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So Jason and Eleanor both had essentially the same job. She sold fake medication to the elderly and he sold fake drugs to college kids. That can't be a coincidence. (Eta) It also struck me that Tahini's most successful party was a fundraiser for Stem Cell Research. So maybe it was actually a scam to collect money for supposedly medical purposes while the organisers, like Tahini, skimmed the profits.

What is Ryan's deal anyway? What type of person when being manipulated into wondering if their mentor has used him by his mentor's 'enemies.' Calls his mentor to ask if that's true, immediately (and aggressively) hangs up when told, he's not using him. And then does something illegal and disastrous to his mentor's enemies? It makes no sense. It was a plot clearly written to fool the audience into thinking Ryan didn't trust Joe and had destroyed their infant internet in anger but the reveal of what Ryan actually did made no sense in the characterisation of anyone with human thought processes. He's a very poorly written character anyway. At times I think he's being (badly) written as someone with high functioning Autism. He occasionally seems quite emotionless and tightly focussed while having trouble understanding basic human reactions. Like an android or a bemused Vulcan. Then at other times he can read the correct intention behind an action with almost telepathic precision. Like when Donna and Cameron gave him a raise after he outlined his ideas to improve Mutiny. He somehow immediately and correctly knew that they were giving him the money to make him stop bothering them with his ideas. He's not really a character, just a plot device that was created to give Joe someone to talk to so the audience could watch his internet creation thought process, while still keeping him vaguely connected to Mutiny.

Donna did more than that. While she's moved more now into the business side of the business, her initial role was as hardware engineer. She literally kept their technology working even when all they had was cobbled together on a shoe string. Gordon looks after that side of things now and it's an easier job as his money has paid for better equipment but originally Donna's technological expertise and dedication was what kept Mutiny physically running. Pretty much all his Cardiff money was spent buying the mainframe for Mutiny in exchange for his 10% of the company. A crappy business decision that Donna forced on him in order to save their marriage. Though it's now paying off with the IPO, which could also be part of why Gordon voted with Donna. Yes she's his wife and he kind of has to. But he also ploughed his life's earnings into the company and trading shares now means he's likely to get a good return on money that would otherwise have been lost.

Well sometimes attraction is just chemical and it's not unheard of for someone to just be attracted to someone for reasons that aren't immediately obvious. But I think she became attracted to him when he renegotiated the Swap Meet buy out. She liked his business savvy and bravery. Added to that, he clearly just respects her in her position in the same way he would if she was a man. He doesn't attempt to mansplain or subtly belittle her in a way that she probably experiences daily. Or she might just like his accent. :)

I'm racking my brains and may be having very vague memories of the open jeans button thing. I think I can see myself as a 90s teen posing in front of my bedroom mirror with my top button open and thinking it was suggestively sexy. Sort of a cross between what Val's doing and this; I definitely never left the house like that though.

I agree with that however I also believe that pretty much our very first genuinely adult act is to decide on the adult to adult relationship that we want with our parents and forge the path that leads to it. No matter how good a parent is, they can't truly know exactly what sort of relationship their adult child wants with them unless the adult child leads the way. And it can be very difficult for a parent to accept that the person in front of them who's bum they wiped, who's toddler and teen tantrums they bore the brunt of, is truly an adult of equal status now, especially if their relationship is difficult. So it's up to the adult child to lay down boundaries, accept that their parents are also flawed humans, and then (unless the parents are truly toxic) make the overtures that create a healthy adult to adult relationship. Lorelai never ever did this. Not when she first left Hartford and not throughout the series. It was left to Emily to make the overtures and try to set boundaries, but when the parent is the one setting the boundaries, they feel much more like rules. If years ago Lorelai had agreed to weekly meetings with her parents, she could have had control over it. She could have picked a time and place that suited her, maybe Tuesday evening tea at a cafe in a town halfway between SH and Hartford. Then she would have been in control of the situation and it would have been easier to shut down Emily when she tried to control her. As Rory grew older and began her Harvard ambitions R&E would probably have straight up offered the money for Chilton. And Lorelai could have accepted it without accepting any strings as she never asked for the money, it was a gift to Rory from her grandparents. They would all have been happier and it was ultimately Lorelai's responsibility to work that out. Her refusal to hurt her nearly as much as it did R&E.

I knew Cameron coming to talk maturely to Donna had to be Donna tripping. No way would Cameron ever act like that. What's especially grating about Cameron's current immaturity is that she's just found out about Gordon's illness. I know Gordon has said he's not dying but Cam isn't entirely stupid and she clearly knows that he's likely to have been denying the severity of what is happening to him. So she knows that Donna is dealing with a very, very sick husband who will need increasing levels of care until his very premature death. She knows she is keeping this reality from her two quite young children and that Donna will soon have to help her children deal with watching their father waste away and then grieve his death. But she shows absolutely no understanding of Donna's situation and can't for one second put herself in Donna's shoes and think that she just didn't have it in her to deal with Cameron's latest tantrum and lied in order to make one aspect of her life run a little bit smoother. She doesn't have to give Donna a total pass for lying the way she did but she could employ a little empathy and talk to her maturely so they could smooth out their working relationship for the future. But no, Cameron knows Donna's personal life is bordering on the hellishness it will soon be immersed in and her solution is to make work harder for her by clearing out her room at home and then just not showing up for work the next day (again) so Donna has to deal with the fallout (again). She really is a total tool. My fantasy now is that Gordon becomes a gazillionaire now that he's been recognised as the inventor of McMillan Anti-Virus and Donna leaves Mutiny and sets up her own company with Diane as her financial advisor and friend. Cameron can either leave the show or we could see weekly updates of her running her company into the ground. She could be as detached from the show as Joe currently is and just pop up for a few scenes her and there for us to see her make terrible decisions, bugger off and avoid work whenever things get tough, invent genius code but it's all too late as her company failed while she was off ignoring reality. She'd eventually learn that her genius means nothing if she can't act like an adult or at least give someone else the power to act like the adult while she focusses on her craft (which is what she should be doing now with Donna). But it would be too late and she'd eventually find herself stuck in some coder monkey job while technology moves on without her and meanwhile Donna gets the respect she deserves while earning even more gazillions in her new company.

I think Lorelai was justified in moving out. In the Gilmore house she was essentially being forced to live as a child and a mother and something had to give. So she moved out so she could be a mother. But from what we know of Richard and Emily, what any normal person would have done in her situation, was, after a few days/weeks once she had settled, contacted her parents and work out a new adult to adult parents relationship with them. It wouldn't have been easy to establish and maintain clear boundaries at first. But eventually R&E would have come to accept Lorelai as a grown-up and stayed close to Rory. But instead Lorelai cut them off almost completely, seemingly only seeing R&E for their Christmas party. This just seems needlessly cruel on Lorelai's part because the estrangement was all just down to her immaturity. If Emily had reacted towards Lorelai moving out in the same way that Lorelai reacted to Rory quitting Yale the estrangement would have made sense. If Emily made an ultimatum that if Lorelai didn't move back home, she was cut off, and Lorelai called her bluff then Lorelai's actions and resentment would have made sense. It's interesting actually that when Rory made 'a bad' life choice, Lorelai did react in the way that she likes to imagine her parents reacted to her.

Rewatching that, it really was some scary shit. Dylan smashes a plant pot, Brenda runs away, he chases her down as she runs as fast as she can clearly freaked out. He catches her, she screams and he holds her tight not letting her move away as he says he's sorry and then they kiss. It was the same after the Mexico trip. Jim was a douche to Dylan, sure, but when he decides to apologise to Dylan and be willing to start over with him, Dylan gets in a snit and goes to walk off with a bottle of whiskey. Jim calls him out for turning to alcohol so Dylan smashes the bottle off the wall. I'm no fan of Jim's sexist BS but I'd have been sending Brenda to Paris for a lot longer than 6 weeks to get her away from him.

I think it's that Boz was an absentee father but his son forgave him for that. He got him a job with his company and was probably looking forward to forging a close adult relationship with him and maybe having him be a hands-on grandfather. But Boz hated the job and took off across country to be with his surrogate daughter instead of staying and being close to his actual son. I love Boz but I'd probably be deeply hurt by that if I was his son.

The problem with RDJ in Ally McBeal is that once he left it the show was just unwatchable. He was this fantastic breath of fresh air on it and once he was gone, nothing was left.

For a second there I thought you meant his daughter in law rather than Cameron and I was wondering what I missed as she seemed mostly pleasant with Boz. Toby Huss really knocked it out of the park with the baby. He was just adorable as happy grandpa meeting his grandson, Speaking of babies, Cameron is just boring at this point. Oh no, boohoo my business is expanding and I'm not queen of us all in this little house anymore. And while it would be understandable if she was upset, angry and felt betrayed because Donna lied to her about Diane not being willing to fire the guys, her whole hyperventilating, hugging herself on the bed was just overblown and pathetic. Were the audience supposed to feel sympathy for her? Because all I felt was contempt.

I always took it as Luke having several income streams which he treated differently. He had the salary he paid himself at the diner, which probably wasn't very high but he lived off it easily by living above the diner and avoiding having rent/mortgage payments. Then he had the diner profits (which would have been quite high as the diner had no rent/mortgage debt) and, once Taylor opened the ice-cream shoppe, rent from him. All that money probably went into a savings account or two. Tbf, to Richard and Emily they did have a discussion with Luke and Lorela,in You've Been Gilmored, about how wealthy a couple they were due to their considerable assets. (Though Lorelai had a business partner and was no doubt mortgaged up to her eyeballs on both the inn and her home.)

Lorelai was massively annoyed with Jess because when she caught him drinking beer she thought he'd be wowed by her 'cool mom' routine but he didn't fall for it. She never took into account that he wasn't cosseted Rory, love-stricken Dean, ignored Paris or overly-stifled Lane. He was a teenage boy who had suffered from what was probably fairly severe emotional neglect, some physical neglect and almost certainly a degree of emotional abuse all his life. Lorelai trying to impress him by showing off her coolness wasn't going to win him over. The boy clearly needed acceptance, stability and an awful lot of time, before he could even begin to trust or like a parental figure. (As is what happened with Luke.) But Lorelai was so used to Rory's peers wanting her as their mom because she liked cool music and pigging out on junk food, a validation she craved because it proved she wasn't like Emily and Richard, that she resented Jess big-time for not fawning all over her.

I thought her behaviour at Fran's funeral was even worse than at the baptism. I get that she and Sookie have wanted to buy the Dragonfly for nearly two years at this point. And Fran's death has brought her one and only opportunity to realise her dream. But during her funeral ceremony is not the time to aggressively pursue the purchase. If I had been Fran's heir, her blatant disrespect for Fran's well planned goodbye to her life would have made me decide to either not sell to her or to only sell to her for a vastly inflated price (as she clearly desperately wanted my particular property). But her worst behaviour of all was how she treated Rory in the aftermath of her decision to not marry Max. It's ok to not explain your change of heart to your best friend until you are ready to talk to her. But contrary to her assertion to Emily, Rory is not her best friend first, she is her daughter first and Lorelai had responsibilities as a mother. She chose to start a relationship with her daughter's teacher, then decided to marry him and make him Rory's step-father (something Rory was looking forward to). Her primary duty in the end of her relationship with Max was to help Rory through any pain and confusion that would be causing her. Waking Rory up to run away in the middle of the night and then refusing to answer any of her questions was appalling parenting. It's ok to be best friends with your kid, but only if you take care of their needs as your child first.

According to the article with one of the show's head writers that someone posted here recently, the writers were fully intending to do a Donna-D'Shawn relationship. But old man Spelling had a very racist reaction to the idea of his fantasy daughter, played by his real daughter, dating a black man. So much so that once he saw the episode with Donna and D'Shawn's fake date, Spelling wanted Williams off the show.

I meant more after his post-Mexico treatment of her. She risked her life for him and he treated her like crap in return but as far as I remember she was more or less done with trying to please him from then on. And yup, sleeping with Ray was a crappy thing to do. But she wasn't the only cheater in the group so it hardly marked her as a terrible bad seed.

The thing is, how bad was she really. She smoked a bit of pot while in college and is a bit resentful of these other kids and their smugness in the months immediately following her father's suicide. I remember a scene where she calls around to Dylan to share her score of amazing scones with him! That's not a euphemism, she finds a bakery selling some delicious baked goods, buys extra and is innocent enough to refer to that as a score. She's not exactly out running down puppies for kicks. She just doesn't want to cow-tow to a bunch of kids who've forgotten how spoiled they are and while she clearly really, really likes Dylan (to the point where she risks her life for him) she's not willing to mope around, desperate for any bone of affection he might throw her like Kelly, and especially Brenda, were.

And Dylan immediately showing his true colours in the next episode. "Sure you actually risked your life helping me get back my millions and my annoying sister, then saved the day (after I endangered us all by being reckless) by grabbing the gun before Suzanne did at the end of the big showdown. Here's 10k you whore." Followed by; "What do you mean Jonesey honourably paid you the money he would have paid the professional woman you stood in for, during our dangerous con. That really does make you a whore." He is such an unbelievable douche. He also gets all chummy with Jim and Cindy and tells them that if they thought they'd had trouble on their hands with Brenda, they had it easy compared to Valerie. WTAF! Tbf Jim and Cindy deserve ire for sitting there hanging on his every word. If my child's (alcoholic, cheating) ex spoke to me that way about my child, they'd be (to continue the 90s theme) shown the door Uncle Philip > Jazzy Jeff style. He would never even get a chance to continue on to disparage my houseguest for being someone he could coerce into a dangerous situation for his own benefit.

Originally this was (very) loosely based on real people who did actually reverse engineer an IBM PC into a portable clone which turned out to be, in many ways, better than the original. Joe, Gordon and Cameron were all based on Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, again very loosely as the real people were all men. But from the final episode of season 1, the series took a drastically different turn as I'm pretty sure Canion never set fire to the first shipment of Compaq Portables and Murto and Harris' wife never set up their own online gaming company! :D It wouldn't be far-fetched if they came up with one or two great ideas that are big business today, because through-out history people have been coming up with the same things at the same time but only one is successful with the invention. But it genuinely feels as if the writers have researched every bit of today's popular internet software and hardware that has it's roots in mid-80s inventions and every few weeks have Cameron, Donna or occasionally Gordon invent one of them. Story wise it might have been more interesting to see Mutiny as a company with a few years viability that would inevitably lose out to bigger companies doing the same or better. Like the hints last year that the appearance of Nintendo tolled the death knell for Mutiny gaming. And see the ethical compromises that Donna and/or Cameron (or even Gordon) start making in order to become one of the bigger companies with a chance of survival. If reading the personal chats of their users had led to them discovering the existence of Swap Meet and deciding to buy it out, I'd have found that more interesting and ultimately more realistic.

They are being great together but I do find that it stretches credibility a bit much that they are at the forefront of everything! Last season they pretty much invented online games, RPGs, online group RPGs, cobbled together a broadband prototype in a couple of hours, invented internet chat rooms and in the first episode this season came up with the precursor to ebay. At this rate by the end of the season, they'll have an early myspace/facebook type social network on the go. I did like how Gordon handled finding out that Cameron bribed the daughter to invite her enemy to her party. And I never like anything Gordon does, so that's a first for me.

I watched this episode recently and it struck me that Dylan didn't actually seem that into Brenda at the end. She was monologuing about how much she loved him and he responded by saying he'd applaud her from afar. If some guy said that to me in response to me saying I loved him, I'd think he was telling me that he wanted me to leave him alone. I'm not sure the scene was meant to come across like that, the previous 5/6 episodes had been building up to them being meant to be for each other after all. But he seemed so reluctant to be with her, it's almost as if she told him she was going to stay in London and wanted a sexy goodbye, rather than the re-ignition of their relationship and him eagerly looking forward to her return.

A baby pooch is especially normal after a c-section as your tummy can fill up with air leaving you incredibly bloated and it takes a few days to dissipate (through farts). The speed at which a c-section takes place depends on the reason for it. An emergency section is one that was not planned for and usually takes place after labour has started. But there are variations of severity of the emergancy. I had an emergency section but my son wasn't in immediate danger so it was very relaxed. A friend of mine however had an emergency section and it was like a dramatic ER scene. She was rushed from L&D into surgery with nurses keeping her body in a certain position because if she raised her head above her pelvis even for a moment, her son might have died. She was immediately put under general anaesthetic as keeping her awake long enough to administer a spinal block had too high a risk of still birth.

He has chronic toxic encephalopathy. Degenerative brain damage caused by exposure to the chemicals used in his work. It was diagnosed in S02E05. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_encephalopathy

Some of that interview was really, really gross. The whole bit where he describe's TAT's arrival on the show and how BAG was put out because LP and JP would be feeling her up. Because even though they are really, really great guys, they felt like as stars they deserved to be super handsy with any of the women on the show they wanted to touch. And the women could complain if they wanted but mostly they just put up and shut up so they'd be liked on set. Yeuch! It has made me wonder what impact that sort of toxic environment had on SD and JG's relationship. When people are treated like crap and feel powerless it can make them turn on each other as a way of exorcising their anger, hurt and frustration. I wonder if something like that happened on the 90210 set?