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riley, that is truly scary, and I say that as someone who endured Peter Pan Live last week.

Simon and Simon are not brothers in real life, but only on television. </Cartman>

They do a fake out: Juliette is pregnant but the time of conception pre-dates the reGrimming sex. But I really hope they'll just drop the whole idea of a pregnancy.

Christmas songs seem to have popularity cycles. A few years ago, I couldn't escape the multiple, horrible versions of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" (I hate that song), and one year it was like everyone had recorded their own version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and every one of them was being played ad nauseum (Sinatra nailed that song. Now everyone please leave it alone). I guess this year it's "Marshmallow World".

Xena was first (1995, Buffy 1997), but I think what saves her from the trope is that Lucy Lawless looks like she can land a solid punch.

Like everyone else, I thought Josh as going to betray them when they showed him the trailer. When it was clear he wasn't, I hoped he'd stay and be given the job of digitizing the book collection and cataloging the weapons and potions.

I don't think it matters if the musical has been filmed already; The Sound of Music: The Movie is on TV every Christmas.

Re: Borle His Smee was fun, especially when it was him and the two other bloody buccaneers and each a murderous [pause] crook. But I was underwhelmed by Mr. Darling, especially in the opening scene. I'm not sure what he was going for there.

And extra time during commercial breaks so you miss the first minute of the show you're watching afterward. I still hold a grudge against one local station that ran over because of some minor weather event during Buffy. I completely missed the scene of Principle Wood burying a body...which was kind of important since it was a big clue about the character. Because it was much more important that we be told, at length, that it was going to rain.

WRT The Music Man, I would love to see Borle as Harold Hill but I think a MM production can survive with lackluster leads as long as Marcellus, Mrs. Paroo, Mayor Shinn, and Mrs. Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn knock it out of the park. Ye gods!

That was me! Back on page 1. Once they said it was Walken I wasn't going to watch, and then Borle was announced so I had to watch. Damn you, Borle! Damn you to pirate bicep hell! Allison Williams' voice was adequate but as everyone has already said, what a boring Peter. The whole production seemed to lack spark and a sense of humor about itself that was very odd. Kids might take this at face value, but adults get the camp and inherent silliness. This, like cartoons, should've played to both sensibilities. I also echo everyone's comments about the Lost Men, geriatric Wendy, etc. I'm not a fan of child actors (could not understand a word Michael said) but there must be capable boy actors aged somewhere between 13 and AARP. I did love the pirates' songs, because nothing is ever not fabulous about singing, dancing pirates.

I would like one last Technical Difficulties and cut back to Stephen with the lawyer making him sign something.

Hurray! A final "Once again, my apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin."

Fourthing of fifthing the Trevor love. Great debut. It annoyed me that the studio audience seemed to have missed a couple of his drier lines.

Yes, like the way NBC has the Tonight Show and The Today Show, and for a brief time, the Tomorrow Show.

Whatever the gene or cultural influence that makes one gush over children completely passed me by. I don't think I've ever looked at a child or baby and enthused over how cute s/he was. I often read others' comments and think "Really? Huh." It just isn't in me; I've never liked children. So I would be fine with Jeopardy! sticking to adults only.

Apologizing even more to Alfie: the Grinch found the strength of *ten* Grinches, plus two! Also, some say his heart grew 3 sizes that day. But Samaritan is more Grinchian than the Machine and Our Heroes, even though they have Max/Bear... Yeah, I'm stepping away from the eggnog now.

This video of Stephen pulling things out from under his desk showed up on my Facebook page with the promise you could vote for the best. The link above doesn't mention voting, but it is the video linked from Facebook. I'm torn between Ham Rove and the Atone Phone. The "ewok" is pretty adorable, though.

Santa being a total dick is the thing I love best about the original. (And Rudolph's dad is no better. And up yours, Fireball). I do want the ending changed, though, so that Rudolph and HermyHerby tell Santa to fuck off, depose King Moonraker, and live happily ever after on the Island of Misfit Toys with Yukon Cornelius, his sled dogs, and the Bumble. I may have given this more thought than it deserves.

I forgot about that, CoderLady, although I was just thinking about the flashback of the earlier versions of the Machine trying to kill Harold. Perhaps dealing with all of the other versions has given him some insight about killing Samaritan.

I don't understand why Harold, Root, and the 3 Amigos, or the Machine, aren't working on a virus to take Samaritan offline or cripple it or something. Maybe they are but there's been no hint of it at all.

Yes, I agree. Either Naylet or David could've gone based on presentation, but the flavor of the filling is what saved Naylet and doomed David. Was this the second time Terra had something go horribly wrong and turned it around to produce something really good? Re: the question above about how she decorated the rosemary and berries. I figured she dipped them in simple syrup and then rolled them in decorating sugar (which is a thing, right? Icing sugar?).

Checking a few message boards, it seems that the problem was in several places on the east coast. The message changed after a while: the standard versions of the channels were back but the HD versions were still out. Everything was back by late afternoon.

But wouldn't Native Americans have a different name for the flower, that's what I mean. Or is her name whatever that flower would be called by her people but the Anglophones around her use the English name for it?

I thought Viktor and his sidekick got to the right result--Kelly has the baby--for wrong reasons. I think what they were saying was: Kelly changed the original Resistance plan by going to Portland instead of Brazil, therefore the people to whom Viktor handed off the baby could not have been Resistance but part of a plan by Kelly to get the baby? But Kelly could easily have alerted the Resistance that she was taking the baby to Portland rather than Brazil and they should come get her there. Or the Resistance could've had people in Portland just because there's a Grimm, half royal, and a booming Wesen community there.