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This show scared the ever-loving crap out of me. Which is fun sometimes. The chief of police lady is great. The character has a sense of humour and a great spidey-sense. Oh, please don't kill off poor old grandpa. I thought when they were all trying to get out of the basement window, he'd be left behind and grabbed by the aliens or whatever the hell the evil presence turns out to be. Now I'm guessing that maybe the little girl will somehow miraculously cure him of his illness with her special powers. I'll tune in again, as long as we get some well thought-out plots. I don't mind suspending disbelief a bit in the name of a nice bit of fantasy with these types of shows, but good writing is what will keep me coming back. Seriously - if I ran into that little girl in the dark somewhere, I'd run screaming in the other direction. Brrrrrrr.

Me too! Phoebe: "I've got the pox!". Charlie Sheen character: "Chicken, or small?". Ha. Ah, Joey's hand twin, whom he "discovered" on the trip to Vegas. Yes, it was mucho stupid. But had some good moments. Phoebe: "I'm Regina Phalange; I'm a businesswoman, in town on business". And...it did have Thomas Lennon as the guy running the game at the casino. "If you leave now, I'll cut off my hand and give it to you", delivered in his priceless nervous but deadpan style. He was in the Odd Couple remake with Matthew Perry a few years back.

I totally thought bare-butt boy was Kevin Jr.....it never occurred to me that he was GrownUpBabyJack. Seriously, until the scene with SmallBabyJack in Kate's arms at the doctor's office, it did not sink in. I found it a bit much that (Grandpa)Jack would tell his life story at the dinner table at the country club. I figured he'd come back from the restroom and say something about the war...but that was not the place for a soliloquy on your little brother, your abusive parents, etc. How would that make a good impression on your girlfriend's family? Not that it excuses their snobby behavior. It's just like, know your audience, man. I think I really missed my Tuesday night emotional roller-coaster fix over the summer, so now that the show is back, I found that all through the hour, with all these new unfamiliar characters milling about, I was willing to just go with it (i.e. lay on the couch like a lump and let it wash over me, LOL). I wasn't that fussed that one entire episode was used to jam these folks in...just hoping they're skillfully weaved in on future episodes without taking them over. My feeling is, how do you keep expanding the characters without drawing in new experiences? One way is by building onto existing characters or plot threads and that means bringing in new people sometimes. Yes, I know sometimes it feels like they're cramming them down our throats. Malik, the young teen father....I swear I thought he was 12 in his first scene. How old is he supposed to be, maybe 14 or so (how old is Deja?). When his mom made a comment about the baby waking up through the night, I totally thought the baby was Malik's little sister...totally bowled over that he was her daddy. Please God, let Malik not get involved in drug running and inadvertently drag Deja in with him....I hope that's not where they are going with this. Instead I hope she is a good influence on him and they have a relatively uncomplicated teen romance (but not a super-cheesy one). Did we see Deja as a grown up in the Season 3 finale? I wonder what happens to her...I loved her grinning face as she went home after the BBQ and loved Randall's and Beth's bemused faces as she strolled by them.

I suppose I found it reasonably funny...because the whole scene is meant to show how sure Ross usually is of being right. He thought out a plan to bring the sofa up the stairs, drew a sketch ("that's my ARM!"), and roped his friends into participating. He was so sure of being right that he didn't see what was plain to the rest of us, i.e. ain't no way that sofa is getting up those stairs, no matter how smart you think you are or how many times you shriek, "PIVOT! PIV-OT!").

Oh yeah!!! The high talker! LOL. Good times.

That's Kelly Coffield. I remember her from In Living Color way back in the 90s. She used to have longer hair, I think.

I gotta say, Christine Elise is growing on me. She has always grated on my nerves in the past (and her hairstyle and fashions in this series are giving me mad 80s and 90s flashbacks), but she is funnnnnny. She fearlessly brings the snark...I'm liking it. The girl who auditioned after Jennie's daughter...was a little weird (no offense to the actress). She just came off as...I don't know. But I still don't think she's the stalker. I'm with those who think it's got to be a former cast member...right now, anybody's a candidate, in my view. Agree with those who feel Shannen is not bonding with the cast so much...I feel like she's talking AT them sometimes, instead of to them. But hey, their real-life relationships aren't perfect either, from what we've heard, so I'm willing to cut her a break. It would be different if this were a long-term series - I would expect to see more cast cohesion as a viewer (though she should still be allowed to be herself). Hmmm...Lindsay Price as Zach's mother? Maybe. But Zach does not physically resemble either Brian or Lindsay, in my opinion, so it would be stretch. I think it's someone we've never seen before, maybe an offscreen girlfriend or a hookup that the fictional BAG had back in the day. By the way...I am loving BAG more and more each episode. He is so relaxed yet present in the scenes and makes them look effortless...and did I mention he subtly brings the sexy?? The red-haired writer girl is pinging my Brat-mobile hard. I get that it's hard to be taken seriously as a younger person and you have to learn to stand your ground. But you either have gravitas naturally (some people do), or you need to earn it honestly...she is not there yet. Too bratty. Although her hair is lovely. She is also too young for Ian, by the way, in case they're leaning in that direction (show, please don't lean in that direction!). Did I understand the episode correctly - did the writer sit in Ian's car and rewrite the script (after watching the secret videotapes Ian had sent her from his phone) - I mean, she sat there and rewrote an entire script hunched over a laptop in a car, and then magically made 6 photocopies and brought them inside?

Hey...this is waaaay out there, but does anyone else think that Brian's new stalker/assistant might not be a stalker nor the person mailing the dismembered dolls, but that it's...wait for it...Jennie's Bodyguard guy? Or is my radar way off? I just thought he seemed to conveniently be all over the place whenever Jennie turned around...a real "sidler", as Elaine Benes might put it. So either Brian was cray-cray giving the keys to his house (and life) to CouldBeStalkerBoy, or that was just a red herring and the doll-dismemberer was someone else entirely.

This times a thousand. I would rather subtle reminders of Luke here and there (not here and there, and there, and there, and there......). Like a tiny classy twist of freshly ground pepper on your salad. I don't have to be hit over the head with it.

Agree that the writing on the original 90210 wasn't likely to bring out anyone's Oscar-winning performances. But I'm just expressing that I personally haven't been particularly struck by the work of the other actors over the years, Luke Perry being the exception (he always had more "there", there). Not to diminish what they've done in the intervening years at all, though, and I can't pretend I've seen everything they've done. Just a personal preference. For me, as another poster described above, they all seem to be better at playing themselves at the moment (granted, somewhat fictionalized version of themselves) than their characters and they all seem to be carrying some life baggage (in a good way), which has made them all more interesting for me to watch this time around.

"It didn't seem like Jill or Amy were lacking in money (even if not their own from a job), both were quite spoiled by the men in their lives: Jill her father, and Amy the old men she would be with. Dr. Green spoiled the girls extravagantly. Rachel said at one point she was given a boat because her pony was sick. And Jill bought the boat that got her cut off for her friend, leading Chandler to comment, "Boy, did we make friends with the wrong sister." It's very plausible that the cabin was a gift to one of Rachel's sisters." Agree with above...but...although yes, Rachel's family was rich because her dad was a successful surgeon, I'm not sure they were Rockefeller-rich. Plus wasn't Rachel the eldest sister? If so, why would the younger sister have a cabin in the Poconos and Rachel wouldn't have anything? Grrr with the inconsistencies.

I am surprised (is it weird to say delighted?) at the quality of acting by all the leads. Gabrielle Carteris is a revelation - so believable and compelling - that scene with her husband was beautiful and moving. Tori and Jennie crack me up - they are so natural and present during their scenes. Jason is very good and shows a welcome vulnerable layer to his character. Brian is really good - he is way underrated, I think, and has come a long way from the squirmy little creep he used to play. Sensitive and sexy, yum. I don't care much for the actress playing Brian's wife Shay - she didn't seem to have a connection with him in their scenes and I felt she was talking at him, not to him. Maybe she's just a bit green. Plus would the character have her backup dancers rehearsing at her home??? I've loved the glimpses of Shannen we've gotten so far and can't wait to see her in more scenes starting next week - looking forward to see what she'll bring to the table and what her interaction will be like with the other actors. Ian - I can take or leave; always found him smarmy and offputting...but hen the show wouldn't be complete without him. And I must say - he looks fabulous for 55! LOL. Never been a fan of the Emily character (and perhaps unfairly, of the actress who played her - I guess I associated her too closely). But all in all - I am geeking out over this show and love seeing people closer to my age still rocking it (um...rocking it....does that make me sound old??). Can't wait till next Wednesday!

Meg often works my last nerve in terms of what she says. I don’t agree with most of it, and she is a bit of a pampered princess…and I wish she would get rid of those damn blue notecards and stop spewing statistics. I wish she wouldn’t see things in black & white all the time. I wish she wouldn’t sneak in those last minute, under her breath comments when Joy’s speaking, etc. I wish she would stop saying “Democrats need to…” and start saying “Republicans need to…”. (I also have a laundry list of what I wish the other View hosts would not do, but I won’t get into that just now). Having said that - I must say I don’t have it in me to criticize her appearance (in relation to her weight). Women go up and down in size, and if we’re skinny, it’s not always because, say, we only smoke and never eat, for example, or because we can’t tear ourselves away from the gym, and if we’re chunky, it’s not always because we are scarfing down food 24/7, or because we don’t care about ourselves. Weight is a complex issue. Maybe she “eats” her feelings – maybe she doesn’t. It hurts a bit to feel the glee in the air when we say things like “her habits are gonna catch up with her”, “she soon won’t be able to get up on that stool”, etc. If you’ve ever had this said about you, you might think, “what does the size of my behind have to do with anything?”. I get vitriol when it’s directed at a person’s (asinine) comments, but not when it’s directed at their body. Especially when it’s couched in fake concern for their health. I guess maybe this belongs in the Meg thread, now that I think of it…wait, did I just write a paragraph in defense of Meg? LOL.

Preach! Who runs for councilman in a place he/she doesn't live? I understand his wanting to get involved, but then I think you need to move your life there (not that I think they should move their life there, I'm just saying). On point 4 above, I love our girl Beth…but she has to own some part of this (not that I liked Randall’s speech to her in the least). Definitely when she started getting the feels about dancing again, she and Randall needed to do the hard work of figuring out details right then – like, be really specific: “Ok, so we’ll be on one salary again, and neither of us will be around for the kids as much as we would like; what are we gonna do about it?”. I'm among those who totally thought that Randall's speech to Beth was going to end in "I'm going to quit the councilman job". However that would not have been fair to the people who voted for him, either. Talk about dicking people around.

I too have laughed out loud several times each episode I have watched. "Let me get you a chair...Move, Frank!". This has actually happened to me, except it was with the slippers I was wearing...My mom: "Aunt Gina, you're barefoot, let me get you some slippers...(threatening whisper to me: Give your aunt your slippers!"). (We're one of those slipper-wearing families; we used to have a basket of new, clean slippers in the front hall closet to offer guests...I kid you not. But we're talking like-minded, slipper-wearing guests, mostly relatives, who also had said baskets in their homes, so it wasn't that weird. Kind of). Anyway, I digress. I gotta say...that Peggy is funny, but cold. I actually hate the comedic premise of parents setting their kids against each other and playing mind games with them. I had to look away during those parts. I'm thinking she's putting an imprint on her sons that may not serve them well when they grow up and have their own relationships and have to deal with real feelings. I love the actress, but the character rubs me the wrong way most of the time. Will I still watch? Yup!! I love those boys.

Yes, I get your point, but adults don't always make the best choices. I think there is something to be said for keeping work and after-work life separate (I know there are exceptions and am not by any means saying don't have fun....but to me, a boss is a boss and not your special I-saw-your-undies-pal. I would never want anyone to have that kind of power over me in the workplace where I go to earn my daily beans, you know?. Your mileage may vary). I'm not concerned about Darlene's relationship ending (besides, they're not in a relationship yet, in my opinion). I'm concerned that a single parent with very few job prospects quits her previous job and lucks into another...and then sleeps with the boss. If it all goes pear-shaped, as the Brits say, what if she loses her job? Or finds it so horrible to be in the same room that she quits? I agree with BeachDays' suggestion that Darlene doesn't necessarily like or want Ben, but wants to be in a relationship of some kind. I get it. Life gets lonely sometimes and we all don't live by the same rules. But can Darlene not show us some growth? I get that she's a sitcom character and that I shouldn't really be yelling at the TV.

How about if next time Darlene and Ben (two grown-ass people) get to know each other a wee bit before the filthy desk business happens? Then there might be less chance of them being surprised by the no-shoes-in-the-house, don't-salt-my-food policies, or the you-must-drink-red-wine imperatives. They are essentially two strangers AND they work together, two reasons why they should both have cut each other a little slack on this first social gathering. If you just want to have the odd bonging session and not get serious, that's fine, but make up your mind. (and P.S. Darlene, you dummy, don't sleep with your boss, sigh). I’m liking having Becky on the show and am waiting to see where this motherhood thing takes her. She is way more messed up than I ever expected this character to be and I don't know where she's going to end up from week to week. But I’m not always loving the actress, Lecy…and no offense to her. I just find her so over the top…like she shouts her lines AT her fellow actors, not to them, you know what I mean? With a really weird affect. It’s so jarring. I thought maybe it might be that she was away from acting for a long time and needed time for the kinks to be smoothed out. But now I remember that she kind of always had that acting style. Anyway, overall I'm still glad she's there. I'm glad they seem to have dialed down Jackie's over-the-top craziness since the first season...I couldn't stand to see her on screen those first few shows last season. I have to keep telling myself this is a reboot and that I just have to accept that there will be differences in the characters. To be honest, I wasn't sure I'd like the show without Roseanne (not that I thought she by herself brought anything special to last season - the character was too uneven for me, and besides I loved the original incarnation of Roseanne from way back). But I am getting enough laughs from The Conners that I'll stick with it for now.

While it can be hard to watch when an ensemble show suddenly focuses on one character only (you keep expecting them to cut to one of the other main characters), and while I don’t usually enjoy army stuff (I’m a wimp), I’m glad I stuck with the episode. I don’t necessarily want to see tons more like it, but if Kevin is going to persist in “getting to know his dad”, then I think this illuminating background episode was necessary. Let us hope that Kevin doesn’t end up making it all about himself. We shall see. Some folks here commented with their takes that “we get it, Jacks’s a superhero who can do no wrong, how boring”, and I have to say that my thoughts are different. Jack’s empathy and sense of protectiveness are one part of the equation, ones I feel he was born with, whereas his life circumstances (abusive parent, unhappy moments) are the other part of the equation. I feel that rather than feeling a rush from being an empowered superhero, Jack always felt this burden to try to fix the things and people around him. That is a heavy load to carry, man. Not something that brings you joy. If people want to put that superhero label on you, is that your fault? On the subject of the physical resemblance (or lack thereof) of the little kid Jack and grown-up Milo, I have to say the kid actor’s deep brown eyes and gentle strength to me channeled Milo. When first little Nicky and then little Jack came into the kitchen when the dad was beating up the mom, and little Jack looked up at his dad with equal parts bravery and terror, I totally bought that this was the same character as grown-up Jack. I may be a little biased, because grown-up Jack, with the dark soulful eyes and modest height, bears a bit of a resemblance to my own late dad at that age. The back-and-forth timelines (“fourteen months earlier….a year earlier…etc.”) threw me a bit. I was keeping a bet with myself for awhile on how many times they would go back and forth within a single episode. The draft lottery....no words. I cannot imagine sitting through that.

Regarding Blanche and the house...I could be wrong, but I don't think I ever heard Blanche say that she raised her children in this house. I recall her saying something like "this is where I lived with my husband". I always imagined that George and Blanche moved from Atlanta to Florida when they became empty-nesters (no pun intended!) and lived there for some time together before George died. It does not come across to me as a family home where you would have raised 4 rambunctious kids (and there would be no room for a governess). Anyone else get that feeling? Also does anyone else wonder why they never used that back part of the living room where the fireplace was? Sheesh, what a waste of space. And oh Lord, don't get me started on the bathroom situation. First Blanche is the only one with an ensuite, then they all have one. Then there's that episode where they replace the toilet in that big blue bathroom which no one ever uses and which is never seen or heard from again (kind of like Dorothy's chronic fatigue syndrome and Blanche's pacemaker). And then when Sophia marries Max, Dorothy is using some mystery shower somewhere in the house and Max walks in not knowing she's in the shower. Whose bathroom was that??

When Christopher's father dies, and Rory goes to his mother's house with milk & cookies (and later, Lorelai goes to his mother's house with "grown-up milk & cookies", i.e. alcohol), I have to wonder...once Rory is inside Francine's (her grandmother's!) home, does Francine interact with Rory at all? Like does Christopher say, "Mom, Rory is here to help us grieve Straub, can you at least acknowledge her?". Or do he and Rory just hang out in the den by themselves, mowing down on cookies, while Francine (and baby Georgia) stays hidden in an upstairs bedroom, rather than interact with Rory? I really wished Christopher would man up - surely now that his dad was gone, he had more of a chance convincing his mom that Rory wasn't the cause of all his shortcomings in life. Christopher had his charms, but was always really more of a boy than a man. Partly why Lorelai liked Luke, I think.

I forgot one (I must have blocked it from my memory). Mr. Terrific...my vote for the most craptastic, horrible episode (if you don't count some of the Season 7 stinkers). I did not like the actor who played Mr. Terrific, I did not like the character of Mr. Terrific, and mostly I did not like the fact of having an entire episode centered around him, with the girls given measly supporting roles. I somehow missed this episode back in the 80s when the series originally ran, and I saw it for the first time a few years ago when I treated myself to the entire series on DVD (yes I am a geek). I watched the episode unfold with horror, and kept waiting for the "good part" to start. It never did! Watching it, it almost seems like a failed pilot for another show featuring the actor who played Mr. Terrific. If I'm doing a GG marathon viewing, once in a very blue moon I will allow the episode to air on my TV, but I hold my nose each time I do it. Nine times out of 10, I refuse to watch it. It's that bad. I used to post on TWOP and this is my first time posting on Previously TV, after lurking for a couple of years. So cathartic to share my humble views among the like-minded :).

The episode where Dorothy and the girls go to her goddaughter's wedding. So many questions! Why does the goddaughter refer to all the GG's as "Aunt"? This girl appears to be in her 20s, and presumably was baptized as an infant (I'm guessing, since Dorothy was Catholic and usually Catholic babies are baptized within a few months of birth). Blanche and Rose weren't in Dorothy's life 20+ years ago, so why on earth is the girl now calling them "Aunt Blanche" and "Aunt Rose"? Are we supposed to believe that she magically got close to them via her relationship with Dorothy? And why on earth were Blanche and Rose invited to the wedding anyway? I can understand Sophia being there as a courtesy as the bride's godmother's mother, but there's no reason for Rose & Blanche to be here. And magically, Mr. Mangiacavallo, the groom's grandfather, just happens to be Sophia's old boyfriend from the old country? Gimme a break. And where the hell were the bride's parents in all this? Presumably Dorothy was asked to be godmother because of some close relationship to the bride's parents, right? Yet they are nowhere to be seen, nor are they mentioned. Help, my head is spinning.

The episode where Rose's sister, Holly (played by Inga Swenson) comes to visit. She has Blanche and Dorothy fooled with her innocent act, and I hate the way the girls keep telling Rose that it's all in her head when Holly purposely leaves Rose out of movie outings, lunch etc. I especially hate the lecture that Dorothy gives Rose about it - it was so mean and over the top. I'm thinking, they just met Holly and they've known and lived with Rose for years, and they can't give their own friend the benefit of the doubt? Who knows her own sister better, Rose or the girls? Grrr. I hate it when the girls are needlessly mean to Rose. And their fake-ass apology to her at the end of the episode, after Holly sleeps with Blanche's boyfriend and is found out, that drives me nuts. I would have been all, "later, haters".