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3 hours ago, SassAndSnacks said:
I second that! The resulting episode sans Jenny is absolutely one of my least favorite of the whole series.
Which episode was that?
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1 minute ago, mamadrama said:
Yes.
https://uihc.org/health-topics/treating-your-pain-during-labor-and-delivery
"Typical opioid (narcotic) medications used for labor pain relief at the UI Hospitals & Clinics include fentanyl, Nubain (nalbuphine), morphine, and Stadol (butorphanol).
The pain medications can be given by the labor nurse or a pump device is attached to the IV and the mother can self-administer the pain medication when needed. The device has a safety mechanism to prevent an overdose."
I'm stunned by this. But happy for all the pregnant ladies out there.
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35 minutes ago, mamadrama said:
The safety thing I'm okay with. The native women have babies there every day, and a lot of the doctors actually study in western countries. To me, it's not that much different than having a home birth, and if the pregnancy has been otherwise uneventful it should be okay. For the US to be so medically advanced we have a remarkably high infant and mother mortality rate here.
MY thing is that under no condition would I want to deliver in a place that doesn't offer good drugs. And a lot of them. When asked if I wanted morphine or an epidural I responded with a "what do you mean 'or?'".
They give morphine to women in labor?
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So am I the one who thinks that little dog is doomed what with Kenny pointing out that he is old and how much Kenny loves him. That bit went on for a while and made me increasingly nervous for the puppy.
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3 minutes ago, SassAndSnacks said:
Hmm, clearly I need to grab the book and do some research.
It's a tough job but someone's got to do it.
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1 hour ago, mamadrama said:
Jennifer and Tim did not meet for the first time like they did on the show. Several weeks earlier they both flew to Mexico to meet and hang out there. I think they'd planned on spending two weeks together, but after a few days it became clear that they just weren't getting along. Tim said adios and flew back home early; Jennifer stayed on. They'd already applied for the show, but even after breaking up the producers said they still wanted them to film. So Tim coming off the plane and"meeting" Jennifer for the first time? Fake. Attracted to each other and talking about their future? Fake.
By the time the cameras started rolling they'd already met and broken up.
Interesting, thanks. This show is way faker than I thought. And I already thought it was pretty fake. I've making my way through the forums today and it has been an education.
I really like Tim on Pillow Talk. I guess Veronica knew they'd already broken up and that explains why she wasn't convincing about being upset about it.
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On 6/12/2020 at 2:19 PM, MrBuhBye said:
I think it is very convenient that she hasn’t bothered to be tested. If you contracted the virus almost two months before the first reported US case and before it had even been reported outside China (Thailand was the first place in early January) you would think you would want to verify that and tell the CDC duh.
On 6/12/2020 at 2:19 PM, MrBuhBye said:So I freaked out a little bit when I saw that Yolanda thought she had COVID in December because my boss traveled to Las Vegas in December and ended up in the hospital for about 10 days with a lung ailment the doctors couldn't identify.
Anyway, I googled and there are those who think that there was an outbreak in Vegas in December as a result of a conference. I don't know if that is really the case but there is some evidence for it.
I sent that to my boss and she said she was sick before she got to Vegas, so there goes that theory.
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On 2/26/2020 at 11:53 AM, mamadrama said:
The story of her baby daddy drama is more interesting than the show. I truly believe that all of this is fake, just as how I suspect Caesar and Maria were. IMO she already knows his true identity and is simply playing along. Jeniffer and Tiny Tim did it. Tricky Ricky did it. Corey and Evelin...I think he DID catfish her but that was a long time ago and she's moved on. Matt's friend didn't really hate Alla, David Poor and Annie weren't really mooching off his friend, Robert's son apparently doesn't even live with him fulltime (that's why there is no bed or toys everywhere), the cereal Sasha trashed belonged to the production team and it was their idea for him to do it, that chickie in the bar wasn't really Tom's ex, and according to some recent interviews Blake's friends really do like Jasmine and the animosity was made up. Sooo many things exaggerated or just flat out made up in this series. But, eh, I like watching it anyway.
Most of my amusement derives from trying to figure out what is real and what my SO calls "wrestling."
What did Jeniffer and Tiny Tim do?
Since Yolanda never seems truly heartbroken, I think that she definitely knows the deal.
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Wait, so in the book the first time Claire has someone go down on her, it's Jamie? Not Frank?
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David is why I think so much of the drama on this shake is fake, or at least greatly amplified. I HATED him in his season but I think he's hilarious on Pillow Talk. I wasn't a big Molly fan before Pillow Talk, either and now I want to be her best friend. And Cynthia's.
Anyway, Annie is a touch annoying on PT but she doesn't really bother me.
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2 hours ago, Dejana said:
Frank seemingly cheats with a string of (younger) women and is a racist, too! A lot of white people born circa 1902* were, granted, but it seemed more like Diana wanted Frank to be really unlikable right before he died, all the better to make Claire more sympathetic and justified for spending years emotionally checked out of a marriage she chose to continue.
n without the time travel.
Weirdly, Diana Gabaldon claims that it is not definitive in the books that Frank cheated. That she left it ambiguous. I mean, that might be how she remembers it but it is not ambiguous. There is evidence in the text that he cheated such that it erases any benefit of the doubt.
And for some reason it really bugs me that she keeps saying it.
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2 hours ago, SassAndSnacks said:
Misguided. They’re definitely misguided. Probably by Ron Moore’s interpretation. Pfft.
And all because Ron Moore like working with Tobias Menzies.
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2 hours ago, SassAndSnacks said:
Then we actually head to the Gathering at Mount Helicon, which again, I mistakenly thought it all happened in Book 5, but no.
Bad news. It's also in Book 5.
1 hour ago, GHScorpiosRule said:Non-buik readers based on what I've read.
Yeah, I've run across people who are all Team Frank and I don't get it.
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21 minutes ago, Kim0820 said:
Jemmy being very young and not familiar with the 1970s - it would make sense that he can't imagine the 1970s. An argument for them not going anywhere. Jemmy doesn't know any other time.
The gemstones are what they use to steer in the absence of an anchoring person in the time they want to get to. I'm not sure why you're assuming it's Jemmy's fault that they didn't go. I mean, it might be, but there was no indication of that in the show.
The show is smart to not get in the weeds over the rules of time-traveling. It doesn't make any sense no matter how you look at it so trying to make sense out of it is a losing proposition.
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4 hours ago, Cdh20 said:
I didn't hate Helwater (don't really remember reading it but it's one of my faves in the show actually)! I have no idea what Dismal Swamp is?? Something to not look forward to? LOL
I also didn't enjoy the Caribbean adventures in Voyager, I liked the whole first half, but the last 1/2, 1/3, whatever, was like a whole different book.
The Dismal Swamp is in I think, book 7, maybe book 6. It is the setting for one of the most grievous geographical coincidences in the entire series.
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5 hours ago, SassAndSnacks said:
Ok, I'm 70% of the way through. The "Great Misunderstanding" is about to happen. Blergh...
Some thoughts on the middle portion of this book -
- So much Brianna and Roger. SO MUCH. SO. MUCH. Too much.
- Thoroughly enjoyed Bree's time at Lallybroch during this read-through. THIS is the Bree I want to see. This is the Bree that is the daughter of JAMMF. And, if she was like this all the time, I'd like her much more. But, she isn't, so I don't.
- I broke my "No Skimming, No Skipping" rule and completely paged through Roger's time on the Gloriana on the way to America. He does some really eyebrow raising things here - lying to Stephen Bonnet, provoking him, kissing his umpteen-times great-grandmother. Plus, the whole section is upsetting, throwing babies overboard. And yeah, I'd kind of had enough of Roger and Bree at that point, so I skipped it.
- This time through, I felt like Jamie meeting Brianna was rushed. They meet and have some wonderful dialogue, but then DG has then rush through the immediate follow-up in a haze. I wanted more.
And now, for the "Great Misunderstanding." This plot line always loses and frustrates me. For a couple that is so candid and honest and trusting of each other, I hate the lack of communication. I'm hoping I can blow right through this and move on to Book 5.
I read the bit with Roger on the boat the first time and will never read it again. I don't even remember all that happens - I just remember I hated it.
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On 5/22/2020 at 7:58 AM, Ziggy said:
So, I just started rereading A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and I'm wondering, what will be the main plot of Season 6? Do you think it will be about the Christie's? Will they just skip this book and move on to An Echo in the Bone?
I don't remember what else happens in that book - those later books all run together in my brain. I'd love to see the Christies dispensed with, but I'm not optimistic.
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1 hour ago, Ziggy said:
There were many people hoping for a release last year!
I think it's especially hard to wait right now, because we don't know if/when they will begin filming Season 6. I'm really the wrong person to talk about waiting, though, because I didn't begin reading the books until after Moby was published. I've never had to wait for a book before.
Yeah, this is the first book I've had to wait for, too. It's not a surprise that this one took longer than the other ones, given how much work she's done to promote the show over the last several years.
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17 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
Nope. Like I posted in the season finale thread, I think it was? Or maybe the episode before--how she's been working on Buik Nine for close to six years now. And @Haleth pointed out that she had had a bad fall sometime in between and stopped writing? But she's written some of it, because in the buik thread for Bees, another poster was posting excerpts and I know one of them was a conversation between Roger and Jamie about Claire's rape.
Who knows when she'll finish writing it.
On her Facebook page she said she is close to finishing. I think people were hoping for release this year but I'd be surprised.
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On 12/28/2018 at 5:07 PM, Cdh20 said:
Yuck I have trouble with that! You think it was a coincidence she met Jamie & saved him? I wonder about Claire’s family tree because obviously they were time travellers, maybe one day Diana will explain that, & Claire’s destiny?
The story of Outlander would be much different without freakish coincidences. But it's definitely BJR that steered her to her destination because she was thinking about Frank. He's the first person she sees. Murtagh only intervenes to save her from BJR. And Jamie was some ways away from the stones - Murtagh took her away on a horse. So it definitely wasn't Jamie. Or at least, not Jamie alone.
The books make a big deal about how who you're thinking about when you're in the stones guides you.
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30 minutes ago, shelen said:
Loved the references from Dragonfly in Amber with Germain playing with a paper dragonfly, Claire grabbing the orange, and the dress she was wearing. I admit it took me a while to draw the parallel from the '60s red dress and the daring red dress she wore at Versailles.
Well done, Toni and Matt.
I completely missed the vase because I was too busy lusting after those cool bar glasses.
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7 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
I can't be sure, but I think Innes only had one healthy arm. I think the other was wounded during Culloden? I can't be sure, but didn't he hold one of his arms against his side/middle? So that would rule him out killing Forbes.
He literally only had one arm. I don't see how it's plausible for him to have broken someone's neck or strangled them to death.
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15 minutes ago, Hanahope said:
Yeah I guess perhaps women’s attitude towards birth control had changed a lot since 1945. Had Claire stayed through Culloden, maybe she wouldn’t have been recommending such actions, and she wouldn’t know who Ringo Starr was. But Wendigo assumed she was more modern because of those recommendations (and her attitude which hadn’t changed since 1745) and I guess lucky for him (maybe), she had returned to 1948 and stayed until 1968 so she knew Ringo.
He should have asked if she knew who FDR was given her exclamation.
I'm pretty sure women in the 40's were every bit as interested in birth control as women in the 60's. They just didn't have the same kinds of choices.
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12 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
So what we’re left with the non-buik readers is them thinking Jamie and Claire made love two days after her gang rape. And comparing it to how Claire stopped Jamie from dying/brought him “back to life”.
In the book, they did have sex shortly after the rape. He was worried that she might get pregnant and wanted to have sex so that maybe the baby would be his. That bit actually bothered me more than the rape itself and I'm glad the show left it out. I just wish the show had left out all of it.
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90 Day Fiancé: What Now?
in 90 Day Fiancé: Other Spinoffs & Specials
Pillow Talk is how I know this show is fake because these couples are nothing like they were portrayed on their season.