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3 minutes ago, LexieLily said:
How far along in the timeline did Miguel die?
The montage was moving quick but I feel like the grandkids (who were the twins I think primarily?) were looking around 8-10 though I am bad at aging for kids.
The one thing that is getting me is that the triplets never look like they are aging. They turned 40 last year... then 6ish years later (last season plus the 5 year time jump) Kate got married. So near the end there, they should be 50ish and look the exact same. I am bad at remembering but also, didn't Rebecca look 100 years old during the flashfoward but looked older, but fine during Miguel's funeral? But one of the twins was a teen, so she doesn't live for many more years beyond that I don't think. This show and it's timelines...
My mom has Parkinson's and has had a rough few years with it with steep declines so the Rebecca storyline has always been really tough for me and this episode ... with Kevin helping dress her, and talking about nurse care, and the exercises. Was all a bit too real.
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Kate is a miserable human being. Even on her wedding day "something will go wrong!" Like geez.
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1 minute ago, DoubleUTeeEff said:
It is weird that adult Jack thinks that was the incident that broke them up though. I mean, why would they tell him that? It seems like it would lead to him blaming himself for his parents marriage ending.
Honestly, seems exactly like the thing they would say under their breath to/around him over the next five years and it will cement into his memory. You think Kate isn't going to be resentful about this? Any time Jack points out the scar, oh well that was the day your dad left the gate open...
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It really annoys me how much Randel and Kevin insert themselves into Kate and Toby's marriage. From the comments over Thanksgiving, to this fight. It's not like Toby has ever been physical, Kate doesn't need protecting against him. He must always feel ganged up on and it's not a good place to be in when you're trying to work something out. This show wants to paint it as a nice thing but it's so toxic to me.
When I was a baby, I fell down the stairs in one of those rolly chairs because my dad left the gate open. My mom did blame my dad for it for awhile, but unlike these two, they are still married 30+ years later. Mistakes happen. Toby was being screamed at and he was rushing. These two need therapy.
Also, this show and it's red herrings. Why the nonsense about the ~green egg when it had nothing to do with the scar?
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I have a hard time watching Andrea and her lack of urgency and general stupidity. I get she seemingly was raised sheltered and has no idea about any danger but lord. She's talking to a bunch of people, taking her sweet time getting out of town, not attempting to hide her appearance.
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10 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
I also hate how Nick keeps pointing out their "age difference." He's 36. She's 28. It's not that major. If it were 22 and 30, I could see it being an issue but at 28, it's not crazy to think she'd be mature enough to get married. Their lifestyles just seem incompatible for small apartments. I think he's interpreting that as age.
I think it's "nicer" to say it's age vs immaturity. I am closer to his age, but work and am friends with people her age and they're both married and settled. There is a difference due to age - how we grew up, the things we grew up with, etc but in terms of lifestyle - no one is throwing ragers and breaking tables beyond college years.
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"if you're mad I called you another woman's name and said I wished it was her, then that's a little weird."
Go eff yourself bro. Showed all you need to know when it comes to how he deals with conflict.
I always feel bad for the people who are on this show that just show up in the background. What's their story. Give me that tea.
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Rewatched the series now and this has to be my least favourite so far. Watching the first 5, I am struck by how outdated it is - the name calling, the violence threats, the gross nicknames for teams. They were common in reality TV back then but I never really realize how it tapered off until now.
This season was the epitome of it (so far) - it seemed like no couple actually liked each other. Calling Milly -mole and the constant barrage of insults. The "letting a gay guy beat you". The groping in India which the women just dealt with as their male partners laughed it off.
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Now that the finale is aired I can definitely say, I really did not like what they did with the 20 years after plotline. Yes, the book was more straightforward with Tyler=evil and to me, that is fine. The virus was no longer the enemy, but there was still terror. Things don't have to be so convoluted.
In the show, they still made him evil but tried to make him sympathetic and gave him a happy ending? Wandering off with all his stolen children, at least the ones who survived because the others he blew up with land mines?
They gave Miranda a hero's ending with calling the plane but I still wish we got the shot of her sitting on the beach, looking out to the ships. It was a scene that was so vivid in my head after I finished the book.
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9 hours ago, Hanahope said:
who got all those women pregnant? obviously it was 2-3 months after most died, since the caption said "almost one year".
It was 9 months after the virus hit. The doctor had asked Jeeven when he woke up "what/who were you doing 280 days ago". It was also a few days before the winter equinox, which is December 21st (which doesn't totally make sense in the timeline, because I thought the virus hit right before Christmas). But the show is really messing with things like that, so I'll ignore that.
That is why she told the story of the blackout in NYC where there was a baby boom, because when the world crumbled, people slept together, and boom. Babies.
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I find the changes they are making from the book are very...stereotypical of a show such as this, and it's disappointing. I am bad at remembering the book too but a few scenes stay with me - Miranda sitting on the beach, looking at the container ships offshore, slowly dying, and the prospect of making the choice to leave your disabled friend behind in order to survive. Instead, they make him a heroin addict with a bum hip who gets stabbed and dies... they made the show way more violent than I remember the book being (at least in the 'beginning' times).
Prophet isn't creepy enough in the book? Make his followers children. Because children are creepy.
And yes Haleth, in the book I feel like the Museum was just a spot for the symphony to meet up after getting separated. Instead, they made they choices of the group strange as to why they would go there. Like, why is Kristen bothering with the Prophet? Why did they suddenly decide to follow Keith Mars after all this time of his weird harassment?
There are bits of the show I love but other parts just aren't making sense and it's frustrating because they want to add more mystery than there has to be.
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1 hour ago, Hanahope said:
I missed why she missed the boat, or was she so upset over arthurs’s death she decided why bother.
When she slipped and fell, she dropped the boat keys off the dock into the water.
I think the taping (which Jeevan and his brother also did in the first episode) was to block the air circulation since presumably the virus was airborne.
And I agree - spaceman was a hallucination. He was also in the background when she was on the bus the first time.
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I can't remember exactly what the line was but something in the first episode made me think that they are going to have him have trained but maybe dropped out? Perhaps another reason to move the panic attacks up - maybe the storyline will be that he was in training but started to have panic attacks and had to quit. Then again - still weird that he got up on stage and did absolutely nothing. Figured he'd at least try CPR or something.
Having Jeevan and Kristen together is a weird change but I do get it from a story perspective. I did think it was weird in the book how he had just disappeared for most of it and given how these characters are all interconnected along the way, it makes sense for them to make that connection a bit stronger
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5 hours ago, Inquisitionist said:
Interesting that it was changed to Chicago with actual filming here.
It's always infuriating when they change a storyline to fit an American audience, especially when the story takes place in the Great Lakes so they'd end up in America eventually anyway.
I did read that they started off filming in Chicago but due to COVID, moved to Canada/GTA area.
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17 hours ago, aghst said:
But Siya tells Jeevan that the flu came from Europe. Most of the episode is one night. Yet by the time we see Siya, the hospital is inundated so tons of people are getting infected like instantly? It has to have a crazy R0 but it also seems highly lethal. If this virus kills hosts at a very high rate, it wouldn’t spread that far.
The book had provided more detail of that. I read it last summer (A+ timing of course) and it was eerily similar to how COVID hit. It is called the Georgia Flu as that is where it started. I guess I'll spoiler hide just in case though no spoilers for future, just differences -
SpoilerIt was spreading across the globe (I don't know if they'll show this part in the show but one storyline was in Hong Kong I believe when it was hitting there). The night before the play, a plane that had infected people landed in Toronto (as that is where the book starts) and it spread from there as people went home and infected their families. If my memory serves right, they said it was 24-48 hours between showing symptoms and dying.
So yes, the show did speed up the spread a bit but I also don't think it's that insane to think if 250 people were on a plane together and got infected throughout a 10 hour flight, then all immediately went home to households/took taxis or public transport that it wouldnt spread that fast. We've seen COVID spread like wildfire in cities like NYC.
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I always have a hard time with these shows who have numerous characters at various ages to keep everyone straight but they have done a pretty good job with casting.
My biggest gripe however is how the description states "who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness." Cut to them crashing with giant peaked mountains in the background. No. Ontario is on the Canadian shield... there are not mountains like that here. It's obvious they are filming on the west coast and given the show is them flying from east to west coast, I don't know why they couldn't have chosen literally anywhere in the actual Rockies.
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What I didnt understand about the religious bride was that she was so set on being a ~whatever designer bride but never clued into the fact that said designer's dresses were all low cut, cut outs, over the top when she wanted something covered up? And she was surprised she didn't like any of them?
I despise the current off the shoulder trend in all clothing. I hated cold shoulder and now off the shoulder.
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9 hours ago, Jax7917 said:
Who did Katie know personally that told her Greg was a cocky guy from jersey who knows he’s the 💩 ? I’m assuming she read that in national enquirer and that she didn’t get that information from a reliable source ( not that I don’t believe it’s true .)
Anon submissions to a gossip site from people who supposedly dated him in the last 5 years or something. They've been circling the internet since the show started. So yeah... not reliable. Do I 100% disbelieve it? Not necessarily.
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23 hours ago, Bad Example said:
We're not stupid. We don't need the prayers and the fake dramatics to be introduced to a new and talented black designer.
and the fact that, didn't they say it was the first black designer that they carried? EVER?! In 2021? You don't get applause for that Kleinfelds
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2 hours ago, jacksgirl said:
Liked the "England" edition! Gok would be lots of fun. I reaaaallly struggled to understand some of the clients/entourages. Glad there were subtitles. Always love:
1. when all brides aren't a size 6
2. No ramming over-priced and often trashy Pnina dresses down our throats
Agreed, I would love to exclusively have the UK version. To go from Randy pointing out ~bumps and lumps to Gok calling the friend/sister crazy for bumps that weren't(or even if they were) there. For them to not act like having larger breasts was the end of the world. To be happy with a $2000 budget (even if that was pounds, less than $4000 CAD/$3000 USD). I like how he alters dresses on the spot so they know what it will look like. It's just pleasant.
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This movie seemed allergic to having more than one speaking woman in a scene, unless of course it was the nameless ones taking care of the soldiers. And they all died, except for the wife character of course.
Chris Pratt only knows how to be Chris Pratt, eh? His snarky comments/jokes were so out of place.
If blowing up the ship ultimately worked, why not just do that from the start? Oh right, still had a few more characters to kill off and daddy issues to resolve.
I'm glad Richard Splet is getting work though.
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On 6/21/2021 at 10:16 PM, ahisma said:
I haven’t been able to find how many episodes the season is (not listed in IMDb beyond 2.01 and nothing in Variety). If it’s 10 episodes again, I’ll see y’all on September 24, when I can binge it. (Right before the AppleTV+ complimentary subscription expires!)
Mine ends 3 weeks prior to the show premiering and I'm not happy about it (and will not be paying for Apple for six months when this is the only thing I really enjoy on it).
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Did Peter murder her dog or something? It's so strange how caught up on him she still is when, unlike most final 2-3 contestants on a popular season, he completely disappeared from the Bachelor realm and is back living his normal life in his old hometown.
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I really can't get behind Masterchef US. In comparison to the Canada/Australia versions, and to other cooking shows, it's just so unnecessarily mean. Did Joe need to turn around and say "that was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted" after the chef left? Did they need to air it? These are home chefs. It is an audition round. Chill out asshole.
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S08E11: Where Is Gurmail
in The Amazing Race Canada
I was spoiled too today by Tiktok. Nothing TAR related has ever popped up on my feed and today some news tiktok popped up showing them celebrating.
I'm always happy when a non-young male team wins because it can be rare but all the teams were pretty great. I did tear up pretty hard when Craig said he would always be there for her and for her family when-.