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On 5/20/2018 at 12:05 AM, Irlandesa said:
I also liked-ish or at least appreciated Lily. She was what Sonny needed in a wife.
I thought so too. I remember a soap magazine saying that the reason that the triangle had so much potential is that the two women were polar opposites--Brenda the spitfire vs. Lily who's been raised to be the perfect Mafia wife--be loving, dutiful, and don't ask questions.
I always hated Blair. Mostly because she was always such a bitch to characters I liked--Luna, Marty, etc.
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I didn't necessarily "love" Lily, I just didn't hate her the way everyone else did. Probably because in yet another unpopular opinion, I was never a big Sonny and Brenda fan.
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I love Binchy's books, but this makes me realize how often her female characters passively accept their man's infidelity. Lena is terrible. She just sits there and waits until he comes back one day and she just matter-of-factly prepares his dinner as if he'd only been gone to work that day.
Sometimes the man isn't even hers--Rosemary Ryan of Tara Road spends years having an affair with her best friend's husband, yet again does nothing while he cheats on BOTH of them, even eventually leaving the friend for his pregnant girlfriend. Ironically, while this makes the wife fed up enough to divorce him, Rosemary continues to remain his side dish.
Pathetic.
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Speaking of godawful Sweet Valley High parents, Emily Mayer's father (in the book Nowhere To Run) is a fucking asshole. After years of his daughter being a good girl, he's willing to believe all the lies his bitch of a wife tells him about her? To the point of throwing her out of the house because he thinks she tried to hurt her baby sister instead of saving her from choking? Speaking of whom, her stepmother is who the term "wicked stepmother" was made for--always screaming at her and criticizing her and making the poor girl's life hell. The scene where Emily slaps her (to get the choking baby away from her and do the Heimlich) is terrific, because most readers chose to think Emily was enjoying getting a little revenge on the bitch.
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Not a pairing, per se, but a golden opportunity for a Cord/Blair/Todd/Rebecca quadrangle was missed in 94-95. Especially since that seemed like the set up before Rebecca was sent out of town and Blair/Todd became the next big thing. It would have been glorious--Blair and Todd each genuinely torn between someone who genuinely makes them want to be a better person and someone who accepts them as they are.
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I loved Luna. Maybe I just have a thing for characters everyone else hates, because I liked GH's Lily too.
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The episode with the woman who kidnapped a baby and tried to pass it off as her own in order to hang on to her husband was a TV movie in the early '90's. What a small world.
I loved Kenda cracking a smile as he declares that's the only time he's gotten a truly happy ending to a case.
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Count me in among those who was still thinking/hoping that the affair was a cover story and that Jake would resurface later in the season to reveal/explain that. I was so bummed otherwise.
I still wonder why the writers went that route, whether they planned it from the beginning or had to just hurriedly write him off because Bamber wasn't available. Either way, it didn't feel right.
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Finally joining the website to chime in and echo the sentiments of those who think this sucked. We knew Qasim for all of ten minutes, so his death and Bishop seeking revenge on his behalf fails to have any emotional impact. Indeed, it would have worked much better had that been Jake (as much as it would have sucked to have yet another Jamie Bamber character killed off). And the time frame of their relationship makes it implausible that they could have been together long enough to be discussing marriage--and to the first guy she dated after the divorce? Highly unlikely.
I don't dislike Bishop as much as the rest of you do, though I do find her dull, but this attempt at developing her and giving her the same tragic love life that nearly everyone else has falls flat.
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Coming a year late after finally joining the website to count me among those who could care less about Qasim's death. I don't mean to be cruel/callous, but we barely knew the guy. This is what, his second episode? When Jenny/Jackie/Diane were killed, we FELT IT. They'd been on-screen for years, their relationships with Gibbs/Vance were well established, and we were invested in them. This? Nothing. While I would have hated to see yet another Jamie Bamber character get killed off, it would have had a hell of a lot more emotional impact had that been Jake. Between her divorce and now this, it feels like the writers are rushing to give Bishop the same tragic love life that nearly every other character on the show/TV has. And it's fallen flat.
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It's almost three years too late, but having just joined this website, I'm finally posting to count myself among those who thought Jake was lying about the affair in order to somehow protect Ellie from something even worse. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it, because I seriously thought I was crazy or imagining things--did anyone else notice that when she asked him "Were you with her last night?", he didn't answer? I took that as a HUGE clue that he was lying. His "confession" sounded very forced and rehearsed, IMO. I was sorry disappointed when the follow up revealed otherwise, and even then, I still expected an eventual revelation that he'd lied about it. You ever watch a show and get the feeling the writers had something planned and nixed it for some reason?
I hate that they ruined Bishop's marriage. And for what? To get her started on having the same screwed up love life that nearly everyone else on the show/TV has?
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Much like the predecessor, I've been reading for a while before finally deciding to join the website and post.
Just when you thought Jamie Bamber couldn't get any sexier, he puts on a pair of glasses. Yowza. If only that had been the only thing he was wearing.
I've loved his "adorkable" characterization of Jake. It was rather amusing to see him be so squeamish with the dead body after Bamber spent several years playing a cop on LOUK.
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Indeed. Of all the possible marathon topics, why would they choose that one?