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Yes, LydiaMoon1, things that were funny when the cast was in their 20s now seem, at best stale and at worst, scary. Sheldon still acts like a brilliant, but socially awkward 12 year old. Penny would be good for the part on "Younger" about a 40 something woman passing as a 20-year old, but she's no longer an ingénue. The cast doesn't seem to have grown with age, just repeating the same mistakes over and over and never moving on.

Both video games - Titanfall and/or Halo - seemed very out of place on their shows. Playing a violent shooting game seems an odd way for Elizabeth to deal with PTSD. And on The Good Wife the guy who gives Alicia Halo to relax while she is waiting for election results is the fellow who was shot in court with Will and almost died from his wounds? You'd think he'd be reluctant to have anything to do with gun shooting games.

Yes, GiveMeSpace, Raven was defending the guy who said Mrs. Obama looked like someone from the Planet of the Apes. Raven said lots of people in her family look like animals. How a black woman could ignore the racist comparison to a monkey is beyond me, especially when commenting on the wife of the President. Rosie was the only one trying to make a serious statement when she said - a few times - that many members of the Hispanic community ignore their black backgrounds and are racist. No one else picked up Rosie's intelligent comments.

Lehane. I believe they meant Denis O'Hare, who played the judge.

Just once I'd like to see Danny put in his place. He's giving orders to the chief who is in charge of the hostage situation, telling the chief how he (Danny) wants the situation handled and then Danny tells a SWAT officer, who has probably trained a hundred times for situations like this, that his way is better, not hers. Speaking of the SWAT team, once Danny realized Baez was going to make a move and the SWAT team - on his orders - shot down the window, why did they not shoot the father after Baez escaped and Danny was left with a gun pointed at him? Someday, I'd like to see Danny's hot dogging and disregard of the chain of command and the law wind up causing an injury or losing a case in court. Or maybe someone who outranks him will say: "I don't give a f__k that you're the Commissioner's kid,*I* outrank you and I'm telling you to follow my orders or I'll turn you over to Internal Affairs." And have it stick; not like the time his new sergeant told him to obey her orders, but took it back, because she realized, A REAGEN IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

When they asked Brody why she didn't shoot the bomber and she said it was his eyes, I thought, "Here we go again." Just like Kate said when asked (by Ducky, when was dead in the morgue) why she hadn't shot Ari and she replied post mortem "There was something in his eyes that made me not want to kill him." At least Brody's excuse was that the bomber's eyes reminded her of her recently deceased sister.

Regarding the band "tour" - Have they ever had a gig? If they need to raise money to pay for motels, why not raise it by shows in town before they leave? And how are they planning on lining up shows if they have no history of performing in public?

We've been hoping for years that Coast Guard Abby would join NCIS. I like Borin's interactions with Gibbs very much, but I can see that they need another agent more on NCIS NOLA than the team in DC. Borin and Brody are really great together, so that would be fun. Maybe they'll turn them into an NCIS version of Rizzoli and Isles. BFF's with lots of subtext, but whenever they are getting too close, have them go out with a guy for a few episodes. (Because they could NEVER have an actual lesbian character, right?)

Danny got all in a snit that Steve left Grace alone on the street corner when he went off to chase after his stolen car. Granted he could have just called 911 right away to look for the car, but it wasn't as if they were running in a slum part of town. Then, when they arrested the killer as he was picking up his grandson from the bus, Danny took grandpa away and just left the kid on his own. Didn't even have a chance to say goodbye or to ask one of the women nearby to look after the kid.

Some viewers seem to think the mayor on this show is supposed to be Rahm Emanuel. This isn't a documentary. The characters are fictional, even the real people who play themselves are in fictional roles. The Cook Country State's Attorney is a woman. I don't expect TGW's SA James Castro is meant to be anything like her anymore than I think a savvy politician like Emanuel would be out of his city when he was warned that a grand jury decision was imminent.

Alicia's annoyance at not being included in David Lee's hire is such BS given her record of decision making without regard to her partners. Speaking of which, why did she go to her office to work with her campaign manager instead of going to campaign headquarters? And, if she wants to be included in the firm's activities, why not work on a case instead of staring across the hallway at partners who are actually working?

Might have been better to postpone a hostage episode, what with the events in Paris today.

I agree with KWNYC that babysitting is not in Blake's job description; the temporary SOS would need his help and that of everyone on staff. As for the actions of the governor and the Texas vigilantes, seems plausible to me.

One thing that has bugged me for some time came up again tonight. You'd think Gibbs' team members are the only NCIS agents in Washington. For that matter, why do they rarely interact with any other agents in the D.C. office? Obviously, their station will be covered when they all go on vacation Christmas week, but Tim seems to be the only agent with tech skills in D.C. (or NCIS, for that matter). Gibbs knows that Tim's dad is very ill, why not have another agent with tech skills fill in for him and let him spend time with his dying father.

IMonrey wrote: "That's my point. Matt's not terribly attractive, he's not terribly charming, there's nothing we've seen in his personality to indicate he's even that interesting as a person. What does she see in him? They have no chemistry.". IMonrey, I agree with you that Matt isn't charming and that he doesn't have much of a personality. My point, however, was that a number of people posted not about their lack of chemistry or his lack of charm, but that their ONLY objection to the couple was that Matt wasn't good looking and that she was a looker who wouldn't be interested in him, based only on looks.

It bothers me that so many people are speaking out against the Matt and Daisy relationship based on his looks. There are many reasons not to like them as a couple. For me, it is because there seems to be so little chemistry between the two of them, not whether they are on a par of physical makeup. The fact that she is better looking and he kind of looks and acts like a nerd is irrelevant. If he had a great personality or was charming or had other qualities she saw in him that impressed her, whether or not he was listed in People's Handsomest Man of the Year would make no difference. After all, in real life, "Matt" is married to Christina Hendricks.

The MIL vs. wife conflict is such a staple of sitcoms - "Everyone Loves Raymond" particularly comes to mind - but I've never found the storyline amusing when a grown man lets his mother treat his wife so badly.

I don't think that Alicia feels betrayed or jealous that Peter might be having another affair as she feels that he is betraying their agreement to be discreet if they step outside the marriage. Her whole campaign is based on her image as the Good Wife. If he is involved with someone else, that ruins her campaign. In the long run, it might hurt his chances for higher office, which she reminded him. While a divorce in and of itself is no longer a campaign killer, coupled with his history with prostitutes, it could be a real problem. Not to mention he was cheating - again - on the Good Wife. Also, as for the limited use of Christine Baranski, Mrs. Buckboard suggests that might be due to the loss of her husband in real life, giving her some time to heal. Then again, it could be the producers poor choice of which storylines to emphasize.

Yes, there were parallels between Frank and Danny in their stubbornness, but at least Frank was forced to realize the Reagan bull in a china shop way is not always the right way to handle situations. Danny, on the other hand, talked back to his boss, told her he wasn't going to obey her order to shave and that was that. End of conversation. Like his stubbornness is a positive quality trait, not a sign of obstinance and disobedience to authority. He may have disagreed with the old boss, but did he ever talk back to him the way he did to her? So what is the result? So does she discipline him for disobeying her order? Sign his transfer request? Nope, unlike Lou Grant, she LIKES spunk.

Every time someone mentions the Keating 5, I can't help but think of the five U.S. senators caught up in the savings and loan scandal, who were known as the Keating Five. I guess I'm just too old for the demographic for this show.

If the bail judge is "always angry," it could be because the attorneys keep speaking out of turn and talking over each other and the judge, time after time. He has had to tell them numerous times not to do that and he's just tired with their behavior. It's like the one judge whose quirk is that the attorneys have to add "In my opinion" to everything they say. It's ridiculous, but they do it. So with the bail judge, they should shut up and not annoy the judge.

The move back to the old offices makes zero sense. They just put a ton of money into the new offices and now they'll have to spend even more to clean up the new/old offices, replace damaged equipment, change the stationery? Don't they have a rental agreement that they'll have to honor at the space they will be vacating? And, I thought the space in the Lockhart/Gardner/Cannon/Lee office building that Diane had signed for were a couple of empty floors, not the floors that housed L/G/C/L. And Diane can single handedly make Howard Lyman a partner? Poor Cary. He's better off losing his bail and going to jail and getting away from all this craziness. I never thought I'd be more supportive of Cary and Grace than Diane and Alicia.

Worst episode of the season. WTF did they do to Elsbeth? Always an interesting, but effective eccentric, they've turned her into a loony. Alicia chooses a middle management assistant in the SA's office to make her announcement over the Governor? And Eli, seeing that there was a problem between Peter and Alicia, didn't discuss this with Peter? Eli's first responsibility is to the governor, not her. Alicia hasn't told her partners that she is running for office? They have left partnerships at L/G to go with her to a startup, based in large part on her name carrying a big draw for clients. And now she is hoping to leave them in the lurch without any warning? The F/A office has leaks and cockroaches? Never saw either mentioned before. Didn't they just spend a ton of money on rehabbing the office? Dianne has two floors in the L/G building? Who has been paying the rent all the time she's been gone (and while she was there). Where's Robin? Did they fire her when Kalinda came to work for F/A? A medium size firm doesn't have an IT department or an office manager who can deal with leaks or insect infestations?

Nice touch that when the SOS was working late on the China/Japan crisis, she was eating Chinese takeout. Hard to tell with the writers on this show whether that was intentional. Agreed with other posters that the SOS spends a ridiculous amount of time in her office. Kerry and Clinton and others before them seemed to spend most of their time in the air traveling from one country to another. They could write some great story lines about foreign trips, accompanied with some of her staff and in communication with the office, the President and her family back home. Want to see more of the President and interaction with other cabinet members, not the president's chief of staff.

Having just seen a rerun of the fake Guantanamo episode this week and given the harshness of turning over the woman to the Russians and a certain death, I wasn't at all surprised the shooting was a phony. I don't understand the need to show exceptionally gruesome deaths and these were particularly so. They can make the point by saying the victims were decapitated without going into minute detail and without showing the bloody headless bodies and photos of the headless bodies over and over. Get reaction shots of the agents, like the SECNAV director's face when she first saw the body in autopsy and we'll get the picture.