SomeTameGazelle

Re: Ashley Wilkes being inspired by Doc Holliday, I found this ... It sounds more like Mattie Holliday inspired the character of Melanie and Doc Holliday happened to be her cousin who loved her. https://victoriawilcoxbooks.com/doc-holliday-stories/doc-hollidays-family-affair/

Same! Even though I had mentioned both Colorado and Connecticut in a phone conversation within the previous hour, as if I suddenly had no idea that any state other than California possibly started with C.

I was watching Law & Order Toronto tonight and wondering why the woman playing the HR rep looked so familiar. Turned out that it was Ellora Patnaik who played Raffo in Sort Of. A very different role. (Be warned if you consider watching it that the subject matter is pretty heavy.)

It was released 40 years ago so I thought maybe only we old or verging on old would be familiar with it.

I managed to get through The Pleasure of his Company with Debbie Reynolds and Fred Astaire but it felt too slow and plodding for what it was although the underlying story felt like it could have been charming with a lighter touch.

I try not to think about the placement too much. Sometimes things that seem obvious to me may not be obvious to an older or younger generation -- and sometimes there was an issue in the studio and they had to use a substitute clue. According to my understanding they have only one backup at the ready so the clue may not seem to have the right value since it could get plugged in anywhere.

I have reached the point of rooting against Alison. At least, I don't want to see runaways when she makes a lot of careless wrong guesses. Make FJ competitive and exciting! I knew Junoesque, aegis, and panic. I guessed machine gun without confidence. I also got Bangkok because of the song lyrics and really thought Ken should have highlighted that part of the clue when he gave the response because if you don't know it that makes zero sense. I'm wondering whether the contestants are too much of the same generation and that's why there have been so many blank stares, especially for things that make me and Ken feel old.

I blame Jeopardy for not keeping the category on the screen while they show the clue!

Certainly unusual for the mistake to make it into the broadcast at any rate. I'm not sure how they would have handled Firenze since that would not have met the requirement to be a first name as well ... maybe they would have given you a chance to give the English version?

I got very impatient with her and crossly vowed to laugh if she managed to lose her runaway lead doing that. I decided to guess Newton but I was afraid I would be embarrassing myself. Whew! I got the rest except I thought of Chad and rejected it because for some reason I thought the category required a female name. Also, what the hell was Ken thinking accepting Venice for Florence in that category?

I admit I was looking away from the screen but such a large percentage of conversation with my father revolves around birds that when I hear Coopers I automatically fill in hawk. I do not automatically supply Philadelphia with vireo but I ought to have made the connection from Quakers.

Stories don't have to be presented in the same order that the events occurred or in real time so unless they specified in the sketch which events came first they could be in a different sequence. Better Call Saul is a prequel to Breaking Bad. Was Sarah Sherman supposed to be the same character that Cecily used to play or was she different?

Somewhere toward the end I started to wonder whether the story had jumped back into fiction again. I enjoyed the cast and decided to accept the exaggerated tone as it was intended. The visual of Alfie the cat was cute but it was more stress than it was worth to see him hauled around through so many action sequences. There was the one scene where she was with the Keeper of Secrets but other than that she was mostly plucky rather than badass.

Oh, that is too bad. Glancing at the Wikipedia description of the book, the moral seems to be that as long as you finish the game the "series of jungle emergencies" will end and your life returns to normal. I can see how that could also have been worked in as part of the lore, and how movies invariably differ from the source material.

I will be curious to see whether they have kept the bit where they show the audience where the Daily Doubles are. My inclination is to hope they have dropped it.

Video is geoblocked. Which idea?

I posted this as a reply in a question thread but it has still not been approved and the issue persists. The search function is definitely not applying "All of my search term words" correctly. It is also not handling searches for a full phrase enclosed in quotes. Every search I use with more than one word is returning results that include any of the words. I searched for the words Single jeopardy with "Any of my search term words" selected and got 89.1k results. I selected the option "single AND jeopardy" and still had 89.1k results. I selected the option for the phrase "single jeopardy" and still had 89.1k results. I started a new search with "All of my search term words" selected and got the same 89.1k results. When I look at individual results most include only one of the words. When I add a filter by author that does limit the results by author but does not affect the word/phrase results. ETA: same issue both on my phone (Chrome on Android) and on my laptop (Firefox, Windows 11).

Now that 2nd place has increased to 3k, the champion won with less than the 2nd place winner.

She simultaneously knew too much and too little to get that one. You don't grasp for "the rest is silence" from pure ignorance. And I thought Amy would get Windsor (it came to me immediately, cue extra smugness) but that may also have been a case where she knew too much and couldn't filter down to something so obvious it's in the title of a relevant play. I would never have got FJ and was floundering around the Great Lakes -- Michigan, since that is the one entirely in the US, and hoping the corner was a tiny link between Huron and Superior, which it isn't.

She wasn't in the JIT because she was in the top 3 of the Masters last year and therefore automatically playing in this year's Masters. Same for James and Matt Amodio.

I got Easter Parade as well. For Final I confidently said "the one that Alexander just cut through" but then got stuck on the name Sword of Damocles until I managed to sort out that it was unlikely that cutting through the thread would have solved Damocles' problem and what I meant was the Gordian Knot.

I especially enjoyed the part where Bowen and Chloe got into it over the different movie versions as well. I remembered disliking the original version so after a little bit I decided to FF over some of it. I did laugh at the exchange "I must admit that the sight of you with no bottoms is--" "Making you forget that there's a baby in my desk?" This was one of those episodes where it felt like a lot of different castmembers had something to do and did it pretty well.

That's correct. Andrew placed 4th overall. If I recall correctly, Sam and Amy were cut and only James, Mattea, Matt, and Andrew played in the semifinal round. Then Mattea edged out Andrew and only James, Matt, and Mattea played in the final round.

I can't think of any Jeopardy tournament before the Masters that was structured so that it was assumed the winner would defend their title. Certainly not the TOC or any of the special teen, seniors, college, etc.

Andrew really won me over during the Masters last year so I like all three and don't want to have to choose. I hope they go to 4 games before we get a winner.