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It was hard to believe that he actually thought Missy was telling the truth. The thing I thought was also unbelievable about that scene was that Sheldon was doing any sort of physical manual labor. He always pushes things like that off on others.

I have never warmed up to the Mandy character. She is not really funny or quirky or even interesting to me. She seems sour and gloomy most of the time. And since Georgie has become a father and engaged to Mandy, his character seems to have 'flattened out'. His funny appealing side seems to have vanished. I guess it is good he is serious about his new family, but I don't find the character entertaining any more. I wish the Mandy and Georgie show well, but I don't intend to watch it a show mainly about them.

“Of course the door is always open,” said Binder. But, the EP pointed out, “When we bring him back, we’re not going to bring him back for two minutes” a la Weatherly’s cameo. “It’s got to be something special.” _________________________________________________________________________________________ That statement is just a bunch of BS to me. What could be more special to Gibbs (or the show) than attending Ducky's funeral. Plus, by mentioning that Weatherly's cameo was for two minutes, it sounds like Harmon could not be bothered to take just 2 minutes of his time for his appearance. It sounds like a put down of Tony's character. As others have stated also, just a final shot of a woman dressed in black holding a black parasol standing next to a silver haired man would have satisfied most of us. They did not necessarily need Harmon to actually appear.

I beg to differ - I don't think Gibbs showing up would have taken the focus away from Ducky. Tony showing up only added to the story for me. Tony was a plus and did not detract from the affection shown for Ducky. On another web site, I read an interesting thought. They said that it would have been a nice finale of the story to have shown Ducky's burial from a distance. We would have seen Gibbs and maybe Abby from a back view at the grave. That way neither actor would have actually had to have been there in person. Just a thought.....

I was surprised and disappointed that Gibbs didn't put in a brief appearance as Tony did at the end. Mark Harmon is still listed as an Executive Producer of the show so he seems to be involved in it. A cameo by him would have really concluded the tribute nicely.

The episode with Emma's first birthday was shown today. It got me wondering about Ben. Were there episodes with both Emma and Ben together? Ross it seems would have wanted his two children to know each other.

I thought his son was relatively unemotional about the whole thing (except for his kind thoughts about his mother). I couldn't really tell if he really thought his father was guilty or innocent. I also wondered about the two daughters' feelings about the situation. I thought Remy was just a despicable person. I am not sure what his children thought about him, but he did not seem to have concerns for them. I don't think he mentioned missing them or frankly caring what was happening to them because of his trial. In all his ramblings, he never talked about how his the kids were doing or that he missed them. I did think it was rather interesting when near the end they talked to the inept lawyer who defended him and the lawyer said that he personally always thought Remy was guilty from the beginning. Hey fella, so did all of us!

"She's just there" really says it all for me also. I don't find the character interesting, funny, smart or entertaining. Mandy is just very dull. I noticed in the opening sequence where they step away from the cow that Mandy is now included holding the baby. That seems to suggest that she will be around for a while possibly in a spin off. I guess never say never to watching such a show, but they would have to do something to make her character a lot better for me to watch.

I guess since they are taking on much bigger projects, it was to be expected that they would need a lot more workers. But it makes me miss the older shows where they were doing simpler jobs and it was just the basic crew plus a plumber or a few extras and some dogs. I felt I knew those original folks. They only seemed to appear sparingly in the new shows. During the lumber company show, Chase kept mentioning the restaurant. I didn't know they had expanded into food service. I was not very interested in the lumber company show or the one with the geodesic dome. It felt like a big production instead of a more simpler show about rehabbing old cabins (or should I say 'camps').

I can't make out what the little boy is saying to Santa when he gives him the slippers. What does he say?

I can't believe the powers that be didn't know that we tuned in to Castle because it was NOT a gritty show. We want the Castle who says "I am ruggedly handsome", the Castle who plays cards with fellow writers, the one who dresses as Elvis in Atlantic City and the one who wears a bullet proof vest that says WRITER. If we wanted grittier, we would change channels to Law and Order.

It is obvious the bakers were not given the proper amount of time. As everyone has stated, when they ALL fail the problem is not with the bakers, but with the powers-that-be not giving them the correct amount of time. Also, wouldn't it be interesting to know how much time the baker/bakers who made the desserts that Paul and Prue eat took to create their samples. Paul and Prue go on about how they want the bakers to make theirs look as perfect as the samples they are eating. Not only should we assume the Paul and Prue samples took much longer to make than the time the contestants were given. But from what I have read many times about cooking shows - there are quite a few of the same recipes made - not just the final one everyone sees. They make many copies so that if there are flops, they will show only the best one. The samples could have taken much longer time, were made by people who had experience and who had the ability to make flops and have them discarded. The contestants get just one chance and can't hide their mistakes. It is just a TV show of course, but his particular time it seemed very unfair to the amateur cooks.

There is one good thing about all of the recapping of the story. When I am flipping around and land on one of these 20/20 or Dateline type of shows, I can start watching at the halfway point of the show. I know that after the next commercial they will summarize the first part of the story and I will be up to date and won't miss a thing.

Watching Raylan's daughter, I couldn't help but compare her to the teenaged Loretta in the original Justified. She was so fantastic and made such an impression on me, I remember her clearly to this day. I'm not thrilled with this new Justified. It is too dark in several ways - the story is very violent. Plus it is literally a very dark show as far as scenes. The city and bar are darkly lit places. I do miss the open outdoor scenes of the original. The quirkiness of Boyd, Dewey, Mags, etc. just can't be duplicated. As with just about everyone, I love Timothy as Raylan. But if he was not the star of this new show, I don't know if I would give it much more of a chance. I'll hang in there for a while.....

I think the main reason the team won the cake challenge was that the one lady identified it as a 'cut away' cake by looking at the marks on the empty cake stand. She was very observant to recognize what it was by seeing the triangular shaped marks that were left. Even if all teams had made the actual cakes the right flavor with the correct icing, I think not making it a 'cut away' cake would have eliminated the other two teams. When the winning ladies saw the extra clue being the shape of the cut outs, they knew they had gotten it right.