Kim0820

I noticed that too! A very 21st century thing to say. I wonder if they do that on purpose or without thinking. Maybe they want 21st century viewers to understand something by using their language from a time where they would not have used it. I've seen it in period dramas before. In 18th century Poldark, one character said another was "not a fan" of them and another used the "two words - boarding school" the "number of words" 21st century expression. Agree totally, I disliked her for that. It went over the line when one is supposed to have sympathy for her. I've thought they needed to have avoided that at the beginning, just made SMJ the retired one who had wisdom and warmth and some eccentricity. They didn't have to go with dementia and should have seen that it could not work for the long term. So unless they originally planned a short run for the character, they needed to avoid the impression that she was anything more than just forgetful in old age. Save the dementia for retirement of the character. Exactly. The SOM and Mary Poppins were the first movies I recall seeing in the theater, my parents taking us, of course. I feel like the show has reached the point in my own life where I was started to be aware of the outside world! Agree with the first paragraph - the daughter presumed so much, that I'm sure her mother was always there for her, and it didn't occur to the daughter to even ask. And with the second also, she was overwhelmed, but why not just say so? She must have had expectations of herself that she was not reaching. Maybe her own mother was really strong and took care of everyone without a problem.

I just had the horrid thought that Carly is a widow and Jason is separated; are they both single now? Ugh they could go there.

The soap opera record is 5 years (Bold and Beautiful, Jack and his mother).

The placebo pills were there so you would take one every day and stay in the habit. Seems she did not follow instructions.

I have an in-law who had an unlucky break - iatrogenic stroke - she got a settlement. She turned from the sweetest person to a picky martinet who was would scold me for doing or not doing something totally irrelevant to me but apparently to her, impermissible in civilized society. And you do get this feeling of oh she gets to be such a jerk, but you can't say anything about it, since she always has the excuse of what she suffered. It's one of those things you have to deal with, but can't help feeling hurt at times, though you have no "right" to.

I agree; TPTB must think present day audiences will get bored if there is not a lot of plot - they don't seem to do the friends talking any more. I remember watching AMC in the 70s and noticing that something would happen and those involved would talk about it with their friends and relatives. Sometimes that could be overdone, with it seeming like nothing much happened. There's a happy medium there. I too thought she might be retiring and going off onto recurring like Monica or Leslie. So I'm glad to read here that it was an anniversary. I suppose Alexis will get out of jail somehow - there is a soap clause that sentences can be shortened by doing something heroic in the jail!

I thought the same thing about their excitement about getting into PCU. GH characters of college age are always so smart they get into Harvard or the Sorbonne, but end up at PCU for personal life reasons. 🤣 Joss being like Carly means she only cares when her family is hurt. Other people don't matter and in fact, if they have occasion to complain, they get a sanctimonious rant for they or their loved one daring to oppose Sonny and Jason. Carly so often calls out people for things she has done herself. The show was really going there with her being Carly's daughter, acting just like Carly. I play solitaire while watching GH too!

LOL, she's in Law School and Cam is in High school!

I was pleasantly surprised to see Zander after all these years. The grave said Zander died in 2004 and Cameron is 17! Wow, Cameron is actually 17, you'd think on a soap he'd be 28 by now. Also interesting Zander having some gray hair. Zander died at 24, per the tombstone, yet he aged in soap heaven to 41 - I guess that is in case you come back from the dead! Exactly, "propping" Nina for not telling for awhile was the reason they had Carly be that much of a jerk to Nina on that phone call.

A lot of people who watch soaps aren't that smart, so I don't like when they imply it is possible to cut the father out. In the real courts, the first factor in the child's best interest is which parent is more likely to be good with the child's relationship with the other parent. Yet you can get clients who think they can make a deal of I won't ask for child support if you back out completely. While that can happen, it can't if there is a parent in court interested enough in the child to be there.

The law favors the parents; if the parents don't want it, there is a heavy presumption against it. Then again, the judge will lecture the parents, saying that it is not a good thing to keep the children away from the grandparents.

That is a bad idea anyway. She is punishing the kids, not Alexis. The kids will worry about Alexis, want to know where she is and that she is OK. The kids should be able to see her, though it should be supervised. Using kids to control someone else is not as cool an idea as it seems. Of course Sam can lean on the protecting my children concept, but she could still let them see Alexis with her there, because that is what is in the kids' interests. I was wondering why they can get an annulment. Real courts are very strict about it and the grounds have to exist, or they will go with divorce. They don't have any of the grounds, like jest or dare, being drunk, fraud. Yes, a grandmother would never get custody when there are two parents - Willow adopted Wiley, so he has two parents, neither of whom are so terribly unsuitable that the heavy weight in their favor would not allow them to retain custody.

I've seen this one before - even on GH, I see it was done with Claudia/Johnny. But it is different where they grew up together thinking the parent was their sibling. It sounds like Finn was already grown up and Chase did not see a lot of him during Chase's childhood - in fact they were cold at first, their original story, since Chase hadn't grown up with Finn as an older brother. It was done a lot better on an Aussie soap where the mother was 14 and actually lived in the house with her "little sister" who didn't find out until she was grown! So the mother/older sister knew it all along - makes for a more dramatic betrayal.

Ava's been a character on this show for 6 years! Wow. Sonny being gone would have been nice, but they spent the whole time talking about him.

The casting was color blind and you weren't supposed to see color. I did not assign any different standard to Marina due to race or even compare her with any character presented as white. Marina had slept with someone and gotten pregnant; no white girl could do that without societal problems either; that was the point of the diverse casting; to make it the same thing for black as white people. I would not think it right of any woman regardless of color to marry a man under false pretences. Your accusations are unfair. I knew he would wind up accepting the child and was impatient that at the beginning of the last episode, Simon was still anti-child! How were they going to turn it around by the end of one episode to have a happy ending? But all it took was some time with Gregory and Hyacinth and he starts smiling and now he's fine with having a baby!

I thought that too; why wasn't he glad his son had defeated the stammer? The last scene shows the father recognized that his son would be a fine Duke. Now only to hear that he did not intend to continue the family tree.

That's unfair to the man anyway; the society was patriarchal and men got away with more; but still it's not OK just because others do it and because it's the man who gets duped. No one would think it fair for Colin to promise a girl he'd marry her, sleep with her and then back out. And it takes it another step where there is argument that Penelope had no right to tell Colin and remove that option for Marina.

Well, women knew they could not have sex before they got married or they could get caught pregnant, and that would be society-excluding in those days. I do not think I said anything about Daphne. Daphne was married by the time she had sex. So I did not do what you are claiming. Fans can't have it both ways - they keep saying it's a fantasy and that's why it can be historically inaccurate and have black people as dukes and society members accepted completely in the ton. That's what you passed over. The casting race blind so we can think of them all as equal. People "screw each other over" all the time, too. If Marina was going to screw Colin over, that's OK and even her right, one of her options. No one is supposed to see the POC in the cast as being victims; they are equal. Daphne is not doing anything racist - no one not she or her family even mentions that he's a black man. Historical reality; her family would object. His would object. But this is not reality, we are told we should just shut up and enjoy it and not make comments that it is unrealistic for that time period. OK then, but there's no oppression, just equal people screwing each other over. Any way Colin found out would throw Marina under the bus. But he deserved to know. He was getting cheated. It is not screwing Marina over that she was thwarted in screwing Colin over.

They could, as not every estate was entailed. Lady Catherine, in Pride and Prejudice, has only one daughter and she will inherit the estate. Entailment was a "fee tail" where instead of just passing the estate to a named heir, it was to go to the oldest son. It was in theory possible to make an entail female, so only females could inherit. If there was no entailment, then the current owner could pass it to whoever they wanted to. I think it would depend on Lady Danbury's particular situation - if her husband left her property, if she got it out of a marriage settlement, and whether any part of it was given to her in trust, where someone else would handle it. So it appears she is in charge of it. She may not have complete control of where it goes on her death, depending on how much she has outside her rights in her husband's estate - dower rights, the right to remain living on the estate for her lifetime or a Jointure, things that would have been considered in the marriage settlement.

That can go both ways, and it is very easy to say a fat girl that does something like that is jealous. I don't think Colin was an "option" for Marina, as she wasn't being fair to him by duping him into it. I don't think anyone has a duty to preserve that option. Still this plan for Marina wasn't fair to Colin; so it doesn't seem right to assign Penelope with a duty not to tell him, one way or the other. When anyone says it is ahistorical to have black people as equals in Regency England, with titles, and being accepted in the ton completely, it is argued often that this is fantasy, it doesn't have to be historically correct. It is indeed fantasy; there is no racism; no Bridgerton says a word about Daphne marrying a black man, no white character makes the least objection to any interracial marriage, business dealings and so on. They are written as having been completely accepted. So I cannot agree with the concept they are "screwing over people of color." These fantasy people of color aren't presented as unfairly oppressed and get to give as good as they get. Colin seems again overlooked; he was being duped; Marina's chance to marry him was not a fair one for him. Marina's options don't have to include duping a man into marrying her. I think Mrs. F. said he knew - Marina made the point that she had a lot of young suitors and didn't have to settle for an old man. Mrs. F. said the young men were courting, would not want her when they found she was pregnant, but this old man needed an heir and would accept that she was pregnant by another man. Yes! It seems completely overlooked like Marina is a total victim of getting pregnant. She did have choices that led to it happening. It didn't just happen to her. Women in that age knew the score on that. And so did the men.

Like Aunt Agatha in the Poldark series. Or Emma's vision of her initially-intended single life.

She could not physically force him to continue. I think it should not be considered the same level, at least. Just because the woman is on top makes it possible that she could become a rapist at any minute? He could have stopped her, and could still have done the withdrawal method. If her being on top means he cannot, then he'd better tell her never to do that, otherwise, it is not justice to call her a rapist. I think there should be different categories for this. People would be afraid to have sex at all if every second could result in being accused of rape. And generally there are no witnesses, so society just can't handle this level of judgment on the situation. We would never know who is telling the truth. And they both could be, in their own minds.

Forcing someone into sex without consent is different from tricking them into parenthood without consent. At the risk of sounding old-fashioned, at least in the 1800s, you didn't really have this huge choice and would have to refrain from all sex to have the choice of no children. He's not doing that. He wants it both ways. In fact, if a woman lied and said she took the pill when she didn't, the man is raped? It's perhaps fraud. But rape is a term meant to describe physical force to have sex, not fraud - like a Don Juan situation where he says he loves her and will take care of her, so she consents, and then he abandons her. He did not rape her. We don't have to use the worst term possible for every unpleasant interaction.

It is hard to be in Jamie's shoes there. Imagine someone from the 23rd century judging us, being horrified at the things we do that seem normal to us but are barbaric to them. Adjusting to that is not going to be easy. Jamie is quite open minded about it mostly. Women in college, in bikinis, no corporal punishment, and on top of that, Claire doesn't explain it verra well. She seems to just expect him to go along with it. She doesn't even tell him the her problem with the spanking is that it's not cool in her era. It's amazing he got the point that he should not do it again and did that little oath ceremony. It seems he decided not to do it in 18th century terms, because she doesn't like it.

He had some education from the boys, and got some advice the night before, at least in the show. It was interesting to me that he had heard from them that women "don't like it." Doesn't say much for the boys, though, so maybe they had little knowledge to impart. In the show, Rupert and Angus are all about it being funny and casual. Same with Murtagh, his encounters seems casual until Jocasta - though he was in love with Ellen, so he didn't get past that, it seems, dedicating his life to Ellen's son.