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IF they find that Karnak's powers, which have been proven to be "off" on Earth, either because it's Earth and not the moon, or due to the circumstances of his arrival, can be fixed by smoking the weed they are growing, which is where I was hoping they were going in the second episode, I will forgive them much. If not, then they were clearly just high when they pitched.

That's kind of great. I can't recall what NotGrundy's real name was, but perhaps the killer really IS (or was) after her, and also her "boyfriends", not from his point of view seeing them as her victims. Did we see her latest actually get home safely? It could also explain the difference in method. The way he killed NotGrundy was personal, and the attack on Archie (if that's what it in fact was) was less so. They DID say they would try to incorporate the "diverse" characters into the storylines this season, and this was only the opening episode. Give them a chance. They are working with Reggie 2.0, so that is a challenge already, the source material only has one black 'cat, and TPTB probably consider Kevin an example of diversity in his own right, and many of us were not easily incorporated into past soaps, as we generally do not work in the mixing up the couples formula. Besides, if they can do a spin-off for Sabrina, no reason not to look into a spin-off for Josie and the 'Cats, just as in the comics.

It might be too soon what with the Weinstein stuff going on! I used to go to a club that had Dynasty viewing parties on whatever night the original was on (Wednesdays?) and we'd be shit-faced by the end of the episode, so I remember it fondly, if not well. I eventually fell for a guy who looked for all the world like Steven Carrington as played by Al Corley. Maybe that's why I never really liked Heather Locklear? This was like the original on crack. They packed in too much into the first episode. It was trashy fun, but the original took some time to set things up so that the payoff was worth it. This has no foreplay. I'll stick around, though, if only to see who they cast for Alexis, and because the outside stuff is filmed in my area, and that's always amusing. I wonder if Helena Bonham Carter would do the CW?

Medusa is just an awful Inhuman being on this show, and, apparently, so is kid sis! At least in the comics Crystal was kind of cool as first introduced, but maybe that's because the first human she met was hot in a different way than the first human she meets in this version? AND there is absolutely no consistency in what people from the moon get and what they don't get about Earth. (Have they explained how they are on the moon, because it clearly cannot be the way they got there in the comics?) And, just to nitpick, why the assumption that the rings Medusa and BB are wearing are WEDDING rings, or even that Inhumans would HAVE monogamy and/or wedding bands? I know they DO, but that's because they were created in the Silver Age, where anything else would never have been published. But Louise noted BB's ring from a NEWSCAST?? And the vet (what a wonderful coincidence that the male model who ran into Crystal and Lockjaw just happened to have broken up with a vet!) notices nothing unusual enough to stick around and/or to call in the HUGE CGI pooch, other than maybe it was crossbred? With what? An elephant? This show.

You cannot have a dog boy and a Cat Girl in the same episode! There are rules! Poor Alex and his Grandfather! That was just cruel. LOVED the rapping messengers, everything Zsazs, and the horrible riddling. So, is Barbara no longer crazy because of the Lazarus Pit? I miss her OTT self, but it's kind of genius if the Pit was a cure after all.

Now THIS is where you could get a team win! Roughly the same shape as Ayana's, the sparkly essence of M & M, and you open up and get the chocolate that Brandon's fan wanted! I completely misremembered that! Maybe I was still annoyed with Michael over Tapegate?

Sadly, Michael was NOT going for Marvel's Disco Dazzler, which would have been my choice. Claire's twin would NEVER leave so undramatically! So much potential for tears and throwing of measuring tape! Happy for Ayana's win, in that her creation looked like a huge plastic toy that will be easy to reproduce. (Even Barbie would think that the pink was too much, however.) Saw Amy leaving the minute we got the images of her daughter and Heidi pulled the "one or more" line. Kentaro's tape measure line was wonderful, as was him calling himself a butterfly trapped in a spider web at Mood.

Oops! My mistake! I confused Lifetime with E! They are right next to each other on Comcast, and I don't regularly watch either, so I always think of them as the same! My apologies to Lifetime!

So do gay couples.

Project Runway is on Lifetime. The Network is practically supported by a family famous for a sex tape, so it should not surprise anyone. I had forgotten until news footage that Georgina Chapman is married to Weinstein! I imagine (and have absolutely no evidence for this) that theirs was a marriage of convenience, and his "dalliances" perhaps satisfied him enough that she wouldn't have to touch him. Ever.

I'll fanwank it that Heche's character should not have left the team with no contingency plans in case she's needed, and that she was doing someone she shouldn't have been while off comm, and that's why she decided to go easy. Did Heche look different in this ep, or was it just that she wasn't using the eyeglass prop? I kind of like the team at this point, so I'm willing to stick with them.

The physical comedy always gets me in this show! From the apple fight at the picnic to the sister brawl at the prison they did a really good job. Ben, again, was pretty awesome. I liked how the inmates saved his dad, and also seemed to be a little afraid of him once he told about his arson tendencies. Nice callbacks in this one to the previous season with the parents as well, especially the reveal about Chip. No wonder he's so insecure.

Crystal and Medusa are sisters, so the genetic weirdness of their respective hairs makes some kind of weird sense. Also, jack Kirby LOVED weird and wild hair and headpieces. As I've mentioned before, he would probably have been in heaven designing for drag queens. Who knows? Maybe he did.

In the comics, one of Medusa's partner's was named "Paste Pot Pete". Maybe this version will leave off the "Paste".

Glad that Crystal and Lockjaw made it out of Attilan. It made no sense for the most powerful Inhuman to be the only one still under house arrest. She'll no doubt meet someone cute, as is her comic book history, but the Marvelverse no longer owns her boyfriend, so they'll have to come up with someone new. Medusa showed how entitled she is, and it really IS an ugly look on her. Then, again, it's consistent with her introduction in comics as a villainess. (I may have to start testing ATMs with my claim to Royalty. I have no clue as to who my father was, but I have expensive tastes, so I assume I get that from him...) Last week I thought Karnak would use Fauxlicity as a way to correct his messed up ability, but now I am praying that weed will realign him, because that would be the funniest thing ever! It's a dumb show, but I cannot quit it yet.

Well, that was dumb. I don't know what Michael thinks is "unfair" about Claire's design. It's nothing spectacular, but there were so many missteps tonight that it was elevated just by a lack of competition. Margarita has always seemed like a "mean girl", and, while I am sometimes amused by her observations, she clearly went after Claire once she was weakened by her sister leaving, as she has disliked the twins for some time. Her anger got the better of her, and she lost the ability to focus on her own project. I think Michael was so invested in her drama that he lost perspective and went off the rails as well. I think I wouldn't mind...oh, that's NOT what you meant! I agree, though, in seriousness, his design was a mashup of the stuff he's been doing each week, and the lack of an interesting pattern really emphasized that. I liked Kitano's, and would be interested to see it on a model type. (Nothing against the woman he designed for, but not everyone walks clothes well.) Ayana's also looked pretty good, and I think the judges gave it a pass again because of the model's figure. Kenya's model looked a bit like an older Maggie Gylenhall (SP?), and I liked their vibe together, but the judges were right about the outfit being wrong for the model. And I just realized that Shawn's departure with her haircut made it seem as if she were auditioning for the role of Joan of Arc!

The DRAMA!!! It BURNS! Emmys! Emmys all around!!! Fly, little Lone Twin! Fly! I set you FREE!

I want JJ to become Salem's "Batman" now, since he's been fired by Commissioner Hope! The Dark A-Benger!

Back when the X-Men began the mutants were called "children of the atom" because everyone was freaked out that the advent of nuclear energy and advancements in science would cause a higher rate of mutation than simple evolution. (Also it's much easier to create superheroes when they don't require an origin story.) The original X-Men were kids of normal powerless folks initially. Then writers noted that people who were "different" would probably be treated badly in the fictional world as were those in the real world, even though most of the mutants depicted were different in that they were better looking than normal folk. They also recognized that the "coming out" of mutants would be similar to that of gay teens, and eventually they got some real soap opera stuff going on, which resulted in a LOT of the kids discovering that parents had powers they hadn't been aware of, and mutations were just another trait ion some family trees, like hair color. I think it would be cool if the Vampire Bill and Root do not turn out to have any powers, but, then, why both kids? And I get that the girl's seems sort of like TK, but is the boy's just a less controlled version, or something else? The school dance reminded me of "Carrie" without the pig's blood. I actually like the spiderlike sentinels better than the giant robot version. They are creepier. I'll stick with this for a bit. Better than the Inhumans.

I remember when she started on Another World a lifetime ago and she played twins. The previous actress changed the hairstyle of the twins, but had the roles down perfectly. Heche had to wear a wig as one twin in order to be convincing as two separate characters. She improved over time and became really good. I actually like her on this, which surprised me. (Maybe it's also because in the same week I saw Ashley Judd do an AWFUL version on Berlin Station of a similar role!) The medic is Noah Mills, whose acting credits are pretty decent, but who is a stunningly attractive male model! Google him. I was surprised they just tossed off last week's cliffhanger! I guess the contracts were negotiated based upon the fact that any of them might reasonably not survived. I don't know much about spycraft, or being a redhead, but I would think the FIRST thing I would do if I were on the run and a ginger would be to hide my hair. I like the field team, but they need to have Jaz obscured by the larger guys in group shots. She slouches a bit.

It's a Soap. He'll probably show up at the police station to stop JJ, and he'll be a 6'2" male model who hits on Gabi.

So a double wedding went off without a hitch? (I'll see myself out.)

Sorry, but as a male rape survivor myself, as I posted, I respectfully disagree. Being forced is a wholly different experience from coercion. I sincerely hope that you never have to experience the difference, as I have. Jamie has so far experienced both, and his reactions to both have been different. Which is my assertion as well.

She could not FORCE Jamie to maintain an erection no matter HOW much she threatened him, and, if she'd had any experience, she'd know that the threat might have the opposite of her desired intent. Were the genders reversed, the woman's lack of motivation would not change the outcome. Sorry, but, as a rape survivor I dislike intensely the watering down of the definition to include coercion. In so many ways. I liked the Claire bits for the costuming. I guess 1968 was a tad early, but I so wanted Claire's umbrage over all the men in the pub looking at her and Bree to be turned on its head by the reveal that it was a gay pub! As late as the 1970s I went to McSorleys in the Village and they still only had a men's room! The girls in our group wanted the guys to stand guard while they went. If they still have not added a women's room, I wonder whether they will NOW be seen as trendy for having unisex?

For me, the Inhumans always worked best as background characters. The CBR point about Crystal being the "Marilyn" of the Inhumans' "Munsters" was pretty much on-target. The IH were best as in-laws to be periodically and not enthusiastically visited. Their powers were weird and wacky, and didn't hold out under scrutiny (Wouldn't Medusa's use of her hair snap her own neck? Was Lockjaw a humanoid BEFORE the mists? etc.) Crystal, unfortunately, was SO powerful that she put the rest of the FF to shame, and, as a female character in the 1970s, that was a mistake, so they decided that the pollution in the air outside the Great Refuge was so toxic that she had to return, indefinitely. They also didn't want to have to rename the FF comic to the "Fantastic Five". Interestingly they would hook her up with another character that was deemed "baggage" at that point, the Avengers' Pietro Maximoff, AKA Quicksilver. It was the use of Quicksilver that reignited the desire at Marvel to popularize the Inhumans. Both FOX and Marvel Disney claimed Quicksilver, and Marvel/Disney, or Joss Whedon, his twin sister Wanda, the Scarlet Witch. Marvel got the bright idea to connect them to the Inhumans, rather than the Mutantverse, which FOX controlled, and, Voila!, we get the Terrigen mists, the twins, and the Inhumans infiltrating all aspects of Marvel comics and movie/TV porjects. IMO, they could easily have NOT pinpointed an origin for the twins' powers, used them as they wished in the Avengers, and subbed speedster Northstar, already having a history with Wolverine, but not raised with his twin sister, into the FOX movieverse. They missed the opportunity there to publicize having the first out gay superhero in a movie! But, back to the Inhumans, definitely better as background characters than title.