Ikki

That was one of the longest hours of my life. At one point I thought, "God, is this a two hour episode?" So I checked and saw that I was only 43 minutes in.

In my middle and high school experience, it was always the vice principal who was in charge of discipline. I just figured it was the same here, though since Lena's own kids are involved, it probably shouldn't be.

That scene with Rita and Kiara broke my heart, and then the next scene was Conner and Jude playing catch and then wrestling. What is this show doing with my emotions.

The part from the recap that was most interesting to me was where it said "something called "Cool Kids" by someone called "Echosmith"," because that song is like crazy popular around here. I hear at least parts of it probably twice a day, and I'm not in areas where radios are playing that often. I know it's not as popular everywhere, but I just hear it so much that it's funny to me that not everyone knows it.

I love when Jude's around and doing stuff. Super excited for next week. I really like how they're portraying Mrs. Quinn. Much better than the "evil step-mom" approach.

Ooooh, I hadn't caught that it had a sticker from the store. That helps with that a lot. I still have issues with the way the whole -insert flashback Christmas episode here- thing was/has been handled, but the sticker detail at least helps this plot line from it make more sense.

Another reason (besides those already mentioned) that I am absolutely not having it with Callie and the social worker dude is that I think a dynamic like that would on some level hark back to her experience with Liam, and god no. Spoilered for sensitive content (not actual spoilers):

Yeah, and at this point I'm more suggesting it as an alternative the writers could have taken; it was December, so it could have been reasonable to have had Tasha wearing gloves, and the foster mom could have taken the toy from her carefully and right away. Obviously, this isn't the path the writers decided to go-- I just feel like I would be more willing to suspend my disbelief for "we found your fingerprints" than for "we traced this generic toy to this shop and the shopkeeper was able to ID you and your purchase from months ago."

I haven't seen this episode yet, but I just want to say that a much more sane way to have the toy connect back to Callie than a savant shopkeeper might be, hmm, I don't know... FINGERPRINTS*? Callie's been arrested, so she'd be in the system, right? And so would Daphne, but they could have had Daphne to have only touched the toy with gloves on or something (even though as has been mentioned, she should have been the obvious suspect anyway). I don't know how that would fit in with the timeline of events, both in that I don't know what month we're supposed to be in now and that I don't know how long it would take to trace fingerprints (though in HTGAWM it looks like it takes about a day). I'm just bothered by the weird writing choices that are bringing us back to this plot. *Editing this to say that if the episode does mention fingerprints I'm going to feel like an idiot, but no one on here has said anything about them yet, so...

I'm glad a few people have already mentioned the bathroom scene-- that was my favorite moment of the episode. The Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults is such a standard trope, and I always get so frustrated when characters just stand there hidden until the people leave and then be sad about it. I always want characters to do what Annalise did-- probably because I was once in that situation and did so (though not nearly as fiercely as she did, I'm sure).

I really don't like how fancy the technology is all presented as being when we're just jumping two-ish years into the future. It seems like too much, and while I find the jokes from Five Minutes into the Future funny (still laughing about the Freeman/Woodley feud), they're not going to keep well... I guess it can just be taken as an alternate universe timeline. Still.

Someone I work with mentioned today that she had been binge watching Glee recently. I asked if she was all caught up with it, and she said that she was on the second or third season. I just went, "Oh, it gets so much worse." I couldn't even fully articulate why when she asked because I was too overwhelmed by the "everything-ness" of the answer.

The scene where VA performs is hilarious if you imagine that everyone's reaction is in response to how bad it was/how uncomfortable it was to watch. And then in that interpretation, I feel really connected with the characters because that's how I felt throughout the whole episode.