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  1. Guys, this thread is not the place to make snide comments about your fellow posters. If you think a post is misogynistic, you can: 

    • Ignore the post, or (quietly) put them permanently on ignore.
    • Be the better person and respond civilly.

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    • Report the post, and if the mods judge that they've violated forum policy, it will be removed.

     

    Also, just a reminder to please try to stay on topic. Many of the posts on the past few pages have been unrelated to the show and would have been better suited in the Small Talk thread. 

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  2. 21 minutes ago, vibeology said:

    I really disagree with these interpretations. I guess it bugs me because his attitude seems so patronizing and he's the exact same age as her. He doesn't have the monopoly on life experience, good manners, knowledge or responsibility.

     

    I agree with you completely, when viewed from my 2017 perspective.

    However, Albert isn't the only one in-show who holds this view.  Even Lord M made comments on several different occasions about Victoria being "guided" by her husband, "looking to her husband" for council instead of himself, etc.  Which I agree doesn't make much sense if the husband is the same age as her, but that certainly seemed to be the opinion of the time.

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  3. 1 hour ago, scenicbyway said:

    I'm so confused about the ladies maid, was she or wasn't she a prostitute?  I know she said she worked in the laundry, but what is her tie to the woman with the baby?  Are they sisters? Coworkers?  I realize the woman must've been the one actually hired for the position in the palace, but must've become pregnant so the other girl took the job?

     

     

    21 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

    Still not feeling the downstairs B-plot. I think there was a deliberate choice not to specify which woman the baby was calling "mommy" during the scene where Skerrett was visiting the prostitute. Is that actually Skerrett's baby and, more importantly, do I give a damn?

     

    I'm not sure what they were trying to say in that scene, but these theories are as good as anything I've come up with.  I definitely DID think they were supposed to be sisters, though.

    I really wish they hadn't bothered with the downstairs plot overall.  I agree with the person upthread who suggested the time would have been better spent with her ladies-in-waiting.  That's a position I've never really seen explored, as opposed to the servant angle, which was so fully brought to light in Downton and in Upstairs, Downstairs before that.  I don't even know her ladies' names, there's just the one who looks like Laura Benanti and does all the talking, and some other people.  They're all brunette, too, which doesn't help!

    I bought Victoria and Albert's chemistry, and I'm glad the "romance" with Melbourne is over, as much as I like Rufus Sewell.  The only other thing I've seen Tom Hughes in is Silk, where he didn't get much to do, so he's a clean slate for me.  He's a little intense and quiet, but I thought it was a nice contrast to everyone else who are constantly blathering nonsense.  Everyone thinking they should get married based on one piano duet!  So silly.

    I have a new favorite word:  Waldeinsamkeit.

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  4. This is the place to discuss any previews and/or sneak peeks for future episodes.

    Since it seems like a lot of people want to discuss ahead of the episodes, it's kind of overwhelming the individual threads before they even air.  Let's put all of that talk in here.

    Thanks!

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  5. My UO:  I'm fine with Kevin living with Randall.  It keeps Kevin interacting with the others in a natural way.  If he got an apartment in Manhattan, I feel like he'd end up like Kate did - cut off from the rest of the storylines and essentially being in a different show with Sloan and the play.  His interactions with Randall's family are always some of my favorite moments of the episodes, and his lines generally inject some humor into stories that are otherwise pretty heavy.

    Of course, if these were real people, I'd tell him to use some of his apparent mountain of cash to get his own place already!  And real or not, he needs to stop being a putz.

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  6. Regarding the "gallon of ice cream"...  were we supposed to think she was going to eat the whole thing in one sitting?  I've seen a bunch of posts about how "over the top" it was, etc.  But I assumed she would eat what she wanted and put the rest in the freezer.  It has a long shelf-life because, you know, frozen.  I'm around the age of the Big Three, and my mom would have never dreamed of buying anything smaller than a gallon.  Those little "fancy" boxes are expensive!

    Two hundred for a two-bedroom walk-up seemed right to me.  When I was looking at apartments right out of college, the nicest apartments in town would have been under $500 a month.  (That was in the mid-90s, and not in a major urban area, for point of reference.)

    Jack buying a house without Rebecca's knowledge was ridiculous, but I'm assuming since it was a private sale, from his boss who apparently likes him, he could have backed out of it.  Still not romantic, tho.

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  7. Depends on the severity.  CM's weight would obviously be a complicating factor, but when my niece tore hers, she was back to playing high school basketball within a week or so.  She just had to wear a brace when playing, and then do RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) afterwards, as well as downing naproxen for the pain and swelling.

    If I were in Chrissy's position, I could endure a LOT of pain in order to make my first big red carpet entrance on my feet.

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  8. Great callback to ASAP, where Sherlock assumes Harry is John's brother... "Sister! There's always something."

    She's dead, and somehow there was still too much Mary. Hopefully she's fully at rest now. Molly and Lestrade have become afterthoughts.

    I didn't care for all the Mycroft hate from Mrs. Hudson. What was he doing that was so awful? 

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  9. Seeing this topic at the top of the page reminds me... what the heck are they thinking with the scheduling of the season finale?

    When I saw and ad for Victoria starting on January 15th, I thought perhaps we were just getting two episodes of Sherlock this time. (I avoid all media about this show so I don't get spoiled.) But now I see that there is a third episode, but for some reason they're airing it two hours early, instead of the regular Masterpiece time. 

    It's so early it's not even in prime time in my time zone! How many people are going to turn on their TV that night, or fire up the DVR, and get the last two minutes?

    I don't understand their logic of airing arguably their "buzziest" show and biggest live viewing draw outside of its usual slot. Why not just start Victoria on the 22nd?

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  10. For the record, we don't have a "must read X number of pages before posting" rule at PTV, nor will we.

    If it bothers you that someone is posting about something that has already been discussed, I'd suggest skimming past it and continuing on.

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  11. I didn't think "Kyle" was ever the stillborn baby's name, since the K's were for Dr. K, and they didn't even know him before that day.  I took the "give him his own name thing" to be "give him a name that's not a K, because he's not a triplet".  So while they may have had an idea to name them all with the same letter, "Kyle" was always "Randall", never the stillborn triplet.  Just my interpretation - it wasn't especially clear.

    12 minutes ago, kassygreene said:

    I'm not familiar with the customs of the 80s, but in just slightly earlier times stillbirths wouldn't necessarily merit a funeral.  It's not that long ago that the general advice to medical tragedy was to forget it ever happened.

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    My cousin had a stillborn daughter just around this time (I was just old enough that I can remember it).  Not sure she got a full funeral, but she most certainly had a name and a burial, because she has a tombstone.  But we're Catholic, so... that's maybe different for us.

    My parents lost a pair of twins in the early 70s.  They were born alive but far too small, and in those days there wasn't much that could be done.  They named the weaker one, who only lived a day, after my grandfathers.  No one else in the family ever used the names, I think for fear of upsetting my parents, and I know they never wanted that.  They would have loved to have had a little "Frankie" running around.  I think it would have actually soothed their pain.  Instead the only "namesake" my grandpa ever got is a name on a grave.  (Not unusual in a lot of families, I know, but in my family we pass down a lot of names.  So it's sad to me that his isn't passed down.)

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  12. Hey all,

    The discussion in this topic is taking a left turn away from the original purpose. We're here to discuss social issues as they relate to This Is Us. If you would like to discuss overarching political topics, take it over to the Current Events & Politics forum.

    In addition, we do not have a ton of rules here at PTV, but our number one rule is Be Civil. Talk about the ideas put forth by other posters, but don't attack them or their views. 

    We have already posted one mod note in here and it was largely ignored. If the tone does not improve in here, we will lock the thread for a few hours to give everyone a chance to cool down.

    The discussions in here have been very interesting, but there are plenty of places to discuss politics on the Internet (and even on this site). It doesn't need to be in here as well. 

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  13. 3 hours ago, MakeMeLaugh said:

    it's technically illegal I believe to drive a car with a cracked windshield in Illinois

    Surprisingly, it's only illegal if it significantly impacts the driver's view of the road. And we don't have inspections on private passenger vehicles here, so it's only ticketed if an officer happens to notice. I thought the whole thing looked silly, though. How did his head get through without cutting his face all up? 

    As someone who had never seen an episode of this show before, I take it the couple with the foster (?) kid is Chicago Fire's Meredith and Derek? As in, I'm supposed to root for them as the main couple, even though he's kind of boring and she's kind of unlikable?

    What's their issue with marriage? Just that she's gunshy because her parents are splitting, so she thinks it won't last? Whatever. Having/adopting a child together is about a thousand times more binding and permanent than getting married, in today's society. Get divorced with no kids, and you never have to see each other again. "Just" have a kid and split up, and you're seeing that person every other week for years, and at life's celebrations forever. It just seemed like drama for drama's sake.

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