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I was surprised at how quickly the Doomsday and Luthor battles were resolved, but it was for the better, because of the amazing ending scenes. This show has always been more about family and less about superheroing. I liked that they wrapped things up in the end. I had thought the sun was healing his damaged heart. He said he lived 32 more years, so if he was 45 at the end of the series, he lived to 77. I would have thought he would have lived longer, but if they really are saying that Sam's 60 year old heart was damaged, the heart lasted until age 92. I do have some minor quibbles/questions: Didn't John Henry say that he had invented some kind of doohickey that would disable the suit? I thought it was going to block the kryptonite power or something. Lois taunted Luthor so she could slap that magnetic doohickey on him, and to me it seemed like the doohickey did absolutely nothing. Amanda belongs in prison with Luthor. She was basically forced into doing that interview which didn't happen anyways because of Milton. Lois could have argued on her behalf to get the sentence mitigated, but she at least deserved 10 years in prison. So as he is dying, before he enters the afterlife and sees Lois, he sees important people in his life. His sons, Lana and John Henry... and Lex?! What about Jonathan and Martha and Sam? What about Holo-Mom? Lex was deemed more important to his life than any of his parents? The two adult sons looked like identical twins to me, I couldn't figure out which one was which. Noticed that they FINALLY cut Jordan's hair hahaha. One of them was married to someone who resembled Candace, but not sure if it was supposed to be her. But neither of them were Sarah, so I guess that book closed for Jordan. Was Sophie even at the wedding? Not sure if I even saw her, but it would have been funny if Lana had said "Sophie who? Oh, she's away at camp." at her own wedding. I liked the costumes for the boys. Jon's looked more like Conner Kent's - blue top, red pants. While Jordan's was reversed. More of a red top with blue pants. Wish we had gotten better looks at them and I wish they had told us whether they were using code names. "Fraternal One" and "Fraternal Two" doesn't cut it. All in all, this was a very satisfying series finale. I will miss this show. It all went by so fast, indeed.

Not Ian Bohen. The ranchhand on the show who sings country songs on the show all the time. The guy with the sad eyes. His character met some buckle bunny or barrel racer who started hanging out with the ranchhands. Those two actors got married in real life.

I feel like the death was unnecessary. Colby and Teeter survived that awful attack in the pond. They were the only couple amongst the cowboys. Why kill him? If it was just to emphasize the fragility of life and how someone young could still die on the ranch, they could have killed that middle aged guy that talked to the old guy. The actor didn't even get a good memorable death scene. He just got kicked by a horse, and we didn't even see it that well. The forcefulness of the kick didn't come across on TV for me, to the point where I assumed he was going to survive, it looked like he just got a minor hit on the chest. Instead, he apparently instantly died. And even though the show is almost over, it would have been nice to make up stories for what happens to them after the show. Colby and Teeter get married, they live on the ranch. Rip takes over the general operations and Teeter becomes head ranchhand. There's also rumour that Rip and Beth might get a season 6 or a spinoff... in which case Teeter and Colby could have appeared.

I agree, Colby was likeable, and I liked him with Teeter, they complemented each other well and I don't understand why they had to kill off Colby. If a death had to happen at the ranch, why not kill off the old guy? It would have been very symbolic, this guy has been there forever (even if many people can't even remember his name LOL) and his death may or may not symbolize the death of the ranch. I would much rather have had Jimmy and his squashed potato face killed off, but I assume that Taylor Sheridan intends for him to headline "6666", whenever that show starts filming. I have hated Jimmy from the beginning. Didn't need to see him here, and even though the show stopped cramming Jimmy down our throats, he still annoyed me. Is the actor who is playing Tate being told to play him as a dry, monotone, sullen teenager? Or is that his own acting choice and he really is that bad of an actor? I know the character has to be around to inherit the ranch and fulfill James Dutton's prophetic pronouncement, but I wish they had recast the actor once it became clear that this one sucks.

I thought this was a good episode with significant plot and character development. The detective that spoke with Jamie, sounds like he already knows that Sarah's death was a targeted hit, and not the random carjacking that the media made it out to be. Why wouldn't he have shown up with a warrant in hand? Especially after knowing what Casey told him. I get that he needed Jamie to give him probable cause. But couldn't he have gotten a warrant in advance, based on Sarah's connection to Market Equities and their confrontational dealings with John? He could have asked for Jamie's cooperation, and when Jamie refused, present him with the warrant. Surely he could have found a friendly judge to grant the warrant. Instead, he gave Jamie the opportunity to shred all of Sarah's incriminating documents. I hope he gets a warrant for Market Equities as well and finds some evidence there. I am not a fan of all the cowboy stuff (particularly the promotion of anything to do with 6666), but I thought it actually had purpose here. And the scenes really showed Rip's business acumen, that he needs to raise money to pay the estate tax so he has to sell some cattle. She is not a maternal person at all, but I thought she was great here. Showing Carter that she considers him one of the family. Weren't Rip and Beth going to adopt him? Or was it just an informal adoption? Yep. I had been wondering what happened to Colby, he obviously wasn't with Teeter in Texas but I don't think we had seen him at the Yellowstone. We only saw the old guy and one other guy and Carter. So when he popped up in this episode and told Teeter he loved her, it was unfortunately the kiss of death for him. Whatever happened to the country singer cowboy's girlfriend? Was she one of those buckle bunnies that Rip threw out? I think the actors got married in real life. Kayce let Grant know that he (and his black ops team) are on to Grant, Market Equities, and the murder of John. I suppose he could have just killed him right there, but Kayce wanted Grant to be scared and make all of the killers scared as well. And to make sure that they are well aware that if anything happens to any of the Duttons, that he is prepared to kill everyone in Grant's family.

This was an enjoyable episode. I liked the Christmas theme and the separate storylines. Murdoch and Choi, alone with no one to celebrate with, spend Christmas Eve helping the Irish couple and going to Miss Hart's place. The Brackenreid party was hilarious. I was thrilled to see Ruth, I was convinced we weren't going to get anymore of her this season. She was a complete hoot as always. Especially when she was jealous that someone was trying to steal her Henny Penny! Nice to see Miss Hart get engaged to the guy we have seen before. I have to confess that I don't recall the guy that Watts went home with. Looked to me like he was making eyes at the trumpet player all night. We didn't see George or Effie. I think George is supposed to be holed up in some rustic cabin far away while writing his book? Sad that he didn't come home for Christmas. I noticed that Jonny Harris' name has finally been dropped from the credits. And Daniel Maslany and Shanice Banton got solo credits, normally they have to share with someone else. Lachlan Murdoch, however, still was listed as a shared credit with Arwen Humphries, even though both of them have been on the show much longer than Maslany or Banton. Is the show on hiatus until the spring? It's nice that U.S. airings of the show this season are the same week as the Canadian airings. I was trying to figure out why they aired a Christmas episode already when it is still the end of November.

It was not surprising at all that the killer was the art teacher. The pose of the Jane Doe looked too much like one of the paintings he liked. Also not surprising was the Alberg daughter's friend who thought she could be his girlfriend even though he's easily in his 30s. What a twit. There were only two possible suspects, and the show spent so much time on the actor ex-boyfriend just to make us think he was the killer. Why was this character even on the show? Complete waste of time. Of course at the end, Karl and Cassandra get together. Also not surprising. I'm glad that there wasn't a whole lot of angst about their whole breakup before they got back together. I don't know if this show is going to get renewed. If it comes back, it'd be nice if there were a few changes. For one, even though this show is called "Murder in a Small Town", I never got the sense that it is in fact a small town. In a small town, everybody knows everybody. Most of these people seem like complete strangers to each other. Also, I know this show filmed on location in Gibsons, British Columbia, but the show itself did very little to showcase the town or the area. I feel like all we saw were a few homes, the pier, the bar, the coffee shop, the library, and a few scenes in the woods. If your show is going to be called "Murder in a Small Town" I would think the town itself should almost be a character. This was the same issue I had with another TV adaptation of a Canadian author's mystery book series, Louise Penny and the mediocre "Three Pines". The relationship drama between Karl and Cassandra took a back burner during the last several episodes, and the show benefitted from it. I wish this show was more of a procedural with the pace of a procedural. The character development that we got on the supporting characters was uneven. I thought one of the more interesting characters was the art teacher. But we didn't even get any kind of understanding as to why he killed at least three people, did we? They just explained it away as "the urge" to kill every six years. Why? It seems like with Karl asking him if there were any others, maybe if the show gets renewed, he comes back and his story isn't done? We didn't get any answers. And because the teacher turned out to be a serial killer, does that mean the Alberg daughter's friend's ex-boyfriend's expulsion gets rescinded? After all, he was the one that said something wasn't right about the art teacher.

Phyllis' hair used to be a lot redder. Nowadays there's a lot more blonde in there. I remember when Gina Tognoni took over the part, she made some post about turning red. Lauren's hair, like Phyllis, nowadays it has more blonde in it. But there was a time when it was a lot redder, and more darker red. That's how she acquired the nickname "the Irish Setter", because her mane very much resembled the colour of the dog breed.

I feel like we are being cheated, seems like there is so much story left to tell and there is only one episode left. Things that need to get resolved: 1) Clark/Lois vs. Luthor, 2) Doomsday, 3) Clark's health/heart, 4) Lois' reputation, 5) the boys' developing powers and are they ever going to get codenames This was a good episode, setting up the grand battle between Superman and a Kryptonite-armour enhanced Lex Luthor. I wanted Clark to teach the boys how to work together to take him down... I think that is going to be the key to how they help in a battle against Doomsday and/or Lex. I'm so tired of the Amanda character. I half-expected Luthor to throw her out the window of his high rise apartment last week. I get that this is a no-name actress who probably doesn't cost a whole lot, but I would have much rather had John Henry and Natalie on the entire season instead of her. Or Lana. I bet Emmanuelle Chiriqui would have taken a pay cut in order to appear in the whole season. Are we going to get to say goodbye to John Henry, Natalie, Lana, Sarah and Kyle next week? I hope they appear.

I liked all of the plots except for everything to do with Dante. The comedian being targeted for murder because he was mean to everyone in his life was a good storyline, although I thought it was obvious from the beginning that it was going to be that friend that wrote all his jokes and never got any credit. Great that Vi doesn't have cancer, I hope the show showcases more of her delicious sounding cooking. I also appreciated Delilah's storyline. Like many high school seniors, she is thinking about college and I thought this was a very real look at the decisions that one faces. Mel is firmly back on the team. I used to root for Robyn and Dante getting together, but now I just don't care. I couldn't care less about Dante's dad, Dante's issues with his dad, Dante's issues with his mom, Dante and Robyn. Ship has sailed. I would be much more interested in seeing her working with Miles. The team could use someone with medical knowledge. I don't think it's Latifah, I just think it's poor writing. These two don't strike me as anything other than friends and colleagues.

So the scenes in the beginning with Beth still in Texas and driving back to Montana, and Kayce and family fixing up their new house, were to establish what they were doing at the time that John was killed. And we saw the actual murder. Did Rip go back to Texas or is he still in town? I don't think we saw him leaving or have seen Beth on the phone with him. He works in the state capitol building, presumably there are metal detectors at the entrances. That would prevent guns and knives. It doesn't prevent Beth or Kayce coming in and slapping or beating the hell out of him. But presumably, the secretary would normally call security who would come to assist. In the previous episode when Beth was slapping him around, the Market Equities guy barked at the assistant to call security, and Jamie told her not to. This part is absolutely ridiculous. Presumably, the Governor's Mansion would have armed security guards. Not just one dude sitting in a booth who thought it was odd that the security system got deactivated. Since some of John's actions had proven unpopular, you would think that there would be an increased presence of security. It seems evident that the guy she hired to do the hit is now covering their tracks. I was surprised she was killed so quickly and easily. Can't say I will miss her. At this point, Jamie is toast and he knows it. He was on the phone with her when she was killed. He knows that his number is in her phone. I would think he will try and retrieve the phone but there will still be records. He can try and explain this away but I don't see any scenario in which he gets away with it. If he somehow comes out of all of this free and smelling like roses, it would be a sad ending to the series. To me the only plausible endings would be 1) prison for conspiracy to commit murder, 2) suicide, or 3) getting killed by the team that Sarah hired.

The immunity challenge featured Jeffy's favourite challenge prop: BALLS. The bigger the better. He just loves talking about the male contestants' balls and seemed to do so frequently. He seemed exuberant as he joyfully exclaimed "and ANOTHER gust of wind is moving Sam's balls!!!" Maybe I am 12, but if I was a contestant, I might have cracked up a little and lost concentration. He's going to be insufferable at final tribal and make his question all about him. And some finalist will kiss up to him and say "well my big moment was getting you out because you were a threat" and then he will preen and act fake humble. At least there's not the "hey it's my moment to SHINE" anymore where they each get called up one by one and stand up to ask their question. Nowadays it seems that Jeffy just calls on them and they stay in their seats.

The rubber ducks are a real thing on cruise ships. I've never heard of any safety issues. The last cruise we took, my kids found a couple. One was sitting in one of those sit down riding games in the arcade. The other was a small magnetic duck inside one of the elevators. The storyline never did resolve itself. Presumably nobody won the big prize because the old guy ate the golden duck. They never explained the giant duck either. We saw it in the opening moments of the episode and then never again. On Facebook there are groups for each particular cruise line. Usually someone creates a dedicated group for each week's sailing. There are frequently posts about hiding or finding rubber ducks in those groups. It's more like a fun diversion, not a massive "movement" like Loretta Devine kept saying. She made it sound like people dedicate their lives to these ducks. Umm... no. Kids enjoy hiding ducks and finding them. It gives them something to do and something to be excited about. I've seen posts on Facebook where someone will share a photo of the collection of ducks they found that week. I don't know what happens to them. I presume the kids take them home or leave them onboard. I very much doubt they throw them overboard like Max claimed everyone did.

I wish this show spent more time on the actual baking. Instead, this show is so formulaic. They get 3 or 4 hours to bake. We see the teams discussing the clues and what they think they should make. Joel comes in and chats with them. Some jokes, "what are you making", banter. Then he leaves and goes to the next team. Cut to Curtis and Yolanda slowly walking by each pod and observing. Cut to Curtis and Yolanda with their comments. "All teams are making some variation of a lemon mousse tiered cake. However, Harry and Hermione are the ONLY team to put fresh mint in between the layers. If fresh mint is an element in the mystery dessert, it could make a huge difference in advance them to the next round!" Then ALL OF A SUDDEN, there are TWO MINUTES LEFT and the bakers are scrambling to finish decorating. Judging etc. "REVEAL THE MYSTERY DESSERT!" "please be a blueberry pavlova, blueberry pavlova" "I want to see a cube and lots of flowers, cube and flowers!" Too much formula. Campbell Soup Kids... spit take! Now that you said it, I can't unsee it. Agree that they were annoying (particularly the way that Katelyn talked like she was explaining things to a five year old) and agree completely that Janusz is annoying. I think with the two family teams here, it seemed clear that Daniel and Katelyn were the bakers or the lead bakers. But other family teams (Kai and Starlett and the sisters and the uncle/niece) they seemed like equals. I just looked at the Wikipedia page. I did not know that Jesse and Justin are brothers-in-law. I had thought they were just friends. They competed with the friends teams. The friends teams on this episode, all four of them are experienced. Lenore and Jessica are the team where each of them has her own bakery. Janusz competed on The Great British Bakeoff / Baking Show. Someone said that Keiran was a contestant on some other baking show.

I didn't care for this episode much at all. For a storyline that was supposed to be about finding ducks, there wasn't a whole lot of excitement or finding. Avery invited her two friends onto the ship so she could tell them she was pregnant? Does she get a discount or something? I know this show depicts cruising in an unrealistic manner, but one of the minor things that bothers me is how passengers stroll through that tunnel and enter into that atrium always with the same wide eyed expression of wonder and always with ZERO BAGS. OK, so the porters take the big suitcases when they check in at the pier. But many people would bring a carry on suitcase. I don't think any passenger has been seen with any luggage. At the very least, some of them would be carrying backpacks or tote bags. I couldn't care less about the storyline of the old guy eating objects. The only thing I liked about this episode was the advancement in the relationship between Tristan and the chef (Vivian?) It seemed like they made progress, when they were quarantined he suggested they watch a movie in his cabin (would have been nice to have seen that instead of old guy stealing objects to swallow), and at the end, he checked out of Avery's big reveal basically with a "you do what you need to do". This show will probably do a "Avery doesn't want to know who the father is, it doesn't matter". The Tristan actor and maybe the character is part or maybe even half Venezuelan. I'm not sure if Avery is supposed to be half-Chinese like Philippa Soo is. Max is as white as they can be. Do they really need to do a DNA test? Wouldn't they be able to tell whose kid it is? My guess is that if she has the baby, it will end up being Max's. Let Max be with Avery and let Tristan be with Vivian. The medical suite itself is ridiculous, there's no way medical operations on cruise ships are that big. An MRI machine?! The surgery that Max and Avery were doing where he just reached in and grabbed a section of large intesting and cut it open... no way would that be done on a cruise ship. Glad I'm not that only one that has been curious about the room with the hundred brown jars of medicine. In an environment in which space is at a premium, it just doesn't seem very efficient to have a dedicated room to beautifully light up all those jars. Ducks on a cruise ship are a real thing. It's not a "movement", but there are people/families that bring small ducks and hide them around the ship. People (mostly kids) love to find them. Some post photos of ducks they find on social media and might tag the hider. The way the duck hunt was depicted on this show.... no. There's no way crew would be required to paint a huge normal sized rubber duck and hide it. There's no way passengers would be able to go behind a bar and hide a duck there. Above all, whoever finds the gold duck wins $5,000? Who provided the $5,000? The duck couple? Or the cruiseline? Unless it was just a decoration, it looked to me that the gold duck was hiding in plain sight on the buffet table. And the organizer ate it? Whatever. There was zero payoff to this duck storyline. On a real cruise ship, if there was ever a contest to win $5,000 by finding a gold duck, I guarantee that thing would be found within 20 minutes. One of the most unrealistic things about the way the cruise ship is depicted on this show is how uncrowded it is. Tristan and Vivian floating in a completely empty pool? Yeah right! Sean Teale is half or part-Venezuelan. I thought it was great that they wrote his heritage into the character's storyline. He never said he was born in Venezuela, only that he had travelled there. He said the duck was a tribute to his Venezuelan heritage, "that's where the tan comes from". And that he went to boarding school in Scotland. I just assumed that Tristan is English, and that's his accent.