxum was destroyed in the same disaster the destroyed Krypton. 2) "I am the crown prince of Daxum" - False ("I'm actually the bodyguard") It's not like he'd expect anyone on Earth to be able to call his bluff so he could expect the same treatment as the True statement. Really this would have been what I would have expected, that Mon-el pretended to be the Prince only to confess later. 3) "I was the Prince's bodyguard." - True I see no advantage to Mon-el to say this. He's essentially admitting "I had one job, to keep the Prince safe and live and I fucked that up. He's dead along with the rest of my people." Since Mon-el is apparently saved by the wounded Prince's unselfish, it fits the relative lack of guilt he shows about the death of his charge. 4) "Was the Prince's bodyguard." - False (as, I'm really the Prince") I see no reason for this to be the case aside from some weird psychological guilt thing or some "just because it's TV" twist. As I've said, you could be right. I partly agree with your statement "I see no reason for this to be the case aside from some weird psychological guilt thing.... " If he is indeed the Prince, Mon-El either: 1) Feels guilty that instead of staying behind to die with his people (as the Prince in the story he told the D.E.O. did), he survived. He abandoned his subjects. or 2) Is aware that his actions in leaving Daxam might appear cowardly so doesn't want people to know the truth.

When Kirk had Red, why not obtain a sample of his DNA and conduct a rapid comparison with Lizzie's DNA, which he already had?

Maya really doesn't respect the kids' personal boundaries.

Also a serial killer.

Yes, the writers are dropping multiple clues.

By that logic maybe Kara and Kal-el are lying aliens bent on world domination since we only know what they've told us about their own backstories. Unless we learn something new that gives us a concrete reason to doubt his story, I'm inclined to assume that Mon-el is telling the truth. Sure, but: 1) I think we can rely on the fact that this is not the show that's going to turn Supergirl and Superman into villains who've been playing the long con and 2) I think that the writers have been leaving clues that Mon-El is not who he's claimed he is, for instance, saying he's never worked before when I would presume that a palace guard actually does do work. I've been wrong before, but I've also read a lot of fiction and watched a lot of TV!

Others (and you) are wrong. We saw Mon-el's backstory. Mon-el was the Prince's bodyguard. On the day of the disaster, the Prince was injured and chose to stay behind and die with his people while sending Mon-el to safety in the Kryptonion ship. As has been said before, some of us don't believe that backstory, which Mon-El was relating, not an omniscient narrator. We think he swapped the bodyguard and Prince characters. Time will tell.

Ruby: "I've been noticing you've been a bit cruel to your brother." Diane: "Long-head or Dumb-dumb?"

I guess I didn't get it because it made no sense (Ruby has access to monkey pox?), but thanks! Why is (drunk) Earl driving the kids to after-school activities? Where is Black Nanny? Too many conflicting activities for one driver?

What was the deal with the ice cream? Why was Ruby afraid to eat it?

When there are multiples, you have the inevitable comparisons and jealousy, made worse by the fact that Randall is clearly more talented than Kevin in areas that are highly prized. Yes, younger siblings are often unfavorably compared to older siblings who did better academically, but it must be so much harder when the kids are in the same grade, potentially with the same assignments and tests! Kate is not going to feel the comparison as much, since she is the only girl, but just imagine if one of her brothers had instead been a girl who was not considered heavy. Even if this sister had been adopted, so that the comparison would in no way have been "fair" (which could be said about Randall and Kevin's respective academic abilities), it would have been extremely harsh, much worse than having a slim mother or slimmer peers. I do get what you are saying. It seems like Rebecca never got over the shock of expecting multiples. Also, Since her cerebellum hurts so much from helping with third grade homework, maybe the daily indignities of parenting don't come super easily to her. Had she and Jack started out with a single child, she might have decided that one was enough of a disruption for her, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Here, she didn't have much of a choice (except between 2 and 3, and I'm still not sure why she agreed to take Randall except that I think she was in a waking nightmare state and Jack was so fixated on coming home with three children that she acquiesced) with regard to having multiple children, but to her credit, she seems to be giving it her all. In real life, I know stay-at-home mothers with 5 or more children who manage with occasional, reasonable complaints, and mothers of 1 or 2 to whom everything is a major deal. (I'm aware that I've left the whole aspect of the respective fathers out of the discussion). Of course, these differences might be the reason why some people have the number of children they do. Finally, I know a family who had 2 children under the age of 3 whose "3rd child" was triplets! They had local relatives who helped a lot at the beginning and they ran a tight ship, but you never felt that they were in the least bit overwhelmed. They were the right family to have the gift of unexpected triplets!

This made little sense to me, too. I get that he could put his misery aside to help Chloe in her misery, but we should have seen that.

Perhaps Mon-El feels guilty that instead of staying behind to die with his people (as the Prince in the story he told the D.E.O. did), he survived. However, he had that story prepared before he even knew that no one else had survived. Perhaps his parents had planned for the potential fallout from Krypton's destruction and had sent him into space in a parallel to Supergirl and Superman's story.