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My prediction for who will win. 1. Bindi 2. Alek 3. Nick There's no way in hell Alek should be Top 3, so I'm assuming he's getting the patriotic vote, not votes because of his dancing. Bindi's win was pre-ordained from the jump, so that leaves Nick in third. Who SHOULD win? Nick. Alex as I said straight up shouldn't be there and Bindi is a 17 year old agile, petite blank slate; not a 35 year old who's been performing (and dancing, to an extent) since he was 12 and is considerably more worse for wear than her. Couple that with having to UNLEARN bad habits, Nick's had an AMAZING run. Nick has had a JOURNEY and isn't that what DWTS is supposed to be about? It's not about someone who was good and stayed good the entire time. Bindi can dance yes, but she's also had an easier road than Nick.

Technically, she's not a good singer. I took lessons for many years and was in choirs for about 8 and she's got a very nasally tone - the hallmark of a singer with bad technique. Not to say she doesn't have talent, but she's not singing correctly.

Oh goodness the Tommy reveal was fabulous, the only time Girl made me cry actual tears. I had read a spoiler about it (someone on my Twitter literally tweets out "TOMMY!!!" a couple days before the episode) but I didn't know in what context he'd be in it. I did recognize him in Topanga's, so I was anxious to see how he'd reveal himself. Will Friedle NAILED NAILED NAILED that reaction. They need to keep Tommy (I refuse to refer to him as "T.J.") around whenever Eric shows up. Tommy's presence automatically humanizes Eric and brings him down to his mid-series sweet spot and prevents the writers from going full season 7 with him. I also was astounded by how much characterization they gave Tommy; they could do a lot with that. JB Gaynor is now on Twitter and he seems game, so I really hope he sticks around.

Still, Whenever we see Topanga she's relegated to the Matthews' kitchen with Auggie and Ava. When does she work exactly? They need to show her in a work environment so maybe the kids visit her office after school sometimes. They could put it on the level about the bakery.

Topanga is a lawyer in name only, at least compared to Cory's teaching. She should have a lawyer set but instead is only shown essentially as a stay-at-home mom most of the time. They only refer to the fact that she's a laywer. They've only shown her being one once and it was a case she wasn't even on. Shawn has zero reason to come off superior to Katy, but that's how they're writing it. Who does he think he is throwing money around like that acting all saviour-y? Katy does have all those responsibilities but instead of showing her has a strong woman who gets shiz done, they show Shawn coming in and being a white knight. MAYA SAID WITH KATY STANDING THERE that no other person has ever cared so much for her when he made the comment (that probably wasn't even a genuine concern of his) about her clothes. While Katy did take exception to it, Maya didn't apologize or anything and they wrote Shawn as the one to point out how important Katy is instead of her asserting that for herself or Maya recognizing it.

Can you exalt people on this board? Because holy balls. LOVE. ALL. OF. THIS.

The way the characters were written demonstrated how a man (Shawn) was superior to a woman (Katy). Portraying females as inferior to males is also misogynistic. This episode was written by a man not surprisingly. Katy is being written inconsistently and I think that’s where the air of misogyny comes from. In one breath she expresses discontent with Shawn’s actions, but then Shawn responds with charm (“can’t we just have a good day?”, “I dress the kid up a little bit!”) & she almost immediately submits even though she had very very valid concerns. Maybe it’s cause she’s crushing on Shawn but if something more organic changed Katy’s mind I’d feel better about it. They’re writing Shawn as superior to Katy both financially and intellectually to me whilst writing Katy as downtrodden. I wish they made a point of saying whether or not Katy paid Shawn back for the locket money

Angela absolutely could have been a part of this "World" had she been introduced as married to Shawn. She relates to Maya the exact same way Shawn does because she was also abandoned by a parent. Shawn and Angela could've both been adult mentorish figures for Maya and showed her that in spite of being left, you can overcome it and maintain a healthy marriage/relationship (cause I'm SURE those issues will come up for Maya in the future). Angela could even do that if her and her husband were introduced. If the show also wanted to continue the Cory/Topanga Shawn/Angela juxtaposition (something I'm not a fan of personally) they could've had Shawn and Angela display a conversely more difficult/realistic marriage than Cory and Topanga.

But Cory and Topanga know that's not what went down. By having them not convey in any way the reality surrounding Angela's leaving, it's like they agree that she callously left him when she didn't. Retcon.

If anyone's interested, I wrote a blog post about my thoughts on Hurricane and Shawngela on gmwpodcast.com: http://gmwpodcast.com/2015/06/25/he-still-loves-you-donna-karan/

Pretty positive Ava and Auggie will be the Corpanga of the show. May God save all of us.

I'm still a little confused about what you've said Pink. You mentioned there's no acknowledgement of Riley, but the stills shows there is. Maybe you didn't see everything.

Yes she does. Her mom left her just like Maya's dad left her. Why can't they relate on this level instead of having Angela be a person who's going to come in and "ruin everything"?

That isn't an excuse. They don't need to get into it, a simple throwaway line from someone going "well Shawn, it wasn't that simple..." would have sufficed for me. It would get across to the new audience that there was more to the story, even if they don't know what it is. As of right now, new fans are going in to Hurricane with guns blazing cause they think Angela is this bitch who left Shawn, the comments are all over Facebook and Entertainment Weekley articles and on Twitter so it doesn't even matter how she comes across in it, the damage is done. The lack of exposition in this episode is the same as continuing to portray her as a villian cause none of what was said in the previous episodes is refuted. All this does is make it easier for the audience the show cares about to accept a Shawn/Katy paring. People are for it based solely on an unfair representation of Angela. It's an intentional, bitch move on the writer's part, or on the part of any brass at Disney who may have influenced this decision.

I think it's right for Shawn to think this way and somewhat justified, but if it was not a statement on Angela's character they would have Cory or Topanga point out that Angela "leaving" Shawn was more complicated than he's remembering. He specifically said "she ended it and walked out on me" in Pluto, that isn't true & Corpanga know that, but they just sat there.