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It just occurred to me that in 9 seasons, absolutely none of the single Reagans has dated anyone seriously enough to bring them to dinner. I'll bet the reason the marriage started to fall apart is because Jack began to chafe at always having to go.

Exactly. Nobody ever feels sick and wants/needs to stay home? Not only that, it's implausible that Linda, a nurse, and Danny and Jamie, could consistently get Sunday afternoon/evening off. And if Danny and Jamie are able to do because their father is the PC, that is grossly unfair to the thousands of other cops who surely would like to spend Sunday with their families too. Does anyone else think that this family spends WAY too much time together? Dinner every Sunday, Frank and Erin have lunch once a week, plus a skillion other events? I'm glad they don't all hate each other like so many other TV clans, but YEESH.

Viki! Henry needs to hit the gym. Do I sense a December December Romance for him?

I've never understood that about con artists. Why do they keep going? Don't they know they're going to get caught eventually? FYI, the fake heiress Anna Delvey may have ripped off McFarland--she crashed at one of his places for months without giving him a dime for rent. That's a nice bit of karma.

That's mind-blowing. Whereas the Frye Festival and his "Magnises" ventures could be seen as something he was legitimately trying to do before it all went to hell, selling tickets to things that there aren't tickets for is a flat-out con.

Me neither. I was completely lacking in sympathy for her about that--she rushes into marriage, rushes into baby-making, goes completely overboard in her efforts to have a kid, but by all means, it's Trey's fault that the marriage fell apart. And I really hated her hypocrisy--she blabs about their fertility problems to complete strangers, but blasts Trey for confiding in his mother? (Who's an overbearing pain in the ass, albeit) Exactly. The dreaded Good Girls Avoid Abortion trope. How does someone who explicitly states, "I can't have a baby, I could barely find the time to schedule this abortion." suddenly decide she's happy to be pregnant? That was awful. Much like Steve, she treats him like crap and acts like she can't stand him, but the minute she sees he's happy with someone else, decides she wants him back, then two seconds after sleeping with him, is all "I don't want to be monogamous", then has the gall to act shocked when he finally gets fed up with her and tells her off--kudos to him for that. It did get ridiculous after a while.

I wonder if this will be new stuff or a rehashing of his best bits from when he was on?

The Dark Angel one is incredibly creepy, with Tony lurking in the background. Ironic, as its not until the next book that he tries to rape her. For some reason, I like the If There Be Thorns one.

Me too. I actually looked them all up, because by the time I started reading them, they didn't open up like that. I had a real Fridge Horror moment at the thought that years later, some kids might be snooping around or some realtor might be exploring the place, only to come across Cathy's remains.

I cringed at the part where Thenardier offered Cosette to Valjean--"Would you like her in here with you?" Quite the Fridge Horror moment--have they been pimping her out along with all the other abuse they subject her to?

I went into the 1998 version expecting the musical and was sorely disappointed. And even after I realized that it wasn't intended to be, I still couldn't like it very much, probably because I was so used to the Broadway show. I didn't like how many things were changed or left out. Something that seems to have inevitably happened with every adaptation.

I didn't really like the second episode, but the third, last night, was excellent. That bit with Javert and his squad chasing Cosette and Valjean through the streets was just as nail-biting as in the book. I always wish the musical didn't leave it out.

And the worst part is, there's never any further discussion. Even though most of their Season 4 scenes imply that they still care about each other, it never leads anywhere.

"The Boogie Man" Yikes. Not that I blame Martin for being fed up with Samantha, but DAMN he was cold. Did he even look at her when he broke it off? Ouch. Once again, I curse the stupid writers. Two years of build up for it to just end like that? ☹️ "Showdown" It figures Danny would say "At least we're ending the day on an up note" two seconds before gunfire erupts. Speaking of whom, he was on fire in this episode. I know I joked about him being in love with Martin, but aside from that, his reactions and behavior were pitch-perfect--his horror when he saw that he'd been shot, the way Jack has to drag him away to let the paramedics work, the hysterical way he's babbling, refusing to let the doctor treat him because he's so worried about Martin, and being so hell-bent on killing Martin's assailant that he gets out of control and almost kills an innocent person--he nailed it. Kudos to his actor. As an aside, Samantha's horrified look when she saw how much blood he'd lost was also well done, as was the final scene at the hospital.

There's "strong and silent" and then there's "I've built a fucking concrete wall around myself". Or boat, rather. Have you seen the previews for next week's episode? It's time for a new spin-off. NCIS: Retirement Home

You're right. It doesn't jibe with the reclusive personality we've seen.

So do the special effects. Remarkable even now, but especially in 1956.

I was going to post the same thing.

No, she wasn't. There's also Lara Macy (their interactions in the back-door pilot for NCIS:LA heavily imply a prior relationship or strong feelings at least)

I am an African-American female and I am NOT offended by the Ancestry.com ad featuring an interracial couple. I am fully aware of the US' ugly racial history, but I don't think the commercial is trying to romanticize or downplay it all. The very fact that the guy mentions them fleeing to Canada--as many such couples had to do--indicates that they're not dismissing it at all.

I mentioned this in "Tropes I Hate" thread--people walking away unscathed from things that should have killed or at the very least, seriously injured them. Case in point, the other night I was watching a repeat of a "Without A Trace" episode which featured the Steel Eardrums trope--An FBI agent gets into a car to negotiate with a kidnapper holding a young boy hostage. The man finally agrees to let the boy go, but then prepares to kill himself. In the ensuing struggle, the gun goes off. No one is affected by the noise when in real life, all of them—especially the child—would have been in agony, if not outright deafened.

I'm going to cut them some slack on that one--(1) The body was probably so mangled that it was misidentified, and (b) Ziva strikes me as someone who would have been so Crazy Prepared that she would have had a dead body stashed in the freezer in case she needed to fake her death and escape.

You should go to the TV tropes page and enjoy all the snarking.

I'm trying to figure it out myself. It's a shame, because this show is usually excellent with its continuity, but they've botched this one. How the hell does ANY of this work? His wife and daughter were killed in 1991 and the show premiered in 2003. In twelve years, he was able to squeeze in three failed marriages plus two more failed relationships with Jenny and now this woman? On a soap opera, this would be perfectly normal, but it's not clicking here.

ANOTHER dead love for Gibbs? This is practically becoming a Running Gag.