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Who cares if the police and your enemies can identify you using your fingerprints since showing off your nail polish matching your lipstick is more important. I am someone who loves nail polish. I collect tons of it and give myself manicures all the time. Even with polish being a hobby for me, the idea of wearing fingerless gloves to show off the nails matching the lip when you're a crime fighter is utterly ridiculous. So, before going out to save the day she's going to first do her nails? Seriously!? "I've got to go save those hostages but after my nails are dry." You can do feminine and practical which is what Sara's costume pulled off.

Do mentions of athletes count? I was thinking of from South Park.

I've decided to take a break from watching Arrow for the next couple of episodes because I just don't want to deal with an expanded Laurel role at Oliver's expense. If I had confidence that Oliver's absence would lead to interesting developments for Diggle, Felicity, and Thea I would give it a chance but I'm worried that it's going to be all about Laurel. I've reached my limit with the character. Once the writers killed Sara to push Laurel's story and had her keep it a secret from Quentin, she has been FF material for me. I will never understand killing Sara when they could have had her kidnapped or some other twist leading Laurel to go vigilante. This show was a favorite and now it's become almost a chore. I've been hanging on for the talented actors and the characters I've become attached to, but I'm very worried about the future of this show. I feel there's a focus on Laurel who I have no patience for anymore. I kept waiting for her to be a better character, and it never happened. I want to make it clear I blame the writers for my distaste for Laurel and not KC. I worry that Arrow has become a spinoff machine and that they are more concerned about launching new heroes than giving the already established characters good development. Oliver, Felicity and Diggle's popularity shouldn't just be used to promote writer favorites at the expense of the characters I care about. I watch for Team Arrow (Oliver, Felicity, Diggle) and because I have a major soft spot for John Barrowman who has been ridiculously underused since being promoted to regular. I was so looking forward to Thea's story as well, but they took her agency away. They are becoming like Torchwood with the lack of imagination leading to death being the only way they can think of to bring drama and push characters' stories forward. I'm particularly concerned that women keep getting fridged. It's become so redundant. Whatever trust I had with the writers in Seasons 1 and 2 has been eroded. Arrow should be about Arrow and his partners. So, since Oliver's gone, I'm gone. I'll stop cancelling dvr recordings of the show when Oliver returns. I don't want to add to the show's ratings with my dvr in episodes that exclude the hero the show is supposed to be about to promote a character I don't have interest in anymore or help the next spinoff.

Charo! lol and the ship's name was perfection.

Now I want to start a band, so I can name it AtomicCanary.

I also think Nyssa/Sara was incredibly underwritten, but the actresses had chemistry and were able to fill the gaps in the script. Since Nyssa represents a life Sara was willing to kill herself to get away from, I shouldn't have been rooting for them, but the actresses made me want to see more of the relationship. Such squandered opportunities for Sara and all her relationships. On a lighter note, I want Donna to return and meet Quentin.

I feel that they are so focused on the endgame of Laurel as Black Canary that they aren't giving enough consideration on her development to get there. It's been plot points and poorly thought out storylines from the beginning. They should have focused on the idea that Laurel believes strongly in the justice system and then over time have her lose her idealism. For example, instead of the stupid Laurel hates the Arrow for a couple of episodes plot of Season 2, Laurel's rage should have been directed to Moira. I would have had Laural totally appalled that Moira was acquitted. Then, Laurel's idealism would be further tested by the revelations about Blood and realizing the level of corruption in Starling law enforcement. That's the road to vigilantism that would have worked for me. Laurel deciding the system she believed in was too broken for her to trust it anymore is a story line I would have enjoyed watching. They also missed opportunities to let Laurel develop friendships that would have allowed the character to be better integrated to the main story and be more well rounded. There was the opportunity for Laurel to bond with Thea in Season 1 and again in Season 2 with Thea, Sin and Roy when investigating Blood. They seem to alternate between Laurel being isolated from other key characters or have her behave in an alienating fashion with them. Inviting Felicity and Diggle as well to the ceremony honoring Arrow in episode 3x01 would have been a good start to Laurel bonding with them but instead she only deals with them in an off-putting autocratic way when she needs something. I don't understand why she's written this way. I liked KC in Harper's Island and think with better writing Laurel could be rootable. Because of the writing, I just resent Laurel because characters I like better like Sara are being sacrificed unnecessarily.

I ship Oliver/Felicity but the idea of Oliver and Sara getting together didn't bother me. It's the execution of that storyline that was horrible. It was like a plot point with no thought to the characters development allowing their choices to feel organic. The obvious fact that Laurel would feel hurt never seeming to occur to Oliver and Sara and Oliver going to that dinner with Sara were major missteps. After everything that happened, it didn't make sense to me that Sara and Oliver would be that thoughtless. Sara and Oliver could have been interesting to explore with their histories, how they have evolved, and the bond their traumas forged between them, but the writers didn't seem to care enough about the pairing to truly explore it. I feel like the pairing was a means to an end to create a breaking point for Laurel and to put a pause on Olicity so the "I love you" in the finale would be a surprise. It wasn't really about Oliver and Sara and what they mean to each other which was a major failing of the writing.

I know Tracey said those jokes were something she internalized and made her situation worse. I don't think people realized she had a problem until they noticed the drastic weight loss and cast members noticed she wasn't eating. I remember the actor who played Ben said he and Tracey would have lunch together and over time he noticed she'd sit with him while he ate, and she would eat nothing. From what I understand, the show runners didn't know what was going on until Joanna Kerns approached them and demanded they do something which lead to Tracey being given time off to get treatment. I remember the episode of Full House where DJ stopped eating and was over exercising to lose weight. She ended up passing out in front of everyone which alerted her father something was wrong.

I love Maurice. Scudder climbing through the window is one of those great moments.

That video was wonderfully edited.

"I saw something nasty in the woodshed" (Cold Comfort Farm) I love that we never find out what she saw. So you're left to make up something horrible or think she's just being dramatic.

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Tea never seems to consider how her actions affect her kids at all which just makes her more infuriating for blaming her mother for Tea's faults. I totally wanted Adam Sandler to take the kids and run. But Tea's character is the vindictive type who would give him hell in a divorce and probably try to restrict his access to the kids leaving them alone with her. So, I totally understood what Adam felt he had to stay for the kids sake. I always imagined him serving her with divorce papers the second the youngest turned 18. I kinda want a sequel just to see that happen. This was a rare movie when I was rooting for adultery because the kids would be better off with Flor as their step mother.

James Marsden lost Amy Adams but gained Idina Menzel in Enchanted.

The line where he says he loves it when Galavant tells him to fetch things sounded sarcastic to me. It was supposed to be an honor to be Galavant's squire but all he does he drink and sleep. So, his squire doesn't hide his disappointment. I'm pretty sure when he says love to fetch he really means hates.

I really hope they find a way to bring back April. The episode where Jenny left felt like such a series finale that I was so relieved that there was a Christmas special and another season. The show works so well as an ensemble that I found young Jenny's absence didn't hurt the special at all. I did like seeing older Jenny but agree that the narration should switch to one of the characters who are currently involved in the stories instead of Jenny. Yet, I understand keeping Jenny as narrator because her books inspired the series and the special established she kept in touch and would be up to date on the stories. Was that Michelle Dockery from Dowton Abby making a cameo as the woman who gave Trixie chocolates and a urine sample? She looked so familiar. I wish Cynthia's story had been a season long arch, but I don't think her vocation was totally surprising. She is still deciding so there is more story there for another season. I feel like Cynthia never got the same amount of story as other characters and look forward to her having something to do. I really hope that Peter talking about moving wasn't foreshadowing Chummy's departure from the show. I would hate to lose such a wonderful character, and she and Peter are one of my favorite tv couples.

The scene in the Spanglish with the too small clothes was just awful. She was so happy her mother did something nice for her only to realize nothing fit and it was just further pressure to lose weight. The whole thing where she showers someone else's daughter with attention while just fixating on her daughter's weight was just horrible. She takes Christina out shopping and doesn't think to invite her own daughter. She was so disrespectful of Flor by taking her daughter places without permission and lying about Christina needing to sleep over for school work when it was actually a slumber party for Christina's friends. I totally understand Flor's determination to get Christina away from that woman's influence. What other lies was that she going to teach Flor's daughter to tell her mother? Plus, she was encouraging the daughter to be ashamed of her mother by having Christina invite her friends to Tea Leoni's house instead of Flor's.

I wanted to make a request for recommendation for Olicity fics with happy endings. It can have some angst has to end on a positive note because the show's so angsty right now. I also wanted to give Smoaking Billionaires a try and would appreciate some recommendations.

You are so right about how well the show subtly built up to Fisher being abusive so that initially the reveal is a surprise but when you look back at certain things in previous episodes signs were there. Roseanne could be great at tackling serious issues. I remember the episode where DJ doesn't want to kiss his costar in the school play because she's black, Roseanne being horrified at DJ's having that attitude and how the teacher makes it clear she thinks that attitude implies that Roseanne and Dan must be racists. The really interesting thing in that episode is an incident when Roseanne is alone at night in the diner when a black man knocks on the door and Roseanne won't let him in. The man turns out to be the girl's father wanting to discuss the situation with the children. The father makes it clear he thinks Roseanne wouldn't let him in just because he's black. In a previous episode there had been an incident where a customer who was white got aggressive when Roseanne was alone in the diner. So, there's this question of did Roseanne refuse to let the dad in because of past fears from that incident the last time she was alone or did she have a bias against black people she wasn't aware of? Would she have let him in if he'd been white? She really takes a hard look at herself and doesn't really know for sure why she didn't open the door. I can't think of another show that tackled the idea of subconscious bias. I wasn't totally happy with that episode though. I felt that Dan was written out of character for plot reasons but appreciated the show's willingness to tackle a real issue that people tend to get too defensive about to discuss it.

I love that All That Jazz scene as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL22e30bFic The Take Off With Us sequence is pretty daring. Don't watch the second half at work.

Saved by the Bell had a famous failure to handle serious issues when they did an episode about Jessie getting hooked on caffeine pills. It lead to a scene that was supposed to be poignant but ended up being hilarious instead.

One think I really liked about the show White Collar before I quit it was that Elizabeth knew the kind of job her husband had and understood his work hours. If you marry someone in a particularly intense profession, than you either accept the crazy hours or you don't. You can't marry them and then expect it to suddenly change.

Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting: I Don't Consider Myself a Feminist I think she makes a valid point that if you feel you haven't experienced the inequality others have it can be difficult to understand what others are fighting for. Her experience has been positive. I like that she acknowledges that others have paved the way for her which allowed her to have a good life now. I do object to the idea that if you haven't personally experienced sexism and discrimination it means that it isn't an issue. Looking beyond your own experience is something that isn't happening enough. I've noticed a trend of celebrity women seeming to need to make a point about how non-feminist they are as if being a feminist is something bad. I think it's the negative connotation the word has taken on that's the problem I bet if you asked them if rape victims being treated as if they were on trial was acceptable, if it's okay to pay a woman less than a man for the same job, if women shouldn't have control over their own reproduction or if it's acceptable for actresses to be given more poorly written roles than men, they would be against it. I don't think they are rejecting the tenets of feminism but the negative image they associate with it. This idea of the bitchy judgmental woman who hates men is what they are against, but that doesn't have to be feminism. I see nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to do the care taking thing for her guy at home as long as she's making a free choice that makes her happy. A woman who expects her guy to share household chores is doing nothing wrong either. For me the key to feminism, is that women should be free to make choices for their own lives without societal pressures or structures forcing her into a box. I realize there is an issue of judgement within women's issues. A woman feels judged for her choices no matter what they are in ways men aren't. Feminism doesn't have to be a dirty word. It's a matter of perception. There was an episode of Designing Women when Charlene decided to be a work at home mom where Mary Jo gets snarky about it. They end up attacking each other. Charlene ends up telling Mary Jo that maybe her son wouldn't be in trouble of Mary Jo was at home rather than working. I tended to side with Charlene because Mary Jo attacked her first plus when she was married Mary Jo was a stay at home Mom for her kids early years which made her hypocritical. I liked that both women admitted they went too far, that both choices they made had pluses and minuses, and respected each others choices in the end. I don't think male characters would get into an argument over those issues. On television, you see working moms all torn about balancing home and family, yet male characters rarely have that dilemma. Lawyer Miranda on Sex and the City was worried about the effect her working so many hours would have on her son meanwhile Charlotte's husband Harry, who was also a lawyer, work hours were never an issue. I loved when Up All Night had the husband choose to be a work at home dad because his father had been a workaholic and he was determined to be a more present parent which his job wouldn't allow. It was so rare and of course the show ruined it by have the wife lose her job to stay home with the baby while the husband when back into work to start a business his dilemma over balancing work and family forgotten. edited to add: I just remembered a great episode of Life Goes On where Libby is torn about whether to continue being a working mom after her youngest son is born. They paralleled her choice to quit her job with a flash back to a woman from the 1950s who wants to get a job but whose husband won't let her. It was great because it validated the choice to stay at home and the choice to work outside the home. I think the writers wanted to make it clear that the message wasn't all women should stay home with their kids but that they should be free to make the choice that works for them.

The episode about the man planning his funeral includes what I think is Julia's best rant. Her line to the woman who spoke cruelly about the dying man, "If God were handing out STDs as a punishment for sinning than you would be at the clinic every day" is a thing of beauty. The episode about Suzanne's weight was extremely well done. I think Designing Woman was a show that really could handle the balance of drama and comedy quite well. I still remember when Carol's boyfriend Sandy on Growing Pains dies after driving under the influence. One scene he's in the hospital looking okay and in the next Mike is telling Carol the horrible news. That moment where she just can't accept it was so devastating. I remember being shocked that they actually killed him. That scene from Fresh Prince where he breaks down over his father is just one the most memorable tv moments for me. There's another episode where Will is shot saving Carlton from a guy trying to rob them at the ATM, and Carlton gets a gun which leads to this powerful scene between him and Will.