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2 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Wow. I haven't even watched The Cosby Show for obvious reasons, but that is infuriating. I fucking hate those sexist tropes that portray woman that way.
I hate sexist (against either gender) tropes period and the Double Standard TV Tropes page is stunning when you realize how many examples there are. The one I cited is an example of The Unfair Sex--if Elvin had acted like that, he'd be denounced as emotionally and potentially physically abusive, but Sondra doing it is humorous and acceptable.
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17 hours ago, Blergh said:
Sounds like virtually the ENTIRE arc of Family Matters re how Laura (as per the studio audience) 'deserved' to be guilt tripped into getting 'worn down' by Urkel since he did a few tiny niceties over the course of nine years instead of considering that he'd been a vandalizing stalker creep who projected his whims on Laura and her entire family and reveled in their discomfort over his actions!
When you consider that many real life women have had to deal with being stalked for an extended period of time (as I've stated several times, my first #MeToo story is of being stalked for a year by an ex-boyfriend who wouldn't accept that I'd broken up with him), the idea that TV would portray a young woman dealing with this for nearly a DECADE as romantic instead of terrifying is sickening.
The "Elvin Pays For Dinner" episode of "The Cosby Show" is utterly enraging. An ex-girlfriend of Elvin's comes to town and the plan is for him and Sondra to have dinner with her. Sondra changes her mind because she's decided to work on her law school application. Elvin IMMEDIATELY declares that he'll cancel and stay home as well. Sondra proceeds to REPEATEDLY insist that Elvin go ahead and go out, over his own repeated insistence that he stay home with her until he finally agrees to go out. Sondra immediately looks upset and when Elvin comes home, screams her head off at him, locks him out of their bedroom and won't talk to him the next day.
Why? Because Elvin wasn't psychic enough to realize that being REPEATEDLY told "Yes, it's okay if you go out" actually meant "No, I don't want you to go out".
It gets even worse the next day when she goes raging about it to her mother, who actually puts her in her place for not being honest with Elvin and expecting him to read her mind. Sondra realizes that she was wrong and actually gets up to go and apologize and Clair promptly negates everything she just said by telling her to sit down--"he was late, the women were attractive, and he paid for their dinner."
So at the end of the episode, Elvin is fawning all over Sondra to make up for the grievous offense of not being able to read her mind, and Sondra is just lapping it up with nary an apology for what SHE did wrong in not being honest and clear with him.
So the only lesson learned is that Elvin has to know that if Sondra says "Yes", she really means "No". Sondra doesn't have to learn to be honest and not play mind games with him.
INFURIATING.
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On 5/28/2022 at 8:42 PM, racked said:
I’m rewatching the Cassadine/Spencer saga of the 90s on YouTube and he truly was awful. Irrational and abusive to Laura and Nikolas
I remember a woman commenting that if her husband had reacted like that when the child she gave up for adoption (but never told him about) had contacted her, it would have broken her heart.
On 5/28/2022 at 11:25 PM, racked said:Unrelated but I also forgot Laura faked her death again in late 1996, and Nikolas had to mourn her. She really didn’t mind screwing him over.
She was pretty terrible to him. I mostly liked Laura, but she really worked that Designated Heroine trope.
On 5/30/2022 at 11:34 PM, SlovakPrincess said:Yeah, at a certain point Luke is not just keeping the secret out of some disingenuous plan to spare Bobbie's feelings (about the fact that her daughter is awful and now sleeping with Bobbie's husband) ... at one point he basically uses the secret to blackmail Carly into getting info for him on Stefan. He's ridiculous
He could really be a jerk.
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Hallmark is starting their "Christmas In July" marathon on June 24, with three new movies, officially making it clear that they intend to make this just as much a phenomenon as their actual Christmastime marathon.
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True to form, Hallmark will be starting its "Christmas In July" marathon. . .on JUNE 24. The fact that there are three new movies in the lineup created especially for this cements the fact that they're making this just as much a phenom as their "Countdown To Christmas".
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I caught the series finale of "The Fugitive" a few weeks ago and the realization that the Kimble's neighbor knew all along that he was innocent but didn't say anything because (a) He didn't want to admit to what a coward he was to stand there and do nothing while Helen Kimble was murdered, and (b) He wanted to avoid gossip about being over at their house, is infuriating.
You let an innocent man be tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and then go on the run for 4 years because protecting your reputation was more important? You PRICK. And then having the nerve to claim that it's his wife he was trying to shield. I'm glad she called him out on his bullshit.
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On 4/22/2022 at 8:37 PM, Zonk said:
The nanobot part didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The russian scientist worked in a bio weapon facility (they talked about weaponised small pox), the "factory" where they "made the nanobots" looked like a vat where you'd grow bacteria or viruses and it should be realtively easy for anybody to get rid of the bots. So the dilemma at the end wasn't really one. Just stick Bond into an MRI for a few minutes, done.
Then it dawned on me. This was supposed to be a virus originally and they changed it because of the pandemic, making it completely nonsensical.
The movie was written and filmed before the pandemic--the trailer came out in December 2019.
You're still right about the villain's plot being goobledygook.
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Season 4 is my favorite too, because it's when Doug and Carol reconciled and I just loved seeing them happy together.
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On 5/4/2022 at 10:11 AM, Rootbeer said:
Abby's insistence that the mother and baby remain in the noisy, busy ER rather than be moved to the labor floor or postpartum unit was idiotic, too. There are undoubtedly areas set aside for just that type of situation, where the parents could've had a peaceful, quiet, pleasant environment to spend time with their child and had staff attending them with specific training in the area of helping parents through the loss of an infant. This was the start of Abby's downhill slide into being the expert at all times about everything and everyone while repeatedly demonstrating that she was completely wrong about most things.
I remember being taken aback at her defying Dave, who, for all his incompetence, had more authority than her, about emptying the trauma room, especially considering that there was a trauma coming in and the way she was ordering everyone else in the ER around as well.
I was just coming to post about Aylward's death:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ers-john-aylward-dead-75-182441028.html
For the most part, I liked Dr. Anspaugh.
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45 minutes ago, JeanJean said:
One of my favorite things is how Colin describes the Mitch McConnell picture all the time.
I think my favorite was "watching a child get into a stranger's car".
The "Boyfriend/Errand" skit was terrific.
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12 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:
Would you allow your children or grandchildren to be alone with this man?
Talk about an Armor Piercing Question.
It never fails to sicken me how whenever someone is accused of a sexual crime, people will rally behind the accused rather than the victim. I can understand the cognitive dissonance somewhat--"But he's such a nice guy! I can't imagine that he'd do something like this!"--but it's still stunning. They KNOW that he did these despicable things and yet they still insist on waxing rhapsodic about what a wonderful man he is. It's frightening to think that someone could walk in on him outright molesting a child and probably still make excuses for him.
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Newsflash, Mr. Burton.
You're married to a pregnant woman. Legally speaking, that child IS yours, even if not biologically.
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Some news:
Jordan Donica will be returning to the part of Raoul on May 29 (I'm not sure for how long), so for a while, we'll have a black Christine and Raoul, like in London.
And Kanisha Marie Feliciano will become the FOURTH black actress to play Christine when she joins as the Christine alternate/understudy.
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On 3/31/2022 at 10:08 PM, Grinaldi said:
And now I have triggered myself. Thanks?
Well, you've certainly triggered me. That storyline was SO. . . ICKY. And it made Felicia (already not the sharpest knife in the drawer) into this utterly moronic slut--she kept ditching her husband and kids to run around with Luke, then whined about them all hating her.
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On 4/19/2022 at 12:02 AM, methodwriter85 said:
It's also funny to remember that All My Children really was consistent with having a "teen scene" all throughout it's entire run-
Yes, they were, and I liked that. They're one of the few shows that nailed it consistently.
As far as Hayley, I remember her and Brian going to the prom in 1992, but they had to attend summer school because of the time that they'd missed what with the whole Will Cortlandt thing. That said, I'm pretty sure she never went to college, so indeed, her running a multi-million dollar company was highly unlikely, failing algebra or not.
This all makes me realize how much I really hate the way soaps played games with the time frames of people's ages and their education.
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2 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
That's tonight's episode The Curious Case of Sherri Papini. I wonder if they'll add the divorce filing to the story?
I just finished watching it and yes, they did.
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Sherri Papini's husband has filed for divorce, so I think it's safe to say that he genuinely didn't know she faked everything:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sherri-papinis-husband-files-divorce-204610529.html
What a sick woman to let your loved ones suffer, thinking God only knows what has happened to you, all while you're canoodling with your lover and beating yourself up to make your bs story sound plausible.
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On 4/15/2022 at 11:28 PM, Kel Varnsen said:
The only thing I really hated about the finale was here is Alexis Bledel, who has never been on the show before getting a major plotline. What was that all about?
On 4/16/2022 at 12:41 AM, txhorns79 said:The only thing I could think was the idea of the episode was a few callbacks to the beginning of the series (i.e. someone has their first day and amazing things happen) and the idea that life will continue at County regardless of whether we see
On 4/12/2022 at 2:02 PM, GiandujaPie said:hate it when TV shows act like the final episode has to be that the cast all leave their jobs. It's not true to life and I liked how ER showed that life just keeps going.
I figured that too. It's a nice bookend to the series premiere. I don't know why they decided to cast such a well known actress for a one episode part, but it's fitting that the first episode was the first day for a new medical student, while the last was the first day for a new resident.
I loved the whole "life goes on" aspect of the show too. ER wasn't the kind of show that needed to end with everyone getting married and/or quitting and/or moving away and the hospital closing down. We came in in the middle of the action and we left the same way.
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According to this, Lizzo is indeed the first host to introduce herself as musical guest.
I don't know why the link didn't post.
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Is this the first time that a host doubling as the musical guest has introduced themselves?
This is the first musical performance that I've watched in eons and I LOVED it.
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Lizzo is GORGEOUS. The epitome of a Big Beautiful Woman.
And she's funny. The latest musician to prove that they're also a talented comedian.
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4 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
The only think Papini, and her husband are sorry about is getting caught. I hate that she wasn't charged with a hate crime for claiming the kidnappers were Latinas, leading to massive pressure to find suspects in that community.
I'm so sick of criminals pulling the "A (random non-white) person did it" crap.
Did the husband know all along or did he learn or figure it out later? Because he seemed genuinely shaken and horrified by how bruised and battered she was when she was found.
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Sherri Papini has plead guilty and given the usual weepy "I'm so sorry" speech.
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Has anyone seen the new production of Macbeth? I want to take my father for Father's Day, but I've seen some pictures and it looks like a modern day version and I'm not sure he'd like that, even if the original dialogue is kept.
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So did I. I'm glad it was her and not LL Cool J as was originally planned, and I know she was ultimately responsible for everything, but it's not like she was some cold-hearted Corrupt Corporate Executive who thoroughly deserved to die. She sincerely believed in what she was doing and actually HAD made legitimate progress in her research.