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I was going to write in the premiere's thread that Barbara reminds me of Grace Kelly's annoying character in High Noon. But I wanted to give the character a chance (first impressions, you know...) Now after watching High Noon over the weekend and watching this latest episode, my initial impression is correct: Barbara is an annoying, whiny (not yet, but she will be) girlfriend who absolutely cannot understand why Jim can't tell her all the confidential police stuff he's working on, cannot understand why Jim can't go shoe shopping with her because he has to investigate a murder, cannot understand why Jim puts his J.O.B ahead of her, her, HER!, blah blah blah. I hope they get married, get pregnant with the future Batgirl, and have Barbara die by the end of next season.

Ben Jealous bears such an incredibly strong resemblance to Peter Morgan, I was thinking "wow!" I've read literature and other documents from the 1850s-1870s----it's pretty verbose and, at times, overly flowery, so I think it was the style of writing. Freemen did buy their families according to this: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/emancipation/text1/text1read.htm

FYI everyone. Judy was on the Wendy Williams Show this week: Here's the youtube vid link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhnWhGUnsDk

My thoughts too. Wait until baby is born, THEN bump off Felix. I wasn't certain how Felix donated his sperm either. RE: optometrists I don't know why optometrists are portrayed as the go-to bad guys in British tv. Remember in Prime Suspect (I think #5), the optometrist was a Serbian mass murderer.

Yes, he wasn't merely dead. :) I guess the bodyguard and the council man aren't country folk or have even watched an episode of All Creatures Great and Small, because the gadget looked sort of like a bolt gun, which is used to euthanize horses and livestock. I thought Richard Kind looked shady when he was on Mad About You....doesn't seem to have aged much in 20 years either. Re; low income housing and waste disposal St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC is a mental institution in a low income neighborhood and is near the water sewage treatment plant......

This is why I hated the Crisis and stopped reading DC altogether.

In the comics too, Ma Chllton was orphaned Bruce's primary parental figure. If Gotham follows the 'books Unless Gotham doesn't follow the 'books at all, and has a completely different conclusion.

A few comments on the last show (Ken Burns, Anderson Cooper, and Anna Deavere Smith). I can understand Burns and Cooper's family wanting to hide slave owners in the family, because that's an embarrassment. But Anna Deavere Smith's family not passing down that her great-great grandfather was a veterinarian, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and a prominent man in Gettysburg is just puzzling to me. He's a role model for the generations that follow and his life, his accomplishments should be handed down. Ditto for Derek Jetter's great-great-grandfather.

I liked this episode. Nice little continuity mention in the beginning when Robbie says "One of my first cases was just over there. Woman hung herself in her kitchen". (The Dead of Jericho: One of Morse's lady friends hangs herself) and a little hint because Sophocles features in it. (those dratty classics people!)

The Plaintiff had 'right of way'. I wonder if the cemetery will sue the Plaintiff/Defendant for tombstone replacement? BTW, did anyone else think it was freaky that the Plaintiff landed in a cemetery as a result of the accident? *Cue spooky music*

i used to drive in the Bronx and if you didn't move into the intersection to make a left, you would never get to where you need to go. But the cars traveling in the opposite direction have right of way and you need to yield to them before you can make the turn. About 2 months ago, I was in an eastbound lane at an intersection 4 cars behind the lead car. A car traveling south was in the intersection to make a left. It was stopped and was moving to make the left. I looked down and heard a thud-creak. When I looked up my light had turned green and the the southbound car was now facing westbound with half of its front end smashed in and the driver of the of the north bound car was out of his car and screaming "What the F----!" at the other driver. Drivers from the lead cars in the eastbound and westbound lanes were getting out of their cars with their cellphones to their ears. And I was stuck for a 10 or so minutes because no one was moving their cars (the other drivers were out trying to keep the angry northbound guy away from the left-turner driver who was still in his car.) My guess is that the light was yellow and the guy in the intersection was making the turn, thinking the other car would stop at the yellow light, who didn't stop but sped up. I think that's what happened in this case too. It was a yellow light and both drivers thought the other would stop.

The Lewis-Hathaway relationship is more similar to the Thursday-Endeavour relationship, imo. Besides, I think Lewis is just a nice guy to begin with, unlike Morse who had a lot of emotional baggage. It's a shame that they only mention Lewis' daughter in the Lewis series and don't mention his son at all.

I think they are just shacking up. But they're cute together. My PBS station runs inspector Morse episodes. Within the current subtext of Laura and Robbie, Hobson seems more interested in Lewis than in Morse (Morse flirts with her. But I don't think he got as far with Hobson as he did with Grayling Russell)

Sorry to hear about the kittycat. Ours recently used its last life and departed. :( Did anyone get the feeling Innocent asked Lewis back because she thinks Hathaway needs some guidance? She mentioned to him that Maddox was a good DS and not to let her get away.

I don't go to pools (public or private) so the spinner thing is educational for me! They didn't make that very clear in the beginning about the nurse and the old lady.

That beef and taro looked good. I'll have to use the cooking technique (not mxing the meat and veg together while cooking) the next time I braise beef with veg.

Pass the smelling salts and get me to a sofa before I faint! But it makes me wonder what (if any) scenes were removed by PBS, which happens from time to time. I was sooooo afraid they were going to kill her off during the episode. I'm happy they didn't. I'm thinking that machine is a clothes dryer because it looked like he tossed in a pair of wet trunks and removed dried trunks after the whirring? I kept thinking that at least Lewis retired and is happy with Hobson in his life, unlike Morse, who worked until he dropped dead and had no one. :( Another interesting contrast is that Lewis' retirement project is building a canoe, while Morse was getting into bird watching. Anyhow, I think I'm watching too much crime tv type stuff, because I thought, that the killer was digging out the bullets and inserting the ones fired from the rifle. What did the red letters spell out in the closing credits?

"OK, forgive me for sounding this sour note to what had, otherwise, IMO been a good episode, but I can't say I was entirely comfortable with Dr. Gates's attempting to hypothesize that outstanding athletic performances might somehow innately be tied to genetic heritage." Don't ever watch "The Royal Paintbox" http://www.pbs.org/arts/programs/royal-paintbox/, because that whole show uses Prince Charles' genealogy to make the case that there is a genetic component to artistic talent/interest .

Late to this forum and to the Gates' love. :) I thought that was odd too. Maybe the descendants didn't think it was important enough to pass down? Anyhow, I think the lesson we can learn from this show is that the littlest detail is important enough to tell the kids. .

Up, up and away?

Come on, you have to admit that was probably the best -in-your-faces in tv history! But with Sam always being involved in some sort of prostitution or near prostitution whenever she's away from the Square, I think the writers have always hated her.

You forgot to mention that insurance companies send reminders or late notices before yanking coverage. Mr. Milz's uncle was hospitalized for a month and then transferred to a rehab nursing home type place for the next 2 months before anyone in the family knew what was going on with him. (Widowed, estranged from son, siblings didn't check on him monthly). Anyhow, by the time my mother-in-law went to see him and check on his house, his mailbox was stuffed with late notices. But if everyone had insurance and didn't let it lapse, that would leave most of the cases being about borrowed money, dogs, juvenile delinquents, and the typical my ex soap opera-drama junk. :-)

When a "meh" type of repeat is on, I watch the audience behind the litigants. Some of them are a million times MORE annoying than the litigants. There was one case where a blonde woman right behind the defendant is shaking her head 'no', laughing, etc. even when the testimony doesn't warrant it. IIRC, JJ once threw out an audience member for annoying her, unfortunately it wasn't this one.

Which makes me wonder why Thomas Wayne named him as Bruce's guardian and gave Alfred instructions on how to raise Bruce. Mr. Milz nor I would name someone who has no parenting ability nor shows any capacity for that ability to be guardian of our children.

I think they need to tone her down in the sense that they shouldn't feature her nor Bruce Wayne in every single episode (the season's young so there's hope this will happen). I realize you need to suspend reality with tv, particularly this genre, but if these two keep interacting with Gordon I'll find it hard to believe Selina Kyle grows up to become a villain and Bruce Wayne grows up to be a mask-wearing-cape-wearing-secret-identity-hiding crime fighter. Bruno Heller should study how ITV is doing the Inspector Morse/Inspector Lewis prequel series, Endeavour. ITV has maybe 4 or 5 episodes per season, compared to the 20+ episode seasons in the US. Yet, they aren't as rushed to introduce or to cameo future characters. ETA, Oswald's momma is played by Carol Kane. Great comedic actress, imo. Loved her as Simka on Taxi ( she and Andy Kauffman made Taxi watchable for me.)