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I believe Jill was originally due to have her baby in August, so they may have taken that into consideration if they were planning a summer wedding last spring. There are a lot of Duggar girls, so it's not surprising that some are left out.

That dress is lovely and completely against anything I would have imagined a Duggar bride would wear. Where is the modesty panel? I see bare shoulders!

Kate admitted to "borrowing" more than $100,000 from the kids' accounts to fund her lifestyle (including furnishing her house). So there were accounts set up, but there is no legal recourse for Collin and Hannah, the two who lived with Jon, to get the money back. I'm impressed Jill somehow managed to get the amount she got out of Jim Bob, but he was likely looking at it as a sort of hush money. It takes a special kind of ass to not cover the medical expenses of your daughter who almost died giving birth to a child which their religion insists is her only duty in life. This is especially crazy given that the filming of her family life is a big part of the reason he had any income at all. No one cared about Jim Bob and Michelle at that point. They were no longer "and Counting" by then.

No one in Minnesota thought they'd win. It's Minnesota. It's a known thing that they can't win anything. Ever. They usually come up with ways to lose that make things as heartbreaking and terrible as possible, so today was at least a nice break from that. On the news last night they were interviewing people who'd come to town for the game and even they were less than positive on the winning. One guy said a win would be great, but I just think it'll be fun to watch a playoff game. That's like saying I'm just happy to be nominated.

Georgia goes from celebration to tragedy. And still one player and another passenger in the hospital with serious injuries. UGA had a great season, it's terrible that it ends this way.

Axe throwing is actually pretty popular across the US and Canada. There are chains that offer just the throwing experience. But if you want to do it in Brainerd (home of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox), there's a bar there that offers it. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, but I appreciated that it didn't make the designer girlfriend evil. She was not a good fit for the guy, but I like that she dumped him because she deserved more.

So excited to see Psych is back in the rotation on HM&M!

By all accounts, the Bengals' Higgins was devastated as he was the player who made the contact. I hope they get him some real support. It's not his fault, but he's likely feeling it is. I was happy to hear that he left the stadium with his mom who had her arm wrapped around him.

This game is over. Everyone go home. Leave them alone. There should be no debate. Goddell needs to call it.

Nine minutes of CPR. That's not good. It seems like they should have gotten him out of there as fast as possible on that ambulance.

Or you know, Albert Pujols was close to breaking Barry Bonds record for something while he was playing the Colorado Rockies and Rockies fans in Wyoming looked up Bonds when it was mentioned during the game(s).

The commentators on the game had me rolling my eyes. Somehow I'm supposed to be impressed and sympathetic for Houston having to overcome the adversity of being known cheaters. Or maybe I think they got away with it completely and wonder if they keep cheating since nothing happened the first time. They got a season of no fans as a buffer and never really got the true cheater experience. None of their players were punished at all. They kept their title of World Series Champions. Basically a couple of management guys lost their jobs for a season during which there was almost no baseball anyway and the team was fined $5 million. Boo hoo. Much adversity. How they must struggle to overcome such stiff penalties.

Easy. They simply didn't notice. They weren't interested in that part of the show and didn't want to write for it, so they never noticed that it completely disappeared. The fans that enjoyed those moments aren't the type to be vocal either. The shippers and the devoted Evil Regals are out in force, but people who like the show for its quiet character moments between mother and daughter aren't screaming on Twitter or at conventions about how their favorite is being mistreated or about how they want more. I believe the lack of Snow and Emma interaction was pointed out to one of the writers sometime during S6 and that person was genuinely surprised (probably more surprised that there wre people who even cared about this).

Not gonna lie, watching Snow teaching for more than 30 seconds was too much for me. An actual storyline for her would have been nice, but then Ginny Goodwin just had baby #2 in between S5 & S6, so I don't think she wanted to actually do anything. She could have done something more than send Emma to Archie for therapy so she could go console Regina and then yell at Emma for actually seeing the therapist and taking his advice and working through her issues. Wow, I forgot how much I hated S6. Was this the season where we actually see Snowing say that they are sacrificing Emma's happiness for everyone else and closing the door on her? That was totally giving her her best chance. And then when Snow confessed, Emma didn't react. To be fair though, Emma had clearly figured this out by the first episode of S2, it just took four years for Snow to get on the same page.

Elsewhere on the internet, someone posed a question that got me thinking. This is a show where the episodes weren't always all that great, but individual scenes and interactions between characters were excellent. So what were some of your favorite scenes in the show? One of my top scenes is between Emma and Jefferson in S1 where they discuss the possibility of the existence of magic. Jefferson's words do a really good job of encapsulating the where Emma and the audience and their mindset clash with the show's premise. I wish they'd been more true to this overall. All of the doors and all of the worlds he mentions in this scene in this quote: "A real world. How arrogant are you to think yours is the only one? There are infinite more. You have to open your mind. They touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands. Each just as real as the last. All have their own rules. Some have magic, some don’t. And some need magic. Like this one." As disappointing and as much of a letdown as it was, I also like the scene in S2 where Emma and Snowing are somewhat alone for the first after the memories are returned and Emma believes. David's awareness that pushing Emma is a really bad idea and Snow's refusal to let it go and Emma actually telling the real truth about the whole giving her her best chance stuff. It was some of the most truthful this show ever got to covering the damage Regina's curse had done and how their own actions had led to Emma's life. Snow: We’re together – finally. And I can’t help but think you’re not happy about it. Emma: Oh, I am. But, see… Here’s the thing – no matter what the circumstances, for twenty-eight years I only knew one thing. That my parents sent me away. Snow: We did that to give you your best chance. Emma: You did it for everyone, because that’s who you are. Leaders, heroes, princes, and princesses, and that’s great. A-And amazing. And wonderful. But it doesn’t change the fact that, for my entire life, I’ve been alone. It gets left there and is never really addressed again, but this is where I think Emma's feelings remain. She moves on and deals, but this is always the reality. It also pisses me off that the next time everyone finally gets to be reunited and happy, the show focuses on how this makes Regina sad.