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Yeah this is total anecdote but I started waking up more easily when I started using motivating music instead of a jarring buzzer.

ha! Now he's trying to raise money for a shocking alarm clock. But it won't just wake you up, it will totally make you a morning person!!

$200 is ridiculous for Pavlok, unless it can be programmed to automatically shock you when you go to certain website or something. Even then it's limited. I know a lot of people have achieved perfectly good results by snapping themselves with a rubber band, which is practically free. Mark was right that this product is snake oil. Unless they can prove it works better, it's a total rip-off.

The all female-named partners law firm would make a lot more sense if Diane were doing it to raise the profile of female lawyers. The writers would probably even bet on us forgetting that she's never seemed to care about actually mentoring and promoting other women. In reality, women struggle just as much in the law to break the glass ceiling as in other careers. Women only make up 18% of equity partners at law firms in 2016. Maybe it would even generate enough buzz (and credit for using a MWOB) for the firm to attract attention. But the show has done a shitty job of selling the idea.

The 12 hour return time for the umbrella box seems ridiculous to me until you reach a point where the boxes are in a shit ton of locations. 24 hours would make more sense. I can see it on university campuses, where you have people who are walking a lot, not wanting to carry an umbrella just in case, and are walking around the same areas multiple times a day. Or hotels, for travelers who don't have an umbrella.

Those are good points about Belle and Gaston. I'm probably bringing too much of movie Gaston to TV Gaston in my perspective because while he was a jerk in the episode, he wasn't anywhere near as reprehensible as he was in the movie.

Better Call Saul is one of the best character-driven shows I've ever watched, IMO. They really know how to focus on character's emotional development without sacrificing interesting external conflict. But BCS has great writers, and A&E are just lucky hacks.

Makes sense that the response to the show was organized and not a spontaneous fan reaction, since so many people that I saw were saying very similar things. They all hit the same talking points. Family show, watch with my kids, Adam and Eve, etc. Since the actual ABC Family channel has a show all about a family with married lesbian moms, I don't think they see gay as incompatible with family friendly, lol.

I don't know. She was dealing with the accidental death of someone who was about to kill her husband for the man who is going to take her baby. I don't blame her for not crying or mourning but instead thinking of her more immediate concern. I think we can say a character did a bad or immoral thing they should be held responsible for without necessarily judigng them as good or evil? The situation is complex but this show doesn't deal with complex morality issues very well as people have pointed out. I think what he did was wrong. But I'm not sure if I was int hat situation that I would be strong enough to make the right decision, either. He's definitely not on the scale of someone like Regina or Zelena.

I don't understand why people are acting like Belle murdered Gaston in cold blood. She did her best in her own, stupid way to keep the whole thing from happening but Rumple and Gaston were each determined. Gaston was in the middle of shooting her husband with an arrow when she shoved him. It wasn't clear to me that she meant to shove him into the river, she just seemed to act instinctively. I mean, I don't think Rumple was worth saving (and couldn't he just poof away?) but she apparently loves him. He was in imminent danger, from the person she killed, not hypothetical danger like her baby or in uncertain danger like the sailors. And unlike the sailors, Gaston chose to put himself in danger by fighting Rumple. He took the risk and he lost.

Yeah, I thought the setup could have been pretty sexy. Unfortunately they rushed the timeline - why couldn't they find a way to have them spend more than a day together? And the actors just didn't have much chemistry. I think they are both hot, though Dorothy isn't a great actor. But they just don't click. Charming and Hook had more chemistry in their one and a half minute talk.

I know that feeling! I didn't think this show would be fantastic at it, but I hoped they could manage something that wouldn't piss me off. Put me in the corner with Belle for being stupidly optimistic.

Yeah, only Jane Espensen still manages to throw out some good entertainment and I think that's because she can put out a decent story in her sleep. For some reason, the writers of OUAT have decided to write a plot-driven show with characters and story designed for a more character-driven approach. The only thing saving it right now are some actors who are clearly, somehow, having a great time anyway.

For whatever reason TVLine has attracted the very dumbest homophobe who thinks "Adam and Eve" is a logical argument. I think i read "Adam and Eve" more times yesterday on that board than I have in my entire life. I wonder if it's becaues people think that showing a lot of sex is going to influence minors more than violence? With the homophobes I think it's pretty clear that a lot of them are terrified that their child is going to see a same sex couple on tv and be influenced to also act on same sex attraction. It's okay to watch Regina murdering peasants because it's not something their precious child will want to do as well. As a society in the US we seem to see an easy link between even a mention of sex and actually having sex, while we pretend violence on TV isn't going to influence us in real life. I don't usually frequent places with a lot of homophbic comments so it was jarring ot see so many people upset about a lesbian kiss on a show that often portrays really abusive situations as romantic love.

Yeah, no one said they are rational! I don't want to get way off topic for this board, but I think their real fear is that their kids will see that it's ok, and they will turn out to be gay (these are the kind of people who still think it's a behavior choice, not an orientation). I'm also glad they didn't leave it as an unreturned kiss. That would have pissed me off even more! The kiss itself was great.

On TVLine there are a bunch of conservative Christians crying and rending their garments about how a disgusting lesbian relationship has ruined their family show. It almost makes me like the show more out of spite. But the truth is, it was poorly written and thrown together. I think some of the straight pairings have been given short shrift (especially in the beginning when they were throwing every couple in the universe together for their happy ending), but they don't have the burden of being the only representation of straight relationships.

If this was any other show, I'd say they've been setting up for Persephone and split-time custody (Zelena's need to have her baby and the other characters' ridiculous sympathy for her as a mother), but I don't trust this show's writing to make any sense any more.

There are some Swan Queen shippers who won't be happy with anything less, but I don't think that's the bulk of people who are upset about how this turned out. A lot of people were anticipating Red Warrior, which would avoid the "special episode" by involving characters who have a long term investment in the show even if they aren't regulars. A&E basically lied to viewers to get people to stop criticizing and keep watching. Whether it was their decision, ABC's, or Disney's, they did have control over how they talked about it and they promised something they didn't deliver and that's bound to anger people.

I'm so done with this show. I love a lot of the actors and a couple of the relationships, but I've had it. I'd rather have no gay romances than a half-ass attempt to appease people. If there's a longer term plan for Mulan, then there are better opportunities to integrate LGBT characters than the one-off, shitty romance with no chemistry. But they'd have to actually care about doing a good job.

When I was watching, I was wondering if Zelena's daughter is going to be Persephone, but instead of being for Hades it's so Zelena (if she stays with Hades) can have her half the year. Because they're all stupidly sympathetic to Zelena's motherly love, or whatever. I've been hanging on for the promised same-sex romance they've been promising. It has to be Mulan, right? They can't bring her back to watch two other ladies fall in love, right? That would be enraging. I am all for Red Warrior. I'd love a TLK where the pair has actually spent time together and developed that feeling, even if we haven't seen it. Dorothy would be fine if she wasn't a terrible, terrible actor. On the plus side Dorothy has all those gay Friends...

I was frustrated with some of the way this episode portrayed the victim because people kept saying she was "a mess." But they didn't really show her being a mess. She wasn't completely consistent, but that's not unusual even for the show let alone real life victims. People want rape victims to be calm and collected enough to give a perfect account of events the very first time, without things like shock, fear, or shame affecting what they say. But at the same time if the victim doesn't look traumatized enough those same people won't believe anything serious happened to her. But as others pointed out, this girl went for a rape kit almost immediately and reported it to police. I also wondered why we didn't get to see security footage of her leaving the bathroom and why that wouldn't show a more accurate impression of how she felt immediately after, to counter the dancing footage. Anyway, nothing else besides an inconsistent story seemed to be a "mess" with this girl. Did they mean because she drinks and goes out to have fun? Because the detectives shouldn't be calling her a mess for an active social life. It felt like a lot of telling me about the victim and not a lot of showing.

Almost 20 years ago my mom discovered child porn on my dad's computer . He never hurt my sister or me or anyone as far as I know. I haven't seen him since she told me and I'd have no sympathy for him if she had chosen to turn him in. I sure as hell don't get having sympathy for a coworker you don't even like. Not only are those actual crimes they're getting off on, they're helping to create the demand for the photos in the first place.

I wish I could forget Clara, too.

I agree with all the concern over the payment to the Purlettes. I couldn't believe Kevin was the only one to talk about exploitation with both the kids and the Purlettes and everyone else shushed him. I'm sure for him it's a legal/pr thing but when the guy with no soul shows more compassion than you, maybe you should take a second look, Sharks!!

The Trunkster logo looks like something I'd be tempted to call those guys...