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  1. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The title of the writer's bible of this show
  2. Watching the 9-1-1 episode where a death row inmate wants to donate his heart to his kid - CA prisoners apparently CANNOT donate organs, either after death or live donations like liver/lung/kidney. So, Bode is a moot point until he serves his time.
  3. Ok, this might be a totally ridiculous question, posed out of complete ignorance but: Is there any way they could have cut down the tree she was wrapped around low enough to lift her over the stump? Or would it just be insanely dangerous to everyone involved?
  4. Like the way they threw themselves into the hurtling space debris rather than just flattening against the hull. Let me add my vote to SHUT UP, CHATTY McTWITCHY! So Trent MommyIssues is now Trent PoopSlinger? Mr. Trust = Steve Jobs? Man, Trent PoopSlinger was actually banging his mommy mentor? Lt. Napoleon Pissy is just a child. Petulant, whiny about authority - he practically stomped his tiny foot while crying over the officers' quarters. And "You're not the boss of me!"? Really, Pissy? These two Lt Assholes constantly arguing with Lt Garnet, who is nothing but sensible. Yeah, we're going to risk our only NAVIGATOR, makes total sense. Dial your testosterone down about 98%. Angus, we know you have a Garnet boner; try to play it a little smoother, child. What's with the cougar chasers on this ship? Ok, Lt Garnet finally cracked. Karen TitsOut has no idea what empathy is. This is the stupidest thing Garnet has ever thought of. The idea of also bribing her? Christ. She also didn't have the right to give up the other Lt's room. They need a private area as much as she does. They should have moved in with Garnet, at least thrown down a couple mattresses on her floor. How did they end up with a crew that mistrusts everything? That has an attitude that wouldn't work in a decent professional white-collar job, let alone the most elite group of humans on Earth, specially chosen for a dangerous and demanding job that the fate of humanity hinges upon? Steve Trust built the mf-ing Arks and Lt. HotScot is talking shit about him to underlings. The officers are dismissive to the security personnel when McStoic is just trying to do his job. 90% of the crew have no idea WTF a team is! Garnet needs to join up with McStoic and use his people as stormtroopers or something. I've never heard "it's not my job" so often in my life. BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 141 (Space Javelin Victim) ETA: HOW is this a Dean Devlin show? HOW?! Leverage, The Librarians ... and this piece of shit.
  5. The first wave of Arks are being sent to each possible habitable planet. Ark One is being sent to the best and (possibly?) nearest, for maximum chance of success. If an Ark successfully colonizes a planet, they contact Earth (I assume) and their families, along with others, are sent to that planet to start continuing the human race. Since Wave Two will be at least 10-15 years behind Wave One, the Arks will have to be a self-sustaining colony population-wise until then, which, judging from previews, will be news to some people. They didn't say anything about whether outbound communications are presumed operational, but it seemed weird that there are no communications regarding the state of the Earth and/or the Ark program. We also have no idea how close to light speed the communications will be. Will it take X light years for their report of success to reach the Earth for Wave Two? Makes you wonder if their families will even be alive to follow by then.
  6. Second watch thoughts: Watching people fail miserably trying to input passcodes during an emergency will never grow old. God forbid there be a retinal or thumbprint option as well. Baldy McStoicPants has the competence and gravitas one appreciates in a Head of Security and not only manages to get the door unlocked, but returns with a helmet for the person directing the evacuation. Lt. Pissy whined about waking up the captain after an ENTIRE CRYO BAY disintegrated. I think she's gonna wanna know, buddy. "My god, man, did you pay no attention in orientation?" Have you MET these people, doc? Aaand we start the "piss off, that's not my job" counter at 3 so far. Lt Pissy, Lt. HotScot and now Imposter. WHAT is with the kerchief on Babushka, ffs? Was the accent not thick enough to scream East European? Or the outright declaration of nationality? Chatty McTwitchy, SHUT UP. You give me a headache every time you open your mouth. Farmer Angus is adorable. You know, if I were an Impostor, I would try to lie low and not antagonize everyone I talked to. And again McStoic steps up to the plate and showerblocks Karen TitsOut. I thought the drip of water from the shower head as they left might become Chekov's Leak, but nothing came of it. I like Lt Red putting Lt Pissy in his place in the farm - she's right; he had a decent point but made an ass of himself grandstanding. He's That Guy in a meeting that makes up stuff to complain about but never offers solutions, just more blockers. Trent MommyIssues is a canary in a space coal mine. Sensors haven't detected the reduced O2 level yet, but his sensitive lungs can. Why has THE ENTIRE SHIP lost oxygen? That's not a leak, that's explosive decompression in every section. How many hours were they in a sealed room that they could have used up allllll the oxygen? Do I advance the Not My Job counter if it's Impostor again? Aw, McStoic's first slip-up, losing a prisoner. BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 142
  7. Chatty McTwitchy already makes me want to shoot her out an airlock. She's like if Billie from Avenue 5 went horribly wrong. Half of these people (not in the command council) seem like emotionally stunted 12-year-old geeks. Like, honestly, they seem like they'd have a hard time figuring out how to navigate a middle-school lunchroom, let alone creating a new colony. They are also the most self-involved people I've seen in a while (other then Avenue 5!) on a semi-realistic space-faring show. You don't usually see astronaut types carefully chosen for a very small population in constant life-or-death situations have to constantly be told not to do/touch things that can kill everyone. They're either just idiot-idiots or horrifically selfish idiots who don't get that stealing water is Bad and your freshly-showered titties will not keep people from dying of thirst one day, or bitching about not getting more food is pointless because it will not appear out of thin air because you Want It. Or the oxygen tanks you just stole from MED BAY and stashed in a hallway vent might be needed elsewhere. From the previews, it looks like The Lieutenants will be more worried about dick measuring with each other going forward than the actual state of the ship and crew. If they were smart, there would be several pod bays around the entire circumference of the ship with a mix of "leadership team" people and a cross-section of all departments. That way, something hitting one side of the ship wouldn't take out the entire chain of command or an entire department's worth of knowledge. It's like Ark B from Hitchhikers Guide, except Arks A&C launched and were taken out by whatever hit the ship instead of a virulent disease contracted from an unsanitized telephone.
  8. Freddy, it's not like the whole fire house traipsed down to the hospital to visit the baby - it was literally DELIVERED in the FIRE HOUSE. They aren't mocking the fact that you were at work when she arrived and gave birth. During the pink rain, NONE of them thought that maybe putting their goggles down would be a good idea, especially since they went through the trouble to say it stings and is hard to get out of clothing? Maybe, y'know, protect your eyes? Did the writers have everyone be idjits just to give the out for Freddy later? "My wallet's in the fire! And $500!" WTF, dude, seriously? Like, you didn't have a go-bag strapped to you since you sent the wife off in the ambulance? You deserve to lose all that shit you just left in there. Is Jake still measuring himself against Bode? Realistically, when did Bode become the yardstick for anyone who knew him back in the day when he was messed up? Gabriela, what kind of chastity-ring dickteasing was that? Not the idea that they should avoid a relationship for the next year while they get their shit together, but the "It'll be like a precious gift!" for abstaining. I'm guessing the cliffhanger firebug is Harlan getting "revenge" for the loss of his house.
  9. AVA has cochlear implants herself and just doesn't use them, so her bitching about how "barbaric" it is seems pretty hyperbolic. The kid can just stop using it if it's not helping or gives her splitting headaches. My friend's toddler got her "skull drilled into" for shunts to prevent ear infections - it's a quality of life issue, not life-threatening, but still worth it. Kids get operations all the time to fix things early enough before they become an issue and there are plenty of babies out there in social media that are happy enough with their CCs and have agency to remove the external receiver when it irritates them. IN ANY CASE, the real issue for her was not the operation but that she felt the parents wouldn't choose to raise Lucie in the manner that she felt best. Honey, the "Supreme Court" is not going to hold that up as the standard for removing children from their parents. She was hella deluded when she started on her mini "life on the run". If she'd really cared about that family, she'd have kept in touch with the mom to encourage her existing desire to support Lucie. If Ava'd shared her experience as a Deaf person rather than freak out about "barbaric skull drilling", she might have gotten somewhere. If she gave testimony about how CCs worked for her (or didn't), they might have tried other things first. And Ava was not in the meetings with the audiologist - maybe Lucie's type of deafness responds better to CC, maybe hearing aids would help - SHE DOESN'T KNOW. And yet she abducted a child. I've seen enough Law & Order to know that even the most well-meaning person in a child's life cannot just RUN OFF with them and ADOPT THEM in another state. Even if the parents were beating the child. Like, seriously.
  10. The whole deal about Manny and Vince being crappy leaders wasn't even a factor in Hit and Run's death, as far as I can tell. Like, yeah, great story - relevance? The fact that anyone even found her body can be chalked up to Vince's dumbassery and Manny's inability to secure the car. Gabriela was pointless, but at least she gave Hit and Run a few more hours - Max alone wouldn't have been able to carry her as far as they did (if his broken/cracked ribs were realistic and not just convenient). At best, Max would have hiked out and gotten help, who would never have found the fugitive in time. It's not Cal Fire's fault that the fugitive disappeared into the woods. It sure as hell was not their responsibility to locate her, given she seemed healthy enough to sprint far enough away that it took ages to get back. The cops might have sent out a search party, but...
  11. Or in a pinch, just have half a dozen grab onto the ass-end while Bode was scrambling out. Or throw a rope into the car for Bode to grab onto and the car would have fallen out from under him. I know they tried to say something about the "undercarriage being compromised", but come on... the entire frame couldn't have crumbled. And even if the posts on the bridge couldn't hold the entire weight because they were made of paper mache, they could have held long enough to stabilize the teeter totter. They had plenty of cribbing which, for some reason, they put under the other, flattened stable car with no one in it.
  12. Fair point! If Max is anything, it's ineffectual.
  13. When it turned out she never worked at the shop, I thought Isla would be the Spirit of the Island...
  14. I dunno; I think Max is consistently The Worst. Like, there's just a baseline of cluelessness and naivete and stupidity that others only aspire to for an episode or two.
  15. Max never really seemed to invest in his relationship with Wilder. I was not terribly surprised that he bailed on her with nothing more than "Hey, you can pine for me, or not, whatever, que sera, sera! Later!"
  16. Or even better, no Big Bad at all? I'd be perfectly happy with the 'Very LA' police procedural and fewer Big Bads intended to be soul-crushing. I thought Sis said it was in response to an abusive father that Tim's overcompensating about. So I can totally believe Tim being extra-gentle around kids playing while still being a hardass to the grown adults he's preparing for a very dangerous job.
  17. I was hoping that they meant they were breaking up the unhealthy codependency and would just be friends.
  18. Eh, I feel like it's going to be all about the three deaths and that shit has been hashed out in the media more than enough already. I still want the REAL behind-the-scenes tell-all someday.
  19. I remember an ep of 9-1-1 where a mother died, the paramedic stopped CPR so the doctor could call it, and mom revived when the father placed the baby on her chest. Apparently it's a freakishly rare thing, but a thing? Wasn't Trixie involved with Hot Rich Widower? Did I miss/forget when that definitively didn't work out? I am so done with Sister Monica Joan. Even Sister Julienne rolled her eyes in exasperation; the last thing she needs is a whiny, needy toddler added to her laundry list of stress.
  20. Yeah, the first thing I thought when Little Junkie Sister inherited everything was "This bitch gonna binge HARD and probably OD. Better not let Bloom treat her when it happens or the cops might assume she botches it for the money."
  21. I hope he keeps it. It's a vehicle that I wish TV and movies would stop equating with a failed mid-life crisis.
  22. Yeah, I got that they wanted a response to the SCOTUS decision and all, but that created a forced situation of Max running around sticking his nose in the efforts of docs in other states. Although, to be honest, it fits with Max's "how can I make it worse?" style of "helping". Hah! Max is the King of Not Really Helping.
  23. Max's storyline was his usual ineffectual dumbassery. I get that they wanted to "do something" re: Roe v. Wade, but New York State acknowledges abortion as a right, so New Amsterdam will not be directly affected by it. Him being willing to learn to do a D&C was an understated and actually useful action, should he want to get hands on in the future. Wilder and her patient - look, it may suck, but patients ALWAYS have the choice on their treatment. She could have opted to not get treated at all and just ride out the time she has left, fetus or no fetus. Patients make those decisions for all kinds of reasons - to assume the woman was doing it to "make a political stand" is just rude. If she truly believes that the fetus is the equal of a human being, then she would no more abort to save her life than kill her one-day-old child to save her life. And that's her choice; let her make it. Iggy and Martin made me nostalgic for the days before the writers went insane. I need Hot Gay Dad in my TV life.
  24. Yeah, but you can reason with Louise where Gene will throw a tantrum and then get coddled by Linda, who has many of the same.. "quirks".
  25. This woman needs an actual therapist. Why does she not have one? Casey does not count, Bloom. (Really nice to see Casey again, though!)
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