shapeshifter

Yes, it was refreshing (and more realistic) to have the actual birth happen off screen. However, an equally big pet peeve of mine regarding late pregnancies on TV is the mother vociferously complaining about how she just wants to get the baby out of her. Am I really so different from most women who have given birth? Even though all three were a week "overdue," I was never in a hurry to get to the labor and postpartum pain part. And never did I have everything ready. My water broke with the first as I was sitting at a sewing machine finishing up a baby quilt--which did not get completed for another six months.

Ah, but that would have required Brian to "bare [his] soul," and he wasn't about to do that with anyone just yet. The one plothole that bugged me was that neither the mom nor SVU in all the months leading up to the courtroom scene had ever suspected that the older brother had to have been molested by his pediatrician too. I thought they did a great job of rehabbing Cassidy's character into the lives of the squad without it seeming like a retcon or otherwise inconsistent. At the beginning they flashed the names of two writers on the screen that did not seem familiar to me. Maybe that's why the script was overall better than what we've seen as of late.

So no car radios were involved. As someone who gets migraines and hives from scented products people apply to themselves and their clothes and environments, I kind of wish this would happen more often.

I'll theorize a bit: There was some confluence of electrical shorts and fuel leaks that were ignited when the car was started and the tiny amount of electrical power sucked into the cabin via the radio caused the kaboom.

How did I miss this? Groundbreaking! Or less so (in terms of physics rather than fashion). And an actually sensible reason for Hannah not to get killed for making fools of the kidnappers! So I guess the evil business man was originally listed as "Double Crosser" in the script and that morphed into the name of "Cross" which unfortunately meant Hannah's sign of the cross had to refer to his name rather than his being a double crosser—or something like that? The texting driver who killed the FLOTUS looked so sad and repentent. Yup. I predict Prezident Good Guy will magnanimously forgive him when he (POTUS) realizes he needs to forgive for his own mental health. Please tell him to send me my counseling fee via direct deposit. ETA (Most important of all): Was I imagining a non existent future plot point when I thought Emily seeing imperiled Aaron realized how hot and heroic he is and that was why she baled on Turks and Caicos with shlubby looking Seth? Now I think I know why they gave him a neck beard instead of a dapper goatee.

I was assuming that it was essential to the plot and character development that Baldwin did not actually complete having sex with the barista, but maybe not, and, ITA, more was shown than was necessary or useful, regardless of whether the scene was plot-important.

Given the eyeroll not-Lester and Paige shared, I hope she dumps Walter and runs off to the particle excelerator with Ralph. Then it can turn out Walter and chemist girl are just sibling-ish. This was my favorite episode in a long time (until the last few minutes). I LOLed at the shot of Happy's hair after the air blaster. I really appreciated the cause of the near disaster being a groundhog instead of Scorpion for a change.

That's an interesting idea. Maybe Other Clare made an excuse for not wanting to have sex with him because of hormone changes and/or exhaustion after the baby was born, and maybe even encouraged him to hire women for that purpose. I'm probably going to start reading the recaps at counterpartstars.wikia.com http://counterpartstarz.wikia.com/wiki/Act_Like_You've_Been_Here_Before

Is there any health related reason that Judd Hirsch might have been reading his lines off of a cue card? I mean, he is 82, which is an age when certain afflictions can occur. I noticed the difference in the scene blocking so he isn't face to face with the actor to whom he speaking as he would have been in earlier episodes. More to the point: There were no pauses that are essential for comedic timing. The other possible reason could be that the pauses were edited out for time for commercials, which would be a horrible thing to do, but there are lots bad choices being made these these days for seemingly justifiable reasons. Is this the first time they had Randy saying Tush's punch lines right before he said them? The only reason I can imagine for doing that is to be sure the audience knows that Tush is joking.

I wanted to like this show—even as just relaxing, mind numbing, therapy TV. But I feel like the boy who announced that the emperor had no clothes here. I spent most of this episode trying to decide which was worse: the clunky dialogue or the reading of the dialogue, and, OMG, the famous author character's adult daughter sounded exactly like a middle schooler reading an essay too fast with a flat affect. Sorry.

It does sound like "anxiety," but I'm not a mental health professional, and I don't play one on TV, heh. I've sought professional counseling and tried medications off and on since the 70s—some with better results than others. I recently started seeing a therapist/"life coach" again and was pleasantly surprised by both the quantity and the quality of practitioners available today, which I suspect is in part because health insurance companies and the large employers whom they serve through insurance benefits have created a market to "fix" employees who are not performing optimally. So you might try making an appointment, or you could first read up (libraries are free) on "cognitive behavioral therapy" and "mindfulness," which might give you enough tools and techniques to turn off the sweat reaction (I hate it when that happens!) or at least acquaint yourself with the techniques, which might speed up the process if/when you do see someone, which can save time and money.

I'm guessing the use of the Nazi-type is supposed to serve as a universally familiar archetype so the viewer can identify this type within this fictional world—but, honestly, until you pointed it out, @scrb, I had missed it. I've been assuming she is representing the very scary legendary Slit Mouth Woman of Japanese culture (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchisake-onna), but to me, her character is more annoying than terrifying, and I don't think they were going for a character that annoys to death—although if there isn't already a comic book villain "The Annoyer," there should be.

Yes. What Peter Quayle was reading:

Well, speaking from experience (mostly second hand) of too many years, there typically are other victims. However, now that you mention it, it would be an SVU story that hasn't been told (IIRC) to have just one raped victim of a perp.

Not just fluid identities, but fluid gender identities--I guess? The other side is going all Walternate on "our" side--but did "we" really infect them with the genocidal plague? And, if so, who thought it was a good idea (besides those wanting to make trillions off of resources)? I mean, for example, my uncle would have preferred to meet his dead sons' counterparts rather than have beach front property. Bad example. He sort of does have beach front property.

Sorry, @Milburn Stone, but @bijoux is correct. Still, I'll try to remember to ask about whether runners who generally use correct grammar would say "breathing heavy" when they are breathing heavily.

I like your reasoning, @Milburn Stone, although now I am mentally humming an updated version of a song released in 1969 by the Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1905) with a verse for distance runners that includes the phrase, "they breathe heavy, they're a runner," with, of course, the gender-neutral singular use of the plural "they," because it is 2018.

The first is wrong because heavy is an adjective and so it cannot modify or describe the verb breathing—that is why we have adverbs such as heavily. Also, it doesn't look right or sound correct to me, and it doesn't even make sense to me. I know what it is to breath heavily, but what is meant by "breathing heavy?" I am imagining a runner breathing in the manner of an old movie gangster, or "heavy." Heh. ETA: I suppose "breathing heavy" could be an acceptable colloquialism amongst runners who, after running 26 or more miles, cannot manage to utter the "i" syllable with its short intake of breath. I expect to talk to my oldest daughter later today, who is an ultra-marathon runner as well as a writer, editor, and former spelling bee champion, so, if we have time, I will ask her.

It's a rerun, and, IIRC, Maz was very engaging.

Is it always the non-dominant arm of the weapon weilding hero on TV that gets shot, or is that more just Gunsmoke-type shows? And do the bad guys always get it in the dominant arm (so they won't be weilding weapons again anytime soon)? And I'm pretty sure it's only on older TV that the bad guy gets shot in the hand holding the gun.

Cool. But does anyone here recall what the word was in the MS Word version from the 90s that caused the thesaurus to suggest as a synonym, "wishing Bill Gates dead"? It would be fun if the guys brought that up, but probably wouldn't have a lot of meaning for most viewers. I could imagine it turns out that BG promoted the person who did it because it showed creativity.

And to Beal: where do you get off calling Conner Trineer's character an old man? He's still in his 40s and probably had a little lift recently. Maybe it's because one of my adult children is a member of the LGBTQ community, but with those physiques and those stylists, "Yes, my queen" took on a whole new meaning for me within the Gate verse. @MountainGuardian, you and I seem to have equally wild imaginations. They could still turn this all into a parallel universe. I think that I am going to cling to that possibility. Or maybe this will all get redone during the events of the SG1 "Moebius" episodes. So we just met Daniel Jackson's future FIL, Kasuf.

This is the only episode of this show that I have seen and quite possibly the last. My oldest daughter started her third career this past year as a 911 dispatcher, so I figured I should check out this rerun during the Olympics. But OMG. Anyone who had that much super glue? This guy was not her first rodeo.

My daughter's NYC apartment in a building dating back several centuries (not landline-able) only has a bedroom and a kitchen with a bathroom carved out of the kitchen, but it was originally part of another apartment, so it's hard to say whether there was originally a bed or other room off the kitchen—point being that in buildings built from the 1600-1800s, the original purpose of rooms is not always going to be known, and a bedroom off the kitchen was probably common in 1958. In 1930s Brooklyn, as a child, my father slept on the living room couch in a two bedroom apartment occupied by his family of three adults and five children. I wonder if most couches/sofas originally functioned as beds at night. The Maisels do not have to use their couch as a bed, which Susie might find luxurious. I don't recall. Does Susie have a couch? Of course, if Susie does have a couch, it probably also serves as a guest room for temporarily homeless acquaintances.

That's all good and noble (so no child dissing either) but so far the Eric lampooning on this show has the appearance of making fun of someone who is developmentally disabled, rather than Eric having any concrete "influence in the administration," which bugs me.