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It's possible they might tie it together in ways that makes it seem more necessary. Like Bear's already met Maximus/Choban, Cheese is living with Irene and Willie Jack's going to start studying with Fixico. Maybe she'll want to heal the wounds they have about what happened to him, for instance. If Bear recognized his friends from the past, he didn't tell him about it.

Ah, yes, that makes sense. I thought we were talking about her childhood tradition, which seemed nice. If I lost an adult tooth I'd be running with it to the dentist too. No idea if they can put the real tooth back in, but I'd take it just in case!

That's exactly what I thought, that the reason the phrase is the same is because it stuck in his head. She meant he was terrible, he meant he was fat. Perfect!

Yes, her being his mother would explain the scrapbook, but her attitude towards him doesn't seem like that of a mother and son. She may have had a grudge against him. She openly admitted Ben accusing her of being obsessed with him, which he'd obviously have some reason for saying. Interesting to think of her being able to worm her way into a play when up until now she's never been able to get a part. I think there's just got to be a twist about her scrapbook. Maybe it's not hers--maybe he hurt one of her many roommates (though that apartment doesn't seem shareable so I assume the roommates were from somewhere else). Also, she openly admitted calling him what was written on the mirror, which she probably wouldn't have done if she'd written it. We already had one person who was obsessed with Ben in a fan-type way, so I'm thinking she's got something else going on. And she's probably been just as focused on Oliver for years, given her history. Cause he just saw him attacking her? I thought it was sweet--is it any less charming than putting a tooth under your pillow for money?

Fanwanking here, but maybe the difference is that he was burned by sunlight which can actually destroy vampires. Might have special properties?

The buildling where the outside is is on the UWS, 86th & Broadway. That's a totally appropriate place for someone her age to live. Not a neighborhood particularly associated with old folks at all. (Same goes for the Ansonia, if we assume the building's name is taken from that. It's just about 12 blocks south.)

But now she's looking around for one for herself before, it seems, she's made any money or found a job to pay for it.

I don't think they were saying they couldn't be, just that they didn't have to be, and since she has no money, they weren't.

Yeah, seems like English is known for traps like that. Spelling is a free for all.

Yes, that's how they wound up digging the Baron up, because they were checking to see if that myth was real. So it's still possible it's not, but the idea was already out there. For some reason, my favorite line was Nandor, when asked if Guillermo had gills and other fish parts, said sadly, "He never said. And I never asked."

Maybe Joy being kooky is a misdirect in itself. All she's really done is have a boring hobby of liking fish, hasn't she? And have some other big stuff that clutter the apartment?

I always have the same reaction--and I know you meant *poor* people are always turning down huge amounts of money. Because rich people, even in the real world, are never asked to do so. I buy it, though. Especially because whatever they say about her having old lady energy, she's young, and to them that means she's in the fun time of her life. Think of what they were probably doing at her age. They think of that time as the good years and forget how it's not actually fun to be lost and living on the edge. I had the same idea as others here about Ben writing to himself on the mirror. It would make sense if Joy was the one in his dressing room helping with whatever it was (maybe allergic reaction) on his face, since she's the make up person, right? So she probably is a red herring. Ha ha. Because a herring is a fish.

Oh, I think it's totally believable that he'd be like that since he's just confused at first. It's not something he's going to take in right away, and plenty of people, when they're unsure, are going to be pleasant rather than angry. It's like how paramedics know that whenever they ask someone how they are, no matter how injured, the person's going to say they're fine.

Yeah, while I don't think Ross is a worse person, this is the reason that when it comes to their relationship, he still seems the bigger problem. Both seem somewhat stuck in their prom queen/nerd personas, but for Rachel that just meant she thought he was often boring and nerdy and uncool--but she also saw good qualities in him. She didn't seem to see herself as still the prom queen doing the nerd a favor by seeing seen with him. As annoying as her behavior often was, I believed she often genuinely loved the guy. But on Ross's side, he had years of longing for her while telling himself she wasn't worth it! I totally bought it when Brad Pitt revealed the two of them had an I Hate Rachel Green *club* in high school, started a rumor about her etc. He really did seem to feel like he was superior to her while being insecure and that just seemed like a really toxic situation. Like did he ever really honestly know why he wanted her? It sort of felt like that list he made really did sum up how he felt about her, that she was nothing special except for that she was Rachel Green, the prom queen and he just couldn't quit her. (And of course both of them deserved to be with somebody who didn't hold their life's work in total contempt.)

Right, I feel like it's just a testament to how sympathetic Ross seems in that video that looking at his crushed face while Rachel just skips out not caring I almost forget for a second that all Rachel did was freak out briefly when her date was late and then leave with him when he got there. Really, the Gellars were more dramatic about the whole thing than Rachel herself. It didn't occur to her to start demanding a stand in date!

He is great in the scene--and I feel sorry for him too! But we've seen him in similar situations with Rachel before. Like, if Ross hadn't cared about Rachel in high school and just thought of her as Monica's annoying little friend, she'd have a reason for seeing him differently if she knew he was ready to embarass himself as a cool college guy and give up a night to take her to the prom. Instead it's exactly as you said--his parents goad him into doing it and he gets crushed. He's so sympathetic in that moment that when he comes down to find them all leaving you almost feel like Rachel's being thoughtless for not considering his feelings when she had no reason to do that.

He's *sad* when she doesn't get stood up because he didn't get to take her. Rachel reacts to it as if he really is her friend's college-aged brother who would have done something really nice for her when she and everyone else already know he's been crushing on her for years. That's why the end of the video is about feeling sorry for Ross. It's like saying that Victoria Secret model ought to get choked up and kiss Chandler for being willing to entertain her when they were locked in the ATM vestibule.

Exactly. Both of them seemed to have this weird entitlement about the other in different ways. If Ross was with someone else, Rachel thought he should be with her. And Ross was forever the nerd resenting the cheerleader for not liking him back, even though he didn't seem to actually like her as a person. It often brings me back to that bizarre moment where they're watching the prom video and Rachel is moved to kiss him because she sees how he was hoping she would get stood up on prom night so he could go out with her without having to ask. If that's both their ideas of high romance...that's toxic. No wonder Monica and Chandler were so refreshing.

Yes, it made her look bad in so many ways. First because of course anyone would be annoyed by being accused by something they didn't really do. (Also, he even thought she was also doing it when he called and Mark answered the phone.) It also made it seem like the only thing she cared about was that he was a cheater, as if the other stuff he did, which really was a big problem, was fine. That's what he needed to take responsibility for. Instead it was all wiped away, ironically, by him sleeping with some other girl.

There was a discussions about the effort to wipe out Native culture and forcibly assimilate Native kids into white culture, and that led to a discussion of how much the modern day kids on the show are willingly part of the larger white culture. I think the poster was saying that suggested--even if unintentionally--that the two things were similar. Not because playing video games was like cultural genocide, but because cultural genocide was like playing video games. So that's why they were grateful for the post laying out the difference.

But I don't understand why that's significant? I mean, clearly they are, but why wouldn't they be like most kids? They mention pop culture. Bear's dad is a would-be rapper. Their aunties practiced dances to pop music. Elora Dannen's literally named after a character in Willow. I think they were referring to the conversation here, not the show.

Not sure what the question is here? Because yes, it's true that plenty of Native Americans don't live on reservations for a lot of reasons--that's also influenced by the concerted effort at genocide. Oklahoma might not be the place where the ancestors of these kids called home at all. Reservations weren't supposed to be good places to live. The fact that all the people in the show seem to speak English exclusively seems like another sign of success in what the boarding school nuns were trying to do. There's also a lot of rules about blood quantum and being considered a member of a tribe etc. And US Native kids all grow up in 21st century US and its culture. Speaking as someone who isn't Native American, it seems like it can just be complicated and different for every person.

This is something that always drove me nuts--and honestly it made me almost want someone to ask Carol if it was really a mistake. Pretty convenient to be married to a guy for years and then, when you're barely having sex with him and planning to leave because you're cheating, you somehow get pregnant on your way out? And then start planning your little family with your girlfriend and even...planning to give the kid a hyphenated last name that leaves him out? And when Susan gave that speech about being so sad that there's no name for her in the kids' life? Your the stepmother, Susan, and will probably be called Mom anyway. Ugh, hated her so much. As if any of this would fly if she were man. Yes, it seemed like they intentionally made Rachel miss the point of the whole thing just so they could argue. Because the hurtful thing was Ross having a girl lined up to sleep with and lying about it after being so terrible before that, not that he cheated. Her focusing on that gave him the opening to shoot back with being on a break. That said, I will never not love his your/you're fury after 18 pages (front and back). Btw, I've watched this show in another language trying to learn from it, and would now almost love just a list of the common grammar mistakes each language uses in that moment to substitute for your/you're.

Others have talked about the difference in what's going on there (and remember, these kids are living after decades of attacks on their culture so we're not seeing what they would look like without it) but just wanted to say I always assumed the title Reservation Dogs was supposed to refer to actual reservation dogs. That is, the outdoor, stray and feral dogs that live on reservations and are often used as a symbol of reservation life and people. Definitely Native culture, not HIp Hop.

I haven't felt like Meryl Streep was dominating the show--not that I've really measured. Obviously her story is what starts the season so I think thematically her story (waiting her whole life for her break) is important, but I don't think she's taking time away from the main characters. The main characters would be separated anyway, because that's their story this season. Mable's alone and feeling lost and the two guys are unaware of how she feels. Charles had a romance the first season, now Oliver has one. Loretta might turn out to be an interesting contrast to Mable who's also getting a late start. So I just assume they're establishing Loretta and her special place in the cast of the play as an older actress who never got her chance and as Oliver's love interest, and they're doing that early on while the the three main characters have grown apart so they can come back together again. Loretta's more important than Streep, because she's saying something about the time of life Charles and Oliver are at. And, of course, she's also just important because while the three leads can all sing, the musical needs to be performed by the cast of Oliver's show, so this big musical number was going to be sung by Loretta. So while Loretta does seem like a more complex (meaning harder to pin down as quickly) character with more screen time than some other supporting roles on the show, I think the stories of the three leads would be the same even if she wasn't because of what they've already been through and where they are in the show at this point. ETA: In fact, I won't be surprised if she's dead at the end of the season--and not as a murder victim.