Lady Calypso

Q: How dare everyone get chummy and discuss what just happened?!?! Q is quite a character.

The hype better be worth it!

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she's worried about how she's edited, so it sounds like she has a large'ish role this episode that could be controversial and she knows it might not go in her favour, edit-wise. Or, Venus is being Venus and is being too negative about things. I don't think she's taken kindly to the general opinion that she's a terrible Survivor player, albeit a very entertaining one, so it could be just her wanting to be edited to be a strategist and frustrated she continues to not get credit for anything.

But that does show how fast the "next step" was for them. The fact that she hadn't even rented out her own place and happily moved in with a man she's been dating for only four or five months, at the most. It was a stupid plot, regardless, the more I think about it. It also didn't make any sense because why would Eddie move his new girlfriend in with his son? He had dated Ana longer than Marisol and Ana never got the "moving in" plot. It really didn't make any sense. They should have figured out a different way for Eddie to have discovered Marisol being a nun.

I would say, given how the initial storyline almost played out, it's on their mind and opens the door for them pursuing it in the future. I was iffy on whether to put it under spoiler tags, so did it just in case. I definitely don't think most of what Ferrigno has said is a spoiler. I love reading his thought processes on things, especially with his character, and his excitement really just shines through the interviews. I really find his interviewing style fascinating. He did say that he initially only signed on for four episodes, but I'm fairly confident that that plan has changed. Apparently, Tim Minear is still writing episodes 8-10, as well. They're very behind on production (probably due to the cruise ship filming) so the end of season 7 is still up in the air.

Lots of interviews from Tim Minear, Lou Ferrigno Jr, and Oliver Stark. Tim Minear talks about Buck's bisexuality and what's upcoming for the second half of the season Lou Ferrigno Jr talks about his return to the series A secondary Lou Ferrigno Jr interview, in more depth about Tommy and his role in this season Oliver Stark talks about Buck's season 7 journey Some potential spoilers in those interviews, including: Lou Ferrigno Jr spills a lot of information in his interviews, but it's very entertaining to read. He seems like a true fan of the show, even has come up with his own backstory and headcanons for Tommy.

I also think it's telling when he told Maddie what happened that he felt like it was someone else speaking when he told Eddie the lie, so it's clear that he didn't MEAN to react the way he did and he felt immediate shame/humiliation over lying like that, so the gay panic/identity crisis isn't like other instances where we've seen coming out stories on TV. He's not shameful for his sexuality, he's shameful that he felt like he had to hide it in that moment to Eddie. Which is likely why Maddie even told him upfront that he's more confused about his feelings. I think Buck obviously needed time to figure out his own feelings because of his sudden the discovery is for him. He was panicked, yes, but not in the typical way we've seen in the media. It was more nuanced, more "I'm not really sure of things right now and I don't really want to try to explain to others when I'm not sure myself."

Yeah, Nick needs to walk away. This is the woman who wouldn't say I love you and just up and left for Boston, ghosting him for months. Then she doesn't even apologize to him when they meet back up. Nick made a mistake, getting back together with someone who really couldn't care less about him. It's a shame, I used to like the two together but something changed in season 18/19 for them. I agree, the suicide ideation plot was performative. They basically only went a quarter of the way and for what? To reveal that Kwan, too, has had suicidal thoughts? I assume Helm did what she did to avoid favoritism accusations. Because Helm could get in trouble if she allows Mika to get involved in a surgery when the interns are told they can't. Jules/Winston scenes were good enough, I guess she's the one who has figured out her specialty first. I think this mentorship could be great for Jules and also for Winston, as long as they don't sleep together. Jo/Link are absolutely terrible. Both don't know the use of protection and safe sex, and one doesn't know how to read a freaking pregnancy test. Hilarious. Also, I'm guessing the show has either abandoned Luna's hearing loss or they think that the problem is so easily solvable and now Jo/Link can have another kid. But hey, at least they're planning another kid instead of the 15th surprise oopsie pregnancy, like this false alarm was. The episode was fine, but more on the dull side. They didn't do a whole lot with the patients, and with the med students. But it was fine, just not an episode I'll rewatch.

Honestly, I did think that they were gonna delay Buck's coming out since we have a three week hiatus but then I remembered this show loves speeding through plots like it's a racetrack. The Buck stuff was done fairly well. Buck/Tommy's first date was a disaster and I could definitely have passed on Buck's cringeworthy "I'm an ALLY!" declaration (twice), but Tommy's reaction was very well done to the whole situation. He recognized Buck was figuring stuff out, especially with his adverse reaction when Eddie/Marisol showed up, and he decided to leave. I'm glad he explained that he left primarily for Buck's comfort, rather than being offended by Buck's rather strong reaction. I am glad we got the two major coming out scenes with Maddie and Eddie. In typical Buck fashion, he Bucks it up with Maddie by accidentally coming out to her because he can't keep the pronouns right. I am surprised she was genuinely surprised by him being interested in men, but it did lead to one of the funniest lines of the episode, in an episode of funny moments: "Sure, I'll check out a hot guy's ass, but that's normal." As for the Eddie scene, it was really well done. Buck obviously had a hard time telling Eddie, but once he did, Oliver Stark played that relief really, really well. And Eddie's reaction was touching and sweet. "Wait...TOMMY'S GAY?" And no question on Buck being bisexual, so that was a way to break the tension. Solid, solid episode for Buck, especially since he finally learned to talk to people and apologize and really communicate to his date. Now, inviting Tommy to the wedding is typical Buck fashion, moving too fast on something, but at least Tommy's friends with Chimney so it won't be too awkward. Eddie/Marisol was annoying, but the nun plot seemed....sudden. Once I got over the absurdity, I see that it's setting up some Catholic guilt type story, and it led to a really nice moment with Eddie/Bobby so if handled well, it could be interesting to explore for a few episodes. I also like when the show circles back to Bobby's Catholicism. The Hen/Karen plot was ok, it felt rushed but I get why it felt rushed. They also could have gone a little deeper into bringing in a more troubled foster child but I guess they wanted to keep it mostly light and mostly contained to this one episode. I think they solved the issue way too fast and am disappointed they took massive strides in less than three days, but if they're planning to keep Mara, then I guess in a shortened season, it's better than nothing. I'm very glad we got a tease of the Hangover Wedding before the hiatus. It's gonna be a long hiatus. I probably shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did at the opening call, but I did.

Yes, I believe it is. Like I said before, the one thing this show does right is LGBTQIA+ representation. They're not going to disrespect the community by having Buck kiss a guy and then go "whoopsie, he's still straight!" I can critique this show for a lot of things, but not its representation and handling it well. They're not going to backtrack on this.

I have a feeling that's where it might be going, though. Rewatching the episode, it very much was played out that Buck was jealous of Eddie getting closer to Tommy, but it didn't play out like Buck wanted Tommy at all, hence why his anger was directed at Eddie instead. I know the episode was more bait and switch, but logically, it seems like it would make more sense for Buck's feelings to be for Eddie, as he also doesn't know Tommy very well. I think Tommy left the 118 not long after Buck joined. They also made the note of how similar Tommy and Eddie are (both being in the army, both having the same interests and hobbies, both even looking a bit alike) so my thought is that it could be projection; it just makes more sense, logically, for Buck to be figuring out his feelings for Eddie but the journey to discover his sexuality is already a huge enough change, so he's projecting onto Tommy. Not that he might not find Tommy attractive, but it kind of protects him from getting hurt by not having his self discovery ALSO be with someone he's been close to for years and who he considers family. So my thought is that they will go down the Buck/Eddie route, but it'll be slow moving (obviously because, if they do go down this route, they also have to explore Eddie's side of the relationship). So that aspect won't happen this season but it could for next season.

Exactly. I know there's been some comments on how often Mika is yelling at her superiors but honestly, I don't blame her. They're all doing such a bad job with the interns under the guise that it's to help them become better surgeons. Actually, as we're seeing, all it's doing is making them NOT want to become surgeons. They should have been excited for a groundbreaking surgery but they all got bored 10 minutes in. There's a way to stimulate their excitement and make them want to learn from their mistakes and do better. Bailey used to be better at teaching but I think she's completely lost her touch OR can't figure out how to teach interns now vs how she taught them 15 years ago. They're obviously going for a redemption for him at some point, and making him some sort of low point before so, but it's not really much fun to watch a character literally regress. I imagine part of it has to do with his undiagnosed ADHD and part of it is due to his nepotism and subsequent entitlement issues, but still. Nick does need to tell someone about what he discovered about Lucas, because we know Lucas hasn't told anyone he likely has ADHD. Unless I forgot about a scene where he told Simone or something, but I don't think I have. I think he was distracted by her fiancé stuff after his conversation with Nick.

Yeah, it was nice to see Arizona but having her on for such a small role and basically none of the interns fawning over her like they should be was downright embarrassing. We haven't seen Arizona in years and we get no updates on her and disrespect from the intern class, who only care about getting back in the OR. They're gonna learn nothing from this, at the end of the day. And poor Mika, who did everything she asked and now she has to waste time helping people when she did nothing wrong. Bailey's approach is all over the place. I get her wanting everyone to work as a team but my god, Mika didn't even do anything wrong (as Jules said). I did like seeing Jules' brother. I equally liked seeing Owen berate him for his stupidity in posing as a doctor. I really, really thought they were about to give Richard Alzheimer's in that OR. I'm glad it's just him finally realizing he's about ready to retire.

I know this show has made a lot of weird choices with characters, but I do think they've been extremely respectful of their LGBTQIA+ characters. I really, really can't see them doing an identity crisis/whoopsie we're backtracking. They've baited people for a while now, but now they've gone all in so I don't think they're ever going to move backwards. Plus, it would be completely out of character for Buck to have a freak-out about discovering his bisexuality. He's not the type to go "wait, I kissed a dude? Oh no!" More like, "I kissed a dude? Well, what happens next?"

Honestly, I was gonna say that this 100th episode didn't feel like a 100th episode, minus the stupid Bachelor stuff, until the end. I never ever thought the show would actually go there with Buck, but I'm glad they did. There really have been hints throughout, this isn't just thrown in. I think my expectation is that they wouldn't go there, they'd just present Buck being super-affectionate and comfortable in his masculinity, etc. But I'm very, very glad they went there. I'm glad Bisexual (or Pansexual, that could work too) Buck is now canon. I didn't have any hope for them to do it, but it's good that they actually committed. So, thanks ABC. I doubt Fox ever would have gone there, even with them having so many LGBTQIA+ characters on 911 and Lone Star. I think I'm just mostly happy that the baiting I thought was happening here was actually REAL. Sure, it's no Buck/Eddie, but Buck/Tommy works just as well. I do think, now that they've opened the door, they COULD go there with Buck/Eddie eventually. But even if they never do, Bisexual Buck is all that I've wanted out of this since season 3. As for the rest of the episode, new Harry is probably going to be annoying but the new actor is surprisingly good. I have some hope that this Harry plot could be decent. But I also don't know if it will since Harry kind of caved immediately. Athena having to parent a rebellious and angry teenager would have been interesting to see. It's no surprise, either. Harry's been through a lot. I hope it's a good plot for them both. The cases worked well enough, even if they were minimal. The case with the mother killing her own son accidentally was a small role, but super sad.

To be fair, Robot says they're "pretty sure Moriah doesn't make jury", not that they know for a fact that she doesn't, so there's still a small chance Moriah could be first juror. But still, that does shake up the order that I thought players might go. Charlie making F3 doesn't surprise me, but annoys me. I think because his archetype always makes it too damn far and I was much more intrigued with Ben or even Tevin making F3 instead. Instead, we get another Charlie-type in the finale. Woohoo? But with all of this, now I feel more confident on Kenzie winning and now Maria not winning. Just because, knowing this goddamn cast, they'll credit Charlie with moves, rather than Maria. His edit has basically been screaming that whereas, if Maria was the person in charge in their alliance, she'd get the credit in the edit. Damn, was hoping for the first female winner who's the oldest of the cast. And for a non-Yanu to win, since Yanu's middle school playground behaviour with Jess and Bhanu have really turned me off of them.

I guess the switch to ABC really did give them the budget they needed for this disaster arc. Fox did a good job with the disaster arcs, but no way would they have had the budget to create entire sets not just for the upright cruise ship, but the upside down cruise ship too. I'm not sure if any of the locations were just in a green screen room, but it felt real enough where it was impressive. Out of the three episodes, I liked this one the most because it didn't feel AS campy. I mean, still campy as well with the 118 getting their old firefighter mate Tommy to fly them to Mexico, but still better than the "pirates invade the ship for five minutes and Athena's trying to cartoon run away from her husband" from the first two episodes. Also, less melodramatic acting that I found from the last episode. I'm gonna be real honest, because I've only seen Rick Cosnett in a few roles where he's fully American and have not heard him in interviews, I absolutely thought he was faking an Australian accent for some reason. Turns out, nope, he's just speaking in his natural accent. Oops, I'll have to take back all the thoughts I had about his accent. Sucks for the three deaths, kind of, but they made sense. The first guy was a sacrificial lamb to show that the stakes are high, Wes' death was for that emotional impact (it was either going to be him or the ship's captain and I'm glad they didn't choose her) and Julian's death was for....actually, they really could have just had him badly injured but alive, but I guess it was for redemption. Zero purpose to the 118 all needing to show up for five minutes, but I guess I wish there had been more time with them on the ship. I did have a good laugh at the flight scene, especially the 118's new chant. "Who cares?" The Mom and Kid Ship Alone plot was really just there to add one more obstacle to get to the outside of the ship and to split up Athena and Bobby once more. So I didn't feel one way or the other about it. Overall it was a fun three parter, rough in places and not their best three parter (I think the blackout three parter was a lot weaker than this) but still entertaining and I've taken it for what it is: pure camp. But I don't think this disaster solved Athena's fear of a quiet, disaster-free life with Bobby. If anything, it strengthened the idea that disaster and danger is just part of their lives forever, even if they retire, let's face it. But I'm glad to have seen Bobby get some actual hands-on stuff. There was a point where I thought Peter Krause opted out of the stunt work completely but between some of last season and now this one, I guess he finally got his chance to shine. I'm gonna guess we'll see Norman and Lola together again at some point down the line. I'm mildly curious to see if they can actually work through this.

Not EVEN a nine month old relationship; Nico would have had to decide by month three or four, since their surrogate is 24 weeks along, or whatever. Nico's reasoning sounded insane, honestly. I also don't buy his whole "this new guy lit up my entire world and the choice between having a child with a guy I barely know is better than not being with him at all." Nico doesn't know Jason at all. He went on a date, knowing this guy's preferences with kids and decided he'd just jump right into parenthood and living together so fast. And it's not like either are old; Nico can't be older than his mid-thirties. There's literally no reason to rush into a family situation with a guy he just met online. And bragging it about with Schmitt, not telling his partner about his ex, and not correcting his partner immediately and waiting until they got the elevator? Yeah, as much as this plot annoyed me, at least it solidified these two never getting back together again. Jo's response to Schmitt was funny. Maybe a bit harsh, but funny. And hey, Schmitt in Peds, it's about damn time instead of making us believe he has a career in General Surgery. I'm still iffy on the new Peds Surgeon, Beltran. She's so unlike any of the peds surgeons we've had. They definitely had her a bit more abrupt, a bit more direct in ways, she didn't feel the vibe of a Peds Surgeon, especially not like Arizona or Addison or Hayes. She has more of a General or Trauma vibe to her, but maybe that's just the actress. However, I think by the end of the episode, with her pushing for her patients' needs and doing a great job explaining to Kwan about Peds being about the families first and requesting him for her service because she sees potential, maybe she'll just fit a different mold to Peds. Maybe she'll be more like an Alex Karev than an Arizona Robbins. They're definitely pushing for an Amelia/Beltran relationship which, if it's casual and hate sex, it could be kind of fun. I'd love to see a truly casual relationship that actually stays casual. So, they're determined to make Lucas the worst intern in a long time, right? The way he decided to be so selfish and steal Mika's win, knowing full well she was the only one following the rules AND diagnosed the patient, is just low. All to get back into surgery, even though he was part of the problem? They're regressed Lucas, all because he's upset about Simone? And then Simone decides to have an epiphany and defend Lucas against Mika. Ridiculous, but also, it's kind of fun to see the show truly dedicate their time building these interns' storylines, even if it's in a negative direction. Yawn to the Meredith/Teddy stuff. Of course it's just that simple for her to get some funding. Honestly, Meredith could start her own foundation, at this point, and not need Catherine's money.

To be fair to Maria, I don't think she knew she would side with the men over the women. We did see that scene where she was telling Charlie, her closest ally I guess, that Ben was the vote and Charlie was the one to tell her why it shouldn't be Ben. I think Maria was fully open to keeping Ben AND Jem, but for some reason, everyone wrote Tim off as the official vote. That, and when Jem started behaving weirdly, it made the decision easier. I don't blame Maria either; we've now heard from pretty much all the men that they trust Maria the most, so Maria's been in a lose-lose spot while playing the middle due to how good she is with everyone. Similarly to Charlie, but Maria didn't stand her ground on getting Ben out. Or at least, she should have stuck with pushing more votes on Tim. It's more a shame she listened to Charlie, because his reason to keep Ben as a shield is bullshit; he obviously wants Ben around because he's his next closest ally and would probably prefer Ben and Maria work WITH him.

I think they're on the journey for more than an hour; I think they're gone for a couple of hours. I get what you mean, but I also fully get that Kenzie/Tiffany/Q have not been able to eat more than a coconut a day. As nice as it could have been to wait, I fully understand that they just simply were too hungry to wait. They did still split the food equally, so the good thing is that they didn't just eat almost all the food and only saved Q a little bit. They made sure he got his share when he returned. But I'm not angry at them being a bit selfish when they haven't eaten proper food in 11 days.

I will give a likely reason: because there's a lot of activity during the episodes as people are live chatting, enough where if we merge it all into one thread, discussions will get blurred. Some people, like myself, like being able to read people's thoughts on an episode but want to have discussions (such as quoting) that can get lost when live chatting is mixed in. When the live chat thread is going into multiple pages, I think it's not a bad thing to have separated threads because it makes the overall episode thread cleaner and easier to navigate and easier to have these discussions. In terms of the episode, I very much enjoyed it. I like that Siga went to Tribal, because that tribe was kind of getting TOO much positive content. It was important to see the split within the tribe. Jem was a very messy player, thought she was a better liar than she was and thought she was in control when she wasn't. I really love Maria so I was glad to get to see more of her, but I'm annoyed that Charlie is Siga's main narrator. I wanted to hear more from Maria but we got a whole lot of Charlie. We get a lot of his archetype narrating these new seasons and it's fun for a while but when we see it so many times, it's tiring. I would have loved to see Maria take charge of the narrative instead. Plus, I wanted to hear why Maria decided to burn her extra vote. Part of me thinks maybe it's so that she's not painted as a target come merge, as they know she has an extra vote and this now doesn't give anyone incentive to vote her out. I do love Ben, so I'm glad he's not gone, but none of the women were wrong to clock Ben as a long-term threat. But I also don't know why they chose to only place two votes on Tim. Had he decided not to play his idol and let's say Maria/Charlie decided not to vote Jem out, Tim would have stayed, Ben would have gone, and Tim would have still had his idol. What a bad plan. Venus vs Hunter was a lot funnier than I thought it would be. But it's great to see someone like Venus break her archetype; she was expected to be a social butterfly, turns out she's just an annoying entitled whiny player, but also super oblivious. Yet, for some reason, it didn't annoy me this episode to see her go at it with Hunter a bit. The journey was fine, it was fun to see a new type of challenge about Survivor knowledge and fun that Hunter got it so, so wrong, but annoyed that a bro's alliance formed, even if the duos picked were Tiffany, Maria and then Tevin. But it's also not a bad final 6, if they can make it. I just don't think they can make it. Jeff has got to stop blurring the lines between host and self-insert player. Alas, Jem is gone now, with an idol in her pocket, and now they still think Tim has the idol. I wonder how that'll impact Tim's game going forward. Oh, yeah, Yanu, a tribe we've discussed a lot. I am glad they won their immunity challenge. It isn't fun to see a tribe get decimated due to weak tribemates and no food, no flint, no warmth. So I'm glad they earned a little victory.

So that would mean Soda, Tim and then Q are the next three boots, if this is true. I could see it.

They really need to make it clear in the edits because they've given Siga so little airtime and any airtime they get typically goes to Charlie, or Charlie with someone else.

I agree. There's also been a couple of rumoured spoilers that Tevin is a 0 boot finalist. I think booting Soda over Venus would certainly be the first piece of evidence on why that is and how Tevin may not be as strategically aware of the game as he appears to be. Even if he gets to the end, it's becoming clear why he'll get 0 votes, if that information is accurate. I think she got lucky that some people are looking at Tim as the one who had the actual advantage because she could blame a non-vote on him, if needed. But I haven't seen much evidence that Jem's in such a great spot on her tribe that the lie can hold up for the next few days. I do think that the lie will unravel at some point. I think Jem will slip up and tell someone and immediately become untrustworthy.

So, here's how I see it. Rich entitled dude verbally said that he did not consent to an examination. The team was right smack in the middle of an emergency. He said multiple times he didn't want an examination. Even if Hen had forced an examination after he was cuffed, the dude was dying, anyway. He was dead before he hit the ground, it sounds like. There was literally nothing Hen could have done. He was still fighting the officers who cuffed him. She was right in just focusing her attention on the other people who were harmed at that moment. Chimney certainly could have just examined him himself if he wanted to, but ultimately, the rich dude said he didn't want to be examined and imagine if he was fine and an examination WAS forced on him, he would have sued Chimney/Hen for that. At the time, the only sign he was showing was aggression/agitation but he wasn't bleeding, didn't show any physical signs of trauma, nothing. They still detained him after he refused care. Seeing as this guy didn't care one bit about the victims he injured, and that's likely NOT due to his brain bleed but overall personality (you could tell he had threatened law enforcement once or twice before with implying his family connection to the city), I also fully get why the potential brain bleed wasn't immediately recognized. Hen may have partially been acting emotionally, but she really was also correct in letting the focus be drawn to the victims in the other car. They were the ones who really needed help and the rich dude who caused the crash didn't want to be assessed. The Hen stuff was decent, but probably not necessary just to push Hen into the Bobby/Athena danger ship plot. The Bobby/Athena stuff was overdramatic and the writing/acting when they were trapped in that room with the water filling up was melodramatic, but I've kind of accepted that both Peter Krause and Angela Bassett are just having fun with this series, rather than treating it like a serious TV role. They have earned their pay, so they can do whatever the hell they want with the corny dialogue and the ridiculous plot. I feel like they really could have gotten rid of two subplots and the cruise ship disaster stuff would have flowed a bit better. But, it is overall just a fun plot to watch. It's supposed to be ridiculous, so I'm just having fun with it.