blackwing

Great episode, even if we didn't get to see the deliciously campy Jada Pinkett Smith. I very much enjoyed the plot. It was kind of like the Dollmaker episode of "Arrow", but way more satisfying and interesting. Ozzie and Mommy in the bathroom. Yuck. Just like Kyle MacLachlan and his mom on "Sex and the City". Even though we didn't see the sponge go under water, it's obvious she was going to give him a full bath. Anyone else notice that she didn't even bother to roll up the sleeves of her ancient dress or fringed lace shawl or whatever it was? She just dips her entire sleeve into the tub, she doesn't care if it gets wet, she's giving a bath to her grown boy-man son, she gets to touch him. Yeech. Really disliking Montoya. She's useless. I don't care how awesome she is supposed to be in the comics. I don't read the Batman comics. I just judge by what I see on TV. And what I see is someone who is singularly obsessed with Jim Gordon, because he's sleeping with who used to be with her. Doesn't she have anything else to do? MCU is Major Crimes Unit, right? Is it part of the GCPD? Is it federal? Why wouldn't Internal Affairs be handling any such investigation?

I think Steve was 17 when his Dad died, and it's 19 years later so that makes him 36? Somehow I think that is off by a few years. Wasn't he listed as 35 or calculated to be 35 somewhere a few years ago? Maybe the 5-0 years don't follow real-time. I actually thought they did a good job with the casting with young and grown up Ellie. In fact, at first I thought it was the same actress. Mirrah Foulkes (old): http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2438791/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t9 Chanel Marriott (young): http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3745498/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18 They look fairly similar to me, there is some differences in the eyes but the overall look seems like a good match. My issue with that scene was that young Ellie looked about 16. The guy they had playing the dad looks about 35, he looked way too young to be Ellie's dad. When they were doing the "My Girl" dance it looked like a dance between a married or dating couple and not a father/daughter. What I liked best about this episode: No Danny. Steve driving his own truck and no Danny to whine and moan and complain. I couldn't care less about Jerry Garcia, so the cliffhanger didn't work for me.

Perhaps he has Graves' disease. But even then, I have known people with Graves' disease. Their eyes bulge out a little, but they don't look nearly as menacing as Jim. Perhaps if he smiled more it would help. He doesn't seem cut out for smiling. He seems utterly humourless. He always seems to have a furrowed brow and his TEAM DOMINANT game face on. Doesn't help the overall look if he's trying to avoid looking like someone who could cause some serious harm.

The writing was a little sloppy. Annalise clearly recognises Sam's penis. Maybe she was too focused on the picture of him to notice the wallpaper. How can someone like Rebecca notice the wallpaper and instantly make the connection with Annalise and Sam? Yet Annalise, a smart and successful attorney, didn't? When she confronted Sam about the affair and asked him how many times it happened and WHERE, he said something like 6 or 7 and that it was only in his office, and one time in her car. Clearly it also happened in their bedroom. She didn't recognise the wallpaper? Or if she did, it is not believable that she wouldn't have confronted him about it and called him out on his lie right there and then. Also, exactly where was the couch Sam was sleeping on? Was it in the front parlour? So the first floor of this house is apparently HUGE. It is big enough to have a parlour, that great room area with the bookshelves with the statue, that office looking area where clients get interviewed, and whatever else. Presumably a kitchen and perhaps a dining room. But no bathroom. If Sam had to sleep downstairs on the couch in the "public" area of the house, what exactly is upstairs on the second floor? One giant master bedroom suite? Wouldn't there at least be a guest bedroom on the second floor that Sam could have been banished to? Of course, then we wouldn't have gotten the scene of Wes tiptoeing by a sleeping Sam to check out the upstairs wallpaper. Of course it's all plot device, but at least make things a bit more believable. I'm mildly surprised that they didn't have Sam sleeping shirtless so Wes could compare the his bare torso with the torso in the picture.

I think it is indeed Adrian Pasdar. Wikipedia and IMDB could be wrong of course, but it does sound like him, especially after seeing him back to back on "Agents of Shield" which airs just before "Forever" on the same network. I liked this episode, loved the Jack the Ripper elements. However, my thought is that it was unnecessary to cram the Black Dahlia stuff in there too. Felt really compacted, they could have saved that for a multi-episode arc. I assume the father did both the Mary Kelly murder and the Black Dahlia murder. Don't really understand his motivation for either, but whatever.

Finally finished it. I seriously hope the next book is better. This book starts when Henry VI is King. There aren't very many plot developments. The main piece of action concerns Jack Cade and the Kentish rebellion. Margaret of Anjou married Henry. Henry goes cuckoo for cocoa puffs. The book ends with the Kentish rebellion put down and Margaret pregnant. My main issues with this book are that I felt the characters were a little underdeveloped. I had a hard time figuring out who I was supposed to root for. After "The White Queen" I am really interested in Edward IV so I really hope the next book is better.

But anyone who is observant could have seen that there were two flower designs on the pot, one with 7 petals and one with 8 petals on the other side. I'd like to think I would have noticed. Not surprised at all to read about potential steroid use. What I'm wondering is if they brought any other clothes with them, or if we are going to have to see him in that too tight blue underarmour shirt the entire time. Most teams change clothes numerous times throughout the race. I wonder if he just brought 3 of the same outfit.

I guess we have to agree to disagree, because I don't think he was being nice or complimentary about her "sweet" perspective at all. I think he just thought he was being witty and funny. But coupled with his "We are TEAM DOMINANT" behaviour, he just comes across as a complete ass. I always like when teams take the time to appreciate their surroundings and experience new things. I don't think I would have liked to have been in the tannery, but it certainly would have been a new experience that I don't think I would ever do again. Jim seems like he couldn't care less about the fact that he signed up to be on the Amazing Race, which is a competition that will take him to many new cultures around the world. He just cares about WINNING and getting the money and nothing else.

It was Keith that said it smelled like poo. I thought all of the comments from all of the racers about the smells were bad. I've felt the same in every single season whenever racers say things like this. And it goes all the way back to the beloved Kevin and Drew in TAR Classic putting bandannas over their noses because they thought India smelled bad. It always bothers me particularly that these kinds of comments are always made in a poorer country like India or some country in Africa. I have no doubt the tannery smelled. I've been at a plant that processed raw cow hides and manufactured them into leather car seats. And yes, the room where they actually had stacks of raw hides stunk to high heaven. They shaved the hides with a machine as opposed to hand (gross fact, the hair clippings get sold to food companies who use them in jello) but they still smelled. But I never said anything. Because this was someone's livelihood. I really appreciated Maya's comment. She said it smelled but she liked that it was part of the culture. I believe Phil when he said that it was. They did it by hand with no machines. Hearing Jim making fun of her for being appreciative of it made him out to be an ass. It was a very Ugly American mentality. "In America we are rich and privileged and have people and machines to do this for us, I'm so glad I don't have to work with shit in a place that smells like shit. Sucks to be poor!" I equally didn't appreciate the comment of one of the boyfriends (not sure which one is which, the one with the big mole or wart on his nosebridge) about how the raw meat in their food cart smelled bad. Not sure if the vendor spoke any English or not, but I'm sure at least one person in that crew did. Again, this was this guy's livelihood, and to openly opine that the wares he prepares and sells to make money to keep himself alive was quite disrespectful. I especially liked the contrast between his "This smells so bad" with the immediate cut to the bicycle girls saying "this smells so good" about their herbs.

It was a roadblock that Keith did. The roadblock usually works like this: one person does task. When person finishes task, they get the next clue. Where has it ever been that both people had to be present? It wasn't a pit stop. In some roadblocks the other person isn't even in the building. So I agree with Keith there, he was there first. Too bad they sucked at the twirling. They would have been better off with the tea, it was the easier task. Keith seems a bit dim but a decent dude. Whitney seems like an airhead. I continue to loathe Jim. He treats everyone local like a servant to help him win the race. I want one of his over pumped biceps to pop.

I want it to be a truly harsh penalty. Jeff says, "you want rice, you lose a member." They discuss and think that for the good of the tribe one person has to be sacrificed. They all think it means tribal council. Then Jeff says, "Ok, here's how it's going to happen. Draw rocks." I would love to see the pearl clutching and whining from them about how unfair it was. Not a new concept. In the ancient days people were cruelly sacrificed for the good of the whole. Agamemnon threw his own daughter Iphigenia overboard to quell the storms and the sea. I want to see an unwilling sacrifice.

Dialogue makes it clear to me that Sara is the one the guy saw and was talking about. Oliver describes her, he says he didn't kill her. He says this lady showed up and told him to leave. Then when he says "whoever you're looking for, I wouldn't want to be him". If "this lady" that showed up wasn't blonde hair and black mask then it's possble she could have been the blonde hair's killer, and I think the guy wouldn't have said "him".

My wife hasn't been watching this show. She watched last night with me, so I was filling her in on everything that had happened. At the end when Annalise comes out of the bathroom and sees Wes in her bedroom, she was all "WHO'S THAT WOMAN?" She was convinced it was a completely different character, she didn't even recognise that it was Annalise without her wig and makeup.

There was discussion but we didn't see it onscreen. There would have been a new trial. However, I think Annalise said that the DA's office felt that the public opinion had swayed over to the son in the wake of the abuse allegations, so they weren't going to attempt another trial. They just gave him community service.

Didn't like this episode as much as the others. I don't care for Wes and I care even less for Rebecca. I like Laurel on her own but I couldn't care less about Frank and whatever his issues are. I don't understand why, in the flash forward, if Laurel claims she slept with him only once, she has enough attachment to him to assign a photo to his phone number, and an unappealing shirtless photo at that. Also, after the first time the phone rang and those two kissers on the hill heard it, why wouldn't Laurel have turned her phone to silent? She lets it ring again a second time and again waits long enough so Michaela can see the photo again? I didn't like that there was very little advancement in the Lila murder plot. We don't know anything more than we did last week. I guess we do know that Sam lied again, he said he only slept with her in his office and in her car. It was obvious it also happened in his and Annalise's bedroom. What I am surprisingly most annoyed with... that house/office doesn't have a bathroom on the first floor? Annalise is a defence attorney. She regularly defends people who are accused of murder. She has said before that she doesn't care if they are innocent or guilty. So she could be inviting potential murderers into her office/home. And there is NO BATHROOM on the first floor? Inconceivable. It could be an older house, or maybe they renovated the bathroom out of the first floor, but I don't buy it. Anytime anybody (her, the associates, the students, clients) have to take a pee they have to go upstairs and into Annalise's bedroom suite? Makes absolutely no sense. I watched the show with 3 people and none of them had ever heard of jury nullification. One of them was even a lawyer, although he does transactional law and would have no idea about any litigation concepts. What I don't get is why there aren't sanctions. I agree with the prosecutor, obviously it was in the defence's interest to inform the jury about jury nullification. I find it hard to believe that a judge would just accept that some random person would leave a page about jury nullification on a bench in the courthouse.

I liked everything about this episode except for two things: 1) Laurel Lance and 2) Ray Palmer. I don't care at all about Laurel's journey, about how she's going to fight crime blah blah blah with the training of toolish shirtless dude who had "sweat" sprayed on him with a windex bottle. I cackled when she got beat up in the alley. Then I cackled 10 more times when I rewound and watched it 10 more times. I don't care much for Brandon Routh and Ray Palmer, regardless of whether they are going to turn him into the Atom or not. Just don't like Brandon Routh. He's a terrible actor and he has crazy eyes.

So when they were sitting there watching the birds and someone (Josh?) commented about fried chicken, and we saw some of those birds pecking at a dead fish that was lying on the beach... was that an editing trick? Because if I saw birds pecking at a fish that they caught, I'd sure run over there, chase off all the birds and claim the fish.

The only people I really like are Jon and Natalie. Of the rest, I range from indifference to hatred, with varying degrees of dislike along the way. Not sure why I'm watching if I really couldn't care less about most of these people? I don't particularly hate Missy for her "mama bear" rant, but I don't fully understand why she thought it was so special. Everyone out there has or had a loved one. Is it a mother/daughter thing? Tina and Laura had daughters with them last time, and I don't recall this level of "you bettah not touch my daughter!" vitriol. Maybe it's because they were vets and knew that it's all part of the game.

Why should the new people be exempt? Just because they were only there for three days? I'd say no. If someone is going to be voted off in exchange for rice then they should all be at risk. It might not be fair, but a lot of things in this game are not fair, and a lot depends on chance. I actually thought we would be losing Josh. The moment the editors insert some random fact about someone's personal life that really has no relevance to the game (honestly, does anyone really care if he and Reed are abstinent?) it usually is an indication that they are soon to be doomed.

I think she spilled the rice thinking she'd be voted out. She wasn't. There was another tribal council (3 days later I presume) and she was voted out. The next day, there was a tribe exchange. The three tribes formed into two new tribes. I believe the brains camp was abandoned. So at worst, the Brains only had to survive for 3 days without much rice. I would think it was obvious that TPTB chose to abandon the Brains camp in part due to lack of rice. Am I misremembering this?

Where do you get that it's the real idol? First off, as far as I know based on show history, unless they explicitly say so, there is only one idol at each camp. John Rocker found the idol on the Coyoba side. When John Rocker and Keith found their idols, they were in a bag and I think there was a note in the bag. And the hashtag "#ImmunityIdol" thing is displayed on the screen. With Dale.... nothing. If it was an actual Idol I would assume that the show would have at least indicated to viewers that it was the Idol.

There was a food reward where they could have eaten or gotten blankets and they chose blankets. Frankly, I dislike seeing the food rewards, the contestants always end up looking disgusting and sometimes we are treated to too much information. I still remember the scene of Colby frantically running around to find a place he could drop his pants before the diarrhea came. I don't see why production has to make sure they have enough rice. There should be a huge cost. I'd love to see Jeff say "you have to vote someone out, right now." I dislike everyone on the blue team except for Natalie so I'd be perfectly OK with that.

I didn't understand Jon and Jaclyn's reasoning to split their votes between Kelly and Dale in case Dale had an idol. They split them and it was 2 votes each for 3 people. They effectively gave Keith all the power. Why? I guess Keith could have been in on it with them but if so it would have been nice if we had actually seen a conversation. And why Kelly instead of Dale? Unless they figure Dale is an easy goat to boot later. Or maybe they thought Dale would use an idol on himself and not Kelly since they thought he thought he was more disliked. Shut up Josh and Reed with your practically crying about how unfair it was you had no food. Why not look in the forest for anything? Why not try and kill those birds? If it's not allowed to kill birds, why not shoo off the birds and eat that dead fish they were eating?

I like the idea of Bobbi Morse / Mockingbird. I just don't know if I like this actress. I find her the least attractive of all of the women on the show (May, Simmons, Skye, Raina). There's something very... elfin?... about her look. The squinty eyes, the pulled back hair, the pointy ears. I do like Lance Hunter, and think his reaction to Bobbi was hilarious. And I am not a Kyle MacLachlan fan, at all. I think he's a very overrated actor, and the worst part about him is the incredibly awful hair. He has had the same awful look in every single part he's played ever.

I must be a little dense. What was the point of getting the drug on the street? Just to create hysteria? He clearly wasn't going to make money off of it since people died. Then I get that he just wanted to kill everyone in Wayne Enterprises. Aren't there easier ways to kill people? Why put the drug on the street? He could have just skipped the street distribution part and went right to gassing the unsuspecting Wayne people and he would have succeeded. Liked everything about this episode except the continual adventures of the precocious Bruce Wayne. Just don't like this kid. Actor is terrible, he has a very wooden delivery. If that's how it's supposed to be written, it doesn't work for me. Me too. I was very surprised and confused at first.