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enchantingmonkey

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  1. Such ungrateful creations. I suppose it was only a matter of time before Stefano threw Dr Rolf under the bus but I wonder if he thought it would happen this quickly. Hopefully, Stefano really can hide Rolf before the police get to him. And Gina has the audacity to question Dr Rolf's loyalty. Harumph.
  2. You could say it was a demonstration of Lady Trieu's obsessive need to be in control of all details at all times. I don't know if that makes it anymore satisfying, though. I feel like we didn't get to spend enough time with Lady Trieu to make her feel like much more than a plot point, which disappoints me. But that's the same way I felt about Adrian Veidt after I finished the graphic novel. Was there any kind of statement made as to why Lady Trieu would be more powerful than Doctor Manhattan? Because Doctor Manhattan couldn't do anything he wanted to make the world a better place. He was bound by time and events that couldn't be course-corrected. So the theory that Trieu would somehow be able to triumph over these boundaries in a way that Doctor Manhattan couldn't seems faulty, in my mind. Even Adrian Veidt should realize this, although I could see him not wanting Trieu to have the Blue Man's powers out of pure selfishness. The funny thing about the quest for Doctor Manhattan's powers is that Manhattan created a Paradise on Europa, and it was unsatisfying to both Adrian and himself. So why would a Paradise on Earth be any more satisfying? Although, the prospect of Paradise is certainly a great way to torment ourselves.
  3. Can Doctor Manhattan really be destroyed? Adrian Veidt, supposedly the smartest man in the world, wasn't able to do it, so why can the Seventh Kavalry? It's likely their technology has advanced since Veidt tried to do it but I wonder if he always finds a way to put himself back together, and the tragedy of being Doctor Manhattan is that nothing ever ends. It's amusing to me that Senator Keene wants to transition into some kind of manifestation of Doctor Manhattan and he really has no idea what he's getting himself into.
  4. But would you really expect Kate to be unbiased in anything that involved her children? Unless she's the one doing the judging, of course. Speaking of Kate, why is she working at the Brady Pub? Did they explain that while Jennifer was dreaming about those wacky Impeachment Hearings? Score a point for Brady. I thought his explanation that Nicole lied about Mickey's paternity because of all the other obstacles that had gotten in the way of Eric and Nicole's true lurve story actually made sense. I still think there was a good story in Sarah telling the truth, and Nicole having to watch Sarah and Eric bond over the baby's development and birth but that story probably didn't generate enough Shocking Spoilers™️ for Ron C. I enjoyed Gina having to pretend to be Hope and forced to deal with Jennifer's insufferable daughter and that pesky Rafe. You just know they both leave a rotten taste in her mouth. Xander was super smart to play Eric's terms for an amicable custody arrangement for sympathy for himself and get a big, sloppy kiss out of Sarah. I hope he learned a valuable lesson.
  5. Ok, maybe that's what it was. I always watch with the captions on, and I know I saw Brady's kid but perhaps the captioning was being glitchy and left out the Eric part. For once, I actually regret deleting the episode.
  6. Did Victor refer to Mickey as Brady's kid when he was talking to Xander, or did I totally misunderstand their conversation?
  7. They surprised me with "Stefano" being all pissy about being in Steve's body. I thought that was a nice touch. But all of the clunky exposition? Ugh. It wouldn't have been a bad idea to reveal some of that information when it felt more organic to the conversation, because Kristian Alfonso was pretty bad at making most of that sound like a natural conversation. The citizens of Salem have seen so many people return from the dead, so I'm curious to see how they'll react to a previously-owned body. I wonder if Ron C lays awake at night trying to think of ways to put Ben in another situation where he gets to play The Hero, or they just come to him naturally. I love Ali Sweeney, so I could watch Sami 4 days a week if they'd let me. There, I said it.
  8. Lindelof has said in interviews that it was written as a self-contained story, like the graphic novel. He's said that not every question will be answered but the main story will be resolved. Of course, his idea of the story being resolved may be different than someone else's. When asked about future seasons, he said he would wait to see how the audience responds to this season before making that decision.
  9. Does a memory chip mean you take on the individual's mannerisms? At least the Show hasn't been stupid enough to establish that as a rule, and I'm not going to hold Stephen Nichols to that standard. I'm curious to see what he's going to do with this nonsense, and I'm crossing my fingers and toes that he'll be an interesting villain. Billy Flynn and his ridiculous faces are turning into the train wreck I can't look away from.
  10. "The role of Stefano DiMera is now being played by Steve Johnson." Someone had to say it!
  11. Does Billy Flynn just not give a duck anymore, or is Chad supposed to be smirking through some of these scenes? Hopefully Nicole will pick herself up, dust herself off, realize that all of this crying is a waste of her time and return to her wicked ways. I just hate watching someone who is both cunning and resourceful succumbing to all of this weeping. Perhaps I was expecting the Show to be more of a train-wreck-I-couldn't-look-away-from after The Time Jump®️, because I've been mostly bored with the episodes that weren't pre-empted by The Impeachment Hearings.
  12. Corday's wife thinks Galen Gering is the ultimate man, so I'm guessing your hate-on for Rafe just got renewed for another year!
  13. The court system must move at a brisk pace in their reality, because in ours it seems unlikely that he'd be convicted and have time for an appeal in a year's time. Thank you, @buffynut! I never imagined I'd get an answer to that question.
  14. But Ron did give us some insight into how his mind works, and why he tells kind of stories he tells on the Show.
  15. Was that four days of impeachment pre-emptions? I was almost ready to quit the Show and move on to someone else. At least Nicole and Xander were interesting. I like Xander trying to convince himself that he's Mickey's father. I'm sure the show won't get too involved with it but it's nice to see them dancing with the idea of What-Makes-A-Father. Who thought it was a good idea to have Stefano speechless in multiple scenes? It's ridiculous. But I wonder if we're seeing the actual actor's hand, or they're paying an extra-without-dialogue a few dollars. I was really thinking that Ciara would get out of there while the kidnapper was passed out but I'm an idiot.
  16. A 2 year marriage probably feels like an eternity in HollyWeird.
  17. I was hoping we'd get to see the painting and Steffy would be wearing a muzzle. Stefano has never been so quiet! I wonder if they're making us wait until a Friday show for the Stefano reveal. If Kristin is able to be a nun, perhaps she didn't technically kill Haley with her own bare hands? Not that characters can't get away with murder on this show. Does John think that Hope is in love with him???
  18. But wasn't that how some of the contestants were treating it?
  19. There were characters who took note of Hope's odd behavior. I recall John and Marlena discussing it more than once but it was written off as Hope being under stress from Julie's dance with death every time it was brought up. While it's clear the show is happening in some alternate reality, the characters are rarely written as being understanding of this, so I suppose it's not much of a surprise that no one would suspect that Hope has been implanted with a chip that makes her believe she's Princess Gina. And from what we've seen of The Time Jump®️, it looks like they want us to believe that Gina has done a good enough job of convincing her friends and family that's she still Hope. Unless Adrienne figured out Gina's secret, Gina killed her and framed Will for it. If we had watched that year actually play out, it seems like someone else would have figured out Gina's secret. Of course, that might not work once they start to give us details about how Will was involved with Adrienne's death.
  20. Good eye and ears! I didn't notice the new hospital set, or the sounds of Ben and Will's jail cell. I did notice that they paid for a real baby (Sarah's), an actual jail cell set (maybe it's been used before?) and that Nicole had an office. I wonder where the money came from for all of this. I suspect these changes are what Matthew Ashford was referring to in the article in which he talks about a bunch of the show's producers showing up and milling around.
  21. So much exposition, so few sands in the hourglass. I thought I'd be able to sit through an entire episode but all of the clunky dialogue in the current-time scenes exhausted my patience. And I can see why they're doing cloudy flashbacks, but everyone in Salem is talking about what happened exactly one year ago? JJ is addicted to Tic-Tacs, oh my! It was hilarious that no one made mention of him looking dirty and smelly. Is wrongful imprisonment going to be the new back-from-the-dead? It'd be fun if being in a cell with Ben has made Will cynical and angry at being stuck in a cruel and uncaring universe but I suspect the show wants them to be BFFs. Kayla's new hair was one of the best parts of the time jump. I was hoping Nicole's new hair meant she was single and back in EvilNicole mode, and then Eric showed up to make schmoopy faces with her.
  22. My guess is Stacy Haiduk. Her arms are lean-muscley-looking like that.
  23. Is the long lost John/Marlena kid some kind of test tube experiment of Dr Rolf's? Stefano's? If the Steve as Stefano thing is the same as what Dr Rolf has done to Hope, at least the Steve fans can have some kind of hope that he'll eventually become Steve again. I wonder if Ron C has been watching a lot of science fiction lately.
  24. Whether the Square is an indoor or an out door venue is clearly as plot-driven as the rest of the show. Speaking of the Square, watching the Jennifer dummy drop into the Square was the funniest thing I've seen all week. I had to watch it twice. It was nice of them to explain the Hope/Gina tomfoolery rather than drag it out for weeks. There's potential here to explore the dynamics of identity, or even explore why the Princess Gina persona would be driven to survive but I'm sure it will be primarily used for connect-the-dots plotting. And while the Princess Gina accent is mostly annoying, it does seem like Kristian Alfonso is having more fun than usual. Plus, Dr Rolf. Tick, tock, tick, tock. Oooops, wrong show.
  25. They could say the time jump is all happening in Jennifer's head while she's in her coma. But it seems like a big risk of pissing off the audience to have stories play out for weeks or months, and then say it was all one character's imagination or a dream. It sounds like, to me, that Ron wants to make use of some kind of flashback story-telling method to meet his weekly quota of shocking spoilers. It is amusing that none of the spoilers sound like the OTT spoilers we've been hearing about. Whether they were all false, or the show is keeping them close-to-the-vest is the question.
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