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8 hours ago, Kelda Feegle said:
Best part of this episode is that Ralph still has a halfway decent haircut.
Anyone willing to bet that Ralph is the one who can convince Walter to hire Paige back? Confession: I think Ralph is adorable and one of my favorite characters on this show
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I love this show. It's pure popcorn fun. It has the heart of the soul of ridiculous/cheesy 1980s action-adventure series. The problem is that time has marched on and while the writers have no problem acknowleding that modern technology exists, they don't realize or don't care that there are people out there who have a deep understanding of all of it, and the means to broadcast thier opinion (the internet/message boards/social media).
I loved that Walter said that Ralph was the smartest person in the room. Based on how much Walter cares about being the smartest person in the room, him being willing to admit that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, which lasted until the end of the episode. I can't wait to see how the writers get out themselves of this mess. I'm guessing Paige gets into a horrible car accident, and Walter realizes he was wrong.
5 hours ago, theatremouse said:They didn't even need to acknowledge knowing anything. Tell him he was unconscious most of the time he was in space and clearly hallucinating but was incoherent and they didn't know about what and then just let him think that he's the only one who knew what those "memories" were.
That would have worked. They could have told him he was remembering a dream/hallucinations, not something that actually happened.
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On April 16, 2017 at 0:54 PM, nodorothyparker said:
Historically, selling Elvis's contract gave Sam enough money to keep the studios afloat long enough to discover Cash and Jerry Lee and the rest. That's at least accurate, but it doesn't resolve the pacing problem the show overall exhibited without being fairly sure of a second season.
That was my big problem with the series. All they needed to do was end two months later with the Million Dollar Quartet session. To me, that's what was so frustrating, we weren't years away from it, we were 2 months/8 weeks away. You could have started the series a little later, or done a few more time jumps within an episode or between the episodes.
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On February 11, 2017 at 0:24 AM, Steph01924 said:
It's so nice to get Trixie's frankness and cheeriness back; I didn't realize I'd miss her as much as I did. I'm guessing they're going to pull that nurse from the bar in as a new hire since we're dropping people left and right.
Would that work? She isn't a trained midwife so she couldn't do maternal check-ups or deliveries, but she is a nurse so she could handle district rounds. It might work. I thought she was going to become a nurse for the docks.
4 hours ago, JudyObscure said:Welcome home, Trixie! I've always thought she was beautiful, but the sixties style, pale lipstick and up-do, suits her to perfection. Now can we please get some body-skimming A-line dresses for the nurses. Those cinch belts only work for women with tiny waists and look just awful if you don't. Poor Barbara deserves something more flattering.
Maybe there will be some sort of fancy event where everyone gets dressed up in wonderful clothes. It will be fun to see wedding plans/the actual wedding.
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14 hours ago, mojito said:
I would love to hear CBS's summary of who this show's target audience is (besides old people). Surely, this would include people of limited knowledge and factual information who long for the days when the "good guys" (white hats) always won and were always right, and trouble makers (non-white hats) were put or kept in their places. It's my latter point that I find so fascinating, and it keeps me marveling at the lengths the writers will go to turn the clock back so viewers can fondly recall the days of greater social inequality.
I enjoy Blue Bloods. I had heard that it was a conservative show, but for the longest time I didn't see it. To me, that didn't mean it wasn't there, just that I wasn't seeing it. One day I watched an episode of Hill Street Blues right before Blue Bloods and it became crystal clear that Blue Bloods was conservative, it just took me awhile to see it. I don't think of the driving force as an odd nostalgia for social inequality. I think of the overall message of the show as "the system works, but people are flawed and cause problems". In Hill Street Blues it was "good people trapped in an imperfect system."
As for target audience, I have no idea.
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1 hour ago, mtlchick said:
Outside of seeing Cousin Larry! from Perfect Strangers
I used to love "Perfect Strangers." It's been easly over a decade since I watched the show. Which character did Larry/Mark Linn-Baker play? I saw on imdb that the character's name was Carleton, but I don't remember which character that was.
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On April 14, 2017 at 10:01 PM, ahpny said:
What I found interesting in this Oleg pursues-the-Black-marketing-guy story line is how Oleg must have been thinking that that could easily be him in that jail cell (or worse) tomorrow if the tape got to the KGB.
That was what I thought too.
1 hour ago, MissBluxom said:I find Oleg dealing with Russian bureaucracy to be extremely baffling. Maybe there is more to the story than meets my eye. But I just don't understand the point of this story line. Where can it be going? More importantly, where is the entertainment value in this?
I have always enjoyed every scene in which Oleg has appeared and I wish he would get a whole lot more on-air time. But I have to admit to a massive amount of confusion regarding Oleg this season. What the *bleep* is going on with him this season? Would anyone care to make a guess?
@MissBluxom. The point of the story is to show what is actually happening in Russia and how messed up/broken the system is. @Emerald City offered a theory as to where Oleg's story is going, which I quoted below.
14 hours ago, Emeraldcity said:Oleg is an ethical person. It wouldnt suprise me that his character isnt being set up to be part of glasnost.
One of my friends had a similiar theory, which involved Oleg evenutally becoming head of the Rezidentura.
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1 hour ago, White Sheep said:
How will henry react to mom and dad telling them they are spies. As a kid from the 1980's. I would be like cool. Where do I get MY machine guns, frag genades, and explosives!!
Henry is going is to be all about the tech and gadgets. He is going to be more upset that his parents have no version of Q than that they lied to him.
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1 hour ago, rmontro said:
The group has gotten too big to fit into one living room. If they all got together, it would look like they were throwing a party.
I understand it may be hard to have everyone in the same room, but it would be great if the different groups could interact more. Howard and Bernadette could do something with Leonard and Penny or Sheldon and Amy. Raj could help Amy buy new clothes, or other pairings/variations.
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1 hour ago, Starscream said:
The only thing I don't really like about it is how isolated they've been in episodes.
Yes! My problem is that Leonard, Penny, Sheldon, and Amy are part of this hang-out show about nerds in love. Howard, Bernadette, and Stuart are now in a domestic comedy. I really wish we could get more episodes with them hanging out together as a group again.
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35 minutes ago, nodorothyparker said:
He's the only who didn't have a story line at all in this.
That's because they ended it before they could get to his storyline. Elvis's version of "Blue Suede Shoes" overshadowed the original Perkins recording/release. Perkins never got the career and level of stardom he thought he should've had. Would it really have been that much more expensive to make it 10 episodes instead of 8?
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5 hours ago, Razzberry said:
They can't stop now, we haven't even seen the big four jamming.
That was my reaction. I was so upset. If you weren't going to end with the Million Dollar Quartet, what was the point of including Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and the Carl Perkins cameo. If they had just had another episode or two, this could have ended with the Million Dollar Quartet session and it would have been awesome. Right now the only word I have to describe my feelings about this is cheated.
4 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:If it was intended as a series finale, I would be left wondering what was the point of including the Jerry Lee story at all since he has yet to venture anywhere near Sun and hasn't figured into the larger story at all. Johnny Cash's story finally feels like it's moving in a way that he's recognizable now as the icon he'll become and the actor seems to finally be growing into the role, but he hasn't gotten there yet either.
This was my problem with the finale. They had 4 (Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis, and Sam Philips) storylines, and Elvis was the only one of them that was resolved. I could make an argument for Sam's storyine being resolved, but it would be hard since the question is what does he do with the money?
There had better be a season 2.
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2 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:
Thank you, show, for finally giving us a glimpse of Lansky Bros.
Yes! I was very happy with the way it turned out too. I love that they showed Elvis asking for permission to buy clothes, when we know in a few years he would be able to shop there and buy stuff like it was candy.
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23 hours ago, Umbelina said:
I do think Henry knows much more than he's letting on though. Kids know. There have been too many raised voices, too many weird interactions between the parental unit and his sister, too many lame excuses to be gone at all hours, or for days. He may not know specifics, but he knows something is up.
I agree. He knows something is off/wrong, but can't quite put his finger on it. He is not the type to ask questions. Henry is more likely to go digging on his own, if he wanted to know the truth.
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23 hours ago, Umbelina said:
For example, Paige somehow really does become a loyal communist working for the KGB (oh please!) and she needs to plant a bug in an office she has no access to at work. She's caught by a cleaning woman, and needs to use her training and kill her. Or, there is a sensitive promotion available but some other person is more qualified, is she ordered to seduce the one who will choose, or is the more qualified person, once identified by Paige, suddenly dead? All kinds of things happen in the field, as Philip, and certainly Elizabeth, would know.
I think the more likely scenario would be that Paige identifies the person and then the person dies. I don't think they would have her plant a bug. The whole point is to have someone on the inside, so I doubt the Centre would risk having her do something that would put her job at risk. Martha was able to plant the bug because she already had access to the office. They never asked her to go anywhere in the office she wouldn't already be going, or do a task that would look strange.
22 hours ago, Clanstarling said:I had both reactions we've been discussing. I choked up a bit, thinking how sweet the moment was, then was horrified that she was being brought further into the fold.
To me the moment had a dream-like quality to it. I couldn't believe it was actually happening on screen.
3 hours ago, Blakeston said:I've been thinking for ages that Henry has far, far more spy potential than Paige. Going back to season one, when he realized that guy who picked them up hitchhiking was a perv, and did something about it.
They spent the next few seasons establishing that he was successfully breaking into neighbors' homes just to play their video games; that he somehow got his hands on a photo of Mrs. Beamon in a bikini; and that he stole Matthew's cologne without anyone noticing.
I've been assuming for a while that they would reveal that he had some kind of special skills. E & P have been focused almost entirely on Paige, and ignoring the kid with the real potential. (I don't think Paige would even be good at being a Martha. She's naive, doesn't deal well with pressure, and can't handle lying about simple things.)
Yes to all of this! I totally agree with everything you wrote.
49 minutes ago, sistermagpie said:Paige: Thinks she's Michael, is actually Fredo.
Henry: Thinks he's Fredo, is actually Michael.
I would say Paige is Sonny, because she has a tendency to freak out. Her freak outs are different from his, but the reaction is still freak out. Like Michael, Henry starts thinking, planing, and taking action. The scene with the hitchiker is totally Michael at the hospital.
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On April 12, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Tetraneutron said:
I also think it's clear, and interesting, what they're doing with Henry. He's the All-American boy. Good with technology. Smart but not especially serious. Cocky, snarky, likes luxury and pop culture and doesn't follow orders. He'd be an amazing asset too, but in a completely different way. He'd also be the most likely to rebel.
Henry would be a far better spy and would be a less sexy version of Oleg.
20 hours ago, tennisgurl said:Oh my God, I was so convinced that Oleg was going to jump for a second there. I was already reaching for my phone to start sending out some very strongly worded tweets! I hope this means that he's really safe from the CIA, but I'm still not sure. I like seeing him at work, but I feel like there will be some other way he will get tied into the story, or will meet more obstacles. And, I know I say this ever week, but good LORD can that man rock a black coat.
Me too! As long as they can keep alive and looking good, I'm okay with whatever plotline they have for him. Oleg looks great week after week. I like to imagine that while was still in the U.S, he watched reruns of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He claimed it was for research, but really he just liked Ilya.
7 hours ago, Ina123 said:I've been thinking a lot about the Misha arc. (Too much, probably.) What if Phillip finds out that his son was sent back while trying to find him and Phillip just loses it. He walks over to Stan's and turns himself in. During debriefing (interrogation?) Phillip proposes that if they get his son out of Russia, he will tell all. Yeah...thinkin' too much, but an interesting thought.
I can see Philip going to Stan to turn himself in as part of a deal that's the series endgame.
2 hours ago, SlovakPrincess said:Also, neither Jennings kid would be a good spy for the Centre. Paige is book smart and earnest and willing to be bossed around to an extent, but she lacks street smarts and ruthlessness. Henry is intelligent AND has street smart instincts (remember he smashed a beer over the head of the creepy guy Paige took a ride with in Season 1) ... but he is independent and would resist being told he has no choice. Paige is trying hard to believe there's some social good in what her parents do, whereas Henry would be way more skeptical and is fine with being a comfortable American.
Paige would be useless as a field agent, but put in her an office and she'd be great. Henry would go crazy spending all day in an office, but he'd be great as a field agent.
2 hours ago, SlovakPrincess said:He could at least hook up with one of those ladies his dad invited to dinner! I'm gonna need some Oleg sex scenes if these stories are going to drag like this, ok? ;)
Oleg sex scenes would be fantastic, but I'd settle for any hint of happiness. Maybe he could go to a jazz club and have a night of fun.
1 hour ago, becauseIsaidso said:P/E have clearly favored Paige, Henry's said as much; he's got more on the ball than they realized, he's used to moving around in the background, and he has a very friendly relationship with the neighborhood FBI agent - what more could the Motherland ask?.....the old saying that 'It's always the quiet ones' comes to mind. I doubt that the Center gets all their information about the kids from only what Gabriel relays from P/E, and I would not be at all surprised to find they've got more recruitment shenanigans in the works.
I love this idea. Why Philip and Elizabeth are worried and focused on Paige, The Centre's quietly working on plans for Henry in the future. They've noticed him, but they are waiting to make thier move.
1 hour ago, jww said:I really don’t think a white middle class female of average looks and intelligence, little athletic ability, no demonstrated leadership ability, few friends and less than nobody parents would be a likely candidate for a sensitive position in the CIA,FBI or State Department. I think the CIA/State was/is an old boys network-if you were not in Skull and Bones, forget it. If they were really serious they would pack Henry off to a New England prep school and let him rub elbows with other boys who may well be in sensitive positions as adults and whose fathers already are.
It's not the sixties. It's the eighties. Affirmative Action was starting to become a reality. I think the old boy network was still there, but not nearly as strong and prevasive as it was in earlier decades.
@sistermagpie and @SlovakPrincess. I agree with you. The plan is for the second generation to get in and get access, which could take multiple forms. It could be someone in technological research/cyrpotgraphy, field operations, or admin staff in an office.
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One reason to bring Paige to Gabriel is that they think he can do a better job of explaining what they do and why they do it. Another explanation is that Philip knows after Gabriel meets with Paige and talks to her he will realize that using her will be a bad idea, and having that information come to the Centre from Gabriel instead of them will be better for everyone involved.
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15 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Was there an episode in which Walter took dancing lessons?
Walter already knows how to dance. I'm guessing it's something his sister forced him to do when they were kids.
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12 hours ago, benteen said:
Really good episode. I think the best one so far this season. Frank Langella was awesome and I thought it was great to see him and Paige finally meet. Interesting information about Philip. I loved the song choice at the end although I'm not familiar with it at all.
As soon as I saw Oleg in the prison I thought, if this were Miami Vice, we'd get a music montage now, and that's pretty close to what happened.
12 hours ago, crgirl412 said:Can someone explain why so much time is being spent on a story about mismanaged produce??
My guess is they are using it to stand in for the corruption and problems of the Soviet System. This is something that is easy to understand, trace, track, and would matter to many people.
12 hours ago, Umbelina said:If that's the last we see of Misha, I'm going to be slightly pissed off, all that time spent on him for basically nothing? I must assume that Philip will find out somehow.
I didn't realize what I was seeing at first, but they couldn't have gone through all that for nothing. It must be building to something, I just have no idea what that is.
11 hours ago, Ellaria Sand said:Ben the Wheat Guy continues to be a cliche. Of course he does tai chi. There is something about him, his life style, his choices that Elizabeth finds intriguing.
I saw him do tai chi, and I swear "This is The End" by The Doors started to play in my head. My guess is that Elizabeth thinks she can recuit him and turn him. Someone who is already liberal and wants to make the world a better place would make Elizabeth think she has a chance.
11 hours ago, vb68 said:I continue to think P and E's neglect of Henry is what really's going to bite them in the end.
Me too, and I think it's going to be an accident. Henry will say something that from his perspective is totally innocent but sets off all sorts of alarm bells to Stan.
2 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:I have a question about P's childhood. He recalls the teasing, cruel behavior and ugly looks from other kids, but, are we supposed to believe that none of the kids ever called him or his brother a name? I mean, if the poor treatment was due to his dad being a guard at the prison, wouldn't one of the kids have slipped up and said so or written it on a wall or something? Just odd that no one told him why he was a target. Sounds odd to me.
Philip is dealing with repressed memories. He doesn't remember everything that happened. What you are describing could have happened, but Philip may not remember it yet. He is not trying to recall his childhood, it just happens, like PTSD flashbacks.
2 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:I can't say how much I have been looking forward to a Gabriel and Paige meeting. It was on my top ten things this show just had to do before it ended. It's always been in the back of my mind that the Jennings or the Center would push Paige to far and she would crack and turn P&E in but I am actually starting to think that maybe Henry will be the one to do it. He idolizes Stan and doesn't understand his father at all. When he finds out who his father really is. I have no idea how he will react.
I think Henry will put his family first and try to do everything he can to make sure Stan never finds out.
41 minutes ago, sistermagpie said:In the scene with Stan Henry again connected it to his parents thinking he's a screw up--which shows he's picking up on what's going on and just misinterpreting it. It fit with all the psychoanalysis. Like Henry gets something's going on and can't put his finger on it. Also note that as usual when Stan tried to pump Henry for information Henry gave him none at all: I don't talk to Paige about stuff like that. The kid's a natural vault. He'll give you the information he feels like venting about and nothing else.
I don't know if I'd say he idolizes Stan, exactly. There's some of that but...I don't know, I feel like when Henry's with Stan he gets to indulge in being a certain kind of Henry. Like it's not even just about idolizing Stan but about Henry himself being this cool guy (maybe a bit of a dick, actually) when he's with Stan. I don't know how to explain it, but the whole bro-ey thing doesn't ever get into, like, Stan being an FBI agent and Henry being thrilled with that part.
Henry is so clearly a natural born spy, it's too funny that the Centre is going after Paige. I would say the dynamic between Stan and Henry is like a nephew and an uncle. Henry understands that Stan is an adult and not a peer, but at the same time, he's not a parent. Stan is a cool adult.
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I was so worried Oleg was going to commit suicide that I was yelling at my T.V. I'm glad he's okay for now.
Philip reminded me so much of Paige when he was asking about his family. It's a desire to know who you are, and part of that is knowing where you came from.
I don't understand why Stan is approaching random Russian people. Are they looking for a contact inside the Russian Embassy?
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On April 10, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Calvada said:
But I think the death of his mother probably forced him to grow up, so he's a bit more mature than other 15 year olds. As well, he's surrounded by people who are constantly thinking of others, doing for others, so it's not surprising some of that has rubbed off on him.
Tim is going to be a great doctor someday. I loved the way he figured out Shelagh was pregnant. I like that he's almost always willing to help out and enjoys being part of the excitment. That being said, everyone makes mistakes, and everyone at least once in thier lives does something stupid and irresponsible, and I think Tim's due for his.
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18 hours ago, sigmaforce86 said:
+ Eddie and Jamie meet outside work and realize with this partner switch they can date. Really the show needs to do this, the will they/won't they has dragged on for a little too long now and they're really reaching a "shit or get off the pot" tipping point. Maybe Frank gave the hint on how the writers are setting up Jamie's future with the "spinster uncle" comment but if that's what the direction they want then drop the Eddie romance story.
I would like to see Eddie and Jamie date, but realize they work better as friends. I would love to see Jamie and Erin set each other up with dates.
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CNN does fantastic documentaries. The problem is there are still a news channel, so when big breaking news happens, they have to cover it. If they were smarter, they would have scheduled it for a night when major news is less likely to happen. I loved the episodes I got to see, and I can't wait to see the rest during the summer.
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I have thought about the episodes. Here are my predictions (in no particular order) based on what they've done with the previous decades mini-series.
1. Television (because they've always done television)
2. Music (because they've always done music)
3. Geo-Politics in the Post-Cold War world (it's kind of a catch-all for foriegn policy)
4. The Clintons (Bill Clinton was president for most of the decade)
5. Computers/The Internet (they did an episode on this during 1980s, but I feel like enough changed between 1990-2000 to merit revisiting the topic)
6. Celebrity Culture and the Media (This is where you cover O.J Simpson and the death of Princess Diana)
7. The Economy
S05.E07: The Committee on Human Rights
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They hadn't met her. They didn't really know who she was. After meeting her, Gabriel instantly knew she was not cut out for this kind of work.
I'm surprised they didn't tell her they were spies, but worked for another agency, and not to tell Stan because he couldn't know, because he didn't have the level of clearance needed to know about thier existence as spies.
Oleg isn't even close to retirement. Oleg is still working, which means he is not in the same position as William, Gaad, and Gabriel.
And that's exactly what happened. Imaginary points to you!
My guess is that they are about to change safe houses. I'm sure they rotate through them every so often.
I think Gabriel thought that Philip was just being paranoid, and Gabriel is glad to be getting out now. I'm sure he's also worried about Philip.
I'm surprised she didn't use that as the excuse for the break-up: we're too different, we're interested in different things, I need to be with someone who shares my passion, we have nothing in common, and variations on that.
Oleg is at somewhere between 5-10 years younger than Philip and Elizabeth.
Once Stan found out everything was okay with Oleg, I cheered. Paige was clearly trying to process what Gabriel was telling her. It will be interesting to see what happens.