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Other than that, arguably the stuff with Jack became a consistent flaw. Long after RDA was playing it as if Jack just was over whatever he had felt, AT played it as still carrying a torch. Not to her great detriment, but that can also be seen as a weakness.
I don't think RDA ever really played Jack as over it. I think they went out of their way to make it as awkward as possible, especially with the Pete stuff. There were just episodes where both AT and RDA played it as nothing, but when they had to bring it, they both did. Of course there were times where RDA played Jack as over everything because it seemed like he was beyond done with the show.
But while I found Sam likable, she just wasn't all that rich and interesting a character for me. It kind of feels like the writers were so intent on writing Sam as a strong, admirable female character that they shied away from giving her any real edges or flaws.I think they wrote Sam like that because they needed that sort of person to balance the team, SG1 realistically worked because they had 4 distinct people. We had to believe that there was a reason for these 4 people to be this team for 7*years and why Jack wanted her on the team (the Jack/Sam thing didn't really start until S3 when Jack was on Edora). She was a healthy mix of Daniel and Jack. That being said, I think they did give Sam a few "flaws". There were times where she did realize the amount of pressure that was on her and how Jack would always fall back to depending on her to make the right discovery, so they gave her a modicum of self doubt.
*Jonas = Daniel 2.0
I think so, she's ever-so-slightly socially awkward throughout the run of the show, as befits someone who is about ten times smarter than anyone she encounters. Now, they turned that up to "Whoa, absurd level awkwardness" with both Daniel and Sam in Moebius, but it was pretty consistently there. It just wasn't played like Rodney's social misfit tendencies, in which he was often fully obnoxious. Sam was just a little geeky.Whole heartedly agree here. Sam is geeky and kind of awkward but all in all someone you'd want to be friends with. Unless you're a guy. Then you'll die.
Season 1 Sam is full of flaws and issues. Thank stars and heavens they took her character in another direction.
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The episode where they go to Boston to get Frederick into that school was great. "Oscar Meyer". The silent scene with Niles checking the turkey then leaving; Lilith & Frasier coming in and taking the turkey then leaving; Niles coming back and wondering where the turkey went - so classic Frasier so well done. We always talk about how good the dialogue is and DHP's physical comedy, but Kelsey and Bebe Neuwirth were so in sync in that scene.
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Only solution is to face this dilema and have the cartels scramble themselves to find something else illegal to take up asap.
I think you just found the new storyline they'll mine. The dying pot cartels go into the more dangerous drug trade (heorin or something new) bringing in people more experienced and dangerous than them. Or, maybe the pot cartel is dying and that's why they're doing human trafficking now.
I agree it has been dangerous to either hike or drive through certain areas on the west coast but that will be changing quickly with the quickly changing laws.May sound weird, but I can't wait for the day where the bear spray I carry is there only for bears and not people.
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I think marijuna's "pretty okay" reputation these days is exactly why the writers choose pot cartel instead of other criminal activities. Pot itself is not intended to be scary, but the cartel is still dangerous.
The cartels are very very dangerous actually. As an avid backpacker/hiker, one thing we worry about most especially if we head out to the west coast (trails in California & Oregon) are the pot growers. They're usually armed to the teeth, have flood lights all around, and are not afraid to hassle you or worse shoot at you. Don't associate the people who smoke it with the people who grow it. I haven't gone hiking in the west since legalization of marijuana happened, but from online forums, it's still sketchy and dangerous. The only thing scarier to run into on trails would be mountain lions.
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FX put the first 7 minutes online here. Martin Freeman's accent sounds kind of Scottish? It comes and goes. On the plus side, all the other actors seem to be hitting the Minnesotan pretty well. Other than that, I'm liking the feel of the show.
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Ok FYI So far:
Season 2:
Season 3: Experience the Universe and Eat Pie
Season 4: It's All About the Hair
Season 5:
Season 6:Year of the Probie
Season 7: Is that a Jacksicle?
Season 8:
Season 9: Battle of the Butts
Season 10:Feel free to yay or nay & think of new tags!
ETA: We have months so take your time! :-)
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I personally thought it was because one of the first things they did was turn Sha're into a Goa'uld ...hence "share". Daniel's wife, but also a different character, but I may be wrong on that.
Maybe it's a nickname? So formal name Shauri but nickname Sha're? But they changed Jack's son's name (Taylor--> Charlie) and added an "L" to O'Neill, so I'd just cop it to unexplainable show vs movie changes.
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I'm curious why you handwave away the fact that Eric had ZERO problems aside with the whole going to jail thing, about how Tim's life was turning out. He wanted Tim to be happy. You want Tim to be miserable. That says so many things about you.
I mentioned nothing about Tim going to JAIL in my post. I don't want Tim to be miserable, he just chooses to be miserable. Short term happiness and long term misery. I think it's tragic and I won't defend it. Thank you for for the personal attack on me though, I highly appreciate it.
I'm curious as to why you think Tim's being in Jail didn't scare the shit out of him in terms of being on the right side of the law the rest of his life.Drinking under the age of 21 and working at a bar underage tells me otherwise. Unless Texas suddenly HAS different underage drinking laws, he's on the wrong side of the law. It's not an arguement about drinking ages in the US btw, it's a fact that it's the law and he's breaking it.
Going by that line of reasoning EVERYBODY on the show and on the goddamn planet is a failure. EVERYONE could have done more but they didn't/don't. Eric could have worked harder to get more schools to look at Luke ,but he didn't so of course going by your view of things Eric Taylor is a colossal failure at EVERYTHING. Oh and so is Tami because she obviously did NOTHING to help Luke vis-a-vie colleges.
Matt of course is a TOTAL FAILURE because he didn't prevent his grandmother from getting dementia or prevent his parents from splitting up and thus he is also responsible for his dad's death.
You can fail someone and you can fail yourself. Unless you're directly involved or controlling a persons thoughts or actions - you cannot be blamed for someone else's failings.
Yeah, I do think Eric failed as a coach to Luke. I do think he was too caught up in his own life to worry about Luke and handled that situation all wrong. Then again, I think there's a real lack of realism in how this show handled recruiting and the recruiting process. Tami has no control over coaches from colleges which seemed to be Luke's only way into school due to tuition issues.That being said, I don't think there's anything wrong with Luke joining the Army. I have nothing but respect for people who enlist in our armed forces and I wouldn't call them failures. I'd think people would be very supportive over his decision of enlisting including the Taylors.
Did Matt HAVE an ability to control dementia? Is he an X-man? Heck, Lorraine can't even control dementia. Actually SCIENTISTS can't even control dementia. We could blame God for that if you'd like. Was Matt in Iraq and that was a storyline I missed? Did he know in advance that his dad was going to get blown to bits and not do anything about it? That's a weird and illogical argument to make and leads me to think that we have a DIFFERENT idea of what failure means.
I didn't blame Tim for what happened to HIS parents either. Nor do I blame Tim for his dad being a failure. Once again, unless you're directly involved or controlling a persons thoughts or actions - you cannot be blamed for someone else's failings.
And Eric and Tami are complete FAILURES at being parents because not only did they allow Julie to hang around and become friends with the town slut (Tyra) they also let her have premarital sex and let her get into a screwed up relationship with her TA at college.Did you miss the STORYLINE of Tami and Eric not allowing Julie to be friends with Tyra? Or Julie repeatedly undermining her parents? Or the storyline of Tami taking Tyra under her wing to help make her achieve her potential? I find it interesting that you call Tyra the town slut and that's what made her the bad girl. How is Tim not also a town slut? Because he's a male?
Also, Tami already HAD the premarital sex talk with Julie with the premise of it being - lose your virginity to someone who will love you and cherish you, it's not something to be taken lightly. Is Julie a failure because of her premarital sex? Because once again, Tim. I don't see how premarital sex is even a way to label someone a failure. If you do then I guess yes, the entire show & world is full of failures.
Her relationship with the TA happened after she left home. That's a failure that's put on Julie, not her parents because as I said earlier - unless you're directly involved or controlling a persons thoughts or actions - you cannot be blamed for someone else's failings. Her parents didn't follow her to school. They weren't involved in her day to day life. When they found out, they were angry and upset at her and made her take hold of the situation because they were directly involved at that point. Had they not, then yes, they would have been parental failures.
Anyways, it's pretty clear that we're never going to agree on this. So I'm done with this topic at this point.
Have a good evening.
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Let's face it, she says everything the way we wish we could say it.
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The man with the most perfect hair and the best half time speeches. Also happens to understand womenfolk quite well.
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I started a Tim Riggins thread as well as a Julie Taylor thread because I figured failure/not failure and brat/not brat would be things that'd come up again and again.
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One of the only high schoolers from the series who went through normal trials and tribulations of the American teen.
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The bad boy with a heart of gold.
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Is anyone trying to watch the Extended Interview with Pele online (Firefox) and getting a video playing somewhere you can't find? I hear two Pele interviews, one with the video and one somewhere I can't find. It's driving me crazy.
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So what if he dream was to go nowhere and do nothing? Why is that sad and pathetic? To me that shows that Tim not only knows who he is, more importantly he knows who he truly is not.
I think your love for Tim Riggins is blinding you of what Tim Riggins is. A 16 year old dreams of going nowhere and doing nothing and we're applauding that for him knowing who he truly is? He may have had many redeeming qualities as a character full of charm and charisma, but he was an underachiever who chose to throw away every opportunity he was given. He ended up being a failure in football because he thought the college coaches were too hard on him and he didn't want to work hard. He was a failure in school because he didn't feel like applying himself and pissed away his scholarship. He's a failure in life because he chose to watch everything he could have had slip away from him. The sad reality is, the life he built for himself wouldn't sustain him for very long. The attitude he has towards working hard, bad temper, mood swings, and poor judgement won't do him much good either.
I certainly don;t find him as pathetic as Buddy whose entire existence revolved around his glory days on the Panthers and how he had used that to become a powerful booster.Buddy certainly is pathetic, even more so by cheating on his wife. However in a town like Dillon, the head of the boosters is king. He opened a business, had it fail, and then opened another business. When push came to shove, he was able to create boosters and a football radio show for a high school that every had already written off. He may have been pathetic, but aside from his marriage, he wasn't a failure. By Dillon standards, he was pretty successful.
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In the finale, she is back in college and engaged to her first love citing her parents as a model relationship for her and Matt.
I think citing her parents' relationship as what she was basing her relationship with Matt with was a very important point for her character. In season 2, her reason for treating Matt so terribly was because she said she wasn't ready to have what her dad and mom had. It's a pretty reasonable though to be had by a teenager to not be so committed so young. By the series finale, she was ready to grow up and be an adult.
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To me Julie was the best portrayal of a teenager a normal teenager with two parents on the show. Was she snarky and sassy and did she sass her parents? Sure, but THAT'S WHAT TEENAGERS DO.
EVERY ONE OF THEM.
It's also important to note that Aimee Teegarden was the one of the only ones on the show playing close to her age, at least among the teenagers, and she has said that she was going through many of the same things in her real life the same time they were happening on the show, getting her car, having a job etc.My theory is that the reason so many people hate on Julie is because they see her and their unconscious/subconscious mind thinks back to high school and how they acted and ZOMG THEY ACTED JUST LIKE JULIE DOES!!! BUT WAIT THAT CAN"T BE TRUE BECAUSE JULIE ACTS LIKE A BRAT AND I WAS THE MOST PERFECTEST BESTEST BEHAVED TEENAGER IN HISTORY!!!!!!
No you weren't. You sassed and acted bratty just like Julie did, but it kills you inside to think or admit it so you hate on Julie.
I thought Julie was a result of her parenting. Her parents spoiled & coddled her and gave her more leeway than most parents would have; so she ended up kind of selfish and entitled. I didn't hate her for it and I do think she was pretty much a teenager who was all in all kind of reasonable. I didn't like Aimee Teegarden's acting. After watching her new show, I appreciate what little the FNL team was able to get out of her.
If you look at it from a larger point, Julie was the only teenager on the show who had a set of loving parents, and outside of season 5 had no out of the ordinary issues (paralysis, slut shaming, stripper, single parent house, drug addict parent, absentee parents, dementia grandmother, murder, etc...) so it would make sense that compared to all the other kids dealing with much greater problems, Julie would look like a brat. If you're comparing "normal teen" to golden teens like Jason or Matt, you're going to fall short. I think that's where all the Julie hate comes from.
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I've been a fan of Freddie since Finding Neverland from way back in the day. Phenomenal kid actor then, still a great actor now. If I hadn't known he was a British actor, I don't think I'd really hear any of his slip ups.
It's kind of sad knowing that had Norma just taken him to a psychiatrist and explained his blackouts, not even discussing what he did to his father, Norman wouldn't have ended up how he did by Psycho.
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Hi, Y'all. I am driving myself crazy trying to find one particular scene from FNL. It involves Tami going to what I remember as a booster breakfast (lunch?) uninvited and doing the sweetest bit of smiling while skewering you ever did see. I cannot remember if it was during the Jumbotron era or if it was in the Luke Cafferty-had-a-fake-address era, but I KNOW this scene exists and I feel like I am getting nowhere looking at old TWoP recaps and episode descriptions. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Season 4, episode 2 "After The Fall". It's after Luke has to go to the Lions and the Boosters are threatening to have Eric lose his State Championship from the Panthers by disclosing the information about the mailbox. Buddy is still a Panther booster at the time because he looks so proud of Tami during the scene. The look on all the other boosters faces when Tami says that ALL Panther State Titles would be lost is so satisfying.
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When Emma asked Norma about sex, all my alarm bells went off, but the way that Norma handled it so sweetly, especially considering her own experiences, was beautiful. The tiny catch in her voice when she said, "IF it's with someone you care about" killed me. Vera Farmiga is friggin' amazing.
I was so worried that Norma was going to say something "Norma-ish". But it was such sweet advice I was genuinely surprised. I really hope cupcake boy isn't going to harm Emma. Their scenes are kind of sweet and give the show a nice normal relationship it sometimes needs. Of course for all I know next week will have him be an awful murderer who works closely with Nick Ford or something.
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Since the first season is up and discussion is going on there, we should think of tags for the rest of the seasons. Season 1 was "We Found the Ring in the Sand".
This is the schedule I emailed to David:
April = Stargate 1994 movie/Stargate Pilot Children of the gods RECUT /Stargate season 1
May = Season 2
June = Season 3
July = Season 4
August = Season 5
September = Season 6
October = Season 7
November = Season 8
December = Season 9
January 2015 = Season 10/Stargate DVD movies - Ark of Truth & Continuum -
You know, it's funny---this is one of the reasons I loved Jason and think he was the best of her boyfriends (and the only one I, personally, would have any interest in dating!) It kind of speaks to my general UO re. preferring that couples have a lot of connection and compatibility rather than tiresome bickering, I-don't-get-you-and-see-the-world-in-radically-different-ways, 'opposite attracts' like Luke and Lorelai, whose extreme differences in temperament, interests and outlook made for a stimulating friendship but, for me, a dreadfully incompatible and joyless romantic pairing. I do agree with the popular opinion that Jason and Lorelai lacked sexual chemistry, but I don't think that's because they had a lot in common. (And I do think they had a few key differences as well, but now I'm just rambling and will shut myself up!)
I personally would never date a Jason but I agree that he was her best boyfriend. They were better suited for each other, had a compatible temperament, had similar backgrounds, were quirky in the same way, and just seemed to have fun. If Lorelei were my friend, that's the type of relationship I'd encourage. Not the backwards looking relationship with Christopher, the fantasy relationship with Luke, the bland relationship with Billy Burke (what was his character's name?), or the lacking in chemistry relationship with Max.
I always thought the Christopher/Luke fans were 50/50, so I'm surprised my Christopher hate is a popular opinion!
So I think this may be an UO (my mind will be blown otherwise), but I think they should have ended Lane's storyline earlier. Have her go away somewhere. Her relationship with Rory near the end was almost non-existent (aside from Rory crashing on her couch after leaving Emily & Richard's) and every plot line they were giving her was a disservice to her character. Her band wasn't all that great; Zach was a terrible boyfriend/fiance/husband for her; she settle for a life in a way that I don't think she had to. I would have preferred no Lane to the Lane we got.
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She also had surprisingly good comic timing, great nonverbal expressions and absolutely sensational mother/daughter chemistry with LG, at least IMO. Now, granted, AB looked painfully awkward hugging non-Jess males, and fake crying is not exactly the actress's strong suit. [/understatement!] Overall, though, I hold the UO of not even being able to imagine anyone else in that role.
I think had the cast Rory with someone else who was a better dramatic actress, Rory would have come out very differently. So definitely agree that the awkward shyness of AB helped make the Rory we all love. In fact, I'm under the impression that that's why they cast her in the first place. Also agree with AB's comedic timing. I thought her physical comedy and some of facial expressions in WTF?/oddball situations were great. Probably why Paris was such a great character in the show, it brought out the more funny bits of Rory which was AB's strong suit.
Not sure about this UO, we've been talking about Rory's bfs a lot, but my UO is that Lorelei's best boyfriends were neither Christopher nor Luke. I was a L/L person up until they got together, then it became clear that barring significant personality changes they could not be a feasible couple. The thing is, they changed their personalities to be in their relationship and each one changed for the worse.
Christopher was always the "what if" guy in her life but I always viewed him to be a selfish spoiled manchild. On top of that, I always thought he was a shitty dad. Hell, Luke was a better dad to Rory than he was and I think that was the reason I preferred L/L to L/C of the two relationships that were constantly brought up for Lorelei. The best thing about season 7 was that it took L/C which was a tire fire of a relationship and completely destroyed it. Like repeatedly driving a stake through a vampires heart, taking the ashes out in the sun with a head of garlic, and pissing on it. Pleased me to no end. Hated Christopher.
In fact, I don't think any of her long time bfs were that great. Max and her had nothing in common. Jason was just the male version of Lorelei, also less whiny and more successful than Christopher. Billy Burke's character was bland and boring. But I think she was too hung up on the "what ifs" of Christopher and Luke to seriously pursue anyone.
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I wonder, though, if they would have been better served by not acting immediately rather than biding their time while they tried to figure out what was going on.
I thought he was worried about the food possibly being poisoned. Since they had all "his peoples" stuff, I thought his train of thought was - "their MO is to give people food. My prisoner buddies are usually pretty sharp, but probably ate this food. Therefor this food must be bad. Time to hulk out."
Was it just that, when the refugee camp got overrun, Mike and Terry failed to protect the boy?That was my understanding was well. I believe that's why she punished them by letting them turn into walkers.
Jack O'Neill: That's with 2 L's
in Stargate SG-1 [V]
Jack is my favorite character from SG1 and I think full credit has to go to RDA for playing him the way he did. However, I think full blame has to also go to RDA for eventually going way too far and making him worse than an ADHD 5 year old with equal intelligence. I know he was an EP for the show and couldn't wait to fly to California to see his daughter for the weekend; and the writers had a ton of fun writing dumb Jack, but someone at some point should have reined it in.
Early Jack was a great balance of a military minded leader who had implicit trust in his subordinates who weren't necessarily as battle minded as he was. In fact, I thought early Jack knew more than he let on and just enjoyed messing with both Daniel and Sam. Teal'c's Jaffa senses had to be tingling about Jack for some reason. And not in that way.
I know a lot of people say that Daniel is the heart of the team. In a way he is, but more in the moral conscience sense. I always thought Jack was more the heart. The other characters had stronger relationships with him more than anyone, that's not to say that they all wouldn't lay down their lives for each other. However, the Jack/Daniel relationship was the core of the show; Jack/Sam is something best left to another thread; Jack/Teal'c was important in establishing the viewers implicit trust in Teal'c immediately in CotG.
Though funny/sarcastic/irreverent Jack was entertaining, I do think that more serious/badass/angry Jack was also fun to watch and had RDA not given up on acting something that could have been hit on more. When Jack flipped a shit in Red Sky*, or the look on his face when he closed the gate on Odo in The Other Side*, or when he was blasting the leader in Beneath the Surface*, for being a classist asshole - that was a character I could get behind and probably a character I wanted to see more.
*Season 4 was a fun season.