Perfect Xero
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Speaking of plot holes, why did Oliver have to kill that guy at Tommy's party? Yeah, everyone's going to believe a clearly coked-out drug dealer who claims he saw dead Oliver Queen. Sure.
ARGUS would have believed him, and they made it clear that they'd go after Oliver's family as a way to keep him in line.
Also, he was a scummy drug dealer who was dealing to Oliver's 15 year old sister, he'd just threatened to kill Oliver and came at him with a knife.
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My only issue with Kathryn's mother is that ... Wasn't she all racist and, "To hell with Bay, she's not my real grandaughter, Go Daphne!" the last time we saw her?
I know that she's family and all, but that's a big issue to just ignore.
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The storyline is ridiculous. There's no way the state would entertain the notion that a birth father who is wealthy, has a wife and child, and is not a felon or sex offender could be challenged by the Foster parents who the child has known for a half a year or so, a decent amount of which she spent in a group home after running away from them. That's before even getting in to the fact that Brandon told the police that he framed Callie (who was raped by a previous foster brother) for making fake IDs to get revenge on her for rejecting him.
The Robert Quinn story would make a lot more sense if Robert was Jesus and Mariana's birth father. If he'd been left off the birth certificate, and then somehow only discovered their existence recently it would be a big mess with kids who had been legally adopted by Stef and Lena for half their lives vs a biological father who never signed away his parental rights.
Even if the story had to be about Callie, it would make a lot more sense if they'd actually been allowed to go through with the adoption before finding out about Robert somehow.
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Maybe the way Bay still defends Tank is confusing for Emmett. Emmett is not a counselor or anything, he has no experience with how someone might act after they've been violated. Only an idea in his head, and the way Bay is acting doesn't fit the idea in his head. He doesn't know what to do with that.
Maybe Emmett can pay his mother a visit before he goes back to LA and she can help him understand what is going on with Bay. Can't Bay catch a break just once?
That bit near the end where Eric's kid hopes they don't have to leave again this time. I could practically hear an ominous "dun dun DUN!" There's gonna be gangsters coming after them, aren't there? And it will probably be ridiculous.
He's probably either in Witness Protection or just constantly moving to get away from his old gang, either way Daphne did something dumb, and he just endangered his and his kid's lives to bail her out after knowing her for half an hour..
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The confrontation between Daphne and the foster mom was the first time that I got the irony of Callie telling Daphne that her daughter will love her and want to be with her because she's the birth mother while she's openly rejecting her own birth father in favor of the foster parents that she's known for a few months more.
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When Barbara started taking fashion advice from Ivy and Selina I expected her to show up later wearing lots of green with goggles on top of her head.
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I couldn't help but wonder at the scene with Emmett at the end.
First the way it was staged, with Daphne dramatically walking in first as if to announce his arrival. Why? Was it a situation that really needed a "turn the page" moment of drama where we might think that Emmett had told Daphne that the rape thing was sad and all, but he was going to stay in LA and Bay could just text him? Was Emmett sitting out of sight, waiting for a cue from Daphne to make his dramatic entrance?
Then there was the scarf he was wearing: At what point between being told that his girlfriend had been raped, getting rid of the friend he seemingly brought over to seduce, and boarding a plane for KC did Emmett look at himself in a mirror and decided that he needed a little color to make his outfit pop?
Or are we supposed to believe that he sat there and thought to himself, "Turns out that my girlfriend who I've been refusing to communicate with was actually raped, and no one has ever worn winter clothes on this show before, but before I go I'd better make sure my neck doesn't get cold."
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I don't actually agree with the expulsion - the odds that it would actually happen are almost zero (and certainly not that fast), so this gives ammo to people who think that women are "out to get" men rather than making them think "huh, guess it is a big deal, shouldn't do that". And next week - how much crap are they going to heap onto Bay, anyway?
It depends on the policies of the school, Tank never denied having "drunk sex" with Bay. Bay doesn't remember what happened but felt like something was wrong. Many people saw her acting very drunk.
In many school's Sexual Misconduct policies that's an automatic expulsion. It might not have happened in the span of, like, 2 days, but the result would have been the same.
Nothing other than Bay lying and saying that she remembers clearly giving consent or Tank lying and saying that no sex at all took place would have got in the way.
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I think that Jim was living at Barbara's and continued for a while after they broke up, after the Selina/Ivy crash episode he realized that Barbara wasn't coming back and moved out and has been sleeping at the police station since.
I don't think it was a big deal for him to move out because he probably didn't actually have anything of his there other than his clothes.
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I think it is clear that Robert would be ill equipped to parent a child who has been as damaged as Callie has been. He is surely well-meaning but his blind eye to what Sophia was going through doesn't bode well for him. Hopefully the end result will be almost as Callie suggested: being adopted by the Fosters but having Robert involved as well although not necessarily in a parental role. I did like seeing Callie being so affectionate with both Stef and Lena when Robert came to pick her up. That was new for her.I think it's pretty harsh to suggest that a father isn't suitable to take care of his child because his other child had a mental illness that she managed to keep hidden.
What about Lena and Stef? Their response to the situation with Brandon and Callie was to basically say, "Oh, hey, you're totally brother and sister now." And then ignoring it. Which eventually led to her running away and getting arrested. Mariana stole pills and sold them at school. Brandon was part of selling fake IDs* and bribed Anna. I do think that they're good parents, but they've missed a lot of serious things that were going on with their kids until it blew up in their faces too. I'm not sure that they've shown themselves to be particularly adept at dealing with a troubled teenager themselves.
As for Callie, she's all about wanting to be part of the Adams-Fosters as a family, but as soon as things look like they're not going to work out she and Brandon are making out again. Maybe the Adams-Foster house really isn't the healthiest place for her to be.*Honestly, given that Brandon lied and told the police that he framed Callie for the fake id thing because she rejected him, I've always found it highly questionable that she's even been allowed to continue living in their house at all.-
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I believe that!
I've also read that many Deaf fans complain that the actors are getting lazy and sloppy with their signing. To top this, according to several of the "extras" who saw behind the stage, there is an ASL specialist, and yet some of the main actors refuse to heed their advice and continue to sign in their increasingly grammatically-incorrect way. With Emmett now at film school, I'd really like Sean Berdy to direct an episode to give his own spin to the show (Lea Thompson and DW Moffet have). It may save the show time not to have all captions but I'd prefer a silent all-captioned show with background noise to a hearing drama that is now only incorporating 15% ASL/85% simcom. They received positive reviews from the silent episodes, take the hint!
You're not going to get to spin too much directing an episode of a TV show.
TV isn't like film where the director reigns supreme, television is ultimately the writer's vision and the director is there to facilitating that, they're going to be working closely from the script. Which isn't to say that it's an unimportant job, but it's not like Moffet or Thompson's episodes were much different in terms of content than they would have been if someone else had directed them.
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I've seen someone with the show say that even when they do have all sign language scenes/arguments they have to get the actors to slow down their signing for the sake of the captioning.
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But with Emmett she would have consented to sex if she was sober.
Maybe, maybe not. There could be any number of reasons that she might not have wanted to have sex with Emmett on a particular night. If the issue is that Bay was too drunk to consent, then she's too drunk to consent to anyone, be it Tank or Emmett or Ty or any random guy at that party.
On a somewhat ironic note, Emmett has technically committed sexual assault against Bay in the past (When she was dating Noah and telling Emmett that he needed to move on and he kissed her instead), but the show played it as, "Oh that Deaf James Dean, he's so confident!" Not as, "He kissed a woman who was clearly telling him that she wasn't interested in him, what a jerk!"
Unwanted intercourse is obviously a bigger deal than an unwanted kiss, but it's interesting that the show is asking if Bay said "yes" Vs Didn't say "no" when they've shown something like that play out between the show's golden couple and not treated as anything remarkable.
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I wasn't under the impression that Bay was going to, or wanted to charge Tank with rape/sexual assault criminally or otherwise (like with the school board). I think the show is going to focus more on how she deals with this personally- but I could be wrong.
Toby was shown talking to his girlfriend about it, they made a big point about how she was an administrator at the college earlier in the episode. Toby was probably just trying to talk to her as a girlfriend and not a representative of the school, but that's not going to matter. She'll put things in motion to have him investigated/expelled and it will end up going public whether Bay wants it to or not.
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I wonder if that guy whose room they used will be revealed to have set up a nanny cam to watch over his stuff while away.
I also wonder, once this becomes public, if Tank being on the football team will come up within the show. It's one thing to accuse a guy on campus of date rape, but accusing someone on a glamor sports team of rape is going to bring a hell of a lot of scrutiny and vitriol down on the accuser. Her family's wealth, having cheated on Tank, criminal record, involvement with occupy Carlton, Daphne blackmailing a state senator, Katherine writing a sex book, Regina being an alcoholic who knew about the switch, and anything else the K-V clan has done would be brought up and made public to discredit her.
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I'm very confused about something in this Bay/Tank scenario. She says that she doesn't remember anything at all--that it's a total blank. But then when she and Tank start arguing about how things went down, with the different versions of who kissed who, etc., it seems that they are both relating their own memory of what happened. So DOES she have a memory of it? She seems pretty adamant about insisting that she pushed him away... but I thought she said she remembers nothing? Why is this so inconsistent in the writing?
I thought that Bay was imagining how things could have happened based on what Tank was saying.
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I'm not the biggest Tank fan but I try to be fair. However, something he said stood out to me... When he was talking to Bay at the party about Emmett there was a comment along the lines of "I guess you guys were really meant to be" which came off sounding somewhat bitter to me. I don't know if he's as "good" as everyone thinks. Guess we have to wait until tomorrow's episode to see.
Tank might not be good as he seems, but, on the other hand I think that good people can be bitter about the SO that cheated on them, and even a little satisfied that things aren't working out between them and the person they cheated with without it being a sign that they're not really a good person. You can be a good person without being a perfect person.
IMO the biggest "warning sign" with Tank was when Bay showed up at Toby's place and he was all in her face about how he was going to be his roommate (granted, it was weird that Toby even offered in the first place).
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I really enjoy the law office crew. It was hilarious the way Maddie played Josh like that and had her dad in on it. I didn't see it coming (though maybe I should have) when boss man was in on her ruse at the end.
It really bugged me, she sexually harassed him to teach him a lesson. It wasn't even like he was harassing someone and she was doing it to show him what it was like to be on the receiving end.
I can't imagine that scene ever being allowed to play out as a joke with the gender roles reversed. The boss's son forces a kiss on a female intern and then basically lays on top of her at her desk the next day while she's clearly very uncomfortable about what is happening, and his boss father is going to be really mad at her for "leading him on", cue laugh track?
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Here is Bay, genetic child of an alcoholic, who knows that she should not be drinking at all; here is Tank, who has spent enough time with her to know that she doesn't drink though he may not know why; and here is Daphne, who has lived with Regina both drunk and sober and who was right there when Tank invited Bay to go get a drink with him. Where is the sisterly backup when it's needed?
Bay does drink though. As far as I can recall every time that she's been in a party type situation where other young people were drinking, Bay's been drinking too. It's never really been focused on and she's never really been shown to have a problem controlling it or getting super drunk before.
So Tank would have no reason to think that Bay shouldn't drink, she's been shown drinking around him before.
It do agree that it seems weird that Daphne wouldn't notice Bay getting stupid drunk, but I assume that Daphne spent the entire night committed some crime or another because she was upset that interpreter guy was on a date.
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I think that Callie has always been older than Brandon, but not by more than a few months.
I was thinking the whole "graduating" thing meant that she wouldn't be able to do so on time with the rest of the kids in her grade, not that she's a senior and older than Brandon.
That's how I read it, she's going to have to go to Summer school to keep up with her class (Juniors) so that she can graduate with them at the end of the next school year.
On another note: I used to have hair not unlike Wyatt's as a teenager (in length and thickness if not luxuriousness) and all I can think when I see him is, "Bro, cut your hair, the back of your neck will feel so much better on hot days."
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I think Katherine most of the issue was Toby was turning down jobs. If you can afford to turn down jobs, you should be paying your way. If he was taking all the jobs he could get, minus Katherines play, I hope they would have continued. But Toby was being an elitist ass.
He turned down one DJ related job that his Mom got him. From other comments he's made this season, it seems like the DJ thing has been working out for him so far. I'm not an expert, but I'd imagine that being a success as a DJ is one of those things that is 20% actual talent and 80% image and connections. So if he thinks that working a Bat Mitvah is going to hurt his ability to get the sort of jobs that he wants, I don't necessarily think he's wrong to turn it down.
If Katherine hadn't wanted him to work on her musical and if she hadn't cancelled his phone and insurance without telling him first, I'd probably buy that she was just concerned about him turning down a job, but since it was her precious baseball sex book that has been the defining thing in her life for the past season +, it comes off to me like she was just being petty because he didn't want to help his Mom write songs about the time his Dad banged 3 different women in one night and the time she hooked up with some rando on a train.
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Also, way to go John and Katherine for coming to the realization that Toby is on his own and they should stop paying for things. But seriously sucky execution. How about having a talk - as of the end of the month we will be shutting off this and this. Instead they just cut him off without telling him! Ridiculous. And doesn't fit with how they have handled other things.
My issue with the story is that it really wasn't a realization that he should pay for his own things. It was just another bit of Katherine's "It's my time to shine!" attitude that she's been displaying since she first decided to write a book about her husband's friends and co-worker's sex lives and wouldn't listen to any argument against it because it was what she wanted to do.
Toby's only 19 or 20 at this point, it's not like his still being on his parent's insurance plan (which is certainly much better than anything he can afford for himself at that age) or phone plan is anything all that unusual for a young person. When Toby moved out Katherine even wanted to pay his rent to get him to choose a place close to Mission Hills (which Toby turned down).
It was only after she realized that he could help her write her musical and he turned her down (because, seriously, what guy wants to write a sex themed musical with his mom?) that she suddenly had a problem with them paying for things. It was just a way for her to put pressure on him so he'd have to agree to work on the musical with her.
Then, at the end, when Toby says that he'll have to read the book, she acts all surprised that he hasn't read it. Seriously? It's a book about sex, which includes stories about Katherine and John's sex lives and she's really surprised/upset that her son didn't read it?
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When Aria started talking about what a great writer she is ... Oh how I laughed.
A month ago Toby he was like, "I know I'm going to become a cop to help you out with all this A stuff, Spencer!"
Now he's like, "Dammit Spencer, I can't help you out with all this A stuff, I'm a cop!"
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I'm not going to even think about the rape situation until I see where they go with it.
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Katherine cut off Toby's phone (and presumably insurance) without telling him because he didn't want to work on her sex musical with her?
If it had been about his well being and not her wanting to control him she would have at least sat down and talked with him about it first, but it was all about making him do what she wanted him to do. Narcissist parent behavior at its finest.
But of course she gets what she wanted out of it.
Is Travis only in college on a grades based scholarship or something? Otherwise the chance for an education will be there for him, the window to have a chance at a baseball career is rare and very limited. Also, playing on a school team requires that he maintains a certain level of grades and attendance. Considering that he almost dropped out of high school the first time a decent job came along, I'd think that him having something that ties him further to the school would be a good thing.
Oh and Mary Beth writing off all athletes as a bunch of narcissists? Girl has issues.
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S01.E16: The Blind Fortune Teller
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I don't agree with any of this. What work did Barbara put in to their relationship? She met up with her ex and believed her when she said Jim was a corrupt murderer. She constantly pushed him to reveal things about his job as a police officer. Then when he did, she always did the exact opposite of what he asked her to do with the information. Going to the press, going to Falcone.
His saying her name when he entered her house is supposed to be a mark against him? I'd call it being polite and letting her know he was there. As for why he'd expect her to be there, probably because it was literally the only place she ever was. When he wasn't there she was smoking pot and meeting up with her ex behind his back.
He was going through life and death, Falcone, police corruption insanity, and she left him with a letter, lying about where she was going, and then spent weeks hooking up with her ex and doing drugs.
She went weeks without communicating with him, so he finally assumed she was telling them that the relationship was over and moved on. If Montoya hadn't got tired of supporting her addiction she'd probably still be with her in a drugged out haze.