DearEvette

I know celebrity lip-synching is a big thing now, but for my money the best will always be Paul Rudd doing Tina Turner's 'You Better Be Good to Me' on Jimmy Fallon.

Ha! This is sooo me. As far as I am concerned wherever I am facing is north. So to the right of me is east. Even if I turn 90 degrees I am still facing north. The only time I know direction is early in the morning or in the evening and only if it is a clear day that is because I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

There was a poll on some site where they asked re: Breaking Bad "What episode/scene did you know you were really hooked?' For BB it was the 'fulminating mercury' scene, but for Oz it was Beecher shitting on Schillinger and screaming 'Sieg Heil motherfucker!'. My husband and I howled at that scene. Yeah we are twisted. Re; Eammon Walker. He will always be Said. Even now on Chicago Fire I subconsciously expect him to break out a kufi. It is always such a surprise when he is in interviews and speaks in his native accent though.

Oz had so many character actors in it, though, that to this day I still refer to them as their Oz character name whenever I see one pop up on a tv show. When JK SImmons won his Oscar last year I told my husband "hey Vern Schillnger won an Oscar!'

I gather that the Aliens are simply finding willing folks and getting it on. Kinda like the men that Molly picks up. I thought that first pregnant woman Molly & JDM interviewed had stepped out on her husband with someone she found on and online dating site? K So far it seems that of everyone, Molly might arguably be the one who is having sex against her will and without her consent since she goes into a fugue state and doesn't seem to be aware what she is doing until she snaps out of it.

Honestly, I think my issue was that I didn't think it was messy enough. Probably why I didn't care for the 'truth game' segment because it -- in a weird way -- was too pat of a solution this early in their dysfunction. It was like a one man intervention. But interventions don't generally happen until people become really desperate We never got to see any real fall out from the Dutch/D'Avin debacle therefore we never get to experience what leads to Johnny going there. Instead Johnny was put in the position of being the exposition fairy and gave us the five minute highlights at the top of the show. Like I said above, i think it would have been more interesting if we actually got to experience the lingering effects of Dutch's distrust, D'Avin's guilt and Johnny's resentment -- to see the slow crumbling of the team so that when we get to the point of fracture it is all the more effective. Even though I wasn't thrilled with the actual execution of Dutch/D'avin segments I am glad the team wasn't miraculously healed. i still love the show, but I just thought for a show that so far has been kind of effortless and smart in the way it is telling it's story & presenting it's three mains, this felt a little clumsy.

I didn't like the Dutch/D'Avin parts only because it seemed like a needle scratch on a series of episodes that have been chugging along quite well. I get they have to do some sort of follow up on what happened but I would have preferred them to work in denial until something epic kinda made it blow up in their faces rather than having Johnny engineer "Team Building" I also think it is terribly shitty of the show to passively/aggressively through the characters to suggest that D'Avin is culpable in what he did to Dutch. Sure Dutch acknowledged that he was a victim but by having the RAC handler punch him because of it and people kinda smirking & winking about it undermines all that. I get Dutch being leery around him. But would have preferred to see her watchful and alert, ready to battle again rather than skittering away everytime he is in the same room. And there is Johnny. He does have a legit beef with D'Avin because D'avin left him to a junkie mother. But that was true even before they found D'Avin and before D'avin became a part of the team. Why not confront those issues then? Why shit on him now when you clearly see he has also paid a price for that abandonment? This is a guy dealing with the fact that he had his brains fucked over and his free will taken away from him and was forced to do atrocious things to people he trusted and people who trusted him. And yet it seems like the collective reaction to him is to be mad at him for having his brains fucked over and his free will taken away from him and made to do things he has no knowledge or control over. And that doesn't sit well because it reeks of victim blaming. That said, I did like the Johnny parts. Not because I think that Johnny hangs the sun or anything, but because it was centered more on the stuff I like in a SFF show, the world-bulding and the larger plot. The continuing hints about how the society works. How the hard-scrabble Westerly people are trying hard to make onto Leith and following the rules of seven generations but that seems to be a false promise. And the more hints of something big coming and more info about a resistance force. I also liked the deeper look into Pawter's past. Jack sounds like a terrible drug if you can't even be weaned off of it.

Laura Spencer, who played Caroline on SH (RIP Miss Caroline), is one of the "squinterns" on Bones. I wonder if they'll play with that somehow?

In thinking of the dribs & drabs of news coming out re: S3, the only thing that I have really hated is Sexy Betsy Ross. It seems so out of sync with everything else we are hearing. - I love the idea of a time jump because I can not stand the thought of Ichabod mourning Katrina (and he would have done so if they were to stay true to the character) - I love the idea of Abbie becoming FBI feels like a logical move for her - I love the idea of Joe Corbin coming back. It is a tether to Abbie & Jenny's past that makes sense (also the Wendigo epsiode was the first one in S2 that felt like a S1 episode after 'This Is War') - I am intrigued by the idea of Pandora being the Pandora and her box of ills being released into the world (it is a smart way to do an overall arc and make it episodic) - I like the casting of Lance Gross - I am curious about the Crossover - Don't care that Headless isn't on this season. If Pandora's Box is the big bad, then Ichabod & Abbie are dealing with the ancient Greek God pantheon, not Judeo-Christian one which is what Headless has become connected with. If they make it to a S4 they could re-introduce him then... - And most importantly, the showrunner so far in his language, is clear that this is Ichabod & Abbie's show. Big contrast from Goofman who even in S1 was talking about the 'Katrina-ness of it all."

I know right? I'm all -- hey guys Cylons? Skynet? Even if it is a cliche, evolution theory kinda bears it out a bit. Science Fiction is littered with this trope because it is a plausible one. A stronger, fitter more adaptive species will inevitably wipe out a weaker species. Humans have caused the extinction of many strong, successful species. If you are creating something in the image of humans and you are giving the ability to evolve, adapt & think like humans, but are making them stronger than humans then what is the inevitable conclusion? I would have liked to see some doubt and trepidation on more faces than just Julie & Charlie's. I know the Big Bad Myopic Gov't types are also a trope, but it would have been nice for that one at least to have been subverted a bit.

The RAC is fully independent and go wherever they are needed, so they operate all over the galaxies, even outside of the Quad system. I got the impression that their are RAC outposts everywhere and Dutch & Co. seemed to be kinda stationed in the Quads because that is where they are from. I actually like 'The Warrant is All' because it explains so much about them and the broad authority of the Killjoys. From the first ep, you could tell that as RACs they have a lot of leeway to do whatever they need to do in order to enforce a warrant. Dutch flashes her badge and knows it will get her out of anything if it is in pursuit of the warrant. They are outside of the local laws. During Ep2 where they go to that bombed out place, Sugar Hill to rescue that girl and where everything seemed completely lawless, the minute Dutch showed they were Killjoys it defused a hostile situation. But, like we saw in this last episode, if they are doing something that isn't in pursuit of a warrant, then they are subject to the local laws. It is also a kind of rule for them because nothing should get in the way of a Killyjoy pursuing their warrant. Fancy is the embodiment of this credo. I think if the writers stick to this then their world-building logic will make sense during the course of the series. I would have preferred them not to dip their toe into the sexy time this early in the show's run. If Dutch and D'Avin showed some real chemistry over time then I would have been all for it. I am a minority on this board as I actually like D'Avin and am not 100% opposed to a future D&D get together. That said, the sex worked for this episode only because of the aftermath. And that said, the idea of Dutch and Johnny getting together does feel to me like a brother and sister. Johnny gives off a sweet puppy vibe that simply doesn;t work with Dutch's cynicism for me. She feels like she would be too much for him. Which is why if they had to/have to go there with one of them getting together with Dutch I do prefer it to be D'Avin.

The Dystopia/Post Apoc Little Women will be on the CW, what are the odds Peyton List will be in the cast? Whoever runs CW just loves her.

Welp. That was kinda epic. The first half of the ep kinda set up some pins and was feeling a little laggy, but then the second half blew in and knocked them all down rather awesomely. I was feeling very disappointed that they decided to go there with Dutch & D'Avin and then the last half of the show just made it all work so well. The fight, fall out & aftermath would not have had the same emotional punch if they hadn't had sex. And I loved the last scene of the two of them together. Well acted by Hanna John-Kamen and Luke MacFarlane. Even my feelings for Pawter shifted from the first half f the show (annoying) to the last half (kinda bad ass) Meanwhile, I have to say the story is really moving. No lagging on finding out what happened with D'Avin and we got more layers in Dutch's personality. I hope this gets renewed.

The hour went really fast. To me that is the sign of a story that is actually moving. I agree on the Lucy stuff. How awesome and frightening she is. Right now I am really liking her and Ethan's dynamic but I can forseee them coming into conflict possibly. And that will harsh my glow. Molly's alien thing is also interesting only because what does it all mean? Of all the stories, hers is the only real mystery. What is going on? How will it come out? How does she fit in with the alien society? Also it is interesting that Lucy is named 'Lucy' but in a way Molly is also a Lucy (referencing the Ethioipian Lucy Australopithecu) in that she is the mother of a new species. And of course, Lucy was created in Molly's image so at some point they are going to meet (hopefully) as two different spurs of a new type of evolution. Of course I knew The Governor-Toby has the hot feels for Molly. It took him about a nanosecond to start schucking off his clothes when Molly went into her sex-fugue. I was a bit disappointed that JDM kinda brushed it off as just a slap & tickle when he kinda knows that Molly's goes to a weird not-there sexual place. If nothing else this season is 100X better than last just because of JDM and his gruff-sexy self. And yes, Molly is a mess! I hope she gets it together. And even though I can't stand Julie, I appreciate that they are giving her character some layers. I actually kinda felt sorry for her when they were all clapping over Lucy's kill. She should feel triumphant, but she knows she's compromised her science for personal gain and the result is going to be potentially catastrophic.

My theory is that Dutch is probably a member of one of the Nine families. Maybe an illegitimate child or whatever counts for illegitimate on Qresh. And Khylen works for Dutch's family. Even though the nine families are referred to as monolithcally powerful, we've already seen in the one episode how they are not above trying to gain advantage over each other and how tense everything was when it seemed like the one family would be completely wiped out if that kid wasn't born. Since the weapon can literally obliterate an entire bloodline, whoever has control of it would have an immense advantage.

I was completely neutral on the Bones Crossover. I like Bones but my reaction was more of a 'how can they mesh the two shows' than 'oh this a bad idea'. But since it appears that Abbie is gonna be FBI that creates a connection right there, But now that you say this, I kinda like the idea of Abbie & Booth doing an eye-roll off while Ichabod and Brennan out pedantic each other. Actually I am kinda looking forward to Booth's reaction to Ichabod.

So they have a Season 2 re-cap clip running on Hulu.com (it is actually a trending clip so yay!) and it is ALL Abbie & Ichabod. Very, very little Katrina. You'd think she was barely in the season. http://www.hulu.com/watch/823443

I love how the baguette is like... hanging out all free to the world and germs. I can understand if you are buying direct from a bakery. But at a grocery store? How does it get checked out? Does the check-out person handle it? How do you know someone else didn't pick up that baguette with their germy hands (seriously the handles of grocery store carts are petri dishes) and sniff it before setting it back down to pick another baguette? Produce is one thing, you wash it before you consume it,. but bread? In my store the baquettes are actually wrapped.

Clint Howard. He's shows up everywhere and his face is really distinctive. it was just like five years ago or so I realized he was Ron Howard's brother. So even now, when I couldn't think of his first name, I googled 'Ron Howard's Brother.'

Yeah, I think part of the lament was that, that 'pretty shopping' was seemed to presented at the norm regardles of the supposed financial situation. Only on a show like Roseanne, where part of the identity of the show was the blue collar-ness & near-poverty of the Connors would they show the opposite. It was like it was a direct answer to the 'pretty shopping' experience.

I remember a friend of mine was lamenting that fact that people on tv, when they go grocery shopping, always shop with cloth, sustainable bags and they always buy french baugettes that peek out the tops of the bags very picturesquely. Also their vegetables always have the leafy tops on them, esp. carrots. We wondered if people on tv every bought bagged carrots with the tops cut off? Or pre-fab baby carrots?

Yeah, I think this is one of those 'YMMV' deals. For me, the speculation about what they mean/do/feel is part of the fun of a show like this. If they don't tell enough, then it can be frustrating and problematic because you are doing too much specualting. If they tell too much, then they run the risk of 'telling' and not 'showing' and that much exposition slows down action. In my opinion, I personally think the show is hitting just the right happy medium for me. Coincidentally, one of my favorite Sci-fi/fantasy authors these days, Ben Aaronvitch (seriously if you like reading genre fiction, his Rivers of London series is fantastic) tweeted about Killjoys just a few days ago: This is a good precis about how the show seems to be approaching its storytelling.

I watched, I think, at most 3 episodes of season1 and bailed. I thought Ethan was creepy and thought Molly and John had an antiseptic marriage. Serioulsy. Halle and Goran and no chemistry,imo. Decided to try the first ep of this season to see if I'd like it better. I do. Much better. I binged all the eps and now I am looking forward to watching live. I am liking Ethan 1000x more this season. I am rooting for him to get back with Molly so hard! I liked his trek to find her in this ep and the little bit of suspense --would they connect? wouldn't they? -- that small subplot added was welcome because I knew it could go either way. JDM is smokin' and I am liking the relationship he has with Molly. I am also enjoying Lucy so much. I saw Kiersy Clemons in the movie Dope about a month ago and even though I knew who she was it took me a minute to connct the dots because she gives Lucy such a 'mechanical' tone sometimes, the actress allows herself to lose some animation in her face when she plays Lucy. And even though I find the bigger overall arc of trying to kill the aliens a good one, I am enjoying all the little subplots they are juggling: Julie (even though I hate her), The Governor (yeah, I know he is Toby but he will always be The Governor to me) and his feels about Molly and his girlfriend's feels about Molly, whatever is going on with Molly, Charlie. And finally, I like the bit of humor they infused with Molly's latest pick up. His facial expressions -- both at the diner and the next morning -- were gold. And his big, white briefs. "Call me!" LOL.

But I think the clear difference is of personal autonomy. With the one, she had no choice -- she was a small child who was in essence being abused, coerced and most likely her personal freedom was proscribed. As an adult with the RAC she chooses what warrants she wants to pursue and has freedom of movement. In other words, a slave picks cotton because his master makes him and he hates it. But if that slave was now a free man with a farm of his own, he'd happily pick his own cotton. And maybe in being able to choose what warrants she picks up, she feels she is actually helping to bring justice rather than being used as a weapon to kill people for reasons she is never given. With her old mentor I got the impression that he never bothers to explain to her why her targets were to be killed. So for all she knew she was killing decent people just to get them out of the way so bad people to get ahead. Given that he is trying to force her to go back to what she knows is a life of no freedom and no choice and doing something that she finds anathema to her, I think that is her fighting against that is a very strong character motive.

Per the THR link, Lance Gross isn't SH Police, he is an FBI Special Agent in Charge. So apparently there are some major changes in Abbie's profession. She is no longer with SH and finally did go to Quantico? So.. time jump obviously. And of course there is a field office in SH.... This of course could explain why they released Orlando if the law enforcement piece is being shifted to FBI rather than SHPD. And where dos that leave Sakina Jaffrey? Is she still involved in SH? She was recurring, but still....