janie jones

Given that all the bad guys were at the safe house, I think Ron Perlman would have been better off at home. I can't tell if their missions are just MacGuffins or if they're not about what they think they're about. Because they're all stupid.

I mean, yes, racism, but how do they justify it?

Leonard's mom doesn't even make sense. I don't think all child psychologists are perfect parents, but you'd think she'd know her treatment of him would be detrimental.

I totally agree and I also don't understand why schools don't require you to demonstrate the ability to work with a variety of hair types in order to complete the program.

I love those commercials. I keep telling my husband we need to find somewhere that sells that cheese.

Even when I was a kid it bugged the shit out of me that the same guy sang this song and The Wanderer. The hypocrisy!

I don't really understand why they applied for their jobs not knowing who they were working for. Did they want to be spies so bad they'd just work for anyone?

I feel like the company wants to be able to blackmail rich people.

Well and what if someone else had been the highest bidder? Were they targeting John Turturro specifically or just whoever bought it? Yeah, I saw two more fails also. Like a 3 strikes thing.

I think part of the situation with Rory is that maybe a lot of people in town took Lorelei under their wing and maybe felt like they needed to look out for Rory in a way they didn't need to look out for other kids who weren't raised in a garden shed. They probably were more personally invested in what Rory had going on. (I still agree that it's dumb and weird.)

I watched this episode days ago and one detail is still bugging me: What was the other lady doing with the bomb cake in the first place? Is she from another organization that was going to bomb someone else? Did the Smiths' organization switch out her cake with the bomb? If so, isn't that an unnecessary extra step? And that lady's cake happened to be identical to the one the bombing victims ordered? Am I the only one who cares? I learned the other day that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was originally supposed to be Jane. It would have been completely different. It also sounds like her version of the pilot was also completely different. That may have been good also, but I only watched this because my husband had it on, and I got sucked in by this version.

I've never been less shocked.

I also think that it showcases that Rivers Cuomo isn't a very good singer.

I always interpreted it as It still being early in the day. Which, if you had a lunch date, of course it will still be early when you're done, so why act like that's news?

Do former contestants make a lot of appearances together? Lottie, Chigs, and Anthony seemed so comfortable together that I had to check to see if they were on the same season. (I also thought Chigs and Lottie would make a cute couple.) I also felt a little bad that they weren't really interacting with Manon much, but that might just be because she was taking it more seriously and was probably more focused. I've always thought that Lottie would make a good host. She'd make a good co-host for Noel (I like Alison, too, though.)

It wouldn't have improved the flavor, but I think Josh would have been better off omitting the piping on the sides of his cake if he didn't have time to do a good job. From what I could tell, the frosting was quite good, but those decorations were terrible. I thought that was weird, since there had been no indication that Josh's showstopper might be difficult to carry. It seemed a little patronizing. Earlier on, when they showed him checking in on everyone while they were working on their eclairs, I was thinking that I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to deal with that every bake (if he did that every bake). Dan never really bothered me before this episode. I knew Matty was going to win when he said he was making a lemon cake after his parents said how good the lemon cake he'd made for them was. It felt like foreshadowing.

Are these real people? Who are they? Is this people's faces photoshopped on other people's bodies? There's something weird about this.

This is how I feel about technicals in general. If I as a teacher wrote a test that everyone failed, then it's on me for either testing them without teaching them, or for writing a bad test. But technicals aren't that kind of test. Technicals are more like pre-tests: what do you walk into the classroom/tent already knowing? So if the show wants to see who can demonstrate skill X without practicing, or from memory, I don't think it means there's something "wrong" with a technical if it turns out they have a group of bakers who haven't mastered skill X and don't know how to course correct if something goes wrong. It has simply revealed this group of bakers don't have that skill. A lot of times there are technicals where some people are all "wtf I would never make this from scratch" and others are like "oh I make this a few times a year."

They felt invincible and they *were* invincible. Whether they remembered the deal or not, they were benefitting from it. A lot of people think they'll never get caught but then do. If not for the deal, Roderick might still have a pile of bodies, but it likely wouldn't be as big. The interesting thing to me about Pym fixing everything is that we don't know quite how the deal protects them. Maybe Pym would have been less effectual if not for the deal. Maybe they never would have met Pym if not for the deal.

I agree. I also thought she was going to offer to turn him into another one of whatever she is. I don't really know why Verna was so high and mighty about what bad people the elder Ushers are. She facilitated their being able to carry on with no consequences for decades. It's their doing in that they didn't need to take her deal and likewise didn't need to be despicable, but she also didn't need to make the offer in the first place. She knew what was going to happen if they accepted. Actually, at one point, I thought it was going to turn out that they had made a deal with her to cause a certain number of deaths.

I don't know if this is what they did in this episode (although I assumed they did when I was watching it), but I'm pretty sure that in the past, bakers have mentioned that they coordinated outfits. Her saying "look at my face for the last time" cracked me up. She said she didn't have confidence pronouncing some of the elements in her recipe. Her interpreter is translating simultaneously, so I was surprised they didn't just put a microphone on him. It's not like they try to downplay his presence.

Is that the one where the dogs are going after a rabbit? I always wonder what the rabbit is doing there on the pier.

That's so funny because in the first courtroom scene in the first episode, I thought Mark Hamill was Sam Neill.

They do have lavender scented Old Spice, though. They have a ton of scents now, not just the old man one my dad has been using since I was a baby.

It’s not a spin to say Friends was about the six friends and not a family sitcom, it’s the entire premise of the show. We didn’t see every moment of these characters lives, Ross didn’t have primary custody of Ben and there was plenty of mention of Ross having to pick up Ben or leaving to get Ben or scenes of him with Ben. Rachel did have primary custody of Emma but the baby was rarely seen. Are we supposed to think she was a bad mother? I think she spent time with Emma but the show was focused on friendship not parenthood. I don't think we know that Ross preferred to hang out with the other five. My assumption is that we're seeing Ross during Ben's mom's designated time with him, not that Ross is avoiding him when he's supposed to be seeing him. We also barely see Ross going to work, but that doesn't mean he doesn't go every day.