shapeshifter

The OED definition for "more," section C.I.1.f. shows:

This's question makes me wonder whether Edie Falco has strong feelings about how the brothers were tried by the media/public at the time and/or about how the actions of an unethical pyschotherapist lead to their conviction—including the therapist's failure to see they were having serious problems before the murder (assuming the abuse allegations were real). About the use of the term "reality TV," I must've missed that line, but couldn't it have been used as a descriptive turn of phrase that would not become a household word for at least another ten years? Maybe the phrase was injected on purpose or at least intentionally not edited out to tell us that the trial was no different than Reality TV with a capital R? Or are we sure it was just sloppy editing?

I had missed the third episode and just caught it this evening. Like the guy in the interview, it made me so sad to realize that three years before he (and my boyfriend) went there, they knew it was unwinable and were advised to negotiate but chose to send more soldiers instead. I remember explaining the Domino Theory to my older sister's college boyfriend. He started to scoff at it, but then I showed him a picture of my boyfriend, and he just said, "I can see why you're attracted to him."

Yes, the comments here convinced me to watch, but I'm not sure it was worth it.

Aahgh! They believe Tyrelliot is a Tyrell-Elliot ship—not the two of them being different sides of Elliot. And evidentally this is a fully launched ship on Reddit. Sacrilege, I say!

As much as I love the idea of time travel, in a show that is as realistic as this one, parallel universes seems more likely to me. But then again, like @Cardie said, the two concepts sort of overlap. BTW, @Cardie, everytime I read your posts I can't help imagining that you are an old friend of mine who went on to teach English courses at a community college. Now I'm content to believe that in an alternate universe that is the case. Heh. Ditto on this. Maybe Rami is a big Bobby Cannavale fan? Oh I was totally on Bobby Cannavale's character's side and taking notes on how he kept his cool--unlike me when my oncologist took the side of the company that refused to refund me a $40 copay, so I walked out without getting "checked" (even though I will max out deductibles for the rest of my life—but "it's not about the money"—but, wow, $12.94 for a chocolate milkshake after the cyber apocacalypse? Yeah, Elliot should undo, redo or whatever). So I was really enjoying the discomfort of the poor fast food worker when BC's character was talking on his Bluetooth about "is he dead?" Maybe I'll wear a fake Bluetooth on my next visit. Oof. I'm too old and have been disappointed too many times to be a shipper anymore, but I do think the title of the episode, "EPS3.0_POWER-SAVER-MODE.H" in combination with Elliot's voiceover line about his feeling hurt by Angela's rebuff to his kiss but his being used to it because she always loves those who don't love her, that this is her "safe mode," seems to telegraph that they are end game.

"Sean Penn To Star In Beau Willimon’s ‘The First’ TV Series For Hulu & Channel 4" (http://deadline.com/2017/09/sean-penn-beau-willimon-the-first-hulu-channel-4-1202173343/): I like the premise and the casting, but for purposes of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) (i.e., Google), I hope they change the title. And hopefully it doesn't get too soapy. The Battlestar Galactica "reimagining" avoided that by giving equal time to issues of civil rights, politics, and ethics, but in today's world, maybe most viewers want to escape from those topics.

Wow, somebody forgot to edit the rough draft for that part of the script. And it seemed pretty implausible that the bad guy would assume the 2 agents on the case would be able to follow the path of destruction to the incriminating documents he planted. But I did enjoy Kiefer giving hell to the big pharma chump, as well as seeing him in love with his namesake frog. That might have been a good cameo moment for the first daughter. ETA: I just realized that when Kiefer smiles these days, he sort of resembles Kermit the Frog.

I thought that they steered clear of that by identifying the lover as the creator of the prototype code and the other resident nerds as making it work. Piven's character is not even quite the Steve Jobs of the piece. I worked the night this aired and only watched it a few hours ago, whereas I caught up on Kyra Sedgwick's show yesterday. Now I'm thinking this show is slightly more watchable—perhaps because of its feel-good stories, but neither one is must-see TV for me.

I'm pretty sure Bess's brother or some other knowledgeable character estimated that it would take a few hours for the poison to work. I remember thinking that the real purpose of the line was to give her an alibi if it came to the point of her needing one.

Currie Graham (the director) is usually up to no good, but I'm assuming it's related to the real life criminals she did her documentaries about (who was the guy she met in the car in the first ep?), and maybe since the ex has money trouble, he's in on it with the criminals--like splitting the ransom or something. The only problem with Currie Graham being the red herring is that he hasn't (yet) done anything suspicious to distract us from the ex, the gardener and the nanny, or the drug dealers. Of course, the seemingly sweet, clueless assistant who's having an affair with the ex could be involved too.

I asked myself that on a regular basis a couple of seasons ago, but last season was a slight improvement, and now I'm willing to cringe through a lot of it if there are a few chuckles to be had—which there were for me in this one—although I not only disliked the Raj-Stuart bit, but Sheldon's recounting of the flip flop experience was too gross to be funny, at least for me.

Exactly. The casting and acting are fine; maybe with so many producers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6461706/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast) they all thought someone else was checking the scripts?

Now that you mention it, I am reminded that I always seem to stop watching shows without any comic relief. L&O shows have had wisecracking Lenny Briscoe, Munch and Finn, and Breaking Bad had giant magnets and pizza landing on the roof, but a show primarily about an abducted child probably can't go there… …or at least not in a way that is consistent with the tone of the story. As mentioned in this post and upthread, there were quite a few bits of dialogue that needed some serious editing.

Reading this post while dozing off, it first registered as a hope for a new variety of medicinal marijuana that would cure Raj's personality problems,* which, while not witty, elegant prose, could actually work—but probably not on CBS. *and maybe Sheldon's too?

I was thinking it could be: "LITERALLY!" (USING THE PRE-n MEANING OF THE WORD AS THE STANDARD) AND OTHER OFFENDERS ON THE GRAMMAR POLICE DOCKET where n is the date of the change. Unfortunately, when I consulted the OED, I found: So pick a year, folks. Or maybe: "LITERALLY!" (WITH THE ORIGINAL SENSE OF THE WORD AS THE STANDARD) AND OTHER OFFENDERS ON THE GRAMMAR POLICE DOCKET

Nah, Henry's a frickin' zombie, right? But when Dimitri meets some horrible end, Henry will be weighed down with guilt, which he will bear iwith great nobility.

Yes, and totally yes! BTW, @Xantar, is your screen name after Max's home planet? Very happy to see Nadine, Russell, and Foreign Minister Chen back and in fine form. I'd be happy with a spinoff featuring them, although I'm not sure how that would work. Also glad that Blake was back to dealing out cute comments; he just doesn't work for me as a champion of social issues. But Dimitri. *sigh* Hopefully they'll kill him off quickly so we don't have to worry about or think about him being tortured anymore. I thought he was going to have a nice little romance with Stevie. Guess not. Only dark and dreary for Dimitri.

Thanks to everyone upthread who said this was worth watching. I had to work when it aired and wasn't going to bother catching this episode because of the "Benoah" drama. Now I see that arc as possibly (pretty please?) a way to feature the other actors while Olivia is dealing with the fallout offscreen. Yeah, not really, but anyway… When the perp fell to his death, Peter Scanavino managed to convey more emotion in a few seconds of body language than anyone else did in the whole 42 minutes. On the opposite end of the acting spectrum: Oy, the actress who played the 20-year-old victim—do they still have elocution schools in NYC? The script did a good/great job of including all the necessary parts in an effective, balanced manner within the time constraints. It would have been more realistic to have that sort of perp's activities developing and becoming known to law enforcement over seasons rather than minutes, but then it would be like Red John from The Mentalist, and I hated that arc. So I guess I prefer the Readers Digest version of the serial rapist/killer story. The real plot point was about victims and how they are seen and see themselves, which could have been a little more developed —maybe if the guest actress had better skills.

Did he ever actually make it? So I guess "impromptu Saturday meeting" in the script signals the wardrobe folks to press the studly tennis shirt for Adan Canto/Adam. Was that a designer dress on Italia Ricci/Emily? (The one with bare shoulders?)

That seems unlikely to me for that era. I just assumed she wanted a more American-sounding, more WASPy name. I always knew my grandmother's name was Rebecca, but census records show it was Rivka. My father said the only language permitted in the home was English, even though it was his older sisters' fifth language.

Hey cuz @ShelleySue! *waves*

I wasn't. They would be my cousins too. One finds out about such oddities when one's inheritance consists mostly of life-shortening inherited diseases that make your spit a hot commodity on the genetic studies circuit. Since this makes me sound like more of a crackpot than I am, you can read about it in layman's terms here or in scholarly prose in a 2014 article in the journal Nature Communications. Basically, we would be 30th cousins. But I have 1st cousins I've never met, so I'm not expecting a family reunion anytime soon.

It's really sad to think there were no other records for them. After Bernie Sanders' Judenrat uncle turned out to be a hero instead of a schmuck (which would be the first assumption), I guess I just wanted Larry David's ancestors' slaves to turn out to have been treated better than usual.

But without more information it would just be speculation—which is itself a reason for the lack of recorded information for slaves.