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I see what you did there!

That actually was the plot of a classic Twilight Zone episode. A young woman is haunted by the frequent visions of an older woman who appears to be stalking her as she is faced with the choice of marrying either the stable but boring guy her father wants her to marry or the bad boy she is in love with. She ended up defying her father and running off with the bad boy. Fast forward 25 years, and we learn that Father really did know best; the bad boy turned out to be an abusive, cheating asshole who dumped his wife after bleeding her dry. The now older, sadder, and wiser woman then finds a way to go back in time in an attempt to warn her younger self not to marry the wrong man.

Well, but how else could it have been resolved? Was Jadzia just supposed to wait for 60 years and return when she was 88, while Deral hadn't aged at all? She would have needed to move on at some point (even though it's a moot point given that ).

You must hate the Argentine Tango, then. Once it became popularized in the bordellos of 1920s Argentina, its common theme became that of a prostitute and her john seducing each other. Before that, it was a same-sex male dance that was done exclusively by the Argentine gauchos who invented it (they danced with each other because there were no women around to dance with until it was introduced to the bordellos), and it's still traditionally a male/male dance there today. Something for both the homophobes and the prudes in general to hate. Win-win! :-P

From the Blackpool Week thread: Anton, maybe -- as long as we did a Standard dance (Quickstep would be my choice). I wouldn't trust him with a Latin routine to save my life, even though I've always wanted to learn the Paso Doble. For that, I think I'd go with James, Kevin, or maybe Ian Waite. Robin Windsor simply isn't my type. If, however, I have to choose an opposite-sex pro (although as a gay man, I'd naturally prefer a male pro), I'd probably go with Ola or Karen Hardy after she's had her baby (as viewers of ITT know, she's pregnant; I'd say, in fact, that she's about four or five months along). Incidentally, I can't watch ITT here in the States. I can only watch the dance clips on YouTube and the few brief snippets of ITT that the BBC sees fit to put on its dedicated Strictly YouTube Channel. Of course, the advantage to that is that I don't have to listen to the judges' in(s)ane comments. Speaking of the judges, I heard on Twitter yesterday that something terrible happened to Craig's family, but I couldn't find any details. Anyone know what happened?

Responding in the Pros thread.

No kidding. I sometimes look at what's going on in this country nowadays and I think that 2024 just got here a little early.

I've been waiting for this pair of episodes to come up in the viewing rotation. Here we are less than ten years removed from the date during which they are set (September 2024), and there is so much that rings true even now that it's scary. Some cities (Atlanta, for example), actually have toyed with the idea of creating real Sanctuary districts, and given the recent events of this year and this decade (Ferguson, Occupy Wall Street, the corporate takeover of the government that is pushing for deregulation and more power for the one percent at the expense of the poor, the sick, and minorities, just to name a few), I can readily see this kind of nightmare happening in 2024 for real, if not sooner. Preachy though this pair of episodes may be, they should also serve as a wake-up call to do something now to make sure that something like the Bell Riots never happens in reality -- or has a reason to.

If this show held a contest for one male and one female viewer to dance with the pro of his or her choice, and you were the lucky winner, whom would you choose for your pro and why (and same-sex couples would be allowed)?

AND it would prevent him from choreographing another horrendous Latin routine. As for the special? Those kids were adorable, and their dancing was amazing to watch! Could we be looking at future SCD/DWTS pros say, ten years down the line?

It was real. The white magic was clearly shown leaving her body after she was forced to lock lips with Hook in order to save his life.

Yes, James ranted at length about that piece in the Daily Mail about how Ola is supposedly a bully last Saturday on Twitter. Evidently, it had Ola begging the BBC not to let the story run, but they let it run anyway. Suffice it to say that I doubt James would return to Strictly now even if the show begged him to.

Yes, she's not only under 40, but she's a contender as well (if I recall correctly, she made the finals in her series). Go Tristan!

OK. ;-)

So do I. I take my hat off to the lady for staying so positive and going out of her way to be nice to her fans online, in spite of all the crap she regularly gets from a few assholes who are the general reason that we can't have nice things.

I can see why she and James would be denying the pregnancy rumor, though. She's one of the most popular female pros (she does a cheesecake calendar every year that has been a tremendous success -- and for 2015, she even threw in a nude shot or two, with James's blessing, of course!), and she's got a good chance of winning this year. Besides, she doesn't want to pull attention away from her celeb or the show itself, which is why Tess denied her pregnancy until just before the end of that series. I do wonder, though, if that's why It Takes Two seems to be snubbing her lately. James has been complaining about that on Twitter, most recently today.

The problem, though, is that having the series finale planned out this far in advance doesn't take into account the way the story and the characters evolve over time. How I Met Your Mother had the final moments of its final episode planned (and even filmed) before the pilot had even aired. As a result, nine years later, we ended up with a finale that was totally illogical by that point because of the way the story and the characters had evolved over that time. It was such a jump-the-shark moment that it forever turned viewers off any other shows that those producers might come up with in the future. Wonderland's finale worked because it was supposed to have a limited run of only one season. It was therefore easy to plan a finale early on that was a logical and satisfying way to end the show. With a show whose run is indefinite (such as OUAT), that becomes much more of a liability if the producers aren't willing or able to modify their advance planning.

Yeah, because that worked out so well on How I Met Your Mother.

That's what I said about Ellen hosting the last Oscars. I was all too happy to skip that whiny, unfunny woman. Neil will be like coming home.

Well, that would have been useful for Canada. They have their Thanksgiving in October.

That means he's got something he can fall back on in case, you know, this acting thing doesn't work out.

I almost want to respond to that horrendous review with "Regina, is that you?" Seriously, it reads exactly like something she'd write, doesn't it?

Well, you know, except for the ones that could lead to death.

Not the way SwanQueen has been promoted, it can't. Remember that the biggest and loudest factions of SwanQueendom come from the gay and lesbian community who constantly complain about the show's lack of representation and who insist that they see some sort of unresolved sexual tension between Emma and Regina. The show has clearly decided to pander to that by deliberately setting it up as a romantic, not a platonic, relationship. If it were now to suddenly suggest that they only meant Emma and Regina as a platonic friendship (the female equivalent of a "bromance," in other words), the backlash and accusations of homophobia from the SwanQueen shippers would be off the charts because those shippers would feel extremely cheated by the show's not having the balls to go where the shippers think it should really go.

The good news is that Elsa finally has a new outfit. The bad news is that the Snow Queen has taken over as her mentor!