CeeBeeGee

10+ years ago, I lived in an older NYC building with thin walls. Someone new moved in next door and the resident played two specific songs--over and over and over. I was going crazy. After months of this, I finally knocked on her door--she was actually really sweet about it and apologized, saying "music is all I have." I later found out she was in witness protection--she'd flipped on someone in her bad neighborhood, done the right thing and now she was living in a place where she had no friends. I felt really bad but--there's a reason they torture people by playing the same music over and over. So I get it. I was a little surprised Pool Marine (or Pool Sailor) got so aggressive, so quickly just because a ballad came on over the jukebox. Seems a bit of an overreaction. The cinematography of this show is gorgeous. The mothership is so sterile-looking, notwithstanding those orange walls, but this show gets in some beautiful shots. I even love the opening credits sequence with that side shot of the water surface at the very end. I usually hate pilots--they're typically too heavy on the exposition (cf., the Friends pilot, with Ross telling Phoebe "stop cleaning my aura!" UGH. No actor can make s*** like that sound good).. If you can believe it, after watching the Game of Thrones pilot, I wasn't interested and skipped the rest of the season. It wasn't until a friend told me it was somewhat inspired by the Wars of the Roses that I was intrigued.

Are you talking about the Lyon sisters in 1975?

The gesture of the top three Japanese skaters, where they saluted Amber by adopting her final pose, was just so gracious. One of the skaters was displaced on the podium by Amber's victory and she still participated with a smile! Just incredibly good sportsmanship. Such a breath of fresh after after the horrible aftermath of Ladies' Singles in Beijing.

Amber is having a season! So well done to her! So proud of and happy for her!

The squatter plotline hit a little too close to home for me. Years ago, my roommate and I had to deal with a squatter. It's a uniquely NYC type of nightmare, as housing law here tends to favor the tenant. We were doing the legal route and filing for eviction but eventually she and I lost patience and, as I put it, "went all Heathers on her a***." Went full-on Mean Girls and followed her from room to room, asking when she was going to leave. We finally chased her out. The "Greyton" storyline was tremendously sad. And--did I misunderstand? She killed herself knowing the bullies would be blamed?

I thought that was John Denver! It sounded just like him, although I couldn't recognize the song. Man, what a voice that man had. And yes, Randy was *rowr.* Red hair and muscles? Hubbah hubbah. Another great episode.

The pica thing was honestly disturbing. Especially the way they filmed the guy, all dead-eyed, throwing shit in his mouth. It's beyond creepy to think that is a thing that people do--is it an OCD thing? A psychological problem?

If they're staying true to shipboard culture, the ratio of men to women in the crew is something like 10 to 1. Women get a lot of attention--like, it's a problem. Too much attention. When my new cabinmate signed on (one of our castmates had been injured and she was a replacement), the safety officer offered to relax the regulation that she sit through the sign-on safety procedures (it's a regulation but she knew what to do as she'd signed off on a previous contract just a few months ago) if she and her cabinmate (me) would go on a date with him and another officer. I said I would but to protect her and I said we are NOT getting off this couch except to leave! (Naturally, the "date" was in his cabin.) We never did a threesome though. I was effing Norma Rae on that ship because I hated the constant attention.

Exactly, hence all the Clark Kent comparisons.

Good. Hopefully Marta and the pedo will be along soon as well.

I am not a fan of threesomes. You do you and consenting adults and all that but it just seems gross to me. Part of my dislike is because I was working at a theater and one guy, whose wife had suggested one with another woman with whom she shared a dressing room, enjoyed it a little too much and started pressuring every woman at that theater to have one with him and his wife. Broadly hinting and innuendo-laden conversation. He was disgusting. Other than that, my biggest problem with this episode is when Avery exclaimed "They gave you this room?" [paraphrasing]. It's called a cabin onboard a ship, not a room. I only did one measly nine-month contract and I never would've made that mistake.

And my God, is that baby cute. I'm not even much of a baby person but I just love how she's always there, like she's part of a crew or something, goggling at everything the way babies do. Yeah, it did seem to happen a little fast.

That was adorable. She was great. I really like Lala. And Austin is loosening up ever so slightly--the way he froze when the woman (I can't keep the characters' names straight yet) asked him if wanted to give the toy to the girl, and shook his head ever so slightly...powerful stuff.

I was gonna say, my liver still hasn't recovered from the self-medicating I was doing during her career. One of the most gorgeous skaters ever, and she simply could. not. complete. a clean LP.

He's too tall. He's a decent actor but isn't Harmon kind of tiny? I always had the impression he was smaller than DiNozzo and maybe even McGee.