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  1. Would Johnson pull from Clinton or Trump, though? Maybe it's just because of where I live, but most of the #NeverTrump and #NeverHillary people I know are typically Republican voters. I envy those of you who are so strongly supportive of Clinton, because I think you're going to be happy with the result. I, on the other hand, don't like either of them. Trump scares the crap out of me and disgusts me on a personal level, and I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I voted for him. Clinton, IF she's corrupt - note that I'm not saying she is - would at least be run-of-the-mill political corrupt, and not start-a-nuclear-war crazy. So I prefer her of those two options, but that's an incredibly low bar to clear. Anyway, I think I can safely say she's going to win, and I don't think the electoral college will even be close, so rest easy! And I really don't think we're going to see "militias" or protests at the inauguration or whatnot. I live in a God-and-guns area, and even here most Trump supporters I know are "hold your nose" voters. They don't support him personally, and are vaguely horrified that he got the nomination, but think he's more aligned with their values. (They're wrong, but whatever.) People are sticking with him because he has the "right" initial after his name, but I think they'll drop him like a hot turd when he loses. I don't see mass upheaval in his name :-) All that to say, I'm confident we'll be spared the specter of Trumpism in the long run. Also, people who hate cats meet kittens:
  2. Wow, I didn't know that was a thing! Where I live, it's illegal to do any electioneering in or in front of a polling place. That sounds incredibly awkward. Huh, this is interesting. Here in Illinois, I know you're supposed to vote where you live, not where you get your mail,* but I don't know what they'd do if you actually don't have a permanent physical address. *This actually caused trouble for me when I first registered when I was 18. My parents and I had a temporary home, while they were in the process of building a house. Rather than change their mail, and then change it again, they just put a mailbox at the build site. Well. we registered to vote where we lived, but when they mailed our cards to that address, USPS bounced them, and the county clerk canceled the registrations. My mom, who has served as an election judge forever, went round and round with them to get it sorted. I moved to a different county this year, and I didn't get my registration switched in time, so I have to do "grace period" voting at the courthouse. I'm disappointed, in part because my cousin in now the county clerk and I can already him rolling his eyes at me for missing the deadline. But mostly because I really miss voting in person, on the day. There's just something so awesomely, purely, democratic about it, and it makes me feel so connected to my fellow Americans. (At least until the results start coming in!) As for overall procedures, etc. here... we almost never have lines, but I get the feeling I'm in a much more rural area than most of you. Early voting and the aforementioned grace period voting can only be done at the courthouse, but there's a pretty long time period for it, and we're used to having to drive into "town" for everything. You don't need a reason for early or absentee voting, but with early voting so accessible, absentee voters are mostly just people who are homebound. We have scan ballots, and have since 2000. Before that we had the butterfly punch "chad" ballots that were apparently so difficult? I have to laugh at that a bit, because I didn't think they were difficult at all, but whatever. I do remember signs in the booths specifically telling us to check our ballots for hanging chads, although they called them something different. The bad thing about the scanners is that they're crazy expensive. So when the state mandated them, the county clerks had to close a lot of polling places. Generally speaking each rural township, which is 6 miles x 6 miles, has one polling place. But in the city, or maybe where there are two small towns in one township, there would be multiple precincts. When faced with paying for all those scanners, they just couldn't keep them all open anymore. So a lot of people before could walk to vote suddenly had to drive. Now, like I said, having a car or knowing someone who does is a way of life here, but it was still unfortunate. (And a prime example of how our statehouse forgets that a huge part of Illinois is rural and sparsely populated, and what works just fine in Chicago isn't always a good fit everywhere, but I digress.) I find our election process somewhat fascinating, and I've been a judge of election several times. So I could go on and on, but this is already getting long! I love hearing how it's done in other parts of the country.
  3. 42) #teamDean lol I could be #teamNewGuy, if they sell it. But I just honestly don't know if there's enough time to create a new love interest that I can really invest in.
  4. Total agreement. While I really can't stand Toby for many reasons, she needs to take ownership of her own actions. Yes, he probably would have kept pushing. Yes, he might have just shown up at her house. But he didn't have to, because she caved. I don't think Toby is trying to be malicious or controlling, but I do think he has a strong personality and doesn't realize how overpowering he can be to someone who has a weaker will, like Kate*. He definitely needs to understand that and learn to back off. But at the same time, Kate needs to learn to stick to her guns. I feel like she's just traded letting Kevin dominate her life for letting Toby do so. I feel like the show wants me to see him as this great guy who's being so wonderful and she's so lucky to have him, because she's fat. And that's just so icky to me. She needs to slow this down and discover who she is as an individual. I think they met two weeks ago? No more than a month. And her life completely revolves around him. That is just so unhealthy, no matter if Toby is a unicorn crapping rainbows. *I sympathize because I can be the same way. I can overpower other people's opinions without even noticing. I try to realize this and act accordingly, but when you're outspoken and not afraid to give your opinion, you assume others are the same. If Toby didn't want to do something, he would probably just say, "no, I don't want to," and go on. It may not occur to him that it's even possible for him to make Kate do something she doesn't want.
  5. My guess is that it's at least in part because Milo is a hot property right now with the huge buzz around This Is Us. As for the "other two"... Dean makes by all accounts a very short appearance, so if his entire story is running into Rory and doing a catch-up, there's really nothing to show. And maybe there just wasn't anything they could show with Logan that wasn't spoilery? I'm guessing that again there's some kind of "bumping into each other" scene, but beyond that, if he keeps appearing it kind of has to be in relation to Rory, IMO. In other words, Jess has a legitimate reason to be in SH because of his family, but if they show Logan there (or anywhere else, really) it has to be because of Rory. Not that they're necessarily a couple, but friends, coworkers, something. Even the stuff with the LDB and his dad, I'm assuming Rory is somehow involved. I like Logan (and MC), but I don't see him or any of the other secondary characters getting their own major storylines that don't relate to E/L/R or Luke. Or at least, that's what I'm telling myself! I've vowed to stay open-minded to other possibilities, but I'm still #TeamLogan or #TeamHappySingleRory.
  6. I think it would have worked a lot better - and made Jack look less clueless - if Rebecca said, "you know I didn't want kids YET." Instead, he looks like a bit of an idiot who doesn't listen to his wife, and she looks like a waffle who will change her mind on such a huge decision in the course of a couple of quarters.
  7. Randall with his loud, adult, shower sex had me rolling. And he searches Zillow at work! LOL I agree with everyone who says William's death is in the future. I hope so! I loved his interactions with Kevin, just how easy they were with each other, especially considering the somewhat awkward circumstances. I knew where they were going as soon as Kate acted all shifty about watching the game with her "dad". Toby is so obnoxious. She needs to slow that relationship down. I really felt for Rebecca and the idea that even if you see kids in your future, it can be hard to give up the freedom you love. Do people really tell their kids exactly when and where they were conceived? And how would they know for sure, unless they were almost never having sex? And was it supposed to be the same superbowl? I guess I tend to make the assumption that committed couples at that time would have been on the pill. I love this show, but I haven't cried once. I must be dead inside.
  8. Aha! I had forgotten that scene. Thanks, @timimouse! Changing course here... MASSIVELY unpopular opinion, but Sukie made me crazy, I don't think Melissa McCarthy - while lovely - is that great/funny an actor, and I wouldn't have missed her at all in the reunion.
  9. I think my favorite thing was Emily giving away her dining room chairs because they don't "bring her joy". That decluttering mantra has always seemed kind of ridiculous to me. I mean, toilet paper doesn't "bring me joy", but I kinda have to have some, no? lol
  10. I can't stand Jess in relation to Rory, but I did think he had an impact on her decision. Not because of anything he said, but more because at that point in life he was an "outside observer". Lorelai and E/R all had their own reasons for thinking she should do this or that, and Paris couldn't imagine Rory quitting school because Paris, much as I love her, was a total narcissist who saw everything through her own experience. Logan, to his credit IMO, didn't push Rory one way or the other. I liked that he respected her enough to make her own decision, unlike everyone else in her life. And that's why in my UO I'd also give him credit for Rory going back. I think she realized during their fight after Jess left that Logan thought it was a bad decision, too, even though he hadn't been pressuring her. Sure, he was pissed (and drunk), but Logan was always most honest in an argument. (As an aside, I just watched those scenes, and Logan says something like, "I gave you one month. You went beyond a month, and it had nothing to do with me. It was all you." What was all that about a "month"? Have I completely blanked on something?) That's how I read it, too. He may not have "lived up to his potential", but he was smart enough to get through prep schools and Yale, seemingly within a year or two of being on schedule, all while getting kicked out of school after school and not really applying himself. I guess we could infer that Mitchum just kept paying people off? But I always took it as he did a minimal amount of work and was naturally intelligent enough to just barely get by (after Mitchum's money got him in the door). After all, Mitchum clearly thought he was smart enough to run the company one day, and I don't think he had any illusions about his son. And I don't think he was stupid/sentimental enough to put Logan in a leadership position if he thought it would cost him money.
  11. So, Jess is possibly back living in SH, pre-Rory returning? I like that, actually. The idea of everyone coming back just coincidentally at the same time would be kind of ridiculous. And as much as I never liked Jess for Rory, I'd like to think that he and Luke have remained close. Logan has two guitars sitting out in (presumably) his apartment. Was he into music before? Or maybe he's at Lane and Zach's in SH? It doesn't look like an especially expensive place, and it appears to maybe have a porch and a yard with trees? Not at all what I'd imagine for Logan Huntzburger's London flat, TBH. Hmm... Matt Czuchry is looking fabulous, though. After watching him (deliberately) lose weight and frown his way through the final two seasons of The Good Wife, it's nice to see his smile.
  12. Oh, absolutely! But at the same time, Kate is just one person, with one perspective and one experience. As a quite overweight person myself, I totally understand that there are as many "ways" of being heavy as there are reasons for being heavy. But at the end of the day, the writers have to create Kate as a character and then write for that character. Kate can't tell every obese person's story, any more than Randall can tell every black person's story. I like what Chrissy says in those quotes. Yes, you can be happy and fulfilled and confident in most of your life, and still be unhappy with your weight. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I don't think about weight at all. But then something happens to remind me, and it's like running into a wall and it totally brings me low. And that has zero to do with what anybody else thinks, and everything to do with how I feel. (In fact, other than my closest friends/family, most people I know would probably say I'm "totally content" with my weight. Um, WRONG!!! I just keep it to myself.) That's one thing I really like about how they're writing both Kates. I think her weight is probably an even bigger deal in her head than it is to other people. The whole thing with not wanting to go to the party, and then not wanting to dance, while her brother and her date didn't see what the problem was? That rang absolutely true.
  13. Randall said something to the effect of, "If I had found William earlier, my girls could have grown up with a grandfather." Which said, to me, that Jack has been gone from their family at least as long as his oldest daughter could remember. Granted, he may have just meant another grandfather, or maybe I misheard and he said "their" grandfather, not "a" grandfather. But it sounded to me like they haven't had a grandfather in their lives, "Grandpa" Miguel notwithstanding.
  14. I agree it's ridiculous, but I'd argue it's Meredith who needs to grow the hell up and tell her the truth already.
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  18. Everybody, please remember the policy on book talk and spoilers in a UK-first world. Refer here if you have any questions. Cheers!
  19. When we first see Kevin, and he's at a party, is that his house? Kinda seemed like it might be. If so, he's loaded.
  20. I thought the same thing, about the names. Randall was already getting the stillborn triplet's crib, onesie, etc. I can see giving him a name that was completely his own. Re: Kate... gosh, I hope not. As a heavy woman, I really resent the popular theory that fat = damaged. Yes, some people eat their feelings and become fat. And some of us just love food, hate to exercise, and got unlucky in the gene lottery. Reasons for obesity (like alcoholism, etc.) range all over the nature/nurture scale.
  21. I personally don't feel that I can judge Jo - or any domestic violence victim - for how they choose to flee from their abuser. Her story is fairly ridiculous and retconned, but taking what she told DeLuca at face value, I can see why she would be terrified to tell anyone, including Alex. Maybe especially Alex, with his own history with violence and how he protects those he cares about. I think she was trying to protect him as much or more than herself. I'm not saying that lying to him was loving, or wise, or noble, but I think it was understandable. As for Maggie, I generally like her, but her drama with Meredith was so manufactured. So Mere didn't immediately go to the police. What did it change? Alex wasn't trying to leave the jurisdiction, destroy evidence, or finish DeLuca off. A couple hours' delay affected nothing, especially not DeLuca's medical care or outcome. That said, holy shit, Alex. There had better be real consequences, and I hope it includes serious therapy. I know other people on this show have done bad things and gotten slapped on the wrist, but in the cases I can remember, they were all done with good intentions. Alex almost killed a man with his bare hands in a fit of jealous rage. I love Alex, but I can't make excuses for that.
  22. Agreed. And I thought it couldn't get weirder for the actors than last year, when TB conducted the on-screen wedding of his RL wife to his TV dad. Lol
  23. Not Rhonda! I loved her and Rhondre so much. I'm down with Ghost Rhonda, or her evil twin Shonda, or whatever will keep her on the show. I did notice they moved the actress from regular to guest star, though, so I'm not hopeful. Total agreement with everyone saying there needs to be a funeral, etc. The character and the actress deserved better. Cookie and her sisters, then and now, were cracking me up. The casting on this show is so perfect. Poor little Bella. Every time Luscious was holding her, I just wanted to snatch her and run.
  24. I can fanwank that they had discussed it with their regular doctor, but since Dr. McRaney was new to their case, he wanted to talk to them about it himself. People who don't want to discuss realistic options with their doctors is one of my biggest annoyances on medical dramas, though. Even though I can totally understand the mindset.
  25. I get what you're saying - that these are problems of their own creation - but I think it's actually more poignant that way. Maybe it's because I'm close to their age, but I really identified with them all. Sometimes the things that keep you up at night aren't the things you have no control over, but rather those that you DO, and how your own choices have led you to be where you are. You're not helpless to make changes, but sometimes you feel like it would be easier if you were. Honestly? I think that was in the original script, and maybe was what was even shot, since his mouth seemed a bit off. And then someone else watched it, and said, "whoa, we can't have a sympathetic main character in 2016 call his athletic daughter a 'bull dyke'!" And so they dubbed it. I notice a lot of times with closed captioning that the CC is off by a word here or there, but still makes sense. My theory is that they CC using the script, so if the actor switches a few words, they won't match. (Seinfeld episodes have this happen a lot.) I would imagine if the entire scene was substantially changed, like the meltdown scene that JH apparently ad-libbed much of, they would start the CC from scratch.
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