CarpeFelis

So Sam pulls a panel off and it’s immediately sucked into the engine exhaust and incinerated. As soon as she had to use her tether to hold the handle open I was sure the same thing was going to happen to her. It seems pretty unbelievable that when Palmer sent her flying it didn’t happen, especially after her earlier comment that she felt like she was being pulled off the ship. And what’s supposed to have happened to Sam in the aftermath? Not to mention Dev, Ed, and company? While we watched this my husband kept saying “they’re all going to prison”… though Dev is definitely not in prison in 2012. (Also, we never got to see what happened when Kelly inevitably found out about Alex’s part in the Great Discriminator Heist.) How did Ilya know where Miles was being held? Did he follow Bishop there? Margo was lucky the Soviets withdrew immunity. Any US prison can’t be as bad as whatever Soviet gulag she’d be sent to if she went back to Russia. And her involvement with the asteroid caper seemed almost as much of a screw-you to Irina as an attempt to keep the Mars program going. (I suppose Sergei’s death might explain why it was so easy for Margo to meet up with him. The Soviets probably figured he would try to contact her and followed her so she’d lead them to him.)

When Sergei headed into his motel room I said to my husband “I bet there’s a Russian agent waiting in there for him” and then assumed I was wrong because he wasn’t immediately shot. Of course they waited until he settled in to eat his Big Mac… RIP Sergei. I feel bad for Margo but even worse for his wife, who’ll probably never even know what happened to him.

Black Mirror managed to create futuristic looking cars, why not this show?

But the cars in this series are more advanced than IRL. They already had electric cars well before we did. So an era-correct car is kind of disappointing to me. I can’t wait to see what happens when Kelly finds out about Ed using Alex to steal from the secure storeroom! I was wondering that too. Didn’t notice anyone keeping watch outside her hotel room door when she got room service, but it doesn’t make sense. ETA: Was anyone else expecting Ed to shave the beard after Alex said he looked like a bear?

I’m assuming it because it seems most likely Luke’s home was provided by the church and would go to whoever replaces him as pastor. And now that Ada is single again, she would probably want to go back to living with Agnes and Marian. Really loved the sudden realization that Ada would be the one in charge now! And here’s hoping she doesn’t allow Oscar any access to her money, even though he’s probably learned his lesson. I like the Marian/Larry pairing, but it feels way too soon after his affair with that woman in Newport he seemed to have fallen in love with. Also wondering how Agnes would react to Marian getting engaged to him. Will she call that strike 3?

I was thinking Foghorn Leghorn or Colonel Sanders!

I loved that! I heard about the husband for years because he was one of the most famous alumni from RPI (I was class of ‘79, also a woman engineer) but I only just heard recently about how Emily was the real brains of the project. I really enjoyed the sour expressions on Turner’s face as her dirty tricks at at dinner were foiled. (I swear she bears an unmistakable resemblance to Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West, just paint her face green.) I wonder what she’ll try next. Loved Agnes’ outfit at the end but I was so afraid she was just there to object!

After watching a few more episodes I think they should’ve cast the actress playing Lola as Maggie and vice versa.

I couldn’t agree more. She’s so bland. The character seems to be written as kind of a Mary Sue but she doesn’t have the charisma to carry it off. CMM’s character is kind of offputting to me and I’m not sure if it’s the writing or the acting. Can’t really put my finger on it. Smarmy isn’t the right word but it’s close. Maybe it’s the “aw shucks ma’am” cowboy accent that doesn’t belong in Canada?

People in their 60s today generally don’t look as old as people that age did a generation ago. But as for me, mostly I’ve stayed out of the sun. ETA since this is still really, really bugging me: This is a quote from a review of The Golden Bachelor, and what younger reviewers are getting wrong about it, written by a 68-year-old woman (emphasis mine):

Closer to 80, maybe. I’ll be 66 next month and don’t look or move anything like Margo does, and my friends in their 60s and 70s don’t either.

Yeah, that was way out of character for someone as smart and cagey as Paul, who should have known better. (I was reminded of my mom saying something that made it obvious she’d read my diary, because it was something innocuous I’d never mentioned to her. She was not the sharpest crayon in the box. I was around 11 or 12 and never wrote in a diary again.) If I were Alex I’d have been creeped out that he might have been surveilling not just Bradley but Alex as well. Getting in the same bed again? Oh, HELL no. My favorite part: Chip’s epic tirade and the snarky commentary that followed. I’ll second that!

Since Miles said he was out of a job because all the oil rigs were shut down, in this version of history something seems to have been done about it.

I thought it a little odd that in this alternate history where the Russians beat us to the moon, so much was changed in the west but in 2003 Russia everything appeared to be old but still in use, like Margo’s nearly antique looking alarm clock and very small TV, and most of the cars seemed to be ‘60s or ‘70s relics. One thing that didn’t change in the west surprised me: I would have thought smartphones would have appeared at least a few years earlier than 2007, but apparently not. At the birthday party it took me a bit to realize the woman Danielle was talking to was Danny’s wife and not Ellen’s. She looked so much like Pam. Speaking of Danielle, she seems to have aged a lot better than Margo, which points to medical care in Russia being either behind the times or largely unavailable since Margo seems to have a lot of aches and pains that Danielle does not. Not caring much about Miles, at least not yet. And my husband pointed out that there’s no way his lie about college wouldn’t have been caught on a background check. He was applying for a position where oil rig experience was the most important qualification. Why would a degree even matter? I get that he was desperate for a job, but lying on an application is a very dumb move. I hope this doesn’t foreshadow him doing something fatally stupid on Mars. Aleida seems to have PTSD from the bombing, which makes sense. But walking off the job without telling anyone why and then staying home and ignoring calls from NASA is probably going to get her fired. And why hasn’t she gotten any treatment?

That ending made little sense to me. The two kids who were the biggest instigators got chosen as the Guardians of Godolkin and the four who tried to stop them are locked up in the Woods. WTAF?! My initial assumption when Homelander landed and accused Marie was that he got it completely wrong since we know he’s not exactly the sharpest crayon in the box. But the board members in the helicopter, who she’d helped to save, should have corrected that and they didn’t. Again, WTAF?!

Phil is an idiot when it comes to women, but no fool about the bottom line for sure. Mad’s way of speaking makes sense to me when you consider who’s been raising her. I cannot even imagine Elizabeth ever talking baby talk with her and probably insisted on proper grammar as soon as Mad could understand it. She’s undoubtedly been speaking to Mad as if she were a fellow adult all along. I can’t imagine a man of that time not commandeering the TV. Let his wife make him watch a cooking show? The horror! I think the show is going a little overboard on it, but Mad is evidently the genius child of two genius parents.

Phil is an idiot (and a product of his time). He treats the show as if men are the target audience, but how many men in the early ‘60s would even watch a show titled Supper at Six? I think it would have been funny if Elizabeth had insisted on changing it to Supper at Six Thirty and had Six Thirty taste testing the recipes!

I don’t think Bradley completely lacks a moral compass. It’s just skewed towards protecting family over everything else.

I get why Laura was so outraged over Bradley’s coverup for Hal, at least about it being illegal and unethical. What I really, really don’t get was why she thought she had the right to snoop and why she was taking this as such a personal affront since what she’d really been trying to find out was whether Bradley had slept with Cory. And why Bradley, upon Laura’s announcing that she knew about Hal, didn’t immediately ask “How did you find that out?” Ha! I hadn’t thought of that but it would definitely fit. Which makes me wonder: did he start up this relationship with Alex expressly for that purpose, or is it real?

I honestly don’t get what’s so great (or even all that pretty) about Belly that these two brothers are both so hung up on her. It seems like the only thing that’s so “special” about her is that Beck always said she was. Conrad is such a mess he shouldn’t even be thinking about being in a relationship with anyone. Boy needs therapy and possibly medication for depression. BTW, why on earth would anyone put up with being nicknamed “Belly” of all things? Wouldn’t she have had to put up with a hell of a lot of teasing over that in elementary school? ETA: How long ago was this filmed? I kept wondering why everyone was using these way outdated iPhones when they could afford for a kid to have a Range Rover.

I’m in the US and just watched S3 episodes 1 and 2 (Peacock). The daughter in episode 2 was annoying as hell. I sympathize with her frustration with doctors not having listened to her, but she was supposed to be advocating for her father. Instead she seemed to want to take out her frustrations on Bash as if she was the patient and basically ignored what her father wanted. The woman who was afraid of needles: why on earth was Theo the one giving that shot, anyway? She probably would have been more comfortable with one of the nurses. The new nurse was pretty obnoxious when she complained to Claire. I don’t see her career lasting very long. So IRL when a patient has such a big phobia about needles that they kick up as huge a fuss as this woman did and even yank their arm away, isn’t there a better way to deal with it? Like give her a Valium and wait for it to kick in? Or some laughing gas? I doubt that just “taking more time” with her would have been very effective. She could have kept them there all day trying to coax her. June’s sister is a royal PITA. Can’t be bothered to remember an alarm code and then breaks a window to get back in. I hope June makes her pay the bills incurred due to her dumbassery. Speaking of PITAs… Mags’ parents. Oy vey. I suppose they’re so intrusive and generally extra because of Mags’ heart problem as a kid, but wow are they annoying.

May the ghost of Edith Head come back and haunt the costume department for their ridiculously anachronistic choices (assuming she’s finally done with Reign).

Not only are they always clean with shiny hair despite how dusty the unpaved roads must be… their massive wardrobes are way too fancy for what’s supposed to be a rural town in the middle of nowhere. Especially Elizabeth’s and Rosemary’s. And some of the outfits look like they just took modern dresses and made them floor length.

I hope Henry going to see Abigail doesn’t mean he’s being written off the show. He’s become one of my favorite characters. I wouldn’t mind, conversely, seeing Abigail return if she’s recast. I kind of enjoyed that last scene between Elizabeth and Nathan where she was giving him this cow-eyed look that was apparently meant to convey that she realizes she loves him—but really just made her look dumbstruck—and he just said good night and left! Ha, take that, Little Miss Everyone-in-Town-Adores-Me! (I swear the writers should just have named her Mary Sue and been done with it.)

I could definitely get behind making Fiona the main character instead of Elizabeth! She’s far more interesting as well as more likable.