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4 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:
True. But that ended with Violet came into the picture, a girl that actually liked Screech and whom he liked back, and not just as a placeholder for another girl. Again, it’s a sad day when Screech is a better guy that Steve Urkel.
It's sad that there's such an aversion to writing relationships normally on TV because the viewers supposedly hate it.
Guy: I like you
Girl: I like you too
Guy: Let's date!
Girl: Okay!
No, it's always years of dragging it out, being told that two people being at each other's throats equals them wanting to have sex,lots of Disposable Love Interests, lots of misunderstandings, etc, and by the time the couple finally gets together, the viewers are so exhausted and fed up that they don't care.
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3 minutes ago, Mabinogia said:
I wish that were true. Last time I went to a famous city my hotel view was an alleyway between my hotel and the shopping center next door.
I guess I got lucky when I went to Vancouver last year--I got a gorgeous view of the harbor.
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On 3/3/2023 at 2:15 PM, Trini said:
I'm sure it's been mentioned already; but I just saw another instance of the "every hotel room in Paris has a unobstructed view of the Eiffel Tower" trope.
That trope is literally called the Eiffel Tower Effect.
And yes, it's annoying. Someone living or visiting whatever famous city just HAS to a view of whatever famous landmark the city has just outside their hotel/apartment window, even if it would be geographically impossible.
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37 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:
Yes, but at least Lisa called him out on that behavior and told him flat-out that she was never going to feel the same way about him and he needed to get on with his life. And miracle of miracles, he actually listened and that crap was finally put to bed once and for all.
That never happened on Family Matters.
Yes, and then Jesse idiotically tells him "Next time you meet a great girl, don't take "No" for an answer." So he instantly turns his attention to HER and sure enough, he doesn't listen when she tells him "No".
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I just realized it's been thirty years since the fateful Spring Fling.
The show was EXCELLENT that summer. I remember wanting to watch every day.
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4 hours ago, paulvdb said:
think I can only remember one show that actually had a stalkerish character acknowledge their bad behavior and change it. On the Nickelodeon show Bella & the Bulldogs one of the male characters was acting like that towards one of the female characters who was not at all interested in him. In an episode in the second season he ended up on the other side of this with a girl who was interested in him and that made him realize his own bad behavior.
How refreshing. And on a kids show, no less.
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2 hours ago, Mabinogia said:
See, I totally buy that he would be the kind of asshole who puts a different set of standards on young women than on himself and would totally punish a young woman for daring to do a "smutty" film and then get pregnant when her character isn't meant to. If I've learned anything about The Cos, it's that he is a controlling, domineering asshole who doesn't believe in the rights of young women to live how they choose.
Even before the "Cosby's a rapist" stories came out, I'd heard about his ill treatment of Bonet and remembered being very angry that he thought he had any right to be pissed off at how she was living her life, something that was none of his business.
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1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:
Of course, he never got called out on any of that, and yet when Myra pulled the same stunts years later, Urkel treated that as some large Moral Event Horizon and treated her like the evil crazy ex girlfriend.
That's what infuriates me the most about the Stalking Is Love trope--the blatant double standard that when a woman acts like this, she's a nutcase, but when a man does it, he's a hero.
Like on "Wings":
Joe's old crush locking him in a basement and declaring that his and Helen's upcoming wedding is "OUR wedding!" and actually making him act one out?
She's crazy.
Funny, a year prior when Joe basically trapped Helen in an elevator and declared that she couldn't marry her boyfriend because "That's OUR marriage!", we were all supposed to swoon at how romantic it was.
I can tell you right now, I didn't find it romantic when my ex capped off a year of harassment by showing up at my house uninvited and basically held me prisoner for almost three hours while he tried to browbeat me into marrying him. The fact that I'd spent the entire previous year repeatedly telling him to LMTFA was completely irrelevant to him.
1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I would have been scared out of my mind.
Thank you.
I was.
To this day, everytime I hear about some poor girl or woman killed by a man she had the audacity to rebuff--read the webpage "When Women Refuse"--, aside from being sad/angry, I think about how fortunate I was to not have ended up like them.
Back on topic:
I HATE the way cop shows treat IA like they're scum and have no business investigating them. They wouldn't be investigating you without good reason, jackass.
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On 5/10/2023 at 5:31 PM, Mabinogia said:
Boys, men, take no for an answer, and know that relationships are so much more fun when the other person actually likes you
That's the key thing that I've never understood with both fictional and real life examples of stalking. Why are you wasting all this time and energy on someone who has explicitly stated that they don't like you?
Three months into the year that I was stalked by an ex, I wrote him a letter in response to his latest love letter, making it abundantly clear that I wanted him to LMTFA and that his behavior was upsetting me. A few days later, my mother called to tell me that he's shown up at my house (I was away at college) with my letter in hand, hysterically wailing "What does this mean?!", as if I hadn't been completely clear.
For every woman who's been through this, there's a moment when it goes from annoying to scary, and that was it for me. I remember thinking "Oh, my God, I'm never going to get rid of this guy."
I wonder how many TV writers look back and cringe at the kind of things they've written and wonder how much of a bad influence they've had on people
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It's been 30 years since Karen Wexler's abuse storyline kicked off.
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On 4/23/2023 at 7:55 AM, Spartan Girl said:
Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume: Fudge eats Peter’s pet turtle Dribble and their parents rush him to the hospital, leaving Peter in the care of his grandma. Later, when they find out Fudge successfully had his stomach pumped and is fine, Peter understandably wants to find out if his beloved pet is still alive, and his grandma yells at him.
Even back when I was a kid, that part made me so mad. Your grandson’s pet turtle is dead, and you couldn’t even try to break the news to him gently, lady? You just immediately yell at him for asking such a stupid question? Geez!!!
Fine, their main concern is Fudge, but he didn’t just swallow a random object, he swallowed a pet and basically killed it! Even though he was just a toddler and didn’t know any better, that doesn’t change the fact that Peter loved Dribble and deserved more sympathy that his stupid grandmother gave him. She should have at least apologized for it later, and I’m pretty sure she didn’t.
I HATED that little brat Fudge. And I hated the way their stupid mother indulged him to Peter's detriment. It's not the first time she'd let him into Peter's room and he damaged something--he scribbled on a poster he had done for a school project--and she did it again.
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3 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Indeed. His big self-righteous speech in the locker room about respecting women in that episode rang false, since respecting women means actually listening to them and not stalking them. And his attitude back in that season was that he’d keep chasing Laura whether she liked it or not and Myra should just be happy that they’re dating. Respecting women my ass.
Remember that scene where a gang member was making advances to her and kept trying to touch her even though she explicitly said "Don't touch me?" Urkel angrily slapped his hand away, snapping "The lady asked not to be touched."
Yeah, the lady has also been asking you to LHTFA for several years, so. . .
I hate--with ANY show--the way stalking behavior is considered romantic when it's one of the main characters, but dangerous when it's someone else.
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On 5/5/2023 at 12:10 PM, Spartan Girl said:
Yes, you have done a lot of good things for us, which we are extremely grateful for, but if you want to keep being a part of our lives, then you need to start respecting our boundaries, especially Laura's, and give us space. And please stop bringing over your inventions because they always wind up destroying our house."
I hate that episode where he reveals to a locker room full of Eddie's friends that Eddie's a virgin.
Aside from the fact that he had no business even KNOWING this--he learned this from EAVESDROPPING on a private conversation between Eddie and Carl--he had no business telling everyone else. I'm surprised Eddie didn't blast him for doing that.
I hate the Designated Hero trope--person is lauded as a hero even though they're just as bad as the villain, if not WORSE, and I think Urkel's a prime example of that.
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17 hours ago, Yogisbooboo64 said:
Denise Kendall, Navy Wife
Her selfishness knows no bounds in this eppy….because she is afraid of having to care for her husband and stepdaughter (like a frickin’ wife!), she ‘forgets’ to send an agreement letter that would have had the Kendalls moving into an apartment on the base. Martin handled her stupidity better than I would have; I would still be cussing her dumbass out.
Selfishness, stupidity, and cowardice. She KNOWS she didn't send in the housing request, yet she keeps her mouth shut during the whole drive to the base and lets Martin look like an idiot in front of his SO and only then does she speak up.
The Cosby Show really ruined Denise's character. She was a free spirit, but she was INTELLIGENT. They turned her into a complete moron.
On 5/5/2023 at 7:21 AM, Spartan Girl said:didn’t think Steve was as bad in the beginning, perhaps because he was just a kid and we tend to be more forgiving of kids…but maybe that was part of the problem, because once he hit puberty his antics where Laura was concerned only got more obnoxious and at times bordered on sexual harassment.
That's EXACTLY the problem. Then those kids grow up into obnoxious teens/young adults/adults and their parents have the nerve to act shocked and confused as to how that happened.
After the Parkland shooting (where one of the victims was a girl he'd been harassing for months), a woman described a conversation she'd had with her nephew, who'd been turned down by a girl he asked out:
Aunt: You know what to do now, right?
Nephew: Yeah, keep trying.
Aunt: NO. She gave you her answer. LEAVE HER ALONE.
She said he was completely shocked because NO ONE had ever told him that before, then ended her post with a very emphatic "TEACH YOUR BOYS".
Something has to counteract the myriad of TV/movie examples of stalking a girl eventually working out for the best.
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On 4/18/2023 at 11:00 AM, Spartan Girl said:
I still need to see the final one. I keep waiting in vain for someone to post it despite them cracking down on bootlegging. Hell, I wish the producers had done it themselves: if they can post the final chandelier crash, they can certainly give us that final moment!
Cast members keep posting clips on Instagram, so you can search there. Someone posted a wonderful one of the Phantom's disappearance--the actor gazed at the audience for what felt like an eternity before drawing the cloak around himself.
I miscounted. I actually saw it 27 times, not 26.
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I can't find the link to post, unfortunately, but Phantom Of The Opera's Japan production also celebrated 35 years on 4/29.
And Bob Fosse's "Dancin' is going to close on 5/14
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I love this show. I love all the historical and international cases that they feature. I don't love their pitiful California Doubling and how the Australian actors/actresses are pathetically inept at American accents.
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On 10/11/2022 at 12:16 PM, chenoa333 said:
You can't trust anyone anymore. I think most people feel more at ease with females but trust who you know and have known for a very long time. This world is saturated with evil people. Male and female. All ages, shapes and looks.
If evil women didn't exist, there wouldn't be shows like "Deadly Women" and all the other female-themed shows on "Investigation Discovery".
I don't deny that it still stuns me to see that women are just as capable of the same level of cruelty and violence as men are.
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3 hours ago, Bastet said:
The retconning of Carla into every sexist, racist stereotype on the planet was profoundly offensive
Absolutely.
4 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:Either way she treated him like crap but even so it made no sense.
It certainly made her already awful Season 3 behavior--getting pissy when Benton asked if she was sure he was the father, refusing to accept his apologies or let him help, then when she did let him help, getting even angrier that he wasn't at her beck and call every second--look even worse. All that knowing full well he might not be the baby's father and that this wasn't his responsibility in the first place?
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23 hours ago, Notabug said:
But Kerry, always a stickler for the rules, did nothing to secure her parental rights despite this, which allowed Sandy's parents to have the upper hand when it came to custody after Sandy died.
To be fair, I could have sworn there was a line or two about them being in the process of doing so before Sandy died.
23 hours ago, Notabug said:Carol was devastated, and, we the audience were supposed to feel bad right along with her when she couldn't step in an adopt the Russian child just a couple of months after Carol's suicide attempt.
I liked Carol, I almost always did, but even as a kid at the time that episode aired, I wondered how she could have ever thought that was a possibility.
And Tag being vilified for understandably not wanting to instantly be a parent to an ill child, though that's on the personal side, not legal.
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On 4/12/2023 at 12:06 AM, andromeda331 said:
She was very judgmental, a hypocrite and was always cheating on Todd
On 4/11/2023 at 5:44 PM, scarynikki12 said:Elizabeth's awfulness was almost never even acknowledged and downplayed or excused when it was. T
That's exactly why I didn't like her. I found her self-righteous and hypocritical to the point of cruelty.
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One last montage of all the Phantoms and Christines over the years that was shown to the audience Sunday evening:
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This in an interview with two Playbill writers lucky enough to garner invitations to the final performance of Phantom Of The Opera, describing what it was like--the audience applauded EVERY character's entrance and even the appearance of iconic props like the music box and the Christine mannequin, and gave Emilie Kouatchou a standing ovation in the middle of the performance after her rendition of "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" (well deserved. She absolutely blew the lid off it everytime I saw her)
Laird Mackintosh turned and looked at the audience just before the Phantom's disappearance. 😢
https://playbill.com/article/reflections-on-the-final-phantom-of-the-opera-performance
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14 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
From what I read about the final performance, when the Phantom did his “Christine, I love you”, Emile whispered “I love you too.”
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
If you go to YouTube and look up "Phantom Comparison", you will find a skillion versions of many noteworthy scenes, and that one in particular gets the most interpretations. The ones where Christine tries to offer some measure of reciprocation for the Phantom's feelings, or expresses remorse that she can't, are my favorite.
And then there's this one, which many Phans absolutely love. You'll see why at 9:47:
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Tom Jones - General Discussion
in Tom Jones
I'm glad Sophia and Tom got their happy ending after all the rigmarole they went through