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The problem with the theory of no autopsy is that when Rosa was in the pod, she had the telltale Y on her chest. But I would prefer the clone theory. That makes it less icky. Disturbing that he was trying to create a new one. But less icky.

I want to like this show. I'm trying to like this show. A good love triangle can make for good television. The autopsy and the 10-years in a pod are the parts that really has me weirded out. I grew up watching medical shows starting with Quincy, and Rosa's organs would have been "preserved" for lack of a better word. How does Max repair all the damage post autopsy? Doesn't make logical sense. I want to like Michael. And I get that Michael has to work through his feelings with Alex and the past. But you don't leave someone with an understanding that you'll be back to talk things out and then run to make out with that someone's best friend, simply because it's easier. And don't get me wrong, when I was growing up, this would be standard TV watching (hence all the tropes). But I expect male characters to be a little more "woke" (not my favorite term) than Michael appears to be. Or don't mind me...I saw Twilight and wanted Bella to take control of her own life and dump both men for being stupid and controlling (pretty, sure. But still stupid and controlling). I will mostly likely be back for Season 2, because I think there's a gem of something there. But the creators need to plan better, so that by seasons' end, the pieces fall into place. I'm still stuck on why Noah dropped a garbage bag of empty nail polish remover containers at Isobel's feet. At that point, he had to know she was alien. Demanding she admit it seems stupid.

How did I miss Liz running in high heels? Hopefully they can repair some of the damage before next season. Because there were some good moments in the series as a whole.

Well. That. Happened. I didn't like it. Michael Trevino nailed the "buying a gun" scene. Kyle's obvious distress and the gun owners complete lack of interest in anything but putting guns in the hands of US Citizens felt real. My only complaint to it was his little speech sort felt like it was stream of conscious thoughts that people wouldn't say out loud. But the acting was really good. If I'm supposed to like Michael at this point...I just don't. The actor does a decent job. But the character is just awful. He declares he loves Alex and then is kissing Maria? Um. No. That's just bad behavior. At this point, I want Alex & Maria to go find love interests that deserve them. Heck, take Isobel with you. She deserves a better love interest too. Noah was just over the top evil for no good reason. He has to give Max an Evil Guy Speech that sounds an awful lot like the first draft of Loki's speech in Avengers. Only he wrote it when he was 13. None of his season long behavior makes sense. Why throw the nail polish bottles at Isobel? He already knew she was alien (at least he should have since the number of nail polish bottles makes more sense with two drinking them). If he wanted Max to resurrect his dead girlfriend, why not train him to be stronger? Why hide as Isobel's husband and do nothing for 10 years. And Max. Dear Max. Dude. You got Liz. Did you figure one and done? Great epic love story. Here let's sleep with the girl, then resurrect her dead sister without consulting her. Maybe it's because I watched Flash first...but dude have a conversation with Liz before deciding she needs a walking corpse for a sister. And why can Max suddenly do this now? 10 years ago, it would be less creepy. Finally, Liz. Run. Go back to Kyle. He's easy on the eyes and he treats you with respect. He remembers to wear a bullet proof vest. He punishes people with medically induced coma's rather than murdering them or resurrecting dead people.

True, and it doesn't really take away from the enjoyment of the show. But it's depends on their target demographic. If they are asking tweens to think these relatively hot 28 year olds are 70+ it may be hard to swallow without some sort of explanation. My step kids are 19 & 22, and they still think the 1940's were hundreds of years ago. It's basically just weird. Also, it's weird that within the series, the entire point of the Nazi experiment/prison is apparently in preparation for the alien invasion. They've been prepping for 70+ years. Surely at some point, someone would realize that the invasion isn't coming.

That's why I had a problem making Roswell modern, but using the 1947 crash. It's just too far apart to make much sense.

Okay, I didn't like the first one. But the second episode was a definite improvement. It's a stupid thing to obsess over, but I can't get past the blinking thing. Real blind people don't blink that often. That's why blind-for-television actors hide behind dark glasses all the time. That being said...I actually liked the second episode (but not the first). They touched on quite a bit of how hard it can be to be independent when people are constantly trying to "help" you. The best friend and the hamburger guy both treat her as a person, and not a disability. I still can't get over the main character's Mother. She is almost completely unlikable. I don't know that I want to watch her come around. The main character? Sure, I'll watch her grow. But Mom is just awful. Probably more so because I know a person who is exactly like that with her visually impaired grown daughter. I'm loving the cop's daughter though. She is all kinds of adorable.

Malex makes me think of the big bad from last season's Legends of Tomorrow. That's not good. I prefer the names (they aren't that long) or initials if there's two of 'em (using one would get confusing fast with the M's). And I don't like Echo either. That's a character from "Dollhouse". And I'm starting to think I watch too much TV. (grin)

Yeah, I don't like it at the expense of Maria either. In the original, I adored Alex, which used to weird me out because I adored Colin Hanks' Dad too. And Maria was always her own woman. In this version, they've set it up so that no matter what happens, a large portion of the fan base will be ticked. Either Michael stays with Alex and once more a POC loses with less screen time and less plot lines. Or Michael chooses Maria, and Alex gets the reduced screen/plot, which is bad for homoesexuals in the fan base. The only win-win is to make them polyamorous, and I just don't see the network having that sorta skill to do it justice.

Well Noah was telegraphed from the moment he saw Isobel in the pod and didn't panic. Though, in retrospect, the large volume of empty nail polish bottles should have been a clue. It was creepy watching Noah frozen in the car while he was off pretending to be Isobel. And...that's a weird sentence. I loved Michael and Maria, but I hate this triangle because I don't want an M&M at the expense of Alex. My poor Alex didn't win the first TV series. I don't want him shafted the second time around too. I know it was silly, but it was awesome seeing Liz freeing Max and Michael.

I'm not sure I can love this comment more. I am never sure if it's my natural dislike for Milo V. and the roles he chooses, or if his characters are just awful. On the other hand, much of the problems with Rebecca is the writers not giving us a sense of who she is beyond singer turned mother because of the love of one man. It's played out as an epic star-crossed lovers route where the man is the hero and she is the prize. Rebecca is only defined by her relationships with men and by extension, her kids. And I know a part of that is the era she was raised in...but I want to see Rebecca be strong and independent, not a prop. I loved the ep where Kevin is in therapy and he calls her out for stuff. Because we at least get to see them expressing their problems, even if nothing gets resolved.

You would think a former MI6 agent would understand about the torture or be all "suck it up buttercup" about it. After all, it's just as likely that she, herself, was in a similar position at one time or another. Though I think you can feel badly for someone and still think their an idiot in a current situation. I do not like their chemistry at all. I can see friends. Anything more than that should be of the table as far as I'm concerned.

Except he's half-Pearson. They heal faster. As for packing and moving, once I had made the decision to move, I would immediately start packing non-essentials. So that I had less to do when the time came and I could space it out a bit and not feel so rushed. Of course, with my last move, and I had it all packed and ready to go with about 2 weeks to spare. The day of the move, all I had to do was pack the clothes I'd been wearing for the last two weeks and my go-bag of essentials and I was ready to walk out the door. It made things a lot easier on the guys helping me with the move. In contrast, my mother-in-law is still packing on moving day. And the guys helping her move usually have to wait around drinking beer while she works.

I missed the other Cullen. Probably because I was more than a little distracted by how close Matthew Lillard and Peter Facinelli looked here. They looked like genuine brothers. It doesn't help that I recognized Lillard right away and then didn't see his name in the cast (I'm sure it was there, and I just missed it), just Facinelli's. So the whole time I'm trying to figure out if I've lost my mind and he was supposed to be Facinelli. Then when Facinelli showed up, I figured it out. Also, while Twilight wasn't my thing, it was in my social group. So I knew all the actors and their faces (possibly their life stories). Also, the entire plot, quotes, and favorite scenes.

For alot of these type shows, I follow the "alternate reality" theory. I am enjoying Magnum, even if he's not the "real" Magnum. He's an alternate reality or a Multi-Verse Magnum. I have to do the same thing with MacGyver, Charmed, and Roswell. Hollywood gets confused about the elements of a hit TV show or movie. It's not just the scriptwriter. It's the script writer, the director and the actors all working together to make things work. Original Magnum worked because of Tom Selleck and John Houseman and the overall focus on being true to returning Vietnam Vets. The show holds up because all the elements were right. I was wary of Jay Hernandez going into the season. But I find myself looking forward to the show every week. So he's doing something right. And I suspect in future seasons, we'll get to the darkness that would come from living in captivity.

In a real world setting, Simon Hayes would have backups and backups of backups. And if he was truly worried about his former friends stealing his work, he'd have the code written in various pieces that only he knew how to string together to make it work. But, as I've said before, the creators do not do their homework on the technology end. It feels like they just have Rakesh spit out technology words with little regard to the words' meanings. And from reading these boards, it sounds like they are getting the church part and the legalese part and the journalism part and the mapping part wrong too. (sigh) In conclusion, I love this little show. For everything they get wrong, what they get right is a a charming heart warming story told through some charming and talented actors that make me buy it, almost every week. And while I would prefer them to go the Highway to Heaven (that dates me) route and just go around helping people.

If it helps at all, I really like her just not that her name as Higgins.

Yes and No. I agree that alot is Beth's perception of her Mom. But at the same time, unless what we are seeing is Beth's memories of the event, her Mom did have an attitude about dancing the entire time. Mom bent because Dad supported Beth. And with Dad out of the way (which is a horrible way to say he passed on), Mom pushed Beth to give up dancing entirely and pursue the educational dream Mom had for Beth. Clearly Mom picked a good educational dream, as Beth did well financially in her job/career. But Beth, under Mom's watchful eye, gave up dancing entirely. And Beth didn't have to give up dancing to follow Mom's dream. She could have found a way to do both, even if dancing didn't become her profession. My friend did exactly that with acting. She wanted to be an actress. Her mother, while supporting her dream, wanted her to pursue other educational dreams. So my friend found a way to make the two work. She volunteers time in her local community theater. She's directed plays, built sets, and acted. It's just in her blood. If ballet is in Beth's blood, she should have found a way to keep dancing...even if isn't the prima ballerina spot.

I disagree. Part of why I come to these boards is to see how other people saw/interpreted what I saw/interpreted. This has led me to see things differently on various shows (this one definitely). For example, having been in a version of Beth's shoes with an ex, I was naturally more inclined to see her point of view. In fact, that particular ex was very much "Jack" in personality. But, after reading through this board (all 5 pages!), Randall's side is much clearer to me. Heck, these boards have made me see Kate in an entirely new light. I never thought I'd side with Toby on anything (to be fair, I don't really like Toby), but Kate has been really over the top this season and Toby has always been the one to bend and make it work for her).

I get that Matt Czuchry is generically attractive. But he needs to stop cocking his head to one side and staring while grinning. He just looks evil when he does it. There's a scene last season where I think he helped a dying patient end their life or something and he's giving that look. Pure evil. It makes it hard to like him. Meanwhile Conrad plays like a young Dr. Bell. If he doesn't get the arrogance in check, he'll end up being Dr. Bell in the future. Julian doesn't need a "plan, people or status", she's got Conrad's Daddy's Money. At least that's how "drama" works on television. My friend's non-profit was a lot harder to create than just saying "hey I want to start a non-profit." It continues to be an uphill battle to find donors who will believe in the cause.

I think it depends on the type of retail store & the local management team. I've had it happen both ways. I live in an area that is prone to hurricanes. Whether we were open or closed seemed to be dependent on how safe management felt. One bookstore I worked at, the GM wasn't willing to come in--so store closed. He didn't care what corporate did....which, apparently is nothing. Another time, a bunch of people got fired for not showing up (same chain, different city). My friends that have worked at the Walmart/Target type stores have all said they had to be there or risk getting fired. Management was not willing to defend their desire to close. In all honesty, the one facing the weather condition has a better understanding of whether the store should be open or closed, not some corporate bigwig in their ivory tower far from the danger. I've been spared the blizzard, but I have had the rain storms where you couldn't see a foot in front of you and both sides of the road had already flooded to the point where the road was pretty close to washing out. That was bad enough without it being a blizzard too.

My local public community college switched over (typewriter to pc) in 1983. So I had access from a very early age that most kids did not. The families of the faculty and staff had some privileges since everyone needed to learn to use them fairly quickly, more than a few were loaned out for training purposes. And yet it still took my local high school (same town) 7 years to get them as a library "computer lab" set. And even then, it was an individual donating the set to the school. So it's possible that his school had one, but not a guarantee.

The episode was never meant to be realistic at all. It more of an homage to all the truly fun games we played in the 80s, complete with now horrible graphics that at the time were cutting edge. As for programming I was super-excited when I got the TI-99/4A to print my name across the screen and change colors while doing it. We were not doing that at school and it would have had to be an extremely elite private school to have computers in class for student use before 1987 or so (my public school didn't get them until 1990 and they were macs). Most of the show is "narcissistically self-indulgent", but it also brings to mine the carefree 80s we experienced as kids. And clearly the 80s were not nearly as carefree as my memory holds, but that's how memory works.

If I was writing this, I would have Noah either figuring it out (via flashbacks) to weirdness surrounding Max and Isobel (like Isobel always getting her way) or I would have Isobel telling Noah while in one of her blackouts. But that may just be me not wanting Noah to be full evil. My other mostly random thoughts: 1) Why does everyone in town know they are alien? It's like Liz is the worst secret keeper ever. She immediately tells Kyle. Alex clearly knows (though I don't remember that scene). Kyle and Alex told Cameron. And now we have proof that Noah knows too. This gives Maria all the justification for being super-pissed at Liz (like she was in Original TV show) for being the last to know. Unless Liz already confided in her too. 2) Overall nice job moving the plot along a bit. Probably the best episode so far. Though I'm still not warming to Liz at all. I will, however, be fully amused if Michael ends up with attempting to be polyamorous (which would never work, because I can't see Michael being that honest with anyone).

My favorite part of "I Can't Say No" is that my brother once got caught singing it while walking down the halls in High School. He got a lot of weird looks! Oklahoma was one of our favorite musicals.