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On 10/10/2017 at 9:00 AM, Pindrop said:
I'm going to suggest some plots to the beleaguered writers. We've now had a plane hijack and a viral pandemic, so how about: -
1) A giant meteorite heading for Washington.
Too much like Salvation :)
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When Harper was being an asshole to Katherine and Bailey, I was like, they should have let him die when he was there earlier and had to have surgery (I forget what his exact complaint was). Then later on, when he did actually drop dead, I was like, GOOD! I'm a horrible person :D
I assume it was the same actor playing Harper, maybe I forgot what he looked like because it was awhile ago, or maybe because in his previous appearance, he was in a hopsital gown for much of the episode, while last night he was spiffy in suit and tie.
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Re: Chyna allegedly choking Rob with the charging cord,, as a 3 year owner of an iPhone, I can say that the lightning cord (yes, that's what Apple calls them) would not fit around Rob's thick neck :D
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LOVED GLOW back in the day. Used to watch it on channel 56 (KDOC, I think) in L. A. I even would buy the magazines that would sometimes appear on the newsstands. My favorites were Little Fiji and Little Egypt (I like exotic girls). I also liked Hollywood, even though she was a Bad girl. I always LOL'd when Aunt Kitty tried to fix her up w/ David McLane :)
It wasn't the same when MacLane left :(
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37 minutes ago, Driad said:
Is this supposed to air tonight? My station has football instead, and searching the schedule does not find Salvation.
Are you by chance in the Houston area? I see that the Texans are playing a preseason game at the Carolina Panthers, and so the CBS affiliate in Houston would broadcast the game. Hopefully, they would air Salvation at another time (or more likely, refer people to watch online, which sucks for those without a computer or internet access).
I'm in the Miami area, and we are lucky in that the CBS station here is owned by the CBS network (not an affiliate), and they own another station, My 33. When a Dolphins game (preseason or regular season) is broadcast in prime-time on CBS 4, they move the regular CBS programming to My 33, so no one misses out.
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10 minutes ago, whiporee said:
Wow, this show has gotten dumb.
- As someone said, you've got at least an hour delay each way to a probe orbiting Jupiter. And the video feed would have a lot less resolution (and why would you out a video camera on a probe to Jupiter anyway?), plus, as the probe started spinning, you'd be losing the feed as the antenna pointed away from the Earth. And where did the fuel for this powerful acceleration come from?
- We've got nothing near big enough to shatter a 7-kilometer-wide asteroid. The largest thing that has ever left Earth orbit is the Apollo command capsule, and it weighted about 12 tons. Most interplanetary probes weigh a thousand pounds at most. Space travel is all about weight and mass, and no one has sent anything to deep space that could even make a small influence in the orbit of a rock that big. And even if it worked, once the Chinese or the Russians (or Brits, Indians or French) found out what we did -- that we intentionally condemned them in order to save ourselves, they'd nuke us with good reason.
- Back to the original plan. How do they plan on slowing the EM pulse ship down when it approaches the asteroid? Acceleration in a vacuum is constant -- it takes just as much force to slow down as it does to speed up, so half their travel time has to be spent decelerating. In order for the gravity tractor to work, the probe would have to have enough mass to influence it (if they'd caught it a decade earlier, it wouldn't take as much. But this close and moving this fast? You're talking about something weighing 450 trillion kilograms moving at 82,000 miles an hour. Way too much momentum to be able to influence with a gravity tractor.
- The good thing about astrophysicists is that they are also propulsion theorists, and they are also engineers. All in all smart people, like Reed Richards or The Professor.
It started so well, but we're moving quickly into Armageddon territory. Which is fine and fun, but not what the show first promised.
Tiny nitpick: Along with the command module, the service module and the 2-stage lunar module all left Earth's orbit during the Apollo missions. But all of that was still probably well under 100 tons total, and an asteroid that size would swat it aside like a mosquito.
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I dunno, I think Khloe gets a pass on this one. I'm a very casual NBA fan, and even I can see that Golden State is shaping up to be one of the all-time great NBA teams (last year must have been a fluke or something). Cavs just ran into a buzzsaw. Was Tristan on the Cavs last year? if so, at least he does have a ring, and hopefully, this setback won't affect the relationship with Khloe, at least from the little taht was seen of him on the show, he seems to be very fond of her.
Ironic though, while Kim and Kourtney were dating men younger than them, Khloe was with Lamar who is older (IIRC). Now Kim is married to an older man, Kourtney is footloose and fancy free, and Khloe is now the cougar LOL
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It was interesting to see Eliza in an episode set in Miami, as she played Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter in the 1994 film "True Lies', also set in Miami.
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3 hours ago, OtterMommy said:
I thought it was at the time, but I'm not seeing it among the Shondaland shows. Maybe it was just Shonda-ish.
Not Shonda-related, but Daniel played Reggie Jackson in The Bronx is Burning mini-series (about the 1977 New York Yankees) a few years back.
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5 hours ago, Artsda said:
No, she never went.
I think at the beginning, Khloe mentioned that Kendall wasn't joining them because she was working (appropriate, as she is the only one in the family with an actual job) :) and Rob was staying at home since Dream had just been born. Not that he would have come anyway, but that is a pretty good excuse. Chyna would be rightfully pissed if he jets off to Costa Rica while she stays behind with a newborn.
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On 5/8/2017 at 8:02 PM, laurakaye said:
My copy is ready to pick up at the library. I just need to find my black hoodie and a pair of large sunglasses so the librarians don't recognize me.
LOL. Down here in Broward County (Florida) where I live, many of the libraries have self-service checkout. Scan your library card, scan the barcode on the book and out the door. No embarassing meetups with library staff :) Despite that, I am not going to check out Caitlyn's book, because frankly, Im not interested.
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I wonder if all this is because maybe Kanye has grown tired of making rap music and wants to branch out. I guess he didn't want to go the acting route (his appearances on KUWTK don't count LOL), where other rappers have found success (Will Smith, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Ice-T, etc.)
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So there might be a "Kylie loves Tyga" (or something like that) in the future? God help us
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On 3/17/2017 at 10:43 PM, dr pepper said:
Ok, i'm just going to jot some things down as i watch this episode.
1. Rowan Pope gets a package. He does not treat it as a possible bomb. I don't care how much he expected it, the caliber of his enemies requires a great deal more caution than he's shown. I think the writers flubbed this.
2. Rowan switches to bubbly science nerd mode. Apparently in addition to being Mycroft Holmes, Machiavelli, John Gotti, and Svengali all rolled into one, there's a good bit of Stephen J Gould in there as well. How does he ever find time for his cover job?
3. Meet Sandra. Rowan has a semi girlfriend from way back, with strong chemistry. Another glitch; the writers seem to have forgotten who he was married to. This woman should have died years ago in a freak accident, possibly by falling on to a triceratops horn.
4. Oh hey, here's Olivia back for more humiliation thinly disguised as advice. What we have here an emotional form of incest. She might as well be moaning, "oh hurt me Daddy!".
5. Oh yeah, "everything you love is a weakness". Maybe that's what's going to happen with Rowan and his globe hopping paleontologist.
6. Oops, play time's over. While acting as lab supervisor for some eager grad students, Rowan lets his guard down so thoroughly he's actually shocked to discover spy cameras.
7. So *now* he checks out his old friend. And her mysterious benefactor.
8. And then goes back into mysterious warning mode, freaking out Olivia without giving her any usable information.
9. I refuse to feel any sympathy for Rowan. I don't want a storyline in which Olivia and crew must ally with him against this new conspiracy. Surprise us Shonda, just shoot him, already! Ok, i kind of like that he met his match but it's really too late.
10. "I've got you." Oh, please, just kill her too, i refuse to take on another source of anxiety.
11. Another Pet and Daddy confrontation. She starts out sure she's won this one, but leaves crying.
12. Yup, Rowan gets Rowaned.
13. No exit plan? Why do people continue to be so loyal to him?
14. Rowan is making something. I have no idea what it is.
15. Wait is he installing a trapdoor under Vargas? No, just a gunport. So why did he send his man out to snipe?
16. Oh, it was in case Rowan couldn't do his own dirty work. Is he showing pangs of conscience. Again, too late for me to care.
17. Ah, he does do his own dirty work, the sniper is just to distract people while he gets away. Almost away, anyway.
18. But how does he expect the bullets from a silenced pistol at short range to pass for long range rifle bullets?
19. Hey, Sandra's safe! So now should be when Rowan springs a trap of his own. But of course, she's not actually safe. I'm half expecting him to kill her himself.
20. Oh. He did. But why didn't he immediately shoot the conspirators?
21. But the conspirators dare him to do the same with Olivia. He concedes. For now.
22. Time to lie and bluster at Olivia while walling away his feelings. I wonder at what point the young dino hunter became a sociopath. No i don't, i refuse to be intrigued over Rowan's backstory.
Love your notes! :D
Re #20--because they had someone watching Olivia, and they probably had a setup like "if you don't hear from either of us, by X:XX time, waste Livvy". And Eli/Rowan probably had figured that out, because who ever these folks are, they are (to borrow a line from a great movie that Joe Morton appeared in) "seated at the crazy but not stupid table". :)
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On 03/09/2017 at 7:47 PM, Moose135 said:
I didn't notice - who conducted the raid? Was it police/FBI? It's hard to tell the way everyone gears up these days, but it almost looked like military - which gets into Posse Comitatus issues of the military conducting civilian law enforcement.
I saw "FBI" on the backs of several people in the scene, so it was probably the FBI SRT (or is it HRT?). FBI version of SWAT. Maybe with local LEOs assisting. They seemed to be in tactical gear, which would give a military look.
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S14.E04: Ain't That a Kick in the Head
in Grey's Anatomy
There was one scene, where Meredith and Derek were arguing about him being away constantly in Washington DC doing the research or whatever for the President, and at one point, Meredith is like "I'm here doing blah blah while you're off playing doctor with Obama!" That is not verbatim, but that was the gist of it. So in the Grey's world, Barack Obama was President of the United States. Which was actually a bit disappointing for me, as I was hoping for a Shondaland Grey's/Scandal crossover, where Fitzgerald Grant III was POTUS, and maybe a cameo by Tony Goldwyn would have taken place. Oh well :)