[S05.E04: Doomsday]

As I said a couple episodes ago, Rizzoli's pregnancy is not realistic in how she regards Casey.  She said a couple episodes ago, she was raising the baby herself.  I said the writers were not being true to the character, that Rizzoli would never do that,  that would be unfair to Casey, and other commenters said I was reading the dialogue too literally .... that she wasn't cutting Casey out. ,,, Lo and behold, in tonight's episode, she offers her baby to Maura to raise if she ever dies.   Now, I am pretty sure that Casey would be the one raising the baby..... unless the writers meant what I said they meant and they are cutting Casey out of the picture. 

 

I know! All I could think when Jane said that was that Casey would have something to say about that because he's the father and he has a right to his child. I'm wondering if they planned this out and were going to have Casey die off screen so Jane could have a baby and do all pregnancy things with Maura and then Lee Thompson Young died and now they can't do that.

[S11.E06: First Live Performance Show; Meet the Top 20 Performances]

I will say that I don't blame Nigel for saying this is the best group of dancers we have ever had every single year. The show has been wobbly in the rating for some time, as evidenced by being cut back to one night a week and having running fewer weeks this season. Saying we have a good group here but it really isn't as strong as [insert season here] is not going to make people want to watch. It's also why I don't get too upset when really good routines get labeled the best ever every single year. Nigel is pervy and has some stereotypical ideas about how certain people should dance (see any black male who is good in street dances becomes an untrained dancer no matter how many years they have actually trained i.e. Joshua and FikShun), but he is passionate about keeping this show on the air. Since it is really completely unique, I'll give him and Mary a pass on the puffery. I will complain about the perving and other Nigel ickieness, but working to keep the show on by over praising doesn't bother me.