Isle Of Why

I'm suitably appalled! I was making a tuna salad sandwich yesterday for my niece and wondered why most kids eat the stuff so readily since it has such a strong fishy taste and smell. I was thinking it was the dressing, but now you've added a new angle. My family ate peanut butter and mayonaisse sandwiches, never jelly, so we're probably pegging the freak-o-meter, too.

Never enough baby animals!

Long enough for multiple complications of various ilk to play out. Sigh.

Lawn darts/javelin darts were so obviously dangerous, yet so many* couldn't see it! Even young kids can readily understand that it's not wise to stand and toss horseshoes to each other. From wiki: "In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts in the USA. Out of that total, 81% were 15 or younger, and half of them were 10 or younger. On the week the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and sent into a coma,"

I can't say I ever really liked Juliette, but the show was determined to have Nick conceal his identity from her, so she never really had a chance. The writers were determined that after their loving start, there would be nothing but betrayals and upsets between them. It was all extremely tortured and tedious.

So many awwws!

Yay, thanks!

They even bleep it when streamed at SyFy, for fuck's sake. I guess I got used to Julia pretty much having a separate but parallel storyline last season. I wonder about Penny still being such an outsider, after all they've been though. It was interesting to hear Margo and Eliot gossip to each other about never really clicking with Alice: "She came with Quentin." I get the most out of this show as a binge and just caught up on this season today; it's even better than season one I think.

I understand not liking a particular celebrity for any number of nitpicky reasons, but boycotting the entire show because of one person's political affiliation seems silly. I can't think of anyone right now other than Rick Perry who I even knew what their politics were. Pfft.

Bullshit. The show has been deleted from my season pass and I won't be back unless Kelly is no longer a judge. Not that my personal opinion of Hawaa's talent vs Tieler's means bupkas, but apparently one judge forced hers on everyone, and that stinks.

I didn't see it as pretentious but it was very boring to me. I kept looking at the video timer -- only 30 minutes? Only halfway through still? I may never have gotten past the fact that several world-renowned linguists apparently had never considered using pictographs to communicate, or that holding up a white board with "human" written on it provided some kind of breakthrough. Maybe because I didn't see it in the theater, but I found the cinematography to be really muddy and even darker than usual with movies these days. I came to like Abbott and Costello but never cared about any of the humans. She really was.

Sigh. I dislike this show but find myself rooting for it to be renewed, just to support Arnold. Whom I don't much like, either. Fuck me.

It's just so ... retro.

A LOT sooner for me than it is for them.

I always fast-forward through fight scenes, so this may be a short series for me.

Whenever there's a public accident, shooting, or health emergency, the person tending to the injured will always yell out to the crowd to call 911. Like nobody would possibly think to do that without being told. Especially when the crowd consists of other police officers. (This might happen IRL if passers-by are in shock or whatnot, but it always happens on TV.)

Probably, but Jules and Ophelia are turning into sociopaths with their "end justifies the means" vigilante tunnel vision. They were complicit in the manslaughter of Tyler's stepbrother and Jules has been living that lie with Tyler. If I'm supposed to feel good or in any way positive about their romance, nuh uh. Fictional TV and all, but that really bothered me. Harris Bosley-ing up is fine for purposes of the story, but I was disappointed in him.

Even if Tip is supposed to be late teens or older, she had been confined by Mombi so long that the only memories she had of herself were as a boy. My assumption was that she'd been locked up most of her life. Mombi could have performed some sort of forgetting spell or one for age regression, except if present, those didn't wear off once the sex change one did. So yeah, from what information we've been given, the bathtub scene was super icky. I was a little surprised Tip even knew what a whore was. It's not like she had TV and Internet while a prisoner.

It comes off as a little hypocritial to me that Stephen said he was bored with his previous show and wanted to do something new ... that is, until he realized he was flailing a bit and ratings weren't that good. Then the old persona is fine.

Roasted nuts? That's not even a side dish, much less one made by a top chef. Is John going to be fully cooking out of Betty Crocker now that he (accidentally) won with mac and cheese? Pimento crab dip, really? I hope he gets a chance to work in some tomato aspic later. I hate restaurant wars; it's all the negatives of team challenges amplified by ten.

My understanding of that conversation between Leah and Mike about recruiting was that Leah said it make her very uncomfortable and she didn't do it. She said she "helped" people who were already Scientologists to make further advancements, and that's what she felt was the acceptable transgression. What I've never understood about Debbie Cook's nuclear bomb email is that, okay, Scientology sued her for breaking her non-disclosure contract. Then she testified in court, it turned into a nightmare for Scientology, and they quickly dropped the suit. But why did they give Debbie a settlement? For what? She was the defendant. Did she countersue? Maybe any attorneys can weigh in because that's never made sense to me.

Don't forget Bell's changing hair and the various annoying ways Sherlock finds to wake up a sleeping Joan. I agree about being here for the relationships and not so much the cases. On the other hand, I'm one of the fans of the BBC's Sherlock who are fed up because that show has wandered away from mysteries in order to focus on character personalities. Apparently there's no pleasing me.

As much as I enjoyed the series, I'm not sure I'd want a second season. Billy Bob doesn't seem to like to repeat himself, for one thing. I don't know what the plot would be -- another trial with the same team? The supporting characters on Billy's side were terrific and I'd hate to lose any of them, but there would be some explaining to do. Who knows what the ratings were but it certainly didn't get a lot of buzz. I guess I'm happy to make up my own ending along with @LauraAnders. The original title was "Trial" which honestly, I think might have helped get more people to watch. It's David E. Kelley! It's a legal drama involving a trial!

I loved Leah's sarcastic comment to Dan Harris about how cheesy his question was concerning what she'd like to say to Miscavige if he was there. "Do people really buy that?" Asking Leah about her supposed lack of career after King of Queens was pretty low, and not even true. Seems like them fancy investigative journalists at 20/20 don't even know how to use IMDB. The implications that she and Rinder are doing this solely for the money chaps my hide. "Semi-professional critics" indeed. Questions Dan Harris neglected to ask Yingling: Are you getting paid by Scientology to do this interview? Are the Scientologists in the smear videos allowed to look at non-Scientology info to determine if any of the critics' claims are true? Are you trying to blink out "help me" in Morse code?

Thanks! I have heard that before. The guy's got an interesting tone to his voice that doesn't match his appearance. Why is it that you look at some people and are surprised they can sing? The Susan Boyle gene.