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45 minutes ago, TeapotWakeen said:
Andy Dehnart visits the location, talks to showrunners, talks about changes for this season. Read it here.
Well, that's...concerning to me. I'll watch the first few episodes to see how it shakes out, but it certainly sounds like they're stripping it of all the elements that made it unique and turning it into another cookie cutter reality competition show. No Evolutions or Circus? Really?
I'm also very wary of how they are describing choosing contestants this for this season. One of the reasons the first season worked so well to me was the people who brought drama last season were actively called on it, and were gotten rid of fairly early on instead of obviously lingering to fan the flames and create tension.
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I absolutely loved the last two episodes...French Stewart showing up was great, as was the sight gag of Anne running through the glass window. Liked how they left it open for John Lithgow to return in basically any capacity depending on his schedule. The skate wrench was also a wonderful note to end on. I so hope they renew this. My brother was walking through to the kitchen during one of the courtroom exchanges and decided on the spot he was going to start watching from the beginning because the 30 seconds he saw was so funny.
Perhaps the best thing though out of all the gags this season was that they gave us an actual "whoooo"-dunnit. (I'll show myself out). ;)
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I believe that with Alex's win it seemed evident which way producers were leaning from the word go, which really bothered a number of viewers. While she's clearly great in the kitchen, the strings seemed evident - I remember through much of the season, and especially when it got down to Alex and Amanda that it clearly seemed like Alex was being favored. I don't recall Alex's season being quite as blatant as Zakarian's though...his really showed the producer/network manipulation. He completely ignored the challenge requirements in two separate challenges and there was nary a peep about it, despite routinely flogging/eliminating other contestants for that. He was incredibly smug about it, too. Between those two seasons many people were coming away with the feeling of the whole thing being rigged and wondering why they bothered with the competition at all.
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12 hours ago, DittyDotDot said:
I think it's just that everyone assumed Jeff was drinking and no one bothered to investigate it further. TV tends to make us think the opposite, but I'd be surprised if every accident like this is investigated. I know they don't here unless there's suspicious circumstances or there are charges to be filed. They probably just filed a report of what they saw on the scene when they got there; noting the alcohol in the car and Jeff was returning to a party where alcohol was being consumed--probably noted the downed stop sign, too--and everyone just chalked it up to another sad story of teenagers driving drunk and moved on.
Typically, at least in my own experiences, when the driver of an accident is deceased their blood is automatically tested for drugs and alcohol, regardless of what the believed cause of the crash is. Looking into it further I see that this isn't the case for all states, so it is possible they could have foregone it depending on where this was set, especially due to the circumstantial evidence of the beer in the car. However, I also can't imagine based on what we saw of his parents that they wouldn't have insisted on a toxicology report. There would have definitely been an autopsy performed, and that request would have been able to be made at that time. Especially since their son would have been viewed as responsible for the injuries of the man he hit, I can't see the parents not wanting to pursue the possibility of "clearing his name" when the accident happened, or even for their own certainty and peace of mind, since they clearly still seemed to be wrestling with the idea of whether or not he'd been drunk. Considering everything this show got right, it just stood out to me.
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12 hours ago, Kalliste said:
I was wondering this too? Wouldn't they have tested his blood to see if he was drunk? Did they really just assume he was because he had a case of beer?
This bothered me a lot. There is no way that under the circumstances of the crash that his blood alcohol level wouldn't have been checked. Due to the nature of the accident they would have done a full tox screen to see if he had either alcohol or drugs in his system.
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Okay, I have to ask - is there a new photography trend at movie theaters I'm not aware of? Because no less than four different people in our screening for Beauty and the Beast this weekend tried to take flash photos DURING THE MOVIE - including the woman next to me, who got an earful.
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Robert Stack WAS Unsolved Mysteries for me. My grandmother watched religiously and my sister and I did right along with her, and his narration and the theme music scared the bejesus out of us. It is so ingrained that when I started rewatching Season 1 through Amazon Prime last week on my commute, my stomach immediately clenched up, despite the fact that the show is dated as heck graphics/film wise and it was broad daylight. Dennis Farina did the best he could, but there's just no comparison.
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Rewatched Midnight in Paris the other day and while I love the film, I cannot for the life of me see Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams' characters as a couple. I mean, clearly a central conceit of the film is that they aren't right for each other, but they seem SO at odds personality wise, I can't see how they ever went on a second date with one another, let alone stayed in a relationship long enough to become engaged.
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14 hours ago, Silver Raven said:
Saw this yesterday and just threw up my hands and laughed. Praying that Wonder Woman isn't a complete train wreck, because at this point it is the only DC related film that holds any interest for me. What a spectacular squandering of a massive film franchise collection. With every news item I wonder if they're just inept or actively trying to torpedo their future film slate. Eesh.
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Went to see Hidden Figures with the family two weeks ago. We sit in the first row of the main theater portion (so in front of us is the wide path for people to move around the theater, then another section of seats leading up to the screen). There was a woman in the back row of that section who was constantly checking her phone for the first half hour, until my mother and another woman called out for for to turn it off. She complied...until around twenty minutes later, when she took it out again and started taking pictures of herself to post to Twitter of all things (I recognized the app interface). It was a large phone, and the brightness was obnoxious.
I got out of my seat, swung under the railing of our row, walked up behind her chair, and whispered to her that she better turn the phone off unless she wanted an usher to escort her out of the screening. She didn't touch it after that.
I actually had people clap for me when the lights went up, which was something that's never happened to me before. But seriously, who the heck DOES that?
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A much older movie-going experience - my mother and I went to see Sideways when it was in theaters. There were these two older ladies sitting in front of us. As the film started, one turned to the other and said "I hope there aren't too many toilets in this one!"
To this day I am dying to know what film they could possibly have been thinking about.
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18 hours ago, possibilities said:
Some people think it's better to say "people with disabilities" instead of "disabled people" because it changes the emphasis on the person (who also has a disability) vs a person who is defined primarily by being disabled. I understand where that impulse comes from, but I don't care about that myself. I don't call myself a "person with Judaism" or a "woman with lesbianism" (I'm Jewish, a lesbian, a Jewish lesbian, a Jew). So I'm ok being a disabled person, too. It's the same thing to me.
While I also understand where the impulse comes from, this is a big issue in the autistic community. For many, using person first language (she has autism) versus identity first language (she is autistic) is considered almost insulting. It's viewed as an attempt to separate the person from their autism, and seem as though it's something damaging that needs to be distanced from. As you said, you wouldn't call someone a person with Judaism. Or say that a person has left handedness. They are Jewish, or they are left-handed.
I'm autistic. It can be disabling. I find neither saying I'm autistic or I'm disabled to be an insult. You cannot separate me from my neurology. They are intrinsically linked. It literally shapes how I perceive, process, and react to the world around me. I would not be me if my brain were "rewired". And it reads as needing to underline/emphasize our humanity - "Well yes, they're autistic, but they're still people!" No kidding. We're all people. That really shouldn't have to be spelled out - it's redundant. No one goes around saying "Here is a person with neurotypical-ness".
I think bottom line though is especially when talking to/about a person, to just ask the individual how they want to be referred to. Some people care greatly, and others don't care at all. I'm in the camp where I'm not going to jump down someone's throat if they use person first language around me, but it does bug me a bit, and I'd prefer they use identity first language if they're referring to me.
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Loved the Santa Ana winds guy - and his songs plus the Intercourse song just got two of our friends on board to try out the show!
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I absolutely loved the episode. Cannot wait to see what they have in store for Season 2. It is very, very rare for any television show to surprise me these days, as even the plot twists on most shows seem telegraphed, but this show managed to do it. Like others, I figured something was off about the Good Place, but assumed it was more a purgatory-style place. Never thought it would outright be the Bad Place.
The only thing that I find sad is that the Michael we've known up until this point was an act - I hate to lose that innocent version of him. At the same time, I can certainly see a few ways they could "redeem" him as the show goes forward.
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Nothing has been announced but from what I'd read it seemed like the chances were pretty good. Fingers crossed!
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This is one I'll be saving for a library rental. Having experienced those events firsthand (I had friends down on the marathon line when the explosions went off and was living five minutes away from where the final shoot-out took place), it hits way too close to home. While I understand why it was made (though I too question whether it was made too soon after the events it depicts), I don't think I will be able to sit through it in a crowded theater without major flashbacks. It was an incredibly tense time.
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I was so, so hoping they'd tackle inspiration porn in an episode. Was not disappointed.
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Pulling up a chair and making that four of us.
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14 minutes ago, wings707 said:
When men cry they generally let out a sob first. I believe his reaction was sincere. It came right after the woman talked about losing her son (to COS). Rinder lost his entire family when he left so that raw emotion just below the surface and probably will be for the rest of his life.. Leah handed him a tissue. A lot of that scene was edited out and Rinders tears were probably part of that.
Agree...it seemed pretty clear to me that it was a genuine response, especially considering it was directly after she started crying about having lost her son due to him disconnecting. I know plenty of guys who on the rare occasion they do cry it comes out almost exactly the same way.
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Loved this episode - definitely my favorite of the season.
Gloria cracked me up - "If you hear two bodies hit the floor, it's done. If you hear three, one tried to get back up."
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1 hour ago, Padma said:
Has anyone seen this in 3D? I normally don't like 3D movies but this looks as if, so gorgeous, it may be an exception.
I saw it in 3D. There wasn't a noticeable difference in quality the way I've had for other animated films, so I wouldn't say it's necessary for viewing. Either way, the film is gorgeous.
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My friends and I hold a monthly film "festival" where we do themed foods, etc. This month's film is The Philadelphia Story. Out of the six of us, I'm the only one who has seen it before. One of my favorites, especially with the Hepburn/Grant/Stewart acting trifecta!
My favorite Cary Grant film also seems to be one of his lesser known ones - I Was a Male War Bride. He plays a French army captain who falls in love with and marries a U.S. Lieutenant (Ann Sheridan). When she gets transferred back to the States he follows her under the War Bride Act.
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Quote...would you cry about your deceased dad to someone you completely didn't know?
*raises hand* Both myself and my sister have first hand experience with that, I'm sad to say. Grief is a jerk and rears its head at weird times.
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So why didn't the van have a handicapped placard? And if it didn't, that doesn't mean they can park there even though there is someone in the vehicle that is disabled.
If they are anything like my family, they may have 1) forgotten to put it up or 2) been waiting until they'd gotten everyone out of the car to do so. You can't drive with a handicap placard dangling off your rearview mirror, so sometimes it just boils down to "well, crap, forgot to put it up". My mom has had to dash back out of stores to avoid getting ticketed because she was preoccupied with my grandmother and forgotten to hang it.
Since they were still getting JJ out of the car, it may have been as simple as once the family was all out, Minnie's character would have popped the placard up, locked the car, and they'd be on their way. The woman in the other vehicle didn't exactly give them the opportunity to do that though.
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1 minute ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
If only I had known back in 2004....oh well. So I'll just close my left eye and look upon Obi and Yoda the next time I watch the end.
eBay is your friend ;) We managed to score copies of that edition for a friend's birthday last year. Just double check when it was released so you don't end up with the same version that you already have (I know there are comparison sites out there that will detail the specifics).
I don't think Lucas had the prequels down in any set way, more like vague inclinations towards what he wanted to include. I think the continuity errors are a reflection of that.
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American Grit - General Discussion
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My heart sank when I read that. The Bachelor-type antics are the antithesis of what this show was, so her reality tv background does not read as a positive to me. And they're touting it like it's this huge positive to make contestants strip or shave their heads or other contrived nonsense. Just have a really bad feeling about this.