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Cobb Salad

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  1. I saw that 48 Hours segment too. The story about falling down the stairs but blood stains on the floor around the corner seemed very suspicious. His crying also came off to me as something he thinks he has to do to convince people he's telling the truth.

    Regarding the part about paying back the money for the children's expenses, I knew someone who was in a similar situation (pay me to watch our child when you go out, though they weren't married). There it seemed like he want interested in being a parent and probably the guy on 48 Hours wasn't either.

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  2. Yeah, and you're relying on someone else to bring you back. How reliable was Richard Shephard anyway? He makes a deal with Marcus Fox for money then activates him too early in order to kill him then he gets involved with Amy, delaying Rose's return by years. I wouldn't go for it either.

  3. I too was happy when I finally got BBC America, mainly for Doctor Who. It's one of the channels I check when looking for something to watch but am always disappointed to find endless reruns of Kitchen Nightmare, Top Gear and Star Trek:TNG. A family member has mentioned interest in getting cable for BBC America (to see the British produced shows) and I've had to explain it's not what you think it is, you're going to be disappointed.

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  4. The Dentists were more amusing than annoying with their self confidence and bragging tonight. There was no mention of having to do a speed bump in the next leg or did I miss it? This is pretty early for a NEL - what a surprise. Also it's pretty early for a team meltdown, I'm guessing mom and daughter are probably not going to last much longer with their bickering. I'd prefer the Dentists to them right now.

    I thought the title of the episode was "Can I eat that?" with a couple of the teams wanting to eat the food from the detour.

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  5. I agree the CBS plan is greedy, I wonder how vast of a library of shows they would make available to subscribers? Would there be a lot of shows not being broadcast anywhere or much anymore? How much of that content would not now be available for other services like Netflix?

    If cable networks start doing this I wonder if this would finally get us ala carte channels like many of us want for cable? A channel like TCM could do this already since they have a good app.

  6. That's a good question, editorgrrl. None of the characters you mention are clear protagonists.

    If there was one character to "root" for it was Jack because he was the one discovering what was going on and if he didn't the audience wasn't going to find out. Yes, his beating up Todd Crane like he did was pretty loathe some. Also, in the end you had to figure Madison was going to survive because we needed the happy ending or that's the way it works most of the time. I don't know how it would be possible to root for Shepard and I only saw Gary as someone who did a lot of work behind the scenes that later allowed Jack to find out a lot at once.

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  7. I couldn't sleep the other night and found myself rewatching Fast Times at Ridgemont High. What the hell was that?

    I won't go back and rewatch as an adult again but in one scene a character tells Jennifer Jason Leigh's character to just have sex and it's not a big deal. I want to say this friend said she did at 14?

    So Jennifer does and it's with a guy in his twenties. And she's like 15!

    Then she gets pregnant by that other complete sleaze of a human being. I thought he was being weird with her bc he had gotten off in point five seconds. No...he's just an asshole. So she has an abortion and brother picks her up and she claims she's hungry and wants to go eat?

    I guess as a kid all of that just went way over me, but it disgusted me to watch now.

    This isn't like me either. I have low moral standards in entertaintment and outside of hurting kids and animals don't really care what a person does. But damn, I was like this is gross.

    Yeah, she sure got around in the movie. #1 guy believed her when she said she was 18?? Boy, she got off easy especially with the brother who could have ratted her out to the mother who already knew about the guy who was way too old for her.

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  8. I remember the late night sign offs but I don't think I ever actually watched one live. . I heard of Christopher Closeup "back in the day" but still have no idea what it was about.

    My mom used to watch the Rockford Files and somehow I was able to watch Police Woman even I think my mom wasn't that crazy about the show.

    When cable came to my town in the late 70s it was sort of a big deal (HBO! TV stations from Philadelphia and Boston! -- I grew up in the NY metropolitan area, no such thing as MTV yet) but my parents weren't interested (and still aren't) so I was only able to see it when I visited a friends house. Then we had an over the air movie channel with a scrambled signal that was descrambled with a converter box.

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  9. The kid in the hallway was someone else.

    I was surprised to see Amy/Rose at Marcus' entombment too -- was she Rose part of the time then? How long does it take to get rid of the original soul once the 2nd on is activated? The statement Amy made when telling Jack she wanted to separate IIRC was she wanted to separate from herself like she's finally giving Rose full control perhaps in return for immortality?

    The story seemed to be a mix of wrapping up plus leaving a few loose ends like the Rose/Bix thing.

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  10. Didn't they say there were multiple places where the crossings take place?

    I wonder if there are other buildings like this in those other places. Even though there appeared to be quite a lot of the books there it didn't seem to be enough to represent the 1% of the population they said were Reverti.

    I guess Nikola Tesla and Ronald Reagan won't be returning, heh.

    I believe this was a BBC America show. Although I'm satisfied with the ending (while being a bit confused along the way) if there was a 2nd season I'd watch.

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  11. The corpse was Joseph Cranfield from a few episodes before. It looks like they were ready to cremate him (?).

    During the last scene I thought Shepherd was going to kill Jack, I didn't see the "offer" coming. That made no sense since Jack burned down their building.

    I don't see this being a regular series since it was adapted from a book. I don't see what else they could do since the mystery has been revealed.

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  12. Are we supposed to think shepherd put the soul in the body while Madison was a fetus? It is very confusing,

    They seem to be implying that. I doubt we're going to get an explanation of the how even though to us it is important to know.

    Then what's the deal with Rose and Bix? She performs the ritual on Bix when he died in the 20s, it took her this long to find him? Since he wasn't Reverti did that make him harder to find?

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  13. Seems to be a much more efficient way of getting rid of someone. Could they somehow be triggered accidentally?

    That's an interesting thought. Perhaps the chosen trigger is intentionally "vague" enough to minimize the chance? However a Shepherd is probably monitoring who is getting close to a multiple of 9 birthday there might not be that much of a chance of an accidental trigger.

  14. But in this episode, Rose told Richard he should've chosen some other kid rather than Madison, a kid nobody cares about. Meaning that Shepherds chose the body into which the secondary Qui Reverti is placed? How? When? Where? (That empty building?)

    It seems to be more efficient for the Shepherds to choose the body so they have a good idea of where to find them when it's time. So if a Shepherd needs to activate the secondary soul with a pre-agreed upon trigger, why didn't Richard renege on his deal with Marcus Fox and instead of killing a 9 year old let him languish inside her? What happens to a soul that isn't activated?

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  15. One that sticks out in my mind is "Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy". (Had to check IMDB for the whole title) It stars Danica McKellar as a high school teen under pressure from her parents to be a high achieving student. She gets involved with a young man who gets her pregnant ... It turns out he's part of an agency that performs illegal adoptions and he wants to take the baby to be adopted. It was supposedly based on a true story.

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