Zanne

I loved the open mike night toward the end of the program. It was great to see them all do what they love. I particularly liked how Elena helped Megan with her piece and was such a great director when Megan got off-topic - "Look at the script, Megan!" Elena appears to have grown the most. I thought I would tire of her quickly with the number of breakdowns she had in the first two episodes, but she has recognized some things about herself that she wants to change and is taking steps to do so. I teared up at Cristina and Angel's promise ring/engagement. I'm not sure if it turned more into an engagement than merely a promise to be engaged, but at least Cristina is happy! The one thing I did not like was how Megan's mom approached Megan about moving back to Colorado. I felt she was being dishonest with her daughter. She framed it as money being the only problem, rather than addressing openly and honestly that Megan needs to learn to take care of herself before living on her own. I think Megan's mom has spent her life skirting the issue, and it's left Megan a 22-year-old who wants to be independent without any realization of what that might take.

Since this family does not live in the desert, I'm going to assume it was not a wild tortoise. You do not see desert tortoises roaming around suburban neighborhoods unless it's an escaped pet. In fact, as far as I know, in California you can only own a desert tortoise such as Speedy if you have it registered since it is not supposed to be removed from its natural habitat. Otherwise, you can be subject to fines.

I thought Madelena and Gareth had tossed it out the window brick by brick, though I suppose that would have just left a heaping pile of stones for Richard and Galavant to crawl over.

That speech was not written by Megan and is likely her "go to" speech when called upon to speak. Her catchphrase is "don't limit me" or a variation; I have heard it from her several times and have seen it on the tags of her Megology clothing when they flashed them on the show. Do you think that was her idea? I don't. The clothing line was also Mom's idea (and Mom run) since it would take a lot of planning to put that into place, rent a space at a flea market, and buy the items in bulk, all of which would include talking to strangers and discussion of money. While it is great that Megan has become a public speaker and participates in the clothing line, I am bothered that they are trying very hard to give the impression it was 100% Megan when she obviously required a lot of help. Working with children with special needs as I do, I'm all about celebrating the small victories (which is why I was so upset Megan's mom had not been stressing life skills with her daughter) and working toward larger ones, but I also don't feel it is beneficial for Mom to layer all the credit on Megan when she is far from independent. It builds false expectations in her daughter that everything will be easy, someone else will do all the work, and Megan will get all the money and credit. This can lead to crushing disappointment/complete shutting down when things turn out to be not so easy.

I was shocked when Megan's mom admitted how little she has taught her daughter in regards to life skills. She's encouraged her daughter to follow her dream of becoming a singer/songwriter/producer/director, but hasn't taught her how to make a bed or do her laundry? She hasn't made her independent enough to ask for ground beef? Can Megan even cook a meal for herself, or does mom do that for her? Megan keeps talking about not being limited, and it seems her mom had been the one who has most limited her. It angers me when I see parents who do not try to teach their children with special needs to be as independent as possible, even if the children may never be able to live on their own. These types of skills are the ones the parents need to take charge of, and not wait for a teacher to do it. They need to do it before it becomes a problem, like in the case with Megan where she very obviously wants to be on her own, and cannot without some type of guardian because she lacks facility with money, shopping, and home skills to take care of herself. Mom should have been teaching Megan the basics long before the "move" to California. On the positive side, I loved the bike riding lessons and Rachel meeting Adam Lambert. I also loved Christina's (life) philosophy - "I'll just get up and try again!" I need to adopt that attitude more often.

I've taught children with special needs for several years, and this show has brought up several issues that I've had to deal with (or been forbidden to deal with) in my classroom. Many people have mentioned Sean's eyebrow quirk, as well as other behaviors that are viewed as inappropriate. I see this kind of thing develop in my population because parents consider it cute when their kids do certain things at a young age. Maybe Sean's eyebrow thing developed after watching Home Alone (it definitely reminds me of that) and calling women "babes" was from something else he saw. The problem is what is considered cute in a 6-year-old is far less cute when that kid hits thirteen, or sixteen, or twenty. Parents often don't recognize this and excuse it because their child has a disability, when if it had been addressed when they were younger, it would be far less of an issue when it hits the point of being a social problem. I have current issues in my classroom I wish I could address with the parent(s), but have been told by administration that it's outside my scope as teacher. Another issue I see is the extreme closeness between the parent(s) and child. I see this mostly with Megan and her mother, where it seems to me that they've been in each other's pockets their entire lives. While it seems ideal to be best friends with one's child, it can lead to socialization or even just adaptive issues because in some cases, the child literally cannot do anything without the parent present. I don't see this as much with Megan, who seems very socially capable, but I do think some of the ways in which Megan approaches things comes from having Mom as BFF rather than same age peers. I once had a conversation with a student's family regarding taking a step back to help with independence and Mom called the office to complain about how it was none of my concern. I did not get in trouble because the entire office agreed that something needed to be said, but you can see how sometimes families cannot take that step back to see things from a clearer perspective. They want the best for their child, even if it appears from the outside to be a mistake. From what I've seen on the show, I think these families have raised some wonderful children. Yes, some expectations are high, and some may not be high enough, but it's wonderful to see the families are so supportive of their children with special needs. I've seen families who love their children, but don't expect much from them because they happen to have a disability, so they don't push them to be the best person/student/citizen they can be.

So much yes to this. Supernatural has some weird math where, in many cases, cleavage = evil. Then it got me thinking that it's the opposite for the bad guys since Crowley sold his soul for a bigger penis. Which then got me thinking about the gender dichotomy in which undersexualized men (small penis) are evil, whereas oversexualized women (cleavage) are the evil ones. Then I realized while that made sense to me and I found the message disturbing, I was way overthinking a crappy scene that had obviously driven my brain down any path but watching it. Bullet point thoughts: 1. If neither Winchester pulls Adam out of the pile of shit they dropped him in, I will be pissed. 2. This Amara thing really is sounding more and more like Jasmine with every word out of her mouth. 3. Dean: "What is it exactly you want?" Amara: "Business appropriate attire." - conversation obviously left on cutting room floor 4. Dean, I am so disappointed in you tonight. - something Dean has never heard from a woman before and I'm sorry to be the first 5. So, Sam's still a moron? Good to know some things are forever.

Thinking back on show canon, Sully must have been wearing kevlar when he first met Sam since John already had given Sam a .45 to kill the monster in the closet. Unless...the monster in the closet Sam was talking about was Sully!

At that age, Sam would be in 5th or 6th grade. There is no way he would have an imaginary friend and not think it was weird himself, much less his dad and older brother. Kids at that age talking to imaginary people is more a sign of childhood schizophrenia than imaginary friend. No, I'm not a doctor, but I've taught long enough to know I haven't seen or heard of it, nor have my colleagues. Knowing what the Winchesters know, they should have been investigating the weirdness instead of leaving a child potentially on the edge of a psychotic break alone in a motel. For the imaginary friend thing to really work for me, Sam needed to be at least three to four years younger.

I gave them a pass on that because she slipped on some of the shells Ron was dropping after he took them and was trying to load his gun while following Carl. They needed to take out Carol for a few minutes or she would have taken care of all of the walkers already! I am glad they made Jessie's useless children boys. It's in keeping with The Walking Dead tradition of cowardly males.

Has anyone tried flipping the face and pasting it together with the other half in paint or another picture program? I don't recall the picture enough to know if it would result in a usable image. It depends on where the eyes are pointing, etc.

For all you Type I diabetics out there making your zombie apocalypse plan, this may help. Or perhaps this site. You can even make your own!

So does that make Amara the triangle or the cowbell? To subvert all expectations, this is one case where I do not need more cowbell.

I obviously missed this part, but how did they get to Alaska? They didn't drive, did they? And I don't recall a scene about how the Brown family took up nearly all the seats on an airplane to get to Alaska.

Deanna had a section marked "milk production" so I assumed it was for the future cows the townsfolk would somehow gather.

Frankly, both her parents don't give a damn about Scarlett.

While Nora's was technically a good makeup, it resulted in cognitive dissonance for me. I just thought it didn't ring true a tree with massive flesh tearing teeth existed. A tree is not a carnivore. I think it would have rankled less had the victim been more tree-like. Then the appearance of a dangerous tree at the end would've felt earned. I don't know. Nothing leapt out as awesome this year.

It would've been fun if, when Kara suggested Superwoman as a name, the editor shrugged and said something like, "We checked with legal...the Daily Planet's got a copyright and two letters are too close to infringement."

I didn't love it. The movie portion made me think we had our next three SyFy epics lined up for summer. They all had the same look and feel as a typical SyFy offering. The sound effects were amped to the max. In the quarrantine one, as she was walking across the desert it sounded like someone was crunching a bag of potato chips in my ear. Makeup was okay, didn't love it or hate it - except purple girl. She looked pretty leprous considering she was supposed to be a beauty makeup. I think FaceOff needs to take a longer break so people have time to graduate (or attend) makeup school before applying for this show.

If they really want to screw with us, Glen will survive, fight his way back to the gates of Alexandria, where he'll get shot by that gun Morgan let the Wolf run off with. They will both somehow end up in the same place at the same time, and Chekov's gun will win. Or maybe it's Chekov's walker, because the guy who took the gun who later got shot by Rick (?) will bite Glen.

Well...on a positive note, the three African-American characters from the road crew survived. The curse has been lifted!

I was upset Evan won, particularly since his project looked exactly like a previous entry of his. They've called other, better artists out on that before, but didn't say a word here? I call shenanigans.

"The Hunger" was the first thing that came to mind with that entire Gaga/Bomer scene. For whatever reason, The Countess is stuck in the '80s.

Iris committed the sin of murder (Thou shalt not kill) so she belongs there just as much as any of the others. Perhaps this isn't Purgatory so much as a representation of Hell. Dante said there were nine levels - how many floors does this hotel have? Maybe each floor is dedicated to a different sin or a diffrent broken commandment. Lady Gaga could be Satan, located in the ninth circle (the Penthouse) with the greatest betrayers. Though I can't figure out what Matt Bomer's betrayal would be, unless it's betraying his mother. ETA: I just thought that room 64 plays a big part in things. 6+4=10 (for commandments). That's clever, if that was the intent.