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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.

I miss original Team Arrow so much.

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I was really looking forward to Thea and Malcolm's story this season, and it's been a major disappointment. The thing is they could have made Thea Sara's killer without taking her agency away and making her and Sara tools for Malcolm. The writers could have established that Thea had no clue Sara was Canary. They could have had it that Thea was aware that Malcolm life was in danger because of the League of assassins. Thea could have found out that Canary was following her father and she decided to kill the Black Canary to protect the only parent she had left. That would have still lead to Oliver's decision to take the fall in The Climb. We could have got a whole story arc out of Thea figuring out how she feels about being a killer and how she'd react to the discovery that The Black Canary was Sara. Let Thea find out her brother "died" for her crime and cope with the guilt. Would she go further to the dark side or would she drastically change course away from Malcolm's influence? But I realize that Thea is not a character to the writers but a plot device. I'm bitter about the waste of Sara, Thea, Shado, and Moira. So many female characters have been sacrificed for plot purposes when they could have gotten other stories from them surviving.

Team Arrow "I'll be there for you" (Friends Theme) Oliver & Felicity | From the start - OLICITY JOURNEY [s1-s3]

There's a musical version of A Christmas Carol. How did I not ever see this? I really enjoy Scrooged. The thing about Love Actually is that the variety in story telling allows the viewer to find stories they enjoy even if they don't like other parts of the movie. I hate the guy who wants to find American girls for sex, poor Laura Linney's plot, and the whole Alan Rickman cheating storyline but I love the Liam Neeson father/son story, Colin Firth's story, Hugh Grant dancing makes the sun shine etc... It's a flawed movie but enough of it works to make me stop and watch whenever it's on. Plus, I can fast forward through the plots I don't care about. It has something that other movies who've tried to replicate the formula (Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve) haven't managed.

The Ruth Wilson/Toby Stephens Jane Eyre is my favorite adaptation. Their chemistry was amazing. Wives and Daughters is such a great miniseries. I loved that the step sisters didn't have cliche problems with each other and actually loved each other like sisters. It's one I watch over and over. The marriage proposal in the rain was just lovely. I also recommend Gaskell's North and South. Richard Armitage can do no wrong in my eyes because of that miniseries. I do wish the ending was a little more like the book, but I adored that screen kiss. George Elliott's Daniel Deronda was really engrossing. Romola Garai's character was one who managed to be sympathetic despite questionable choices. I thought the love triangle was well done because I understood why Daniel would feel drawn to both of them and neither woman is a villain.

I'm on board with firing Gwen and Owen.

Martha would be a great choice.

That sums it up really well. Immortals can't enjoy the present fun because they are always thinking about the inevitable end. Jack couldn't let himself enjoy what he found in Ianto because he was anticipating the end. Pre-Bad Wolf Jack was full of life and Post-Bad Wolf the joy has dimmed so much. It sucks that the trope lets the villainous immortals have fun while the good ones have to brood.

Ianto Lives! I struggled with what doctor to pick. I settled on Henry because I could imagine him and Jack having some interesting conversations. I do wonder if a veterinarian might be a better choice since that area of medicine requires knowledge of a variety of species. Maybe Hershel from Walking Dead.

I couldn't resist the Highlander reference in the title. @Captanne gave me the idea to start a thread dedicated to comparing Jack to other immortal characters. After giving it some thought, there has been a lot of tv immortals mostly broody. Is it my imagination or is it rare that anyone loves becoming immortal. I feel like Jack could have been that joyful immortal but Torchwood is not designed to allow the characters happiness. Jack in particular has been tortured physically and emotionally to a ridiculous degree. I think Highlander did a good job of showing the good and bad of being immortal. There were tragedies that were inevitable like Duncan losing Tessa and Methos losing Alexa but then you have a character like Amanda who is going to have fun with her long life even if she does also suffer bad experiences too. With vampires, the good ones tend to be miserable about what they are and the bad ones are the ones who love their life. Jessica on True Blood's thrilled reaction to becoming a vampire was a rare thing. Henry on Forever keeps himself isolated to prevent his secret from getting out and I think to protect himself (it's implied his wife left him and thier son). The only connection his allowed himself until recently is he's son Abe who worries what will become of his father when Abe dies of old age while Henry continues on and on.

For me, Forever is sort of fun guilty pleasure. It has dark moments but a lighter tone overall. Ioan Griffudd's fascinating relationship with his son played by Judd Hirsch is the reason to watch. I might start a thread discussing immortal characters to compare them to Jack. (edited to add: Jack vs. other immortals) BTW, I'm dying to know who your 5 Torchwood recruits would be.