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Colt Prattes looks like he has way too much product in his hair.
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12 minutes ago, JeanneH said:
Has it been said Valerie was a nurse during WW2? Don't forget UK took part in the Korean War, so that could impact age calculations. People forgetting about Korea use to tick my dad off so much (he was in the navy during that time), but so many people do it, if they ever even knew about it.
It wasn't explicitly stated, but the way she descibed the way she was recuited to be a nurse made it seem like it was part of a nationwide mobilization, which would indicate WWII as opposed to Korea, and that's why I based my numbers off WWII. Again, I'm also bad at math, so my age calcuations could be totally off.
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20 hours ago, bros402 said:
Just so we know that the show accepts that it is pretty much a live action saturday morning cartoon at this point.
I thought they already knew that. The fact that they're aware of that and they're still playing it straight is what works for me.
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6 minutes ago, Calvada said:
I wonder how old SMJ was when she retired as an active midwife.
I'm bad at math, but if Sister Monica Joan helped deliver Valerie, then she was still an active midwife during the 1920s. Sister Monica Joan would have been in her late 40s or early 50s. (If Valerie was a young nurse during WWII, she probably would have born during the 1920s).
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1 minute ago, MaryHedwig said:
I am so stealing this line:
Sister Monica Joan, "Two head are better than one, especially if one of them is mine."
Can you imagine what a force Sister Monica Joan must have been when she was younger? I think she would have been in her 40s during WWI.
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2 minutes ago, MaryHedwig said:
How did Sister Monica Joan know to look for Sister Mary Cynthia down that hall? Was it Sister MJ's sixth sense due to having one foot in earth and the other the world beyond?
I thought she glimpsed Sister Mary Cynthia out of the corner of her eye. My guess (which turned out to be totally wrong) was that Sister Monica Joan thought she recognized someone, but it would turn out to be someone else/a different person.
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Christopher is so good-looking! I really hope we get to see more of him. I'm satisfied with the way Reggie's plotline was resolved. The scene between Sister Monica Joan and Valerie reminded me of my grandfather. He was an OBGYN (he had retired decades earlier, but he spent his last days in the ICU as a cancer patient). When he was in the hospital, some of nurses were people he had delivered. After he died, my grandmother recived many wonderful letters from former patients. (Sorry to go off topic)
Back to the topic at hand: What happened to make that women so fearful of the dentist. It seemed like she had been raped or sexually assaulted by a dentist. Her fear was far beyond a routine dental appointment.
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6 hours ago, mojito said:
The family talked about all Americans being immigrants as though they were educating 6-year olds on the subject.
My problem with the Sunday dinner was that it didn't feel connected to the episode. I get that both people fighting in the bagel store were immigrants, but the conversation during the dinner just didn't work for me.
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On January 6, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Skyfall said:
Why does it seem the users on this site are way snarkier towards dramas than everything else?
I can't speak to other dramas, but this is an unrealistic (but I accept that and I'm totally okay with that. It's one of the reasons I like the show) action-adventure series. The fact that the show is very much in the same vein as The A-Team or MacGyver (the 1980s version) but takes itself so seriously opens it up for snark.
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23 hours ago, Katy M said:
Acting isn't the same as lying. Lying is telling untruths that you want people to believe as the truth to try to get people to do what you want them to, or not do something, or think better of you, or whatever. Acting is telling a story that everyone knows is just for entertainment purposes.
Yes! Most grown adults know the difference between an actor and his/her roles. If an actor plays a doctor or a secret agent, most people know that in real life the actor might be not be able to fix a broken bone, perform surgery, or take down an international terrorist organization.
22 hours ago, Traveller519 said:I was hoping her embarassing childhood talent was going to be performing stand-up comedy. She's said in interviews and podcasts that she used to do stand-up routines for her parents friends when she was a kid. I would have loved to have seen some old Rauch family home videos of a little Melissa doing old Roseanne bits.
I love this idea. There's this event called Home Movie Day. I would love to see Stuart host this at his store, or to have one of the characters host it in thier apartment and see what everyone brings to show.
22 hours ago, wknt3 said:He's affable and not very egotistical or ambitious, so as long as his dad had a couple good managers in place I can buy him as the face of the company, meeting customers, signing papers, etc. while other people crunch the numbers and do all the nuts and bolts work. I see it fairly often in family businesses. Plus it takes time for people to run things into the ground or get forced out and he hasn't been in charge for long.
If Zach has inherited the company because his father retired, I could see him practicing free range mangement. This style of management involves taking a hands off approach and letting the subordinates work faily independently, but stepping in when there's a problem. It works best when you trust the people working for you and have just come into a leadership position. Zach doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who's eager to make his mark and shake things up, so I could see him doing this. As you said, as long as he someone watching over him a bit (like an assistant or a trust-worthy VP) I could see this working out pretty well.
20 hours ago, MissLucas said:I loved Bernadette and Howard in this episode. And I hope we get to see Tammy Jo St. Cloud again - would love to hear what she has to say about Raj. The evil ventriloquist doll/alter ego trope can be easily over-done though (s. Two and a Half Men) but sparingly used like 'Fun with Flags' she would be great.
I wouldn't mind seeing Tammy Jo St. Cloud again.
18 hours ago, anna0852 said:I felt really bad for Zach. Leonard is so dismissive and clearly looks down on him, while Zach genuinely likes him and wishes him well. Zach is clearly impressed by how smart Leonard is and respects his intelligence. And he clearly respects that Penny and Leonard are together. He was really just being friendly by inviting them to dinner and offering Penny the job because he thought she'd like it. Leonard was pretty rude, even if it wasn't to Zachs face.
Yes! Zach isn't is the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's not mean or cruel. He's moved past high school in a way that Leonard hasn't, which is kind of sad. It's possible in high school that Zach was a bully and a real jerk to nerds, but as far as I know, he has never played a prank or done something mean to Leonard and his friends. Zach has grown. He's willing to be friends with Leonard, but I'm not sure if Leonard is.
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I enjoyed this episode. It felt more like The Big Bang Theory than it has in a while. I know it's close to impossible to get everyone in a scene together, but I really like the way they broke up the cast into smaller groups. It felt like everyone was on the same show, as opposed to the standard groupings each off in thier little world/seperate mini show. The girls night out at the start was fun, and it would be great to see more scenes like that. I liked that Leonard went to Raj and Howard for advice, while Penny talked to Bernadette and Amy. It was silly (in a good fun way) to have Sheldon go to Howard to learn how to juggle.
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9 hours ago, Umbelina said:
Maybe that's the real reason the CIA wanted to check out Oleg as well? He and Stan were obviously close, and Stan didn't disclose it until later. Perhaps that's why the KGB internal affairs is really looking into Oleg, he knows the identity of at least some of the Illegals in the USA?
Stan knowing but having to pretend he doesn't know! Pastor Tim threatened and turned to spy for the FBI to avoid prison time for him and his wife! Tension mounting as our super spies Liz and Phil feel increasingly uneasy, but don't know exactly why? Stan perhaps getting Mathew to get information about Paige? Henry, already a friend of Stan, also questioned more expertly by Stan?
Most of all, time to enjoy the aftermath. Don't just end on them getting caught, let us see what happens after that.
I love the second and third paragraphs. This would be fantastic. Oleg knows the illegals exist, but does he know who they are? Does he know names/aliases/locations?
4 hours ago, Umbelina said:the show would have been super boring if Liz and Phil never accomplished anything, and didn't do all of their own break ins, so maybe we'll only get the FBI watching them for a year or 6 months or something.
That would be a great storyline for season 6. The FBI finds out, but doesn't move because they want to get as many assets/people in the network that they can. I could see this working.
Based on Paige learning more about self defense and getting quite good at it, I would love to see a call back to season 2 with the roles reversed. Paige and Henry are out doing something together (going to a movie, buying thier parents an anniversary present, or something like that.) It's late and it's dark. In the parking lot, they're attacked (I'm thinking teenagers, someone not well trained to make it more believable) and Paige defends them by fighting off thier would be attackers.
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On April 25, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Umbelina said:
I don't want pretty Oleg, who is one character that did the right thing to suffer for that.
Speaking of Oleg, it could be his house was tossed because
- He looked at his mother's prison file
- The CIA ratted him out anyway because they are pissed at the FBI
- He's in big trouble with the Mob or KGB who are the real controllers of the stolen food
- Nothing at all, or he's just been in America too long, or his connection with traitor Nina is known
My guess is number three. I don't want to see Oleg suffer any more than he already is.
22 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:Loved seeing Henry be a normal kid with his friends. And nice that Stan isn't spilling about what Henry told him about his new crush.
I feel the fact that Stan will not tell Henry's secrets could be setting up something important. It was great to see Henry being a normal kid.
13 hours ago, dubbel zout said:The other amusing exchange was when Elizabeth said she'd have liked to have been a doctor if she hadn't been a spy, and Paige told her her bedside manner was nonexistent. Hee. I liked that Elizabeth was self-aware enough to know that was true.
Not all doctors interact with patients and need to have excellent bedside manner.
11 hours ago, RedHawk said:I need to watch the scene again where Stan and Aderholt were looking at the DC map. I couldn't follow what exactly their plan was or why they wanted to "get her off the street" because I was so excited about their discussion of the specific neighborhood. I actually live there! When they first mentioned Armand's on Wisconsin I knew exactly where they were talking about because when I moved here the pizza place was still there.
They mentioned meeting her in a pocket park and were trying to choose one along Wisconsin Ave. There's a park across the street from my building -- I was holding my breath to see if they would mention it by name! If they had I swear I might have started watching it to see if Stan and Aderholt show up. My fan's heart is full!I know that Armand's too! At the 2008 election night party I co-hosted with my roommate, one of the guests really wanted deep dish Pizza, so we orderded Armand's. What is the name of the pocket park? I know the area pretty well, so I might know the place.
11 hours ago, Umbelina said:I agree, it's good to see how the rich live in the USSR, so I'm glad we are seeing Oleg's family, and the corrupt food guy's. We need to see some of the poor people to balance that out. Come on, show us some Martha, or at least how most citizens are living!
I thought we got a sense of that in the flashbacks we've seen of Elizabeth and Philip's life pre KGB.
10 hours ago, Ellaria Sand said:I love Oleg, too. I understand that they are building to "something" with him but I would like some hints about where it is going. Mama has the potential to be an interesting character. Her history and her honesty with Oleg have added depth and resonance to his story line. Otherwise, it would be him walking through the streets on cold, dreary nights looking incredibly handsome.
I'm not sure what they're building to, but as long as Oleg is alive and well I'm along for the ride. It is interesting we've seen him interact quite a bit with his mother, but we've barely seem him talk to his father. I don't see what's wrong with that last sentence. (bolding is mine)
6 hours ago, J-Man said:I know they all go to different schools, but it would be fun if Tuan, Pasha, Paige, Matthew, and Kimmy (remember her? The show doesn't) all met up at some kind of extra-curricular activity like a football game or a dance.
A party would work best, because that would be the most likely thing to draw kids from different schools together. It's hosted by kids at Tuan and Pasha's school, which is how they would get invited. Paige gets invited because Matthew knows one of the students through something. Kimmy is there because her cousin goes to the school.
I like the Elizabeth is training Paige, and that Paige is taking it seriously and doing well. When the men were searching Oleg's apartment, I kept saying to Oleg (as if he could hear me) "don't do something stupid." I couldn't believe he had the courage to tell them not to destroy his father's apartment, and only allowed them to search his room.
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5 hours ago, Kokapetl said:
Curfew breaking Tuan appears to be in character as Teenage Tuan, so I'm guessing it's something harmless and inconsequential, like, "I'm a bored latch key kid!", or less harmless, but authentic ignored 80s teen, like, "I was doing speedball with the football team, Kimmy was there!"
Based on my experience with Mad Men, it's going to be something harmless. They edited it to make it look super big and serious, but it won't play that way during the episode.
4 hours ago, Ellaria Sand said:I don't think that it is unreasonable for Tuan to be lonely, needy or seeking validation considering his age (early 20s?) and life experiences. From a story telling perspective, it may be unreasonable to assume that P&E can fill that void. (They have their own kids to worry about it.) But isn't that a risk with recruitment of young people to the spy game?
Too bad that Hans is dead; he could have been Tuan's BFF.
You would think that they would have learned from Will that an agent alone for long periods of time is dangerous.
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On April 25, 2017 at 8:57 PM, marceline said:
Or maybe he tries to help a pregnant classmate. I'm kind of amazed we haven't had a story where Tim brings a friend or classmate to Patrick or the sisters.
I love this idea. It's even better if he tries to help her on his own for part of it, because he thinks he's capable of it. She's heard all sorts of myths about how to tell if you're pregnant. Tim knows the facts and asks her questions and finds out that she is pregnant.
On April 25, 2017 at 10:28 PM, MaryHedwig said:I love this idea! And Patrick and Shelagh are worried the baby might be his.
Too perfect! I would love to see how Tim would react. Probably a mixture of pride that they thought he was capable of getting a girlfriend and horrified that they thought he'd be so irresponsible.
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14 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
I think it's nice to see a generally well behaved kid on television, and I don't really want to see him turn into a stereotype of a teenager. Besides, the last thing this show needs is a regular character that is an angsty teenager. I mean, the show is Call the Midwife, not My So Called Midwife.
I don't want him to turn into a moody, angsty teenager for the rest of the season. One the other hand, it would be fun to see him get into a bit of minor trouble or engange in some form of tame rebellion. It could be a subplot that's introduced and resolved in a single episode.
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On April 16, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Gulftastic said:
Mark my words, once the 60's properly hit him, he'll go wild in a big way. I'm betting on a future story of him trying LSD or running off to join a hippie commune.
I could see him trying LSD or some other type of drug but not becoming a heavy user and dropping out of society. I see him taking it to unwind after a hard day of studies, or possibly just at parties.
On April 16, 2017 at 5:26 PM, AZChristian said:Let's visualize Timothy as a roadie for that new musical group, The Beatles.
I would love to see him trying to get tickets to see The Beatles in order to impress a girl who's a fan. What is the music budget on this show? Will we ever hear music from the British Invasion? It's 1962 on the show and music is about to change significantly and the songs are going to be incredibly expensive to license.
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On February 14, 2017 at 8:47 AM, bybrandy said:
I continue to wait for the polish to come off of Tim's halo just a bit. Don't get me wrong. I don't want a bratty, hoodlum Tim. I'd just like to see him do something a 15 year old boy might do. Nothing bad just a mistake from not having as much life experience as an adult.
But TIm and his dad and the beers and the darts? Adorbs. And Tim going to visit at the hospital... so sweet.I agree with you. I don't want Tim to turn into some bratty horrible person who's constantly mouthing off and getting into trouble, but it would fun to see him do something stupid. I know he's busy, but he must have friends. Maybe they talk him into doing something that Tim knows is a bad idea, but he does it anyway because he was just so tired of being good. Patrick would get mad and punish him, but later would understand and tell him about the stupid thing he did when he was about that age. Tim's punishment would still stand.
I loved Tim and Patrick playing darts and drinking beer for many reasons. One reason was that it was fun to see two normally serious characters kicking back and having fun. A second reason was that it was a way for Patrick to show that he understands and realizes that Tim is getting older. A third reason was that it showed that Patrick was willing to spend some time with his son one on one, which Tim hinted at and Patrick picked up on the hint.
On February 14, 2017 at 8:15 PM, DropTheSoap said:Also, I'm looking for the emergence of Terrible Tim Turner -- or at least age-appropriate goofing off.
Me too. I really hope they have him do something, even if it's as tame as sneaking into a movie. I get they don't want to totally change the character, and I love the character the way he is, but everyone does something stupid at some point, and he's at an age when doing something stupid is pretty common. I could see his classmates talk him into doing something stupid to impress a girl.
On February 16, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Gulftastic said:I'm waiting for Tom to go off to University and discover the permissive sixties.
He'll be going off to college in about '65, so he'll be old enough to enjoy the height of Swinging Sixties. Of couse, Tim would probably be studying very hard, but I'd like to think he would still have a social life, and go to the occasional rock concert.
2 hours ago, Fireball said:Vera is going to be a midwife that was predictable. However, I thought she was a nurse in the war, so is she going to take some midwifery training? If she has to take training doesn't that defeat the purpose of hiring someone who knows what they are doing like Phyllis wanted.
If Vera is a trained nurse, she could still do district rounds which would free up someone else to handle deliveries and the other specialized duties of a midwife.
2 hours ago, AZChristian said:I was only half watching, but I thought they particularly wanted someone to help with district nursing duties, which the midwives also have to do. The other duties would involve chronic wound care, post-op visits, etc.
That's exactly what I thought.
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On April 21, 2017 at 5:25 PM, AutisticSpoonie said:
And that a lot of the reasons the third generation struggled was this idea The had to serve, they had to find a way to be of service, that they could never live up to the previous generation.
What's interesting is that you see a divide in the third generation between the men and the women. For whatever reason the men had a much harder time and were more likely to go off the rails, while the women did okay and mostly avoided brushes with the tabloid press for stupid stuff.
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On April 21, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Umbelina said:
That little ninja move with Mathew was well done, and no, it wasn't just her catching him off balance, I think she was using something her mom taught her to not only remove the hand of someone who grabbed her, but use that move to throw them back. Mathew has at least 40 pounds on her. I still think it might spark Stan's curiosity of Mathew mentions that to him, given that Aderholt was also beaten up by a much smaller woman, with Gaad.
I don't think it will make Stan suspicious unless it was a very specific move that almost no uses/is rarely used. Self-defense classes for women started in the 1970s and I imagine became more common in the 1980s. I think it would be a big leap for Stan to go from Paige knows basic self-defense to Paige's mother is a Russian spy and the woman who beat up Aderholt.
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17 hours ago, bros402 said:
The only thing I was wondering at the end of the episode is if the season finale will continue the trend of Scorpion season finales with Walter speeding off somewhere.
This time I was thinking they might flip it. My prediction: Paige speeds off somewhere, and gets into an accident. Walter realizes he was responsible, feels terrible about it, and vows to be a better person in the future. The last part won't stick beyond the first few episodes of the next season.
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15 hours ago, sistermagpie said:
That wouldn't really bring together storylines. It would just say that two characters who have nothing to do with each other are biologically related in a totally unlikely way that probably would not be detailed in the woman's prison file. Philip is from Tobolsk. The camp in the file mentioned Kransk. There were many camps and millions of nobodies who suffered there.
I think the storylines are already connected. Oleg and Philip are both trying to know their parents for the people they really were and what they went through. Oleg has learned shocking news about his mother, Philip about his father. Both of them and Gabriel were connected to the dark part of their country's history, the country they've both tried to serve as idealistic young men of the next generation.
Oleg, Philip and Paige are all trying to understand who they are and where they came from. I wouldn't be surprised if Paige's questions were what set Philip off. It was a very slow burn, but I think the flashbacks started after Paige started asking him questions about Russia and his family, forcing him to try to remember things he hadn't thought about or wanted to think about in years.
1 hour ago, sistermagpie said:They have her reading up on US history and reading the paper critically (under Pastor Tim's guidance, presumably) enough that she can reference Watergate (something which was actually hard for kids our age because it, like Vietnam, was recent enough that we didn't study it as history, but also had no real memories of it), but she doesn't know anything about how the Soviet Union worked?
My guess is that through reading the newspaper and watching TV, she has picked up enough to have some understanding of Watergate.
51 minutes ago, qtpye said:Of course that is true. The thing is, that anyone who remembers that era understands that 1984 is when the eighties truly began in all it's horrible glory. The early eighties still had traces of the seventies lingering. Mtv was at its peak with Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince. Hair was getting bigger and make up was getting truly horrible. I had cousins Mathew's age and they were all rocking Henry type hairstyles. The girls really thought that look was dreamy. It is like watching Mad Men and realizing that the early sixties were actually an extension of the fifties and nobody was Mod quite yet.
Something that Mad Men did really well was showing that a range of styles could be era appropriate. Peggy, Joan, and Betty all had completely different looks/styles, but all were era appropriate at any point in the series. Not everyone in a given decade is wearing the latest fashion and keeping up to date with the latest styles.
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8 minutes ago, Eulipian 5k said:
God yes! Though, how would Phillip know? Wasn't he in Soviet Spy School at that age?
I'm guessing part of his training for this mission was learning a great deal about American culture/customs, including the high school experience. It's possible that teenage girls are a total mystery to teenage boys in most cultures/countries.
Also, your comment makes me want a prequel series titled "Soviet Spy School" about Philip learning to be a spy.
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15 hours ago, theatremouse said:
I would not make that bet because it's almost certain to happen. There are never consequences on this show. That said, I do think it would be delightful if they just got rid of the Paige-role on the team, went back to being buncha geniuses, and if they fuck up because they have no social skills either Cabe can be the one to try to smooth it over in the moment, or no one does and things just play out as they do. Paige can still pop up now and again in a Ralph's mom capacity. Basically, flip flop the amount of screentime Ralph and Paige get. (although I realize that's tricky mainly due to child actor laws). Still, it'd be more interesting to me than all this will they won't they they already did but maybe they will again malarkey.
I'm delighted you think my prediction is accuare. It's fun when you make a prediction, and it turns out to be right. The flip flop wouldn't be as hard you think. I don't think it's as hard to work around child actor laws as you do. They seem to be doing fine with it so far. Ralph doesn't appear in every single episode, so they could just continue having him appear when they need/want him to. Paige could drop him off and pick him up in mom capacity, as you so perfectly described it.
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S06.E05: Episode 5
in Call The Midwife
Me too. I'd love to see a flashback episode where the characters are sharing stories about thier pasts. Not a cliche clip show, but moments that we haven't seen or heard about before.