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long term, I still think both Melissa and Ashley are successful. Neither is 600lbs any longer and they have kept the bulk of the weight off. They've also both become more self aware and more able to say "woah, gotta do something now!" which is something they lacked in the past. For Melissa, we have followed her journey so closely for so long. We've seen her at her highest and her lowest, and now she seems to be at a low again. Her marriage is in shambles, her house is a mess, she's overwhelmed and exhausted and making poor choices in nutrition for herself and her family. If you go back to when she was feeling good about herself, look at her surroundings: her house was always neat and tidy... even when she was 650lbs! She used real dishes and pots and pans then too When she had Allona and they showed her, the house was clean, she was still eating well, she was active. She looks so defeated and beat up now. I think what she needs more than weight counseling is therapy for herself. She needs to find herself again, find her purpose as a woman, more than just "mom". I am not sure why she fell into the "kid food" trap as she has, since that wasn't the impression I got of her when she had Allona. She seemed to be pretty adamant that she was going to teach her daughter healthy eating etc. I hope both can get back on track to get under 200lbs again, but I maintain both have shown great success with maintaining their weight and not regaining all of it over the past 10 years.

I've never commented on this show's forums before because most people have covered what I've thought. Not today. Watched Pauline for the first time. I've never wanted to throat punch someone so badly before. She wasn't kidding when she told Dr Now she manipulates her son. That poor kid. It looked like he gained what little weight she lost. I usually try to empathize, find some redeeming quality..etc I tried to see if she had a redeeming quality. If there was one, I missed it. Pauline was completely unrelatable, infuriating, and unsympathetic.

But then Sig did rethink it and said Edgar needed to go get checked like yesterday. Sig does care, but I think he has that hard line to balance between big brother and boss. I think he forgets that his brother has been busting his ass on deck for 20 years, he's gotten too comfortable with Edgar being a solid guy and says stuff without really thinking. Then he thinks and says yeah he needs to get checked. Andy has been looking for reasons to let Scotty go since Scotty opted to be involved in his kid's life and not dedicate his life to the TB. Johnathan seems to get it, regret not having spent as much time with him etc, but Andy just seems to think that there should be no work/life balance at all. Where I think Johnathan has redeemed himself since the Douche Bandit days, Andy still shows that he is the king douche. Josh continues to annoy. Casey has grown on me though. Josh needs to stay home and be "owner" but that won't happen until the DC cameras go dark. I love that DC acknowledged that Casey is a partial owner as well. Watching the bait and the special, seems Josh may have burnt some bridges there. Hate how he threw his brother under the bus on the special. Jake was on the boat as a greenhorn before the DC cameras came aboard the CM. Josh came the year AFTER the cameras came. Jake seemed to actually have the passion and drive to be a fisherman, but Josh? He wants the fame. That's it. He seems completely disinterested in the boat unless there's a camera there. Supposedly the CM is getting completely overhauled with new engines and new cabin/quarters etc so that tells me whoever owns the rest has some money to be able to invest in keeping the CM running for years to come. I wonder who the other half of the boat is owned by.. lots of mentions of Trident this year.... Elliot free episodes are my favorite, but hubby asked me when we were watching: Would you rather Josh or Elliott as your captain. And, for all of Elliot's douchebaggery and drug issues, I'd still put more faith in him captaining a ship than Josh.

People underestimate the amount of plotting and scheming that kindergartners are capable of, especially those without children I have a 4 and 6 year old. Both are capable of the type of thought process Abel exhibited (in fact, they use the "x will get in trouble if y happens" relatively often to get the other into trouble). They can be incredibly sneaky when they want to be, very adept at hiding objects, etc. So, Abel concocting a plan to frame Gemma after Courtney Love tells him ? Realistically could happen. However, it's likely that Abel lacked the cognitive ability to do things like keep the give in depth details about how and why, clean the blood off the fork, scrape in the right direction etc. In the 5 year old mind, it would be "scrape up my arm with a fork, gramma will get in trouble for hurting my mommy"

I also think it was his way of beginning to accept and honor Tara's wishes. Tara wanted Wendy involved with Abel and Thomas. She wanted Wendy to be the custodian of the boys. One of the reasons Jax most recently tried to take Wendy out of the picture was because Tara had set the ball in motion for Wendy to have custody of the boys should something happen to her. IMO Jax is finally beginning to see that Wendy isn't the enemy or the threat he believed she was.

When Scotty first joined the DB, I couldn't stand him. But, he has redeemed himself with his lack of nonsense since his debut season. And his work with the CM (and it looked like Axel was with him too) shows just why he is a valuable person to have on your boat. He seems to be very much like his dad in that department. We've seen Johnathan helping out others many times. And I understand his work/life balance struggle too. It's hard to repeat history and have your kids hate you for missing time with them, he grew up like that and is trying to find balance with his family. With Andy, it has to be all or nothing. And it seems that Andy misunderstood (or plain just didn't want to hear) Scotty's proposal to make them money while the DB was being repaired. It really does appear as though Andy hates Scotty. Apparently, though, it's ok for Andy to bail out mid season to attend to HIS personal life. (I don't count Johnathan bailing out because when we first met the DB, it was implied Johnathan hadn't gone out on opies for years because of his back). Would love to see Scotty on another boat, I think he'd thrive. Good job there, Joshie, abandonding "your boat" and "your legacy" and not finishing the job. I said the same thing as Neurochick about the cameras and Josh assuming they were done filming. He has humbled a bit, but he is still an asshat, as evidenced by him eyerolling when Casey told them to put cod in the pots and telling the crew to ignore him. Didn't they also say on the Bait that Casey bought into the CM? That scene at the dock with the tug and the snapping lines? This is why the show is so great. You can't manufacture the real things like this that just happen. I think the deckhand just overreacted and panicked. Once Casey went and calmly talked to him, he was on board. I hate Elliot. So glad that we didn't have to see Jess and her poor spelling and disregard for a crewmember's allergy again. So nice to see that with a college degree she can't spell "crabber" correctly. She got her 15 minutes, I'm sure she'll move along now. As for Captain Douchenozzle, If I were Val, I'd have a RO on him too. He's an unstable and (at the time, presumably) untreated addict who made threats to take their children. I can see him as being downright terrifying when he is angry. Freddy seems to have become a calming presence for Keith. (I am sure that goes along with seeing his outbursts on TV LOL) The Wizard actually is nice to watch now. I know there were rumors that Freddy would jump back to the CM for Josh, but I'm glad that hasn't happened. His little crab dance with Keith going along in the wheelhouse made me smile. Jr's prank on the guys on the Bait made me giggle. When they showed his hand on the engine, it really seemed to be to reinforce Sunshine Moonbeam's injury on the DB. Wonder if Jake will help Jr out next year? And I have to say, the Seabrooke has the nicest galley.. so clean and sparkly! Wild Bill. I love to watch him, but hate how he treats Zack. Sometimes, though, Zack deserves it. It was nice to see Zack getting encouragement and props from the crew, especially Nick. I wish they had provided an update on the eye injury guy evac'd by the CG

Ahh, Josh.. Daddy's ghostly logs may have led you to the crab, but karma made sure you couldn't use them. I heart karma. Something tells me Sig's wife has watched this season and flipped her lid about sending her baby on the boat. We've never seen so much go wrong on the NW before. I was cracking up when Matt came out and jumped into the holding tank in his boots and undies to bathe. He must have smelled pretty ripe for them to rag on him. Nick's a douche and his goading and guilting the greenhorn into returning to work with a head injury was dangerous and irresponsible to everyone on the boat, not just Miles. And Bill's not much better for failing to recognize that his crewman had a serious concussion and shouldn't have been cleared to return to deck. There's no way that Miles should have been cleared, you could clearly see he was in a daze and totally out of it.

The kid was awkward and creepy. I turned to Mr Cotter and said, it's like he picked up an old "truly tasteless jokes" book and told a couple jokes he didn't quite get. Military dude looked uncomfortable using the military angle. I did like him though. Liked the impressionist. I compare every hand balancing act to the Kristeff brothers. But I quite liked the guy. Aerialist was ok, but I think the other one we saw with the animation was 10x better. Another sob story put forth by the producers. I'm really getting tired of the "heart wrenching" back stories. Really, I don't care about your back story unless it's truly relevant (like if you're a handbalancer who lost a hand or something) Dancing Colombian salsa kids and grown ups. Not impressed to be honest. Too fast, it was dizzying. Costumes were ok on the grown ups, ok on the littlest kid, and made me uncomfortable on all the teens/tweens. The kids and adults from the Miami studio from the past 2-3 seasons have been better. Where's Big Barry when you need him?

She pinned Fischer against a wall in the hallway and choked her after finding out her appeal was denied, and was hauled away to max security

Way back when, Josh admitted he only got on the boat because of the cameras and he wanted a career as a tv producer or something. IIRC, he put it on his myspace page. It was there for quite a time and then POOF it was gone and the new "spend time with daddy/fulfill my destiny because I love fishing" crap started. And Curious is correct in his/her recollections of why Jake was the only one on the boat.. Phil thought JAKE would be the one to sit in the Captain's chair because he was more the fisherman, Jake was "college boy". Of course, this was pre druggie Jake....... I agree, too, there is no way they raised all the money themselves. There has to be a silent backer in there somewhere.

I saw pics the NW posted on their FB page of Norm and his bride, handsome couple. I remarked to Mr Cotter as well about seeing more of Norm in one episode than we had in 10 years (plus the original special and the miniseries) Scotty was a bit of a douche his first season or two on the DB, but he's progressed and kept it pretty low key. Andy is a dick, his marriage failed and I am sure his relationship with his kids sucks balls, so why not make Scotty have a shitty personal life too? Of course he'll back Neil's kid right now, because he's not leaving for the summer to spend time with his kid. Scotty just got major undouching points for sticking to his guns for wanting to be a father to his child, not just some guy who sends money and pops in on occasion. Johnathan only started going out for Opies again about the time of the TB becoming the DB and them hamming it up for the cameras. Their first season, Johnathan had said that he captains kings and Andy is deck boss, during Opies Andy runs the boat and Johnathan goes home because he can't do the physical activities anymore. And poor Neil is like the redheaded stepchild. But glad to see Johnathan caring less about the cameras and staying home for opies like he should. The whole DB has really come a long way from being the DB, but they still will always be the DB now :p Josh does appear to have had some personal growth. He seems to have learned a lot in retrospect about his bullshit season with Derrick Ray (because I happen to believe Mr Ray's account of Josh only coming aboard and fishing the 2 weeks and cutting the season when Disco was done......) The Eliot/Edgar thing reeked of being a producer set up. Jr? I haven't missed him. I wonder if he still has Kado (Kevin Davis, the greenhorn who fell into the water on the miniseries only to slip and twist an ankle as a deckhand on season 1). Phil in the hospital. Dying. My eyes may have leaked. Gah, I miss that man.

I doubt they'll be dusting for prints considering nothing was really stolen, only a window on the door was broken and the bathtub was left full (and that water looked real dirty. Ew.) but I'm sure they'll be able to link it back to Morello, even if just by adding 2+2 My heart really broke for Poussey. Vee is already turning out to be a character I love to hate.

For the initial order, no there isn't usually a hearing since that is considered an emergency or temporary restraining order and can be issued just by the police department. But, for an extended order or in order to renew there is a hearing. At least in Massachusetts there is a judicial hearing and there is testimony from the person seeking the order and there are sometimes attorneys present for the person the order is against.

Because he is a self centered douche nozzle. I won't be surprised if that whole crew bails on him like all his former crews have

This actually happened to the Rollo after their insurer watched them on the show, IIRC I think this is part of why they didn't return.