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CeeBeeGee

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  1. I hope they get booed. Or at the very least the audience sits stonily on their hands--y'know, like the Russian audiences did in Sochi.
  2. I really enjoyed this but as someone upthread said, it isn't exactly a warts and all look at the SAB--and yes, it does feel like a piece of image management after the scandals. (Which, BTW, has made me rethink exactly where I'm going to spend my ballet dollars. I like the traditional ballets but the abstract Balanchine stuff--Jewels, etc.--bores me to pieces and I am pissed at how they handled the Waterbury case.) I loved seeing the kids in the green room also doing the choreography in front of the monitor. I kept thinking that during the last episode--that in just a few months their world is about to come to a shuddering halt. I was railing about that on the phone, how they kept praising Balanchine who doomed generations of women dancers to eating disorders and worse. Pavlova and Kschessinska had perfectly normal figures.
  3. Thanks to your post, I was able to catch most of it. Stephen's twin sister looks exactly like him. They could've played Viola and Sebastian in Twelfth Night, that's how much they look alike. I loved the sister saying she wanted an open casket "so they could see what they did to him" and I immediately thought "like Mamie Till" and then she said "the way Emmet Till's mother did." One of the reasons I've fallen down the rabbit hole about this sordid saga is because the whole darn family has red hair. (My mother is a ginger and it runs in the family, although I don't have it.) It's like the Weasleys have gone rogue!
  4. Right?! Alex stole a boatload of money--for what purpose? Where did it all go? Very difficult indeed, especially since the group was so intertwined and incestuous so that meant she was frequently in his company. Anthony and all the young people (except for abusive POS Paul) greatly impressed me. They all just seemed so...nice. Kids trying to do the right thing. I can't decide for whom I feel the worst--Anthony lost his girlfriend, Connor was maimed and nearly framed, Morgan lost her close friend and her former boyfriend of four years, Paul who was definitely scum but he learned that abusive behavior from someone (Alex, obviously) and he certainly didn't deserve to get murdered by his own father*. I guess I feel the worst for Mallory and her family. She seemed like a lovely soul. And the way her family was ignored so completely by the police and the Murdaughs nauseates me. *God, I can't get over that. He murdered his own son. In cold blood. He must truly be a sociopath.
  5. Yeah, my cable guide says it's the 4cc but then it says from "Talinn, Estonia." :/
  6. Oh my God How do you go from pneumonia to double foot amputation? Isn't pneumonia the lungs? How unbelievably horrible.
  7. Who TF takes up smoking--while fully an adult, a middle-aged adult at that--nowadays? For a generation, smoking has been on the way out. Even during the original series Carrie's habit was on the way out--Bloomberg was elected in 2001 and his determination to end smoking in workplaces (which of course included things like restaurants and bars) helped to push the habit way underground. It's just not that common now in NYC. And someone who was vehemently anti-smoking would now, in his middle age, take the habit up? WTAF? UGH. I'll hang out on the forum but I refuse to watch any more of this.
  8. I noticed the squealing as well but it actually made me smile a bit--every closeup of spectators from the first few rows showed nothing but older people! (And of course there's nothing wrong with that but I want one of my favorite sports to continue and the demographics were worrying me.) So when I heard the squeals (meaning, shrieky teens are also in the house), I relaxed. He is such a kid, in every way. I hope he's able to shake off his understandable disappointment and not be too hard on himself. As exciting as his 4A is, the media needs to back off a bit--I could tell as soon as he went out on the ice, he looked nervous.
  9. Fully agree. I got roasted on FB for pointing out how blank she looked--one person told me "Gracie, like me, suffers from RBF. I assure you, she loves skating." RBF or no, she's going to get downgraded for looking like that. I was experiencing 1996 floor compulsories realness when the Mukhovs started skating.
  10. I was thinking that last night--J&T were rhapsodizing about her SP, and I was like, she looked completely blank out there--if not terrified--until her step sequence. That's not artistry. And when you've got such wonderful music (I love that adaptation of East of Eden, much better IMO than the 1955 movie), you need to feel it.
  11. DAMMIT. Gracie sucked me in for a moment and then she reverted to type. At this point she needs to see a sports psychologist. She's too good a skater to just give up and I'm tired of having to sit through her Nationals therapy sessions. Simone Biles should refer her psychologist, she didn't lose an AA title for eight years after that.
  12. THIS IS CETI ALPHA V! I actually wept after Jason's program. What a gift he is to figure skating. I saw him in Stars on Ice and as soon as they release the NYC-area dates I'm going to see him again--this time, in the first couple of rows.
  13. *sigh.* Marshall HS is in Fairfax County, not Falls Church. (I was raised in Falls Church, this is a thing.) That said, great article. I love a polite young man.
  14. Yes, the family joke was that Diana would marry Andrew, hence her nickname "Duch" (for Duchess of York). They knew each other as children. Both Margaret and Anne married commoners--Anne twice. Also the virgin thing, will distasteful, was more practical than anything. They didn't want some lowlife running to the press with the headline I SLEPT WITH THE FUTURE QUEEN.
  15. I've never even watched her (original) show and found her irritating beyond the telling. I knew she was a goner as soon as I saw how much time they (Special Forces editors) were giving her.
  16. I mean, to be fair, his watercolor was lovely. And that fish gift was pretty crass (and in character for what I've heard of Andrew's personality). Dodi and Mohamed acted like hot garbage. Mohamed's sense of entitlement is disgusting. Right? That's William's birthright. There's no way that actually happened. Paterfamilias! Wonderful episode.
  17. BAM. He's awful. I'm glad his reputation has been absolutely trashed but it should've happened sooner. Because Diana had supplanted Margaret as the star. I like Margaret but she did not like to share the spotlight, or face the fact that a younger, prettier princess was now the star. WHO'S A GOOD DOGGIE Margaret's family siding with an abusive, cruel, anti-Semitic POS over her was disgusting. Even as a kid, when I saw Tony's credit on all the photos of Diana and Charles's wedding, that seemed really messed up to me. To my mother I asked "Wait--didn't they divorce under really bad terms? Why is he now shooting this really big wedding?" Yes. The whole thing (song and choreography) was tacky (although the performers were talented).
  18. As you say, Elizabeth wasn't even really a Romanoff, she was just married to one. The Bolsheviks were mad with bloodlust. My thoughts: OMG. As soon as the guy started saying "a photograph before you go" I started hyperventilating. Jesus. The Bolsheviks'...elimination of the Romanoffs was unbelievably brutal, and savage, and nullified any claim they might have had to be some kind of righteous retribution. Yes, Nicholas was a shitty Emperor who leaned way too heavily into his autocratic legacy. Arguably Alexandra earned murder as well, since she contributed SO much to Nicholas's dreadful, mishandled, ham-handed rule. (There are some valid reasons for this, mainly the stupid, stupid Salic law policy Russia had--post Paul I, son of Catherine the Great, who hated his mother, he effectively doomed the Romanoff family with that legislation--meaning no woman could inherit the throne. Olga would've been a perfectly fine Empress Regnant, but because she wasn't allowed to inherit, poor stupid carrying-the-hemophilia-gene Alexandra and her husband had to keep trying for that boy--and that's what really brought them down. Because since Alexei was born with hemophilia, which no one really knew how to treat, other than, "protect this child as much as possible," Nicky and Alix were very susceptible to all sorts of quacks, of which Rasputin was just the worst example.) But aside from all that, Alexandra was too stupid to know how stupid she was. And she influenced Nicholas's policy to disastrous effect. That said--absolutely nothing justifies the murder of the five children. Nothing. And subsequent analysis of the first 10-15 years of the Bolshevik's reign shows it was nothing more than a cash grab. They spent years and years and years trying to murder survivors of the old regime, all to get their hands on their money. Make you feel like a man, bayoneting teenage girls? Shooting a hemophiliac child who can't even stand up on his own? Butchering a dog? Dumping their bodies in a pit in the forest after robbing their bodies of jewels? May they rot in hell. The juxtaposition of the pheasant shooting scene with the murder of the Romanoffs was a little too on the nose....but not entirely out of hand. I detest blood sport. The whole "Philip is becoming too close to their first cousin once removed" is utterly contrived drama and never happened. Surely the writers of The Crown could conceive of an actual, organic drama to compare/contrast the British monarchy v. the Russian monarchy?
  19. I am finding Tory much more interesting this season as well. And yes, I too loved that quick, perceptive look Sam got while in Tory's apartment.
  20. For a while Morgan has consistently portrayed her as awful. My thoughts: *This was so lovely and sweet, I was practically swooning. I absolutely LOVED seeing so many others just watching Margaret and Peter dance together to Stardust. And Peter, happily on the sidelines, proudly watching Margaret entertain. What a palate cleanser after an episode about the Fayeds (completely uninteresting to me). Just lovely. *These darn recastings--the first colloquy between Anne and Margaret, I didn't realize that was Anne. It wasn't until she met with Mummy a couple of scenes later that it clicked. I get why it's necessary but it is confusing. *If you get a chance, google a picture of the woman Peter Townsend eventually married. DEAD ringer for Margaret. (And much younger as well. He sure had a type.) *UGH, those pictures. Those nasty, disgusting pictures of Sarah at the pool with her paramour. I remember seeing them (I'm embarrassed to admit I bought a tabloid). Ugh. The pictures were bad enough but babies Eugenie and Beatrice were RIGHT THERE. SO unbelievably classless and common. I guess Jolly Hockysticks (a nickname for a Fergie-type--very gungho, high energy and loud--the opposite of Diana) wasn't what it cracked up to be. It took me awhile to quit Fergie. *Loving this memory montage of Peter and Margaret's romance but I don't remember seeing these scenes in Seasons 1-2? I wonder if they brought the Season 1-2 Margaret and Peter actors back? *Lovely scene between Peter and Margaret. They were so sweet together. *Queen Mum needs to know her place and step back. Peter Morgan sure doesn't like her much--she is consistently portrayed as someone a little too in love with the privilege of monarchy, someone who consistently fails to read the room. *Casting Timothy Dalton (a former Bond) as Peter Townsend is interesting because the real Townsend was a dead ringer for George Lazenby--another former Bond.
  21. Yup. Yeah, Madame Ritz was doing her due diligence, which is entirely appropriate with such a big and complicated purchase. It was nice that eventually Fayed regarded Sydney as a friend but that look on Sydney's face when he was asked to leave--I felt such rage. She doesn't look anything like her! It's really jarring. I chuckled at that as well. "What's that mean--never mind, I can figure it out." Have absolutely no interest in either of them and I'm surprised they wasted a whole episode on them. It was a well-done episode but I don't care about the Fayeds.
  22. I have never heard a congregation sing as well as that. As lovely as it was, it took me out of the moment a bit. This is something a lot of movies/TV do, make group sing-a-longs unrealistically on pitch. I work birthday parties--trust me, there are a loooooot of tonedeaf people out there.
  23. I was totally fooled--bummed that Kreese was dead but then kind of in awe at his Hannibal-esque escape. But dude! You were just about to be vindicated! I LOVED the callback to the egg strategy! Having shitty Kyler, of all people, performatively reject Cobra Kai defies belief. Please don't redeem him, show. None of this had occurred to me and it should've. I count myself as a bonafide gay ally. Thanks for pointing this out to me. Yes, it's believable Johnny would've said this unknowingly but someone should've called him on it.
  24. Stingray fears not only Silver's revenge but also serious legal implications. Lying under oath is perjury and a felony. Yes, ai also loved it that Tory didn't chime in! She's getting more interesting every episode. What a great scene. So well done--I loved his telling the tale at a distance, using the D&D figures. That is a crime! Not allowing her to leave is considered kidnapping! (As is locking the senseis into the limo.)
  25. He was so sweet in the beginning. I'm sure he'll be redeemed in the end but he's appalling right now. Not only attacking Hawk but taunting him afterward. He's in for a bad fall. Tory made the right choice. They've given her so much depth this season, I love it.
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