Snapdragon

My problem with the whole "Jane and Michael are different people now so they shouldn't be together" thing is that I don't really feel that Jane is any different than she was four years ago. She's still a mother of one who lives at her grandma's house (and only moves out when she has a guy to move in with, at no point has she ever been financially independent), she still works at the same hotel and writing is still just a side gig for her, not a full-time profession. So what exactly has changed about Jane? I guess all of her bad traits have been dialed up to 11 and her good traits have all but disappeared but that's really more due to crappy writing than actual character development.

There has got to be a better way to bring up sponsors in the episode than that awkward Target ad that they did at the end. That was just painful to watch.

I feel like this is going to be How I Met Your Mother all over again, where the last season and finale are so terrible that they ruin the entire series. I just don't get what the writers are going for this season. Do they want us to hate Jane? Because that's where I'm at right now. I have thoughts on all the rest (Raf and his crap behavior, Petra being in yet another relationship with someone who doesn't trust her, Mateo being the biggest brat in the history of TV) but I'm just so "ugh" after this episode that I can't even muster the energy to type them out.

I enjoyed the episode overall (especially the club scene with the Moclan dancing) and am looking forward to what I'm hoping is going to end up being a parallel dimension story arc. I do have one complaint though. They should have made "young Kelly" 12-15 years younger, instead of 7. If the actors are playing their real ages, that would mean that "young Kelly" was in her late twenties, possibly even 30. While people do change over time, by your late twenties/early thirties you're very much an adult, so it shouldn't have been that big a personality change. I felt that "young Kelly" was acting more like a 22-25 year old would act, what with the clubbing scene and having different life expectations than present day Kelly. Also, I had always thought that Ed and Kelly were together about a decade or so, not five years. Their marriage only lasting 3-4 years (because I assume they dated for a year or two first) changes their romance from something that slowly went wrong over time into something that neither of them put any effort into to begin with. And honestly, if their relationship is something that soured so quickly, then why is Ed putting so much effort into trying to get it back?

I liked how when Wendy was going on about how Migos should be on Time's 100 Most Influential People Life, she mixed up Offset with Travis Scott, then stated that he had a baby with Black Chyna instead of Cardi B, thereby proving that no, Migos should not be on that list, since she couldn't even get their names right, nor name any of their songs.

This has been my guess for awhile now. What we're watching is actually Jane's novel, which is being read at a book reading by the narrator. That's why he adds in all the little asides to the audience and why all the episodes are just chapter numbers. Jane will end up with one guy in the "novel" version, then they'll cut to the "real world" and she'll be with the other guy. That way everyone can get their preferred ending.

I graduated in 2000 and our cheerleaders didn't do any of those things. They made posters for upcoming games (football, basketball, etc) but that was it. Also, I've never heard of cheerleaders doing a halftime show at a high school. That is a strictly marching band (including the flag core, drill team and twirlers) thing.

Does anyone know why they aired the Valentine's Day episode now instead of, you know a month and a half ago? I'd understand if they were just a week off but that's a pretty big delay, especially for a show that's in its fourth season.

I laughed so hard at the scene with the two students making out with each others' hands. It was so funny, yet uncomfortable.

Yes! How did they miss that?

Ugh. I forgot about the stupid "convenience tax" thing. That made no sense either. Most grocery stores have gas stations in their parking lots so if she's that pressed for time, then just use the one there before or after you do your grocery shopping. Also, her kid's old enough that taking him on most of those errands she listed shouldn't be a hassle. Your third grader (or however old the kids on this show are supposed to be) can wait in line with you, it won't kill them.

I'm just not a fan of any storyline where someone who's bad with money uses the excuse of "my life is hard so I spend irresponsibly because it makes me feel better" and we're all supposed to feel bad for them. Boo-freakin'-hoo, chick from Gossip Girl whose name I can't remember. Life is hard for everyone but you don't see the rest of us visiting Starbucks three times a day.

I'm not so sure about the whole "star wars shine" thing. I was 16 when The Phantom Menace came out and while I remember everyone being excited about it and going to see it in the theaters, I don't recall one person liking it. Even as teenagers we were all, "Yeah, that sucked hard."

Pretty sure that's going to be the case as after Charity killed Marisol, she looked at herself in the mirror and said, "What have I done?" (or something along those lines), indicating that she probably wasn't in control of her body. Maybe the real Charity is trapped in the mirror somehow and a demon's been walking around in her body? Did anyone watch the show Blood Ties that was on about ten years ago? They had a Medusa episode on there that was basically the same plot. Medusa turning a bunch of dudes into stone because they were sharing sex tapes online of unaware girls.

Looks like I'm in the minority but I actually enjoyed this episode. I wish the show would move all the Pearsons to the same city because I think the show's at its best when they're all together and get to actually interact like, you know, a family. There's enough drama between all of them that they could easily concentrate on that instead of all the random plotlines that they're doing this season. So fingers crossed that Randall and Beth decided to move their family to California as well (unlikely, since he just accepted that city council position, but one can dream). Though I knew they weren't going to do it, I was hoping that the "will leave you speechless" part was going to be that they killed Kate. Unrealistic, I know, but that would have actually been unexpected. And yes, there was no way that baby was ever going to be named anything other than Jack.

Not sure why the "bad boy" angel was saying things like, "You did good...for a girl!" I don't know what 90s tv shows the writers have watched but as someone who was a teen during the mid and late 90s, I don't recall any characters on teen dramas (or any other show, to be honest) saying anything like that. Ever. Also, this episode would have been 1,000 times better if they had actually gotten actors who had been on a 90s supernatural/teen show. I feel like James Van Der Beek would have done it.

Three. The overweight red headed kid (who I believe had a hot single mom?), the blonde white kid who was being bullied at the beginning on the first season and the black kid who was bullying him (who had a thing with the girl with the coke bottle glasses). I tried to find out what happened to them but my internet research turned up nada. Not sure if they left for other acting opportunities (I know the one has a reoccurring role on All American) or if there were budget cuts and they decided to ax a few of the kids. Personally, if it's the latter, I would have preferred the three lady teachers being cut instead.

I'm not sure why Kyra is there. I get that Zoey is off in spin-off land but Diane is 13/14 now, so it's not like they don't already have a character that can cover the teenage girl stuff. She barely even interacts with the family (though to be fair, I think she's been in more scenes than Davonte has so...).

But Kevin and his siblings don't know any of these things. The only things they know about Nicky are that he's Jack's younger brother and that he served in Vietnam. They have no idea why he (or Jack) decided that he'd have no contact with the family (and really, we don't even know if Nicky knows about Jack's family. I mean, their dad didn't). And considering that Jack died when they were teenagers, I'm sure the idea of talking to someone who grew up with him is very appealing. And I had to go out and buy a blueberry pie today because I'd been craving one ever since this episode aired. Stupid Randall! His Pearson speech obviously affected me.

They actually did do Sunny's DNA a couple of years ago. That's why I was surprised to see this segment today, because they already did it a couple of years ago. They did Sunny, Sarah and whoever else was on that day (Whoopi, maybe?) I think it was a different company that time but I'm not sure. If you search for it on youtube you can find it.

So I've been enjoying the campy creepiness of the Gargoyle King plot but the Sisters being involved might be too much for me. I mean, both Polly and Cheryl recently stayed there and neither of them noticed the whole Gargoyle King thing? Or did the Sisters just start "playing the game"? Also, I need Ethel to die this season because I straight up cannot with that character anymore. And sweet, dumb Archie. Don't give your name and your archenemy's name to a person you just met. That was just stupid. (Although, coming up with "Biff" as a fake name was pretty stupid as well, so it's not really out of character for him)

I think they're fudging the numbers for Tess's birth year because Rebecca said that Tess was in middle school, which would make her 11-13 years old (if her birthday's in October, then she could possibly have just turned 14), which makes a lot more sense with the period and orientation plot lines. EDIT: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, she's probably supposed to have just started middle school, which means that she's in the 11-12 age range. So yeah, that's the appropriate time for people to start getting crushes and such.

Yeah, Nicky had to have done something huge for Jack to basically disown him, so that's going to be the mystery for the second half of the season. My first thought was that the person in the boat explosion was the Vietnamese woman who gave Jack the necklace and Nicky was responsible for her death, but that would be too dark for Nicky to come back from. And we know whatever he did is going to have to be something forgivable since Kevin will obviously be meeting with him later. I feel that I need to go back and re-watch past episodes to see if Jack actually ever said that Nicky died in the war or if he was just "lost" in the war. Though hats off to the writers, because I did not see the "Nicky is alive" twist coming. My guess from the start was that the "she" in question would be Rebecca since the creators have said that that's going to be the final timeline for the show and the only series finale that makes sense is Rebecca dying and reuniting with Jack. Glad that Randall's political storyline seems to be coming to an end. Wish there was a way to keep his campaign manager around as I like the character but I don't really see a way to make that happen.

All I know is that it's kind of the good people at Riverdale to hire unemployed porn writers to work for them. At least, that's what I assume is going on, otherwise I'm not sure why Veronica is uttering lines such as, "I'd recognize those abs anywhere" and "Curse your broad shoulders".

Now that I've read this, I totally want it to happen. And I want them all to be pregnant with boys, so that they can argue for half a season over who gets to name their baby Jack.