Snarkette

Odi and Niska are perfect and Mattie has won me over.

I don't get what Mia sees in Gunnar-from-Nashville. He's shown no heroic qualities, no extraordinary kindness, no particular interests or inner life. All he seems to have is hair volumizer and a mother who is devolving intellectually just as Milliken did in series one. Mia-as-Anita was wonderful. Mia-as-Mia bores me to tears. She doesn't even have meaningful conflict with the much overlooked Leo this series.

Episodes like this make waver between "fakeity fake fake" and "call CPS" as my desired outcome

Yael Grobglas really needs to maslaney her Anezka-playing-Petra a bit more. Loved the amnesia fake-out though, and the cat promise. Team Michael all the way -- it's such a playful fun relationship (when he's not being an ass for the sake of the plot)

I suspect a lot of these tiny movementers are AirB&B'ing their "new life" (so supplemental income, as seen on Tiny House Nation!), using it as a second/vacation home, or create an artificial basement on a relative's land until they move on to a real home. The show is really all about a downsizing cult ("downsize but maintain your middle class status, but simplify and lower your debt"), the participants include a fair number of opportunists as well as some misguided cultists, and an awful lot of put upon children, pets, and spouses. Lacking from this show: studio apartments, trailer parks, moving out to someplace in Wyoming, and proper toilet hook-ups that neither compost nor burn. "Ted Kaczynski with upscale counter tops!"

Just when you think the show can't get more ridiculous: Big Family, Tiny Challenge. "Hey, let's bust into these people's lives and give them 15 minutes to pack"

Honey G surpasses the high bar of irritation already set by Jedward, Chico, and Rhyddian. And unlike those shining examples, has no talent even at minimal Jedward/Chico levels, to back up her quirkiness. This isn't Britain loves its eccentrics, it's just mean. See also, William Hung

The ones I particularly like listening to are Scottish Hat girl, Scottish guitar girl, Gifty, and American. I want large-couple to do well but I don't know if they're going to do well in the lives.

It helps if you remember they're casting a show, not picking the best talent. They already have an idea of who they want to be in the top few, the rest is for entertainment. Jedward? Same Difference? Chico?

I am...confused.

Here's a really offbeat (and super political -- I warn you!) take on tiny houses: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2016/09/your-good-intentions-mean-virtually-nothing.html It caught my eye because getting approval for tiny zoning is starting to become a big problem. (See what I did there? I'm like John Weisbarth.) This is more about providing tiny traditional units than portable tiny homes: And from Washington DC: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2016/05/16/d-c-shift-could-make-tiny-houses-more-abundant/

And...we get motivation. Delle-ightful Seyah is looking for a safe way to immortality. The 6 process is too dangerous. So what do you do? Test it on a gazoodle of westerlies (with easy brain-poke clean-up) and get the process down right. The scar backs actually made me gasp. Were they real or did I miss something there? When it comes to green goo, why are scar backs always in the middle of things? Eh, Uncles and Aunties? (Not a lot of Aunties shown -- bad casting choice) Fancypants is back. He has more than a single line of "Mathtuh, Igor is here". I bet he does nothing in the finale. Sigh. Great way out for Pawter -- she never got the game and Dell Seyah lives the game. What especially made me love her exit is that she didn't die because of Johnny. It was always the story about her relationship between her status and her personhood. That, I'm pleased to say, was no fridging. As for D'avin, was it me or did he go first person shooter at one point --shot for shot by camera? That was such a brilliant summary of his character. And poor Dutch. She's been shortchanged by the plot for the last few episodes. I don't like "helpless" Dutch ever. And I don't like the hints of twu wuv between her and johnny. I take my ship as family please, not as romance. But the writers will do what the writers will do. Lucy, as ever, was the best. Love her.

Nooooooooo!

Having tiny-apartmented (for financial reasons, not for aesthetic or philosophical ones), I'll take my big-mac spaces with extra cheese thank you very much. @SmithW6079 that's a fantastic post (and that blog is now added to my "read regularly" list). And @auntjess, while not one of the Onion's best, it did bring a smile. Thank you. With any luck I will never have the recurring nightmare of searching for the door to the rest of my living space. I can't imagine what people sleeping in lofts dream of: high-coffinated living, suitable only for goths and persons with very very short torsos. For those gifted with a small bladder, imagine what it takes to get down from that loft several times a night to void oneself. And they never mention how much those places must smell after one's beloved takes a truly colossal dump. Plus, I wonder exactly how much childcare and psych treatment it takes for those who choose to raise toddlers in such an unpadded environment along with a bunch of pets. Remember the couple who caged their animals each night? And what about when it rains? Or snows? And there's never ever another room (except maybe the bathroom) to get away from anyone else. If I ever have to live tiny again, I'm signing up for a doublewide. With rooms.

And I was wrong. The Black Root are 6s too. And they have a plan. And so do the families with the walled cities. Looks like they're trapping 6s behind them, not just Westerlies. So to date we have, what, three separate war plans: build the walls, prepare for a scorched earth/qresh scenario, and preserve the culture and knowledge of Q'resh beyond their destruction. And Pawter is a stupid, stupid girl who can't see past the end of her own nose. And her idiot mother killed herself without leaving letters of instructions.

*sniffle* It connected with me. :( :( :( :(

Needs a latiny- or greeky-sounding highbrow name. Something based on, I dunno, ichor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichor) and chloros: How's deichorchloronation?

It's not exsangination if the blood stays in and the sap pools out

I've never been a huge fan of wondergirl and superboy, but damned if this episode both Dutch and D'avin didn't grow on me a bit. Even the cringesingalong just make me squee with the utter wonder of tacky. But then again, Johnny and Lucy finally kissed so I don't think anything or anyone is going to harsh my vibe or be...ahem...a killjoy.

I think maybe the black root are the tree-killers. They control the 6's, who are deliberately infected to gain the hulk-power but must be contained so they don't go rogue. So they call Khlyen "sir" and then zap him with stun guns and shove him into a cryo box. Haven't decided yet if the peaches played any role in this as they are a tree fruit. There was also the Arkin flashback thing where they were planting saplings. I'm sure that somehow resurrected Dutch is there to perform some important job when it comes to the goomonsters who are on the way to the system. The Simmses were busy setting up a raze-to-the-ground weapon of last resort. Delle Kendry was building an ark of culture and knowledge. The 9 (what's left of them) seem to know they're doomed. So we have: D'avin: Goo Wizard and possibly literal ladykiller Dutch who died and lives again The scarbacks who worship "the tree" but have to prove they're not infected The Red 17 program and the sixes it produces The black root which seems to have containment and transport authority over the sixes. The RAC and the lady, with unknown allegiances and motives. Military nanites, which may or may not have to do with Collector dude's nanites Different green goo variations, all of which produce self healing and mental communication but can't be interchanged And Johnny who is a robosexual nerd. (Sparks fly when he kisses Lucy. Literally.) Kind of a pity but he doesn't seem to play into the goo story at all except as friend and brother. And object of galdroid lust. I hope the "oh this is a computer" scene from last season builds into something more, when he interfaced with the goo.

I hope not. It's so much more awesome in my mind than anything they could put on screen. LucyBot was awesome. So what killed Blondie? Was it the peach? Was it the sex because she was a level 6 and D'avin's magic de-greened her? What would happen if D'avin had sex with Mossy? Clearly Lucy is willing to work with proxies wrt Johnny. And Dutch and Alvis were lovely together. I loved the explanation for the scaring and blood letting.

They've committed to being family together, and being each other's emotional supports, regardless of whether there's romance. D'avin (I keep wanting to call him D'erwood) was off limits because of the brother complication. Johnny has no problem with her sleeping with/being romantic with Alvis, just with D'umdum. Similarly, Dutch doesn't want Johnny leaving or changing his core identity from Killjoy to resistance fighter, regardless of whether he's shagging Princess HarryPawter. What's at stake is that core family and that core emotional connection. Season 1 handled the ripples from D'arwin showing up in their lives: from the level 5 bounty through sleeping together through him trying to murder everyone through the Killjoy Divorce. Now Johnny's being tempted with a completely different life. He's Dutch's rock. I don't think she cares whether it's Pawter or not (although I do get the sense that they're not exactly close) but that her Johnny is being lured away.

I would loathe for them to do this. People who use sperm banks, egg, embryo, or traditional adoption are no less the parents of their children. For the writers to do that ("rape baby doesn't belong to rapist mom who had total personality transplant but now loves the father of rape baby but must give up rape baby to exbiest genetic mother, despite nursing and caring for it for, what, six months or so") is just a grim (the missing m is deliberate) bit too far. Not that I expect logic from the writers. Also, is Wu still a wereblutwhateverbad? Did they ever resolve that? By the end of the season, I was watching through my fingers and finding any excuse to do chores.

Focus groups. Focus groups like soap operas and babies and hexenslapfights. Focus groups don't like smart. This is why we can't have nice things. soblimitlesssob

Khlyen: Klie-yen.* Or if you say it fast: Kline. As in Kevin. see also: "A Fish called Yala". Roadtrip for the win. I hope they don't go the stupid predictable route of "D'avin isn't really Johnny's brother full or half". If they swap out the mom, D'avin isn't as responsible for leaving Johnny to take care of her as an addict and if they swap out the dad, they don't share the abusive background. Either or both would suck. That's why I'm hoping it's either the nova corps that D'avin joined and Johnny didn't or when he was picked to be modded in the military to be controlled and attack his team that explains the immunity. (And if they picked him because of the relationship to Johnny and therefore to Dutch -- at least 3 or 4 years after Johnny and Dutch got together, then turning on his team was part of the goal, and his attack in Episode 7 makes a lot more sense.) If Dutch *is* some sort of clone, then the insults about her father in the harem make little sense, as do the decade or so of neglect before Khlyen showed up. ("Your father sent me"). K seems to have his own agenda, and Yalenadutchyala is a big part of that, which apparently is connected to Arkin, previous-Yala, the history of the scarbacks, the religion tree (which in Johnny's rendition is tied to Qresh), the tree's black root (I assume earlier-yalena: by the way, was the blood the "black root" members shed literally black with one splash of red or was that just me having vision problems?), and the planting of the little seedlings. To wrap up the rambling, I would not be surprised if the 12th scarback that got away was named "Jaqobis", but it takes something to trigger the immunity. * Mgt is not responsible for errors in fact, pronunciation, or splelling(sic).